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I do, and fair point.
> It's some particular Americanism (or protestantism relic?) to believe agents of change, national heroes, great historic figures etc, must also be good, altruistic and warm people
I don't think it's a Protestant relic, it's more of a general simplistic perspective that there are through and through good people.
But still I agree it's unrealistic to think this way.
On mobile this will mean only about 35 columns are visible at once.
This is exactly as I understand it too... Except this being a fairly good example of what counterculture circles generally call, a complete sell out.
It's complicated of course, how else does one stay relevant long term without also being extremely wealthy / i.e. the ability to broadcast a message to many many nodes? Put another way. Money talks.
I took issue with the statement that Apple have always cynically coopted counterculture and utopian motifs. Then I thought about it for a second.
Getting people pumped up about Apple using utopian imagery and counterculture suggestions was always cynical. It just happened to work very effectively on me in the 80s, and may very well have fuelled a lot of my early life's optimism. In particular my faith that certain tech/companies were inherently good. I was certainly a big fan of Apple for many years.
If that naivety hadn't already faded significantly, this may have been a more severe reaction, than ... Hey wait!? ... Oh right!
Obviously Steve had already exploited and cheated Woz on a number of occasions before the formative Mac 1984 Ads (which made a deep impression on me at the time.) So it's not that much of a reach to say they are somewhat cynical.
Jobs is a very interesting person, specifically because I think he bought a lot of his own bullshit. Possibly his LSD experience was something which led to deep understanding of humans and interpersonal politics, which may have led to him developing his reality distortions field... Who knows. He may also have developed the classic [1]Acid Jesus Messianic complex and as a result we have the enigma we are left with in the public memory of Jobs. Millions who believe he was an agent of change and a tech god. While many many, who look deeper at the man think he's quite the piece of (edit for politeness) work.
Speculation on this is ultimately pointless... but it's something I muse about myself.
Morrissey is such a magnificent and malignant buzz kill.
I can see an egomaniac going for that.
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There is plenty of reason to restrict the use of SWAT teams, but not to abolish them. They are needed now and then, when there is an actual hostage situation or an armed gang that tries to shoot it's way out. They should never be used for routine search or arrest warrants. That not only endangers the possibly innocent target of the raid, but it undermines the team's training – they become used to tearing up houses where no one is resisting. There's a dashboard video of the Jose Guerena raid. My drill instructor would have said they looked "like a monkey fucking a football" – and I was in the Air Force, ground tactics weren't even on the curriculum. I've seen considerably more forceful comments from Army and Marine Corps infantrymen who actually have had to break into a house against armed defenders. They milled around, exposed themselves to possible fire through the open door, and got into each others line of fire. They did NOT identify themselves as police that I can hear on the audio track, so Guerena was justified in hunkering down in a defensive position with a rifle. If Guerena (a former Marine) hadn't been far more professional than any of the cops and not fired without identifying his targets, several cops would have been down.
Then there are the SWAT members that "accidentally" (that is, negligently) fired a round and killed an unresisting, unarmed suspect because they tripped or bumped their elbow – an accident that can only happen if you are in violation of the two most important rules of gun safety: don't put your finger on the trigger until you have decided to shoot, and don't point the muzzle near anything that you do not intend to shoot. We know they were running around with their finger on the trigger – in a situation where there was clearly no need for shooting – because modern firearms in good working order just don't fire unless the trigger is pulled. The military just doesn't tolerate that. If a non-police civilian in my state had done this, he could have been sentenced to life for manslaughter. But if you are a cop, you can recklessly kill someone and the prosecutor will throw the case…
Nb: pug aka Jade used to convert direct to HTML, I also lament the "everything the JavaScript" silliness.
This is a little strange tbh. The majority of markdown parsers will allow inline html elements too.
If you're trying to do a large structured document, which will need block specific styling, try Pug. (Formerly Jade.) HAML & Slim also solve similar problems and have the benefit of a pretty significant userbase. (All support embedded Markdown)
Sundown is looking very much like a naive and poorly thought out also ran.
That's the skill.
Honestly, I think tenacity and an ability to learn and move quickly are the most valuable engineering skills one can have.
Or to take us a step further, that a certain arrangements of electrons is "negative" and the inverse arrangement is "positive"
I often tell CS people that everything in computing is metaphor and it honestly disturbs me that 80% of the time I get blank looks.
Alternatively I prefer to assume that it'll give our commentary more value if we provide some helpful context.
If our goal is to share technologies that we think are useful, we have options to make that goal more successful.
I found it again only by doing a search many pages deep.
An interesting way to communicate the message, but I'm sure it was largely unintentional.
(TYFTC)