Empathy [he/him]

Awesome, I’m looking for frameworks like this, thanks for sharing.

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I’m pretty damn left leaning and I’ve never been called a tankie. I rarely even see anyone being called a tankie, except people who are defending authoritarians. The scope of the word “tankie” seemed generally pretty clear to me.

I want to add that, like you, I’ve become a big fan of restricting the numbers of ways to do something.

IMO, It’s more time wasted choosing, more time wasted reviewing, and makes it easier to overlook errors. I want more opinionated languages and frameworks.

Rust, because I’m lazy and I want a compiler that helps me out. Performance is a pretty neat bonus.

I was wondering whether what felt like common sense to me was the same as what felt like common sense for others, and I see that between us it’s not.

I’m not gonna bother trying to argue with you, I doubt it would be productive in any way, I’m not gonna change your mind. Additionally, you’ve put a lot of words into my mouth and inferred that I believe a lot of things that I really don’t believe, which is a bit upsetting.

If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.

I’m particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:

• They are not a democratic country.
• They do not have freedom of speech like most countries
• As far as I perceive, they are generally enemies of well-intentioned countries.

I might have a different perspective though. I’m a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.

Edit: I’d like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I’m just trying to understand people’s overall perspective and whether mine is different, I’m not trying to argue and I’m not upset at you nor any of the commenters I’ve seen on similar posts.

I’m a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.

I’m getting the impression that, either:

1. People don’t believe there’s (significant) Chinese propaganda on TikTok.
2. People believe there would be (significant) US propaganda on TikTok following an acquisition.
3. Given the choice, people would rather see Chinese propaganda than US propaganda.

Am I correct? Is there a nuance I’m missing?

I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.

I really like the word you used, code smell. I often have a hard time expressing to co-workers in code reviews why something feels off, it just does.

I think your comment embodies Rust more than any I’ve seen before

I’m trying out Kagi a little bit, and it has a federation search mode of some kind. I tried it for a search and it gave me results from Lemmy.

I don’t know yet how Kagi compares to Google in terms of results quality, I barely used it so far. It’s pretty expensive though.

I use main because, although I never heard of anybody actually getting offended by master, it costs me nothing to use main instead. Also it looks prettier and seems to be the new convention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also $83/mo HOA, oof.

Thanks for looking it up!

If somebody asked you to bring hot dogs and tacos to a party, the host would probably not be just as fine with you bringing only tacos or only hot dogs.

Co-pilot can write some small very simple functions for me, sometimes saving me the need to look at documentation. It will still often fail at those, in my experience, and will consistently fail at anything more complex.

It will get better, but currently it’s only a small help.

I’d honestly choose a similar stack for the back-end. I have limited experience with Rust, but my impressions so far is that it’s a language that allows you to make changes with confidence that they’ll work. I feel like starting something in Rust is somewhat difficult, but contributing is relatively simple.

For the front-end, I don’t think the choice is as important, since I think that by virtue of being federated and being able to have multiple front-ends, it would almost be better for the front-end to be managed by other parts of the community. And I say that as a primarily front-end/developer-experience dev.

I would probably default to React since I’m familiar with it and it’s very popular, but would probably be tempted to experiment with something better.

Pulling changes should be trivial after you’ve done it a few times.

I do it sometimes, especially when the bug is hard to reproduce and I know exactly what’s causing it. Sometimes it’s quicker to write the tests than to test manually.