And yet Europe is unable to support Ukraine enough to change the course of war.
Which is the direct cause of the current situation. If Europe was so strong and ready, war in Ukraine would be over, Russia was defeated, and US wouldn't even think of doing what it is doing.
A pedantic point. Even in a non-industrialized tribal society an oral poet needs a mud house, sandals and various tools. Someone needs to make those, probably the poet themselves.
> While I am around I'll shield myself as much as possible by self hosting, custom phone ROMs etc.
It is the opium for nerdy people. You are not important, and this is the only thing that shields you. Your custom ROMs will mean nothing if they decide to come for you.
I was a member of a political party (socialist). And I would go into discussions with the extreme-right fascists in my country (which currently have about 30% of votes). But there is no point. They don't care about facts or reason, it's more like a religion. They get themselves all worked up about internet memes about things that don't even happen and it's impossible to convince them of reality. I think they just enjoy being rabiately angry. In any case, I don't need that negativity in my life anymore.
> It is the opium for nerdy people. You are not important, and this is the only thing that shields you. Your custom ROMs will mean nothing if they decide to come for you.
I know the $10 hammer thing. But right now the government isn't the biggest threat here, surveillance capitalism is. Google and Meta don't come after us with hammers. The government threat is emerging (chatcontrol etc). I think for that opsec is much more important anyway.
But they are still worse experience that dedicated, separate languages.
Compare ModelingToolkit.jl with Modelica (ok, there are some differences in capacilities, but just compare how better is to express models in Modelica).
DSL is always better until you need to grow an ecosystem around it. If you can, go down the DSL path, otherwise use embedded DSL. If you can, go down the embedded DSL path otherwise use a library.
The metaphors of camel, lion and child have nothing to do with finding joy, experiencing life, or whatever that could matter in the context of this posting, and Joseph Campbell is pretty weak resource on Nietzsche.
No, it has everything to do with it all - particularly becoming a child again, rather than living via your children, who will eventually no longer be children and then leave you.
As for campbell, he studied him plenty and even curated a "portable jung" compendium. Moreover, his description of the camel, lion, child (from, at the very least, Zarathustra) is exceedingly accurate.
Quite funny from someone suggesting that being very into Jungian thought gives you some credibility when it comes down to Nietzsche.
> particularly becoming a child again, rather than living via your children, who will eventually no longer be children and then leave you.
Please, just go and read the original. It should make it clear for you. For now your "interpretation" of Nietzsche is equivalent to New Age take on Buddhism.
> I just find this sudden moral outrage by tech workers to be quite intellectually lazy and revisionist about what it is we were all doing just a few years ago.
You are right, thus downvoted, but still I see current outcry as positive.
I appreciate this and many of the other perspectives I’m encountering in the replies. I agree with you that the current outcry is probably positive, so I’m a little disappointed in how I framed my earlier comment. It was more contrarian than necessary.
We tech workers have mostly been villains for a long time, and foot stomping about AI does not absolve us of all of the decades of complicity in each new wave of bullshit.
Still good at excuses. It is not sick, it is weak and incapable of necessary violence.
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