Python is just BASIC for the modern world. People learn it in school because it's easy to learn, then never learn anything else.

Yeah, but which desktop is flashy? None.

Because the new tanks are the best tanks, and it is conceivable that they would want Ukraine to win.

It sucks as a traditional software language.

I don't know any software engineer who "frowns" at it, just use the right tool for the job.

APL is a far superior language to R. It lost popularity in the 80s when PCs couldn't handle keymappings, but that's not a limitation anymore.

If people are using R, it's because they are doing statistics. R doesn't compete against other languages, it fills a different niche. Its use grows or shrinks depending on the size of that niche.

If I had sent those emails, I'd be sitting in jail.

If I had shot a man on 5th Avenue for sport I would also be sitting in jail.

Politics is a magnet for sociopaths.

So you either do nothing or go with the sociopath who will fuck you over less.

The world always needs another desktop front end...until we get a good one.

Considering that they're not only not citizens, but they're illegal aliens...yeah...I'm for it. Either we have laws that we enforce or we have no laws at all.

Imagine a world without enshittification. It only happens because we let it.

The article is sadly impoverished of screenshots; here's a video of the desktop. It looks mostly clean. I hope it's not using too many resources, I couldn't tell, but it seems snappy.

"Material Design" on the desktop.

I recognize some things as bad. Others I recognize as good. The bad is tolerable in context.

Needs a mountain of javascript glue code to access the DOM...and the javascript glue code has to be literally doing bit swizzling and byte swapping on the vm's memory space.

Oh to think of a car analogy...

We live in a two party system. The only viable way to oppose the party in power is to support the other major party. I suppose one could also decline to vote at all.

But again...if you're not actively fighting satan-hitler by any means necessary, you're carrying water for him, eh?

Like I said before and will say again: a two party system seems to reward the extremists, thus it is necessary to throw in with the extremists who scare you less. Trump scares me less than the proferred alternative does.

I'd have to go back to 2016 right after he was elected the first time around. He made some conciliatory noises in an interview he gave to one of the major networks. That got drowned out by the pee tape or something.

If memory serves, he also condemned the neonazis in Charlottesville...except that got drowned out by the words "very fine people" in the previous breath. And....well...since he's literally satan-hitler that condemnation couldn't have actually happened.

Now I would like to pull on a thread: is it better to be openly crude, the way Trump is, or is it better the be slick, polished, say the right-sounding things, but to actually execute some pretty extreme policies?

Like school closures. Like blanket mandatory covid vaccination without regard to individual circumstances. Like deliberately declining to enforce immigration laws. Like shutting down the government in the service of political messaging alone (fun fact: the shutdown may be "over" but their massive air bubble it created in defense contracts sure as fuck isn't).

I don't claim to have a monopoly of truth on the human condition, or on statecraft, but I know what is unacceptable to me.

And tallying the unacceptable on both sides, I assess the Democrats as presently constituted to be more unacceptable to me than the proferred alternative.

I don't like the legalized jailbreaks.

I like even less the declining to arrest, prosecute, or imprison literal serial criminals who are free to kill innocent women on the train instead of rotting in a hole somewhere.

For example.

I did use my brain. It processed the following

https://x.com/KamalaHarris/sta...

as egging on the looters and rioters, since it was a literal appeal to raise money to bail out people arrested for looting and rioting.