Andrew Drake
@andrew.drake.nz
Full stack hybrid app developer Ngāi Tahu Ōtautahi / Christchurch Aotearoa / New Zealand https://andrew.drake.nz
Lots if #eqnz posts on the EQNZ site tonight…
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers | Discussion
AI has torched the market for junior programmers | Seldo.com
Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's building the next generation of senior engineers.
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
Sheryl Gay Stolberg@sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10mo agoHEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
📢 Meet Jacob Smith, the 21-year-old turning wool and veggie scraps into fashion-forward biodegradable shoelaces.
Country Life: The young entrepreneur lacing up a future for NZ wool
rnz.co.nz
In reality, everyone keeping an eye on the defence of reason knew that there would be an upsurge in impossible claims during the 2nd covid enquiry. Which is why I wrote the explainer on the general principles of how mortality is measured in Sep 2024. Kindly published by @newsroom.co.nz
The truth about NZ's death rate that the Covid Commission will hear
Wild claims of excess deaths in the wake of the Covid vaccination campaign are at stark odds with the mathematical facts: NZ's mortality rate is lower than expected, writes David Hood
newsroom.co.nz
David Hood@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · last yr.I have been minimally active on Twitter for the past 18 months or so, ... but at the moment I'm in a time where an anti-vaxer has taken out a Twitter Ad for their own "NZ mortality" article that is apparently (I'm not looking) very full of references to me (rather than actuarial/demographic maths)
Super useful NZ study here for people who, like me, think solar panels would be cool but don't want to lose money on them. Heaps of detail confirming that, yes, they can be a very good investment... And how to make sure. How to get the best payoff from solar panels www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
How to get the best payoff from solar panels
Solar now stacks up financially in all three of our biggest cities - but there are exceptions, according to a new study.
rnz.co.nz
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A key difference between a senior dev and a junior dev using AI-generated code appears to be whether or not they "own" the code written. A junior assumes the AI knows best, so commits the code blindly.
The murder of Palestinian journalist, based in north Gaza, Hossam Shabat by israel is devastating. Make sure you read this piece, his last filed story. Make sure you stand up and fight against this genocide.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · last yr.NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun. Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last yr.“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
You know Summer’s not going well when the trees think it’s now Autumn
Seymour's iwi: "After meeting with personally to tell him that his hapū do not support what he is doing, that his Bill goes against everything his hapū stand for and have fought for mai rāno..." "...Ngāti Rehia oppose David Seymour and his efforts to marginalise our people on our own whenua"
Today I updated eqnz.nz to fetch bsky #EQNZ hashtag posts (replacing the Twitter/X integration). Nice to have it back up and running!
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