If you know of write-ups by others on this, you are welcome to share. It was a pretty long post, so I mentioned who authored it. If it was on, say, LWN, I wouldn't have prefixed anything to the topic. It looks like it also helps people to avoid rich-man blogs (if they want to)!

Whoa! Cool it.

The mandate isn't from "government". Apparently, the government failed to do much about pollution, so a regulatory body was set up by the courts, which body did some good things (ban diesels) but also some hamhanded things like judge only based on technology age rather than the odometer. Throwing away a ton of steel and manufacturing that has had minimal utilization isn't going to help any.

You should've dissed the people who made scrapping the dedicated bus lane an election issue some years ago. I guess that never made it to the newspapers, and hence wasn't discussed online either.

Mumbai has very frequent local trains, right? And buses?

This is great. Overdue if you consider the values they espouse. Quite feasible for a compiler project to ignore the network effects of Github. Is their Discord usage next :-)

I have come to think that Lisps are meta-progranming-only languages.

There is https://tauri.app/ coming up to let Electron app developers debloat their offerings.

LLMs defacto seem resource guzzlers, and are continuously overloading websites.

I believe most people aren't bad actors. But also, most people can see what is good for them. And cooperatives prove that people can run with it to their advantage.

David Graeber made a very good point that the concept of money is only necessary for war. Take money out of the equation and the next local group will have to stretch to avoid mutual care.

"The code I produce using AI is mine."

Isn't it actually of the people on whose code the LLM was trained on?

I heard your goats' grazing land has a datacenter now.

On a lighter note. There are Git experts? ;-)

Do commercial apps work on such an installation? I have seen them get worse, checking for non-rooted, non-developer-mode-enabled, Google Play Store enabled, etc.

There must be plenty of non-evil companies doing healthy business and giving out good dividends that you could invest in. It would be a bad idea only if you are in an arms race against other investors and they'd make more money investing in evil companies.

Risk seems unavoidable, and you would have to be deliberate in deciding what to invest in. Real estate in climate-change-facing regions too ended up being a risky investment.

Thanks. I'd not want to add a 3rd thing, RSS, into the mix, so following from Mastodon might be a workaround. Ideally, I would "follow" in Lemmy itself!

Isn't this a dog whistle for the AI scrapers? "Hey, we claim that here is some new non-slop you could steal"

I suspect writing cross-platform desktop/mobile apps in HTML/CSS/JS was another big pull in this direction.

Many popular languages are bad, yet JS is the one with a widely-deployed OS interface written in it (WebOS).

If free-software/open-source devs hadn't got caught up chasing all this, there was a chance of replacing JS with other languages in the stack. HTML/CSS/your_language probably for apps initially, even making browsers support plugging in languages later. The docs say anything other than JS is not supported, so no <script type="text/your_language">. If only!

My ₹1. It may depend on what you plan to write in it (for fun). The BEAM sounds great for long-running processes, but not as much for point tools; Erlang and co supposedly run slower than Python, which isn't fast either.

My other ₹ ;-) if you stick to the BEAM: OCaml sort of runs on it, as there is the Caramel project to replicate it (https://caramel.run/). One of the Erlang creators also ported Prolog to the BEAM (erlog), as well as Lua (erlua) and Lisp (LFE). Elixir is probably great, as it is inspired by Ruby (I found Ruby very pleasant, other languages have so much semantic noise).

Freebie! The BEAM inspired an inspirational design for parallel programming, the Pony language. I am somewhat sad development slowed down, it is a Rust killer.

There are intrepids everywhere! But I agree, this seems like too busy a place to be intrepid at.

True, I am looking for "get threads boosted by this account". If Mastodon did threads well, I would have stayed on it. I wouldn't care for it at all if I could also "follow" accounts on Lemmy (and the accounts that matter were on Lemmy).

If they didn't use sub-standard materials, there wouldn't be big repair contracts, would there? Guess who will land them.

This is par for the course in India. They siphon off taxes this way, and on environmentally-inadvisable things no less. But that is how it is structured, weak-to-non-existent urban local bodies, and tax collection and disbursement centralized like it was in the times of the colonizer. That big pot of money is intensively fought over.