Similarly, I started using Claude to add some features to an native app on iOS and Android in early January. That was so successful (tooks days instead of weeks) I started applying it to client work and basically haven't written any substantial code since. A big change from around 40 years of writing code pretty much every day and I'm enjoying the increased velocity from not having to web search for API and CSS syntax details.

My son, working in another dev company, reports the same - he basically hasn't written much actual code for about three months. It's a massive change.

I didn't see 'highlighting on wrong line', but double-click a word not selecting the word is annoying (Firefox on Windows11)

The term for slaughtering pigs around here is 'turning them off' - all attempts to disconnect from the reality of what is happening.

Cognitive dissonance really is required to keep our “warm fuzzy empathic friendly” self image while simultaneously being ruthlessly pragmatic cold blooded killers when it suits us.

Moa seemed to contradict this

It’s an issue for everyone not in a car

Māori were the first settlers of NZ. There’s no record of any earlier population being “dinner” for anyone.

Citation needed!

As I understand it there were no Maori before NZ was settled, that culture formed there from the Polynesian"moa-hunters". Some descendants of those settlers became the Maori, but that a different claim.

Furthermore, there are just generally very few records so I think it's very difficult to make definite claims like you or GP do.

Airbnb hosts are penalised if they cancel - they get downrated - so it's not something that hosts generally want to do. Far better if they can persuade a guest to cancel

we keep bread in the freezer. eggs are fine at room temperature for a few weeks if they have never been chilled.

For NSW it’s time to dead kangaroo on the roadside

It was one of my grandfather’s (WWII veteran) favourite foods, a taste acquired in his army days.