much of the work of the present is to keep the past at bay.
@cosmicallyf@universeodon.com 2000, just as we all expected.
@cshentrup a great antsa!
a true claim about a summary statistic of a thing does not imply a true claim about the thing itself. 1/
for example, that average wages have risen faster than CPI inflation does not imply a claim "wages have risen faster than inflation" is also true.
the latter claim may be require further definition in order to evaluate at all. (do we mean median wages? your wages or mine? what measure or concept of inflation?)
but if you are supercilliating the claim is true and that your interlocutor is naive or mistaken, well, we are all usually guilty of the sins we accuse of others. /fin
@zens @akkartik @avi @loup@treehouse.systems Thanks all a ton for the advice! Kafka seems a bit buzzy, so I was curious whether I might have an excuse to play with it, but for my rather trivial application I'll see if I can't try out the pub/sub style while keeping to simpler infrastructure. Thanks again.
@akkartik right. that’s kind of the sense i’m getting.
it’s a pretty trivial thing, notice when RSS items or collections of items “finalize” in feeds (whatever that means, i have a meaning) then notify subscribers. initially that was e-mail, but i’m like, well activitypub bridges would be cool too, what if i just let finalization be an “event” and hang off kafka different kinds of responders to those? nice it’d break things into simple pieces, but kafka’s kafkaesqueness might overwhelm that.
are there examples where #kafka is used and make sense for smallish, self-hosted projects, or is it really best tailored for larger enterprise-ish applications?
I try to avoid Amazon links, but I'm really excited that my sister #AdelleWaldman's new book is now available there for pre-order. https://a.co/d/bE3hNVr
we ask "why did we leave that place?" when we mean "why did we leave that time?"
i just realized who santa is an anagram of. or vice versa.
@akkartik you say it is not in emacs. but emacs is in it.
the revolution contains and is contained by many modes.
whatever everybody thinks of as the revolution is always just public relations.
i increasingly think the inchoate heart of the true revolution are people quietly building an alternative future in elisp.
the revolution lives not in cells, but in buffers.
there’s nothing more eternal than an instant.
@WataruTenkawa automatic A+ on that exam i think.
a pretty good distillation of where i am on israel/palestine too, from #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/israel-and-its-enemies/
Text: As I've said before, I envy people who have total certainty in their views of Israel and Gaza. I have nothing close. Israel has endured decades of various Arab coalitions trying to destroy them, and it's hard to understand how anyone can blame them for their deep and abiding desire for self defense and retaliation. At the same time, their treatment of Palestinians over the past couple of decades has been so gratuitously revolting that it's hard to understand how anyone can blame them for cheering on even a grotesque terrorist group like Hamas. Both sides have an endless and frequently legitimate list of grievances. How can anyone not see that? And how do you get past it? Both sides really and truly want to destroy the other at this point. It's not a facade or false consciousness or anything like that. It's how they really feel. Even in theory, is there any answer?
life will be the death of me.
#RonDesantis political career has been cursed basically from the moment he put his grubby paws on #NewCollege.