Can you provide examples of such a place? From my perspective, I find it difficult to believe that this has ever been attempted at a scale that is sufficient to come to that conclusion. I'd love to hear otherwise.

A "true" technocracy has never been, but China has exhibited the only "almost" example during the late 20th century. That was the period when they transformed from a sustenance-farming backwater to a powerhouse on the world stage.

Of course, it is always easy for a backwater to play catchup after someone else has already figured out how to advance. It is difficult to attribute that success to technocracy, and it is likely that any system could have allowed the same forward momentum, but the correlated track record is quite good regardless.

The USA flirted with the idea of technocracy around the time of the Great Depression. That is, perhaps, where the "bad record" idea has come from, but that's a pretty big leap.

I feel like they are coming with the same energy as "socialism never works and always fails....because we make it fail."

> Yet you participate in society. Curious!

Format on save is my worst enemy. It may work fine for go, but you'll eventually run into code where it isn't formatted using the one your editor is configured for. Then, you end up formatting the whole file or having to remember how to disable save formatting. I check formatting as a git hook on commits instead.

If you’re checking it on git hooks then it’s even safer to have format on save. Personally I default to format on save, and if I’m making a small edit to a file that is formatted differently, and it would cause a messy commit to format on save, then I simply “undo” and then “save without formatting” in the VSCode command palette.

We have format commits so that we have separate non-logic commits that don't have to be aggravated over if we find files are all off.

You can also add those non-logic commits to a .git-blame-ignore-revs file, and any client that supports it will ignore those commits when surfacing git blame annotations. I believe GitHub supports this but not sure. I think VSCode does…

I used gentoo for years. While I still have a fond spot for those memories, saying that it is simpler than nixos is just flat out wrong. I've vastly simplified my involvement and removed most pitfalls from my day to day. Years pass with minimal breakage or churn and my devices just keep working.

I think it may just be a personal thing about the feeling of a vehicle. All of my cars felt dead until I got into an EV. Now, I actually get giddy about using it and accelerating. Before it was just emptiness.

I think it definitely depends on your vehicle history. Going from an automatic 2004 Camry to a 2022 Model 3 will feel like a massive jump. But from a stick shift tuned golf? Less so…

I see it more as a simplicity fetish. I don't want to have to deal with the complexity of software that is not packaged via nix. It's a big headache to deal with, I need it to be simple and work.

This has been the primary hurdle for me. I like it when I can just install regular linux and be on my way. Having to do a bunch of kernel nonsense is just not fun. I don't even mind messing with the kernel, but I want to use the mainline kernel.

Something that doesn't exist can't be a bad thing.

I think the opposite. If you think this illustrates leftism, you are probably much further to the right than you think.

Can you provide any specific examples of this "period of extreme leftist opinions"? I can't see this as anything but a non-legitimate comment due to this line. Where the hell has there ever been such a thing? At best I see it as a period of right leaning centrism.