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Sorry, as an outsider, I think it has been a clown show for much longer.

The whole Hunter corruption scandal in Ukraine + the laptop made it quite clear to me back then. And I can go on.

Some time ago I found Zed did not have undo-trees (like Emacs and Vim have, possible with plugin). I think DeltaDB is probably going to power undo-trees for Zed.

and hence i scope it's message to "clean OOP code"; simply to show that it's flawed message does not even pertain to code in general.

at bast it makes to better at "Clean(TM) OOP code".

programming in general is waaaaaay bigger than what the book covers.

I'd say Clean Code is teaching many bad-practices. Too many to be recommended.

> Regex can also be horribly slow - it depends on the particular regex you are using.

And the alternative approach we are comparing to.

Exactly.

And the article specifically talks on restricting hardware for the China and restricting China's open source models for the west. All while leading us on with "we're all for competition (but...)"

I think China did great by releasing AI innovation as open source, thereby limiting or sooner-bursting the AI bubble; which is clearly in their interest.

Do they? Or do they accept trail reports pay for by the pharma (super expensive, hence not affordable for open source / not-patentable medicine development)

Who gets to decide what is safety?

I expect some of those tests (prolly not public) will basically be "wokeness" tests or "PC correctness" tests or "western media filter" tests.

China has different objectives. Sure.

I'm not sure one is safer than the other; I would know which one to go to if I want to research on topic that are viewed very different on both sides of this "new iron curtain".

It's the economic model we live under, not technology by itself, that's the problem IMHO.

Every tech gets exploited to make some richer folks more rich. Nothing new. Since the rich-ladder *is* the power-ladder under cap'ism.

In the west "we" forgot how unions and strong labor parties gave us weekends, sick leave, holidays, etc. Now we pay the price.

I hope this guy gets an option to inherit the FSF.

But in a way that does not diminish his work on Zig.

Emacs is great for LISP-like langs.

IJ is great for JVM langs.

Sure one can cross-use the above, but that's harder.

Still great to have an IDE agnostic Kotlin LSP!

Those in EU-office.

I was replying to the word "decay", not to the corruption situation. Probably they are related, but certainly not the same.

Is fertility so important?

Maybe the other western countries are equally infertile, but just allowed many immigrants in (which counts are population expansion) that also have more children on average.

How are Japan and Korea holing out? They are further down the infertility down-spiral.

Denmark?

The Swiss?

Norway?

And I was in Serbia lately, and while it was not as developed as NW-EU, nobody there described it as decaying (and many said they experiences decay when living in western nations over the past 2 decades).

I admire you guy keep trying.

I'm also glad I do not write C++ on the daily anymore: luckily my software does not need that kind of performance characteristics.

It's worse than a farce. It's actually evil. The way "they" are pushing chat control, and how Ursula is avoiding justice (she has a huge corruption case hanging over her head but manages continuously cancel court dates); this makes a all too clear.

The only way to fix this is EU member states become more critical: but for politicians in those states an EU position is the best promotion they can make. So almost nobody dares to speak out.

Strongly typed is not a well defined term.

But by most people definitions, Python certainly is NOT strongly typed.

My take at a definition... Strongly typed languages make a serious effort to use the type system to prevent whole categories of bugs.

It kinda bites with the "dynamic typing" (a euphemism or marketing-speak for "weak typing") that Python/Ruby/JS implement. Sure some are adding typing now (trying to make big codebases in those languages more manageable), but it's always an optional add-on.

Signalling = markets.

Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on networth. The markets that allowed this are usually "free'ish" at best.

There's a really insightful book on this topic (by pretty much the name you suggested):

https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/1...

I really liked the article. Sure maybe the title of the original article is a little clickbaity; but are article titles not supposed to be "drawing your attention"?

The author is doing really cool things, like a worker-coop for software engineering:

https://508.dev/pricing

Also i think the article contained some interesting points. Like the "class consciousness" of the owner-class and how this affects decisions on AI. But, to me, there were more.

Anyway, to each their own. I liked it.

Nice article...

Bloat is not "since generative AI coding" new. We always had it. As the author says:

> “It does sound like Facebook’s ‘move fast and break things,’ which didn’t age well either.”

Which indeed did not age well, but it did help the company to grow to a certain point at which it is now a staple in our lives (and can do super expensive BS experiments like "Metaverse" and still show profits).

This may be what Tan does as well: first profitable, then correct.

This is an approach, which may work for some, it may also allow some companies to become irrelevant (like: once the bloat-app is profitable, a clone-app emerges that is bloat-free and overtakes the bloat-app in every dimension, while the bloat-app is figuring out how to scale up with a shitty db schema).

In many cases "transport encryption" would also fit that definition.

E2ee is quite well established imho. The server at Hetzner (a.k.a. "someone else's computer") is NOT to be trusted in e2ee schemes. Until today I'd be willing to say everyone agrees on this, but now I doubt that :)

It's a definition question. E2ee means in this cases that "the server" cannot decipher the data: the keys to that are only on the client and never shared with the server.

This setup simply does fit the definition. And trying to say it is "e2ee practically" is a bit dishonest: there is no definition for "practical e2ee".

The point of e2ee is that you do not have to trust the server (see Bitwarden for instance).

I used Bastion before. I'd not be too happy using an interpeted language like Python (that has eval capabilities) for this kind of purpose.

We used it a lot at first, but as our setup got more mature we rarely needed to SSH to our application servers/containers.

In my current project, I did not even setup smth like this.

There seems to be a multiple-of-19 "code" in the Quran. Many of these observations require the Arab alphabet to be interpreted as numbers; in Mohammed's days the Abjad system was used for this (similar but simpler than the Roman numerals, that also re-use the letters as numbers).

So using the Abjad system to give number values to the Arab letters there are many counts that add up to a multiple of 19. A critic (and I try to be one) so note that every 19 tries ("would this add up to a multiple of 19?") you are expected to find one that does add up to a multiple of 19!

In order to show how many cases add up, I created a unit test suite to demonstrate the claims.

See the code here:

https://github.com/cies/quran-analysis/blob/master/replicate...

Many of the claims involve the Bismallah (search for "bismallah" in that code).

Adult men are also the ones first to head out to retrieve food from dangerous places.

> it's well documented

It's well documented that food distribution places were specifically made dangerous.

Agreed. But to do so at govt level, those govts first need to free themselves from the infiltration of lobbyists that make these kinds of policies "unthinkable" for their coward politicians.

This is, IMHO, the big difference with enacting these kinds of policies to apartheid South Africa (mentioned a lot in this discussion). Lobbyism is very effective in this specific case.

Or mass media.