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It allows those responsible for these events to feign lack of agency. The Third Reich was enabled by convincing people that they had no agency and demanded that they adhere to the will of the bureaucracy - even when that meant genocide. Not saying that Twitter's censorship activities are comparable in terms of outcome, but rather that the same underlying mindset is at play here... of course the big tech censorship is likely to result in much more troubling outcomes in the future.

Can we just forget about GraphQL completely instead?

References please.

More like selectively scrubbing news and politics, this case in point being one more example to add to this troubling trend.

Why not just use iOS Messages or whatever Android app Google has anointed for the next 15 minutes for messaging?

I suppose every app you work on runs the same query repeatedly? Yes, load balancing makes sense, but the author is specifically looking at requests per thread, i.e., wouldn't it be great (and more cost effective) to get as much throughput from a single thread as possible?

I keep seeing some variation of: “ORMs are really intended for x” or “ORMs work best when y is true”. At some point we should take an honest look to determine if ORMs provide enough benefit to justify their existence. “I can talk to the database without knowing SQL” doesn’t cut it.

That’s a huge dependency to take on just for mapping and serializing, something that most languages provide in a standard library or base functionality of the language itself.

Wow! Who would have thought that using an ORM would create so much uncertainty in a codebase.

> “... or extended discussion“

Oh my, not the dreaded extended discussion!! When will people learn that our tech overlords have found the most optimized means of communicating? We mustn’t revert to the dark times when conversing was openly practiced by the barbarians.

I scroll directly past the accepted answer on many SO questions as I often find that the second or third highest ranked answer is often actually the best answer.

NY Times in its quest to shame anyone who doesn't fit their uber woke mold is losing readers and credibility. I hope 2021 is the year that we start to reject this braindead culture and start to embrace real journalism and fact based reporting.

Yes, Swift is fundamentally imperative... but it has functional concepts littered throughout in ways that are obtuse, unhelpful, and unavoidable.

Agreed, Swift has an obsession with functional programming that is just so off-putting to me and I suspect many others.

Not surprised that this project had trouble gaining traction given Swift's obsession with shoe-horning functional concepts into every crevice of the language, e.g., I can't get through a single Swift tutorial without having to get into closures.

I bought one of the U.S. made Vornado models last year and couldn’t be happier. Great unit, fair price for a quality product.

You lost me at: “I prefer JS (modern) to Python”. Just... how?

One can’t even engage in these discussions without being accused of being an extremist/buffoon/racist/etc.

It’s literally an issue tailor made for the ruling class to divide people. The core issues here have now been weaponized and are being used to divide and control the populace.

Dividing Americans down racial lines rather than socioeconomic lines literally helps the benefactors of this bribery gravy train keep their grip on America.

I’m a big supporter and user of open source software, but I must say the office suite open source world seems like a real shit show.

I’m personally very happy using the office tools bundled with MacOS.

Okay, but this still seems like a perversion of market mechanics that should be regulated/banned.

I'd love to see where this has been explained. I've not seen this anywhere.

JavaScript and it’s variants are 1st place for the browser (shoe in on a technicality) ... but like 213th for everything else.

Agreed. I’ve always felt that the following sums up why Python is my preferred language:

Python is the second-best language for everything.

The passwords should be salted, and therefore unique.

They’re really all just different ways to say “sales person”.

As opposed to one class controlling what news reaches the populace, e.g., Twitter suppressing Hunter Biden story from NY Post?

I fail to see how pushing the most extreme speech into the shadows improves anything...

> “Someones data is dirty dirty dirty”

Par for the JavaScript community course.

Many are just exhausted with WordPress turned React devs writing piles of spaghetti code rife with unnecessary (and often poorly maintained) dependencies.