gitgrump

Those are also symptoms of a panic attack, which is not uncommon for some people who dislike needles. What did the ER learn about his condition?

I would absolutely support stronger regulation. Unfortunately, I don't believe the Overton window will be there in the United States for some time.

Or because they have no other choice. It's mind-boggling that the very people responsible for creating this landscape have the audacity to throw up their hands and try to absolve themselves of responsibility for the things they built by saying "idk the users just love being screwed". We must do better.

Users are not prioritized, obscene wealth is (usually for founders, and less so for employees). What do investors want: warm fuzzies or cold, hard cash? Follow the incentives.

You ever see how much people spend on AWS to host a basic CRUD web app?

Two people couldn't even cover up Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. You want tens of thousands of people to cover up massive chip orders?

You probably understand the rest of what you need to understand CORS. I've noticed that web developers today don't even understand things like HTTP in general particularly well. They're not trying to understand, they're trying to ship the next feature, and CORS is "blocking them".

Oh, momentous for sure! I guess I meant that it's not surprising that we were able to do it successfully. "What, like it's hard?" vibes. :)

Seriously. Humans managed to send a robot to a rock hurtling through the universe, and then took pieces back to look at. And it feels so normal! This is awesome stuff.

Respectfully, version control is not necessarily easy, and even with other versioning tools (they already exist, and some purport to be easier than git), you still have to think about what you're trying to do. I see this attitude a lot with new developers, and it's troubling. Of course git is hard; what part of computing _isn't_ hard? Git is a hell of a lot easier than, say, debugging a kernel panic, or solving a tricky race condition. If the vast majority of developers can't get by without learning anything beyond clone-commit-push, then I truly fear for our industry, because I am thoroughly average, and I have a pretty good idea of what git is up to when I run commands.

Git might not have the best interface, and you could argue for different models, but some of this stuff just takes time and effort to learn. This is an important lesson for new developers to learn: some of this stuff is not, in fact, easy, and I don't where this expectation that it is comes from. It reflects a disturbing trend of learned helplessness I've noticed from newer developers. Computers are hard, but if you want to be the expert, you're going to have to figure it out. I don't think we need easier version control, I think we need developers who are willing to learn hard things.