I don't agree with the 'ideology' but I don't find it totally unreasonable or objectionable.
And surely even 'everyone who doesn't worship X and abstain from Y and live according to text Z is living in sin' is... That's just an ideology, that's fine, it's not terrorist until you do some sort of destructive act in its name or try to enforce it somehow?
Some context lost in the linked article I think, not having read into it.
The context is that the UK government has extremely wide reaching powers to fine or imprison based on online speech, with much of the wording of these laws being contrived as anti terror. So by classifying a position as terrorist ideology, they can apply these laws and chill opposition.
I'm exaggerating obviously, you're not automatically considered a terrorist now, but I want to draw attention to the fact that this is the avowed view of the british state.
That particular organisation is particularly batshit in that they have e.g. published guidance that watching (say) TV shows about politics or railway journeys could mean you're harbouring dangerous right wing views!
All in all it's a (deep) state (I mean deep in the sense that we can't see it rather than in a conspiratorial sense) that basically accidentally enacted a huge cultural revolution in the 90s, got away with it for a while, now has nothing to show for it, knows everyone now knows this, and is hedging.
We do not have free speech anymore because of this e.g. see this case of a man having his home raided while police officers rummage through his books - "very Brexity things". Brexit got a majority in a referendum! (which fwiw I was at the time and sort of still am against but they won)
The english middle classes despise their worse offs, but are quite fond of similar people from afar.
Oikophobia, basically.
Unless we get out of this (and we probably won't) there will basically be a "gradually, then suddenly" transition to a very, very, different society as the boomers die off, and then probably a civil war over the scraps.
I was at a picnic recently that happened to be on VE day, it really struck me that now London is only about 35% or so English as the ww2 generation would've known it, almost no one has a particularly good reason to bother paying attention. I'm sure I was the only person there who knows who Barnes Wallis was.
And yes I miss the boffins. They do still sort of exist but that type of mind has been strangled by the last few decades drive towards left-brained processes where everything basically has to be nailed down before the work actually starts.
That latter point is one reason why we're struggling so much - we owe a great debt to the generations who built all the infrastructure and housing. We didn't pay it off, we now can't really do anything at scale other than extract rent. The victorians were building a HS2 every few years.
Not sure the WW2 generation would be all too comfortable with you looking around and making a snap judgement based solely on appearances that some of the people around you have a lesser right to call themselves ‘English’ than you because you assume none of them know who Barnes Wallace is.
Most LLMs have access to such tools. Well, maybe not a Unix shell, but something similar. This is from GPT 4.5's system prompt [1]:
python
When you send a message containing Python code to python, it
will be executed in a stateful Jupyter notebook environment.
python will respond with the output of the execution or time
out after 60.0 seconds. The drive at '/mnt/data' can be used
to save and persist user files. Internet access for this
session is disabled. Do not make external web requests or API
calls as they will fail.
They have the best infra, lots of good properly cleaned data, and market access.
I don't know if rentech ever make markets but one way to make a _lot_ of money in finance to provide liquidity while also have good alpha models. The faster the better. This way you are earning the spread while also getting into the positions you want, and maybe even getting paid for it by the exchange.
Software projects don't usually have the luxury of a violent but intuitive dictator running the thing. Obviously a mega budget tv show is going to be run from afar most of the time.
Software can be like this, e.g. if you were building a small team to do something you cared about it would probably be more like a 3* kitchen than support team inside IBM or something.
It's much, much more collaborative than that. The role of a producer can be limited to managing the financial side of the production. Or they can be involved with coordinating the production itself. The director has the most say over what is shot, how it's edited, what the score should be like. A good producer can help make a film excellent, but if you have a bad director, or the "wrong" director, then nothing the producer does will fix that issue.
Of course there are also Executive producers who are far far up the financial food chain of a movie, and sometimes these titles are also just vanity plates for the production.
As an example of the value of a good/great producer, look at Gary Kurtz. He was essential for both Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, but wasn't part of the team for Return of the Jedi. In my opinion, that's one of the reasons that ROTJ is the worst of the three films. Lucas didn't have someone pushing back against his worse tendencies.
For an example of the wrong director, look no further than Rogue One. While it's very difficult to sus out what was wrong with Gareth Edwards directing, Tony Gilroy was brought in to fix the film. Both are appropriately quiet about what the changes were, what was re-shot (simple professional courtesy), but the result is a film that (while I love it) is just slightly off.
You’re talking about something different. Certainly the director is the creative force. The sine qua non.. (Or.. cine qua non??)
But in the context of this discussion, the producer is the one that coordinates and brings together the huge complexity of the project. That is their defined role. It is the director’s vision and decision-making, but the producer ensures the execution across hundreds of people and many departments.
I also like svelte quite a lot although I was/am genuinely a bit confused as to how to join svelte to some external [state machine / business logic]. I ended up with runes basically infecting the entire codebase, but presumably a proper boundary must be possible?
For complex things, I came up with a pattern that stores the state externally from the components in a single centralized file. So the components just become simple shells that render the state and forward events. (All the complex business logic can be tested without the DOM/headless browser.)
I call it "nation state" because it groups sets of related variables together in a scope between local and global.
I implemented the pattern with Svelte runes, but I think it could be implemented with anything; even React.
Yes this is the way to do it, global-ish state files with getters and setters. I’ll have a .svelte.ts file (or a few of them) with a typed state object, maybe a function for refreshing it or syncing it with a backend api, import the state all over the place.
Might be an anti pattern but it works really well.
I think I follow but IIRC my problem was something like that the getters and setters had to be quite "flat". if they weren't they would recursively infect everything top-down and then not work anyway because of boundaries in the deep reactivity.
Yeah sadly the stores the author talks about here aren't the right way to do things anymore in modern svelte and they're all-in on Runes.
Stores were a big part of the reason I liked svelte; they were so conceptually simple, extensible with plain JS, and made interop outside of Svelte trivial without the Svelte magic leaking out.
They're still in Svelte, but they mix poorly with runes and are basically unsupported in runes mode. I opened up a bug about store behavior not working like it used to when mixing with runes, and the response was pretty much "yeah we don't expect it to work like that anymore when runes mode is enabled".
I don't even mind the runes I just don't get the impression from the docs that anyone has a clear feeling about how to actually use them e.g. forget the toy examples, suppose an alien has given me clump of minified business logic and we have to make it work.
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