i think i saw a ghost, haunting the parking lots of Ron DeSantis’s Florida.

@maureenogle American exceptionalism just can't catch a break.

perhaps what the dead miss most is the sensation of missing at all.

@MartyH i would, but it's private.

“the state is corrupted by private power. therefore, we should eliminate it and, um, cede everything to private power.”

@rst so much for US-ian exceptionalism… le sigh (with freedom fries)

On the one hand, getting on #discord hosted by projects, I've gotten very prompt and useful help on snags I've hit. On the other had, if we'd had those conversations with the asynchronous ceremony of #StackOverflow, a searchable record would have been left for others.

yeah but i bet they don't have some guy dressed as a moose.

My heart is with #Brazil today. And I hope this US administration's rhetoric about democracy is steadfast in its foreign policy.

(Talk about appropriation, I keep reading American commenters discussing #Brazil like the January-6th-ists had invented the coup.)

@lachezar Yeah, definitely. Lots of power tools we're accustomed to aren't available or are glichy. But metaprogramming is I think much better under Scala 3 (I'm too much of a novice to independently evaluate that, but cursorily, it seems much easier to get started and more organized). Whether individual libraries get ported who knows, but I think we've every reason to think Scala 3 will eventually be great for compile-time cleverness. But for now, yeah, sometimes it sucks to reach and not find.

@stephenjudkins I hadn't heard reports of its failure, but I think they are dumb. Scala has always been an "experimental" language, playing with wild programming language ideas then discarding the rough ones with experience (remember the cake pattern?). Scala 3 "tasty" will make the maintenance cost of that much lower than before, but not moving forward? What would be the point? Migration's a bitch but so's life.

#Scala3 itself has been a pleasure. Its intersection with tooling, however, from emacs to sbt to mill, has been a real pain point. There's a workaround for anything, but you can lose a lot of time. #Scala

@maureenogle Then it is definitely wrong! :P

the algorithm is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

(with apologies to Mencken)

once it all makes sense you know it is probably wrong.

@scheidegger i love that. we should all come out to ourselves about our snowflakitude (and neither make nor grant public claims based on it). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd84aUMyXuc

@scheidegger almost everything the state does indirectly depends upon monopoly on legitimate violence, but a very small fraction is any kind of actual recourse to it. perhaps, if you are a sociopath, you wouldn’t pay your taxes were it not for “men with guns” who might eventually pursue you, but in fact taxation is an institution that involves very little violence of any kind (absent more-fashionable-on-the-left broadenings of the definition of violence).

people often mistake their personal agency for the strength of democracy, but democracy is about collective agency.

ironically the people with the most personal agency sabotage it on these grounds, it can’t be good if it hinders them personally, while those with little personal agency appreciate the value of collective agency.

@scheidegger maybe!