I know what the author means, but I don't share the experience.

Hey whatever happened to Factor? That was an amazingly professional offering in a weird and dusty corner of the programming languages.

it's somewhat alive.

they do some releases, they have a somewhat big project of rewriting vm in zig.

ah the packbot. I remember working on that.

First job out of college in 1986 was at Teradyne, working in BLISS.

this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.

cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin

the internet i grew up with didn't exist yet

This feels to me like a transitional problem. People will learn not to do this. I hope.

The stuff by Peter Watts, Blindsight and so on, is fun.

it should apply to all public sector unions, they're a disaster. That's the real problem. Should never have been allowed.

Cop unions are very different from basically every other kind of union. Cops aren't workers. They don't need workers unions.

Teachers and administrative staff are workers. They need workers unions.