A local economics podcast gave me an interesting point, which was that post covid Australia had one of the better unemployment rates, and it 100% came down to government funding jobs in the care sector. Now I do understand some of those aged/disability care programs got ripped off (like NDIS), but the guests claimed that countries relying on private sector jobs to bounce back basically have worse numbers. Food for thought in the role of government intervention in markets
It’s not all rainbows and unicorns though. A certain amount of power is provided through burning of natural gas, which used to be quite cheap. As I understand it, this was because we had our own cheap supply and then sold on the rest for international export. A few years ago we shifted that priority to exports, which meant that local prices for our own gas shot up. This translated into higher energy prices. As for the percentages now with solar, I’m not so sure. The gas increase was enough to impact CPI in a meaningful way and it doesn’t seem like prices are really down?? Though yeah my anecdote is not a study.
I’m sorry I haven’t had much luck with finding vscodium equivalents. Currently using yaak (until the author rug pulls the open source version)
All of the subs I previously visited are being taken over by marketing campaigns and I find it is getting increasingly worse over time. They are slowly pushing out all the real users that generated the value of the site. The end game has to be just bots posting to bots.
In my experience I tried to come into a vibe project as a reviewer, and it felt completely unreadable with no underlying principles to hold on to. Like every function was written by a different guy almost.
Now you totally can stuff the context with instructions about how to do everything. And then add 50x mcps to retrieve documentation and policy about how to write the thing, but this is like cheating on an exam by remembering the answers. You already supplied enough context to write the thing yourself.
Half my feed is AI generated engagement bait or marketing disguised as content. It’s a bit of a wasteland compared to what it was