scopendo

It's the demographic distribution of those 8 billion that's the problem.

Their series earlier this year, covering Alfred the Great through to William the Conqueror, was one of their best, I think (and I'm a fan).

The alternative of 10^12 (trillion) seems a stretch to say the least.

I would hazard to say very many people, me included.

Yep. Really dislike the American flag being used as the symbol for English.

I tried previous iterations of JetBrain's AI without much love, but need to look at Junie.

Using Windsurf plugins in JB ides has been working for me, albeit not as powerful yet as the Windsurf VS Code fork.

This is a product.

Don't ever get a cocker spaniel then

The panic was started by SVB, not VCs. Abstract this to any other bank and the reaction would have been the same.

Decided not to wear the life jacket whilst kayaking in Thailand. A speedboat came around the corner, then straight at me, such that I rolled off the kayak into the water. Whilst I still was struck by the propeller, I expect that I'd be gone had I been wearing the jacket.

I was also extremely lucky that I ended up having down and got hit in the butt as, to others, there's nothing that suggests I was in such a traumatic accident.

It's (subjectively) justified if there's a lot more social support – for example, some of the Nordic countries.

Whilst high, not sure it makes any sense to compare the systems.

All I want is named parameters so that I don't need to have N variations of the same method with different signatures, also particularly helpful for understanding boolean parameters.

Reminds me of the way many landlords seem to treat their tenants.

Absolutely - and regarding Jordan, whilst Petra was a definitely worth the visit, there's so much more to Jordan that has me wanting to return, not least, the people.

edit: typo