what are you comparing this to btw?

My outdated/incorrect mental model of how well databases work.

sounds like the kinds of hyperbole someone whose just been forced to set a linter for the first time

> Debugging is hell

Most people won't care because the extent of their debugging skills is console.log, echo, print. repeat 5000 times.

printf() debugging is still considered a best practice in the eyes of many. I still remember being really surprised when I heard my famous (Turing award-winning) CS professor tell the class this for the first time.

https://tedspence.com/the-art-of-printf-debugging-7d5274d6af...

The thing about printf debugging is that it works universally. All languages, all platforms, all stacks. Even down to the lowest levels of most software, there will always be some sort of log available.

While some tools/frameworks might have more robust debugging tools, if you have a dynamic role within an organization, you may not find it worth the effort to set them up if your target platform is constantly changing.

One real world example of this from my own work in PHP - there is a tool/lang-extension called XDebug that is great and provides step through debugging, but historically, it has been a pain to configure. It's gotten better, but when I can just as easily add a few `dump()` statements that expose the same data, it's overkill. Very rarely do I need to actually pause the running request to debug something and 99% of the time, I just want to know the state of that object within an specific `if()` block and a debug log gets me that same information.

You missed out the important bit - think about the problem and data flow first.

After that it doesn’t matter much which tool you use to verify assumptions.

I don't agree! It's easiest to printf() things since you don't have to have tooling to debug every language you want to work with!

while you should know this for anything you're proficient in, I usually reach for printf since it's usually quicker than messing with a debugger :)

> I don't agree! It's easiest to printf() things since you don't have to have tooling to debug every language you want to work with!

Nothing is easier than setting a breakpoint in a line of code and running the app.

When a breakpoint is hit, you also have access to local variables and their state. Some debuggers even allow us to change variable values at runtime.

Using printf is effective, but far from being the best way to achieve anything.

You guys are probably gonna laugh me out of the room, but I use a combination of both printing and debugging tools when identifying issues.

No one pays for Claude Code, they pay a subscription to access the Claude Models.

lmao who even unironcally uses claude code when other harnesses exist that eclipse them ?

Once the software is written, it is ~free to copy. People pay a lot of money to avoid the software getting copied... and it gets copied anyways.

The thing is that one software is easy to crack and copy, so it is cheap...but a lot of softwares to work together is not, so that's why we have SaaS and PaaS today.

To clarify, I used "manufacturing" there, as opposed to R&D, to differentiate from physical stuff. Software costs lots to develop, but nothing to make a second copy of.

> I think the problem is that if you read what people say about why they voted for Trump, it becomes clear that an echo chamber is at least as salient to these voters as traditional Republican motivations.

same can be said about people on the opposite side.

> same can be said about people on the opposite side.

This is not true - the things that traditional Democrats supported in 1992 are largely the same things supported now.

The point is not the echo chamber. The point is that the echo chamber has changed the party orthodoxy.

> the things that traditional Democrats supported in 1992 are largely the same things supported now.

No. See Bernie Sanders in 2015 talking about how America needs strong borders and illegal immigrants are used by big business to rip American workers off. See Obama’s speech on the same. See positions on trans identifying males in women’s sports. See open support for hiring based on sex and race. Many democrat positions from 20 years ago are now considered right wing.

Please find perspectives on each of those from 1992 (the OP mentions a handful of culture wars issues that I won’t reproduce).

You misinterpret my statement when you select hot-button issues of today that were not in the public discourse at that time- and almost none of the things you mention were in ANY public platform at that time.

My point is that the core political planks from then (healthcare for example, jobs for coal workers) are maintained in one political tradition and not another.

I don’t think the 1992 perspectives would have been different from the 2015 perspectives. Do you?

I live in a different western country but was old enough to watch the US news (Tom Brokaw) then. People did actually discuss these things. The consensus was: the border should exist. Tomboys were tomboys. Effeminate boys were effeminate boys. You can’t just have a policy of hiring someone based on their race because that’s silly and illegal.

> I live in a different western country but was old enough to watch the US news (Tom Brokaw) then. People did actually discuss these things. The consensus was: the border should exist. Tomboys were tomboys. Effeminate boys were effeminate boys. You can’t just have a policy of hiring someone based on their race because that’s silly and illegal.

I'm very curious about this if you're able to find records on this sort of thing.

From the top:

- I don't think the words we use on news these days were even allowed back then (rapists, Small Hands Rubio), so I don't think "these things" were discussed.

- "You can’t just have a policy of hiring someone based on their race because that’s silly and illegal." You said you're not American, so you may not understand that the current ethos of 'reverse racism' was not how this question was viewed in the 90's

- "the border should exist" This hasn't changed. I'm not sure why people are so ready to parrot this point, when Obama deported more people than any previous president, and Biden continued that. If anything, there has been a monotonic increase in this (but nevermind that many large businesses rely on undocumented labor)

- "Effeminate boys" I am sure that was never on the news in the 90s, and definitely not in a party platform. Gay people have always existed and it's a credit to our current era that we have finally started acknowledging that this isn't a 'wrong' way of living

First time I heard ‘small hands Rubio’ but yes totally agreed politics seems dirtier now.

Anyone with enough exposure to American culture to realise the reasons given for stopping anti black racism are now thrown out, and left wing activists are openly discriminating against Asians, Europeans and Jewish people.

“the border should exist” is now controversial. People think “defending migrants” (which I am) means defending illegal migration. There are suburban mom vigilantes taking on LEOs.

I am talking about sterilising and giving cosmetic surgery to effeminate boys and tomboy girls. We used to acknowledge they existed. Now we tell them their bodies are wrong. Which is not a credit to our current era.

All these positions are remarkably different from the 1990s. Asides from present day politicians having different views in older recordings, Bill Maher also talks about this very frequently.

Leave trans people alone.

> People think “defending migrants” (which I am)

I hate to bring up all the actions taken against American citizens and legal migrants.

> Bill Maher also talks about this very frequently.

I would not take his talking points to reflect Democratic Party orthodoxy. However, I would challenge you to compare his 1990s recordings to the more recent ones to see how things have changed.

This has happened 7 times before.

The last was Amsterdam.

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no u

the 80 year cycle