Why does the right insist on a massive military budget, then complain about sending surplus supplies overseas?
You’re debating two things: whether the US should intervene in Ukraine, and whether the US should get its internal affairs in order.
Your points are that war is expensive*, the US has a poor ability to run its internal systems (yes and no, but how does this imply we should sit on our hands with foreign policy), this war isn’t useful.
*The monetary cost of this war (to the US) is just not a legitimate part of the debate. It’s pittance what we’ve supplied.
If a test is worth having, it’s worth writing by hand.
Throw away mandatory code coverage tech debt instead of adding artificially-intelligent tech debt on top.
The best I can see a use for something like this is more like a linter than a test writer. “Robot, find weird things in the code and bring them to me for review.”
I’m not strictly isolationist. I’m also not smart enough to predict what happens when playing Risk with real countries.
It’s definitely possible that sending weapons into a conflict just makes it worse. Especially when soldiers are just people on both ends.
My only dispute with your text is that we definitely have the ability to get our shit together financially in the US. The opposition is purely ideological. “We can’t” becomes “we don’t try” becomes “we can’t”.
Some of us just panic and react without thinking about why food is getting more expensive or what policies will improve the world for us now and our children in the future.
When people are hangry, they vote for the loudest monkey.
hey, I want to interpret this charitably but the language here is pretty bad: “achieving […] dead Slavs […] isn’t […] useful”.
Yeah I know I used a lot of editing but the sentiment and word choice is there. I don’t want the US to be the world police but I don’t want to dismiss that Putin is deeply rotten. And I don’t think whether something is “useful” is the only concern.
Are we helping? Are we making things worse? These are how we should talk about things.
Also event-driven programming. (especially the idea of delaying effects, e.g. so in an RPG someone can perform a Reaction which disables the effects of an Action performed by another character before they’re applied).
Learn about stacks.
When you’re ready to make your brain bleed a little, try designing on paper the data structure to make D&D turns work.
Hints: player initiative is a circular array, reactions are a stack, actions/reactions are events. Actions are events which modify characters, reactions are events which modify other players events.
Ignore abilities which e.g. create new terrain or whatever. Ignore movement, positioning, targetting entirely.
This will be fun!
Also I can recommend the free book Game Programming Patterns. It’s useful for programming concepts even if you don’t make games
If you enjoy your job, you’re lucky. If you don’t enjoy retirement, you’re not trying.
Human psychology is dominated by getting stuck in emotion-behavior cycles, and those cycles wind up in local maxima.
Change is scary. Self-actualization is hard.
I highly, highly, highly doubt what you’re saying would be true for most people. Regardless of social class. I think most people would view retirement as freedom.
Would they immediately feel secure, content, and know their next direction to take? Probably the fuck not, but hey that’s just being human.
I would feel sad though to see someone give up on retirement and personal development to go back to working on business web apps. You have so much potential, don’t be afraid
You’re debating two things: whether the US should intervene in Ukraine, and whether the US should get its internal affairs in order.
Your points are that war is expensive*, the US has a poor ability to run its internal systems (yes and no, but how does this imply we should sit on our hands with foreign policy), this war isn’t useful.
*The monetary cost of this war (to the US) is just not a legitimate part of the debate. It’s pittance what we’ve supplied.