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@regehr@mastodon.social I feel I’d be more okay with it for make if it traded off the complexity for correctness, but in practice most nontrivial makefiles are wrong, and hard to fix even if you know make well.

@regehr@mastodon.social when you see how republicans just suddenly flipped to optimistic about the economy, I dunno, seems a lot of support for the view it’s just vibes.

Noah Smith seems to think the EU should just somehow simply sort immigrants in a group of desirables and non-desirables. Great concept, except the EU has had an active pushback policy since at least the Syrian crisis, at great human (not to mention moral) cost. It’s only served to embolden right wing populists. Him so easily acquiescing to Vance’s world view is disturbing, to say the least. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/its-time-for-europe-to-stand-up

@stroobl@mastodon-belgium.be aannemers hebben mij al gevraagd dat zo te doen, maar is toch moeilijk? Hier staat er voor de deur altijd wel iemand.

If you offer significant discounts to your service on Black Friday, I don’t want to subscribe on any other day of the year. But come Black Friday I’m so inundated by ads, I’m more than likely to just junk all of them, so I also don’t subscribe then.

Soms vind ik de framing rond “big tech” wel heel tendentieus. Zou het toch niet een heel klein beetje waar kunnen zijn dat de Europese regelgeving nogal voortvarend is? Ik wacht geduldig terwijl u de cookie pop-ups wegklikt. https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/hoe-big-tech-de-druk-opvoert-om-europese-regels-te-schrappen-in-naam-van-innovatie~bcac9434/