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A podcast bro cites scripture saying queers need to get stoned, he gets a stone to the neck himself. "Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First". Badda bing badda boom. Lotta angry people.

"you can return to the past, but no one will be there"

it was never clear what the niche of Ruby was other than being a modernish scripting language for non-critical web dev. I remember Ruby on Rails becoming trendy for web startups with inexperienced programmers (I was one of them) to prototype things in because Active Record was a simple ORM for its time, outside of that there wasn't much other justification for the stack and since the proliferation of similar easy-to-use frameworks in other languages it hasn't been necessary

Vance grew up with middle class access to stuff like stable housing, food in the fridge, his grandparents had stock and pension plans, he peppers his book with spicy poverty stuff like finding a weed plant or second hand stories of blood fueds to vet hillbilly cred. There are many middle class families that go through similar shit, but the common black/latino poverty experience often involves surviving narco gang cultures, ambient verbal and physical harassment among friends and family where calling the cops isn't an option, or coercive sex or rape at an early age. Urban poverty is an entirely different beast where you witness 12 year girls olds being given MDMA and entering the sex trade, later having to go to witch doctors or cauldron chemists for improvised poison abortions because Vance's party demedicalized the practice in your state.

there are more of all these bottlenecks among the proprietary or open source project worlds, which have yet to collaborate amongst themselves to unify the patterns in their disparate codebases and algorithms into a monolith designed to compress representations of repeated structures edited for free by a growing userbase of millions and the maturing market of programmers who grew up with cheap GPUs and reliable optimization libraries

the article's subtitle is currently false, people collaborate more with the works of others through these systems and it would be extremely difficult to incentivize any equally signifciant number of the enterprise software shops, numerics labs, etc to share code: even joint ventures like Accenture do not scrape all their own private repos and report their patterns back to Microsoft every time they re-implement the same .NET systems over and over