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It's national security to destroy all of your alliances? In that case, what is the reason Russia is exempt from these tariffs? Reverse-psychological warfare?

If you are referring to taking wealth by force from people that earned it and giving to people that didn't earn it, yes it's 'communist'

No, it's taxation. A pretty common phenomenon.

I am reminded of DHH's recent essay: "It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot"

https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-easier-to-forgive-a-human-tha...

I generally prefer code generation. I don't see why it is "error prone" any more than anything else is. In fact, it means that errors aren't concealed in two levels of abstraction which can make them much harder to debug. Also, with generated code, you can add a build step to work around short comings or bugs in the generator where as you otherwise have no choice to live with it.

The "annoying" part I do get -- it's obviously nicer to have instant feedback than being forced to rebuild things -- so for things where you iterate a lot, that does weigh in the other direction.

I know of several other issues like that. I myself made sure the highscore in a video game I was working on would work :-)

The thing that annoys me is that this is best case scenario when it comes to climate change. If we do in fact manage to avoid the apocalypse, all the "climate deniers" are going to feel vindicated.

DHH really needs to control his temper.

What good would that do?

This is a quote from DHH from LinkedIn:

Of course we gave them a login. We’ve been publishing apps on the App Store for over a decade. This was not a low-level mistake. It went all the way to the app review board.

In another response he writes that the reviewers did in fact log in.

This is a quote from DHH from LinkedIn:

Of course we gave them a login. We’ve been publishing apps on the App Store for over a decade. This was not a low-level mistake. It went all the way to the app review board.

In another response he writes that the reviewers did in fact log in.

Sorry, I know that's a feeling that several people share. To be clear, the post is not behind the paywall, but you can also read it on dev.to, if you want: [link redacted]j

If it was that bad, nobody would use it

Well, maybe they think that it's worth "hating" on it because people are using it, and they want to make people aware of the problems? I know I do, though "hating" sounds like I have malicious intent, which I do not. I am sure the creator(s) are very bright people with nothing but good intentions. But I agree with the article that YAML is frustrating to work with. The "it's not perfect, but neither is anything" argument is a bit of a cop-out in my opinion, as that can be applied to anything and everything.

I feel (but don't know!) that YAML was inspired by markdown as an attempt to create a format that felt like the most natural and intuitive to read for humans, while still machine-consumable. A noble idea, but in my opinion, one that fails as soon as you have more than half a page of configuration. Then, it just becomes a pain to even figure out which parent a specific bullet belongs to. And that's not even getting into all the cleverness.

I don't want to create a new language because [XKCD standards comic]. I'd prefer people use JSON or TOML as I consider those better even if they have plenty of issues on their own.

Michele Hansens "Deploy Empathy" is an excellent complementary to The Mom Test.

Do you need (or at least benefit from) your database to run in-process? Because that is the only advantage I can see to SQLite over Postgres. Which makes it the better candidate in many places, but not for anything like a server.

This is clear gaslighting

Please don't destroy the term gaslighting. It means something very important and not at all what you are using it for here.

He is clearly a psychopath. So to you and me, it's impossible to understand but my best guess is that he would feel something similar to what we might feel "killing" a character in a video game: no compassion, just a curious interest.