My son struggled to get to grips with division with the way it was being taught here in the UK in the noughties. I looked at how he was trying to do it and said "what the hell is this nonsense?" I then taught him how to do long division the way I was taught in schools in the 1970s when I was at school and he grasped it straight away. My brother was a teacher and I was talking to him about it. His response was that whilst he agreed with me and that I'd helped him to work out how to do it unfortunately I'd probably done more harm than good. The reason was that in maths exams in the UK more weight, and therefore more marking, is put into the methodology you display in your working out than getting the answer right. So whilst he was using a method that was taught for many decades and worked fine because it wasn't the current method being taught he would lose marks for it. He could actually fail using my method and getting the answers right but pass using the currently taught method even if he got the answers wrong. Insanity.

The decline in logical thinking is even more worrying than the maths. As students start to lean more and more on AI, using it to literally do their thinking for them, the situation is only going to get much worse. It's going to reach the point where they don't have enough intelligence to even realise that a blatantly incorrect response from their AI platform of choice is utter shite.

ROFLMAO. I don't know what fucked up companies you work for but you might want to consider changing the type of company you work for in the future. In my 40 years in the workplace I've had just 10 months working at a company that imposed that kind of shit and they turned out to be such a shitty employer that one Monday I walked into work, took my stuff off my desk, left my work phone and business cards sat on the keyboard and just walked out, never returned and ghosted them not even caring if I got paid.

First of all I'll just let you know that "I run Arch BTW" as my main OS. Been using Windows 11 since launch as I do sim racing. Other than the early days you expect there to be issues I've not really had any problems. If there are any I can't recall being aware of them.

This has always been the case. Look at how people buy cars. They'll buy the one with the shiniest paintwork, wheels and shiny new Chinese ditchfinder tyres over the slightly less visually appealling but much better maintained car right next to it.

As the other poster says, the reason for the shortage is because successive British governments have cut funding in the NHS in real terms, and are now flailing around as those cuts have really started to bite.

And every time the doctors or nurses strike to make a point, they get gaslit because "think of the patients".

Healthcare systems run on two things - staff, and good will.

The government has reduced the staff well below minimum, and burned up all the good will, so now theres nothing left. Fewer doctors are coming into the NHS through British training schemes because those are capped and indeed some have been reduced recently, and more doctors are retiring early or leaving the country.

And thats not counting the doctors who were forced to retire early because of the Tory governments cap on lifetime pension contributions - when the government dictates how much you pay into your pension, and also dictate that above a certain threshold of lifetime contributions you become liable for a huge tax bill immediately, and you cant withdraw from the pension contributions without also forfeiting the pension itself, then your only option to avoid a huge tax bill is ... retirement....

For a pro-capitalist, anti-socialist country, its astounding how much US law makers get involved in the running of businesses, whether it be with regulations, hearings or "opinions". US law makers love to do it.

Of course, its all performative - calling CEOs into hearings to berate them rather than actually doing fact finding, basically using the hearings as a court where the people appearing have already been judged and sentenced. Got to be seen doing something, but lets certainly not fix the issue through good legislation, because berating people in public is more fun.

My wife is one of those who left.

Yes, a lot of it is to do with the over worked and under paid, but not all of it - a lot of it is also due to the unbelievable stress of the responsibility heaped on you as a doctor, coupled with the diminishing respect for being a doctor by pretty much everyone.

For example, GPs being told that they have to open in the evenings and weekends, despite not having enough staff to run a 9-5 Monday to Friday service already - and your budget is being taken by the pharmacists who are doing random pointless examinations or reviews on anyone who comes through the door (because the pharmacy makes money that way, but they can charge the GP for doing it). And if you refuse to, then a GMC complaint is raised.

How about being rung up by the police at 6pm and told to do a wellness check on a patient, despite it being the police’s responsibility and not yours - but because you have now been told, you have a duty of care if anything happens. Which means a GMC complaint being raised.

How about the physicians associate refusing to take your guidance, and putting in complaints if you have any feed back at all which isnt glowingly positive, despite them being under your license and insurance. Which means a GMC complaint being raised.

How about having to spend £100,000 and two years of your life defending your license because someone thought you had too much to drink at the staff party and thus must be an alcoholic, with no evidence at all.

How about the government dictating how much you pay into your pension fund each month, how much you will get back, the pension fund being massively in profit to the point where the government gets £6Billion in rebates from it annually, and STILL requires you to pay more in and take less out

How about patients coming into your consulting room clutching the Daily Mail, complaining that you get paid too much because thats what the newspaper says and ranting for 20 minutes, and then still complaining that you are running behind.

How about the only way to get a specialist training position is to have an interview on one specific day of the year, but your current training program absolutely refusing you the ability to go to it?

I can go on and on.

Antibacterial soap doesn't contain antibiotics... At least, it never has in any country I've lived in.

Their properties are supposed to be chemical in nature, not medication based - the fact that they haven't exactly stood up to scrutiny isnt surprising, but they arent adding to the current antibiotic-resistent problem...

It will live on on the various worlds of Alastair Reynolds books...

I generally agree with you, but I dont think the OP works at SpaceX, they are just a fanboi dissing on anything else - and they are the target of my comment.

A few things to note...

Over the past couple of decades, more and more roles within the British healthcare system have become able to prescribe - pharmacists (as noted in the summary), nurse prescribers, physicians associates (who technically should be under the supervision of a GP, but the way the NHS has that set up its very much a "PA prescribes, GP actually has little say")...

The role of doctors in the British healthcare system is being deminished and replaced by lower paid, lower trained positions, and GPs are particularly hard hit by it - which is why GPs are retiring or moving overseas at record rates, far beyond the ability for the current GP training schemes to replace them.

The UK is actively doctor hostile these days, and British doctors do not want to be part of it any more.

"If you arent doing things on the same timescale and using the same approach as the company I wank over, then you shouldn't even bother".

Thats your post summed up in one sentence.

Wow, wasnt aware of that!

VS For Mac was nothing more than a rebrand of Xamarin MonoDevelop, a third party IDE - it never had anything in common with actual VS.