So what you're saying is that "waste reduction" is such a holy goal that the means justify the ends? Not matter the consequences, no matter the outcomes, no matter the harm.
I think that's where we fundemtally disagree, not to mention your blindness to their stated ideological ulterior motives. Thr Project 2025 document explicitly states it's goal of ultimately replacing federal workers with its cadres that work towards to it's political project.
I'd like to be proven wrong but I have a feeling all of this will never provide any cost benefits to those that aren't the rich. Even if they somehow manage to reduce the taxes on the avg joe, a big if, the Joe will pay for it in other tangible ways. I.e. I don't think it's waste being eliminated but projects the administration disagrees or wants to privatize. Can you address these concerns?
"Thin blue line" is a popular phrase of the so called "American culture war". During the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was used as a self-identification by those who did not agree with criticisms of the nations policing and justice systems. A closely related symbol is the Punisher[0] skull from Marvel comics.
All in all, this could just be another instance of the "culture war" inflaming every other minor disagreement with Ted playfully using the phrase and Marcan misinterpreting it. Or it could be Ted slipping up with their politics. From what I know about Marcan and what can be inferred from his post, they do seem like someone the alt-right would persecute.
Wow, hadn't heard of the punisher skull association either! It seems that it hasn't really traveled that much outside of America.
I had a look, and it seems that Ted Ts'o is American, so I guess we should assume he understands the cultural significance of the phrase (even though I didn't).
So what, you use it to spam and waste other people's time? I know, dealing government bureaucracy and corruption is soul leeching but spam was always one of the golden usecases for generated AI.
Sending official letters to the local government isn't spam, and generally not a waste of time.
People with cognitive issues, issues typing, language or presentation issues, LLMs provide a massive improvement in how they are percieved and recieved by the other side. Also, immigrants or people with langauge issues aren't quite as disadvantaged and don't need to use excess time translating or risking an embarrasing misstatement. It's a night or day accommodation tool in the right circumstances.
No, I don't just send them random letters. I reply to mail I get from them or when I need them to do something (like adjust my tax pre-pay).
Also one could argue that bureaucracies only exist to create bullshit jobs and waste citizens' time. So I wouldn't even feel bad about spamming those assholes.
Pretty cool. Do you have a list of features you plan to support and plan to cut? Also, how much does this differ from the DOM impls that test frameworks use? I recall Jest or someone sporting such a feature.
WASM support is not there yet but it's on the roadmap and we had it in our mind since the beginning of the project, and have made our dev choices accordingly.
So yes it could be used in a serverless platform like Cloudflare workers. Our startup time is a huge advantage here (20ms vs 600ms for Chrome headless in our local tests).
Regarding v8 in Cloudflare workers I think we can not used directly, ie. we still need to embed a JS engine in the wasm module.
What do you assign the injustice you faced to? And who're you to deny GPs claims?
There's nothing more rancid than someone leaping to downplay someone's complaint as "ah, they're just being sensitive. They're imagining it". If they were lodging a formal complaint at their firm, sure, due process is a must but people being shit to the Other is a well established and common human behavior. It sucks what happened to you but it has little to bear on GPs words. It's just confusing why you felt the need to defend these other strangers you've never met.
I'm not defending GP's colleagues, nor am I suggesting that the undeserved treatment he received was imaginary. However, the idea that this must be caused by racism is a cheap and comfortable narrative GP is telling himself and anyone who believes him. Should his colleagues read his post anonymously, they would probably agree with him.
As for me, my story isn't unlike the rants often shared by open-source project maintainers. One never gives of oneself without keeping a secret ledger in their mind, known only to them: that can only lead to frustration and anger. The "solution" is to never give away your work without retribution—an ideal that, of course, isn't feasible within a company. Meritocracy exists only at the periphery, driven by market forces, however flawed they may be. I don't know how to "fix" this.
To rise within a company (or academia), you also need charisma, connections, likability, and sometimes even resorting to flattery, ass-kissing, or bullying a pharmakos—all of which I took pride in refusing to partake in. These are the traits GP and I lacked. I can tell from the pathetic tone he used throughout his post—a tone that reminds me of myself.
You got many points right, and I’m sure it’s true that there’s bullshit everywhere. But you also got wrong the whole idea of “racism”; I never actually mentioned that word or considered that as a part of my situation. The right word is “prejudice”, as in, “you’re weak here, you have no support, and you don’t know how to play the game. If someone needs to be screwed, it’ll be you.” If you go by what is in the surface, you’d expect that an incompetent native would be in more danger than a competent foreigner. That’s not the case.
This comment is a perfect encapsulation of the ridiculously simple understanding of the political landscape that seems to be rampant among the tech industry.
What are the chances that he'll double down and also financially profit on this vector instead of accepting critique for the gaping holes in his reasoning? I'm taking bets, any takers?
I think that's where we fundemtally disagree, not to mention your blindness to their stated ideological ulterior motives. Thr Project 2025 document explicitly states it's goal of ultimately replacing federal workers with its cadres that work towards to it's political project.
I'd like to be proven wrong but I have a feeling all of this will never provide any cost benefits to those that aren't the rich. Even if they somehow manage to reduce the taxes on the avg joe, a big if, the Joe will pay for it in other tangible ways. I.e. I don't think it's waste being eliminated but projects the administration disagrees or wants to privatize. Can you address these concerns?
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