Dynamic typing is insane. You have to keep track of the type of absolutely everything, in your head. It’s like the assembly of type systems, except it makes your program slower instead of faster.

It doesn’t have to solve every problem, but it does have to result in a better world than we have now, which it won’t.

Excellent. Let’s do the same in America, please. Stop KOSA!

So, basically, they plan to install a dictatorship in which separation of powers, states’ rights, and meaningful judicial review do not exist.

Sounds about right.

How the heck did these guys manage to outbid Big Oil to put up that billboard?

This right here is why electronic locks could be way more secure than mechanical ones, if only their manufacturers would hire well-trained programmers and not boot camp graduates to write the firmware.

Since when were Boston Dynamics robots sentient?

That was pretty much IBM’s excuse, if I recall correctly. Then it turned out IBM execs were well aware of who was buying their equipment and for what purpose…

I’m reminded of IBM’s dealings with the Nazis.

Linux is already dominant on just about everything except the desktop, and it has yet to suffer significant enshittification.

Edit: Well, a bunch of Linux distributions have suffered enshittification, if that counts.

Environmentalists do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of outbreeding the “drill, baby, drill” crowd.

And their response to LGBT+ issues, and their response to Trump’s crimes, and…

Yeah, no. Republicans have had more than enough opportunities to redeem themselves. There is no remaining doubt to give them the benefit of.

If I were to choose to have kids despite climate change, doesn’t that prove that I don’t care about climate change?

Cryptocurrency is a scam. Not just certain coins, but the whole concept. It’s nothing more than digital tulips.

JavaScript is a bad language, but what’s really bad about it is not the language itself but the ecosystem of libraries and tools. Getting just about anything to work is a huge struggle. Rust is much easier to use.

Having children is a horrible idea.

This is artificial pseudointelligence, not a person. It doesn’t learn about or transform anything.

The only time I ever had memory problems with Firefox was when I tried to run it on a potato. That complaint has always been bullshit.

Edit to add: The aforementioned incident was in 2010, on a machine with only 512MB of RAM. Like I said, potato. Chrome back then was somewhat more memory-efficient than Firefox, and could support three open tabs on that machine before it started thrashing, whereas Firefox would thrash with just one. Both browsers performed abysmally under such a severe RAM shortage, but Chrome was slightly less abysmal. Slightly. I seriously doubt the current version of either browser would be usable on that machine, although I don’t have it (I gave it away soon after this incident) so I can’t check.

I installed all three.

OpenBoard has no swiping support at all.

AnySoftKeyboard is glitchy, moving the cursor around unexpectedly and inserting spurious characters.

FlorisBoard’s swiping is very inaccurate, to the point that it’s barely faster than typing characters one-by-one.

I hope this situation improves soon…

The EU Cyber Resilience Act will effectively make open-source software illegal, and that sure as hell isn’t pro-consumer. Neither is all the spooky surveillance and crippled cryptography they keep trying to mandate.

Isomorphic rendering seems horribly inelegant.

My first instinct is to just use server-side rendering for this, although that may not be possible since posting a comment involves rendering part of the page on the client side.

In light of that, my second instinct is to render entirely on the client side, but then Lemmy won’t work without JS, which may or may not be a problem. Mastodon seems to get away with it, but I dunno if Lemmy can. Also, client-side rendering makes it difficult to avoid breaking the back button, which the UI currently does.

Sheesh. Web development is such a mess.

There’s nothing selfish about wanting a home and a viable retirement plan. Everyone should have those things.