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First one looks like a giant dirty waffle and the rest aren't much better. Almost brutalist. We need to start encouraging architects to get their vision checked regularly before we find every part of the country has been transformed into a never ending grungy dystopian soul sucking landscape. So ugly it's like meeting a Dementor from Harry Potter, or a day trip to Azcaban.

This has to be the most user unfriendly website I've seen in a long time. I lost count of the number of dialogs popping up and when I'd finally beaten my way through there's a distracting fixed thumbnail video in the corner that can't be dismissed... Which happens to be too small to be viewable and too vibrant compared to the rest of the site to ignore.

Unreadable...

Most people educated in the last 50 years are unfamiliar with the old weights, and the older people were forced to become familiar with the metric system.

Nothing will change except a few old timers being stubborn just because they can, until they either give up due to lost business or retire due to old age.

Why is everyone freaking out over a beta test with a driver at the wheel ready to take over immediately? It's a beta test, finding bugs is kind of the point.

Or have we truly reached the point now where we expect "stable" software to be of the same calibre as beta software so nobody makes a distinction between the two?

That explains why I was served Arabic versions of websites last year while using ExpressVPN, including YouTube and Google, no matter which VPN server I selected.

ACLU has already been taken by the new American leftist orthodoxy. Turning the tide will require new thinking.

That's not his voice, but whoever it is sounds similar. Same accent, similar voice but not as deep and with less variation in emphasis. I'm guessing whoever it is is playing Morpheus' son.

This is a tiny fraction of software engineers. The vast majority in the wider Western world earn less than an average tradesman. The higher end of salaries in the UK is £40-50k, most earning substantially less than that.

The much higher salaries paid by the major US companies are so anomalous that they may as well be discarded in any comparisons.

This should go a step further and require ID.

In reality ("IRL") everything we do is tied to who we are. Our very faces identify us instantly to everyone we interact with.

There is no privacy of the kind people associate with the internet IRL. It's nothing more than an unhealthy vice that leads to people living unauthentic split lives with multiple incongruent personas. Those who exist solely on the internet and that which lives solely IRL.

By making the internet an extension of reality with the same social dynamics instead of treating it as an alternate reality/fantasy world we'll start to integrate our online behaviour/activities with our offline selves.

The end result being that many of the problems we associate with the internet cease to exist. No more anonymous trolls, less disinformation/fewer manipulative botnets shaping public discourse, less aggressive behaviour in online games...

Above all else: accountability.

It strikes me that the same people who want transparency of organisational behaviour (government, corp) seem to be the same people who themselves want their own behaviour to be kept secret.

It's not. A combination of ever broadening diagnostic criteria and intentional misdiagnosis of unfavorable disorders screws with the numbers.

Psychiatry is a joke.

No, I don't use Twitter.

I check the Telegraph from time to time and I agree from a political angle they lean right but I've never seen anything outlandish which is why I asked.

I don't trust Dominic Cummings in the slightest. His childish character assassination attempts on former colleagues reveal a reckless, vengeful, insecure personality and I don't see any reason why he wouldn't behave towards an organisation in the same way he does towards people. In that sense he reminds me of another person who recently left the political spotlight...

Why?

I vaguely recall reading about a debate over whether the eyes were a separate organ or should be classed as part of the brain.

I don't remember the reasoning behind each side but perhaps this settles it.

They're made with ingredients that are processed. The flour that goes into the bread and pasta has been stripped of all fibre and micro nutrients, then some vitamins might be added back if you're lucky.

The bread is full of refined sugar.

You need to look at the ingredients recursively. If you eat wholegrain everything you're half way there.

Same applies to rice etc.

The reason they remove the good stuff is so it doesn't spoil, if you remove the nutrients it's less appetising to microbes and pests.

Just speculating but it might have something to do with nutrient absorption. Much in the same way we lost the ability to synthesise vitamin C and now take it in from our diet, these plants may gain a nutrient from their prey that they no longer need to produce themselves.

There are some people and organisations you can never keep out. It doesn't matter what software you use.

You may stand a good chance of keeping the average snooper out, and for that you need to trust the software provider. So it ultimately comes down to who you trust more to keep your stuff moderately secure.

If you don't want anyone (but yourself) to have access to your information then don't store it digitally.

So who do you trust more, Google or random people on the Internet? Neither are an ideal choice, because there isn't one.

If by bad you mean accurate.

It would be handy to be able to exclude tags from the search results.

A lot of people mix it with tobacco in joints/spliffs. It's especially common in Europe, where a joint will typically be 2/3 tobacco and 1/3 cannabis or 50/50 depending on the user.

Virtually nobody in the UK smokes it without tobacco in joints.

There's also the possibility of people in the early stages of addiction trying to satisfy urges throughout the day by substituting with cigarettes (yes it can be addictive...)

I think alcohol is better for the simple reason that the negative consequences are more immediately obvious. Cannabis is much more sinister in that the negatives usually creep up on you before you notice and so long as it has you in its grip you may not even notice until you stop.

I've witnessed people have acute psychotic breaks after smoking strong cannabis for the first time, and met one man with schizophrenia who attributed his condition to his past cannabis use. Whether he's right I don't know, but the connection is at least well acknowledged nowadays.

Because I realised that the marketing about it being mostly harmless and the happy go lucky attitude towards it is wrong.

It was having very real, very serious negative impacts on my health.

It's an addictive drug with negative health implications and a withdrawal syndrome.

Negative effects: lung dysfunction, brain dysfunction, poor sleep/REM suppression, inability to remember what "normal" is when you're high and a lack of awareness of the negative effects until discontinuation.

Withdrawal syndrome: low mood/depression/irritability, insomnia, lack of appetite, brain fog/slowed thinking.

Additionally research has now shown that chronic daily use leads to permanent brain damage in the form of reduced reasoning ability.

It's a parasitic plant that diverts your motivation towards its own preservation and propagation. You fall in love with it while it takes away your ability to realise what's happening.

The related infographic linked below this one showing price and purity doesn't have any units, I'd assume percentage for purity yet it goes above 160... Not sure what to make of this. Is it garbage or am I missing something?

This doesn't help you maintain connections with people, it's emotional forgery and anyone caught using something like this will find their "connections" evaporate instantly.

If you want to maintain connections with people put the effort in, that's the substance of the connection in the first place. If you don't, then don't.

People want to feel like they matter to you, so you contacting them shows that you care about them and fulfills that need. This app is a betrayal of that.

Is this connected to an article from The Onion or something? A joke?

If anyone is interested my mobile note taking consists of:

Dynalist for organised notes that work well in list/tree structures

Standard Notes for unorganised, random brain dumps

And good old fashioned pen and paper everywhere else.

The miMind app from the article looks like it may be useful.

They did, kind of. They spiked the bread at the bakery in a town in France.

Move on to other things. Stop trying to make it happen, it's a waste of time/life. Just accept that you don't enjoy it anymore and find new things to enjoy. YOLO.

I wouldn't. Instead pursue other interests and if one day you feel like programming again so be it. You can't force yourself to be interested in something, you'll just end up miserable trying.

Why care about any of this? Someone is trying very hard to push a narrative, why? Best to just ignore this noise.

One way to automate list population would be to identify the established journals in each field and use number of citations of each individual's papers. Generally if someone is competent everyone else in their field will be paying attention to what they're saying and this is one way to check that.