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Even inside Java, projects like quarkus don’t receive fast adoption because Spring is the “professional” way to work. Spring developer experience is awful, I miss hot reload.

Take a look at .http files. They are a file based alternative to postman. I don’t think it has the assertion feature.


This is incredibly similar (we even landed on the same @base syntax)! Thanks for sharing, I think I'll have to look up some parsers to see if there are any tricks I've missed.

I'm also not sure if http files provide a way to share configurations across a set of files / inherit properties? - Similar to how in postman you can share a set of properties within a folder


I haven't finished the reading of the post


I have finished the reading of the comment


Many thanks to Nolan Lawson for his work on PouchDB.

Really enjoy his blog and the posts he did on the PouchDB website.


From Donella Meadows [1]:

PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness)

9. Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).

8. Regulating negative feedback loops.

7. Driving positive feedback loops.

6. Material flows and nodes of material intersection.

5. Information flows.

4. The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).

3. The distribution of power over the rules of the system.

2. The goals of the system.

1. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, power structure, rules, its culture — arises.

Regarding point 2: What is the goal of the current system?

[1] https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t...


For all of you who are genuinely interested in Meadows' system theory here's the first two of a running cybershow series [0,1] talking about levearage points in a modern context.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=21 [1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=19


I would say that the main objective of the current system is to grow. We measure this with the GDP. This growth is necessary for the current system to survive, to pay our debts or keep our jobs, but is also incompatible with reducing carbon emissions [1]

If we could imagine new objectives we can change the paradigm. For instance we could try to have a carbon dividend as a complement to jobs creation [2].

[1] https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend


If we go with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha..., then the goal of the current system is to create wealth inequality.


is the purpose of chemotherapy to make people lose their hair?


It usually cures cancer. The current government concentrates wealth in the hands of the few. Less than 1% of the population owns nearly 50% of the wealth.


Ok. But should "purpose" be redefined as "outcome", as the parent comment suggests?

My thought is no, and that's why "purpose" and "outcome" aren't synonyms in the english language


Wealth inequality here is growth of the richest few. That's why the economy by some measures is doing great - the rich are getting richer.

I don't see where you are getting the word purpose from. I assume you mean goal. If you want to place any outcome in the place of the major or most important outcome, then I arbitrarily declare our government's goal is to move paperclips, as that is an outcome.

I need to study that list of logical fallacies, because obviously curing cancer is the purpose of chemo, and suggesting otherwise is ridiculous.


Consider a graph in which one side shows how easy it is to achieve a goal, and the other side shows how useful it is,

At the beginning of industrialisation we were solving easy and useful problems. For example, sanitation, refrigeration, etc.

Now we're solving problems that are not only useless but potentially destructive, such as the attention economy, artificial intelligence and planned obsolescence. At the same time, these problems use up a lot of energy and cause pollution.


Portugal is the country from OECD with more houses per family (almost 2 houses per family), and we still have a housing crisis


How many of those are in places where people want to live and work?

Having houses in the country 3 hours from a major city is less useful than having residences in the cities.


I love this. I would like to see a mod that turn the ipod into a easy to open device live the nokia's from the 2000


The objective is not to increase renewables but to reduce non-renewables.


This. Increasing renewables without decreasing non-renewables just means... more net emissions. I think statistics on usage of non-renewables are a better indicator of progress than stats on usage of renewables


Michael Burry, one of the guys that shorted the house market in 2008, started to invest in water since 2013

From Wiki: "In 2013, Burry reopened his hedge fund, this time called Scion Asset Management, filing reports as an exempt reporting adviser (ERA) active in the state of California and approved by the SEC.[19] He has focused much of his attention on investing in water, gold, and farm land. He has said, "Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not—water is political, and litigious."[20]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry


Maybe someone else can find the source, but I believe Burry had since exited all of his water based investments.


Seems like he was pretty early in this one.

As Warren Buffett has said “being too early to something is the same as being wrong about it” or something along those lines


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