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How long until Trump declares Ukraine a terrorist state?
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Ebola in the USA would be a fitting, if horrifying consequence of Trump's anti-medicine presidency.
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Trump has only stripped them of these things if we buy into the fantasy that the Ukraine war will be ended by negotiation between two colonial powers about their colony state. It's stripped of all power if we collectively decide that Trump doesn't speak for and can't accept a negotiated position.
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Smells like Colonialism
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The flaw in the US constitutional settlement is that it is designed so that it only works when all three branches of government seek to act to uphold the constitution. Trump's backers have had 4 years to learn the lessons of Trump 45's failure to become king, and they've learned them well.
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Yes. Like slices of fish coming out. Like a self assembly Damien Hurst.
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Good.
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In a gold rush, the man who sells picks and shovels never goes poor.
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This was a great episode. I hope the safety verification stuff gets worked through soon.
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There are no snekified birds.
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they will still vote for them even after he steals all their money and takes away all their rights
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Process creation is slow, compared to almost any other way of handling an HTTP transaction. CGI is still used, but is inherently insecure. Web servers tend to use thread pools, and in-process logic, or hand off to other servers.
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I'm using zed, but the ai integration is light.
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Absolutely will be
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#thewheeloftime I wanted more of:
* how/why different forms of magical technologies work e.g. weaves, tree-singing, dream-walking, fore-telling...
* the scale of that world -- we see a few peoples, but how much more is there?
* more nods to 3rd and 2nd age buildings/ruins
* foxes and snakes
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#thewheeloftime things I did like a lot:
* the very ending with Rand lighting his pipe seemed fitting, as someone who has transcended their ta'veren nature - and it meshes with Perin's understanding of the power of will in Tel'aran'rhiod, the Aiel view of life as The Dream, etc.
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#thewheeloftime issue list 2:
* clunky "catch-ups" between books, for new/forgetful readers
* not enough exploration of the motivations of various forsaken
* use-then-forget plot devices e.g. the ways, travelling stones, skimming, travelling, dream shifting
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#weeloftime issue list 1:
* pacing: story progressed slowly or not at all in places, and then all happened in a couple of chapters
* boobieness: childish and repetitive objectification, often by author rather than by characters
* noble savage and other race tropes: dated or problematic depictions
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I don't much care about the speed of tooling in and of itself. It is the interactivity of feedback that for me is important. That gap between asking if you've done it right and finding out if you have. Slow in that context means more than a few second. But ideally as you type.
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The time to compile rust is tiny compared to the time to write it with an llm. Compared to, say, the time to compile java, then load it onto a jvm, then warm up the jvm so that the bytecode is optimised, rust is instant.
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I'm holding back from giving any thoughts about the series until I've completed it. But it is impossible not to notice the change in writing style in the last 3 books.
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The next really round year number will be 2048
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I don't know anything about the authoring or writing of the books. I was going to not look at any of that until I had completed the series.