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mattjhallon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

> And you can't even get the apprenticeship to begin with because you're 45 years old and the union won't take you.

This is not how unions work in the UK

I think it's sad that an article that to me was about sacrificing your own time to bring your family together has turned into sacrificing nothing to hyper optimise your life.

mattjhallon New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

> Is someone irresponsible enough to pursue causal, unprotected sex with random partners also likely to be responsible enough to visit a doctor proactively and comply with a prep regimen?

Yes, it's the exact reason that it is widely available on the NHS. 20,000 people took it, adherence was high, HIV rates dropped significantly.

> Sure, it's a "really good idea," but a simpler and better idea is not to have random sex in the first place

Shaming people has been tried for centuries, maybe millennia and famously _does not work_. We have ample evidence that PrEP does.

mattjhallon Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

This is really cool, and I love the name

mattjhallon I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored

If you open a business you should be responsible enough to comply with the laws. A business that became large enough where this would become a time sink would be able to afford to hire someone.

mattjhallon After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

It’s amazing how often these miracle codebases that an AI has generated are always not open source.

mattjhallon Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns

Really nice work!

mattjhallon Where are all the self-directed learners?

> In the 'old' days it was basically up yo you. Assignments during the academic year were few and far between. Each course resulted in an exam at the end of the year. How you passed that was up to you.

Interestingly I think is exactly what the article is arguing against and is saying India is too much like.

> You could use the university as a knowledge buffet attending interesting lectures outside of your own field of study, get straight into the specialization topics that were the real reason you were attracted to field in the first place (AI in my case which was a very niche subject in those days) instead of just slogging through the generalist foundation courses (80% math in those days, physics, economics and some CS).

This sounds great for making academics, but terrible for educating a work force. Sadly, university is now the latter due to it being seen as a way to get ahead. One of the worst things to happen UK in my lifetime is tuition fees.

mattjhallon Posthog/.cursorrules

As someone who occasionally swears at my computer when it doesn't do what I want, I guess it's nice that the computer can hear me now.