Every country. Swap out some insignificant details and its the story of my friend in the US, swap some more and its the story of a former boss from Germany.
> The only constant human presence in the whole building during the warm summer days is the cleaning lady.
Hit a little too close to home with that one. Had to finish reading despite how painful a mirror can be. God does it make me wish something would change.
> Unlike court jesters, clowns have traditionally served a socio-religious and psychological role, and traditionally the roles of priest and clown have been held by the same persons. Peter Berger writes, "It seems plausible that folly and fools, like religion and magic, meet some deeply rooted needs in human society." […] A society in which such clowns have an important position are termed clown societies, and a clown character involved in a religious or ritual capacity is known as a ritual clown.
Okay, so a big meme among Traditional Catholics is their claim that the Clown Mass is the worst travesty and blasphemy and liturgical abuse. And they trade out-of-context videos, depicting supposedly Catholic ceremonies (which often turn out to be Episcopalians or Methodists or just ... clowns ...) where the "priest" or host is wearing some sort of clown makeup and/or costume, or there are clowns dancing or the clowns brought up the offertory gifts, and they honked a honky-horn instead of ringing Sanctus Bells, or something. A related thing is the custom of "Processional Giants"
These are heads, or entire characters, made of papier-mâché or resin, and in European cultures, they're paraded around in both secular and religious contexts. Probably also in New Orleans as part of the krewes' culture there, too.
But Americans hate these provincial customs and Americans don't understand villagers' sense of reverence, or villagers' sense of exaggeration and metaphor in terms of these farcical characters that may enter into a liturgical context.
Clowns as I know them have a physicality, a wordless absurdity that is derived by leveraging the exaggerated facial features in makeup, the enormous shoes, the slapstick comedy and pratfalls that play well to international crowds. Clowns don't need to speak English; they don't need to speak to be amusing or entertaining. Mimes are specialized clowns. Clowns appeal to children, and the young at heart, because clowns demonstrate insight into the essential human condition; times when we love to poke fun at serious "straight men", or times when we desperately need to be distracted from accidents or bleeding gymnasts or a rodeo broco rider who was just gored; that's when the rodeo clown tries to distract everyone with antics.
The "funny thing" is that one of my own priests was an actual clown, (as in circus clown, Barnum and Bailey's Three Rings Traveling Show thing), and he definitely never wore the makeup or the clown costume during Holy Mass. Father was the son of a clown himself, and thus, clowning was a family tradition that was passed down father-to-son. And Father being a priest wasn't a long stretch from circus clowning, and court jester's duties, and winning the hearts and minds of the audience. Father innovated many things, including the part where he stepped out from behind the ambo, and gave his homilies from the center aisle, or he would even journey through the rows of pews with a long, long cabled microphone, and engage the faithful with questions and answers. For these innovations, according to the Second Vatican Council, Father endured great controversy, and many people would've preferred the status quo, and I wonder how many school parents knew that Father had the true heart of a bona fide clown.
But yet, Father held on to his clown makeup and his clown wig and his clown accoutrements, and they were carefully packaged in a leather carrying-case, and he made no secret of them. But he was a good and devout priest, he smiled and he loved children, and we loved him in turn.
To the extent Trump was elected with a mandate, it was to do the things his supporters thought he was going to do from hopeful "4d chess", and not actually to do his best to destroy the country.
My partner was talking to a random person at the supermarket yesterday who, unprompted, started complaining about tariffs/inflation. He voted for Trump and was upset and regretful about what Trump was doing, and saying that he can't believe that Trump "lied".
I suspect this collapse of cognitive dissonance is pretty widespread, especially among the low information voters that thought they were getting neutral information from Fox News etc. This is a mere two months from when the buffoon took power, not the usual sour taste that develops three years into a president's term.
Yeah theres some problem, but reading a multiline code block (like github actions bash script) as an indent-escaped string is so much better than having to understand crazy triple-escaped characters like "sed \"\\\\\\"name1\\\\\\\"\""
This is the same debate folks have between Maven and Gradle: do you want CI code to be able to do *anything* that Python or Node can do, or do you want well defined knobs people can turn. If nothing else, it makes code reviews for CI way less drama than trying to use some bespoke dsl-in-python that re-implements {job: {steps: [{run: ...}]}} in a less legible way
Yeah. My experience has often been that you end up with a task that is very easy and familiar to write in say Bash, that you then have to solve a puzzle to write in Ansible/Puppet/whatever. Which feels exactly like what you're saying: a DSL re-implementing something else in a less legible way.
I guess it's like anything: for the right task, the right tool works well. But invariably, a tool will eventually be pushed into use for the wrong task.
you only think until you have to extract some information from it. "Here is a dir full of CI job definitions, find all the ones which require extra permissions" - trivial in yaml or json or toml, could be hard to impossible for Python/nodejs.
or "I am doing ci job frontend, for each job I need to get a list of inputs it takes and their description, but without doing full code checkout" - good luck doing this if your jobs are in python/nodejs.
(to be fair, there are programming languages that are also severely limited and can be evaluated mostly safely, like Starlark, but I don't think they'd match your definition)
As someone who has tried to parse this crazypants as a side-effect of the old 1Password.opvault, please don't. The idea that one has to //key[text()=="firstname"]/following-sibling::string/text() because they're not nested they're siblings. Insanity
Sorry, but I think this guy (The Quantified Scientist) has the article beat in terms of rigor and analysis (As some other peoole mention)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVf3QPm-8w
- Similar graphs
- Medical grade baselines
- His whole channel is dedicated to this kind of stuff
- The original post is good, its just this channel is insanely good
If you have any async JS, that's going to seriously complicate things. Theres no AST mapping for that (python async is not the same).
Pitfalls to watch our for? Tons of them. Comparison is very different, modulus is different, .sort is different, object destructuring doesn't map nicely to python, lambda's won't map nicely to python, promises won't map to python. Labelled loops won't map nicely to python.
If your JS snippets are truly simple, just LLM translate and manually check. They're pretty good at the simple stuff.
Yes. In the case mentioned binaries written in Go (goaws). I can add all the goaws binaries into my git repo, and have a single cross platform entry point devs can call without figuring out which one is for their OS.
