I get it. However I find without significant direction from me it architects things badly and/or introduces poor patterns or lack of maintainability so it’s not like you can just let it run. However manual coding does seem more tedious now and I try to get it to a point where it writes most of the code while I make adjustments.
This is one thing to let your accountant choose imo. Only thing I outsourced right away (bookkeeping and taxes). I asked questions and learned what they were doing over time but it gets in the way of running the business to focus on that imo.
I agree on outsourcing bookkeeping and accounting.
Because bookkeeping and accounting are separate operations, I would specify Quickbooks.
Bookkeeping often moves in house before accounting.
A business owner needs access to the books independent of their accountants and bookkeepers because they need the ability to run reports and make forecasts themselves.
Keeping track of money should not be outsourced because when you run out of money is your business dies. The accountant’s business does not. You can not outsource caring.
Imo, as someone who lived in central London for 9 years with no car, the Uk puts ideology first oft n. Obsessed with trains. They are unreliable and expensive. Even the London Underground doesn’t pay for itself with tickets, needing subsidies from tax payers. It may be best to build wider roads and highways and everyone buy a car.
> Obsessed with trains. They are unreliable and expensive.
As a visitor, I've always experienced them as very reliable, extremely frequent, and very affordable compared to all alternatives.
> Even the London Underground doesn’t pay for itself with tickets, needing subsidies from tax payers.
Compared to roads, which are somehow self-funding? And that's not even considering all the other negative externalities of dense but car-centric cities.
This is a complete fallacy. Car owners might pay for their cars but the annual emissions tax doesn't come close to covering the cost of roads and their infrastructure.
Road transport is subsidised to a far larger extent than rail travel is.
I don’t live in London but have traveled for work weeks at a time. Coming from a car focused area, I think this sentiment is surprising. I think the London Underground is one of the best things about London and preferring to widen roads and highways sounds extremely backwards for me who lived in a very car focused area. I don’t think it’s appreciated just how great the underground is compared to other transport systems around the world.
I’ve lived both, car centric US/Canada and London. At first public transport seems great but over time the realization sets in about how uncomfortable it is (no seat warmers, cleanliness, having your face in people’s armpits) and inconvenient it is (not door to door) and that wouldn’t be so bad but then the unreliability (signal issues) and expense of the tickets and tax subsidies makes it a bad deal. It should exist as an option, I’m glad it does so I can have less traffic on the roads, but it’s overrated. HS2 in the article is this expensive just to build, imagine the maintenance costs for the next century. Whether you use it or not, residents will have to pay for it.
Unlike roads? How exactly do you think roads are paid for, if not by 100% tax subsidies? TfL doesn’t get any tax subsidies anyway, the Tories got rid of that years ago.
> imagine the maintenance costs for the next century. Whether you use it or not, residents will have to pay for it.
Of course you’re not responsible for his death, you need not feel any guilt whatsoever.
However to the general point, having been in this industry for close to 20 years now, unnecessary complexity and constantly changing frameworks and conventions for little to no gain is stressful.
I loved them so much when younger it inspired me to become a programmer. I wouldn’t be in tech without them. Nowadays I don’t play other than with my kids. I believe this decline is because there are so many other problems to solve and responsibilities to take care of when older. When relaxing for an hour of the day I tend to want to do something passive.
I'm not worried. Will adapt as needed or die. Editing to add, I don't mean to sound flippant but I believe it's hard to predict things very far out and adaptation/iteration is the way forward. The true 'heroes' are the researchers, scientists and engineers involved in solutions around energy.
"For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live. The fallout from this decline in living standards will be exacerbated by the fact that the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations."
It applies to Canada and the UK. This changes things massively. Inheritance matters more than hard work. Of course there will be some who excel more than others, become millionaires etc and will be fine, but it's still a fundamental shift when the average/median person cannot.
I know you say Studio display feels excessively expensive, but I just got one two weeks ago and I couldn't be happier. If you can afford it, it's worth it.
I think it would be worth it, if only the size was 32 inches instead of 27. Basically It’s the same panel from the 27” iMac and roughly the same cost, but you don’t get an iMac.
