It’s not even particularly accurate or nuanced in its history of Microsoft’s actions and the doc formats, it doesn’t mention any competitors, it doesn’t mention anything about the history of type setting generally or more advanced projects like LaTex, and at a fundamental level, it’s edited worse than my first year essays.

It spends like 2000 words just to say markdown good because it focuses on intent rather than a particular style.

Yes, I would describe it as bad.

Honestly, this is a pretty badly written and researched article for someone that likes writing so much.

Like, just the opening two paragraphs about Microsoft controlling document formats … They repeat the same information in both paragraphs and give a rather incomplete history of document formatting.

It’s also wild to write that many words about Markdown and never discuss its connection to HTML and its foundation in formatting via declarative intent rather than imperative formatting instructions (i.e. in markdown you dont style your title by saying bold / underling / font-size:20, you declare your true intent which is this is the top level title / heading, but that all comes from the underlying structure of HTML which markdown is basically just a simplification of.

AAA gaming shows the effects of late term capitalism on gaming.

It needs a decent UX, but most importantly it needs binary compatibility. No pleb will compile from source.

This one.

I mean, in an overall sense yes, but that’s like saying climbing Everest is easy because on average the world has very little elevation change.

Sort of, when you hang out with people who are less informed, it’s going to get awkward if you’re constantly just explaining stuff. Eventually everyone will pick up on the vibe that you know way more than everyone else.

But I don’t hate it. That stuff can be overcome by working on your self and social ability, often the wittiest people can slyly point out the folly of something someone said with a quick wry joke, and more importantly you can learn to just let stuff go and not always explain everything or make sure everyone is exactly right about everything, and instead focus on being a conversationalist that will just keep things flowing in a fun way.

Plus, then when you do hang out with other people who are well informed, you can have interesting deep conversations. And the world is a lot less scary and hard to navigate if you understand how it all works.

Cities still need a way of knowing when streetlights burn out or are in need of service.

You can wait for people to report them out, hope the report is accurate, and then send workers out to try and find them and fix them (and it’s not exactly easy to figure out which light is burnt out during the day), or you can proactively send workers out to fix exactly the right light as soon as they break or show any signs that they might.

I’m not talking ecosystem or which I’d choose to build an actual project with, just on a pure language basis, C#'s typing system is more flexible and less verbose than Java’s, and unlike Java, C# actually treats functional programming as first class.

Java has certainly gotten better in both regards, but C# was really just a joy in comparison.

C# is just flat out objectively better language, in virtually every single way

… shredmills was right there …

Build your cat a pillow fort, be the change you want to see in the world.

Based on the shape, at first I it thought was one of the new mesh network streetlights, but after zooming in more I think you’re right, it looks like an antenna box for a wireless metering network.

I mean, yeah, I’m not saying don’t use one ever, there’s just a lot of people in here very confident that they’re essential.

And the only downside I would say, is that if you put a scratchable surface on top of an unscratchable screen, then your screen is going to look scratched up more often, during the period after the protector gets scratched but before you replace it.

Though this is a relatively minor downside if you are seriously risking scratching the glass underneath.

But like, what do you have in your pocket? My phone goes in my right pocket with my earbuds, my left pocket has my wallet and keys if needed.

If I’m doing construction work and have screws and drill bits and stuff on me I put them in my hoodie pocket, back pocket, mouth, or just put my phone down on the table nearby…

Like I get it if you had a purse or handbag you regularly kept it in but if it’s just from stuff in your pockets why do you always have sharp stuff in the same pocket?

This thread is mostly confirmation bias.

People who use screen protectors see them get scratched up and think ‘oh wow, thank God it saved my screen’, and then buy replacements, not realizing that their screen protector, be it plastic or cheap glass, is not remotely as strong as the Gorilla Glass underneath.

In reality they’re mostly just putting a scratchable surface on top of a relatively unscratchable one, and then get the impression they’re doing something when the scratchable surface gets scratched.

I’ve used my phone heavily for 2+ years and have incredibly minor, have to look for them, scratches, and that’s with fully dropping it on its face multiple times.

Honestly do not understand the purpose of screen protectors, I haven’t had a serious screen scratch since like gorilla Glass 1 days.

I’m pretty sure this thread is basically just entirely confirmation bias from people who don’t realize that the glass in screen protectors is far weaker than the gorilla Glass in your phone. A scratched screen protector is not necessarily a sign that your phone screen would’ve been scratched had it not been there.

No, that seems incredibly toxic.

Fair enough, though in this case it feels like it’s not making assumptions, but showing unawareness of the one-way nature of American controlled media.

Lol you don’t need to explain how long the US election cycle lasts. The rest of the world is aware.