... okay? I thought they were dead. What about the entire rest of the world that is left or right. We're not stuck between a choice of Staln (left), and Htler (right) - there are more reasonable people in the world, even more reasonable politicians.
It's because it doesn't break the political and financial careers of the people who do in the civil service and the politicians. Once it does, you'll see it is not repeated.
Prop 13 in California is an amazing example of this, known as a third rail political issue because it "kills" the politicians who attack it directly. It doesn't even approach even getting put up as a proposition or bill directly. It has a tight feedback loop because the most mobilized voting class, the olds, feel it immediately and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association mobilizes immediately also. So they go for it on the sides, for things like commercial property, or complicated to understand inheritance and so on.
So if you really want to fight back and be effective, you have to (politically) destroy the careers of those who do.
homebrew voluntarily applies the quarantine flag on casks (ex: apps) so you still need to pay the apple dev tax to distribute your mini app that way, itch.io does not so you don't get the lying scarewall
The UK also has a big issue with "corner shops" (tiny stores operated usually by one person) that are fronts for organised crime and will sell you a lot more than energy drinks without checking your ID. Cash payment usually preferred.
Also things are going to get hot at the next general election if you're following what just happened in this week's council elections.
With AI agents and how good they are in doing "language translation" tasks against an identical target with a comprehensive test suite, you end up doing these things out of curiosity. The AI agent has the originals to test it's assumptions with too.
I've had surprisingly good results from getting AI agents to take a script in shell, python or typescript and have it translate it into those other programming languages, including rust versions. Or swapping from one build system to another.
Totally agreed... It enables you to try swapping out dependencies you might not otherwise even consider because of the cognitive load in trying to do so as an individual, and get it done/working in a few hours and a few days to follow in order to review.
Or take on an additional/related feature (like Redis grepping over the new array data types). Because you can be relatively sure the borders are stable and you can limit the surface/scope.
* it’s purpose built for mega-sized monorepo models like Google (the same company that created it)
* it’s not at all beginner friendly, it’s complex mishmash of three separate constructs in their own right (build files, workspace setup, starlark), which makes it slow to ramp new engineers on.
* even simple projects require a ton of setup
* requires dedicated remote cache to be performant, which is also not trivial to configure
* requires deep bazel knowledge to troubleshoot through its verbose unclear error logs.
Because of all that, it’s extremely painful to use for anything small/medium in scale.
IMO instead of age gating everything, it should've been the other way around, which is making unrestricted smartphones or similar an 18 or 16+ device, much like cars.
When financial institutions in the USA are not even adding basic things like... approve transaction on phone, keeping most things pull based based on knowing a few magic numbers vs. push based and other really basic things, this really doesn't hold water. Things being anon doesn't even register in the day to day of what is bad with the internet, vast majority of it is from very non-anonymous sources, influencers, apps or institutions.
But why is it a tough job? Partially it's the shift hours, they could offer it with less hours and more nurses for example. But they don't due to undersupply, and on it goes.
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