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Never knew about Ben Franklin. Thanks! After spending a week with him, no doubt he was the smartest and best-read person I'd ever been around.

I taught Gore Vidal how to use a computer in 1995. After a week worth of trying to use a PowerBook Duo, he went back to pen and paper. When asked how to improve my writing, he said use a pen and transcribe your favorite author. That I would eventually find the rhythm and style and make it my own.

I was surrounded by Canadians in Arizona (BC, Calgary) and Florida (Ontario) this winter. I could not tell a difference in the RV world (2021-present) which I thought was odd given all the boycotts I read about online.

I got shingles-ish rash after sitting in an outdoor jacuzzi in Salinas, California. Visited the urgent care and the Standard-trained doctor of immigrant farm laborers said it was related to the pesticides. Said he lost both parents in their 40s and suspects it was the indiscriminate spraying from the air in the 70/80/90s. Eye-opening and thought-provoking.

Likely I'm very naive. But here goes... It seems that taxpayers fund a lot of research. This research is very valuable and lucrative. It finds its way into the hands of those who know how to profit from it. The taxpayer is again screwed paying exorbitant prices for said breakthroughs. Insulin is one area of interest to me and it very much seems to be the case in the diabetes world.

This was how NAFTA was sold. Move car manufacturing to Mexico and they will enjoy better living wages while we get more affordable cars. Except that I don't recall cars produced in Mexico ever getting more affordable. I'm sure corporate profits were great. Should probably look into this someday and see if my perception is correct.

Realistically, does Ukraine have the manpower to sustain this tempo for years? If not, what countries should put boots on the ground?

War of attrition. I thought we'd be further along after three years of sanctions and weapons but I wonder if Ukraine has the manpower to keep it up. From what I understand, Ukraine is drafting men ages 25-60 which may signal they need boots on the ground soon.

Yeah, agree that's what is happening. My original question wasn't rhetorical in nature. I would really like to know what would secure victory without escalating it to involve American troops on the ground and/or potentially a nuclear exchange.

So by continuing to send more cash and weapons, it will eventually force Russia to retreat? I'm trying to understand what would secure victory.

That's exactly what I'm asking: what tools? The only thing I see is endless supply of money and ammo which means attrition. Russia will win in manpower but maybe not economically. I'm kindly asking to be educated with more than talking points we've all heard from politicians.

I don't need a lecture on Russia's character. What I was curious to learn from you, or anyone, what could be done differently to defeat them? How would Russia respond if we send more advanced weaponry? Does Ukraine have the men to fight?

I'm getting downvoted but honestly looking for answers.

We've been doing that. What more do you suggest we do?

The war has been going on for three years with no end in sight. What's the next move? What are your ideas to defeat Russia and take back the areas they've gained since 2014?

Honest question: Where do you deploy? What do you use for queues? Database? It's impossible to beat React for component libraries but, lemme tell you, I've struggled to be productive with Next when compared to Rails.

It's nonsense and worse: hype. I recently went through a bunch of Vercel apps and compared them to some of my favorite Rails/Django apps. The best performing Vercel apps were on par at best.

Can you point us to your Vercel apps and what kind of traffic you're dealing with?

This is the sticking point for me. I get so many gains in Rails but I quickly sink into time-consuming component research/building. My eyes are always open for HTML/JS component libraries along the lines of react-aria.

My wife and I adopted two severely abused and neglected children and held out until they were 14. But the thing that we quickly realized is that our children's online life was only as secure as their friends most permissive parent. It still boggles my mind how many elementary-aged children had unfettered access to the internet. I suspect a lot of them unwittingly traumatized themselves.

I'm a full-time RVer and see this all the time with diesel trucks. The trucks get "deleted" and modded for more power and to disable the DEF system. Almost everyone I've known throughout the years begins having transmission trouble within months, especially after heavy load. A few swear by it. I've got a very expensive Cummins and I'm hellbent to leave it stock (and under warranty).

Let me tell you how much time I spent with Claude and ChatGPT trying to get Next.js and Lucia with Postgres playing nicely. Never got it to work. Then I hit `rails new -d postgresql -j esbuild -c tailwind` and tried authentication-zero. Up and running in ~10 minutes.

It got me to thinking. Rails consistency and conventions are one of the biggest advantages for AI. While far from perfect, it seems the less code needed (Ruby/Rails) is a multiplier for AI.

My guess is that Remix is not getting the traction they expect and want to leverage React Router's installed base. I often see Next.js in job opportunities but rarely see Remix. Ryan's announcement demo was good.

They've been trying for a long time. I worked on Instant Ink back in 2013-14.

Remix is great and it's my favorite meta framework. I've used it on some quick MVPs and a blog but when it comes to production apps as one-man-shop, I always go back to my safety zone of Rails. For those running robust Remix apps: can you share your stack and where you deploy? How are you doing auth? Are you on a team or doing solo work? I'm genuinely curious because I would love to leverage so much of React (UI components, etc.).

Same thing here. Perception is everything.

Me either. I don't understand the lack of interest from a product AND engineering perspective. It's super cool.

I see your point but I let the technology do the talking. People focus on personalities but the work is what matters to me. I used to get annoyed at DHH but then I just ignored it and built stuff really fast.

In the case of Rails, I lose type safety but also get a huge boost of productivity in other with extremely well-documented features: database migrations, testing, mailers, queues/jobs, file storage, rich text, authentication helpers (especially v7), etc. Re: spaghetti: I'm not sure my Rails setup is less neat and tidy than the React, Redux, Saga, GraphQL Typescript codebase of my 9-5 TBH. Could be just me though.

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Yes. Hotwire is an incredible productivity booster. There can be some lag on waiting for the server to respond in some scenarios but I just drop into Stimulus and perform some manual "optimistic" UI updates -- usually in a just a few lines. I create all my new Rails projects with Tailwind and esbuild and have had no issues whatsoever. The new authentication stuff (generates_token...) is also a huge time saver.

Spot on. Laravel is amazing but bang for buck, Rails is king. I like React a lot and it checks a lot of boxes, but my personal projects are almost always Rails (sometimes Astro) these day.

This is great and I love the simplicity and speed (of page load and development). Curious, I ran it through Lighthouse and received a performance score of 100. By way of comparison, some of the more notable blogs on cloud edge were consistently between 60-80. Just checking my perceptions.