Very fun. I wonder, though: can one ever do “clean room” anything using these Plagiarism Laundering machines?

Contract law will certainly be a casualty once Rule of Law has completely been broken. I don’t understand why the business sector isn’t pushing back more. Surely they must all know that the legal legal context itself, within which they all operate, is at mortal risk and that Business as Usual will vanish once autocratic capture is complete.

They still think they can bribe their way out

If only there were some middle ground between those extremes

The decimal code for capital X in the ASCII table is probably also a coincidence.

Huxley was plenty prescient. Soma is basically scrolling for dopamine hits and distraction.

Complaining about signaling virtue is just a pattern for signaling vice.

Are you alluding to pyramid schemes or “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair”?

I was thinking of the former, but the latter could certainly apply too.

I took it as "pyramid was built by slaves..." connotation

That's another good one, even though in reality they weren't.

Huh, today I learned! Thanks

Swift really does hit a sweet spot.

The best way I've found to mitigate the compiler speed issue is to factor my application workspace into different sub-projects, so that the sub-projects don't get built every time I make a change. It makes a huge difference and, honestly, it's something I should have been doing anyway, just for good architectural layering.

This recent project looks interesting for improving build times without having to abandon SPM: https://xccache.trinhngocthuyen.com which is a UI for managing https://github.com/trinhngocthuyen/xccache

Mitnik is in no sense “the original hacker”. Ever heard of Cap’n Crunch?