Many developments over the last few years have been for improving those aspects, e.g. Wayland is far more secure than X11 could ever be. There will be more vulnerabilities found, but it won’t be as bad as one might fear.

Yes, they can be written in maintainable ways, I didn’t disagree in my original comment. That doesn’t change that most of the projects I come across to this day are absolutely unmaintainable messes. I’m not talking about Python from 10 years ago, I’m talking about the projects I encounter now.

The biggest issue is that you have to limit yourself to a mostly non-dynamic subset of Python if you want type checking etc. to work, and you have to write your own type definitions for many dependencies. Most projects don’t do that, they instead lean into the dynamic nature of Python, which makes them unmaintainable after little time.

Python is by far one of the worst languages I’ve ever seen in relation to maintainability, second only to Javascript (due to missing types, which are fixed by Typescript).

Seriously, it’s rare for a Python project with more than 1,000 lines to not turn into an absolute mess thanks to the layers upon layers of meta programming, weird edge cases and so on. There are whole bad patterns I’ve never seen beyond Python codebases.

Things are improving slowly thanks to type hints and so on, but they are still far from where they need to be. Python is used in even more dynamic ways than JS, so the type system needs to be more expressive than TS. You can’t even define a function that appends two tuples with proper type hints!

Please kindly fuck off. I don’t want Sonys bullshit touching these games.

They apparently like making memes shitting on people & things without really understanding why, like the one for the NVidia CEO

Actually the Red Star developers seem very serious

99/zyxw/ABC

You mean on Iraqi landscapes?

Man, your dad must have had you early, two children before 9…

Imagine you can set a theme of your choice like “Star Trek technobabble” for little explanations for the delay.

“Delay due to chirality recalibration of phase discriminating amplifier for positronic brain…”

Might literally be one of the best use cases I’ve seen so far!

I’m aware, it was mostly a joke about these “features” making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)

More like Notepad–, amirite

Little or big endian?

Then tell me: what else could the reason be? Why make people deliberately think you’re stupid? What’s the advantage?

And yes, this is a thing that happens literally to thousands of people every day. Almost everyone has a “I didn’t make backups” story. Humans aren’t born perfect - they make mistakes and learn from them. How many doctoral theses do you think are lost every day due to missing backups? Or how much art, how much data in general?

Instead of assuming some evil genius agenda hiding behind their stupid stated reason, you could just try to accept that people make mistakes. But you surely don’t ever make any, so why would anyone else?

They told you their reason: they were inexperienced. Why do you assume they must be lying, and hiding another reason?

“We lost access to the source code because we didn’t use VCS or make backups”

“Well, it would be rude to think they’re not smart enough to make a backup[…]”

No, what’s rude is assuming that people are lying to you without good reason.

Because, even though I use dark mode system-wide, I sometimes want to use websites in light mode. Until browsers implement a per-site toggle for the preferred color scheme, websites should offer one instead.

Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody is fucking in a UFO

• Rob Zombie

When will you get out of prison?