> Naturally workers will begin to prefer the motions of the work they find satisfying more than the result it has for the business's bottom line, from which they're alienated.

Wow. I've read a lot of hacker news this past decade, but I've never seen this articulated so well before. You really lifted the veil for me here. I see this everywhere, people thinking the work is the point, but I haven't been able to crystallize my thoughts about it like you did just now.

Marx had a lot of good ideas, though you wouldn't know it by listening to capitalist-controlled institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

> Software estimates are not futile or make believe. They are useful even if they are not always precise. That’s why the industry continues to use them.

The industry continues to fail when trying to use them. They have negative usefulness.

There's is no fair comparison to be made here with how + and * work is most languages, precisely because + and * work the same in most languages, while whatever perl is doing here is just idiosyncratic.

Even C gets it's fair share of flack for how it overloads * to mean three different things! (multiplication, pointer declaration, and dereference)

The original statement wasn't that the sigils are unconventional. They are. It was that they were "subtle". They are not.

Unfortunately your assessment is based on the faulty premise that anyone in international politics does anything to be nice.

The US doesn't give one rats ass about Egypt. The US won and got their way in Suez and the international seas in general. Europe lost.

There is no right in geo politics - only might. It's completely machiavellian. This is because you don't get to elect your neighbors leaders, and so they aren't beholden to you. International politics fundamentally doesn't work like national politics because of this. You can't stop Putin, Trump, or Xi, from taking what is yours unless you have the steel and oil to stop them. You can't sue them or vote them out like in national politics.

The problem with your perspective is that citizens can still tell right from wrong. And the public is much less Machiavellian than those in charge. The people can change how their leaders act, but won't when they believe any attempt to steer towards pro-social geopolitics is pointless.

I should also point out that some countries are much more bellicose than others, in direct contradiction with your nihilist view.

I absolutely do not encourage anything bellicose. I'm saying you are not good for not defending yourself. Everyone needs to defend their access through the Suez.

This seems workable to me. Github rose to prominence on the back of oss. What oss giveth oss can take away.

Because they are Codeberg I'm betting they have a philosophical aversion to using a cloud based ddos protection service like Cloudflare. Sadly the problem is that noone has come up with any other type of solution that actually works.

How well can Cloudflare protect against malicious account creation, where the attackers are set up to supply a response to email?

Is it because the s in iot stands for security? I'm asking genuinely. Where are these requests coming from?

I would put it down to 4 things:

- the internet's a lot bigger nowadays

- there are a lot of crappily secured iot devices

- the average household internet connection has gotten a lot faster, especially on upload bandwidth.

- there's a pile of amplification techniques which can multiply the bandwidth of an attack by using poorly-configured services.

Search for “residential proxy”.

This seems like a synonym for botnet.

Also a good synonym for "anonymized and deceiving army of AI crawlers circumventing controls for their own benefit".

Js just runs as is. Atwood's Law and all that.

Same problem, different orders of magnitude.

Have you taken a look at how to install the Haskell variant? It's a full-on recipe, or a docker container. I'd take a desktop application over a website any day, but that was not on the menu. It was an SPA vs a devops exercise. Of course the SPA wins.

Yes. The web wins on deployment every time.

Steam wins for games imho.

Tidal Cycles is hardly languishing. Not everything needs a billion users and VC funding.

"...because everything runs js*"

Javascript runs on ~70% of all devices worldwide.

... And js is everywhere