They were very effective against international oil companies back then.

I don't actually know how useful Greenpeace is, they used to be important in the 00s, I've been mostly hearing about EU institutions recently.

International climate agreements are usually all 3, importantly because the most common way to skirt national regulations is to move to a neighboring country and you can''t do that if every country in the region follows the same laws and organizations like Greenpeace to coordinate investigations across border lines.

No nation state ever has to do something because of laws or whatever, even the poorest states are too powerful for that. The only reason they ever pay penalties is because there is some benefit from it, in a combination of good PR, upholding agreements other clauses of which are beneficial to them, and coercion from other nation states.

and that's why I never liked natural as a paoaitive adjective.

(what an unexpectedly good metaphor for my real sex life)

@Demolishun yeah but after 4 months of foreplay

You can configure ESLint in more detail than any other formatter for any language, or indeed any other devtool that I know. I'm really disappointed that they want to move away from stylistic rules because their approach is fundamentally different from Prettier's and in JS of all ecosystems there could be a niche for both.

and of course fortune.

@retoor Astro does it all out of the box, and everything is prerendered. The only JavaScript on the page is what I specifically mark to run client-side such as scroll restoration (because the browser only does that if your whole site is scrollable. Yuck!) and relative dates.

I really don't think that's true at all though, I'm friends with all kinds of idiots. It's much more likely that ingenuity has instrumental value, for example, in service of challenging me or offering a fresh perspective on shared knowledge both of which I tend to appreciate.

it is possible that ingenuity is a component in my value system, but I concluded that it can't be the only one.

Well, since you can't prove a value system by definition, I'd say that the best approach to building one is regression.

theory: ingenuity is what makes me value people
implication: people with dementia aren't valuable
contradiction; I value people with dementia, therefore the theory is false.

You can map a remote object to cached rw local objects if you can guarantee exclusive write access. Otherwise writes should be commands that are asynchronous, fallible, and failure or success is determined before the local object - which may be shared - is updated with their speculative outcome.

The biggest issue with ORMs is that they work well until you add the first bulk update or arbitrary SQL query, which usually happens too far into development to remove every reference to the - now permanently unreliable - caching layer.

And while you're writing a heuristic like that, the reasonable policy is to not support overly niche platforms, but of the ones you support, prefer the niche ones, because people who actually use them are more likely to prefer them. But I have Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, Viber, Snapchat, RCS and Discord associated with this phone number. How do you end up with Viber as the most niche platform in this set that you support?

It's like, the service distribution model has been successfully normalized to a point where we celebrate generously being offered an executable and not a very affordable endpoint. It's so far from open-source that they advertise having used petabytes of sources and not only are the sources themselves not open (available to the public to read as in open-source research), they're not even listed anywhere.

I have all the weights for Microsoft Word so I can run it on my own machine provided that I interface with this opaque blob of binary in a way it expects. Long live open source!

@UberSalt I mean it's still a black box trained to the taste of a dictatorship so I would definitely be careful with it. I call this level of access open-weights, because it sure as all fuck isn't open-source.

I was hired specifically to fix everything with 10 other people last April, then in September the client's parent company decided that actually we're too expensive to waste our time refactoring so now they reallocated us into various product groups.

I mean it's a model. A bigass tensor. Sure it can unravel the fabric of society and bring peril to western civilization, but it can't really phone home in a way that isn't easily detectable from the outside, and neither can it fake its performance.

@jestdotty Visual Studio is very, very far from done. Visual Studio's caching is very far from done. It would be easy to justify a continuation of the project, for example they could invent a "first of its kind" reactive caching solution that integrates deeply with Windows supervision tools to automatically re-run arbitrary dev tools including shitty glue scripts, file copy operations, and third party stacks such as React when the files they read had changed.

how do I turn this off? It looks like it could improve my situation too.

VS has always been rife with cache invalidation bugs, the last thing it needed was one more poorly implemented caching layer.

@BordedDev Oh neat, @property got implemented everywhere, I didn't know that. One step closer to a a viable language. I guess I am being a bit overly cynical, progress is being made.

Clarification, a decent abstraction mechanism should be both self-referential and parametric, think functions. With CSS variables that you can set in the element styles, CSS classes are parametric although in the most painful way imaginable, but they're still not self-referential. Both Tailwind and Sass offer self-referential abstractions, but Tailwind strictly separates self-referential and parametric classes, and Sass' macros inflate bundle sizes. A usable abstraction could be implemented on top of any Turing-complete control flow, but instead of TC we have selector priorities which hide important decisions behind the most bizarre dispatch heuristic I've ever seen.

Hungary is pretty strict against drugs and weed, it's just that the police is so corrupt and the country as a whole is so poor compared to W.Europe that with a bit of cash you can do basically anything.

@retoor I'd heard of it before

@BordedDev That being said, Scss combined with CSS modules seems to me thus far to be a much better language than Tailwind classes.

@BordedDev CSS is a transmission standard limited by both infinite backwards compatibility and the support of every major browser vendor. It has no namespacing, and its sole abstraction - the class - isn't even self-referential. More recent additions like layers and typed variables come close to substituting a legitimate abstraction mechanism, but I still wouldn't restrict myself to typing the actual network bytes when there are developer friendly tools that compile to it.