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It is more like my mailbox: overflowing with shit. Fortunately the bin is right next to the mailbox. I don’t use Google that often anymore.

And yet, their search engine is enshittified beyond all belief.

It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.

If Google News is the shrimp boat, then what is Google Search?

This is also why people eventually leave languages. Satisfy everyone’s wishes for long enough and you get lots of different styles of doing things and … «wow look at that much simp…

You rarely get anything for free. Look at exceptions in Java, for instance. In theory the mechanism is there to guarantee that errors will be handled. In practice there are multipl…

I think the examples are both bad along different axis. One occupies more lines, the other results in _more_ and uglier syntax. They’re both bad. So the question is which axis is w…

I agree with you that it would have been nice with Result and option types in Go. But as someone else pointed out, unhandled errors are very rare in practice in Go because every Go…

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I’m not sure what I expected the first time I met him, but I wasn’t too surprised that he was actually easy to get along with. Most intelligent people actually are in real life. Ye…

The immature 1980s industry was a lot more fun than any decade since. The problem with the future is that when it arrives it tends to bring amazing things, but they are still execu…

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You are skipping a few layers here. Like those who know stuff like «crumbling asbestos air ducts in schools may be a bad idea». Why do so many grown-ups fail civics 101 so blatantl…

You kind of exemplify that drawing on this very topic where a bunch of people sit in a boat that is sinking stern first and the people in the bow section are expressing zero concer…

Well, zero repairs so far. And I live in a place where BMW sent two engineers and a test car to verify that, indeed, the roads here rattle cars to bits. They were not getting rippe…

You're thinking about the stability? That's all down to very low center of gravity.

Reading through the comments I somehow doubt that many have owned or ridden a Vespa that was built in the last 10 years or so. I've had a 300cc Vespa GTS for a decade now (alongsid…

This is a really weird take that does not resemble any modern Vespa. Are you sure you looked at a modern Vespa and not some old 2 stroke thing? Also, the range is pretty good. Abou…

You do understand that you look somewhat ridiculous when engaging in the very behavior that the accusation of wooden matter up one’s rectum implies? You are arguing my point for me…

I am flabbergasted. How self-absorbed does one have to be to be offended by someone re-using sections of a paper one has done earlier in a later paper? No, seriously. If I write 5.…

I’ll grant you that there are good arguments in favor of your position. PHP, and then later JavaScript have both filled the world with more fragility and chaos than was necessary.

The same morons who think that re-using something you have written before in academic work without quoting yourself is (self-)plagiarism for which you should be sanctioned? (Yes, t…

But surely the death of any large chunk of PHP leaving the stage is cause for applause and boisterous shouts of joy?

This even extends to how some standards are written: deliberately complex and poor work just to make it frustrating and ensure a high barrier of entry. And of course there are eith…

You offer no concrete explanation of how AI will magically remove the language barrier. Have you ever taught a class? How, in practice would you make language go away? In concrete …