It’s not about caring, it’s about the lawyers making the argument javascript’s genericness easier

Imagine if god showed up one day and said: “It’s actually Jod” then left

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The future is webp JPEG XL…

And telling software patents to burn in hell.

It wouldn’t, a simple finite state machine that any intelligent entity could emulate would be enough.

But people have completely deluded themselves into thinking that (what CEOs and marketers call) “AI” is actually intelligent, and this case study shows how preposterous that fantasy actually is.

They told you to use “ed”

You missed the joke

I really want to switch from VSCode to Helix but not having a file tree is a deal breaker.

Luckily there’s been a lot of work on adding a plugin runtime with one of the proof-of-concept plugins being a file tree. Assuming the plugin runtime comes out this year in a helix release, and adding on a year for the community to settle on the first wave of plugins while giving them time to mature, I can see myself using helix fulltime in 2027 (before Microsoft has enshitified vscode enough to be unpleasant to use).

For a complicated project I get it, github’s PR system is kind of bad (horrible branch based workflow and no stacked diff support resulting in increased churn) compared to the alternatives.

That’s why we have tools like Graphite to add stacked diff support on top of github, and other devs creating new VCSs because git still hasn’t made it’s interactive rebase and merge conflicts easy enough to handle for juniors and it should be simpler.

Flip-flopping in and of itself isn’t bad.

What it is - is a symptom.

A symptom of being an absolute dumbass. Now that is what’s bad.

Huh?

You can be right wing in FOSS networks.

There’s two things you can’t do (at least if you want to keep a community healthy):

1. Break the rules of the network (which are usually things like: don’t spam, don’t scam, “Wheaton’s Law”, etc…).
2. Be so unpleasant to be around that others don’t want to be around you.

There are cases of those who dehumanise others (e.g. racists, anti-trans, literal nazis, etc…) who get banned because they’re doing the two things you can’t do. But in those cases they’re not banned because they’re right wing, they’re banned because those actions break communities, so the community has to ban them to continue existing.

Polonius

“Well it’s about damn time” smokes cigar

Yes, I know it’s not out out yet, but we’re nearly there

Gay panic is still a legal defence in many parts of the world

How would you even know?

^ this

Using AI leads to code churn and code churn is bad for the health of the project.

If you can’t keep the code comprehensible and maintainable then you end up with a worse off product where either everything breaks all the time, or the time it takes to release each new feature becomes exponentially longer, or all of your programmers become burnt out and no one wants to touch the thing.

You just get to the point where you have to stop and start the project all over again, while the whole time people are screaming for the thing that was promised to them back at the start.

It’s exactly the same thing that happens when western managers try to outsource to “cheap” programming labor overseas, it always ends up costing more, taking longer, and ending in disaster

You’re kind of missing the point.

I’m making fun of them by pointing out how they’re wrong

It’s an easily falsifiable statement.

Yes

It’s an incendiary statement designed to foment division.

Yes

Everyone knows there are more than 2 genders.

Actually no, not everyone knows. You’d be surprised how people are ignorant to these matters (by choice, or repressive environment)

There are only two genders…

Except for: <giant list of genetic, epigenetic, developmental, etc… things that happen with human beings>.

Not to mention all the other things that happen with other living things

This is why you’re meant to comment your code.

Your code tells you “what”, your comments tell you “why”.

Here’s a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124

and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others

That’s 41 degrees for everyone who doesn’t measure things in bird per gun.