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dietmtnview··on MAGA's war on talent frightens CEOs–and angers Elon Musk
I don't think commies want capitalism?
dietmtnview··on In "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," Feeding Your Family Comes First
This feels lifted from the Chapo Trap House folks: https://www.patreon.com/posts/movie-mindset-12-90285597
dietmtnview··on Computer-science majors graduate into a world of fewer opportunities
Has the bubble popped?
dietmtnview··on Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)
I miss The Outline.
dietmtnview··on Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
It's absolutely wild that you're equating the rights of a person to the rights of a corporation. Corporations impact all of us whereas a person using a VPN to remain anonymous is protecting themselves from corporations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossack_Fonseca

dietmtnview··on Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants
It blows my mind how much these large firms have totally dropped the ball. It's like IBM levels of decline.
dietmtnview··on Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants
As a US citizen, it's pretty wild to live through. Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest of us.
dietmtnview··on Inside the Massive Repair Shops Where Subway Cars Go for a Makeover
The subway cars on the tracks all need to go there yesterday.
dietmtnview··on The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer
Serenity now!
dietmtnview··on Sora: Creating video from text
oh man, we're going to be in The Running Man really quick.
dietmtnview··on Why Socialism? (1949)
> To summarize a big complicated thing in a nutshell, a market system is pretty neat because market forces are determine the price (a reflection of the value) of goods and services in an unplanned manner. It's a system that takes in information, and the various actors in the system respond accordingly. It's never 100% accurate, but given enough time and stability, it's usually pretty close.

No. A massive majority of the prices of things in the US are distorted by the government or the Federal Reserve. Agriculture is propped up by the government, the prices of healthcare are distorted by capitalist interests, landlords have benefited from lax government oversight, the railway workers strike was made illegal by Biden.

The list goes on and the prices are a reflection of these distortions. To say prices reflect reality is to be delusional to the political situation.

dietmtnview··on Taliban fighters are sick of the 9 to 5 working desk jobs to run Afghanistan
Reminds me of Fargo Season 2 when the muscle/hit man Mike Milligan goes corporate.
dietmtnview··on How to store your app's entire state in the url
please don't do this, especially if you work with map coordinates.
dietmtnview··on Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
> You're essentially saying that you want a build that silently works anyway because you know better than typescript, you know this will still result in correct js even though the compiler is shouting errors at you.

negative. I use tsc as a safety net, I don't release code that doesn't pass ci/cd which includes a linting/typechecking step. I just know that sometimes it's faster/easier to do an exploration without strict typechecking.

dietmtnview··on Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
> you don't get broken bundles when the typecheck didn't succeed

ah, I do TDD. easier to let tests give me runtime and behavioral feedback instead of refreshing/setting up hot reloads. I could see how it's frustrating without that. super frustrating to do a quick experiment/demo and satisfy ts if the compiler breaks all the time tho.

dietmtnview··on Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
use webpack for bundling and typescript for typechecking. not that far off from the typescript + babel workflow and way less overhead. just use tsc as a linter.

https://iamturns.com/typescript-babel/

and someone else pointed out that esbuild drops typechecking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33336803

dietmtnview··on Blockchain Solutionism
Americans fundamentally do not believe that the government can be used to make your life convenient. Average people believe technologies like the Internet and GPS were invented by private industry rather than government.
dietmtnview··on What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love
Separate from the serious issue at the heart of this post. What is going on with this website? Why is text entering the page as I scroll?
dietmtnview··on Folk Interfaces
Since we're talking about DOTA. Defense of the Ancients was a custom map game in Warcraft III. I don't know if this is still a thing, but custom map games on Starcraft and Warcraft III absolutely ruled. There was freeze tag, capture the flag, tower defense, a zombie defense like game based on Starship Troopers. Absolute golden age of gaming for me as a kid.
dietmtnview··on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
> Capitalism is one of the biggest eradicators of poverty.

wat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4FES0ehyI