I agree with the main concern DHH correctly points out here, that some spaces (mostly inhabited by leftists) are currently calling a lot of people nazis who clearly are not nazis. And they're quite obviously gaslighting the idea that hurting these people is ok.
What people like DHH et al seem to be completely blind about is that the right has been doing this for decades, if not centuries. That is not justification for the left to do the same thing, but at least the other side should acknowledge that and try to move on instead of just perpetuating the cycle.
I doubt being silence makes bullies shut up.
Generally, they show up in favorable environments, where the voice of reason is absent, and no adult is caring about what's going on in the room.
But being just silence? Just makes them worse.
I'm not talking about the people who you think are "adults" (I assume you mean people whose opinions mostly matches yours), I mean everyone. They wouldn't talk about this if nobody was listening.
And people wouldn't listen to them if they talked about things that are not problems.
No, I don't really think so, people with power are listened to because they have power.
Not because they say anything good or meaningful. Sometimes they speak hate.
And even if you just don't listen, others may be listening, and will take you over.
So, you really have to be aware of what people say.
Pushing your hands against your ears won't save you.
One kind of pushing your hands against your ears is ignoring problems that other people are talking about when you're not comfortable with hearing about them.
Another form is being so insecure about your identity and politics that you can't talk about real-world problems anymore. DHH will never see the forest through the trees if he lives in fear of being called a Nazi by someone who can substantiate the claim.
Making immigration illegal, makes immigration a problem.
Making immigration legal and pursuing integration makes immigration not a problem.
That's why so many countries have problems with immigration: they don't integrate.
An AI board would certainly fire a CEO of a $20 billion company who wastes their time doing little tweaking like that. I mean even if there'd be a perfect AI that does something beyond slop consistently, this would still be a waste of time for a CEO.
At least if this is true at all, which should be perhaps doubted a little bit.
Ukraine War started 3 years ago in 2022, not two years ago. Or 11 years ago in 2014, if we count from the illegal annexation of Crimea.
The Gaza war will be a footnote to the actual war happening in Europe. When the terrorist attack of October 7 happened, my first sentiment was that Putin will be ecstatic that half of the world's attention will be shifted away from his crimes. A conspiracy minded person might think this was not an accident.
> You are going to indent your code anyway, so you might as well give the indentation some meaning.
Autoformatters came and fixed that problem. Nobody (except python, haskell and nim coders probably) wastes time indenting code anymore, you save and your code is indented. Nowadays, code that relies on whitespace and has no ending delimiters (like nim and python) gets awkward because the formatters have less information to go on. If your rust or typescript code formats to bad indent or none at all, you have an error.
I have used coding agents with great success. So in some way I'm building useful things using AI, and the people who created those agents absolutely created something extremely useful.
What people like DHH et al seem to be completely blind about is that the right has been doing this for decades, if not centuries. That is not justification for the left to do the same thing, but at least the other side should acknowledge that and try to move on instead of just perpetuating the cycle.