The more I write code in other languages where I think hard about ownership ("does this method ultimately grab the object and throw a ref onto some long-lived data structure somewhere? Then it owns it, so I better clone it") the more robust my code in other languages generally gets. Same with mutation. Generally better to make a copy of something and then mess with it and throw it away than to try to mutate-then-unmutate or something like that, even though it might in principle be nanoseconds faster. Eliminate loads of spooky-action-a-distance bugs where things are getting mutated in one spot and used in another spot, when there should have been a copy in there somewhere.

It is the same energy as the "you criticize society, yet you participate in society" meme. Catching someone out on their "hypocrisy" when they hit a limit of what they'll tolerate is really a low-effort "gotcha".

And it probably isn't astroturf, way too many people just think this way.

Or it is just the result of firing people who were competent and giving insufficient training to people who had never done this before.

So if you don't have a garbage collector, and you don't have manual memory management, and you don't have lifetimes... What do you have?

The plan is something like mutable value semantics and linear types. I'm figuring it out :)

If the right lane goes straight, you can't turn right from any other lane.

Obviously. But the comment said TURN LANE.

Read it again. They didn't say the middle lane was a turn lane.

Nobody said he did. He said the RIGHT lane was a TURN LANE. Which means the lane to the left of it could count on the people TURNING, not going straight.

WTF, YOU made the comment: "If the right lane goes straight"

You might as well say, "if the people on the opposite side of the road cross the median..."

I read that as a sloppy way to say that the right lane allows turning, rather than requires turning.

Otherwise, it makes literally no sense, as you say.

Most people don't post utterly logically inconsistent ideas. Usually, they just screw up English and mean one thing when they say the other.

That would be the lane for turning, yes?

Yep. Which is why "If the right lane goes straight" doesn't make sense. We've already established that the right lane does NOT go straight, because it's a turn lane.

> Since COVID ...

I was noticing driving getting worse before COVID.

It is the plague of narcissism and individualism out there (which doesn't just affect "boomers" but also every millennial and zoomer that dreams of doing nothing other than becoming an "influencer" and posts their life on their Instagram).

Social media, low attention spans, cellphone and driving distractions, narcissism, and "fuck you, got mine" culture is going to wind up being to blame. It is a population-wide axis II personality disorder.

Yeah, the problem is that the tariffs are letting our carmakers just become unproductive, uncompetitive leeches on the American consumer. They're getting lapped by China/BYD.

Once BYD bulldozes the rest of the world, our domestic manufacturers are guaranteed to fail.

> Unless you’re the only deli in town.

pretty much.

back in the before times, we broke up AT&T, but we don't do that anymore.

It is risk aversion in low level managers, and profit margins in high level managers, and since they're the market leader in the US and smartphones are pretty mature there's little risk of anyone jumping ship (go to android, start over, lose all your apps, get differently frustrating issues).

They don't have a Steve Jobs anymore to sit down with the product, get frustrated beyond belief with it, and start sticking boots up asses on general principle.

Nobody is going to step up to do that because all the other executives would hate them for it and knife them in the back, and it would be seen as a waste of effort. And nobody could ever tie fixing those bugs to making a financial number go up, and would argue instead that it was pure cost for no benefit.

or rubygems