I believe UFOs are mostly an op to intimidate foreign governments, i.e. US trying to say to China “hey we got some stuff you’ve never heard seen” so as to introduce uncertainty into their war games. They aren’t to demonstrate power; they are to introduce a mix of confusion and intimidation. I’m also not saying that all the reports are fake: i believe most of the witness and testimony are being honest. But just because you’re being honest doesn’t mean what you saw or were told are not the cogs of an intelligence operation.
I was on sublime text for the last 12 years. I made the switch to helix and although I missed some features, it's been a great change. I never could get into the vim bindings, but helix's defaults are great and I don't need to go plugin hunting in order to make the editor functional.
There's missing features I really want, but they'll be added eventually. Git blame in line, some scripting support, better find-replace across a project and not just the opened buffers.
Just give it a try for a week or two straight. No using your other editors. Cold turkey. You'll be surprised at how quickly you'll relearn. It took me about three weeks using it full time to get decent. The first day or so were brutal.
I have a huge disdain for artists who do not bleed and sweat like the rest of us doing jobs we don’t necessarily enjoy. Especially in this age of opulence. Welcome to life. Art should capture truth, the essence of things, and how can you do so without your feet planted firmly on the ground? Perhaps I could make exceptions for those on whom skill is truly refined in a dedicated way (think YoYo Ma practicing 10 hours a day), but I suspect your avg artist spends more time navel gazing than putting in the work. (And I say this as a huge supporter and fan of the arts)
> I have a huge disdain for artists who do not bleed and sweat like the rest of us doing jobs we don’t necessarily enjoy.
I don't necessarily want the artists to bleed and sweat. But when they do, their art is so much better! Giving artists universal income seems counterproductive, if your stated goal is good art...
But is this really true? If you have financial struggles or need to work a fulltime dayjob, you simply have very little time and energy for creating art. As an artist myself, I don't see how financial problems could possibly improve my creative output...
Why would you disdain someone who finds enjoyment in their work?
But don't worry, making art is not always a joyride, it can be hard work. For me pesonally, writing software is a breeze compared to writing an orchestra score or the last days of a theatre production.
Also, the idea of the poor and suffering artist is a cliché. Many famous artists actually came from wealthy families or had generous financial support from friends or patreons. It doesn't make them lesser artists.
> If they already find enjoyment in their work then why do they need additional support at the expense of the rest of us?
Enjoyment doesn't pay bills. As an aspiring artist you typically can't make a living with your art, so you have to work a day job. This means there is significantly less time for creating works and practicing your craft. (Again, creating art takes time and energy!) That's why there are grants and fellowships: they (temporarily) relieve artists from financial pressures and allow them to focus on their artistic practice.
> I also enjoy playing computer games and browsing the web all day. How would you feel about a tax to pay for my lifestyle?
In case you really don't know the difference: Artists produce works that are received and valued by other people: concerts, shows, books, movies, sculptures, installations, etc. This is not the case with playing computer games and browsing the web.
> Enjoyment doesn't pay bills. As an aspiring artist you typically can't make a living with your art, so you have to work a day job.
Same goes for many other enjoyable activities. I mean that's one of the main reasons we pay other people - so we don't have to do the things they do for us in return. If the activity itself is enjoyable then that reason no longer exists and it's only natural that you'll have a harder time making a living wage from it. Society doesn't owe it to you to make your dream job a reality, especially when that comes at the expense of people doing the dirty jobs you don't want to do.
> Artists produce works that are received and valued by other people
If they don't earn enough from those people the perhaps the value they produce isn't as great as you think.
> This is not the case with playing computer games and browsing the web.
Then why are you here replying to my comment if you get nothing out of it? Sure, the value is tiny but that is also true for most art.
Not all human activity needs to be a viable career. We're much better off making sure everyone has enough leisure time to do the culturally enriching activities they want to instead of taxing everyone so a few chosen special people are exempt from the market crushing everyone else.
> If the activity itself is enjoyable then that reason no longer exists and it's only natural that you'll have a harder time making a living wage from it.
This doesn't make any sense. People have jobs because someone has to do them. (This includes art and culture.) Whether that job is enjoyable or not is not really relevant. Just because someone finds a job enjoyable doesn't mean that they should work for less money or for free...
Also, not everything about being an artist is enjoyable. For example, nobody enjoys writing grant applications, booking gigs, organizing rehearsals, accounting, typesetting scores, etc. Not to mention the financial insecurity.
> If they don't earn enough from those people the perhaps the value they produce isn't as great as you think.
Art and culture cannot work in a purely capitalistic logic. Most art is subsidized in one way or another. Just like many other parts of society.
There are many things that you personally may not need, but society as a whole still wants to support.
> Then why are you here replying to my comment if you get nothing out of it? Sure, the value is tiny but that is also true for most art.
Sorry, but this is just dumb.
> so a few chosen special people are exempt from the market crushing everyone else.
If you think that people become artists because it's a cozy life, you are mistaken. It's a lot of work for little money.
I started with pure HTML, CSS, and JS, then moved to AlpineJS with a Go backend, before eventually migrating to Astro with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. I have not used a headless CMS, as avoiding one allows me to move faster. So far, upgrading from 2.0 to 5.x has been consistently smooth, unlike the MVC paradigm. Astro follows a folder structure similar to Vue.
My sites run in SSR, mainly a vendor and business networking platform. They include quite a bit of interactivity, such as an image slider, and a good deal of logic for complex content rendering from form fields. I also simplified error handling in forms with interactive elements.
Most of my work revolves around forms and SQL (Postgres). After translating designs from Figma and Marvellous, I export with Tailwind, which makes things easier. Still, I wish my UI/UX designer had listened to my struggles and made use of pre-built UI components to save time. Instead, they often executed poorly, rushed features, and changed things on a whim as though it were a toy, which was frustrating. Even so, I managed to overcome that as a sole developer and co-founder.
I did not expect to accumulate with such a large set of custom UI components, ranging from simple to complex logic, that are reused across different parts of the frontend. Managing that in Laravel’s workflow would have been a nightmare. I prefer JSX-like syntax over Blade because it is faster to work with TypeScript for both frontend and backend.
I also do not need to waste time dealing with routing, it was the same problem with Go + Echo, although Astro allows me to add flexibility with packages like micromatch for dynamic routes within middleware. Laravel, of course, has middleware too.
From my experience, I still have not found a convincing reason to adopt traditional MVC or to need that level of abstraction in Laravel.
Astro’s colocation (.astro) is optimised for developer velocity and a component-first mental model.
Despite my aim to strive for perfection, I have been out of work for years and have been affected by permanent hazy vision due to a health-related issue. My wish is to continue building with Astro.
This is great! Hat tip to PHP. I first came across pipes in Elixir and have ever since missed it in every other language. Two observations:
- pipes make you realize how much song and dance you do for something quite simple. Nesting, interstitial variables, etc all obscuring what is in effect and very orderly set of operations.
- pipes really do have to be a first class operator of the language. I’ve tried using some pipe-like syntactic sugar in languages without pipes and while it does the job, a lot of elegance and simplicity is lost. It feels like you are using a roundabout thing and thus, in the end, doesn’t really achieve the same level of simplicity. Things can get very deranged if you are using a language in a way it wasn’t designed for and even though I love pipes I’ve seen “fake pipes” make things more complicated in languages without them.
Not a fan of Pärt myself, but Zelenka is a good one to pair with Bach (they were contemporaries and knew each other, holding each other in high esteem).
"God" is capitalized for the same reason "Earth" or "the Universe" is capitalized. What precisely is meant may differ, but it's rich even for a materialist to argue that the name for the personification of the ground of being shouldn't be capitalized (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptions_of_God)
His in ring performance will always give me goosebumps, every time. I’ve seen him start puffing his cheeks, shaking his head, no-selling punches, and finger pointing a million and every…single…time it gets me excited and pumped. And all for a silly leg drop at the end. Goes to show that the story can communicate so much more than the moves.
Shawn Michaels. Chris Jericho. Mick Foley. The Undertaker. Rey Mysterio. Steve Austin. Shinsuke Nakamura. Kenny Omega. Booker T. John Cena. CM Punk. All better wrestling talents and performers than Hulk Hogan. The list could probably be even longer, because Hulk Hogan was at best a passable wrestler and a terrible performer. Finger-wagging and no-selling spots isn't impressive and doesn't take skill or talent.
He also sabotaged the careers of other, better wrestlers and tried to prevent Jesse Ventura from unionizing. Fuck him. Fuck his racist ass, I hope Vince joins him in Hell soon.
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