Agreed. It really all is an obvious consequence of optimizing only the things that can be measured on a two dimensional graph, at the expense of all the things that can't (even though in the long term those complex, multidimensional things like culture and care and integrity do, indeed, "make line go up", though perhaps with a smaller first derivative)

I think, ultimately, what is not serious here is the author of TFA. Ruby (and Rails) still work, the ecosystem is still healthy, and their dubious citations of ruby's shortcomings (twitter's fail whale? comparing it to perl?) are just that, dubious.

and kind of a counter point to the GGGP's "Unix compliancy isn't what's keeping me on macOS, the Unix tools it has under the hood still is."

I certainly replace a large chunk of the "unix tools under the hood" with tools installed via homebrew.

> I had a driver's license. I used it so little that I let it expire and I'm not in a rush to renew it.

Don't wait too long - I did that and had to take the test again! :)

Not to be too, um, dismissive, but one of the things we discussed in my 300 level class called _Artificial Intelligence_ in college 2 decades ago was regular expressions, so, that ship has sailed far over the horizon.

indeed, isn't hallucination one of the purported intended effects of a sensory deprivation tank?

Their Irish tax haven is rather specifically _not_ in the UK.

yeah isn't it in... you know... Ireland?

There is the Republic of Ireland, not in UK, and Northern Ireland, in UK.

And Apple's "haven" is in Republic of Ireland, so no, not UK.

fyi, if you see Ireland or Irish mentioned it nearly always refers to the Republic of Ireland.

Oh American education system please never change

I’ve met a few fellow brits who don’t know the difference.

this really makes me regret doing nothing like this when I recently had my passport photos taken.

I had my photo taken by an employee at the post office where they submit the application. It would have been fun to walk in and start duct taping myself to the wall without saying a word.

Here (ireland), you can take your own photo with a phone or something. Though, they explicitly say "no selfies". I'm glad of this, since I can try multiple times to get a good one. Also, you normally get them in the post in two to three days.

I'll likely try something like this next time I renew.

The tight integration of the Apple Card with their hardware also means it makes their hardware (iPhones) better. They can lose money on the Apple Card and make money if it means some people like the integration enough to buy into the iPhone ecosystem (sign up for an Apple Card and get an interest free loan to buy an iPhone? I can see that getting new customers)

I'm curious how you can find rails incredible while simultaneously hating ruby? Rails takes a lot of its inspiration from the language itself (internals relying heavily on metaprogramming, lots of exploitation of ruby's quirks all over the place). Like, what do you like about rails and what do you hate about ruby and how do those two things not overlap?