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[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Uh, there's still a shitload of websites out there doing SSR using stuff like PHP, Rails, Blazor, etc. HTML is alive and well, and frankly it's much better than you claim.

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

With your example, there are a number of languages that can statically prevent thread safety issues entirely, so that's not actually a good example of something a type system can't catch.

To be honest, there's much more that can be statically enforced by a type system than what C++ is capable of. With a sufficiently powerful type system, it tends to become more about tradeoffs in ergonomics and type safety.

[–] expr@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Antivirus software doesn't belong with the others.

[–] expr@programming.dev 26 points 1 month ago

Honestly, you might need therapy. But definitely an unpopular opinion, I'll give you that.

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

New York City is located in the southeastern corner of the state, so "upstate NY" means basically everything north/west of the NYC metro area. It's a word that is pretty much exclusively used for New York.

[–] expr@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

LLMs are a net-negative for society as a whole. The underlying technology is fine, but it's far too easy for corporations to manipulate the populace with them, and people are just generally very vulnerable to them. Beyond the extremely common tendency to misunderstand and anthropomorphize them and think they have some real insight, they also delude (even otherwise reasonable) people into thinking that they are benefitting from them when they really.... Aren't. Instead, people get hooked on the feelings they give them, and people keep wanting to get their next hit (tokens).

They are brain rot and that's all there is to it.

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

That's not what she was saying. But also, Christian music is pretty garbage.

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There were thousands lining O street in Lincoln, Nebraska today, which is a small college town of ~300k people. Definitely has to be in the millions.

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's definitely not faster than vim, fwiw.

[–] expr@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the city is progressive. Tornadoes... Not as much as you would think. There was one last year that hit the outskirts of town a bit. Last one to do any damage before that was like 2017.

[–] expr@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever been to southeastern Nebraska? Like... Where most people in the state live? It's nothing like western Nebraska. I live in Lincoln and it's a great place to live: progressive, lots of parks, great school system, nice downtown area, beautiful university campus, etc. Nothing like you're describing. Nebraskans don't actually go to western Nebraska very much.

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Most of the population lives in the southeastern corner of the state, in Omaha, Lincoln, Nebraska City, and some surrounding counties. I live in Lincoln and it's a very nice place to live. Western Nebraska is completely different and not many people live there, and most people in the state don't go there either unless they are driving through.

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