The reason was that I was trying to use a newish feature of yarn (plug and play) to improve CI caching. However, it refuses to play nicely with svelte. pnpm provides similar benefits but works with svelte.
> Thamus was a mythical Pharaoh of Upper Egypt, and appears in Plato's dialogue Phaedrus. According to the story told by Socrates in that dialogue, King Thamus received from the god Thoth the knowledge of writing, but decided not to use it too often, as he reckoned this will damage the ability to remember extensively.
There is no doubt "technology" changes us and the way we effectively are. But it's always been like this, and the people lamenting on it are doing it because that's how it was when they came into the world. People born now are coming into a different world, and they will not miss anything. So it goes.
I wish to offer some gentle resistance to the notion that future generations will not miss anything. You can still feel the loss of something even without knowledge of the loss. Too many children are already missing out on the enriching vibrancy of unmediated experience. They feel it as anxiety and depression. Mental health statistics for our youth are disastrous. The adoption of each novel technology that replaces a former way of life involves a loss. This is not to say technology must never be adopted, but there is a trade-off. We should keep in mind what we are losing and what we gain from technology, and use that knowledge to inform the limits of our use.
France depends on Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Niger for uranium. At least it depended on Niger until there was a military coup that stopped further exports. If there is a large scale conflict, I would not bet on those reactors accomplishing much. Not to mention that they did not accomplish much three years ago during the biggest energy crisis in decades, and that they need humongous investments just to keep running, so that they can get retired for further enormous costs. I'm not sure you can lead where your allegedly biggest asset is barely holding its head above water and is long term s huge liability.
It's a theory that makes sense, but in reality e.g. during the crisis in 2022, one of the solutions 6 months in was to fly in welders from the US. Which might be a point that a solution can be found in a crisis, except the Edf had lost billions up to that point, after countless delays, finishing the year over 15 billion in the red. Overall, that industry has been incapable of delivering anything in a reasonable timeframe for decades now, especially in France.
So I would not take theories for granted, even if they make sense.
While not being very actively mined, Czech Republic has large Uranium reserves & provided a lot of the initial soviet uranium after the soviet sponsored comunist coup:
I don't understand the complaint. It's useful especially for people not riding every day or dozens of km on weekends. Sure, press or rotate to go up or down, but then you end up cross-chained on the largest chainring and largest cog.
I have had bikes that did not have numbers, but at least had indicators giving you an approximation where you're at. I sometimes miss that on my road bike when I'm not sure if I should change the gear on the front or not. When you ride enough you get a feel for it, but again not everyone does that.
i guess i ride enough - not dozens of kms or daily, but over many years - to intuit the gear, which is helped by the gear mechanism jumping to discrete positions. The first bikes i rode with gears were Marins back in the 90s which had no indicators, there was an old 3-speed Sturmey Archer (had to Google this one) where the gears are within the hub, I don't recall a gear indicator for that, but perhaps there was
It's not true there was no growth for decades there, but otherwise I agree.
He is not far off from the truth that a lot of the American economy is phony with wrong incentives. I submitted an article recently that makes the same argument, about e.g. the 2008 crisis "we used to sell mortgages to so we can build houses, not build houses so we can sell mortgages".
But his solutions fall on their face. The contradiction you mention is not the only one - his wrong way involves "protectionist economy" which is actually exactly what is happening right now.
It's also a bit funny the current backlash against globalization I'm the US government is led by the people that profited the most from it. That right there tells you their intentions are not noble.
> America really is at a fork in the road. In one world, they abandon all hopes of being an empire, becoming a regional power with highly protectionist economics
Seems like the current choice is to be highly protectionist, not sure if it means becoming a regional power.
"Why do JS people keep doing something new for no apparent reason?"
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