Those microservices are a mix of a dozen programming languages across dozens of different versions.

JPEG2000 can do exactly what you want for decades.

Lots of programmers are autists and dont like new information.

Most pages don’t need dynamic loading.

Better than continue building something useless.

Agile

I see freifunk networks more rarely nowadays. They also are notoriously slow. Usually the mobile phone network is faster, even in Germany.

Xcode because I build iOS apps.

YouTube supports multiple audio tracks and multiple language subtitles. Same for Netflix and pretty much all major streaming platforms.

We felt poorer, so economists should be lynched!

The contrast between people’s experiences in their everyday lives and what politicians or experts say is important.

If the economy is supposedly doing great but I can afford less and less and my life gets worse, that’s a contradiction.

The USA is moving more to something like the gilded age with more wealth disparity, more suffering for the poor, more violence.

The anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism of the cultural revolution was far more extreme. You are right that there are some similar ideas brewing.

When the political and economic system is no longer delivering for the population, it will turn against the (perceived) leaders. Trump and the right spins this very well by directing the anger against „woke“ liberal academics, foreigners, and away from the billionaires.

The „woke“ elites are also in crisis. The Democratic Party is in shambles.

often people know that, for example, elections are fraudulent, but they are too scared to say anything

People might vaguely understand that elections don’t produce good outcomes or have systemic bias. That’s then condensed to „elections are rigged“, regardless of the facts and details.

Most people know little about most things. It’s difficult to even have good fundamentals about most things in our complex world. So people will defer to their personal experience and information seeped into their minds by osmosis/exposure.

Things like an economy or political system are extremely complex already and not fully understood even by experts.

Clojure debugging is a pain because of the thousands lines of Java stacktrace. I really can’t recommend this.

Corporations might hire you for consulting.

The problem here is enforcement.

I really like Ruby’s rake. It’s an actually sane language and quick to learn. No idiosyncratic shell scripts cobbled together. The makefile is written in plain Ruby. That also makes it super powerful to adapt to your needs. Nor parsing XML. Just load your rake file into your interactive Ruby shell (I’m partial to pry), try things, test it. Our time for debugging build errors dropped to a fraction.

I have used it build C++, Objective-C, and Java projects for a medium sized company. Before that we used ant with XML build files from hell.

You can always make patchfiles and apply those.

Instead of rebasing, consider a new brach and then cherry picking commits.

PyCharm is the way to go to write Python.

Interesting idea for sure. I’m not sure it would work though. The concept has lots of cultural implications as well. In traditional monarchies the king is usually divinely ordained, chosen by god. A democracy doesn’t get its legitimacy from above, the people are the ultimate sovereign and legitimize the system. New Monarchy also needs some kind of higher philosophical justification.

Political systems often have a short slogan, that emphasizes their values.

• No gods, no kings, no masters
• liberté, égalité, fraternité
• Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
• blood and Soul
• for god, king, and country
• one man, one vote
• SPQR

New Monarchism could use one as well.

The linked concept of New Monarchy doesn’t have a king. It contains asymmetric votes between classes, which is an interesting idea to keep a check on the aristocracy. I don’t think the system is fully viable as a concept, but it makes a good point at the beginning. If we get an elite ruling class anyway in every system, let’s make it more visible and directly accountable.

It’s status. Apple is regarded as more expensive and high quality.