Timothy Snyder's definition of "fascism" is laughable.
Any time the op-ed class uses that word they should be forced to define it.
simontherockjohnson
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lol. This is my story as well, except I wrecked my XP MBR and the CD was in Dr. Dobbs that my dad had a sub thru his work from. I was too impatient to wait for him to bring home an XP install CD.
2002, I was 11. My dad had bunch of Linux install CDs that came with Dr. Dobbs. I fucked up my XP MBR and asked him to bring home a XP install disk cause i lost all mine.
By the time he got home I had installed Mandrake Dolphin Linux on my PC.
disappointed that ctrl + f "i simply asked" yielded no results
I think one of the things that is going to rewrite Obama's history among liberals is they truly believed that Obama was the apotheosis. They were finally done, they found the point of maximal compromise in the modern age, electing the first Black Moderate Republican President, and for their trouble they were gonna reap only rewards from here on in.
This is one of those fuzzy "the hypotheticals always go my way" type things.
It's how Democrats are always "Akshually just because Gallup says that 2/3rds of the country wants something doesn't mean they'll go out and vote for it if we pitch a 25 year on ramp for federal marijuana legalization."
Beyond the direct contributions such as the pied piper stuff it's important to understand the actual political landscape.
The reality is that Democrats do not provide an alternative. Democrats have consistently been behind the biggest pushes to "depoliticize" (in reality de-democratize) issues and shroud them in technocracy. Obama is directly responsible for so much of this such as:
- mechanizing imperialism via drone warfare
- mechanizing deportations
- creating the new era surveillance capitalism where the dynamic between entities such as Google and the government isn't based in annoying money losing legalistic demands, but a customer / vendor relationship
On these alone the power of the President has been expanded greatly to cater to right wing political governance. These are really "core" tactics and functions that present the fact that there is no alternative.
We had 4 years of Biden as the 'alternative' and what happened?:
- They adopted Trumps immigration policy
- They bragged about how well they deported people
- They backed a genocide
- CHIPS / sanctions based economic warfare (compared to tariff based)
- Promised cash that they then didn't give out
Democrats aren't even "anti-corruption", they couldn't get STOCK Act with teeth, and their biggest stars are all guilty of insider trading. The country is too stupid to understand it, but they're not even trying anymore such as when Hochul said "I talked to some guy at a diner and that's why we must stop congestion pricing". She literally did the "Everyone at the Barbershop is talking about Warren" as an excuse for rich people whispering in her ear.
Democrats put a friendly capable face on the same kinds of policies that Trump champions. We've also seen that most of the centrist technocrats are more than willing to throw the vulnerable constituencies under the bus and claim that they have the right to adjudicate their lives and views:
- Biden's comments about how you must vote for him otherwise you're not black
- Newsom's explicit backpedaling on LGBT+ rights
- The Party's reported backpedaling on LGBT+ rights
- Schumer's comments about his job being to keep "the left" pro-Israel.
One of the most interesting things is DEI itself. Instead of actually pushing for a welfare state, or any kind of material benefits. They created this corpo cultural affect that resulted in makework jobs for the richest BIPOC and GSM people, while ignoring the rest of them because it's "too hard". They created this gigantic target that the right wing can point to and say "look at what they're getting". Ultimately this type ratchet effect is always based on Democrats pretending that politics isn't a resource allocation system and that under capitalism it devolves into a winner talk all strategy that snowballs. Why? Well only because it's an aesthetic foil to the Republicans correct interpretation of the political economy and their political strategy.
It's a new stanza but a the same rhyme scheme for a lot of the big problem issues, homelessness, free trade, jobs, drug decriminalization, prison/judicial system reform, election reform, etc.
you are restricted to a set of statements that can be expressed using a particular type system
What I'm saying is that most good static typing systems do not practically have such limitations, you'd be very hard pressed to find them and they'd be fairly illogical. Most static typing systems that are used in enterprise do have limitations because they are garbage.
So in such shitty type systems you often have code that’s written for the benefit of the type checker rather than a human reading it. In good type systems any code that's written for the benefit of the type checker is often an antipattern.
For example, Lemmy devs prefer this trade off and it has nothing to do with enterprise workflows.
Rust has HKT support through GATs and typeclass support thru traits. Rust has minimal code you write for the benefit of the type checker.
Typescript technically has HKT support but it's a coincidence and the Typescript team doesn't care about it, since the beginning Typescript was made to be Enterprise Javascript by Microsoft. Though systems like fp-ts exist they're hard to get rolling in enterprise.
Typescript does have problems with code that’s written for the benefit of the type checker rather than a human reading it in a large part due to inefficiencies of the compiler itself. In a small part due to some corner cases that still exist because even though it's type system while more advanced than others in it's enterprise grade class, it's still written in that style for that purpose so the inconsistencies it makes to support the janky workflow (plus some EMCA stuff e.g. Promise is not functionally typeable since the spec breaks set theory for convenience reasons) leads to that problem.
However in Typescript these are avoidable problems and you are able to write code without dealing with the type checker's bullshit a good amount of the time if you follow the correct patterns -- certainly better than any other "enterprise grade" static typing system.
Static typing itself is a trade off as well. It introduces mental overhead because you are restricted to a set of statements that can be expressed using a particular type system, and this can lead to code that’s written for the benefit of the type checker rather than a human reading it. Everything is a trade off in practice.
You mean code that's written to the benefit of a low efficiency enterprise workflow, which is my love hate relationship with Typescript. Best out choice out of a pile of shit.
Why not just run a hypervisor and use containers?
Laptops specifically have been such an Achilles heel for Linux due to driver issues and battery issues. I honestly would just rather stick with OSX and containerize. The thing that might test that is X86 support lapsing at least for some of my MBPs.