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What an truly incredible article, particularly the way the color space diagrams are used to gradually tell the story (and the prose is great too). I actually want to read it again tomorrow morning in more depth.

That applies to fentanyl and tiktok.

3D printing is similar but also a vastly smaller market than information systems. 100% of businesses need information systems, but only a small percentage need custom plastic components.

(Actually I would argue every business past a tiny size should have access to a 3D printer, it can save a lot of money in subtle ways, though its rarely business-critical)

That is a good solution for reusing content across pages, but most of my HTMX usage is for fetching data that would otherwise delay first page load significantly, or for seamless interactivity. Very different use cases.

Presumably enterprise sales will bring in revenue on its own

My #1 advice is not creating separate server endpoints for every HTMX fragment, unless you are 1000% sure that endpoint will be used in multiple different pages.

Working on a "simple html page" that is actually 5 different independent "subpages" (routes, views, templates) in the backend is awful. The UX was improved, but the DX was sacrificed.

I recommend having a single view function for each page/SPA and do sub-routing within that function to handle page fragments. In other words, use a GET/path/Header parameter that indicates which fragment is currently needed, defaulting to the full document as normal. Just make sure you are considering request logging and client-side caching in your solution.

This makes it very easy to add/remove async content from the page, since you are just editing the one view function/template and you can easily reason about the entire page as one logical unit.

It also means you don't need to duplicate security logic or other middlewares for the page, since it can be implemented once at the start of your multi-faceted view function.

Sure, but "chai tea" is still redundant. I have never used that term and ordered chai in many places without confusion.

China isn't looking at it just for bragging rights, but as a step towards the first moon base. Some see it as a race for the frontier and territorial claims.

I don't see logs mentioned. I agree with most those applications but would keep my OLAP stuff (metrics, logs, traces) in a separate store like VictoriaMetrics, both for capacity and read activity.

Yeah, it's like blaming drug users primarily for the violence of the drug trade. Sorry, but the drugs came first.

Agreed. If we're gonna blame shift PE to pension and university funds, we may as well follow the thread all the way to the glorification of Greed.

TOTP should be totally fine and can be used with very dumb hardware/software.

Western education and popular culture reinforces a strong sense of ideological exceptionalism, so I frankly don't see the problem with having it spelled out now and then. The "we" that "gets it" is smaller than you think, as least as far as USA is concerned.

It's also worth highlighting that C is perhaps the most officially standardized programming language in history.

What a contradiction. Strong evidence that standard-driven programming language development is much worse than implementation-driven development. Standards should be used for data types and external interfaces/protocols, not programming languages.

International law, much less "international sympathy", is a meaningless phrase in 2026.

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In objective terms, these tactical tornadoes are among the most valuable headcount at a big company to the extent that they can rapidly patch production issues and restore service, by any means possible.

The problem is allowing this kind of frantic tactical development even in "peace time".

You totally can, I got Linux+VSCode+Docker running on my new Chromebook in less than 15 minutes, without doing any funny stuff.

But for optimal DX it can still be preferable to VSCode tunnel into your big powerful dev box that has everything configured just right.

The article gives zero examples of someone even attempting to transpile something from Python.

Numpy is two decades old. The lesson of "don't write everything in Python" is old news and LLMs just add a little momentum to that.

Glue languages will always exist and Python is the best at it.

This is a common misconception. A big flagship state university typically only gets 10-20% of its funds from direct government subsidies/appropriations meant to support education.

The rest comes from tuition and other income.

Even "federal" student loans have largely been privatized.

I wonder if this "AnCap" professor has any criticism for the fact that their pedagogical infrastructure has been freely outsourced to a big private corporation that has "earned" massive market share in a free market, which is why they are in this crisis to begin with.

Or the fact that administrative centralization in campuses has been driven largely by the increasing financialization of higher education, which has all sorts of second-order effects like increased sensitivity to lawsuits and so on.

Surely the various contracts are pricing in the salary for the FDE, as a feature. "Not only are we giving you terrible software that is impossible for outsiders to learn and operate, but we are also installing a double-agent in your organization who will ensure you don't migrate elsewhere. Pay up unless you want to lose out on the AIs."

On the contrary, in an efficient economy, every business operations manager (MBA) would be a skilled software engineer, able to comfortably manage data flows and design custom automated processes. There's so much potential energy there in unlocking this technical literacy.

Less "pure" programming, but lots more programming in general.

It's more than that, before recently the very idea of "digital sovereignty" was framed as a dangerous Russian conspiracy by the West's top info warriors.

Example: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/july/information-sovereignty

The Nice & Respectable Fox News crowd, that exiled Carlson, were just worshipping a "golden calf" idol of Donald Trump yesterday.

The underlying problem here is that you don't know what "ideologue" means.

You should try using better description adjectives, like "rude", "racist", "uppity" instead of spreading misinformation.

You are being deliberately obtuse. Unbearably rude and "extreme ideologue" are completely different things.

There are many Nice & Respectable people who are extreme ideologues. Words have meaning.

The article doesn't even include the words "ideologue" or "extreme" or make a similar claim.

Very weird and defensive response.

> I'd just like to remind everyone that this guy got fired from Fox News for being too extreme an idealogue.

Do you have any evidence that this was the reason?

The only place I've heard that name come up recently is the very real and close association to Jeffrey Epstein