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It really does seem that every business is out to squeeze the living daylights out of you.

No one(execs, middle management, shareholders) is happy to earn a decent(10-20%) profit anymore and call it a day.

Every last drop needs to be wrung out of the customer or the employee or the citizen in the case of government.

I find increasingly that written words from organisations are trending worse. I tend to find particular authors are sometimes good writers, and sometimes they have blogs which I have always liked but more & more lately.

My national/public broadcaster/media organisation(ABC, Australia) is doubling down on fiddling all day with headlines & the pictures. They’re not selling any product, they don’t need to follow commercial trends.

https://rss.social/ has been a godsend for finding random articles of interesting content, A LOT than HN these days, especially when you don’t want to index on AI content. https://substack.com/@gurwinder/posts https://jmarriott.substack.com/archive

I like history podcasts, especially anything by Mike Duncan, and some of the pop culture stuff by the Ringer is ok.

Sorry, I don’t have any good recommendations for commercial publications.

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You can’t eat your algorithm.

So while pointing to agriculture and saying look there - those guys & gals way more than us it’s a red herring because we need food.

Sure improve efficiency of ag, but a better comp for water usage should be made. Reasonable people tune out.

Same stuff, different sticker price. Thanks Europe.

Just call it parmesan and don’t be an asshole, how about that?

Seems like a rare instance of an insurance company actually doing their job and providing actuarial services rather than just gouging you after a claim.

You don’t understand the natural order of things: productivity for you(the worker constantly told to do more), not for me(governments of all sizes, middle management & execs, dumb owners).

It underinvests in quality politicians.

Following the money is never encouraged by the orange one or the orange site.

Shockingly bad, any move away from big tech is a good one in my opinion. And I’ve got a lot of moving to do!

Care to run the same experiment for an iPhone?

That’s only wrong because it’s 100%.

Let's leave it there mate.

You're not the OP, you/me we're only guessing what he/she might've meant.

Keep speaking that truth, I’m sure someones listening.

I never said there was less deaths, don’t put words in my mouth. I said for most regular people it’s likely a bad flu.

Did you know Italy’s death rate is still elevated, even 5/6 years after? Best go into lockdown since we don’t know why.

1. They still don’t, you just lived through an episode though so you feel good because you survived and it feels like you’re prepared.

2. Cool story.

3. Another cool story.

4. Yeah. People lost their minds because people got sick and gate crashed the ED for what’s to mostly normal person a bad flu.

You’re proving my point that people lost their minds. Our hospitals are more up the creek presently. I can’t emphasise that enough. All the billions upon billions of dollars spent during & since on R&D, staff, resources, beds. PRESENTLY - no covid outbreak - thank the lord.

That’s still correct, yes.

The guys edited his response at least 4 times now, it was an appropriate response to his hysterical reply at the time.

That the path we took was the only path is where I draw issue. It was a choice to lockdown, I think it was a bad one. Covid killed even with lockdowns & vaccines. Birdflu is apparently ravaging Australian bird populations, just because it hasn't jumped species yet doesn't mean it won't... maybe we should lockdown just in case right?

I'm not in a position of power to make the calls as if something like this was to happen again, I'd only caution we look the prior experience to be a guide for what comes instead of pretending outbreaks haven't happened before.

Millions of people die because of covid in Australia? Is that what you’re suggesting the outcome would’ve been if we didn’t lockdown?

That’s basically all the elderly or an entire cohort, I’m really struggling to believe that.

None of them were inherent problems.

Good try.

This might be Australia specific, but I think a lot of the movement restrictions were unnecessary. And long term damaging to not just adults but there’s a whole cohort of kids/teenagers who just missed out on certain things and we’re patting ourselves on the back we survived?

The places that needed restrictions such as hospitals & nursing homes still got covid by & large. We didn’t necessarily need to close down the whole show.

I’ve had my jabs, also had covid multiple times. I’m not a disbeliever, I just think the collective reaction was completely OTT.

I’ve had a pet theory for a long time that society loses it’s collective mind every 10ish years or so, usually starting with a good reason, but the outcome is mass stupidity followed by mass forgetting leading to a new cycle. War on terror, GFC, crypto, covid, now AI. Although the cycle does seem to be shortening.

Also we’re just so damn stupid to learn from history, or even just people 10 years older than us, that we repeat the cycle.

And there I guess is where saying a new sucker is born every minute is from.

Your for loop is using an iterator of some kind. Just because it’s hidden in your language of choice doesn’t mean it’s not there.

While/for can achieve the same thing, sometimes while is more practical as the steps to complete are unknown. But sure, stick your simple iterating a fixed collection as why it demonstrates while is a lesser language feature.

What are you even talking about.

You can use iterators in a while loop like your for example, making it look as clean as the for.

I feel like this is a case of personal preference over actual issue.

I’ve never ever heard while described as a smell, or even slightly smelly.

Care to explain?

May as well house them in Westminster. They don’t actually do anything useful there.

Yeah, I know what you mean by abusing 4 way stops being abused. Thankfully I moved from there a long time ago.

Also where I moved from recently, they changed a roundabout intersection into a traffic lights intersection. And the traffic used to flow. Now it’s a stand still.

There’s always so many little insights when you use the road daily that a planner will never have unless they do the same.

Melbourne where I am kind of close to now, has an absolute clusterf*ck of overpasses, underpasses, toll ways, free ways, tunnels all coming & going out of a neatly planned grid. They probably think it’s planning perfection while driving it as a non-resident is an absolute nightmare. Sydney which is famously poo poo’d for not being planned in Australia is 10x more straight forward to drive.

I like roundabouts over lights at small intersections. I still prefer simple give way/stop that changes the next intersection over roundabouts.

Lights suck unless there’s sufficient traffic.

Problem is most newer places are built of concrete or brick. I mean sure slap some white paint on but the that thermal material is going to take a lot of cooling/heating.