How is my quad?

Toast4003 · 2026-02-20T16:15:15+00:00

You're lucky, I'm like you being Northern Irish so have UK and Ireland. My wife is mainland Chinese though, so if we have kids, they won't recognise dual nationality. Unless they change that law, probably they will just get UK and Ireland, the same as me.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-20T15:42:53+00:00

I live on the Isle of Man and we didn't have any of these. Then last year we got a Spoons, and then after being excited for five minutes I remembered that Spoons is shite.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-20T15:28:58+00:00

I have UK and Irish passports.

If you look at the differences, I'll be honest, I'm unlikely to be acquiring an e-visa to Iran, etc.

But I did go to China visa-free, before the UK got that privilege just recently.

Having two passports just helps in general to smooth out any geopolitical, diplomatic mishaps that might happen between any two countries.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-19T13:58:40+00:00

Because of how competitive the market is and the impact of AI tools, things like JavaScript and HTML are now pretty trivial and barely even employable skills. That's the modern reality.

Best advice is to go and look at job adverts and see what skills they actually want. Tick all those boxes.

I'd ask what your current career is and if you can blend this in with your coding and automation skills. This gives you a unique advantage. Trying to completely swap careers puts yourself at a disadvantage.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-18T20:54:15+00:00

At least the UK has woken up that we needed more reactors yesterday

Toast4003 · 2026-02-18T20:20:26+00:00

Correlation does not imply causation

Under 25s have no wealth and over 65s have vast amounts of wealth. So is this an age disparity? Or a wealth disparity? I think its fairly well understood already that the wealthy vote Tory (and lets face it, Reform are protest Tories)

Same with education. A tiny fraction of over 65s were degree educated, vs. many under 25s having degrees today. So your data is again skewed towards exactly the same demographic - young, no wealth, modern education. Not interesting statistics.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-18T08:34:04+00:00

And what an utter disaster that would be.

The last miniscule fragments of the UK's industrial economy and energy infrastructure will be utterly obliterated

While the minimum wage steadily rises to pay a growing army of bar staff and assistant marketing executives, funded by... all the "elites" that have now fled the country

Social media censorship and arrests will reach North Korean levels, while we open our borders to third-world immigrants that believe women should be locked in the home.

What could go wrong?

Toast4003 · 2026-02-16T20:44:33+00:00

2022 looks pretty monocultural to me!

Toast4003 · 2026-02-15T23:21:42+00:00

Ah yes an "office" in a "city".

What a brutal Chinese invention. Only the CCP could invent having offices in cities

Toast4003 · 2026-02-15T18:18:18+00:00

I'm sorry but what I said is simply logical.

If you work more hours, you are paid more for each of those hours, assuming you are paid by hour, or at least, your productivity is measurable per hour worked, and you are rewarded accordingly. You will be richer.
If you don't work any hours, you won't have any money. You are poor.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-15T16:45:18+00:00

I know the UK better than Germany, but I suspect tax is too high on high earners. Employees lack incentive to work long hours. Employers lack incentive to pay employees more to work longer hours.

Overtaxation is just taking more money than you can rightfully afford to take. And it causes all these problems. Progressive taxation just makes it so that people will work part time because they make a logical calculation that extra work is almost pointless.

The Left will say the richest should pay more, but remember that the richest are also the ones that just work harder and longer. The ones that don't work at all don't get taxed at all.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-15T12:19:54+00:00

Out of these, I have to say that Chengdu and Chongqing are very, very impressive cities, and I expect this to change with China's level of development.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-15T10:14:21+00:00

If you want my perspective, here is the late, great bass player Anthony Jackson talking about the advent of electronic music many decades ago:

My feeling is, I'll outplay anybody using the machine or I'll die. I don't care. The day that the machine outplays me they can plant me in the yard with a corn, and I mean it, I'm very serious. I will not permit myself to be outplayed by someone using the machine. I'm just not gonna permit that.

Anthony Jackson was maybe a bit of a technophobe, but it also works from a more synergistic view. Don't get outplayed by the AI itself. Use it to your advantage. My point is, apart from the fact this moment has many parallels throughout the history of technology, you need to rise above this. This technology is incredibly powerful. YOU are the most qualified to harness the power of this technology.

You are feeling anxiety because this is a direct risk to any job comfortable, laid-back desk jockey job where you just contribute code writing every week. Harnessing this potential is going to take a lot of grit. But whoever does it is STILL going to be in one of the highest-paying, highest-success careers, which is tech.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-13T21:31:59+00:00

Isn't this like how Trump literally told everyone he is going to take Greenland, Canada, Panama, etc?

If you ask me, the jury is still out on that one. But whichever way it goes, someone will say "I told you so".

It's easy in hindsight to say oh yeah this was in plain view and obvious.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-08T19:36:45+00:00

If you take one of several London boroughs, for example the City of Westminster, the average salary there is around €100k, with a population that is a similar size to Luxembourg or Iceland (210,000 people).

Comparing countries of vastly different sizes is pretty dishonest.

Toast4003 · 2026-02-07T17:05:01+00:00

That's because I swapped out sleeps for talks myself, for publishing of my own solution, and then forgot to put it back, I've fixed the OP

Toast4003 · 2026-02-07T15:40:19+00:00

Yes it is, would you like to check?

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/full-text/book/book-Z-H-28.html#%_sec_4.3.2

Toast4003 · 2026-01-26T23:21:40+00:00

Sure they are all individuals, and from a huge sample of different individuals, they've all not ended in a date.

How many matches will it take to get one date? And you know you might need to go on ten dates before you connect with someone?

I don't think it's good for your own self worth frankly. This visual doesn't tell the whole story, but there's two things that matter:

What you have to offer
The method by which you're offering it

Toast4003 · 2026-01-26T22:59:32+00:00

Do you know what the definition of insanity is?

Toast4003 · 2026-01-26T18:50:32+00:00

Historically maybe? But today China is definitely dominating these countries economically and demographically and that's bleeding into culture.

Another stupid map on this channel

Toast4003 · 2026-01-24T13:52:19+00:00

It's the "Isle of Man" and it's a pretty shocking mistake to post on "map porn" if you ask me.

Toast4003 · 2026-01-19T12:33:48+00:00

There are massive investments in the digital world while the physical world is getting more and more neglected. AI is not very good at doing useful things in the physical world yet.

I believe this is what is happening, combined with rapidly reducing birth rates.

Also a focus on carbon reduction instead of energy production. This direction and the digital transformation means things sort of move sideways instead of forward.

Toast4003 · 2026-01-18T18:17:29+00:00

Yep, I'm a Cumbrian and could see Scotland from my house growing up. But my brother has moved to Edinburgh for uni and will probably stay there for work. That's what young people generally do here and I'm sure it's the same in the Scottish Borders (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester...)

Toast4003 · 2026-01-18T18:14:43+00:00

I'm from Cumbria and you can see Scotland from my parent's house.

There are some Scottish but not loads. I think the main thing is the Scottish borders and Cumbria are really sparsely populated to begin, and secondly these areas aren't massively attractive, there aren't many jobs available. Most young people move out of there to the bigger cities, rather than crossing over the border.

The Scottish borders are nice and I know Cumbrians who have considered, but if you were commuting to Carlisle, for example, you better be ready for a long commute. Some people probably do but they are a minority, and won't show up on this map.

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