This is very true

No this is the look you get when re-reading the code you wrote as a grad…with the perspective of 15 years experience.

I was showing a new person examples of good and terrible code…they asked who wrote the code, I said that both were me about 13 years apart. It turns out that experience matters and you get better over time.

The type of person that wants someone that can’t think for them selves…isn’t really that high on the mental flag pole of life.

But the saying is code for a bunch of stuff, I really doubt that they mean they are searching for someone with severe brain damage and has trouble performing even the basic functions of life.

I noticed.

I was looking for some light evening semi-socialising, but alas I was “forced” to clean up the house a little

Statistically 2.1 births/woman is required to replace the current population.

As for the economic argument, your friend is somewhat correct, except that economies don’t just grow or shrink based on population (it is a major driver). There are too many factors at play to make such a statement.

The finite earth argument is interesting, whilst we are the biggest danger to the biosphere in the short run, we are also the biggest hope. In the long run the biosphere will sort itself out after we are out of the picture.
Taking this argument a little further, we may be the only hope for an intelligent civilisation from this planet. We have taken all of the easy energy resources; which take millions of years to regenerate; so any intelligent civilisation that follows after us will not have the luxury of cheap abundant energy.
So we either sort our shit out, become space faring, and move on with the next phase of the human experiment, or the likelihood of intelligence leaving earth is quite low.

We could, reduce ourselves content to “save” the earth and exist here in perpetuity, but I don’t really see that happening. There will always be those that dream and strive, if humans still exist in 10,000 years they will be spacefaring.

Not quite pseudoscience, there was an effect that they thought they measured. Later more rigorous experiments showed that there was no such effect.

This is exactly what science is supposed to do.

Seems like a generalized comment.

Maybe.

But it could also just be a cynical power grab, trying to force for profit education into the system.

Oh I understand the 2yo wants the big cone…I don’t want a 3ft psychopath, and I have the money!

This is why you get a half kid size for your toddler.

Watching that much soft serve go into a 2yo, with the resulting crazyness 5minutes later is not cool.

I was thinking something a little bigger.

There are countries that run charter schools and countries that don’t. Which ones are doing better from an outcomes point of view, which ones are doing better after 20 years out of school?

I’m all for innovation in education, but surely there is plenty of international data to give just a little bit of information on the positives of charter schools.

I nice comparative analysis would go a long way, but no.

The article points out that a large number of schools in the UK are charter schools (40% primary, 80% secondary), but doesn’t then say if that is a positive or not.

One size doesn’t fit all in education, which Seymour points out. But how do charter schools address this issue?

$800 at Farmers, but still a bit expensive.

I would get another one…

We brought a Delongi Magnifica about 6 years ago, use it multiple times a day.

IMPORTANT NOTE not the cheapest machine

Makes great coffee, can take beans and ground coffee (I have never used the grounds part, we only buy beans). Grinds the beans and produces coffee from one button press…awesome.

I drink my coffee black, so if it tastes bad…I know. It does do the milk thing and others have used that function on my one.

I would buy another one if mine broke. Side note, I brought one for Mum about 4 years ago…partly so I could have good coffee at her place.

Range of machines now…the model I have is not there, closest one is the Magnifica S, with the rise of enshitification I worry that they have somehow made this great machine worse…

We got ours on sale for $500, 6 years ago, the Magnifica S is about $800 normal price now, PriceSpy hasn’t had it below this for at least 18 months.

Some years ago, I was walking with my GF through the supermarket, we were looking at the sweets section, right at the end of the isle, when I let a very stinky fart go. I learned over and said we should go.

We walked to long way so we didn’t have to walk through the cloud, 30-40s later, just after we had rounded the far end of the isle we heard:

Female voice: “oh my god, was that you! That is discussing” (loudly) Male voice: “no, it wasn’t me”
Female voice: “why are you lying to me, you are always lying to me!” (Angrily)
Male voice: “but it wasn’t me” (also angry)

I think I may have put the final nail in the coffin of a bad relationship with a fart

My partner and I still laugh about it 16 years later.

Hard to tell, still too young. Could have lasting damage.

I have got though these at reasonable speed on my mountain bike (when I was younger), with a very little bit of practice, riding through these is not hard.

No idea about wheel chairs though.

But I fed my kids red quinoa on Monday, and last night we had manuka smoked garlic hummus on our harissa lamb.

I now will submit to the government reeducation camp, I am clearly a degenerate and need to be “corrected”.