exactly. Also, there's so much adventure to be experienced, so much beauty to appreciate. It's worth it. Also, the world _does not have to be experienced as constantly dangerous_ and it's important to allow a respite from that message.
That the world is dangerous is self-evident, but it's not interesting to me to force that message into places it ought not be. And I think adults conceptions of 'the world is dangerous' does not always match the harm as experienced by children. They know the world is dangerous. They experience it all the time.
Is it though? I mean yes, but one argument I would have against overly glorifying some of these fairy tiles is that the way the world is dangerous today is very different from the way it was two hundred years ago.
Didn't work at Trader Joes, but at another grocery chain for a while as a store buyer. I had essentially no control over pricing unless we had a bunch of backstock we had to move quick to avoid expiration. In those cases we had some level of store-level autonomy to "price to move." That being said, it was heavily tracked and if anyone was doing it too much I'm sure there would be consequences of some sort.
Besides that, we'd get updates from corporate with a list of new price tags we'd print out any time they changed something (100% with regional fluctuation baked in, but not at a store level).
I worked at a summer camp in college. We had some campers and staff build a fire near the river and neglect to fully douse the embers. Hours later there was an "all hands" call on the radio. The fire had spread in about a 10 foot radius by the time we got to it. Since the soil was so loose and sandy, it had caught the roots on fire. Took hours of digging to put it out. Could not have been controlled without a team, equipment, and a quick response.
Currently building with Next/TRPC/Prisma/PG and would choose it again. I might be a little slower than starting with a full-featured MVC kit like Laravel or Rails, but having an e2e type system is so worth it to me. I do miss having a more mature ORM.
I'm constantly tempted by Phoenix but desuaded by the lack of a type system. Does elixir somehow make up for the lack of types as a functional language? Also, I can reuse a good deal from my current stack in a react-native app for mobile, which I'd miss out on in another framework.
Wish I could say Flutter, but have not been impressed by the web experience.
There's a component called dialyzer that can help detect type issues, but i wouldn't say its nearly as useful as having real types in a language. That said, I've never found it to be much of an issue in Elixir, and the advantages you get with BEAM are worth it. There's a newer language called Gleam that does have a strong type system you may want to investigate, as it runs on BEAM (like Elixir and Erlang) and can use libraries and applications from both in its apps.
