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First result in Google - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

Yes, I pay for access. It costs $20 a month and saves me many hundreds a month in time.

I recently bought a mid-spec Macbook Pro for £3100 to replace the mid-spec 15" Macbook Pro I bought in 2017 for £2200, which replaced the mid-spec one I bought in 2013 for £1900.

Salaries in many jobs in the UK have barely increased in the past 15 years, and of those that have, many have not kept up with inflation. It's not the whole picture, but the UK (and it seems Europe generally) is increasingly poor by comparison to the US, and US products too have become increasingly unaffordable for many.

Not the same thing as those mentioned in the article, but I went self employed because it became increasingly difficult to find any salary progression in full time employment in the UK.

Several years on and I make in 3 days a week what similar senior London based full time employees make in 5. There’s no work scarcity either.

It’s like the the money is there, but workers in the UK are just used to being underpaid and so they put up with continually just getting by.

Nothing plays for me.

No, MacOS

I have to close and reopen it at least once a day because it just completely breaks. A few common issues:

- Songs won't play. - Buttons become completely unresponsive. - The search won't take any input (can't type in the box) - Songs take 5+ seconds to start playing. - I get a mysterious "you are not authorized to play this song" message.

All I want to do is find and play music, and manage playlists. It's utter trash.

I never really understood the push for a 4 day work week here. As things stand, part time work seems really common in the UK anyway. Loads of people I know work 2-4 days per week for a variety of reasons. There's no stigma. It's already pretty normal?

It doesn’t erase the gap, but it’s worth mentioning the cost of living here is much lower than a lot of hubs in the US.

For example, I live less than an hour from London and my total monthly outgoings (including a mortgage) are less than £2,000.

London might as well be a different country from the rest of the UK. It’s not at all representative.

Reduce scope, or move the deadline. Taking shortcuts or working overtime in significant amounts just leads to more trouble down the road.

Once the project is delivered, make sure you all sit down and do a retrospective on what went wrong, decide what you’ll change next time, and actually make those changes.

If none of this seems feasible in your organisation any time soon, leave. Don’t waste your time with people who aren’t taking your work seriously.

It depends if it's going meaningfully affect their ability to develop software. In a lot of modern software engineering roles it won't.

I doubt it's a once every few decades event anymore. It got to 38 in several places in the country a few years ago. It seems to get up to the mid 30s every year now.

His videos are consistently brilliant. My go-to example for people who think "YouTuber" isn't a legitimate career.

Yes. It’s not the super cool framework it once was but it’s still excellent, and still in active development. Rails 7 is a fantastic release too.

This isn’t quite right. The age verification is enforced on mobile networks, not devices.

Shameless plug, but I made a little app for generating one-on-one questions: https://one-on-ones.app/

Hard same: https://mcarter.me/posts/twitter-makes-me-feel-bad

> Obviously things depend a bit on the use case

A bit? It's one giant "it depends" as far as I'm concerned.

This lite version of cnn.com is so much better.

Author here. I could have worded this part better.

I probably bill about 5 hours a day, give or take. The 40 hours I referenced encompasses everything that goes into freelancing including my client work, not just the client work itself.

Work hours seemed an unlikely cause for the burnout to me because I've worked at least that my entire career (and in previous jobs many more hours) without even a hint of burnout. I'll never know the true cause, but I suspect it's a combination of the factors I mentioned in the post.

Don’t worry, I didn’t think you did. Some of the other replies made some odd assumptions though.

Thanks for your kind words, and best of luck.

That the problem is more complex than you’re making it out to be.

What does a rich tech bro make these days?

Out where?

Not planning to.

I’m not aiming for anything as radical as a lot of the replies seem to think. I just want bit of space to breathe cleaner air, grow food and install some renewables.

It’s not this simple.

It’s the easiest thing we can do but it’s only a small part of the overall problem.

We all need to do much more in addition to just not eating animals. Endless production, consumption and growth the way we’re currently doing it is just completely unsustainable.