@ernietedeschi a functional programming language usable by average devs would already be impressive, a functional programming language somewhat usable by the masses is a miracle
@maxtmcc I think in order to have an aura-farming title, you gotta have an aura-farming proposition ("contract with america") and also overturn nationwide geographic dynamics permanently (which still might happen tbf)
@zunxra@st_noah_of_arc the last two aren't that unusual within the US (the last one is common-to-universal nationwide, and the second to last is common in western states)
@sakaimii because, thinking one layer down the stack, one nice benefit of being with the big 3 cloud providers is that you don't have to deal with this sort of idiosyncratic risk, and I'd have expected storefronts and such to do the same
@sakaimii do they not have SLAs for this? and on the provider side, insurance for SLA risk? seems weird, but I guess in the scheme of things these (both sides) are all really pretty small companies
@bongomansam Alito thinks Trump isn't partisan enough to replace him with a sufficient partisan (because of his first-term picks) and he probably will live 10+ years anyway, Thomas is just not a partisan he's a weirdo ideologue with specific thoughts and doesn't give a shit about Republicans
@portraitinflesh it takes a ridiculous amount of time to actually cast a ballot when you have to vote on a dozen judges, a bunch of ballot props, and every two-bit executive office
@kuehmiyue this is true of every culture because the encroaching globalized food culture consists of incorporating all the economically viable good stuff along the way
@matthewgasiews1@mattyglesias 1. you're treating meeting up on the internet as zero value when it's actually a significant fraction of the value of meeting up in person 2. people do, actually, still meet up in person (though maybe this is inspection paradox on my part a little bit)