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Isn't this what the Intellij/Eclispe IDEs have been doing since the very beginning? All the powerful refactoring features are based on AST manipulation.

> worthy of a G7 membership

What makes a country "worthy" of G7 membership? Does constant war-waging disqualifies a country from G7? Unfair treatment of a minority group, perhaps?

I'd argue that expecting countries/organisations to behave like virtuous individuals would be too naïve.

Also I feel Japanese honour is more about loyalty than ethics. Trying to shame them for tolerating crime syndicates probably won't make a difference.

It's sad to put it this way but some "software engineers" roles are essentially like bricklayers: a bricklayer is expected to know how to best lay a brick given the circumstances, or to come up with new techniques to lay bricks faster and better, but they don't need a civil engineering degree to do it.

Other software engineering roles do involve a fair bit of creativity though, e.g. architects (designing the structures), computer scientists (study how to make better bricks), and perhaps also project managers (coordinate brick laying and manage bricklayers).

> organised crime isn't even seen as crime, and the people perpetrating it aren't seen as criminals

Do you speak of your own first-hand experience, or you got the impression from some material you read? I don't think they are that different from how Mafia is perceived.

Regarding Whataboutism --- I find the accusation really low-effort. My point has never been "The West has/had organised crime so what's the problem with the East having it?"; rather, I am pointing out how you seem to think "The West is superior just because and the East should appreciate being patronisied by the West", while the West had also experienced many of the issues you described. Of course Japan has its problems, but I'd argue it would be up to the Japanese people to figure out what they are and how to solve them.

Yes, there are certainly some acts that are universally recognised as atrocities/intolerable, but such acts are not unique to the East; the West also had its fair share of organised crime.

If we agree that societies all tend to gravitate towards a more progressive model as they develop, then perhaps the discussion would be more of an modern-vs-historic one rather than East-vs-West one.

Should there be?

> to be more presentable business partners to the West

It's interesting how you expect Korea and Japan to be "presentable" to the West, as if there exists a power relationship between the East and the West.

Perhaps they could just be themselves and the West should accept different cultures uphold different values?

By “monitoring” did you mean “cameras everywhere in case something happens” type of monitoring or the Orwellian mass surveillance?

As for the play-time restrictions —- how is it much different from drinking age restrictions that are pretty ubiquitous around the world?

Is the ICC part of the UN?

Are western media free from propaganda though?

Also when did UN called it a genocide? I googled it but found nothing specific. Mind sharing a link to the claim?

> If Fox says something untrue MSNBC will point it out, if the New York Times gets something wrong it’ll be all over OAN. If AOC lies about something you’ll have Lauren Boebert screaming about it.

And if all these media outlets say Russia/China/Iraq/Iran is evil at the same time, then it must be true, right?

First time learning about these. Any sources?

Don't believe either CCP or me? How about NYT?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-in...

Well, one should note that The Epoch Times is brought to you by the propaganda arm of the anti-CCP Falun gong.

Did Lithuania detain Chinese citizens/diplomats first? I can understand their need to evacuate if they did.

Genuine questions:

1. Do diplomats normally lose immunity after an embassy is demoted to a consulate (or something of a lower status)? 2. Did China have a history of detaining diplomatic personnel, disregarding their immunity?

Why "evacuate"? Were the safety of the embassy's staff under threat?

I can't help but wonder if the word was deliberately chosen for click-baiting --- the only three occurrences of "evacuate/evacuation", including the one in the title, are concentrated in the second and third paragraphs --- it is as if they are injected as a last-minute after-thought.

I know the reading experience is different but perhaps they could benefit from using (offline) Kindle?

I also grew up on C then Java. Now I mostly work with Python but when things get serious I usually turn to JVM languages.

The feeling knowing I can relentlessly refactor my code without breaking a thing and not having to worry about typos is just wonderful!

I tend to agree.

It's a bit like the dynamic vs. static typing situation. New comers often prefer languages like Python at first for their simplicity, only to "rediscover" that static typing is so much more manageable later in their career.

Both the book and the organisation of the sources for the book are very impressive. Thanks for the marvellous work!

Didn't Evernote experienced a similar hype cycle? I still vaguely remember when it was Evernote that was the new kid in the block back in the day, streamlining the organisation of personal knowledge/information with rich text editor, tags, and syncing.

It's probably better being hyped before waning than just waning, I guess.

> For some weird reason people prefer to all use the same product, and instead of having a bunch of users on Evernote, a bunch on Notion, a bunch on Roam, a bunch on others. They all migrate to the current hot tool

I don't think this is so very weird. For most users, popular products are likely to be more future proof, so choosing them can grant a sense of security.

I think it's not that bad. There is a local commit graph and there are one or more remote commit graphs. The main operations with git are to manipulate one's commit graphs and, when the time comes, reconcile the local graph with the remote one.

Once users figured out what they want to do with the graphs, they then need to figure out how to achieve that with git's cli. And I feel that is where many of the complaints about git's complexities comes from.

IMHO the best way to use git is through a GUI so that one only needs to figure out what they want to do with the commit graphs, leaving the second part of the puzzle to the GUI.

> There aren't any unknowns waiting to be discovered. The mechanism is fully-understood and easy and safe.

I am sure many people felt that we had figured it all out w.r.t. planet motions etc. with Newton's law of physics :)

You are mistaken if you think I am anti-vaccine or something. I merely tried to point out that there are always unknown unknowns and that we should remain cautious when it is people's health that are at risk.

I guess my point is that our understanding of how mRNA vaccines operate (or any other methods for manipulating genetic materials, for that matter) might prove incomplete, just like how we underestimated the importance of microchromosomes, as stated in the article.

The current generation of mRNA vaccines may be simple enough for the scientists to analyse, but I feel it will only be a matter of time before the complexity of such technologies grow to the point that it resembles art more than science. (I am looking at you, deep neural networks!)

It's a legacy codebase. The default assumption should be "DO NOT DELETE THIS".

Jokes aside, I wonder if we actually know enough to safely meddle with genetic materials, e.g. with mRNAs vaccines.

Found a religion around it and make the website its sacred scripture. You may be surprised how long it will live.

Parent surely meant spellcheck autocompletion.

I thought people liked separating content from representation --- isn't Markdown's approach going against such philosophy?