Yeah - it “makes sense” but getting from logical to legislation is a bitch. People don’t like “new taxes” and working out the details would be tricky. Do you apply it to ICE automobiles as well? If so do you reduce the gas tax? If so you’ll be giving a potential benefit to gas guzzlers. etc.

It’s more that “the law and order president” wants to conspire with autocrats Putin and Xi against the rule of international law. That’s your headline, not scuttlebut about whether Putin will regret a war he started.

It’s not a bad idea - though it does add the overhead of some new bureaucracy. Somebody will need to gather that data yearly. Maybe could be done as part of auto inspections though.

the Chinese president made the comments during wide-ranging talks that touched on Ukraine and included Trump suggesting that the three leaders should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

Wait… What? Who cares about gossip about Putin when this is sitting right there?

There’s definitely a problem with the “JavaScript culture”. The whole “we’re going to make everything as easy as possible” approach has some definite negatives, but when you raise them you get accused of gate-keeping.

But like - yeah, we should be gate-keeping. At least for published and shared code. Having high standards for software development is a good thing. When you don’t you get npm.

Python suffers from this a bit as well - but not as bad as the JavaScript ecosystem where relying on a third-party package that does some trivial function is seen as “normal”.

Which sounds reasonable until you think about what costs we refuse to externalize (road repair) and which costs we happily externalize (pollution).

The fact is that road maintenance is funded in part by a gas tax and we’re increasingly adding vehicles to the road that do not pay gas tax. The road maintenance is still there and I’m sure EV drivers will want it to be done as well. Go over to a /c/bicycles forum and ask them how willing they are to subsidize any road maintenance and you’ll figure out quickly why we do something akin to a “use tax” on roads using gasoline as a proxy.

My excuse for what?

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Also not preserved - me needing to spend a weekend getting the flash plug-in to work on Netscape under Linux. Just to watch a badger loop…

Time well spent.

I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “decadent capitalist pigs” - best spoken in a faux Russian accent.

upgrade

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I did some research on the blacks

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Sees the title: It’s npm isn’t it?

clicks: Yeah, It’s npm…

I don’t feel optimistic after Trump’s talk with Xi either.

Classic “over the shoulder”. 🙂

This isn’t a support group… If you want to know if it’s worth it to you to do something then that’s a judgement call we can’t make for you.

In my, let’s just say “many”, years of development I’ve learned a dozen or so languages. Basic, Pascal, c, c++, assembly (x86), Java, ksh, bash, vb, powerbuilder, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, go, rust… I never asked anyone “is it worth learning” though. All languages have similarities which makes it easier to move from one to another. But they also have differences which expand your way of thinking. You learn from them all.

If learning is “worth it” to you, then do it. If not, then don’t. I can’t decide that for you.

Is it worth to learn javascript

Sure. Learn it and every other language you come across. Why wouldn’t you?

Same, though recently I’ve been using httpie which gives a bit of a cleaner cli.

https://httpie.io/cli