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What is so wrong about properly indenting your code that you feel it's necessary to add {} to make it better?

Ooh that could come in handy, it also has links to other useful projects! Thanks a lot!

Please refer to my other comments on this thread.

If I'm using WeTransfer, you can bet I tried Google drive and dropbox...

Yes, it has come to that in some cases. I've delivered a bunch of HDD's with my car.

Yes, sending it is easy. But on the other side, whatever software my customers are using tends to break the links.

I've had that with both mail clients and messenger. Call it antivirus protections, "you're leaving our website" thing, facebook tracking data... Whatever, they will break your links eventually.

I know, it's unbelievable, I don't blame you for doubting me. But still...

Just yesterday that link was broken by a (microsoft) mail client.

Yes, but then you have to send the link, and it's also a huge mess.

I know, but even sending a link is not that straightforward in my experience.

I have that header. Yet some personal iOS device decided to ignore it on safari. Don't know how, don't know why. Computers being computers.

I regularly have to send files to customers, from a few megabytes to a few gigs. It's incredibly hard.

Mail? Goes to spam.

WeTransfer? Mail clients break URL.

Download from my website? Some stupid browser will display the zip data onscreen.

Send the link through messenger? Messenger breaks the link.

SaaS gallery? Some file managers can't open the zip file.

I've been doing that for two years now. Still don't have a 100% working solution. It drives me mad. Just yesterday I spent 30 minutes sending 3 jpeg files to a customer.

This has a very strong Warzone 2100 vibe to it, I like it :)

Genuine question, as I didn't use LLMs much:

Sure, they're good for quick prototypes or even launching production grade services.

But what about maintenance? What about fixing issues in legacy software?

PHP is great for low maintenance web projects.

It runs everywhere and it's cheap. It's essentially serverless without the expensive, no-cost-limit cloud providers.

I've made a ton of personal projects in php, and I will continue doing so. They're great, they just keep running even when I don't look at them for a long time. Which is exactly what I need.

No. The least bad thing to do is to stop using so many resources for so little usefulness.

Half a liter of water? Wow.

We can probably derive the power usage from that, considering that the heat is generated by consuming electricity.

I assume they do evaporative cooling, Anyone with enough physics knowledge to calculate this?

At least in my kitchen, evaporating 500ml of water takes significant time and energy.

I struggle to find the value in keeping gold.

You can't eat it.

You can't use it as a tool.

You can't even buy groceries with it (well at least today. Point is: it's not a liquidity).

But yes, maybe you'll be able to make a profit in the future, by selling it to people who can't eat it or use it as a tool either. Or I guess trade it to save your life in a hypothetical future scenario.

It's just a weird way of keeping value. Wouldn't you rather buy a piece of land? At least you can pitch your tent or grow potatoes there.

Am I missing something?

Yes, it has become stupid in the recent years. However I used to have a 72hp car that was totally capable of barrelling down the highway at 120km/h (~= 75 miles per hour).

So, I insist, 122hp isn't "little".

Again, yes it exists. But I was never directed to it until now. So if it exists but no one knows it does...

Interestingly though, this may be documented, but is it easily accessible? I played Hearthstone in the past and never knew of such documentation.

Agreed. SUVs must die.

So you're thinking we can't ride at highway speeds in Europe with "small" 120hp engines?

That's... misguided :)

How is maven nowadays?

Every time I see an interesting java project, I think about using it, and then I see "maven" and I remember the terrible experiences I had with it.

Has it improved at all in the past 10 years?

Funny how they complain 122hp is little.

Meanwhile in Europe, we get by just fine with a lot less than that.

America needs to stop making everything so big for no reason.

My car doesn't have access to my emails.

This. If I'm talking to someone, I want to see his face and his reactions. The default "show whoever is talking in big" makes zero sense when you are talking.

Can't wait for my cameras to output jpgxl files natively!

It's probably at least 5 years away though...

Yes, that was just an example to illustrate the "what if your cheap X causes collateral damage", which is a real thing.

Imagine you get a cheap drone for videography. It fails mid flight, falls and kills someone.

Bad tools can have consequences. What does parent commenter do about this?

I think that's smart, on paper at least.

What so you do about the cheap tools that turn out so bad that they cause damage?

For example, you get a cheap screwdriver, it breaks while you use it, and you end up making a hole in the cabinet you were trying to fix.

While the general approach sounds sane, it seems to me there are a lot of cases where going for the cheap version could cost a lot in collateral damage.

Let me rephrase then.

War doesn't bring anything of value to humanity.