Sometimes things aren’t obvious unless you already have the knowledge. If an AI tool tells a young person cleaning their first apartment to combine household cleaners, are they stupid for doing so? Maybe. They may not have the experience to know. Stupid people deserve to live free from harm too, and we’re all a little stupid.

There’s a balance to be struck.

Just #3 by the looks of it

I don’t think you’re entirely wrong here, but you make sweeping generalizations about programmers that I see a lot online that irk me.

Most developers I know have a few languages they’re familiar with. A good developer uses the right tools for the job. When I work with my python shop I use that. When I need a quick webapp it’ll be JS. If there’s something that requires high performance I might try go.

Every language has pitfalls and vulnerabilities, but that really says nothing of their utility. Any flame war between languages is typically pedaled by dilettantes fueled by memes they don’t understand (like javascript == memes)

take this admittedly ancient study of vulnerabilities divvied up by language:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/which-are-the-most-insecure-programming-languages/

In JS, you don’t have to free memory manually. Nor in python. This (mostly) precludes a whole class of severe bugs/vulns, but those weren’t relevant anyway because they’re different tools for different jobs.

We can bemoan the gigantic js ecosystem, but we can also realize it is a fantastic resource for novices and veterans alike.

Small nitpicks: The point of react is that it DOESN’T refresh. It maintains a virtual DOM which is faster to update and diff than the regular browser DOM, which you hinted at. No libraries necessary to do routing, but they do make it easier and better.

This however is a React Native application which doesn’t have the same (browser) backend or requirements. It’s native code. There is no refresh or routing per se.

That all said, the start menu is an abomination of the highest order. It just isn’t really React’s fault. People just love to hate on React and <insert current zeitgeist here>. React also gets a bad rap because it’s so ubiquitous and easy to start using that novices and morons alike can make atrociously slow, bloated web apps with it.

oh yeah? do a .7z now 😏

e: ah, you created the tar first i see now. i bet you know how to decompress a .tar.gz by memory every time

I like this thought experiment and think about this a lot. However this does nothing to remotely indicate the existence of the Abrahamic god. People tell you with certainty that god exists and he’s three persons and jesus rose from the dead yada yada. That’s a complete fantasy derived from literally nothing.

No proof but still believe? Faith.

Not believing in something that has zero evidence requires no faith. I don’t need faith to tell you Cthulu isn’t real

It doesn’t require faith to NOT believe in something. It requires faith to accept religion which cannot be proven.

“Concentration camp” evokes the Nazi style death camps. The USA’s version of this was/is decidedly less about mass extermination of a race. Still a concentration camp, still repugnant. I think the terminology is loaded and it makes it harder for people to understand. Not to mention the dearth of education we have which certainly isn’t helping…

red ring of death

I have had the good fortune of being borderline gay with all my friends for my whole life. I wish it upon everyone

You’re not wrong. I think if anything this is making fun of men who fall down the hate pipeline

I think it’s phrased like this because it’s less acceptable for men to express feelings like sadness or loneliness. men and boys who are lonely and alienated can more easily fall down the Andrew Tate/4Chan/Jordan Peterson/blackpill pipeline which yields violent extremist behavior. Obviously it’s not only men

For real! Forced assimilation? Bad! Tianemen Square? Bad! Subsidizing EVs? Semi-planned economy? Seems good. Like literally anything it’s a mixed bag. Nuance is lost and so are we

my friends and i can never get past one or two quotas before we’re eliminated. we end up drowning on the way back to the ship or not finding enough scrap in time ;-; still fun though

You think Red Hat & friends are just all bad sysadmins? Source hut maybe…

I think there’s a bit of both: poorly optimized/antiquated sites and a gigantic spike in unexpected and persistent bot traffic. The typical mitigations do not work anymore.

Not every site is and not every site should have to be optimized for hundreds of thousands of requests every day or more. Just because they can be doesn’t mean that it’s worth the time effort or cost.

AI scrapers illegally harvesting data are destroying smaller and open source projects. Copyright law is not the only victim

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

This is always how graphql works :)

I have a small site that mirrors hacker news but with dark mode and stuff, and it is getting blasted by bot traffic. All the data is freely available from the official api but they’re scraping my piddling site which runs on an anemic VPS because it looks like user generated content. Bot protection does little to help from my provider. Gonna have to rethink my whole architecture now. Very annoying

if I was talking about Elon I’d have you ready the guillotine instead of putting away torches

i mean its even excel sized depending on how many columns. This is seriously sad and alarming