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It's not a national holiday in the UK.

The existing Conservative government are a shambles at the moment, with a whole series of defections and by-elections. The longer the stay in power, the more it damages their brand. They're expecting to lose this election, and bounce back in the next.

Also, old people are the Conservative government's key constituency. Old people vote more in the warmer, dryer summer months, than if the government waits until winter.

It makes a fascinating conspiracy theory to pretend he's right about all the "bad actors" tampering with his files. All nonsense of course, but makes a good yarn.

A few personal anecdotes aren't very convincing arguments about the future direction of the world economy.

I'm in a similar position to you, but from singler friends, I've heard two reasons. Firstly, all the other single people are on the apps. Secondly, some are concerned about being seen as a creep when flirting or approaching the "normal" way. Thus, online dating is the new normal, and the old-fashioned talking in person is less common.

I suppose it depends on your own perspective. For my part, a world in which people "date" algorithms instead of other human beings certainly seems pretty dystopian.

Also, there are fuzzy lines between opinions, consensus, and facts. What may be considered a fact amongst one group will be described as a wrong opinion by another. Chances are, the LLMs will try to work out what group you are in, and present accordingly, without seeking any real truth.

“Lives rent-free in my head” is a horrible cliche. By now, it has the same effect as saying “it’s nice” but uses lots more letters.

I wonder what their GCP spend was.

As always, there’s a trade off. By using native backups, it’s typically cheaper and easier, with external backups having their own risks. The risk of the cloud provider making a stupid mistake is so small that there are usually many other risks that are worth mitigating first.

I’d love this for crochet.

> OpenAI have several times being argue that they are the only ones to be responsible enough to develop powerful AI, and that others should not be allowed to play

Can you give examples of where they’ve said that?

Seems to me you're making sure you don't forget them by outsourcing the "remembering" to a more reliable system.

I had an eccentric Maths teacher at school who used to stare out of the window and make odd claims. One was that he was running a roadworks business using telekinetic powers, and all the people in hi-vis jackets were merely scarecrows.

The backend has definitely suffered from "crazy hype-driven development" for the last 30 years. Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, Scala, Clojure, Go, Rust have all had their brief moment as the silver bullet. Not to mention ops tooling - Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef, Ansible.

I wasn't alive in the 1970s, but I'm guessing that those who were would say it was just as faddish then as well.

It’s a common style guide in newspapers.

I had never heard of Zachtronics, and I've been on Hacker News since 2012.

Oh we’re at that point of the hype cycle are we?

I've just turned it off, and I still can't spread Safari over two displays. I'm on Sonoma, on an M3 Max, albeit using a third-party monitor.

This reminds me of the Kubernetes API.

Perhaps it would be silly for you to adopt it because you have a skillset that doesn't need it, but it can still be a sensible solution for others.

I've been building websites for 25 years, but I'm not very good at building maintainable CSS. From memory, I've used Bootstrap, Zurb, SMACSS, YUI CSS, YAML (the CSS framwework), OOCSS, plus various ThemeForest templates.

Perhaps it's not a problem for you, or perhaps you don't like the solution. But Tailwind is hands down my favourite solution to that problem.

If you think there's something better, you need to start from a place that actually solves my problem better. I'm all ears.

Sorry for taking that wrong. The fanboy logic can be so ridiculous at times that it's really hard to tell.

I honestly struggle to tell these days.

> Do you really think Elon would just surround himself with yes men that implement stupid ideas just because he thinks it "looks cool"?

Yes, I suspect a lot of us do think exactly that.

Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/

Is it easier to build a layout with CSS compared to 20 years ago? Yes. Can we further improve CSS? Yes.

Similar to how software engineers get paid $1000s just to keep hitting the keyboard.

True, which is perhaps why it's unclear what the difference is between a "skinny waist" and hexagonal architecture, "ports and adapters".

I agree with the general ethos - good code doesn't get written by attending meetings all day, or fiddling with org mode. But like all advice, it needs caveats. If you're on a brownfield project where you have very little knowledge of the domain or legacy code, just jumping straight in and spending lots of time in your editor is probably going to result in a lot of frustration and wasted effort.