Notices by Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands 😯😲🤯
@chrisamaphone

@skinnylatte making a version of this for people who keep kosher is one of my life goals

@inthehands this is interesting: 'Liebb said when he asked why they were being detained, an officer tightened his handcuffs and responded: “This isn’t county or state. We are homeland. You have no rights here.”'

@inthehands I landed on Rust because learning a new language felt overwhelming. And what do you know, for a change I'm working together with the borrow checker instead of fighting it! No unexpected mutation of something passed by reference.... It turns out that command pattern with undo is a problem that the borrow checker solves 🙂

You did get me curious about Swift, though. For when I'm feeling a little better.

@inthehands interesting, they don't seem to advertise it in the docs

@inthehands looking into it. A couple of things I'll miss: Optional is an enum, no exception throwing. The latter of course is a matter of style, but I hate having to catch library exceptions

@inthehands yeah, I've done a bunch of stuff with Rust already, but I keep running into things that are difficult to wrap my head around, like life times. And I am annoyed by the lack of reflection. And it's very slow to write, so much time fighting the compiler... It was my other choice for this project from the start, and I picked ts because I wanted to write code fast and experiment and iterate. This is after you suggested to just start writing...

I still haven't found the ideal language for these types of projects. Maybe it's actually Python, but I don't enjoy writing in it.

@inthehands frankly, maybe what would be most fun is to start over in Rust. TypeScript is neat but the build tools and dependency hell suck. And I got some pretty advanced ts concepts from this adventure so I feel like it was worth it. Esp now that I'm technically a TypeScript dev at work

@inthehands the thing is that what most people want is to make it to tomorrow with a roof over their head and food on the table. Next to those considerations, matters of conscience, and the day after tomorrow, are of less immediate concern. This is the vast camp, which Garrett forgets about, of people who are probably not pro-repression but whose strongest commitment is to survival for themselves and their families.

And definitionally those people who are *not being repressed right now* are likely to benefit at least a little from repressions. Especially when there's high unemployment, resources become more scarce due to climate change... And horribly, those who *are being repressed right now* are out of the equation... I think that Garret's point (specifically about what's definitional) is not borne out by the reality and historical experience of repressive regimes. We need hope desperately, but it needs to be grounded in something other than an abstract belief that good ideals will win with some kind of mathematical inevitability.

@inthehands
"Then came 1938.

Of course, those were horrible times. But not for everyone. The majority danced to the lively music of Daunyevsky. Besides which, the prices went down every year. Caviar cost nineteen rubles a kilo and was sold on every street corner.

Of course, innocent people were being shot. Yet the execution of one was good for many others. The execution of some marshal guaranteed promotions for ten of his colleagues. A general was promoted to the marshal's spot. A colonel moved into the general-ship. The colonel was replaced by a major. Captains and lieutenants moved up, too. The execution of one minister created a dozen changes in the ranks. And all the changes were only upward. Teems of lower bureaucrats were moving up the ladder of success."
From A Foreign Woman by Sergei Dovlatov, Translated by Antonina W. Bouis

@inthehands there's a stunning, and far less optimistic, passage from the Soviet author Sergei Dovlatov about Stalinism—one of the archetypal, terrifying excesses of the "throw under the bus" moments in recent history—that has bearing on this. I'll see if I can find or make a decent translation. If you're interested, loke this toot to remind me 🙂

@dalias
My username means old fart and I don't think I can roll my eyes hard enough, despite decades of practice
@tokyo_0

@inthehands
I can't agree with that due to value system reasons, but I do think that this is a great example why those systems represent a kind of spiritual death. It's interesting to be a witness to what real good old fashioned idolatry (as distinct from paganism, by the way) is doing to humanity.

@inthehands
O maybe that's what happened

@inthehands
No it isn't. And I basically have zero trust for Internet reply guys to get it when I don't see them even trying
@KimSJ

@inthehands
There's more to it even than losing community. See where I just tagged you
@fivetonsflax

@inthehands
I used to know those people back in my antifa days. They're good, conscientious journalists. Sometimes I wish we could still talk to one another.

@inthehands
They really don't like that
@andy

@inthehands
Wow I have no idea what this means

@inthehands
Hey that's when I checked out of local politics once and for all
@homelessjun @MisuseCase @mekkaokereke