No this is the look you get when re-reading the code you wrote as a grad…with the perspective of 15 years experience.
I was showing a new person examples of good and terrible code…they asked who wrote the code, I said that both were me about 13 years apart. It turns out that experience matters and you get better over time.
The type of person that wants someone that can’t think for them selves…isn’t really that high on the mental flag pole of life.
But the saying is code for a bunch of stuff, I really doubt that they mean they are searching for someone with severe brain damage and has trouble performing even the basic functions of life.
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
Statistically 2.1 births/woman is required to replace the current population.
As for the economic argument, your friend is somewhat correct, except that economies don’t just grow or shrink based on population (it is a major driver). There are too many factors at play to make such a statement.
The finite earth argument is interesting, whilst we are the biggest danger to the biosphere in the short run, we are also the biggest hope. In the long run the biosphere will sort itself out after we are out of the picture.
Taking this argument a little further, we may be the only hope for an intelligent civilisation from this planet. We have taken all of the easy energy resources; which take millions of years to regenerate; so any intelligent civilisation that follows after us will not have the luxury of cheap abundant energy.
So we either sort our shit out, become space faring, and move on with the next phase of the human experiment, or the likelihood of intelligence leaving earth is quite low.
We could, reduce ourselves content to “save” the earth and exist here in perpetuity, but I don’t really see that happening. There will always be those that dream and strive, if humans still exist in 10,000 years they will be spacefaring.
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
The article points out that a large number of schools in the UK are charter schools (40% primary, 80% secondary), but doesn’t then say if that is a positive or not.
One size doesn’t fit all in education, which Seymour points out. But how do charter schools address this issue?
I’m all for innovation in education, but surely there is plenty of international data to give just a little bit of information on the positives of charter schools.
I nice comparative analysis would go a long way, but no.
There are countries that run charter schools and countries that don’t. Which ones are doing better from an outcomes point of view, which ones are doing better after 20 years out of school?
We brought a Delongi Magnifica about 6 years ago, use it multiple times a day.
IMPORTANT NOTE not the cheapest machine
Makes great coffee, can take beans and ground coffee (I have never used the grounds part, we only buy beans). Grinds the beans and produces coffee from one button press…awesome.
I drink my coffee black, so if it tastes bad…I know. It does do the milk thing and others have used that function on my one.
I would buy another one if mine broke. Side note, I brought one for Mum about 4 years ago…partly so I could have good coffee at her place.
Range of machines now…the model I have is not there, closest one is the Magnifica S, with the rise of enshitification I worry that they have somehow made this great machine worse…
We got ours on sale for $500, 6 years ago, the Magnifica S is about $800 normal price now, PriceSpy hasn’t had it below this for at least 18 months.
New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’ (www.theguardian.com)
Wot ?
What's the most notable difference between you and the other people in your neighborhood?
John Key sued in the US for alleged insider trading | interest.co.nz (www.interest.co.nz)
As NZ unemployment rises, Kiwis are making their way across the Tasman (www.abc.net.au)
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?
Ye Olde Book O' Faces (lemmy.world)
Got 7 or 8 / 14 rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
Down time last night 17/5/24-18/5/24
Hi everyone,...
Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
Is it ever okay to generalize about people? why or why not?
How to get a clue where on the curve of Dunning-Kruger effect you are?
Seagliders' 35-minute trips to Auckland closer with $145m deal (www.nzherald.co.nz)
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
Mama mia! (lemmy.nz)
rule of cool (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Nathan Pyle is always right
Govt to convert 35 state schools to charter schools (www.newshub.co.nz)
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 13/5/2024
Last weeks thread here...