JA WestenbergSep 30, 2024
I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.
Show threadAdeptVeritatisOct 1, 2024

@Daojoan

You probably just wanted to rant about these idiots on HN. But while thinking about the topic, the underlying problem appeared to be pretty multi layered.

Yes, these kind of comments show up often, when we talk about IT. But they don't come from the people actually doing stuff. They come from people, saying they are doing stuff.

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Show threadAdeptVeritatisOct 1, 2024

@Daojoan

"It’s not that hard once you know how." - I never knew before, how to solve my problems. In every single software project, I had to learn almost everything completely new. May be different for other people. But if you don't just (re)create things, which already exist, you can not look at prior art.

"Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust." - A weekend? How can you build something complex in a weekend? Never!

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@Daojoan

But I sometimes catch myself saying "I needed six weeks", too. Not including the three months necessary of preparation to even be able to start programming.

And other people reply to me, they wouldn't get it in half a year. (AITA?)

What was my point?
Forget about those people, just claiming stuff! And turn to the other layers!

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Oct 1, 2024 at 12:16pmWeb
Show threadAdeptVeritatisOct 1, 2024

@Daojoan

The space in the natural world is already completely occupied. To claim a territory, you need power to defend against the outside. Russia for example has not enough power to control all of Ukraine.

The digital space is limited, too. But it is easy to find enough space for your ideas.
To fulfill your desires, you need power, too. This power is directed inwards. You have to invest energy and attention to learn and create. That is not directed outwards.

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Show threadAdeptVeritatisOct 1, 2024

@Daojoan

People don't want or are not able to acquire the strength for the power. Some prefer pushing the people responsible with moral pressure. They use power directed outwards.
Then they receive defensive actions, because the devs react with power directed outwards themselves.
Nothing changes, only resources get wasted.

Remember, devs are the ones actually doing stuff.
And then other people join in the discussion and derail it. That is, what you seemed to be mad about.

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Show threadAdeptVeritatisOct 1, 2024

@Daojoan

But there is another level to it.
"Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust."

That is not an activity, based on outwards power. To collect ideas, how a society can sustain, you have to look inwards.

The whole idea of outwards power is meaningless to stabilize a society from inside.
If your society needs an outside enemy to sustain, it will end in war one day.

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Show threadAdeptVeritatisOct 1, 2024

@Daojoan

We really have to "write" a new state. The old one is broken. Fundamentally broken.

And my guess is, it won't need more than a weekend, if the people participating in it, prepared for a couple of months talking to each other and their grandma.

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