For how long can the US maintain its current posture? What is it, more Patriots spent in 4 days than in 4 years in Ukraine?

Russia is shipping drones to Iran now.

Did you mean: will take the initiative to knock the nest over, retreat into a corner of the room and declare that it’s someone else’s problem now.

The y-combinator is widely regarded as the widest combinator.

Which editors?

Given GitHub is owned by Microsoft, I think VS Code supporting mixing fonts in a buffer would be a good start!

Yes, I configured VS Code to use Monaspace a while ago.

Like Windows?

Hey, don't knock what works!

Imagine if filesystems had exposed the file hash next to its mtime.

I might be missing your sarcasm, but this is a common approach for large scale builds. Virtual filesystems are used to provide a pre-computed tree hash as a xattr. In a more typical case, you can read the git tree hash.

Not sure it was meant as sarcasm really. I just think so many build (and other) problems could have been avoided it a file hash was available on every file by default.

That hash would be expensive to maintain, and the end result would still be racy since the file could be modified after the hash was read .

In the current POSIX paradigm yes, it would be expensive. But if the hash was defined as the hash of fixed blocks, it wouldn't be expensive. The raciness depends, a lot, on the semantics we would define. (In the context of a build system, it's no different than that the file could get a new mtime after we read the mtime.)

”Rrgulation never works”, is a very shallow take. It could mean anything. China is an autocratic system. Is that working? The US is going in that direction.

On top of that, Europe isn’t a country. To have less regulation, you need more of it. Unifying regulations, or else you have dozens of completely different jurisdictions. To a large extent, you still do, even with the EU. You can’t sell to the general public in English. There are so many more things holding Europe back than ”need deregulation”.

Sometimes you in fact need yet another standard to obsolete the previous 27 ones, yes. xkcd://927 notwithstanding.

It was not better, it was less. US imperialism has deep roots, yes, but a large chunk of the world who would tolerate a moderate level of it, don't tolerate this level.

I don’t see any not tolerating it in practice.

A lot of invective, but nothing in practice that really indicates not tolerating.

I hear rumblings about foreign companies disconnecting from American services and products. You don't turn large ships on a dime, but they are turning.

I don't think it was less, though only future historians will come up with actual numbers. It was less public, though.

Most of the world never tolerated it. Even when western governments tolerated it, the population did not; see also the huge worldwide demonstrations against the Iraq war.

I think the difference in perception is because the european oligarchy is now being effectively treated as was previously the rest of the world, so they're now taking a stance because they feel threatened, whereas they previously saw themselves as aligned with the US government no matter what.