> I feel like you're glossing over my main point, which is that this stuff 100% does breed resentment for the average person, which is how we end up with people like Trump (obviously there are many more factors to consider but this is definitely one of them).

I mean, having to cater to the feelings of overly sensitive men is how most of these problems started in the first place.

> The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned that and it was awhile before the discrimination was rebooted to run in the opposite direction.

Wow, I am extremely happy to know that all racism ended in 1964!

Sure, now make it work without having to type "\\w"

Yes, there are limits on what string literals can precisely represent, but we've tried to be pragmatic about trade offs around clarity, concision and performance.

Subexpressions like `\\w` or `[a-Z]` would just be inferred as `${string}`, but that doesn't mean the inference won't be useful. For example:

expression: regex("^\\w+@\\w+\\.\\w+$") type: Regex<`${string}@${string}.${string}`>

Can't you use tagged literals to do something similar?

Not sure exactly what you mean by "something similar".

I don't want my hammer to have a razorblade embedded in the handle so if I grab it "wrong" my hand gets sliced up.

Look analogies work both ways!

Poettering would assert that the razorblade is a part of their vision and systemd only supports modern, razorblade resistant hands anyways.

There is no analogy that worked both ways here. Some fitting counter-analogy might exist, but this isn't it, because there are no razor blade analogs in the handle analog of init.

I used hammer as the example because init is actually like a hammer. It is a dead simple impliment with limited scope and knowable, known, and absolutely predictable behaviors and properties. It doesn't actually do much of anything, which makes it infinitely flexible. By not having any will of it's own, it allows you to do more than a more complex, automatic, and integrated tool.

It can't suddenly razor blade you because it doesn't have razor blades or any other special features in the first place.

YOU are the complex integrator. And if you are not, I have no sympathy for you or whatever difficulty you have with responsibility.

You can still have complex automation and management, built on top of simpler lower level agnostic layers and tools. There was never any requirement to remove that flexibility and elegant future-proof design in order to have all the things systemd promises (and really, merely promises, it does not actually deliver any better than anything else).

Systemd is also a grand scope example of tight coupling. It's so bizarre how these supposed genius coders can commit such a huge example of something they all know to avoid like the plague in just a slightly different context.

> custody refused, child grew up a mass murderer as always).

What?

The road network is a much better analogy here.

Isn't that basically what they did? The moon landing was just a big test of the research.

The US spent 6% of its GDP to land on the moon, much of that money going into military and aerospace companies . It is far more efficient to spend that money on medical, health and physics research directly; the moon landing accomplished political and cultural objectives.

> money on medical, health and physics research directly

What precisely is the difference? Where was space-race money spent that shouls be reallocated? My point is you eventually need to put the research into practice.

Everyone else has already jumped on this post but I cannot stress enough how toxic the mentality "everyone does it" is.

Not everyone does it, and people certainly don't do it to the same degree, and when we vote we can actually choose better people. Not perfect. Just better.

Because we have elections that affect the government. Very broadly speaking, we do that by electing republicans or democrats. Republicans consistently do things like censor government agencies and attempt to alter history. Democrats do not.

Blaming "the government" becomes a way to shield criticism of the actual people doing it which means people are ever so slightly less likely to take appropriate corrective actions.

(Saying republicans instead of specific republicans is a bit the same, but there's a certain freedom of association there, if you're currently a republican it means that all of these republican actions are, at minimum, acceptable to you)

There was just last month a huge court case involving the YouTube being pressured during the Biden administration to remove COVID "misinformation" which turned out to be true. I don't think this is as cut and try and you want it to be.

You are arguing against a claim I did not make.

I am not claiming that biden, and the democrats in general, are perfect people who do no wrongs.

I'm arguing that, over the last 30+ years of american history, they have consistently done fewer and smaller wrongs.

"Republicans consistently do things like censor government agencies and attempt to alter history. Democrats do not.". You literally made that exact claim.

Now explain how asking youtube to stop promoting covid misinfo is either of those things.

Which one turned out to be true?