jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron.bsky.social Yeah, I really hate this take that anything short of welcoming antisocial behavior in public spaces is like ordering a pogrom on the poor. It reinforces a conservative narrative that the only effective recourse is state violence, and since that's bad, you have to deny the problem...
jmoiron/monet master 5678993 extract bits of the autosave lib to make way for using it elsewhere
jmoiron/monet master 80f794f commit extracted flash, fix some autosave issues, map esc key in modal
jmoiron/monet autosave 6828de8 pull more autosave modal stuff out of template and into js to make it easier to share among different apps
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: To be honest I don't use JR much within Tokyo when I can avoid it, as Tokyo metro is almost always more convenient and easier to navigate. Despite that, the Yamanote is legendary and has a special place in my heart and I don't mind taking it once in a while.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The same loop in NYC doesn't really fit but thanks to the G train, approximating it is at least possible. Hong Kong's lack of a east/west New Territories connection makes such a loop impossible even though I'd say the MTR is generally much better than the NYC Subway.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Bert Hubert wrote a great piece about how if you outsource enough of the production of something, innovation becomes impossible: berthub.eu/articles/pos... I can see this happening with software. With no humans writing software, who will have the knowledge to innovate that proc...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As Cindy Sridharan has noted on the other site, despite the supposed productivity gains, there doesn't appear to be a bonanza of envelope pushing software in the post-AI era. If anything, the state of the art for systems software was changing much faster in the 2010s.