dixego

Key takeaway from this I think is: technology alone cannot solve problems engendered by policy.

From the "Why build Carbon?" section:

> The best way to address these problems is to avoid inheriting the legacy of C or C++ directly, and instead start with solid language foundations like a modern generics system, modular code organization, and consistent, simple syntax.

That last part seems to imply that the authors don't consider C++ syntax to be a good foundation for a modern successor language, so they chose to change it. As to why change it in a Rust-like direction I'd imagine that it's both because it's what fashionable at the time and possibly to attract people who are already familiar with that style.

Who mentioned left wing news sources?

If you don't think "Breitbart is not a credible news source" is not a valid point then oof, yikes, etc.

Some people have already mentioned several problems with the article, but there's a thing that's not really discussed that I'd like to know more about: how many of the people on the "creation" side of the Long Tail i.e. the movie makers, the musicians, the writers, are actually making a living out of finding their own small niche? I have to imagine there can't be that many.

Opus Magnum is very fun and doesn't use too much of the Programming parts of the brain!

Gotta love a several-hundred word essay about swords posted on reddit by user "IPostSwords".

What is the specification problem? I don't think I've heard the term before.

And of course, don't forget "The Painting Goblin", in which you make an inescapeable, fully equipped basement home and lock one of your sims in there. Then you force them to get _extremely_ good at painting, such that one of their paintings can sell for thousands and comfortably support the rest of your sims family, who never have to work a day in their lives.

Sometimes I wonder how much time humanity as a species has collectively spent first inventing and then trying to solve the problem of "making a website".

Isn't making your own tool to satisfy your own needs the most "Our tools should adapt to us" possible, though?

Programmers, much like compilers, read things until they reach a point they disagree with and then stop there to write a comment.

You could start with wage theft — unpaid overtime, not respecting break times, things of that nature.

Fiction is a tool used by humans to elicit, experience and process feelings under (mostly) safe circumstances. The details (such as how much the sea level would have to rise for this to be accurate) are not quite relevant; the point is to make the reader think about how they would feel if this sort of concern was just a commonplace consideration in their daily life. Is it not shocking? Uncomfortable? Sorta nihilism-inducing?

In summary: doesn't it make you want to act towards preventing this from ever being close to happening?