Yeah hedonism and avarice aren’t the same vices, the latter is much more troubling in my opinion.

Yeah it’s just reflexive ‘do-somethingism’ which falls apart on contact with our actual constitution I think. I’m not saying the Westminster system is perfect, far from it, but there’s legitimate costs to breaking the logic of the system as it exists too badly. It’s not even clear how you would create a written constitution with the same weight most countries have one for example, by definition it’d be an Act of Parliament which any future Parliament can undo.

The Brexit referendum is another great example of why it’s a bad idea, it had the same constitution-breaking property of creating an effectively binding mandate external to the House of Commons which is something that straight up isn’t meant to exist in the Westminster system - it created massive amounts of destabilisation in its own right that the system was never really designed to cope with, without even getting into the consequences of Brexit itself. Compare that to the Scottish independence referendum which was comparatively less destabilising politically, being conducted by the Scottish government under well-defined delegated authority from Westminster it was not constitution-breaking in the same way.

Yeah I was always a bit miffed as a pupil I couldn’t just start summer early after end of year exams, those few weeks were always a waste of everyone’s time.

Appropriate since a lot of LLMs sound like their training data had way too much marketing copy in it. It’s like a circular human centipede.

It’s not just about how many examples of a language exist in the LLM’s distribution though, dynamic typing is a poor choice if you’re using LLMs for software in my view because it turns compile-time errors into runtime errors which will only be caught if the LLM writes a suitable test; an area that they still leave a fair bit to be desired in.

The whole virtue of dynamic typing is that it reduces cognitive load on the programmer, if you’re using LLMs there’s no reason to do that in my opinion, you’re offloading a bunch of cognitive load to begin with so expressiveness and constraint is more important than human ergonomics. Yes there’s loads of JS in an LLM corpus but a lot of it is going to be poor examples, because it’s generally quite easy to write JS badly. If you use typescript you’re at least forcing a few common hallucinations to produce compile-time errors which the model has immediate feedback for, and you’re giving the model more context on what it’s seeing.

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As a software engineer I avoid JS as much as possible frankly! Its typing semantics are genuinely horrible, personally I’d never consider eschewing typescript in this day and age.

Then again I’m the sort of masochist who thinks we should all be writing Scala so maybe take this with a pinch of salt.

I don’t think anyone from laissez-faire capitalists to vanguard party communists can solve our water issues quickly, at the end of the day catastrophic underinvestment from both the state and the private sector have brought a battery farm’s worth of chickens home to roost. Nobody can fix that without a decades-long effort and an enormous slice of humble pie.

The whole reason it was privatised to begin with was a way to shift future liabilities off the government’s books, like our student loan system it’s all about picking the future’s pocket for today using questionable accounting in my view. Well now we live in the future, and everything is buggered.

Not content with taking bribes from Russia apparently Reform are keen to import their casual attitude to corruption.

The Tories can promise what they like, their chances of winning the next election are somewhere between fat and none.

I suspect some of the motivation for this is practical foreign policy, Burnham probably doesn’t want to risk pissing off the Trump administration this early and Labour themselves aren’t exactly clean-handed given the Mandelson scandal. Still a bad move in my opinion, it would be popular domestically at a time he’d do well to shore up Labour’s polling (bringing the hammer down on nonces is just about the only thing we can agree on these days) and conflict with Trump is inevitable anyway given his conduct of foreign affairs.

Fortunately for the North, the persistent cloud cover ought to keep the thousand suns at bay.

Anneka refused to accept this “community resolution disposal”, which would have remained on her police record, and, after she engaged a lawyer, the case has now been dropped.

I really don’t like the practice of ‘let’s bully someone beyond the bounds of the law, and only back off if they call our bluff and get a lawyer involved’. They’re more or less relying on the fact most people don’t know their rights and are loathe to involve solicitors even when engaging one is completely called for.

I don’t know, I could see them bleeding Tory defectors for every Restore voter they gain. I think Reform’s electoral triangulation is a harder problem than it looks for them, especially as Badenoch’s profile has risen somewhat lately (albeit from a position not much higher up than Malebolge).

I don’t think this would be a good move for Farage, he’s always made hay from being the furthest right ‘respectable’ voters will go for. I don’t like the man at all but one of his talents as a political operator is toeing that line uncommonly well, you can see this historically with UKIP; as soon as Farage was gone the party shifted to the football hooligan and ethnic cleansing (ah sorry, remigration it’s called now) crowd and were punished severely for it at the ballot box.

Farage is on a lee shore but getting into bed with Rupert Lowe’s party will only drive him onto the rocks faster in my view. There’s a hard ceiling in the UK of people who’ll support the kind of policies Lowe advocates and its lower than numbers Farage needs for a majority of the Commons. If Burnham has a brain he’ll push hard for electoral reform, I’m cynical enough to believe parties who benefit from the unfairness of FPTP will have a change of heart when it’s no longer a structural benefit to the old duopoly. His only route to power now I think is a corruption scandal coming out which dwarfs his own, I reckon he might be a busted flush in general whether he forms an alliance or not. Then again he has had a habit of coming back from things usually considered terminal to political careers.

Yeah the bar has been somewhere between the bottom of the Kola borehole and hell for some time on this front. Not a pleasant fact, but one that a progressive party looking to make gains can exploit with a clear-eyed approach to electioneering.

Goes to show how badly electoral reform is needed in Westminster, so many votes for the most influential democratic institution are fundamentally wasted.