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For there to be any kind of real “civil war” there would need to be a very clear distinction between sides and goals alongside states declaring

That's how the US Civil War happened, but frequently a national Civil War does not have such clear boundaries and sides. See Syria for a very messy conflict where about the only thing defining one 'side' was 'not Assad' and very little agreement other than that.

Civil war would be the worst possible outcome to be sure, but a messy situation can just as easily feed a civil war.

They believe the "proper" stewards of society are the wealthy. In order for the wealthy to make the best of things, they need that money, so low taxes.

But the wealthy need something else, a desperate working class that will do anything the wealthy says just so they can eat and have some chance at things like decent healthcare. One of their favorite refrains is "nobody wants to work anymore", and in part they blame government assistance for this perceived lack of workers or workers that are so uppity as to demand a living wage.

Of course desperate people can do something other than nicely do the things the wealthy tell them to. So that's where "law and order" principles come in. Make a big authoritarian police force to discourage the more dangerous path that mass desperation can cause.

To the extent I have grown more comfortable, it's accepting that the AI is usually wrong and giving up on trying unless it's obvious and short. I won't "argue" with it, I just discard and do it myself. I'll also click "review my code" and give it a chance to highlight mistakes. Again it is frequently wrong. But once it did catch an inconsistency that I know would have been frustrating when it eventually reared its head.

The thing that I'm thinking of turning off is code completion with tab. Problem is that the lag means I didn't know if the tab key is going to do a normal thing or if by the time I hit it an AI suggestion pops up and I have to undo the unexpected modification. Also sometimes the suggestions linger and make the actual code hard to read long after I already decided to ignore the suggestion.

Yesterday was a fair amount of tab completing through excessively boilerplate crap thanks to AI, but most days it's next to useless as I am in low boilerplate scenarios. Some frameworks and languages make you type a novel to do something very common, and AI helps with those. I tend to avoid those but I didn't have a choice yesterday. Even then the AI made some very bad suggestions, so I have to be in the lookout at all times.

Well I'm not exactly happy about him so not the greatest example of who I would vote for.

To the extent that people are in his cult, he was a national celebrity heralded as the leader of multinational business concerns. That distinction should have carried huge burden of those concerns being crap, but the apprentice made him out to be smart supreme businessman.

As compelling as AOC might be. Her track record even in theory is a single congressional district.

I feel it's premature to assume JD would be the GOP candidate. No one particularly likes him, even as some people like trump for whatever reason.

It's certainly capable, and has a more structured pipeline structure saving you in theory from awkwardness of grep/awk sorts of 'processing' that may be out of whack. It also has a command model where whether you are calling cmdlets or .Net functions, it's lighter weight than a typical bash interaciton that has to fork/exec every little thing (and the ability to invoke .Net functions means a lot of capabilities that are normally not directly available to something like bash).

However, from a user experience, it's got a few things that can be a problem:

• It's a bit too 'programmer-y', and particularly maybe a bit too perl-y. Some of the same criticisms of how perl can be a bit of a mess carry over to powershell.
• It's ecosystem is mostly just whatever Microsoft gives to you. The *nix side of the house has had a diverse ecosystem, but Microsoft is largely on their own. Good hooks into most Microsoft products, but not a whole not of third party enablement.
• Other shells have better and/or richer UX, like fish

The point is that you can't "pipe GUI output to other command", the GUI would actually have to serialize things in a useful way and send to that fifo. Similarly you can't send stuff to it's stdin and expect it to do anything sane.

Further, since you can't seek() in a fifo, a lot of likely GUI applications involving files would break on trying to deal with a fifo. Also the typical GUI app on read doesn't assume a 'tail -f' like approach to arbitrary file inputs.

But only if the gui very specifically designs for it. With a cli you can generally wrangle arbitrary command into a pipeline.

Cmd was torturous and powershell not much better.

Some things are just massively tedious to do through any gui. Sometimes the converse is true.

One reason why LLM is desired as a ui element is that you can describe what you want in text without having to remember how to navigate a bunch of convoluted ui elements. CLI is related, except more precise but more demanding on specifics of input.

Again, they should have called the police with juriscidtion if that were the case. They should have, at most, detained him on scene until cops show up.

So far I've seen:

• They pulled into a car and then violently arrested the driver because "she rammed their vehicle" despite footage clearly showing they drove into hers. They didn't want to get in trouble for causing an accident so they just made stuff up.
• Even in the sandwich "attack" they asserted that the sandwich contents covered their vest, but footage showed it stayed in the wrapper the whole time.

They clearly are cultivating a culture of make stuff up to blame the people they get mad at. They have zero credibility.

By winning they make MAGA folks go away? Sounds like double winning to me...

But still, it's like 40% actively voting for the GOP even in this scenario. It's crazy that GOP basically has an absolute lock on 40% of the population no matter what they do.