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Stadia was just Google's New Coke, Apple's Mac Cube, or Microsoft's MSNBC (or maybe Zune.

When they can't sell ads anymore, they'll have to pivot.

    :-O

I am originally from California, and spent some time in Los Angeles as a student. The insane parking-lot wastelands and 8-lane gridlock eventually destroyed the livabilty of that city for everybody — even for people with cars (which, out of necessity, became mostly everybody).

I don't like macOS, so in recent years, I only use it on laptop (which for me is like, a few on-site meetings per year, plus a few airplane flights). What infuriates me is that my mid-tier Mac laptop for those use cases is now significantly faster than any Linux workstation I can possibly buy... and positively annihilates any non-Apple laptop machine on essentially every meaningful benchmark.

That's actually wild. I think we're in a kind of unique moment, but one that is good for Apple mainly, because their OS is so developer-hostile that I pay back all the performance gains with interest. T_T

(I pay for Audio Hijack Pro, too — and yeah it is better for the purpose, if the price is worth it to you.)

But, you triggered me lol:

1.) The Chinese meaning of "atheist" may not mean what you think it means: a.) it means not following a major established religion, and b.) they have an Orwellian surveillance-state dictatorship government which very much opposes major established religions

2.) For many people, including in China, astrology is just something like buying a lottery ticket, or asking the Magic 8-Ball for advice — fun, but not something actually believed in[1].

3.) It's much more likely that 3% of atheists "believe in" astrology[2] — and the idea that a majority would is insane on its face

So yeah, nah.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/05/21/3-in-10-amer...

[2]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/11/42552/

(Context: I have 2 Apple TV devices and 5 HomePod devices in my home, plus one Apple Vision Pro. I only like one of those more than my Pixel 9 Fold.)

Fukushima 1F was a failure of governmental regulation.

It's really important to understand that, because otherwise you inescapably frame the argument wrongly. Capitalism isn't the problem, regulatory weakness is the problem. No capitalist society can survive lack of effective regulation.

(Fukushima was bad, and an example of regulatory failure, but Japan's overall effective regulatory influence over its corporations — and similarly, its mafia — is the secret sauce that has made it an economic overperformer. China can also do that — because it is a brutal dictatorship. America can't do that — and things aren't looking good. UK retains the power to do it, but it's Keystone Kops. EU can't do it, either, for reasons I can't understand at distance.

But creating safe nuclear power plants is fundamentally the same problem as creating safe elevators. In a capitalist society, it's 100% about regulatory power and competence, and nothing else.

    This advisory has been withdrawn because the stylus npm package is not malware.

    This advisory has been withdrawn because the stylus npm package is not malware.

When you think about it (even drunk as hell while mid-fall bungee jumping) the latter form is sensible and the first is nuts.

This is an interesting development, but it's not really "running TypeScript code" its "almost running TypeScript code".

With alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun able to run real TypeScript code (and type check it, lint it, test it, etc) using a slightly watered-down, not-fully-compatible dialect of TypeScript, just so that it can run on Node without a build step, really isn't a very compelling argument.

It'd be different if TypeScript announced "TypeScript will remove these features to work around Node's limitation — compatibility is more important", but they haven't.

(And I wouldn't personally love it if they did. Deno and Bun are ahead of Node on several different axes, and other runtimes are coming, too — if Node can catch up, then great, but if it can't, then it should rightly be left behind.)

There's still no real alternative to Node for many large frontend apps in production, but for a lot of other TypeScript use cases — build tooling, backend APIs, CLI apps, edge functions — modern TypeScript in the Deno/Bun style (ESM, full filename imports, run/typecheck/lint/test with no user-configured build step) has significant benefits.

Both Deno and Bun have extensive — and necessary — backward compatibility shims to enable interoperability with what I've started calling "legacy Node JS/TS". You can use the Node APIs (but should explicitly import those things with "node:" in your import specifier. You can use NPM packages (even CommonJS ones, although Deno prohibits CommonJS in new code, a stricter line than Bun draws).

I don't think using Deno and Bun is a huge bet on those specific (VC-backed) runtimes, either, because there is a shared vision of what "modern TypeScript" looks like, it works with both of those tools, and I think there will be multiple runtimes that support that vision for as long as TypeScript is relevant, even if both Deno and Bun were to go sideways.

Whether Node itself will become one of those modern runtimes is an interesting question. This is a step in that direction, it looks like, but it's still an open question.

So, I got robo-rejected. But is an HN reply enough to get my app glanced at by a live human? If so, I suspect you'll find it somewhere between the 900th and the 1,200th application in your queue!

    Keyword: "A-10 Warthog" ;-)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416070

modulo all the ToS / arbitration clauses, that is still the fundamental difference

and although not a recourse available to most people, still not nothing

...tech help solving them is welcome!

OK, you may have found a point of commonality in our opinions. The US isn't yet as far down that road, but... yeah. It's catching up quickly.

But the present debate started with the false equivalence between science in "free countries" being influenced by various corporate and political interests, vs being influenced by theocratic dictatorship inclided towards torture and murder.

That the US is becoming increasingly more like Iran doesn't negate that, it just makes the US not the right example to demonstrate the point.

a.) your paper refuting those claims doesn't get widespread coverage

b.) your paper refuting those claims gets you beaten to death on the streets, or imprisoned and totured to death in prison (or even just imprisoned and released some time later)

This isn't even _good_ whataboutism

The grievances you are expressing are real, but so trivial in magnitude relative to what you're comparing them to, that you sound absurd.