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Right. Paul was the one who wrote about how gentiles were grafted into the family with the Jews. The Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the messiah, and I don’t even think they consider Him a prophet either. So they probably don’t have an opinion on it, not to mention they don’t follow the New Testament

Generally the fig tree in the Bible represents Israel. Jesus cursing the fig tree falls in line with Israel’s long history of apostasy.

What it probably was is a representation of one of Jesus’ goals for his time here. The Israelites were being their usual disobedient selves as they always have been. Instead, the job of spreading the gospel has been relegated to the gentiles, since the Israelites were not producing fruit…ie spreading the gospel, following the law, etc.

At the present time, AD, we are in the age of the church…where the gentiles are the ones working. Israel won’t be back to being the focus until sometime in the future. Thus that situation could be an allegory for what was going to happen.

Sure, there are people who have achieved mastery in their field and are very knowledgeable and experienced within their area of focus. My personal opinion is that fewer and fewer people are actually at that level. Even less likely that those people are in a position of influence. The decline of education quality, the instant gratification era brought on by the internet, nonstop sensationalism, politics and social issues being forced into every aspect of our lives. I lean towards experts being the unknown and unheard people, while the people who have a voice and power to influence something just played politics right, knew the right people, and kissed the right butts.

I remember growing up looking at adults, parents, professional computer science people, politicians, etc. as people who were way more knowledgeable and experienced than I. Once I became an adult and worked jobs, I realized that everyone is really not that smart and are mostly just winging it.

For Broadcom/LSI raid controllers, we were told 52 week lead time. Broadcom is definitely having issues

Reminds me of the song from Ishtar https://youtu.be/g-mQcPsPAjc

Nothing will be enough to make people comfortable again. A year of shut down economy and non-stop 24/7 fear porn in MSM have traumatized people for at least a decade

It's pretty obvious tbh

I use https://www.raindrop.io

I think the author misses the mark about what the problem is with developer experience, although they get the analogy of a "rainforest" correct.

Developers are in a run-away-train kind of situation, where they think that more libraries, more frameworks, more tools, more languages, more abstractions, etc. is the key to a better developer experience. In reality, this is the exact thing that is making development and developers miserable. The whole `is_even` fiasco [0] should have been a wake up call.

The plain fact of software development is that there is going to be complexity, and there is going to be some point where adding features or fixing things is going to become a slog. The choice where do you want that to happen? With the never-ending reliance on libraries, frameworks, tools, etc. the difficulties has been shifted towards the latter half of development, "we'll worry about that later". Sure, the share holders and the angel investors are stoked when a team can get an app running in a few months. But guess what, down the road when it comes time to add more features, make it fast, to flesh out the app into its full potential...it will end up in a nightmare of trying to wrestle the code and the barely comprehensible infrastructure to get it to do what they want. Good luck trying to figure out what is making the app slow in that rainforest.

The best thing I ever did for my mental health when working on hobby projects was to keep it simple stupid. In the case of C++ and games, I do everything in my own code maybe using Sean Barret's header files or GLFW for Window and input. Use a .bat file to build the code, rather than some overly complicated build tool so that it can build in 2 seconds rather than 5 minutes giving me very fast iteration speed. The Vulkan rendering code, the math, system level stuff like memory and file IO is all my own. For web stuff, I wrote a production web app for an internal team in a single PHP file with only a templating library. Going this route has undoubtedly doubled my productivity. Static site generator? I'd rather write one in Python than try to figure out some complex dependency ridden mess of an open source tool that never does what I want it to do.

The pain of developer experience is self inflicted. In an effort to reduce friction in development, a system of increasingly worse friction has been introduced. Programmers need to stop being afraid of writing code, and, dare I say stop being lazy. Developers could be just as productive, if not more productive, if they would just write the code.

[0] https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...

Carbohydrates cause obesity. Wasn't until the change in the food pyramid for more bread/pasta/rice/etc. that obesity started being a problem.

We need less echo-chambers, not more

It's been preached as the savior of the pandemic since they were announced. Then they said if you're vaxed you can go back to work and be around other vaxed people without a mask. Now people are still "getting sick" even with the vax, so basically it did nothing and was pointless. It's nothing more than a constant moving of goal posts designed to eradicate all liberties here on forth.

I mean the outcome was easily predicted when everyone was focused on number of cases rather than hospitalizations or deaths. If we only focus on "cases" (which is a questionable number), then yes we'll be in a perpetual state of lockdowns and restrictions until people get fed up

The reason why US cars are so big are because of recent (within the last decade) safety standards. Cars could be much smaller and more efficient, but because of safety standards...they're massive now.

Obamacare drastically raised insurance costs

Would people actually hang out there?

Yea, there's posts on Reddit about how some series cards have faulty power delivery. The failure is because the card doesn't properly regulate power under certain conditions, which the New World menu happened to create

California is failing because of every leader that has run the place since Reagan. Every terrible policy imaginable has been implemented and decimated the place. As someone who lives in California, the only way to move forward in life is to leave...and it's like that for everyone I talk to here. Nobody can afford to live here when houses that cost $1million here only costs $350k in other states.

Try to do it without an engine

> When compared to New York and California, people in Florida demonstrated a substantially lower level of depression.

Surprising to nobody

Jon has talked about this on his "Jai" streams. They need some sort of income to fund development of the compiler (hiring more programmers to work on it), but the number of people willing to pay for a compiler is probably not enough to hire programmers

The way to reduce friction is to reduce the number of tools and frameworks.

If Windows Terminal uses DirectX, then using it for the web will be fine

> retroactive "adjustment" of historical weather records

Then maybe it's not a conspiracy theory?

Stuff Hitler only dreamed of

Well, that's the other side of it. If a company is paying you for 40hrs a week, they want to make sure they're getting their moneys worth.

Of course you can argue about how employees, despite being "in the office" are only productive for 2 or maybe 3 hours of their 8 hour shifts. But that's now how management sees it. Having a person visibly in a chair makes management feel like they are getting their money's worth.

I also don't get how people expect to get paid a full living salary for working less.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107820

I hate it

I've had 0 malware in probably 10 years. 60% of 0 is still 0