Right? I can't articulate what weird mental blocks I had about JavaScript but it's over 20 years old but I feel you entirely on that "hm JS on DOS? wack".

Django sounds appealing to me since I already love Python a lot. Phoenix appeals to me because of the name, and then I can tell people "Yeah I have a side project using Python and Phoenix" and it sounds really rad, like I'm a sorcerer in a fancy tower

Ooh I've seen two people recommend PHP so far here! My understanding of PHP was always that it was universally hated by everyone who ever used it, but the way you describe it actually sounds quite appealing.

i played a little bit with ruby awhile ago, but i've mostly stuck with python. are there things about ruby you prefer over python?

For what it's worth, I found out that React has a really cool tutorial for a client-side tic-tac-toe game. See https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

For reference, this is a Jan 2019 Ycombinator post describing a go-to stack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829557

TLDR:

• Frontend: React with TypeScript
• Backend: Django (Python) or Rails (Ruby)
• Databases: Postgres
• Serve using: Nginx, with cookies for authentication
• Tooling: Use VS Code for Javascript, and something called json-server in npm for a quick REST API

(I understand REST is sort of a language describing APIs that can be imported into various web frameworks?)

This sounds like what I have in mind, but I know a lot of people have strong opinions and I like to hear them.

Julia Evans' blog, mostly coding and whatnot https://jvns.ca/

Distill Pub which has interactive machine learning papers, here is a good one https://distill.pub/2020/grand-tour/

i tried downvoting it to bring the balance but you're at +2 currently

i feel bamboozled

juicero

hi what

yee haw

Seriously? I was a tad bit optimistic here. Damn :( Do you have a link to this quote?

Explanation:

Scalia was one of nine Supreme Court judges in the US. They are important because they have the final say in interpreting the US constitution, and they hear cases that may or may not be important.

Presidents are supposed to be able to pick these judges. They usually serve for life, so a president who picks a judge has a long influence on US politics. Some are liberal and some are conservative. So far, Trump has had two.

Four years ago, Scalia died while Obama was in office, and the GOP blocked Obama from nominating a new Judge to the supreme court, since it was so close to the end of his term. That's bullshit, but it worked.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a liberal judge who is very great and generally well loved. And she's also very old (86 years!) For the past four or so years, there's been a lot of anxiety. It'd be sad for someone at 86 to die, but not surprising. But if RBG dies while Trump is in office, then Trump would get a third judge, which would have bad, bad consequences.

She's had four hospitalizations for cancer (twice within the past few months) and had a fall last year that broke three ribs, so the fear has been especially real. She's an extremely hard worker, recovering and working through her hospitalizations. Read her Wiki article to understand why she's so thoroughly loved. When she dies, it will be a great loss.

But February 13th, 2020 has passed, marking the four year anniversary of Scalia's death. If she dies now, the precedent should be that Trump can't elect a new judge to replace her unless he is re-elected.

been browsing sites without JavaScript for awhile and damn

jstpst is really impressive ngl

the only thing that's Not Ideal is that upvotes/down votes refresh the whole page, but that's still Not A Big Deal