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What is anyone going to do about it? MAGA house reps have already fulminated impeachment proceedings for a judge who tried to rein in a lawless Trump admin. The US Marshalls are part of the DOJ that Trump has already pwned, so forget about any consequences for the executive branch completely ignoring the judicial branch selectively. With MAGA congressional majorities, we have literally no possibility of checking an overreaching Trump administration. All mechanisms have been subverted already. There will doubtless not be any midterms, and meanwhile HN doesn't want to be political, yet standing up for our republic is now a partisan effort, and it's being cast as disloyalty to a supreme leader, who apparently now embodies the law and government. Research scientists are denied US entry for having Trump-critical conversations on their phone.

The frog is boiling. Dang will say to pipe down and stop screaming, while the frog cries out for its life, because some foolish boss types still persist in the delusion our house speaker persists in: thst they can ride this bucking bronco to work. They cannot. The bronco owns them. Lights out and noting this is considered partisan. What is more radical than harassing our friends and allies and uniting the world against us? But if you let out a peep, it's political. We are supposed to enjoy bowing and scraping to obey our overlords, and insufficient display of joy at being suffocated is now partisan.

It didn't need to be this way. TRUMP has already dismantled much of our republic and yet the articles posted here do not reflect this.

What part of "we are becoming the new nazi state entity" does ycombinator not understand?

Consider that your shrill absolute dismissal, "anyone! Not take seriously!" as if Ansible has been proven wrongful in a court of law, as if your statements are law and binding, get over yourself, for everyones sake. Down voting me into oblivion over a well deserved opinion is rather aggressive and this makes this community unpleasant. I am not clueless and don't like beinf treated as if I am.

The world is not idempotent either. Neither are any facebook production rollouts lol

Way to lose the forest for the trees.

I was making a point about provisioning VPSes instead of trying to wrangle postgresql restores inside kubectl or equivalent, of how your cloud provider is already provisioning a single physical server via a hypervisor.

I was making a point that facecrook overengineering is about them being boxed into corners, about how very little of big techs solutions translate to real world usage in the web industry i am very much taken seriously in for over 30 years.

You read 'ansible recommended', which I could also argue with you about, but I shan't.

At least half their gak is due to them NOT moving quickly and NOT wanting to break things.

IIRC, graphql is a means of papering over a bunch of legacy APIs. They removed foreign keys from mysql using it as a column store db, a vestige of the original LAMP stack still on PHP.

I don't think Meta infrastructural choices are applicable to most folk.

What does serverless land your average dev? A high AWS bill. Elastic managed Kubernetes stack? A higher bill.

Did you know that you can use YAML and provision actual cloud provider resources with boring tech? Welcome to Ansible. There is no need to recreate Linux network stack when you have the Linux network stack, and it actually works!

Quite a lot of hacky gak is required when you run node.js as a production public facing web service. A statically compiled binary won't invent novel code execution paths 4 days into a memory leaking runtime bender.

Boring tech is boring, I guess, even if it's new and shiny. Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present.

Tech titans have too much arbitrary power.

Balanced differential inputs and outputs reject common mode noise, which is why they are essential for long cable runs and microphone leads, among other things that benefit from such an interface.

The actual ADC and DAC chips, or codecs, are usually specced just fine in even consumer on-board audio devices.

Hifi audiophiles are notoriously superstitious, and as long as RCA coax is the connection standard, my eyes continue to roll about their DAC nonsense, but you should pay attention to professional audio as this is where you can hear audible differences. Preamplifier stages and voltage amplification in general have a lot of nuance and analog circuit know-how inside. Removing the codecs from the inside of an electrically noisy computer is the beginning of starting to care about audio signal quality. Power filtration is another major concern for noise. Latency is a factor of buffer size which is both necessarily low when overdubbing recording while monitoring, and yet paradoxically allows for smoother glitch free audio as the buffer size is increased, largely a function that is CPU bound. No one talks about DMA controllers or the data bus employed, often USB, another factor that can affect audio independent of which audio interface or soundcard is employed. Some play nicely, some don't.

My advice is to delve into the world of professional audio, as this is real. Hi-fi often entails gullibility and snake oil in the sales chain.

Uninformed or misinformed people can make choices against their own interests, such is MAGA.

Facts and physical primary reality matter more than ones opinion, but we paint the sun on the sky and order the tides to recede to please the king anyway.

An informed populace can make informed decisions.

Lying fake news not so much... Aka $50million for condoms in Gaza is a lie.

Alternative facts will bite us all when the pedal hits the metal.

Seeing the obvious blatant grift spanning the crypto-currency and now LLM booms pales beside the general low hanging fruit noneffort that both the Slacks and Social Medias represent. These ain't no moonshots and the kids can smell it. The lack of moral fiber and general depth of character is plain for all to see.

Meta is a joke for old people (facebook) and or your older sister/brother(instaglam). Xitter seems to have obviated the market for Truth or Parlez or The Daily Stormer or something, thereby only being relevant for overtly far right youth. This leaves us TikTok which them causes them to question the motives of political efforts to ban it.

What are the kids supposed to take away from this contemporary debacle?

The LLM-craze will pass. It's not remotely interesting to me either. I am more interested in human centric automation. Techne is the Greek word for hand. Technology is literally an extension of our hands. Dystopian Silicone Valley schlock appears to me as a symbol of decadence and the waning power of an empire in the throes of giving Caesar absolute power. Look at these clownish CEOS, like Musk, Altman...

Is there software to build? Yes. Do LLMs replace software engineers? No. Will they ever? No. They are pattern extraction machines, nothing more.

You don't have the data nor the right to claim WHY 1% marginally preferred candidate x to candidate y.

Fox brainwashed viewers hate DEI. 1% (vote margin of win, roughly) electing a person to an office does NOT equal a popular mandate for any particular policy and its silly to claim that the voters hate what you apparently hate.

Ignorance us bliss, until physical reality sets in.

Aka you probably should he worried about exceedingly damaging deranged behavior on the part of an individual who is bent upon expanding the powers of the already most powerful office in the land.

It will cause lasting damage.

Trump has already managed to unify all of latin America against him. Bullying will have consequences, and creating enemies out of friends is a very foolish path.

If cost savings were the true concern, there are many less harmful ways to effect them, so don't give me a story of necessity. The belligerence and cruelty is intended.

I fell in love with Svelte at v3.

The Svelte 5 rollout feels like a frogmarch. The v3 docs and repls and tutorials are gone, not api versioned. The new docs are bad, IMO, conpared to the clear documentation 3 and 4 had for years, with constant blurring with SvelteKit, which is a server framework, no thanks. The new docs font appears designed to make one cease reading. The new syntax is ugly and verbose and vague, IMO, but admittedly i am having difficulty with the documentation, which may be the real issue. If there were a translation guide from how one does things in Svelte 3 to Svelte 5 it might feel less like learning a new framework. Well, nothing lasts forever.

No. However, Rails addresses many items on The List. Hence, it's worth using it as a checklist. In reality, things like cache-busting codes are pretty straightforward to write in <language of your choice> and choices about how to represent database entities and validate incoming data require contextual and experiential validation, one size (ActiveRecord) truly doesn't fit all.

One is well served to learn Rails for many reasons, but i would not start a green field 2025 project with any framework.

I have been burned by rapid development frameworks in the past, not Rails, but anyway, by now I've been rolling my own stacks for awhile, and it was mainly a question of language ecosystems.

Have a gander at Crystal Lang, BTW, and Amber and Lucky frameworks

How do they still have money? Their primo offerings can be readily substituted with FOSS since decades, and at this point the libreoffice experience is better.

Defending your home and family from a foreign invading army is not usually as difficult to convince people to fight for.

Convincing a teenager to give their life to invade someone elses country for egotistical leaders is a harder sell.

Uh no, you can watch the video for yourself. Mush clearly made 2 back to back nazi salutes: Forcefully and unambiguously

This Paul Graham fella seems to be a trumpet of bad ideas. His hype-takes on tech influence laypeoples notions of the world. His failure to clarify how tech functions is misleading.

Techne is the Greek word for hand. Xitter is a megaphone owned by and fully utilized by a misanthropic bully. In no way shape or form is it a voice of the people. It is weighted multicast media with owners and nobility and a feed and an algorithm for prioritizing the owner and the nobility in the feed.

A protocol? Ha! We knew it wasn't a protocol or layer for anything before the so-called Arab Spring.

How many bad ideas has Paul Graham defended?

Despite the continuing proliferation of crypto-currency pyramid schemes, and their continuing ability to fool investors, they are a net negative for a planet in the throes of a climate meltdown.

Despite the reverent tones of baffled journalists speaking of LLMs as AI, despite the tech CEOs claiming that developers will be replaced tomorrow, anyone who knows anything about LLMs rolls their eyes, amd yet Paul will reliably write apologies for yet another destructive wave of investments in lousy scamware companies.

The king of bad ideas, chewed into bite size pieces for the masses.

What do i know, I'm obviously very unhip in this sort of fabricated false world.

There's a guy in my youtube feed that literally focuses on specifically this aspect of speech.

I see a lot of emphasis on the tone and pacing, the music of your speech.

https://youtube.com/@askvinh

I can't vouch for anything he says but he seems to be recapping essentially common sense points, so i wouldn't reckon he's totally off.

Perhaps because many of such systems are privately owned and managed systems run by faceless corporate overlords who are ok paying some low wage for a human to work with such outdated systems, and less ok paying for some other humans to build a new system?

New systems and rewrites also require you to reconsider bloat and how workflows should function, when upper management just wants you to recreate things the exact same way, obviating any potential benefits achieved...

Governmental systems will be subject to complex regulations and specifications etc Very difficult to address

Till they change, see Svelte 3,4,5

Remember Meteor?!

Yeah, Svelte5 said "away with these pesky svelte users, lets market to React devs and make everyone realize that Vue3 has a bigger ecosystem, since you are gonna have to do a rewrite anyway "

Basically the opposite of this principled stance here on this htmx missive

Frontend framework churn costs money and lives

Full stack polyglot dev here, the relentless pressure to use Sveltekit that has utterly destroyed plain Svelte docs, IMO, coupled with the koolaid kult around v5 is why i finally ditched svelte.

I have backend solutions and existing databases and existing backends. I would never consider a Js backend in a production app to begin with, despite the benefits an isomorphic approach offers. I dislike when physical actual boundaries in code execution contexts are obfuscated, for one...

But not everyone is building SPAs, and my dev server is my actual backend, thanks

Amazing how this comment section turned into a discussion about phones and or the mona lisa.

The article itself left undigested gristle stuck in my teeth and bear fat stuck to the roof of my mouth.

It reeked of excusing the cocktail of mentalities steering us towards civilizational collapse, IMO.

It verily encouraged not caring about any values beyond beer and football, and proposed that this was a healthy diet.

No? Lets see some quotes and rebuttals, but this phone purchase decision is boring

Or the place you went to buy a ladle... aka the poster above suggested the Korean store, but typical bozo is in Walmart already.

I have a prefab solution: avoid shopping at Walmart and their ilk, get familiar with a wider range of stores. "Oh I'm about to go to the big city for the first time in 6 months, time to stock up on puerh tea, because i can't get it locally..."

Amazing. Someone actually wrote the apology for enshittification and the race to the bottom.

I don't feel like catering to such base instincts and boring excuses for a waste of a lifetime.

Being popular and mainstream is not a goal of mine.

A Leggjob!

Its probably 'blocked' misspelled, given the context.

Not everyone speaks English as a first language

How do you know what the contextual configuration of their robots.txt is/was?

Your accusation was directly addressed by the author in a comment on the original post, IIRC

i find your attitude as expressed here to be problematic in many ways