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At my place, I would complain about your code in code review. Because https://youtu.be/9L3M2WC5LPA

And I've trained people who have been writing bad code into writing better code and into delaying all merge requests by also complaining about bad code! >:]

I'd be pretty depressed if I worked somewhere this weren't the case. So it sounds like either your workplace culture is very bad or like mine is very good. (I don't know how common either case is.)

That's like Italian trains, but it's more like "nobody knows what platform it's gonna be at; keep a look out and run when you see it; also, screw you".

And that's good because the slaves have a slightly higher quality of life than before. Even though our low skill workers are priced out of the economy. But that's good because they should go to college and learn to code! Which 100% of society definitely can afford financially and cognitively since we're all interchangeable cogs. No free college that's too extreme though lol. Plus, iPhones are so cheap! Would you rather have Detroit not in ruins but not be able to afford a new iPhone every year???

> their goal is to make sure people are formatted and replaceable.

Why else would corporations be the exclusive authors of "middle-level" languages like Java, C#, and Go? ;p JS and Python are too slow, but we can't find enough C, C++, or Rust developers! Let's invent these abominations instead with which we can churn out more good-enough mediocrity per quarter than ever before!

Are you an elcor?

As opposed to letting advertisers be our mental jailors by chilling the discourse as they pressure the hubs where communication takes place to collapse down to the lowest common denominator of anodyne politically correct corporate approved goodthink like they have over the last 10 years. Cry me a river. I'm morally outraged all the way back into my cage, Mr. PepsiCo!

Unless you're C++-damaged enough to assume it's one of those bullshit gaslighting "it might actually not do anything lol" premature optimization keywords, like `constexpr`.

Doom Eternal (which would turn out to be a deeply ironic name and which I was only playing singleplayer) had some botnet layered over it that tried to "update" whenever you started the game. There was a bug where the little startup dialog that would say "updating" or whatever instead said nothing, and it just hung there, and there was no way to bypass it. It effectively bricked the game because not even reinstalling got rid of it. You couldn't do anything to play the game anymore. Research revealed this happened on all platforms, and nobody had a fix. Awesome to be in the future with all this fancy technology, where my game rips me off on accident, WAY BEFORE end of life (this was like a year or two from its release). :D Meanwhile, I can fire up Doom 1 and 2 via gzdoom in less time than it took that dialog to finish when it was still working. And you can play Doom 3 in the browser! https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/

Being bamboozled by the elites with bullshit gaslighting

If all of these sound like lies to spin economists' narratives and scare everybody into playing into their hands, it's because that's exactly what they are.

Yep. Intel is an empire in decline. It's a powerful case study in how you can have All The Money and still fuck up catastrophically. It's Ice America -- it's a bloated enemy in a crumbling castle!

The "ain't it, chief" sealed the deal.

So you're saying https://xkcd.com/224/ isn't true for Haskell?

They are an imperial shill.

If the only American one is horrible, we should still subsidize it? Quite the dilemma. I'd be more on board with paying the Taiwanese to move here.

It will take way more time than that because Intel is a bloated, corrupt, and incompetent company.

The lead makes the wine sweeter!

My answer to all of this is that the way the Internet works now is wrong and bad and I don't care to accommodate it anymore than I would care to remind my jailor to take their heart medication every morning. Go net neutrality.

Can I date the dating coach? Oh, wait, React? Nevermind. I think I just need to work on myself right now.

But the commercial was about black people. Frankly, I think a big portion of this "I hate the ad" noise is just thinly-veiled racist dog whistling.

Like employees

And then it blows up! https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo

Because rationality is dead, and marketing was its murderer.

Look, my quicksort WILL work quickly; I just need a Matrioshka brain powered by the entire output of the Sun's worth of single-threaded processing speed and memory!

Fame is ego and expectations. Rich is quiet freedom. You'd be a fool to pick the first one.

Frontend development is like being a TikTok influencer: it's an bullshit boondoggle that wouldn't even exist in a better society.

Consider that Earth had way higher carbon levels during hothouse periods like the Carboniferous. In the limit, then, "there is no hope" anyway since it's a natural cycle. We are leaving a recent ice age and are due for another hothouse phase anyway. We either cope or we die, as a species. I'm really confident we'll cope. I predict that the only thing that'll end us is ourselves, not with carbon emissions but with bioweapons.

Amen. Doing the wrong thing is easy. Doing the right thing is hard. These are thermodynamically-mandated rules that cannot ever be circumvented by cleverness or money or hard work.

If you're a social animal, you should have never gotten into coding to begin with. It's for introvert nerds with no social life! How else can you even learn it, anyway? Oh, that's right, by using the easy languages made by corporations (Java, C#, Go) to hire more devs with the promise of an easy paycheck.