This is written by Ray Dalio, the conservative billionaire.

The “extremist left” he is worried about is Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax on billionaires.

eye roll

Wow that’s good news, I’ll have to give it a shot

Am I going to have a bad time trying to switch to Wayland? I just use discord, Spotify, steam, some basic steam games, Krita, and emacs

Hey now there’s nothing weird about being completely unable to focus under fluorescent lights.

aspnet core is the library you want

Simple and just works

F# is so dope too

I have a lot of experience as a software engineer in the industry, and used to teach public middle school. I would love to teach a course or two a year because education is a passion of mine, but only have a BA of Education, do you think it’s worth applying to teach at my local community college? I saw my local college had a requirement of a master’s degree in CS, which I do not have.

Oh man I work with one of the PhDs who invented several of the space weather formulas. He’s got books about it. I want to show him this so bad, but I don’t think he would find it funny 😭

Maybe he’d laugh at the evil wizards part.

Oh man this good me laughing way too hard, well done

CrossFit, running club, November project, hiking club, board game clubs, DND clubs, Meetup.com events. Coed sports leagues like: disc golf, infinite Frisbee, soccer.

There’s also things like live figure drawing, music jam clubs, acting in local plays.

This is why I love more abstract systems like Fate Core or Cortex Prime. They’ve got systems flexible enough to be turned into really anything you want. I ran a Fate Core game for a year that had tons of cooking and feasts, modeled off of the Redwall books. The heros were always preparing some feast or finding some new food to forage.

Unironically this would be so cool. Time to learn how to crack games, a way more fun pastime than just playing them

Absolutely meirl. I keep making frame rate drops on games, but my CPU is … Checks date… top of the line 2012 tech!

Ok but what crow time comic,

Edit, Crow Time is amazing

Good heavens Jefferies, this person is posting vegan memes in a vegan community! And the memes are sarcastic, maybe even a little edgy! Jefferies, call the local constables, something must be done!

Firefox stand strong

I suppose this is a hot take, but I’d never intentionally select a closed source paid database or programming language. Your data is the most valuable thing you have. The idea that you’d lock yourself into a contract with a third party is extremely risky.

For example, I’ve never seen a product on Oracle that didn’t want to migrate off, but every one has tightly coupled everything Oracle so it’s nearly impossible. Why start with Oracle in the first place? Just stay away from paid databases, they are always the wrong decision. It’s a tax on people who think they need something special, when at most they just need to hire experts in an open source database. It’ll be much much cheaper to just hire talent.

Meanwhile I’ve done two major database shifts in my career, and you are correct, keeping to ANSI standard SQL is extremely important. If you’re on a project that isn’t disciplined about that, chances are they are undisciplined about so many other things the whole project is a mess that’ll be gone in ten years anyway. I know so few projects that have survived more than fifteen years without calls for a “rewrite”. Those few projects have been extremely disciplined about 50% of all effort is tech debt repayment, open source everything, and continuous modernization.

I don’t think it’s going away until ECMA supports native types. Until then it’s the best game in town.

If a team decides to move away from it, it’s only few hours work to entirely remove. So even if it’s going away, it’s risk free until then.

But I cannot imagine why any team would elect to remove Typescript without moving to something else similar. Unless it’s just a personal preference by the developers who aren’t willing to learn it. It removes so many issues and bugs. It makes refactoring possible again. I think teams that want to remove all types are nostalgic, like a woodworker who wants to use hand tools instead of power tools. It’s perfectly fine, and for some jobs it’s better. But it’s not the most efficient use of a team to build a house.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/03/tap-water-chlorine-may-have-cancer-link-johns-hopkins-study/2854631001/

Seems like it increases cancer risk, but it’s the cheapest way we have to sanitize water so

https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2020/05/drinking-water-cancer-risk

I’m putting the water in glass containers, so no need to worry about it leeching materials. Also, I am positive I get all the micronutrients (the paper your cited refers to magnesium and iron) I need from vegetables, without needing to resort to tap water that contains high levels of microplastics. I also brush my teeth with floride, so no need to worry about dental caries.