as shitty as it is they stand for getting reelected, which when compared with “not the overt fascists” should be a pretty good platform… if only they learned something from trump and realized that being loudly pro-your-issues is a positive and being quiet and non-committal is a death sentence
being loudly “we can’t let this ever happen again and here’s how we strengthen the system” should be their platform
trams clog up roads is so laughable
okay so let’s do a thought experiment… you also say trams are crowded? well those people still need to get from a to b within the 10min window that the tram runs, so let’s remove the tram and put them all in their own car: what do you reckon? roads are gonna flow better? or na?
now take that image you had and double the trams and take that many cars off the road… reckon the roads would flow better? i’m thinking probably
ko-fly preferable to ko-squito… they’re both pests but those fees really sting
rent? it’s keeping your house pest free… you owe it money
(also obligatory that’s not a spider THIS is a spider from australia)
i’d say it’s a balance… you’re totally right that individual requests for review should be relatively small (mostly so that they can all fit in your head at once), but imo equally valid is that everything in main should be a complete feature/fix: if you were to be gone immediately after merging, would someone need to continue or revert the change? would there be unused code laying around?
this is where merge trains and a decent UI around them comes in handy: your main work is on a branch many small PRs each reviewed individually merge into that branch, and then when you’re done pretty much just automated integration tests, lint, and you’re good to merge the whole
but equally some people prefer to solve this with things like gitflow, or just not at all and accept that main is always in flux
refactor to support a new feature is also tricky: does it belong with the feature because it’s unnecessary abstraction without it? or is it its own PR because it stands in its own? and if it’s its own PR then how do you base your own feature branch on it before someone reviews and merges? how do you know you’re done without finishing? what if your assumptions are wrong and you need to try something new - just a lot of unnecessary churn and review?
dev is messy and as always LOC is a pretty useless metric… keeping things understandable is key, and somethings a 17k line PR is the cleanest way to proceed
school shootings generally aren’t about achieving political or other goals
they’re mass murder; not terrorism
Elon hasn’t got away with it yet. the legal system is just slow… the cases have just started over the last few weeks
and illegal doesn’t mean trump would personally be punished for it; it just means that the payments get clawed back
from what i read this is only for melton
i guess they could be repurposed after melton electrification to run further out, so maybe that’s not so bad… but the campaign is targeting melton, and for that purpose its a shit idea
and there’ll be a refinery built in the middle of the 12 apostles… owned by an american multinational
it’s a shit policy that sounds good on the surface (like most liberal policies)
apparently:
whilst modern anarchism certainly has a lot of good points to make, anarchism in general also covers some pretty horrendous ways of structuring society…
anarchism is, at its core, is just absense of government and rulers
The word “anarchy” was first defined by Ancient Greek philosophy, which understood it to be a corrupted form of direct democracy, where a majority of people exclusively pursue their own interests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
that original definition pretty well covers “everyone for themselves anarchy”
you can argue “yes but no serious anarchist”, but the word at its core doesn’t just mean the serious and thought out structures
it is what it is: anarchy can mean chaos, it’s just that when discussing with people who are discussing the implementation of anarchy, it’s widely agreed that chaos is not the goal and thus other systems are put in place
it is frustrating that the modern version of the word has become synonymous with only the kind of anarchism that’s generally agreed is not the way any of this should be implemented… but anarchism still covers those shit takes
are you sure they’ll have experienced troops? russia doesn’t really fight wars in a manner that ends with experienced troops
i think that aspiring to be a politician, and even becoming a politician isn’t so bad… there are a few people i know that went into politics and they legitimately did it to make a difference
many get corrupted and i reckon it pretty much requires abandoning morals to become one of the “top” politicians, but there are plenty of staffers in the world that don’t and do legitimate good at the expense of their own standing
if they get into it with eyes wide open as to the reality and for the right reasons, credit to them: it’s what they do after that that matters
public service is still noble, even if most politics has become a perversion of that
investment is an important way that money flows around an economy. safer investments tend to move money slowly… if people think conditions can flip on a dime, that adds risk and more risk leads to people making otherwise safer investments (this goes double: more risk usually means more reward, so if you increase baseline risk then you’re negatively effecting both sides of the equation)… we do things like grandfathering in laws because of someone in good faith invests in something it’s good to have reasonable expectations that they’re not going to have the risk calculation changed underneath them - otherwise you have to take that risk for all classes of investment, and that’s far worse than the small (probably ~10 year) loss from not catching out the practices you’re trying to change in existing activities
that’s not a useful metric though. the science of winemaking isn’t some dark secret. given enough money to replicate conditions i’m sure even saudi arabia could produce a wine that blind tests better than french wines
the point of comparing regions is their average wine: pick up a random wine off the shelf from each region and how comparable is it?
french wine isn’t good by magic - french wine is good for the same reason french pastry, bread, and cheese are also good. because it’s deeply ingrained in french culture that these are things that you don’t accept bad versions of. bad wine doesn’t sell in france. americans are less picky. each wine region adapts to local conditions
not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection
the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection
you’re right of course, but i think part of the sentiment behind “once a maga, always a magat” is that often people in the MAGAsphere don’t actually admit that the original premise is wrong, or change their way of thinking, or develop critical thinking skills: they just get personally burned…
changing how you ingest and process information about the world is a very hard thing to do, and few “reformed MAGAs” have likely done that work… we should applaud them for leaving their current cult, but the next one right around the corner might grab them just as hard
vivaldi recently disabled uBO and said it’d soon be unsupported. you can re-enable for now
the fact that nothing happened doesn’t mean it was overblown. the fact that nothing happened means all the engineering effort and sleepless nights that went into the problem were well-spent
prevention that succeeds so completely to prevent a disaster that you don’t even notice is just a job very well done: not evidence that the disaster wasn’t real or very dangerous
if only “half black” made people half as racist
then nobody would feel the need to post a comment that he’s only “half black” and now we have a whole paradox