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I don't disagree to be honest because there are plenty of US cities where you can't do much in terms of urbanism even if you had the skills to build. They were built at the wrong era, for cars. They are just not dense enough.

I think your error here is that you assume that politics do not exist everywhere people are involved.

A tram recently got built where my parents live near Paris. They had to involve something like 15 cities, 3 departments, one region, the French state, and the european union. That was lots of people who wanted to have their way. It slowed things down. But it got built anyway and now it works.

Yes, exactly. US engineers are obviously not dumber than the ones from other countries, they are just doing other kind of work.

Germany has unions four time stronger than France and it has no issue building stuff.

Union bashing is dumb story telling to keep the taxes of billionaires low.

Would it be wrong to say that the US has lost the engineering skills necessary to build this kind of big projects?

During World War II the US was an mind blowingly efficient juggernaut of public projects, but it seems that it has lost is way, and that today its engineering culture lags way behind countries like Japan, Germany, France, Spain, ...

You can only reap what you sow in term of engineering skills.

The best minds in the US are focused on showing marginally more ads, wall street , and lots of other things that pay very well, but not big engineering works.

Personally I prefer to have a boss that lives on planet Earth

So if I worked at Twitter and was not on the list of people he thought he needed to fire after reviewing swiftly millions of lines of code, I would make plans to leave ASAP

That's a great way to put it.

To be honest the thing that worries me most about the dumb Las Vegas tunnel, is not that he had a bad idea. I have bad ideas all the time too. But my bad ideas don't turn into dumb tunnels because I have limited resources (he doesn't) and because I have feedback from the harsh reality.

The dumb tunnel makes me think Elon Musk is fully insulated from reality. Nobody around him dared to tell him the tunnel was dumb. And or he didn't listened.

Fast forward today where he decides on a whim that every engineer must stop working remotely and must instead work like crazy to satisfy his ego. And here again the feedback from reality seems minimal on him.

I think and I hope that the good engineers at Twitter are making plans to leave this terrible boss ASAP.

My cynical guess:

Elon Musk's big plan is simply to build a huge personality cult around him and Twitter is perfect for that.

It's not enough for him to be exceptionally rich, he wants to be adulated.

He wants to hear he is the new Steve Jobs, that he is better than Leonardo Da Vinci. That he got this right, we are living in a computer simulation.

Why do everyone keeps assuming he is playing 10 dimensional chess?

Have you seen his dumb tunnel under Las Vegas? Why would a brilliant engineer build that? What's the big plan here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NiM_p8n5A

if that can help, you can email me a shitty first draft and ask for feedback if writing the whole things with all the historical research sounds like a daunting task

https://jmfayard.dev/

Please write that article, I want to read it and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

I gave it another try and it works

   asdf which node
   /Users/jmfayard/.asdf/installs/nodejs/19.0.0/bin/node
   
   which node
   /Users/jmfayard/.asdf/shims/node
   
    node --version
   v19.0.0
   
   asdf local nodejs 16.18.0
   
   node --version
   v16.18.0

I probably had read the documentation in the wrong order. Thanks for your message!

Counter argument: your version is fine and may have helped to solve one particular issue in one particular company.

But countless developers in countless companies have each their own set of frustrations where they sense that something could be improved but don't know what to do with the frustration.

Frustrations are a useful symptom but learned helplessness is a terrible thing that can lead to anything from being annoyed to leaving your job to depression.

I would argue that the response was in fact a very valuable lesson.

Is ASDF supposed to work with fish and macOS?

My boss loves ASDF and I liked the idea but I tried to use it three times and failed

Does anyone know of any small library in JavaScript/python/go/rust or any language that people use to write CLI apps that makes it trivially easy to implement this spec, even better if it also supports similar conventions for MacOS and Windows?

Great in which sense? I would argue that git is easy because you are already familiar with it, but it doesn't make shared documentation simple. How could he do that? Do you think that Linus Torvalds had a use case similar to Wikipedia in mind when he designed git? Sure you could build Wikipedia on top of git, it would just be shitload of unnecessary suffering compared to the hipster technology called PHP+MySQL.

The right way to manage documentation is to have some kind of a wiki, not to use git.

Git is terrible at managing documentation, it was designed for her bazaar-style software projects like the Linux kernel, which is very much a completely different use case.

Now you can mostly use any technology to do anything du maybe this software is great but I wouldn't mention git as more than an implementation detail personally.

I installed Brave because I wanted to do some dating stuff in a separate browser than the one I use for work. And oh boy I don't regret it.

Give up Chrome.

This is a very common straw man argument against unions and it's indeed not one that you are using. I think we are both right.

Fair enough.

Then if was you I would express similar concerns because the Koch brothers and powerful economic players in general have by definition way more power over political decisions - or non decisions - and our lives than the unions. Unions are merely a weak counter power.

I'm not even making a negative jugement here, this is just how power works.

What is strange though is that we hear all the time about unions being sometimes full of corruption, but not about the other political players.

Aren't the democratic and the republican party sometimes corrupted? What about the Koch Brothers and the Tobacco companies and the Bitcoin/Blockchain sector and the fossil fuel companies and the alcool companies? What about the tech monopolies? What about everyone that has a political stake in everything?

Who decided it was important to associate corruption with the unions and only the unions?

I'm not from the US so I may offer the viewpoint of an outsider

It seems pretty obvious to me that if you find that some US unions are rather bad, which is probably true because most of everything is bad, the right solution would be to strengthen the good ones. And if really there aren't any good ones, a good solution would be to organize to create better ones based on what has worked in the history of the labor movement united States. And based on what is working abroad, especial in more democratic societies like in Scandinavia

This is how it has always worked. No worker right we take for granted - and in the US you are missing some! - has ever been gifted to us. They happened because a small group of people decided to organize and do something about it.

Not saying that's easy, but the base principle is pretty simple and according to the research paper - and history in general - clearly worth it.

And to be transparent, if someone says to me that what I describe is impossible, i will listen to the arguments, but my baseline assumption would be that he spreads corporate propaganda, or worse, is victim of it.

The point is usually the "model minorities" are the subgroups that are treated well by the rest of the population.

That's why they can unleash their true potential in the first place.

So is that a good argument for treating other people badly?

That should be especially clear in a country like the US where the original inhabitants have been wiped out and everyone is an immigrant.

Have you asked asian americans if they like to be displayed as the model minority?

I mean in Europe jews are the model minority, it's obviously true now, it was not the case before as we all know.

I see you argue in good faith, thanks for that.

Martin Luther King didn't talk all his life about race because he wanted to but because he had to : it's the structural problem #1 of the USA.

Obviously things are better than in his days, and in his days there were better than before the civil war. That doesn't mean there are right today.

Again why the powerful hatred against Obamacare? It makes zero sense on economic grounds.

Just before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King was leading the "Poor People's Campaign"

As you can imagine it was not focused on race but on poverty. And people who love the skin of color quote usually don't want to talk about poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign

> Why is "judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character" misleading? It sounds pretty clear to me.

It's 100% clear in the sense that it's the one quote that people who don't want to hear about racism love. And isn't it perfect that it comes from the most admired anti-racist in US history? It's perfect for that and that's why it's super widespread.

It's also a complete travesty of Martin Luther King's thoughts to laser focus on this one quote.

Martin Luther King was describing an ideal society in the far future that looks nothing like our messy present.

Do you think Martin Luther King purpose in life is fairly summarized by "Hey we have talked too much about racism already" ?

Why then did he bother to be so hated, to go in prison, march so many miles, ...?

If that makes no sense it's because it does.

Here is another Martin Luther King's quote

> Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it

https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/dr-martin-luther-king-j...

Well if you know why it's not the answer, you can probably tell me what's the alternative explanation.

Why is the United States so unique in having a health care system that

- costs more money than anywhere else - deliver worse outcome than many countries - cover less people

Seems to me than in such a situation, the reational response is "well maybe let's change the status quo?"

The "model minority" myth is not an argument against the existence of racism.

It's a divide-and-conquer strategy used by racists to fend off the critics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority

Thanks for asking for evidence, you can start here.

History of racism in the United States of America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States

There are plenty of good books. You can start with the writings from Martin Luther King.

He wrote ton of words in his life, not only the epic misleading "judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character"

https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/mlk-speeches-sermons-ess...

Or maybe you are too incomfortable about the subject and that's why you never bothered to read the litterature on the subject?

It's fine to not know everything, there are lots of thing I know nothing about.

When I don't know anything about a topic, I have found Wikipedia to become a great starting point to become less ignorant.

How France after having been a "laissez-faire" country (the fucking word is in French!) became the country it is today

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_du_Conseil_national_...

How Clement Atlee transformed the UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attlee_ministry

Why the US has for foreigners terribly obvious blind spots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

Labor history of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St...

History of antisemitism in Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism

History of racism in the United States of America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings

Yes I'm pretty sure you are incomfortable with the topic at hand if you see absolutely no point in my "incoherent rambling"