I think you vastly underestimate how many devs there are working for companies basically independently.

Ive been working as a developer for about 20 years now, and in IT for 30 - the first time I actually joined a “team” was less than a decade ago, before then I always worked as an individual developer for small companies (who usually had 2 or 3 devs, all working independently on stuff).

I would safely say that the number of devs who have no one checking their code, doing reviews, or engaging in standups is way higher than the number of devs doing those things.

What you describe is the ideal, something which has become pervasive in software dev circles as “the only way”, but it ignores that theres a huge body of devs out there that simply dont have that. Cant have a code review if the only other dev in your company works in a completely different language to you

There are loads of developers out there who currently rely on IDE features (that have been around for at least 15 years by this point) to write code that they dont understand, or simply copy and paste from other codebases or websites.

Committing code you dont explicitly know how works is well embedded in many software development circles these days.

Didnt SCOTUS just gut regulatory agencies from doing things like this? Doesnt Congress have to pass laws for the agencies to implement? Or is that just anything the Dema wanted to regulate?

EOs like this shouldnt be worth the price of the paper they are written on

All the functional checks are done in the producer and consumer client code - the only thing any Confluent hosted tier does is check to see whether the schema-encoded Kafka message contains a schema ID that matches one for that topic, it does absolutely no data validation otherwise.

So, if you have a bad client, you can publish data to a topic which does not validate against any schema, but the topic will accept it so long as the schema ID presented is valid. The entire thing is based on trust.

You can do much better validation than their implementation, essentially, and lose nothing.

Socialism as a black market approach, interesting.

So you get to pay taxes AND fund other peoples basic needs voluntarily through a non-governmental path. Which means that only those people that are giving a fuck about others are actually contributing.

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Not just Kafka, but also stream processing of Kafka originated data.

We use it to run a cities public transit realtime data system (track vehicles, display information on realtime maps, public information displays, make predictions), and it works well - there are features which I think are snake oil (schema registry for example), but its been rock solid, performant, and the UI is decent.

They also get in the way of building homes.

For a while (no idea about current situation) but where I used to live in the UK you could not build a property because the Environment Agency had enacted new rules which capped water run off into watercourses, and no council anywhere in the UK had manageable plans to actually meet it with new developments, so nothing got built.

The rules were well intentioned, but came down like a hammer and stopped everything.

The point is, its possible to drive on roads in NZ that are not maintained by the government, so the tax ostensibly being paid per mile in fuel tax isn't going to maintain the road you are necessarily on...

And when driving from the UK to France, the ICE drivers are using UK road-taxed fuel, so the counter-point is the same :)

It doesn't even have to be linked to the car tax.

NZ uses "Road User Charges" for diesel - it does not have the tax built in at the pump (petrol does), so all diesel cars have to buy blocks of kilometres as tax. The government get updated when your annual vehicle inspection is done, but between those inspections its up to you to make sure you have enough spare kilometres left for your trips. If you get stopped by police and they check, being too far out is considered to be tax evasion and a criminal offence.

Who are already required to record mileage on UK roads for other reasons, so thats a solved problem.

And in New Zealand you can easily drive miles and miles on private roads, which are not maintained by the government...

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.