China should really send him a gift basket or something. He’s done such an amazing job convincing the ruling class in the US that China is collapsing. 🤣

Absolutely no reason to expect that the US will survive as a country at this point.

Ukraine allowed itself to be cynically being used as cannon fodder by NATO. That was the game plan all along.

Given that universities in US are effectively run as a business nowadays, the fact that they’re becoming insolvent should be more than mildly concerning.

for sure, these people really do think they live in a fantasy show

I mean Times of India is about as reliable as any source on this. The reason I’m not treating it as reliable because I don’t treat anything Trump says seriously, not because of the particular source.

If western economic integration actually meant anything then it would’ve been.

except that western liberals are the villains

After three glorious years of sanctions that totally crippled… oh wait, achieved nothing. This new batch will definitely work!

I mean, I’m not treating it as reliable by any stretch of imagination. Not to mention that nothing Trump says has any meaning to begin with.

lol I was wondering about that

That’s precisely what Bessent and Lutnick running around promising would happen.

Actually, they acknowledge in the first instance that the carrier was being attacked and was taking evasive maneuvers that caused the jet to become loose. The second one doesn’t mention it explicitly. However, here’s another article talking about casualties on the 7th https://theintercept.com/2025/05/07/navy-jet-truman-red-sea-yemen-houthis/

Trump made the announcement on Tuesday, and the second F18 was lost on Wednesday https://abcnews.go.com/International/2nd-navy-fighter-jet-truman-aircraft-carrier-lost/story?id=121542299

What I’m saying is that most good static typing systems do not practically have such limitations, you’d be very hard pressed to find them and they’d be fairly illogical. Most static typing systems that are used in enterprise do have limitations because they are garbage.

Of course they do, it’s silly to claim otherwise. Some type systems are certainly more flexible than others, but each one necessarily restricts how you can express yourself. Not to mention the fact that advanced type systems introduce mental overhead of their own. The more flexible the type system is the more complex it is as a result. There was even famously a debugger for Scala type system illustrating just how absurd things can get. I’ve used plenty of typed languages including Haskell, so I understand perfectly well how modern static typing works.

Meanwhile, I’d argue that Typescript provides incredibly weak guarantees in practice, and the impact of transpiling on the workflow is not insignificant.

My experience is that immutability plays a far bigger role than static typing. The best pattern for ensuring correctness and maintainability is to break things up into small components that can be reasoned about independently. Any large project can be broken up into smaller parts, and that’s by far the best approach towards ensuring correctness that I’ve seen.

Again, that’s my experience working with many different languages for over two decades now. I’m not suggesting other people can’t have their own preferences.

That’s not what I’m saying. I think static typing introduces a certain set of trade offs that some people prefer. You restrict the set of statements that are possible to express to ones that can be checked by the type system, and as a result you get additional compile time guarantees. For example, Lemmy devs prefer this trade off and it has nothing to do with enterprise workflows.

I agree, the language alone isn’t a silver bullet. I’m not suggesting that it is. You still have to implement good workflow, do testing, code reviews, architecture design, and so on. All these things are language agnostic. What the language can do is reduce friction in your workflow, and nudge design in the right direction by making it easier to do the right thing. I largely see it as a quality of life improvement.

Also, I’m not saying that patterns like adapters don’t have their uses or that you might not use a similar approach in a functional language. My point was that these types of patterns tend to be more pervasive in mainstream languages.

Static typing itself is a trade off as well. It introduces mental overhead because you are restricted to a set of statements that can be expressed using a particular type system, and this can lead to code that’s written for the benefit of the type checker rather than a human reading it. Everything is a trade off in practice.

Finally, the choice of language ultimately depends on a particular team. Different people think in different ways, and have different experience. The best language is the one that majority of the team is comfortable using. Hence, I’m speaking here from my personal perspective of the way I enjoy doing development. This will necessarily vary from person to person.

I think so.

It’s the American way.

He’s making it up, and there have already been more attacks since he made the announcement.