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by davidw 2y ago
I only know what I see. Obviously the editorial page is not in favor of Trump. The organization as a whole... IDK, I have a suspicion that they kind of view the chaos as good for business and exciting, rather than 'boring and dull&#x27
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by davidw 2y ago
And the press did a lot to shape that perception despite both showing signs of decline. That's the point. The coverage was skewed.
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by davidw 2y ago
And once the race was no longer between two old guys, age ceased to matter much to a number of news outfits. If you look at old Trump interviews, from say 20 years ago, he has absolutely degraded, and not by a small amount.
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by davidw 2y ago
But once he was out of the race and there was only one old guy, age ceased to become an issue. That's what makes what they're doing kind of insidious. They're not making things up - Biden is indeed old. It's how they wei
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by davidw 2y ago
I found this story pretty enlightening https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-in-in... It's certainly not that they come up with outright lies. They have a ton of good people who work there. But there&#
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by davidw 2y ago
It went pretty well! https://bsky.app/profile/tinakotek.bsky.social/post/3lkea36k... - that's me on the left.
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by davidw 2y ago
Also here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-ta...
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by davidw 2y ago
Just because it's not uncommon doesn't mean it is not wrong, though! And it's still easier to see in C code than something with a bunch of angly parenthesis.
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by davidw 2y ago
That's not the point though. If you need the syntax highlighting to quickly make out the structure, perhaps the visual layout is not as good as it could be.
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Having 4 spaces as indentation helps people tease out where the branches even are in languages like C or Python or whatever, rather than the 1 or 2 that you see with a lot of Lisp. And those angled parents make lining things up vertically a
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by davidw 2y ago
This is interesting. Something I long wondered about Lisp code, was how having glyphs that are angled (parenthesis) without much indentation in many cases might be difficult to read just because of the visual aspects of it. (((
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by davidw 2y ago
Without syntax highlighting, "book.author for book in books if book.page_count > 1000" requires a lot more effort to parse because white space like newlines is not being used to separate things out.
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by davidw 2y ago
You can make the case for that, but a disorderly transition to that kind of system will ensure that some people starve to death before the new system is in place. I don't have any of the purported 'savings' in my pocket right
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by davidw 2y ago
> We're sending food and aid We (US) were, now we are cutting back. People will starve because of this.
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by davidw 2y ago
These people are breaking things that cannot be fixed quite so easily. Things like the trust of other nations. Scientific research. There are a lot of things that will take a generation or more to repair, if ever.
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by davidw 2y ago
I've been happy on BlueSky so far. It seems to be picking up a good variety of people, including journalists, and some interests of mine like cycling.
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by davidw 2y ago
Math wise, yes, you're correct, but layoffs can also hurt morale, especially if not done well. And in a competitive environment, the most talented people might be next to leave after a layoff, as they see things aren't going wel
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by davidw 2y ago
I lived through the 1980ies, and I still have trouble processing the idea that the anti-Soviet, rah-rah patriot types that loved movies like Red Dawn are now in bed with the Russians. It's just bizarre.
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by davidw 2y ago
> under the boot To me it looked like Bezos put the boot there himself, he seemed pretty enthusiastic about it.
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Makes sense. Hope you landed somewhere where you are happy and doing well. I guess my point is that most people aren't in imminent physical danger in Hungary right now and could just leave and that'd be fine for them and the regim
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by davidw 2y ago
> I can have my family out of the country in 72 hours. I was thinking out loud about this on a reddit thread, kind of going through my idea of different scenarios. "Maslow's hierarchy of GTFO". As in... if you're in 1
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by davidw 2y ago
How would you actually go about doing that? Like if the US economy implodes because enough of this malarkey breaks it, what/where is safe? In terms of your personal wealth/residence, I mean. The only thing I can kind of think of i
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by davidw 2y ago
That's pretty cool! I could definitely see that being quite useful for real estate in more northerly locales. Caltopo has a similar feature including an 'average' for, say, the month of January, which gives more of a sense of
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Some gears meshing together and rotating that 'make' the page go up and down?
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by davidw 2y ago
I had exactly that same reaction. Someone just doing something fun and cool for the heck of it.
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by davidw 2y ago
I could use some optimistic takes on the future. I read the news if I want dystopian. In everyday life, I do some local work to try and make housing more abundant and less impactful, but it's a small piece of the puzzle.
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by davidw 2y ago
> Any large organization of humans Yes, well said. Also, when you are serious about trying to make it more efficient, you need to understand how things work and why and what incentives are in place and how that relates to what the stated
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by davidw 2y ago
> I'm a housing activist Having seen you here ... well, forever basically, that's kind of awesome to see you describe yourself that way. High fives! Myself, I'm off to Salem, Oregon on Monday to testify in favor of Governo
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by davidw 2y ago
Coming from Erlang, I think macros are one of the things I'm ambivalent about in Elixir. There are a bunch of actual improvements besides just the syntax itself in Elixir, like string handling, but things like macros in Ecto ... not ye
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by davidw 2y ago
There is a huge amount of relentless work from 'dang' and others moderating the site. That's a big reason you don't see that stuff.

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