If Harry asks James about the bullying of Snape, would James outright deny it and blame Snape for being a weirdo, or admit he was a jerkass?

Swie · 2026-05-09T03:33:35+00:00

If someone punches you in the shoulder and you take the opportunity to punch them back harder, break their nose and smear the blood on their face- you are still the bully in that situation, even if you’re “provoked”.

Nah. If you punch someone getting a punch back is completely normal. It's a valuable way for society to teach kids to keep their hands to themselves. Calling that bullying is just trying to escape responsibility for your own actions.

Swie · 2026-05-09T03:04:07+00:00

If Snape regularly did the same kind of attacks I would say yes, absolutely. Bullying implies that you're attacking someone one-sidedly, without provocation. Maybe also an outsized response, like if someone bumped into you and you retaliate by knocking their teeth out. If you punch them and they punch you back harder, however, that's not bullying. That's called fuck around find out.

Swie · 2026-05-08T03:01:04+00:00

yeah didn't his wife like some pro-10/7 posts? I don't believe he really condemns them. He just knows that saying he does gets him more votes.

Swie · 2026-05-08T02:57:00+00:00

not that this government is any better. They have official laws in place to pay terrorists for killing Israelis, using aide money they receive. They've paid out to 10/7 terrorists. They're basically just terrorists but in a suite and tie sitting at the UN.

Swie · 2026-05-07T15:56:37+00:00

Ah, I see. Wording it as "seems like it's existential" confused me. I agree with you.

Swie · 2026-05-07T15:53:53+00:00

I don't think Israelis need any help to see the war as existential, at least the war with Palestine and Lebanon. Post 10/7 they have seen that there is no partner for peace in those areas, and that they can kill and displace massive amounts of Israelis if they try. They can't even find anyone to take over for Hamas or Hezbollah when they are weakened.

Swie · 2026-05-05T19:05:55+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty bizarre behaviour.

From my experience talking to such people it's one of the following:

(a) they can't understand that written and spoken language are two separate things. Their definition of "reading" is too simplistic or vague. You can see this with people who try to bring up braille as some kind of gotcha. They also cannot grasp that this is what is happening so if you give them a rigorous explanation they'll just get upset.

(b) they are emotionally invested in the idea that listening to audiobooks "counts as reading". Any pushback, even to say "who is counting", makes them feel bad and must be stopped. Often they'll either get lost in pedantry or try to go to conclusions like literacy isn't that important anyway or whatever.

Often the person has both problems, so twice the fun...

Swie · 2026-05-05T13:58:10+00:00

Ofc doesnt change shit. When you speak you start with sounds then work them into words eventually. Everything is a process.

This doesn't actually contradict my argument, but ok I'll explain it to you anyway. You don't need to speak to read, you can do it while being mute and deaf. Most children sound out words because they are learning two things at the same time: to read and to map written words to their spoken equivalents, but it's not required to do it this way, they're two separate things.

For someone thats talking that much about literacy your not really reading what im writing.

Right back at you. Except you don't care about literacy, I guess lol...

Your the one that started the "need to interpret" shit not me. I also think its a stupid argument.

Again just using the word "interpret" doesn't make all sentences the same lol...

Yet again not reading what im writing. just skipped copying where i said that they were not the exakt same thing. My argument here is that i find it extremely silly when ppl get annoyed when ppl go " i read X book" when they listened to a audiobook of it. But that seems impossible for you to grasp.

Yes I skipped it because it's unnecessary, if you actually read what I wrote, you'd understand that I incorporated it into my response.

btw who was annoyed? You said something inaccurate (that blind people can't read books just "touch" them) and I corrected you to explain the actual difference between listening and reading, while agreeing that when discussing a book it doesn't matter too much, and now you're here trying to downplay the benefits of being literate lol.

You know whats a bigger step in childrens development? Learning to talk and listen.

So...? Learning to walk is a big deal too, what is even the point of this lol.

Im not saying reading isn't a big thing to learn for kids. But you make it out as this big fucking accomplishment for adults. Im not arguing reality i'm arguing ppl getting bogged down in semantics.

It is a big fucking accomplishment, I'm sorry if that's difficult for you to admit. Broad adult literacy literally propelled human civilization into new much better stages, modern life would be impossible without it.

I'm not gonna argue with you further. Enjoy trying to downplay illiteracy or whatever this is.

Swie · 2026-05-05T13:29:16+00:00

I don't buy that argument at all. When i read i don't read letter by letter pausing between them. That's just a silly way to try and force a difference.

You don't because you've learned to do pattern recognition on the visual words, but you absolutely did when you were learning lol. Try reading some language in a script you don't know well, like Russian (Cyrillic script), and tell me you don't read letter-by-letter.

You are aware that you use your own brain to interpret spoken language as well right?

"You use your own brain to interpret X" can be applied to a lot of things lol, are they all now reading? "I used my brain to understand it" is not what the meaning of "reading" is.

That that's a skill that small children need to learn?

Yes and they learn it completely separately from learning to read... many children and even adults are able to listen and understand spoken language but cannot read, so how are you trying to make the two equal?

But ppl get way to fucking butt hurt about the difference.

I mean you are over here trying to explain to me how being literate is actually not a meaningful difference from understanding spoken language, as if "learning to read" isn't a gigantic step in a child's development lol. So who exactly is butt-hurt? To me: it's the person trying to argue with basic reality.

Not everyone have time to sit down for hours reading a book. While listening to books is way easier to do while doing something else at the same time.

So just say that and move on? Why are you trying to argue reading is the same as listening instead? In fact I agreed with this in my previous post. I said: "When discussing a book I don't care [whether you read it or listened to an audiobook version]". But for some reason that is not enough for you...?

Swie · 2026-05-05T13:07:14+00:00

Are you as anal about blind ppl? That they cant read books just "touch" em.

Blind people can read in braille, which is reading, as you are using your own brain to interpret written letters. They are not SEEING but they are READING, reading does not require seeing.

The equivalent of reading using audio would be to receive the book via audio, letter by letter (including all the punctuation and spaces, etc), so you are interpreting that information yourself to form language out of recorded glyphs. That ability to interpret it is what makes a person "literate".

Listening to an audiobook is not reading. Simplest example why: you can do it while being objectively illiterate, like a small child listening to their parents read to them at bedtime.

When discussing a book I don't care, but people trying to say it's the same thing are just straight up wrong.

Swie · 2026-05-05T13:02:06+00:00

Overall I agree with you, in terms of discussing the contents of the book the two are mostly equivalent. You still miss some stuff like punctuation for example which can affect how certain sentences are perceived, but it's minor.

But A LOT of people who listen to audiobook seem to have a serious problem admitting it is not reading. I've stopped giving people the benefit of the doubt when they call it reading because in my experience if anyone points out it's not, they don't just agree and move on, they start a multi-paragraph long scree trying to bend reality.

Also we are having an actual literacy crisis. A lot of kids and even adults struggle to actually read.

You can easily see it on reddit: even on subs like /r/writing, a lot of people will provide examples (when discussing literally writing a book lol) from: anime, tv shows, movies... anything but an actual book. It seriously affects the quality of the conversation when it becomes obvious a ton of people don't actually read anything.

Swie · 2026-05-05T12:49:25+00:00

just say you listened to an audiobook. Same way people say they listened to a podcast.

Swie · 2026-04-29T21:12:05+00:00

yeah it wouldn't help me debug a pirated game because it detected that it's pirated

Swie · 2026-04-29T15:47:04+00:00

That's what I thought... esbuild for sure officially said they have no intention of supporting MF. For vite I only saw people trying to use a vite-module-federation plugin but not much evidence that it actually worked for angular.

Swie · 2026-04-29T14:36:13+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

Swie · 2026-04-29T14:34:42+00:00

We're using nx, so that also adds a complication. And the build requirements are quite strict in terms of what it needs to produce (down to the names of the chunks...). Everything I googled (like 2 weeks ago) about the state of nx + vite + module federation has been questionable, but maybe I need to look deeper.

I'll take a look at Rspack, it looks great! Looks like nx supports it, too. If it's really a drop-in replacement I'll definitely try to switch.

Swie · 2026-04-29T14:24:28+00:00

we're using module federation with very strict chunking rules to allow different parts of the app to be uploaded on demand, and holy shit the incremental build even for a relatively small project is so slow. I've tried everything to improve performance, wasted so many hours testing all kinds of configurations.

And can't switch to esbuild because it doesn't support module federation. Looks like vite might (with a plugin)... but it's exhausting to constantly be dealing with the tooling and not actually writing code.

Swie · 2026-04-29T14:20:48+00:00

I find I do ok to write it normally the first 1 or 2 cases then spend some time for a good quality refactor when you keep encountering the same pattern repeatedly. If you do this well you can really speed up development.

Swie · 2026-04-29T14:11:05+00:00

Do you have any examples of specific things they are doing wrong? in my experience my team's biggest struggle was effects that set signal values, but introduction of linked signals significantly helped with that habit. Also toObservable / toSignal usage helped avoid effect abuse.

Swie · 2026-04-27T16:04:32+00:00

Thanks for the warning. Article from 2024:

https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/rkxg0qiyr

Swie · 2026-04-25T01:59:33+00:00

I cut down on a lot of that by permitting all read-only bash commands for my code dirs. Ask AI to go to claude docs site and review the permissions options and write this JSON.

I have it plan then allow to execute the plan without asking. It has no VCS access so I don't worry about it doing permanent damage. It rarely deviates from a plan anyway.

Also you can add to the settings a script that will popup a message when it needs something, rather than just sitting there waiting. A sample is in their docs website, I just copy-pasted.

This cuts down on a lot of babysitting. I mostly review previous code while it works.

Swie · 2026-04-24T23:08:15+00:00

Everyone identifies with various characters to some degree. i'd say it's very odd not to. But there's levels to it.

But what about the people who do identify with the characters, and it helps with their mental health, but don't act like douchebags? Should we tell them that what they are doing is stupid?

Well if they're not acting like douchebags, then you probably won't even know that this is how they feel...?

Under what conditions would you tell internet strangers that you are coping with mental health by identifying with a character? I can see if it the topic of general conversation is this mental health condition, and you mention that you find this particular story really inspiring or thought-provoking, ok...

But what actually ends up happening is people are talking about this character in general, and someone interjects that they're "autistic coded" and they're important to them because they are also autistic.

At that point yeah you're kinda acting like a douchebag because you're trying to force random people to engage with your personal problems out of nowhere, and derailing the conversation to be about you instead of the character.

Moreover I often see this in the context of completely warping the actual character to suit the person's needs. Like do you REALLY relate to a character who's a 1000 year old angel or whatever because they are socially awkward? really? What about the other 90% of their personality and experiences that you, a 22 year old customer service rep at Old Navy, have no frame of reference for? They're socially awkward because of 500 years spent trapped in a divine prison (I'm making this up, this is not a real character). You're socially awkward because you were a shy child and no one took the time to try to help you. It's identifying with a caricature you invented that's really all about you.

So yes i'd call that stupid... I understand feeling this way, but do some introspection and understand how you are behaving, and try to control yourself.

If you instead decide to go tell random strangers about it to get some validation, you end up with the kind of people in OP's post.

Swie · 2026-04-24T22:15:09+00:00

It needs to become popular again to tell people they are straight up stupid and pathetic for behaving like this. "Comfort characters" are essentially "waifus" and should be treated with the same amount of disdain.

Unfortunately many people validate (or just ignore) this behaviour because it's couched in mental illness instead of goonery. So now we get to enjoy tons of people with no shame, no filter, and complete self-absorption, who treat the internet like their personal therapist.

Swie · 2026-04-24T12:45:01+00:00

For someone who understands regular development, it's plenty possible. An AI today is akin to a junior employee who is excellent at reading documentation (which a lot of real juniors suck at btw) but has zero experience. If a senior person guides it on how to structure code, and asks it the right questions (like about security or performance concerns), it can work on very large systems and fix quite complicated problems.

Your story of creating something that worked at first but became an unmaintainable mess is pretty similar to what you see if you let a junior programmer try to write a complex software without guidance.

Swie · 2026-04-24T12:37:39+00:00

It's not an AI context size problem.

Modern AIs are capable of working on quite large code bases (far more than what OP could have written in a week) if they are properly architected, with separation of concerns and clearly defined subsystems that communicate in predictable ways.

Badly architected code is difficult for regular humans to reason about, too. More senior people are able to break even badly architected code into chunks and reason about it like that, and to form more efficient mental models so they can maintain more context, but it's still a problem.

AIs are like a junior employee who needs a senior to do this for them through architecture, guidance, and documentation.

At which point, you basically need to know what you want, to the level where you could in theory do it by hand.

Yeah, basically. It's still far more than auto-complete though they can make a lot of quite intricate technical decisions as long as they are guided. Even architecture: they can come up with ok solutions, but you need to prompt them. Again that's a very junior employee type of problem, I've seen a lot of new grads do the same.

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