Which is really weird we do this since 80% of tasks fall within sane defaults territory.
My last employer had something like 10 hits every 5 minutes. Somehow we needed the entire Kube ecosystem for that.
I’ve been storing good JSON templates in Dynamodb and iterating on code to query and deploy. Building up a collection that lets me deploy to AWS or GCP with one tool, editing fields I want to edit per setup.
Working with just my code and validating outputs is way less.
On the one hand everyone is all “write less code, it’s too complicated.” while ignoring ops tooling always ends up a fiasco of DSLs and templating hell.
You’re part of the tyranny who won relative to billions of others.
So-called civilized society is using its wealth to expropriate resources from other nations rather than destroy its own land.
And poisoning it’s community.
But it would be tyranny to stop it, according to the average opinion.
Infinitely big little numbers and the cognitive ability to spin in semantic circles often seem like similar concepts to me.
But there are consumer clouds to build in and gadgets to dispose of! Don’t tread on me treading on the species at scale!
Free speech is great but management of reality for the success of the species should not be left in the rear view mirror. Change in personal agency must be part of the solution, but my free speech!
Country by, of, and for the people they say about the US.
Plenty of evidence in the historical record that taking a hands off approach to politics has exactly such consequences.
Look at the emotional harm avoidant attitudes on display all over the web, and this forums “politics aren’t real, but startup a startup constrained by legal tradition of ownership & debt service!” ... how much more mindless application of agency is there?
Politicians are just people and simply reflect the popular memes.
I know covid believers into the masks and science who still go to restaurants. To support the workers, they say. Because political effort to support them financially without increasing exposure seems beyond reason to them. They should have to earn those dollars is just as embedded in nice, intelligent people.
I don’t really understand how the problem is so easily deflected as “obviously the political minority is the problem.”
I’d prefer for there to be more market incentive to avoid needing as much car travel.
Which is happening organically thanks to the cost of living increases, urbanization putting more people closer to necessity (which we should be expanding into neighborhoods; but austerity for the rubes, bailouts for failed CEOs and boards!), services like Lyft, and teens worried about the planet being sustainable for them in the future thanks to old people deciding it’s ok to just wreck it and die.
Since the 80s the number of teenagers getting their license has fallen off a cliff, from 50-60% possessing one in the early 80s to less than 30% last I saw the numbers.
The only group where possessing a license went up is 60-70 year olds.
Let’s hope we’re on a downward trajectory of forcing the entire species to eat, sleep, and breath toxicity. Though looking at the US’s concern for its neighbors I’m not that hopeful.
Full speed ahead towards the end of the world then. Super metal to ride the rocket into the sun.
“It’s an intriguing result, and it may lend some weight to the MOND hypothesis for further study. But it’s important to keep in mind that so far the bulk of the evidence still points towards dark matter, and it’ll take much more work to topple that hypothesis entirely.“
To be fair, it’s probably not Ruby, but the clever linguists I was working with 2008-2012 era.
Everyone brought their preferred syntax and there was much less of a “let’s solve the problem, not be clever” sentiment back then.
That said, Python almost makes such things impossible. Decorator patterns are the only thing I can think of in Python that ever made me really think.
6 to one, half dozen to another. How we start out thinking about problems has an impact on what syntax works for us best later on. I’m in my 40s and started in electronics, designing boards that shipped in Nortel kit.
I started with C and little else, not digging into OOP until hardware work went overseas. Perhaps my brain is over specialized to prefer a particular way of visualizing code I need to write.
The so-called by many, Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith, only defined market in terms of a free labor market.
He also wrote that whatever type of government existed in a nation, it would likely need to enforce equality of condition to avoid what we’d call monopoly of labors agency.
He was openly hostile to extreme division of labor, paraphrasing, it would turn humans into the dumbest creatures to ever exist.
Look at that. Hundreds of years ago humans realized exactly what humans are capable of emotionally and warned against it.
Reminds of me of the ancient Greeks who, again paraphrasing, wrote they hope the rubes do not some day realize there are no gods atop Olympus. Just men on thrones manipulating their fears.
Anecdotally, since I got away from Ruby, working on software became way more productive and tolerable.
Maybe it was something with the corner of the Ruby world I fell into, but the syntax sugar options and “cleverness” that enabled was maddening to deal with, and permeated that crowd.
Code bases with mixed styles are a thing in any language, but the Ruby-ists around me found a way to make one project look like half a dozen languages were involved.
How you can connect a handful of (some college educated) women I know putting their body where they want with men they pick as being anything like a billionaires sex cabal drugging and buying kids from poor parents are at all similar is some Machiavellian effort. Bravo.
But since we’re on the subject; maybe put less value into financial trade which is the contemporary value store propping up the exploitation of billionaires.
Perhaps buy fewer gadgets that prop up the economy they grift on from the masses agency.
Perhaps be more for raising taxes to distribute wealth to communities that can use it if you’re that worried.
Above all perhaps avoid centralizing authority over agency in private power. A pattern we keep buying into as a species only to realize it rather makes things worse for the majority.
Put your agency into something that tackles artificial social problems (stock values, disposable widgets sold!, not enough money for M4A or community uplift in poor areas) instead of (sad as it may be) human issues that have existed forever, and there’s precious little we can do about it. Even if billionaire sex cabals vanish, are you going to scour the world seeking out every tribal instance? Or are you simply reaching for acceptable semantics from your perspective?
In other words: walk the walk when it comes to pushing back against immoral behavior as you see it. Semantic battles here over specific instances are self congratulatory and empty if we’ll simply equivocate away structural changes.
The problem is meritocracy can be gamed to be unfair by selling the perception of improved performance.
Giving off a perception of peak performance is trivial for those that know how to shmooze, get that title bump.
We see it all the time with celebrities getting their kids into nicer schools, dads who own construction companies donating to unis, etc. the list of stereotypes is endless.
Biological reality does not really care much for our emotional constructs, as others will always come along with their own.
It was fact that pagan gods controlled reality until it wasn’t. At least those ideologies were backed by fun imagery. Meritocracy is also nonsense, but easier to see as it doesn’t distract by flooding the imagination.
People are hardly working for Google because they want to.
People are hardly working in slaughter houses and coal mines because they want to.
Feminists I know are selling themselves because they like sex, and controlling their bodies time economy is their choice.
One would think on this forum that it’s a gradient of statistics and not black and white anecdotes would be more obvious.
Exploitation of minors is one thing. Though, I do not see many folks lifting a finger over child political prisoners in rancid cages. So I’m left wondering if exploitation is the real issue or the sex part given cultural norms.
My last employer had something like 10 hits every 5 minutes. Somehow we needed the entire Kube ecosystem for that.
I’ve been storing good JSON templates in Dynamodb and iterating on code to query and deploy. Building up a collection that lets me deploy to AWS or GCP with one tool, editing fields I want to edit per setup.
Working with just my code and validating outputs is way less.
On the one hand everyone is all “write less code, it’s too complicated.” while ignoring ops tooling always ends up a fiasco of DSLs and templating hell.