This is a good question to address, actually.
There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work.
But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.
Entrepreneurial Narcissism has ordinary citizens out here taking superpac dark money and then vague apologizing like corporations who accidentally put shrapnel in baby food bsky.app/profile/thew...
and school shootings won't be stopped by controlling access to information. you can easily find all that info via web search.
i'm a bit concerned about the implication that we can censor our way out of social problems
any sort of story that was "able to coax" stuff out of LLMs is suspect
"the front door was locked, but our security researchers were able to coax the lock open with lockpicks and get inside the house!!!"
as long as you don't go full crazy and import Australia's very silly version of ranked-choice ballots, it should be fine, right?
Why is RCV always portrayed as a complex system that boggles the typical citizen's mind? I'm pretty sure almost everyone can grasp "give your favorite candidate #1, your second favorite candidate #2, and so on for all the candidates you want to vote for".
The base chart is from Jason's blog. The red bars are my personal guess at what proportion of JS devs would not want to see that kind of change.
i.e. static typing, though highly desired, is also highly controversial. While Temporal just gets the ~20% who dislike any change.
perhaps X could accurately argue that, since they stopped actually verifying people before handing out blue checkmarks, a blue checkmark actually has no value
it's a horrific tragedy locally and regionally, but it doesn't have world climate or global health implications - it's nowhere near large enough scale for that.
which is, uh, not new. most major AI providers have that capability (though whether they do it well is a different story)
well we can't annoy the fascists because we need to work with the fascists on sensible bipartisan housing legislation
can't let a little bit of genocidal rhetoric impede the important bipartisan work of Congress, now can we
by god, they can hit both Darmascus and Damaskus!
how about: they're both awful and both existential threats to a free society if they become president
Ron DeSantis, JD Vance...
folks on the left are comforting themselves with "they can't be threats because they're not charismatic like Trump"
but they're basically saying "they can't be threats because they don't appeal to ME"
DeSantis and Vance have fash charisma
see also Biden's insistence that the economy was doing well - because all the numbers said the economy was doing well! - and many voters going "uh wtf no it isn't"
since GDP has become so untethered from ordinary folks' economic experience - so much of it is "produced" in finance and non-consumer tech - I wonder if we need to redefine "recession"
War Thunder Discord: "what he say fuck me for?"
get a load of bojack norseman over here
this will inevitably happen in war, which is why we shouldn't go to war for bad reasons
the idea of "clean war" where perfect intelligence pairs with precision weapons to never hurt civilians is a myth pushed by the military-industrial complex
oh come on, you can do better than Chili's for airport food
there's so many options!
for example... uh...
...TGI Fridays?
shit.
i'm filing it just after Chik-Fil-A
if an abundance of AI slop prompts people to stop assuming things they see are true and gets them in the habit of thinking critically - even a little bit - maybe it's not wholly a bad thing...
if you can create misinformation with the click of a button, hopefully that's an epiphany for some folks
people are blaming AI for this because they like blaming AI for things, but c'mon, this has been a problem since before AI... and before social media, and before the internet, and before computers.
it's a human problem, not a technical one
this is huge!
time REALLY sucks to work with. when working with time, you really want to just have one decent abstraction that handles all the shitty parts under the hood.
unfortunately, JS Date/DateTime is just plain bad
having a good built-in abstraction is a godsend!
bonus: rough illustration of why time, despite being a distant second on the list of language pain points, may have been addressed first
i think roughly 20-30% of devs just hate change. but static typing and TS are legit controversial.
and contrary to what you suggest in the blog, Moment was far from a de-facto standard. there's a rich ecosystem of libraries for working with time - and it isn't the sort of thing that yearns for a rich ecosystem.
having one built-in system that *actually works* is fucking HUGE!
huge kudos to everyone who worked on this! Time is such a thankless thing to work on - complex and full of pitfalls, but everyone thinks it *ought* to be simple. (How many management types, or even devs who aren't familiar with time, asked "why tf do we need to spend *this* much effort on it?!?")
nobody knows what he's saying, but it's provocative, it gets the people going
you don't need to be "vote blue no matter who" to value truth and accuracy
immediately linking one person's bad behavior to a caricature of some group affiliation is right up there with "it's not true but it COULD be true" in the pantheon of social media ills
for bonus points, give us an answer that makes sense given Dems' universal and loud insistence in 2024 that Donald Trump's GOP is an existential threat to American democracy
