So much of what's tweeted amounts to this --> Trump is a piece of shit. You can stop saying it. We got it.#
- Can the people be trusted to rate news sources?#
- What choice do we have? I know experts think they have the means that we don't, but they accept a set of premises about what news should be, that lead us to news that#
- Accepts that the US had to go to war with Iraq, and doesn't question the assumption that there were WMDs and probably nukes in their arsenal. #
- Shows endless clips of Trump rallies as if that was news. #
- Asks ridiculous uninformed questions about Hillary Clinton's emails. #
- States conventional wisdom among reporters as fact.#
- Assumes the Trump story is pretty much Watergate, when it's clearly not.#
- Where reporters are all trying to get a prize or a raise, trying to catch politicians in gotchas, and filtering out all the politicians who just want to get shit done.#
- Endlessly analyzes what today's events mean for the 2020 election, when the answer is not one thing. #
- The news orgs that report this way would be rated highest by the experts, no doubt. But we need news to be better. It's the one thing I agree about with Trump supporters. The standard "trusted" news attaches to ideas that they won't let go of. And reports on non-news endlessly. Can we rate that kind of stuff way way down?#
- We need a lot from news that they aren't giving us, because they do everything they can to not listen to the users. If Facebook really wants to do this, don't listen to the experts on this, they answer the wrong questions, imho. Find a way for the users to decide. I know they don't trust us, but we're all we got. #
Here's a theoretical question with practical implications.#- In Node.js, is there a way to do interprocess communication between Node apps? I could set it up so both apps have an HTTP server, and the apps could communicate using XML-RPC, so at that level I know it's possible, but I'm wondering about a different, higher-performance, approach.#
- Suppose I launch two apps from my app. I would do it exactly the way the forever utility does it. Is there some way for an app to call back to forever, and is there a way for forever to call into the app?#
- That way you could have all kinds of external interfaces abstracted. #
- All of a sudden you could build a high-level OS for Node. A way for Node apps to share a data space. #
- This is what we tried to do on the Mac with Frontier. We never convinced Apple to stay out of the way so we could do it. But in Node, with its open source culture, if there was a way for forever to do it, that means there's a way for you and I to too, because of course forever is open source. ;-)#
- Badaboom. 💥#
- PS: Of course I may be missing something obvious, a way to do this that I spaced out about. That does happen from time to time. #