> In the UK these cameras are everywhere.

We don’t have as many (per capita) as the US.

No surprise, you had to be over the age of 39 before you were more likely to vote for Brexit.

By the time we got around to implementing it enough old people had died off that the vote would have gone the other way already.

The Brexit-induced impoverishment of UK will inevitably lead to a reduction in the scope of the NHS and so kill off its supporters. So Brexit is kind-of self healing.

I went to George's hospital the other day and saw a punchy flyer talking about the lack of NHS services, with the kicker "Privatise now!"

That's what we're dealing with. Underinvestment only enriches their camp.

Generation of boomers accumulated lots of wealth, mostly thanks to house prices skyrocketing during their lifetime. Not all but many old people can afford private healthcare. Younger people need NHS more.

Or they let the houses rot, without reinvestment and now are commanding insane prices -- and what are the alternatives the next gen has?

The irony is that in our experience, if you're old or a child, you're far more likely to be treated quickly on the NHS.

Perhaps that isn't the whole story, maybe old people tend to have more life threatening conditions, so triage puts them first. But from my perspective, private health insurance is now mandatory in the UK if you're not old or a child, and I am even going to put my children on private health insurance. So now I'm paying a fortune in taxes for a health system I can no rely on, so must pay for private too.

Covid in the USA was a bit like this.

With what's happening in the US post covid, I'm gonna have to disagree

It's only self-healing if they actually manage to rejoin...

ITV is a commercial broadcaster.

Unintentional consequences. I expect there will be some from this law as well.

I was reading today that we have managed to grow chickens with so much fat that the meat is less healthy than red meat.

Can you share a link to what you were reading?

Interesting, I’ve been writing a PostScript interpreter over the last year with the intention of making it as close to the original Apple LaserWriter as possible.

I’ve been using Rust for my project and so far have avoided any 3rd party libraries.

I have an original LaserWriter although it won’t feed paper. I pulled the ROMs and have them running in the game emulator MAME.

I’m currently working on the clip/eoclip operators.

Yea... the first two interpreters I wrote in C used no third party libraries either. But I admit that I did not write a rasterizer for those as all they needed to do whas convert to other formats.

I did write rasterization code for a Win95 driver for HP that was very fast. I used Michael Abrash's Zen of Graphics Programming as a starting point and extended/expanded on his algorithms.

This time around I wanted to focus on the PostScript language itself and cairo saved me a lot of time on the hind end. Though it does have some bugs... Like it's strokepath implementation for dashed lines. I worked around them though by writing my own strokepath and feed them to cario as raw paths.

The LaserWriter angle is certainly interesting though. Why specific to the LaserWriter may I ask?

I did consider using Cairo but figured a simple PDF driver would take care of most of the work. That would have been fine if not for the pathforall operator. I ended up doing all the stroke path implementation for dashed lines as well.

I used to work for the UK distributor for QMS who were Adobe's second largest OEM for PostScript so I had a lot of exposure to early PostScript printers. Also I've always thought the LaserWriter was more significant to Apple than most people realise. I lost count of the number of companies I visited who had a bunch of Macs and a LaserWriter networked over AppleTalk.

>In Europe this is mostly working well, although depending on the country there are still a lot of illegal (heavy, fast, throttle-equipped, unlicensed, beyond even class 3) bikes on the roads, bike lanes and bike paths.

There were a lot of these in Oxford (UK) until a year or two ago when they all got replaced with scooters[1]. I suspect the police started clamping down on the illegal e-bikes which are easy to spot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(motorcycle)

Its worse but we are more dependent on it than ever.

I always find it frustrating that most stores turn over their stock so often. I find a shirt I like then go back to buy another and it's gone.

> Job sector growth (after revisions down) has been almost entirely within the healthcare industry which is quite unsustainable.

Someone has to wipe our Boomer arses. An aging population means more healthcare and less of everything else.

> Someone has to wipe our Boomer arses. An aging population means more healthcare and less of everything else

And a much more intense shift to financialization.

Pension funds tends to target an IRR of around 20-30%, and it is they that are the biggest pools of capital that funds invest.

You ain't hitting that amount of IRR without an extreme degree of financial ruthlessness.