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Aflynn50··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
What do you mean by this? The article quotes an NHS director backing up the statement in the title.

> England is now leading the world in the mission to eliminate this disease and on course to beat the WHO's 2030 target, but we are determined to keep up the momentum and finish the job.

Seems fairly unambiguous to me

Aflynn50··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed.

As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt.

Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view of it, but I don't like the feeling that all that time and learning has gone to waste, and that my skillset of automating things is becoming itself more and more automated.

Aflynn50··on Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
Adults don't, but children might. These books arn't consumed by people who are particularly aware of the cultural context of the ear in which they were written. Things are going to very much taken at face value. A lot of things have changed in the last 60 years.
Aflynn50··on The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled
This is Canonical getting their hands dirty and applying their own patches faster than the package maintainers. If the package maintainer release a patch then that is applied like normal, no Ubuntu Pro required.
Aflynn50··on On the psychology of “tech money”
I think it's referring people who use apps like venmo to settle up for small trivial things that could easily be ignored. Especially as these are people that usually have enough money that the £3 for salsa would make no difference to them whatsoever.