How do I get an as blocker onto the iPhone default browser?

I have used 1Blocker for years and it has worked great. There are many others all using the same principle. It also allows me to have a custom rule to disable JS entirely on some sites.

not as good as most desktop ones but:

https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698

other options: https://fmhy.pages.dev/mobile#ios-adblocking

There’s lots in the App Store.

Depressingly I don't actually know many people still doing any of this sort of work, on any platform.

Same, and I can't put my finger on the "why" either. Plus I keep hitting guard rails for the strangest reasons, like telling codex "Add code signing to this build pipeline, use the pipeline at ~/myotherproject as reference" and codex tells me "You should not copy other people's code signing keys, I can't help you with this"

Because bridge engineers can be sued if the bridge kills people

I wish we could sue developers who create unusably bad software wasting time of millions of people.

Would that be the same Cowboy Gibson who was mentioned in Hyperion?

Yes. A reference to the real author who’s work inspired the cyberpunk chapters.

Canada’s population has increased at an astonishing rate, I wonder if that affects the per capita numbers. If you have the same industry in 2011 and 2026 but population went from 35 million to 42 million, per capita the numbers look terrible

According to OECD [1], population growth outran capital, housing, and infrastructure. So it's kind of like they didn't have enough "slots" to plug all of these additional people into.

They don't claim this is to only or even primary cause of Canada's weak per-capita GDP growth though. As you would expect, there are many, many causes.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...

In my experience, the magic makes the easy parts easier and the hard parts harder

Finding high school kids with a similar "tech" background today seems really hard. Tech users, sure, chronic phone / game addicts are everywhere, but that tweaker spirit is rare

The craziest thing is, I don't actually know how many gigahertz either my PC or my macbook are. The megahertz race used to fierce!

It's essentially random at any given moment. If I peek, mine will say it's running anywhere between 700MHz and 3.4GHz. Sometimes I think it goes even faster, but only if it's weirdly cold at the time.