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Throw in a node.js implementation with 100 dependencies and we're cooking, simple as.

This is the same in the UK, it depends on context based on the industry. IT contractor is synonymous with freelancer in the UK traditionally.

Most of the UK population, if asked "what's a contractor" would assume construction.

I was thinking exactly this. Coming from Rust, but also as a fan of Go, I can't help that the building blocks just aren't there to construct a satisfying form of iterators, and like you said that would be language support for tuples and expanding the flexibility of Go's generics for methods to support the composition Rust allows, such as: iter.skip(10).take(10).map()...

Wonderful expression of art and life, bravo.

I'm saying a pinky promise (to join the Euro, never to do so) would not be sufficient to reassure the British establishment or electorate of losing fiscal sovereignty. I don't understand why the EU would want this either. It would have to be an explicit "The UK has full fiscal sovereignty".

Then it appears we had no choice, a self fulfilling prophecy.

The guy who famously received safety for himself and his family in Britain during the war, what a thanks indeed... Believe it or not I've heard this anecdote told as a projection of anti-European sentiment, have you considered what might have been for the Anglo-European relationship had he not felt France was the centre of the European project and portrayed the UK this way?

Because domestic UK politics wouldn't allow this to pass on technicalities, I mean haven't you learned anything from the build up to Brexit? It would have to be explicit to be palatable, not some technicality that we effectively want to play ball on the Euro, but never really do... Hell, even from the EU side I'd want a honest decision, not political illusion.

That's precisely why the UK got a rebate, because the subsidies were not applicable to the UK economy, which had a disproportionately low input from farming, thus for our financial input we weren't fairly rewarded.

The UK has had a declining car manufacturing industry also, so the same applies to German industry.

The redistribution of contributions may very well appear fair on paper, but countries cannot simply magic up a pivot to farming and automotive industries as a way to receive funds...

I'm a remainer, how do you think your portrayal comes across? Even the mere financial contributions alone (net contributor) should be acknowledged and recognized as a force for good for the project during our tenure. Some countries also appreciated our counterweight to the French/German hegemony.

I think the problem with this is that it's a technicality; the optics of selling it like that wouldn't wash - I suspect the UK would need specific reassurance for the "Euro" topic.

What year was this? The removal of a lot of this financial friction was coming to and end regardless of the Euro or ECB. Didn't Croatia only join the Euro this year? I'm finding it hard to believe this archaic mechanism existed up until Jan 2023, that is to say I find the example slightly disingenuous.

The friction between Ireland and the UK is near zero, both have different currencies.

This isn't to say there aren't benefits to the Euro; on an individual level of course not thinking about exchanging or exchange rates makes life easy. It's simply not palatable to the UK, Brits or the core financial institutions by which its service oriented economy excels.

The currency is a hard no, even from hardent remainer quarters. The Euro and the ECB haven't even been a success for the EU as-is, a single fiscal policy cannot reconcile the economies of Germany and Greece. The hubris of the UK submitting to the Euro isn't pragmatic or in the realms of reality. Participation from the UK hardly changes things also, making it come across almost vindictive.

Well only even the most pious remainers would accept the Euro as a currency and removing fiscal sovereignty, so it's a total non-starter.

The special treatment for the old guard (German automotive, French farming industries) also needs to be expunged.

Slightly off topic, but in the UK we call rings of fungus "fairy rings" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring).

Myself and others have witnessed these at native orchid sites and one pattern is that orchids don't grow within the ring; it seems the expanding ring consumes nutrients within, eating outwardly as it expands. This in itself is interesting because typically terrestrial orchids have a heavy symbiotic relationship with fungi. There are interesting physical similarities I can see here; a robustness on the perimeter due to higher nitrogen availability, and more barrenness within the interior.

> and knowing what we could do with it if done right

The implication here is that you know a compelling case for "what we could do with it" and how to "do it right", so what are the answers (because I'm stumped)?

It's not bending the knee, that's how they want it to be perceived, but what's really happening is that they're trying to pull up the ladder.

Sarcasm I assume? This would merely be a redistribution of taxpayers money with no end product. EU has form in this.

UK for example is rather draconian, I've even seen difficulties for friends who've married Americans and said partners have had to jump through hoops.

From my limited knowledge Canada and Germany have much more rational immigration systems.

Some weird comments and up/down voting going on in this thread, hijacked perhaps or Western "socialists" doing their contradictory SIMPing for imperial Russia?

My take is the comoditisation of developers, pushing as much responsibility to them in search of efficiency. Arguably they are best placed to know how long the implementation of X might take, but often the lines are blurred, i.e. developers also become business analysts to spec out the work to determine what the business really needs. Personally I find it exhausting and is one of the aspects that makes me dream of doing something else. Maybe GPT-4 will put me out of my misery soon.

Even after this event they project this psychobabble. Amazing really.

I'm with you, so long as this "work family" and other crap ends.

Isn't net profit absolute though, i.e. directly comparable between the two organisations. Long tail of cheap vehicles probably does help VW stay resilient long term (perhaps in the current economic climate / recessions).

It seems targetting volume could be detrimental to net profits under current/recent market conditions. Selling fewer, supposedly more upmarket vehicles has allowed Tesla to out perform VW.

It's not really about units sold though is it? I guess yes, usually it's a good approximation, but you could sell a single unit for $5bn and have a superior net profit.

Tesla's profit margin looks to be ~15%, whilst VW is at 3% - I'd love to know what it does to those numbers. Tesla's net income for Sept 2022 actually appears to be much higher than VW, if I am interpreting the numbers correctly.

IP espionage is always interesting in the emotions it invokes in the "us vs. them" sense - in an historic context there's nothing new under the sun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater)

What's stopping you from getting up at 0530 now and doing some hobby? This is exactly what I do - I absolutely love that first hour, it's like you're the only person on earth. I'm a natural early bird so your mileage may vary.

I can't help but feel these takes come from a lack of empathy; I'm the exact opposite, but I fully accept people have your view. What strikes me as odd is the incapability for the pro-in-office crew to see that they're seeking participation for what they want, for what I now see as a considerable personal cost (commute time, comfort, simply not seeing the work place as a social venture), the participation from the WFH clan is much lesser (putting up with video meetings etc.).

My social life exists outside of work, and I see "work" as an exchange of money for my time and expertise.

For https://encycolorpedia.com

- Extremely simple setup orchestrated with docker compose

- Primary / perf sensitive areas implemented in Rust; some internal APIs and web facing stuff implemented in Go - there's basically the colour profile page implemented in Rust, a "core" Rust library for shared functionality and two API servers, one in Rust, one in Go

- Some data juggling done in Python (nothing fancy, basically all hand-rolled)

- Postgres database; this is treated as immutable; there's processes for adding data that's rather manual due to it requiring to be curated - a Postgres dump artefact is added to git lfs

- Exposed via Nginx, also using Cloudflare LB

- HTML templating a mixture of hand-rolled and Go templates

- Sass for style sheets

- Vanilla Typescript for the frontend

- Hosted on VPS with the best price/perf ratio (currently UpCloud)

It is difficult, for HMRC - it doesn't scale.

I am actually in favour of the IR35 legislation as it removed entire swathes of "permietractors" from the market and allowed people like myself (and you judging off the working practices you described) to operate in a true business fashion.

It is no doubt to me that 95% of "contractors" previously working "outside IR35" at large FTSE companies were indeed employees in disguise. Tenure even matched permanent staff, quite frankly it was a joke.