> Even the most ardent NPM critic will be the first to admit that the general idea is per se great, and it is in practice it is useful, It's to be blackpilled

> Even the most ardent NPM critic will be the first to admit that the general idea is per se great, and it is in practice it is useful, It's to be blackpilled about humanity. They're a natural, useful, obvious thing to do, like solving world hunger. And then everyone gets obese, and, somehow, it feels like we're worse off. It's tragic. Because of the leftpad incident, I now read Nick Land. > but the execution is lacking in some aspects, often exclusively cultural. Is that a thing I can do? Can I just pull the "cultural" emergency lever to justify anything? It's fine if everyone owns 3 firearms; the reason shootings are up is a cultural issue! > Nobody is trying to throw away the baby with the bathwater. Reject modernity; embrace tradition. c:< Can you think of any way to prevent the slouch toward mediocrity and supply injection attacks that come along for the "software registry" ride? I can't. It's like trying to reverse a thermodynamic reaction. It's trying to uninvent gunpowder. It's trying to have networking with 100% uptime. It's trying to have a free lunch.