Given the infamous conditions of diamond mining, to me that reads like “won’t someone think of the jobless slaves?” Someone no longer being forced to slave away in the mines is not exactly a great loss to workers rights.
“De Beers: Because the tears of children make it sparkle!”
They're not jobless slaves, they are job having people who are losing their jobs. If there was a better job available they'd do it. Now they are going to be homeless I assume.
WSJ is almost never rated center-left on any media bias charts based on any objective standards (eg. Ad Fontes media chart). They always fall into center-right.
Those ratings are always taking editorials into account. The actual journalism absolutely isn’t right-leaning. They were sued by Donald Trump for writing unfavorable stories about him just this year.
I've never heard of WJS being center-left. But then I don't read it, I only come across what is occasionally shared online, most of which sounds insane.
This is another indicator that "lifecycle" scripts in NPM (or other packaging systems, except perhaps Debian or RPM) are an idea we need to learn to live without. At most, packages should be able to emit a message to the user asking them to invoke a one-liner if a setup action is truly necessary.
As a side benefit, eliminating package scripts will contribute toward reproducibility of Docker and VM images.
Temporal and DBOS are more around the durability guarantees. If you have tasks that are expensive to restart from scratch, or if you have human-in-the-loop approvals, or you have months between steps (e.g. 90-day warranty inspection after installation), you want that durability.
I was excited about this idea, but based on the writing patterns and vague stories I'm pretty sure these writeups are mostly AI slop. For example, this is classic ChatGPT phrasing:
> The growth I’d been celebrating wasn’t real growth—it was just a spike of first-time buyers who never came back.
If I'm wrong, and these were actually written by a human, I'd love a chance to stand corrected and apologize.
My favorite section in an RFC is "alternatives considered". I've seen many times that an option that had been initially discarded became the solution after review and discussion. It's also a great way to answer later questions about "why didn't you do X instead".
Just imagine being the designer of this thing and sitting at Thanksgiving dinner with your family. "Oh, tedchs, what've you been up to at work?" "Okay well this is gonna sound odd but we invented a camera for your stool... No, not that stool... Yes, it clips onto the bowl..."
My question is, why can Google themselves not just provide a dump to archive.org themselves? Having volunteer middlemen doing the work seems like an artificial crisis.
So wait, on this Labor Day weekend, it sounds like the WSJ is pro-worker, but only if they're in South Africa?
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