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Seth Harp (tweeter in the OP) does the rounds every time he puts out a new piece. Just look for the pods he's a guest on

np, it's one of the few I try to re-read it every so often to keep fresh. clearly not recently enough

idk about the Chinese companies but in the case of facebook it's a pretty naked case of commoditizing their complements, not some altruistic play at positive-sum technobloomerism

the cheaper slop generation gets the better it is for facebook, the slop platform. it's weird that google hasn't made the same decision

tbh almost all that can be laid at the foot of Google. would've been Microsoft but they got spooked by the antitrust lawsuit they beat and didn't consolidate their monopoly on browser tech like they were heading towards. Google watched them get sued and just did the same thing they were trying with IE but with Chrome

the novel memory management is neat but I always find the rampant use of macros to be a huge roadblock to doing anything quickly any time I try to pick it up. but I'm not coming from cpp so I don't think I'm the target audience

my comment also not much better wrt to contempt culture but we're all working with the patterns we've got, y'know.

that makes a lot more sense about the struggle session bit, I didn't read it that way. but totally agreed! appreciate you expanding on that.

Fraiser

just don't pay attention to what Kelsey Grammer says off-screen

Lemmy uses javascript package managment with a tool (pnpm) that would not exist without nodejs. And as bad as javascript package management is, it could be worse. Just look at the python package management ecosystem.

I don't think much of the node ecosystem, but darkmode's point is correct even though the backend doesn't run in a node interpreter.

None of this takes away anything from shitting on this particular clown though.

Only tangentially related, but I recommend reading this post from a cool technologist I like. There's plenty to critique in the world of software without falling into the well-worn rut of the flame war patterns laid down by the brogrammers that stole this profession from the women that started it.

can't get a better joke get in the way of better orientalism

we stole that one from the grad

but they stole custom emojis in general from us so it's fair game

sounds Marcyite to me