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I think you may have it wrong, I don't believe the people thought that the Tories were the solution (specifically in the last election), but rather that Labour was a worse choice than the Tories were at the time (rightly or wrongly). I don't remember anyone being particularly happy about it at the time whether they voted for or against them, and after the matter some staunch Labour voters I knew came and said to me that "the country wasn't ready yet for what Labour were offering". The painful thing about where politics are now in the UK is that once again the coming election is a rejection of a party (the Tories this time), not an embrace of one (Labour this time). It is a sad state of affairs.

I don't really agree with your proposition, I think the base issue is more fundamental, simply put I think it comes down to the atomisation of the individual due to the structure of higher education and zeitgeist of fear of being accused or misinterpreted.

While is it easier than ever to enter social spaces, I think people are struggling to build real meaningful relationships (romantic and platonic).

There is the western "coming of age" ritual that involves going off to university by yourself for a few years and then a few years later going off to another place by yourself.

Whether the fear of being misinterpreted is real, it is there for many people. People I know have changed a lot about what they say and the way they speak when people they don't know show up or enter a conversation, often saying things they don't believe in to give a good impression.

TBH I'm pretty excited for my twitter footprint to be deleted

Perhaps it's already here. In reference to a different thread about Japan's population decline, it is supposed there that advanced economies lead to population decline (via below replacement birthrates) and require immigration to sustain them. The problem is that those immigrants who choose to remain are that they or their decendents will eventually suffer the same below replacement birthrate. If everywhere becomes an advanced economy, then in theory, everywhere would suffer the same fate, and the great filter has won. But it's just a supposition, right.

Poetry is one of the worst modern solutions to python packaging, either pick hatch or PDM, they both have more and better implemented features plus their codebases aren't a complete mess

Poetry was the best pragmatic tool for python at one point, but it certainly was the developers project. That is to say, it introduced different and unfamiliar version specifiers to python, these are common place in other ecosystems, but this definitely was one of the barriers to success. Another came down to the applications code style and architecture, poetry is not written well, it tried to reinvent everything from the ground up in python package management, including it's own dependency resolution algorithm and cli library. I never could use it in isolation either, always had to combine it with other tools like Make. I once looked to contribute to poetry, it didn't take long for me to realise that it was poorly written and most of the new development efforts (e.g. the plugin system) were slowly developed by the project creator seemingly in isolation, meanwhile the rest of the development on the project slowly ground to a snails pace, at one point recently no new version (major, minor or patch) had been released in almost 18 months while the bug reports, issues and PRs stacked up, none addressed. Some of the most egregious issues were bugs in the private package repository support, some providers just wouldn't work and this can be a mandatory requirement for some organisations. One of the worst and most damning things about poetry, when it was actually releasing updates, was the regressions, it happened every single time, without fail, you only need to search GitHub issues for the proof. There are so many things that it could do that it does not, probably due to a poorly written foundation, a lack of leadership or organisation, almost definitely all of the above. Now it's just a tool that half works and has created a lot of animosity towards tools attempting to right it's wrongs. More than anything I am disappointed, I struggle to put my frustrations and whole feelings here, this is really what failure looks like from a thousand angles.

Recently I've ventured out to pdm. It is truly a sublime experience. It is everything poetry should have been and with a mere fraction of development team and effort, it really shows how much of a waste poetry is. Pdm has given me hope again. I only wish that more tools like Pycharm would support it, but really the experience isn't missing much at all. For those of you who are feeling the pain of poetry, I can't convey enough how much more pdm is, it's not perfect but if you try it in earnest and you won't be disappointed.

Tools like https://www.rufus.ltd/ offer you the option when writing the iso to usb

Not a fan of win 11 but for those who want to make it more tolerable, you can disable the start menu ads with a regedit

Fortunately if can't or don't want to meet the arbitrary requirements you can use tools like https://www.rufus.ltd/ to bypass all of them when writing the iso to a usb

Because you can use the same toolchains, APIs, libraries, and even progressively migrate with both languages in the same project. Honestly, people who whine about Java 8 in Android and refuse to consider Kotlin are suffering by choice.

we You're an individual not a group

Someone has to be able to maintain it. What happens when the one person who understood it leaves and it needs to be modified or upgraded, if they're lucky they can hack it into working and even that's not a good thing as the build has now been modified in a way that is not understood and possibly broken. If they can't figure it out and the need is not that strong they'll leave it as is and just not change whatever they originally had wanted to, ultimately limiting themselves and their solution in someway. The last choice for them is do the only thing they should when there are components that are not understood or can't maintain and rip it out and in the process lose many days or weeks replacing it.

Nix will never achieve any wide spread adoption, the issues are too glaring.

The Nix language itself is half of the problem, difficult to search for because "nix" doesn't refer to something specific as it's overloaded, what hubris there must of been to think that was a good idea, it's also terribly documented with too much of a focus being on "elegant code" instead of being clear. Java and Go obviously being too verbose, but you could use a subset of python like starlark to achieve clarity and readability.

This being one of many but I've lost the will to continue as Nix as a dev experience is abysmal and really something else needs to replace it because I don't the language being fixed anytime soon. Guix will not be the on either due to FSF dogma.

People can go on about having successfully adopted it at their org but simply put, if it was good enough as is the percentage of companies using it would be meaningful. FYI a little script that only a minority of the devs understand does not count.

I am about to do so. Truth be told I am angling for Kotlin over Java, but I wouldn't be unhappy if it went that way.

Java has come a long way, 17 has a lot of nice language features and Amber, Panama, Loom, Valhalla are all doing great things for the JVM.

There's also the excellent ecosystem, and some of the Kotlin libraries have quite nice APIs.

I think tooling is a plus too, Gradle is a flexible and extensible build tool. I've also been experimenting with Graal, I'm not committing to using it, but it does look very promising (and has an easy to use plugin for Gradle). We could use it to build some very slim Container images, if it works out.

Does Chrome?

Personally I'd rather the exception than a "simple" bool, which would make for noisy code and less simplicity. In reality and exception is just less bad, better than both would be a result type

I can't speak to iOS as I'm not a user of it, but an alternative for android users is VPN apps that enable you to block ads, however apps that have such a feature aren't allowed on the play store or offer a feature reduced version to keep Google happy

Regardless of the moral quandary, it is possible to do

I hope one day people realise there is a place other than kubernetes and VMs to run containers, such as GCP's Cloud Run or AWS's ECS Fargate, these are essentially plug container and play services which avoid the baggage of kubernetes and VMs

We're told Sonderman scoured the internet looking for interesting and desirable usernames on social networks, from Instagram to Twitter, and pressured people to hand over those accounts.

The goal was to obtain the usernames and then sell them to others for a profit

Hardly a troll, more like a professional harasser

Would you be so kind as to share some of your top picks for build systems?

As someone who wants to understand what makes a great build system, I'd very much appreciate it

It's easy to do immutability in python, just use NamedTuple for classes and tuple instead of list

While there is a want or whim, those with ability, real or apparent, will always be highly sought after.

I doubt it's possible to solve without removing humans from the equation.

That said, I would gladly be convinced otherwise.

I think what you're missing here is the alternative to progressive tax is all income is taxed at or close to the existing highest rates, as that is where by a very large margin most tax is collected. Ultimately this leads to those poorest in society suffering the most.

I really would not consider Dataproc to provide the equivalent capability of AWS Batch. It's quite painful how many of GCP's services rely on GKE. Ultimately I'd like to see more services like Cloud Run from GCP.

Nice idea, but being vaccinated against something does not mean you can't carry and spread it.

Given that's true, those older folk, at the most risk are the place to start.

So much anti nuclear absolutism

I recommend watching this https://youtu.be/Jzfpyo-q-RM for a pragmatic lense

Fossil fuels, even temporary, kills several magnitudes more people than nuclear