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We’d had a decade of zero growth and 30 years of industrial decline in the North. The country was not doing well, that’s the primary reason it was inevitable putting a big button marked “do not press, posh boy David Cameron says he doesn’t want you to but has no other solutions. Ignore the people saying it will fix the country” would result in the button being pressed.

The economy was doing well for some parts of the country, but you can only ignore the rest for so long.

Given the little background we know of the employees includes a guy who was fired for leaking secrets, I think it’s safe to say they didn’t

I assume it's the same catch as cookies – Google doesn't need it, their competitors do.

Few people play games built for mobiles, let alone looking to play GTA6 on an iPhone

Who is this person you’re constructing? Being concerned about plane emissions and travel is an incredibly common thing and people are adjusting their lifestyles accordingly - lots of overnight sleeper train lines are reopening due to demand.

Egui is great for quickly getting prototypes or GUIs that don't need to be visually impressive up and running.

As soon as you start hoping to get pixel perfect/complex designs in place, though, it hits a wall.

o3 isn't even available to more than a few researchers. Either everyone you know is a researcher, or they're believing hype about something they've not tried.

Right, but we're talking about Amazon who make billions annually not "lots of companies".

As he’s 70 he’s using an old desktop PC and doesn’t have a smartphone. He uses the on device pass key system. One day, months down the line, Bluetooth gets switched off for whatever reason. What then.

Until they are successfully explaining how to use these in a way that 70 year olds on eBay can understand, this should not be forced on users.

No, it’s based on the fact kids are watching the adverts. This isn’t the US, advertising isn’t a free for all and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s not particularly controversial.

“ In an era defined by automation, smarter programming tools, and sky-high user expectations, companies can no longer rely on legacy methods.”

Not on topic but this structure of sentence was a really common first paragraph sentence in blog posts in the UK written by PRs over a decade ago, but seems to live on in US corporate language blogs and adverts. Not really sure why, given it doesn’t say…anything, really. It also just signposts the writing ahead will be fairly generic.

Housing in my hometown (ex-mining town, incredibly poor) has increased 1172% since the mid 1990s (£11k->£112k). Salaries have increased less than 100% in that time (£15,034 -> £29,593)

You're sort of making the exact mistake I mentioned here. How far do those wages go vs the 70s? Add together housing costs, fuel costs, healthcare costs, transport costs, food costs, general price rises? Why can single income households no longer really support a family with a house if everything's got better and everyone is lying?

The number one issue people say motivated them to vote for Trump/Boris/Wilders/et al is “cost of living”. Ie: wages have been falling behind for decades now.

The other issues may play in to it, but that only keeps the wheels on the cart for so long. 2024 we’re finally seeing the complete aversion to solving the cost of living crisis that has developed since the 90s become no longer avoidable.

I worry from a lot of responses from US democrats (and British Labour, and…) that we’re in for a rough ride because they fundamentally will never countenance that. It’s always an issue with the voter (education, Russia, misinformation, racism) instead.

As the piece said, pointing to GDP, economic data and saying things are actually good, while overlooking that this masks economic inequality is not engaging with that issue.

Edit: to clarify, this is not a dig at you. I have also continued to vote for centre left parties that ignored this inconvenient fact, doing little about house prices, wages, etc. But this can't continue if we don't want to see ever more authoritarian leaders.

10ish years ago Myleoma was a semi death sentence, it’s now coming close to being treated like a chronic condition. There are definitely improvements happening, but we’ll often miss them because it’s incremental rather than “we developed this cure for lung cancer and it’s no longer a problem”

Edit: some of the replies below are pretty bleak “it’s just a few months that’s nothing”. The difference between a 5 year and 15 year life expectancy for a parent being diagnosed with blood cancer around 60 is huge.

I see this dates back a decade, which makes sense given this is now achievable in modern CSS without a preprocessor.

I guarantee suicide rates would skyrocket.

They’ve stopped selling them, not ended support.

Typescript isn’t a separate language though, nor does it replace Javascript, you’re comparing apples and oranges.

OP wasn’t talking about a loan payment.

But only if you choose to use them. I agree with the other commenter, it's very hard to see what trade offs there are to pressing a button to initialise a repo at the start, then committing any changes at the end of each session/intermittently so there's a copy of current progress somewhere?

If the OP is referring to version control because they're needing to handle multiple branch types, switching between versions etc that is much more involved....but also makes it even harder to see how you can manage that by simply dropping version control entirely?

From the article, it does seem like it's not about any sort of specific feature they use, but rather the sheer basic "save versions of code" aspect of VC:

"Version control kept me attached to the past"

To go back to an earlier comment, this honestly sounds like burnout to me if you're having temporal anxiety from saving code.

This is just crossing the road.

They had 15 years to fix this.

Eidos Montreal was active just 2 years ago.

I think their Eidos-Labs research department is still active.

Personally, starting a new app called Eidos feels like a headache in the making.

It's always been a standard term in the UK. There's no conspiracy.

You don’t need to know every Astro and Remix, but not even knowing what Vite and Next are as a FEer in 2024 is not exactly something to shout about.

If you don’t need to, fine, but also understand it just sounds ignorant given their size and many years of news around them.

The org chart for the Intercept doesn't look "top heavy", in fact it looks pretty well run. It's a news outlet that sometimes publishes controversial stories that are disliked by various governments, you're probably going to be happy there's a legal team backing you up and a tech team keeping the site up?

I can run Black mesa at 60FPS inside a Windows 11 VM on my Macbook M2. That suggests performance is not actually that bad?

I’ve the same issue, been told point blank there’s nothing I can do about it because it relates to an issue “not about me” and will never be able to use the egates. It’s a complete shit show.