Platypus on a penny farthing.

This is a really good take.

I think the core caution is this is not type-level checks. Anything this validates still needs to be eval'd. It's not a guarantee of correctness for all inputs but does look to be a fairly light (and useful) tool to make unexpected states easier for you and others to identify.

Hard disagree. This is what brutalism looks like in sunny, subtropical Brisbane, Australia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QPAC_Exterior.jpg

If the straight concrete isn’t your thing, they’re also currently extending it with a glasshouse: https://www.snohetta.com/projects/queensland-performing-arts...

Wow that is already ugly without the water stains

Looks even worse in the sun. At least it belongs in the depressing, shitty weather.

What's depressing and shitty about Brisbane's weather?

I think they're saying that brutalist architecture feels out of context in Brisbane's weather, whereas the gloomy dreary feeling of the building fits in perfectly in the former USSR's gloom

Predicated 90% humidity at 3am this evening does not fill me with a great amount of joy.

I think the above commenter may be referring to the rather more unfortunate UK climate though.

I don't hate brutalism but I'd much rather have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exhibition_Building than QPAC, rain or shine.

I think both look ugly and megalomaniac.

You're entitled to that opinion, but if you give an alternative for how a big multi-storey building for large events and crowds should look then it will move the discussion forward.

To me the issue is that the alternative to brutalism isn't classic, art deco, art nouveau, googie, etc. It's soulless glass and steel designs.

I'd rather have classic, art deco, etc. to brutalism but I'd MUCH rather have brutalism to modern glass and steel.

Eh... The concrete looks to me like a bland imitation of Spanish Adobe style building.

It's better than most of the brutalism we have around here, I'll grant you that, but still not really my cup of tea.

For images surely this is the next pivot for hot dog / not hot dog.

If so, one benefit is you can quickly and safely mix up your set of agents (a la Inverse Conway Manoeuvre) without the downsides that normally entails (people being forced to move teams or change how they work).

It's already been linked in comments here but there's been a bit of exploration in that area with Hedy. There's some good references to prior work and comments of relevance in this paper https://hedy.org/research/A_Framework_for_the_Localization_o....

In a live conversation context you can mention the term NFTs/web3 and if the far end is human they'll wince a little.

This made me laugh far too hard for far too long.

It's a good thing governments (https://www.ato.gov.au/online-services/voice-authentication) and banks (https://www.anz.com.au/security/how-we-protect-you/voice-id/) haven't gone all in on using voice as an authentication mechanism.

> It is possible to use the language server for syntax highlighting. I am not aware of any particularly strong reasons why one would want to (or not want to) do this.

This is an area where TS excels. It also supports nesting of different languages so a query can inject other languages [0] and compose different parsers.

As an example, this can be a straight forward as a simple comment parser [1], jsdoc [2], regex [3] etc. Or in more complex cases various DSLs. Each of these can then define their own injections too. When working with CI pipelines in particular it transforms an opaque wall of YAML into slightly more manageable CST which is incredible useful for both humans (syntax highlighting) and any machine parsing you may want to do.

[0]: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/3-syntax-highlight...

[1]: https://github.com/stsewd/tree-sitter-comment

[2]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-jsdoc

[3]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-regex