Rob Simmons
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boston, cats, computers? he/him
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The ICE resistance in suburban Chicago has convinced me not all suburbs are created equal and that Illinois can have little a suburbs as a treat
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The ICE resistance in suburban Chicago has convinced me not all suburbs are created equal and that Illinois can have little a suburbs as a treat
God thats bleak and basically emblematic of why I gave up on Atlanta.
I’ve perhaps grown past the “fuck everyone in red states” phase but when SPLOST failed I basically decided “Atlanta wants to choke in its own vomit for two generation, have at it I’ll never be back”
I’ve perhaps grown past the “fuck everyone in red states” phase but when SPLOST failed I basically decided “Atlanta wants to choke in its own vomit for two generation, have at it I’ll never be back”
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
God thats bleak and basically emblematic of why I gave up on Atlanta.
I’ve perhaps grown past the “fuck everyone in red states” phase but when SPLOST failed I basically decided “Atlanta wants to choke in its own vomit for two generation, have at it I’ll never be back”
I’ve perhaps grown past the “fuck everyone in red states” phase but when SPLOST failed I basically decided “Atlanta wants to choke in its own vomit for two generation, have at it I’ll never be back”
clicked on the thread because your re-transition comment didn’t seem woke enough to be your most woke opinion but you got cooking downthread (laudatory)
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
clicked on the thread because your re-transition comment didn’t seem woke enough to be your most woke opinion but you got cooking downthread (laudatory)
Huh! Wonder why I convinced myself that worked
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Huh! Wonder why I convinced myself that worked
The absolute wild thing is that this vote won’t release any files! This is legislation; it still has to pass the senate and is subject to veto before it becomes law.
The intensity with which Johnson and the White House have fought this *almost certainly only symbolic* gesture is absolutely insane.
The intensity with which Johnson and the White House have fought this *almost certainly only symbolic* gesture is absolutely insane.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The absolute wild thing is that this vote won’t release any files! This is legislation; it still has to pass the senate and is subject to veto before it becomes law.
The intensity with which Johnson and the White House have fought this *almost certainly only symbolic* gesture is absolutely insane.
The intensity with which Johnson and the White House have fought this *almost certainly only symbolic* gesture is absolutely insane.
Though maybe this is actually the primary GOP playbook for healthcare for a decade: make things so much dramatically worse so that Rick Perry’s plan is an improvement over the new status quo - but it hasn’t actually been executed at this scale.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Though maybe this is actually the primary GOP playbook for healthcare for a decade: make things so much dramatically worse so that Rick Perry’s plan is an improvement over the new status quo - but it hasn’t actually been executed at this scale.
I do believe the most significant political move that Trump blindly stumbled upon in his second term was “create big problems and then solve them halfway and take credit for the solution” and I think a disciplined person (at least on the right but maybe also on left) could wield that scary well
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I do believe the most significant political move that Trump blindly stumbled upon in his second term was “create big problems and then solve them halfway and take credit for the solution” and I think a disciplined person (at least on the right but maybe also on left) could wield that scary well
this makes sense but I’m kind of rooting for the standards bodies rejecting this route out of a pointless pettiness towards MSFT
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
this makes sense but I’m kind of rooting for the standards bodies rejecting this route out of a pointless pettiness towards MSFT
I agree - but the bar is gonna be what Node does now, and what the standards body can provide in some sense has to be not jsdoc not current TS but a secret third thing and this proposal hasn’t foguee that out yet imo
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I agree - but the bar is gonna be what Node does now, and what the standards body can provide in some sense has to be not jsdoc not current TS but a secret third thing and this proposal hasn’t foguee that out yet imo
I get this view, see my other replies. BUT with stable Node type stripping we’re now locked in to a de-facto-specifically-TS stripping spec outside of standards bodies.
Backing out of this is going to be difficult at the level of fixing ES Modules across browser/ts/node incompatible (non-)standards
Backing out of this is going to be difficult at the level of fixing ES Modules across browser/ts/node incompatible (non-)standards
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I get this view, see my other replies. BUT with stable Node type stripping we’re now locked in to a de-facto-specifically-TS stripping spec outside of standards bodies.
Backing out of this is going to be difficult at the level of fixing ES Modules across browser/ts/node incompatible (non-)standards
Backing out of this is going to be difficult at the level of fixing ES Modules across browser/ts/node incompatible (non-)standards
(I also think it doesn’t happen until you deal with JSX as well, which… yipes)
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
(I also think it doesn’t happen until you deal with JSX as well, which… yipes)
That said, I think the committee’s apparent strong reluctance to put this in the standard makes a lot of sense. I‘d put the over/under at 2030 for something like this and I think it’ll look quite a bit different than this proposal or present-day TypeScript.
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
That said, I think the committee’s apparent strong reluctance to put this in the standard makes a lot of sense. I‘d put the over/under at 2030 for something like this and I think it’ll look quite a bit different than this proposal or present-day TypeScript.
Its so revolutionary to be able to do this in Node, and when 22 goes EOL in 2027 and there’s kind of no reason not to have your npm libraries contain .ts files only it gets *really* interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Its so revolutionary to be able to do this in Node, and when 22 goes EOL in 2027 and there’s kind of no reason not to have your npm libraries contain .ts files only it gets *really* interesting.
Reposted by Rob Simmons
I still remember going to the travel doc for malaria pills.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I still remember going to the travel doc for malaria pills.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.
That sucks and sounds considerably worse than the PA system. Lamb was the strong establishment preference vs Fetterman as I recall
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
That sucks and sounds considerably worse than the PA system. Lamb was the strong establishment preference vs Fetterman as I recall
It's worth reminding people every time the primary comes up. And he was really young but so was Ossoff, I don't see a world where the Lieutenant Governor loses that primary to Kenyatta but obviously everyone is better off in the world where he's elected.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It's worth reminding people every time the primary comes up. And he was really young but so was Ossoff, I don't see a world where the Lieutenant Governor loses that primary to Kenyatta but obviously everyone is better off in the world where he's elected.
Just untrue; he had an extremely normcore moderate-leaning Democratic opponent, Conor Lamb, in a heavily contested primary.
Democrats nominated Fetterman because he seemed to give a shit about people, and was the change candidate vs Lamb and we hated the same old Dems in 2022.
Democrats nominated Fetterman because he seemed to give a shit about people, and was the change candidate vs Lamb and we hated the same old Dems in 2022.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just untrue; he had an extremely normcore moderate-leaning Democratic opponent, Conor Lamb, in a heavily contested primary.
Democrats nominated Fetterman because he seemed to give a shit about people, and was the change candidate vs Lamb and we hated the same old Dems in 2022.
Democrats nominated Fetterman because he seemed to give a shit about people, and was the change candidate vs Lamb and we hated the same old Dems in 2022.
Reposted by Rob Simmons
*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
hard to have much effect on policy when you're in MA and have pretty reliable senators already, but I called them both last night expressing disapproval for the deal and contact-form-messaged both of them this morning asking them to call for Schumer and Durbin to be removed from leadership positions
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
hard to have much effect on policy when you're in MA and have pretty reliable senators already, but I called them both last night expressing disapproval for the deal and contact-form-messaged both of them this morning asking them to call for Schumer and Durbin to be removed from leadership positions