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> non-standard way of doing things

Fwiw this exact pattern was the idiomatic defacto standard in JS before classes were added to the ECMA specs. This will be extremely familiar to anyone with a reasonable number of years of experience in JS.

That's not a good defense in itself: things should ideally be familiar to beginner devs, but that's more of a debate on what's being taught in current JS education than on what's "better".

i.e.: if this were a better pattern (it's not), lack of familiarity wouldn't be a good argument against it.

> with very little, if any, real benefit.

In fairness the article spends most of its time laying out the proposed benefits, so stating that there's no benefit without addressing its arguments is a little lazy.

Some of the arguments are inaccurate (private fields have been widely supported since 2021) but it's true that ECMA's class implementation is riddled with issues & exploring alternative patterns is worthwhile.

Even before ECMA added classes, I never liked this pattern: it seems a clumsy attempt to shoehorn classical inheritance -esque arrangements onto a prototypical language without ever putting forward reasoned arguments for the benefits of doing so. This article at least tries to put forward arguments about why fake shoehorned classical inheritance pattern is better than the "standardised" shoehorned classical inheritance pattern, but in reality both are bad.
And the article is about an individual who, due to a mounting debt burden, cannot afford either. This is the irony to which I refer. But I can see your perspective, too.
For a single hard-working person, it can actually be a healthy and productive environment. I lived in my car at a FAANG parking lot when I started my career there. The money I saved and instead invested ensured my ability to afford a nice home in a good area for the family which I eventually started, and to lead the life I wanted to. It was a deliberate sacrifice, and it kept me hyper-focused on career and personal growth. But I do think being laid off and ending up in the same circumstances would produce a different perspective on the living arrangement. My point is, one's attitude and outlook on life is more important than the material foundations to it.
> Nobody ever blames the building codes until the either educate themselves or try to build a house.

I built more than one house, not alone of course.
The first days, I compared to google the results.
But since I customised the result to boost/lower site I want, I never looked back.
The universe is not an N-body problem. Because we have things behaving like waves. Which are much harder to simulate. We can't even simulate a 2-electron collision precisely.
Yeah, I'm losing my edge. The kids are coming up from behind. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids from Stanford and from CMU.

But I was there. I was there in 2008. I was there at the first Expo show in IRC. I'm losing my edge to the kids whose fingertips I hear when they get on the decks. I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every JS design committee from 2008 to 2018.

I'm losing my edge. To all the kids in typescript and wasm. I'm losing my edge to the bootcamp Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.

I was there. But I was there. I can hear the fingers every night on the decks. I was there in 2008 at the first search engine collapse. I was working on MVC frameworks with much patience. I was there when Ruby started up test-driven development. I told them, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."

I was there. I was the first guy playing dynamic dispatch to the php kids. I played it at phpclasses. Everybody thought I was crazy. We all know. I was there.

I've never been wrong. I used to work in the dev store. I had everything before anyone. I was there in the C# linq booth with Anders. I was there in Glasgow during the FP clashes. I woke up typing on the beach in frontpage in 1998.

But I'm losing my edge to t-shit clad people with proprietary ideas and more investment. And they're actually really, really nice.

I'm losing my edge. I heard you have a compilation of every good quine ever written by anybody. Every great patch by Linus Torvalds. All the flamewar hits. All the sourceforge tracks. I heard you have a floppy of every 90s asm rpg on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Gang-of-Four techno hit - 1995, '96, '97. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s fortran book and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're learning vim and lifetimes and are throwing your c compiler out the window because you want to make something safe. You want to make a web app.

I hear that you and your team have deleted your .NET repos and installed npm packages. I hear that you and your band have deleted your npm packages and installed F#.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know. But have you seen my records? Wirth, Peyton-Jones, Dijkstra, Fortran, C, C++, D, R, Haskell, PHP, Python, Scala, Java, C, ... malloc, gcc, #include, while(*s++), ...

You don't know what you really want
The Stasi museum is incredible. I lived in Berlin some years back, I was amazed that as soon as I got off the UBahn, it was like I was back in 1965. The headquarters is still maintained, but a lot of the other buildings had broken windows and were falling in. Just down from that museum is where they are tediously trying to reconstruct the shredded documents from that era, and where they still are reviewing the files kept on every citizen. Absolutely worth the visit.
> No, it is Federal Reserve policy, which is very different from government policy

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the things that sets the policy in question, is an executive branch agency, situated similarly to ones like the FCC.

Fed policy is not "very different from government policy", it is government policy.
Do you think of it as a choice, and what are the pros/cons compared to your feasible alternatives? What’s your long term plan?
Reading the article is pure folly! They'll steal your IP address, inject silly JavaScript into your hypertext markup interpreter, render their text in unpleasing typefaces and suboptimal contrast, hold you ransom with cookie popups or paywalls... One must protect oneself. The only way to safely interact with the world wide web (called "web" because it's a trap like a spider web!) is to gleen what you can 2nd hand, from the hackernews comments.
For me, the conclusions about the potential diseases are interesting, but not terribly so. I just find it remarkable how many bits of information we can now extract from old uncontaminated [1] documents. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, insects. And the conclusions we can draw from these.

[1] The authors seem to have gone to great length to verify that the letters were not contaminated. Among other things, they created and touched a modern letter, which they also analyzed. Remarkably only 20 peptides were in common between old and new.
This is so weird! It seems like the author mostly just hates the aesthetics of classes but actually likes structuring code in an OOP way. Good on them though, I've never written a class in my life personally, so at least they're on the right path. :)
Which was kinda the will of the people, right?

The PATRIOT act (and others) was passed by congress, who wasn't then voted out of office by the electorate. So I don't think Palantir is really any more complicit than "the American people".
Land ownership is an important element of long term sustainability, as in farmers carrying for their soil in order to keep it viable for their descendants.

But land ownership as in subletting and sub-subletting and sub-sub who knows how many levels up, that is not a necessary consequence of the concept of land ownership. What if only personal use was allowed? Sure, you would definitely see hoarding and countermeasures would not be without their own problems, but there is definitely room between unbounded capitalism and "property does not exist" level socialism.
> the partnership started the moment they decided to have a child.

Assuming they "decided".

> so why even have a child with someone who is unreliable?

Because you want a child? Sperm donor.
What’s that statement based on? Ownership doesn’t exist in nature, it’s a concept humans have invented and enforce through cultural and legal means. Ownership is just one method of providing occupation, but occupation can be achieved through other means: for example, guaranteed leases for a fixed period. There’s various countries that have models beyond just simple private ownership. Even in countries like the US where land ownership is considered sacrosanct, the government will still take it away if you don’t pay taxes — it’s not ownership in the truest sense.
The emotions one feels watching a video of a factory farm are very, very different from what one feels watching a family raise some livestock and then kill them. They’re obviously not the same thing.

During those thousands of years where humans personally slaughtered animals, they often built complete philosophies around their relationship to those animals. Those philosophies are way, way more complex and personally involved than the modern grocery shopping experience, obviously.
> most modern people have no idea where the meat or the vegetables come from

Most modern people knows that meat comes from killed animals.

> Activist are using videos of production lines to promote their agenda.

The reason we don't like to watch that is the same reason we don't want to watch people take a shit, it isn't that we feel shitting is morally wrong its just not something we want to watch because it is gross.
Facts are basically incapable of having the market dynamics of land, even with a total draconian rework of IP law.
We live longer lives due to medicine not technology
>Most wars are not the "good" guys vs the "bad" guys. In many of the cases you mention, I have no idea who you even think the good guys were.

Perhaps that's because you have no idea of the historic context for some of them? I completely disagree that "most wars are not good or bad". If you lived at the time of the wars in one of these countries you'd know very well who are the "good" and "bad" guys(sometimes, both sides can be bad like Stalin's Russia vs Hitler's Germany).

If you accept certain values as universal (freedom from tyranny, right not to get killed/raped/enslaved) it becomes pretty clear pretty quick which side (or sometimes both) are fighting to preserve some of these rights and which side is against. Which side has its soldiers motivated by an idea of making their country a safe place and which motivates them by letting them rape, pillage and having death squads right behind in case anyone tries to desert.

Also, how both sides treat civilians (own and opposing). For a recent example look at Hamas vs Israel. Hamas clearly states every Jew is a valid target for them, also they use their own civilians as human shields storing and launching weaponry from places like schools, hospitals etc. While Israel, when they are bombing residential blocks full of weapons do so called "knocking on the roof" (shooting on the roof of the building to give civilians a chance to escape). Often said civilians are blocked from escaping by Hamas.

If you have any doubts which side is bad, or good, or if both are bad find out what are they fighting for. Why did the war start? What values stand behind both sides.
There are several contentious aspects to this characterization:

1) California is a noted outlier. The tax base/road budget ratio does not scale well to the rest of the country.

2) The wealth of affluent suburbs is driven by the cities they surround. The cities generate enough wealth to nominally support the market rate labor that keep them running AND the professional/managerial class that cut and run.

3) The top quintile or two of earners are likelier to live in newer developments, where the cost of maintenance has not built up yet. As regions become older and less desirable, the affluent leave and are replaced by the less-so, just as replacement costs come due. This model is a burden on the state and national levels because it's so prevalent.

If, instead, the model were to have most people living were their wealth was generated - and therefore have amenities scale to means more closely - you would have fewer extremely wealthy individuals and families but a more sustainable and equitable society. I know this is anathema to many, who value getting ahead over getting together.
what happened in those 15 years? i don't think that your partner married you with the goal of taking your assets. if that was the case i doubt the marriages would have lasted 15 years.
But you don't need and official standard that everyone learns. Just use words. If your box is a class, write "class Foo". If your arrow means "contains 1 or more" just write that next to the arrow.
tbh, that scares me, simply because of the potential that one day, someone will offer enough money that it can't reasonably be expected from anyone to decline that offer.
Highly doubt that the amount of administration would go down. Having worked for the government for 2 decades I can assure you that isn’t how the government operates.
> essential part of a functioning society

so for most of recorded human history society did not function?

the only reason we're allowed to buy land is because it was commodified during the industrial revolution as the process of capital extraction from labor had moved from the land to the factories.
$800/h
The point of such a road is not to traverse it from one end to the other, it's to be able to get on and off it anywhere along its length. It also has symbolic meaning.
GitHub Git Operations partially down
Lots of "connection reset by peer" and outages. Looks like some of their systems behind a load balancer are affected since things usually work after a retry.
I suppose there is no reason you can’t profile your code and have a tool insert these hints based on actual statistics from execution.
A trial by social media where the evidence is a post he himself made and the result is companies choosing not to do business with him?

Seems perfectly ok. His comments here seem relatively tame and seems like an overreaction, but other orgs are free to associate with whom they choose are they not?
Given Irish history, and this person's Irish origin, I can understand how, in an unguarded and possibly reflexive moment, he could see this as merely support for a smaller, inferior, insurgent force against a larger, militarily superior occupying force, as this can be argued to loosely parallel Irish 20C history involving Britain.

At the same time, I'm surprised because this person organized a cosmopolitan gathering, and it seems likely that he would have adopted a more cosmopolitan and sensitive attitude.

I suppose the old adage is true, "The tree may leave the forest, but its roots are still in the soil."
It's like a breath of fresh air to hear someone make straightforward statements without fear.
Tbf I don’t mind renting as a concept. The problem I had was ever increasing rents and walls so thin you can hear your neighbor snoring. If we didn’t build buildings with such terrible noise insulation and had better rent control, it wouldn’t be so bad.
Kagi uses CrystalLang. Wow.
Didn't know it was used anywhere in production
The problem with a lot of these places like Seattle is that adding to the supply is really hard. It's not like there are a million acres of land just waiting to have houses put on them. Sure, you can build a skyrise, but first you need to get permission of the 20 families whose homes you're going to raze.
What's the [sustained] financial incentive to produce an unbreakable product?
Wasn't a lot of this "soft language" the result of active and conscious work by people like Frank Luntz [0]

e.g.

- "energy exploration" to refer to oil drilling

- "climate change" instead of global warming

My understanding is that he used focus groups watching video of politicians. As the politician would speak, the watchers would use dials to live rate how they felt about the words being used. In essence, he would A/B test how "soft" the language was and then pass that information on to political groups to help shape narratives etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
I'm serious, when you walk in the forest, branches often fall and you need to look up and protect your head. That's why climbers wear construction helmets. And the situation in the video is quite dangerous. Therefore, always protect your head. I climbed to the top of a mountain of 800 meters and I know what it is.
Yeah of course, they put their precious sweat and blood into going to the bank to show that they own land to get some credit so they can hire people to do the rest

But that's the minority anyway, those who were born into rent extracting elites need to not lift a finger.
> The business problem was that ad-supported metaverses don't work.

Have any of them tried to add online shopping via affiliate links?
Where'd you see that?
Thanks, I also misunderstood "in 3 years" meant forward-looking (i.e. "3 years from now...") rather than backward-looking ("for over 3 years...")
Land value tax has some issues as well. The zoning reform might be able to dix them, but only with some micromanaging I think. If we want walkable areas, that means multi-use zoning. Not all land uses have the same roi, so if you set the land value relative to the value that comes from using it for the highest roi case, say case A, then no one will use land for case B or C. So to take it to hyperbole, you'd end up with blocks of liquor stores and no housing, or all housing and no grocers. It is a complicated problem, and the solution will also be complicated.
True, but it's worth mentioning that supporting the filter list maintainers is encouraged.
Kagi user. I think it's pretty dang good. After comparing its results to google for the first few days, Kagi really does appear to be as good by default, and you can make it better by up/downranking various domains. Its quick answer feature is also fantastic (if perhaps not as quick as its name would suggest).
Tenochtitlan had a sophisticated system of urban planning with zoned public bathrooms (latrines, really) that were cleaned at night by a large labor force dedicated to keeping the city clean. The waste was collected by canoe from these bathrooms and dumped into the canal system where it decomposed and was later dredged up to fertilize and replenish the topsoil on the chinampas. Fresh drinking water was provided by mountain spring connected to the city by several aqueducts built in the 15th century.
>> My point is, one's attitude and outlook on life is more important than the material foundations to it.

True!

That said, the material foundations are a bit different when building a safety net vs spending it.
Based on documentaries like "Earthlings". Watch it and tell me everything is fine.
Yeah that’s pretty bad. 60% of the results are non-related content.
Fair enough - I guess I should have been a little more precise: I really meant that "underdeveloped" has a specific meaning, rather than "under" by itself.

"Underdeveloped" doesn't mean "less than average development", it means "not and/or insufficiently industrialized", implying a problem to be solved.
I do not regret switching to Kagi.
Hey conartist6, thanks for the interest. I'll share once I get something going.
After months of arguing against using ChatGPT, I now find myself using it for probably 80% of the things that I would previously have searched for. I also find it's much different, instead of spending 3 minutes trying to reword my DDG search, I have a fairly useful conversation learning things. I keep my skepticism up as I get more specific and detailed, but I somehow started trusting it, and haven't missed search at all...

I wonder if Google / DDG will start to notice this drop in searches or not.

Also, I find myself using GitHub search a lot, it returns actual code someone was using, which is always helpful.
StartPage is my default engine on the search box, I use Google only when SP fails to find something, which is rare but does happen from time to time. DDG has been great for years, growing steadily in quality, then just when it was about to become a lot better than Google, its reliability got a lot worse. I can't confirm what the OP writes as I abandoned DDG like 2 years ago, but wouldn't be surprised at all if it was true.
> But in fact 'rent' means to tear, split, rip, etc, and that's exactly what it is.

No it doesn't. 'Rent' in this context derives through french from a latin verb that means "to give back".

Your confusion comes from the fact that 'rent' can also be the past tense of 'rend' which has a different origin and comes from old english and germanic roots rather than French and latin.
I’m a big fan of nginx. Incredibly fast and reliable. But it doesn’t support HTTP/3 out of the box using the distributions available from system package managers like apt.
That's an obvious false dichotomy. If everyone who wanted had the choice between renting and owning, and the average landlord made a decent living off of providing maintenance and "deed-holding" services, you might have a point. As things actually stand, most people are squeezed into the rental market and the average landlord makes much more than a decent living through an exploitative process of raising rents on tenants who do not have choices.
This requires a preset architecture standard that explains specifically what boxes and arrows are, and how boxes/arrows interact. Lots of software smears a logical box out over several folders in the code, sometimes even with entirely different names. I don't just mean people write non-cohesive code, I mean frameworks tend to prefer organisation by layer ("the views go in the view folder!") instead of organisation by module ("These things work and change together with a defined boundary").

You can have what you're asking for if you agree to a predefined architecture and everyone agrees to write code that way.
Whisper by OpenAI is really really good - and unlike the rest of their offering, it's actually open. It doesn't support streaming dictation though.

Depending on whether you want something to run locally and play with or just want to use VTT in your app, there are plenty of startups offering APIs with varying pros and cons (and lots of variability on how well they handle out-of-vocabulary words, which is usually the biggest problem with these tools). If you're interested add some details and I'll edit my answer with some links once I'm on my computer.
Due to trying to decouple from Microsoft?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-track...
So... NOT Craig Wright, then.

Got it.
I'm convinced DuckDuckGo is just Bing. I mean, it's hosted on the same infrastructure.

$ whois $(dig a duckduckgo.com @1.1.1.1 +short) | grep OrgName
OrgName: Microsoft Corporation

It's totally a private and anonymous search engine though!
Create your own VM for execution and rendering, then make sure it runs only trusted signed code. Skip the dom and js entirely.

It's a black box, so ad blockers wouldn't be able to target anything in there without very hard reverse engineering.

We know it's possible because the community can hack the playstation and xbox. We also know it takes a lot of time and resources.

Unlike the consoles, they can just upload a new blob and suddenly, it becomes so expensive for adblock to keep up we lose it.

It will also be super expensive for google, but they can afford it.
I like the idea of just tunneling the whole length to avoid and protect the sensitive surface. Just like the Chunnel: A rail link could be used to maximize throughput for the tunnel size. Cars and trucks could travel on shuttles on the rail link.

Maybe 2-3 times the distance of the Chunnel, but doable for connecting two continents.
George Carlin is my ever favorite. He is the best