I think uplifting anti-immigration voices is a more proximate cause than the people who are providing alternate solutions and avoiding such voices because we recognise they’re harmful.
It’s also not just fringe “anti-immigration types and racist” Greens who reference his work.
you should consider how happy the lefty anti-YIMBY groups (Greens included) have been to lock arms with Cameron Murray because he’s the only economist who tells them what they want to hear before you go pointing fingers in our direction.
Anti-migrant people are our #1 haters.
Being a developer is technically pretty easy. The general skills are not hard to acquire and Australia is very well provided in professional service firms that do the rest.
It’s the economics of it that’s punishing, it’s low margin, high risk, high costs. Developments die in the spreadsheet.
An absolute housing-planning myth I keep seeing is that because DA refusals are low, supply is not a problem. It misunderstands the process: a proponent first goes to a pre-DA, to make sure non-compliant applications aren’t made. Refused DAs are a sign of unprepared applicants, not of roadblocks. >
"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"
Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:
I don’t think we should spend time bending the knee for concessions on tariffs which will be abolished in three months anyway when they cause the US economy to collapse.
today kids’ sleep and breathing specialist started explaining the plot of catch-22 to the children but said it was ‘kurt vonnegut novel slaughterhouse 5’ to the children
“he was named major major because his parents thought it was funny. but then he joins the army and he’s major major major major”
back to school omen: multiple bins with five year old art and last years maths worksheets in the basement
damn that’s crazy www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
there should be a more robust queuing system for the light rail after events at moore park
9/11 image
borrowed the kids a book on the history of aviation and they spare no detail
new season of Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypotheticals is here
seagull DESTROYED by cricket ball
this newcastle clash strip is very good
sydney fireworks really coast on the fact all other major australian cities are built around brown rivers
watching robbie williams get progressively more agitated at the Syd NYE punters
these guys are actors impersonating the authors and i think that’s messed up
just found out they fused powderfinger and something for kate. ill omen for 2025
I don’t think this is actually a problem that needs solving (300 free spots at Mosman, 100 at Cammeraygal) but if it were then turning North Sydney Boys/Girls into ordinary public schools would be the funniest outcome. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
$30 for 2L of hard solo, Sydney could never
that feels analogous to a bunch of other abstractions we’ve already been through though. most juniors aren’t having to think too much about memory mgmt (until something goes wrong), are using frameworks for a bunch of stuff, etc
A lot of what developers do isn’t particularly original but I’m not even leaning on that as an assumption - there’s not a fixed number of problems we want to write code to solve at the moment and making a line of code cheaper will have us solving more of them rather than employing less people.
The bottom line is I’d be very surprised that these things lead to less people working on software, and I strongly suspect they’ll see more.
We don’t have a fixed set of problems we’re looking to write software to solve, and new tools will be another higher level of abstraction.
There’s some possibility it changes the types of work being undertaken to create software (more PM type work?), though I’m skeptical that changes much either.
IMO this take that LLMs will make software engineers redundant is wrong.
SWEs are in high demand because they produce things you can leverage 1000x over with very little extra investment (just hardware).
To the extent AI has an impact it will *increase* that leverage.
made an all time clown move last night leaving adelaide united/sydney fc when it was 3-1 at 87 minutes (finished 3-3)
local library doesn’t have *anything* even close to this
wanted to get one of these types of things to address my daughter’s current obsession with planes and man what a loss. we forgot how to build them
still a couple of good ones
ashbury christmas lights fell off hard
