I always think it’s unfair to compare things to video games. Video games are so inefficient they had to invent a separate processor with hundreds of cores just to run them. Of course they end up running well.
If cheap phones had a 128-core JavaScript Processing Unit, websites would probably run fast too.
I’m a web dev and yes they could. It’s annoying that web devs get blamed for it though, the reason for all the javascript is mostly business decisions out of our control.
Mainly the tracking scripts which the marketing department adds against out will. But also it’s a lot cheaper to have a client-rendered web app than a traditional website (with client side rendering you can shut off all your web servers and just keep the api servers, our server side processing went down 90% in the switchover). And it’s more efficient for the company to have one team working in one programming language and one framework that can run the backend and frontend, so the frontend ends being a web app even if it’s not really necessary.
Yeah that’s another difference. When something breaks on Windows people will do anything to fix it, including reinstalling Windows or buying another machine.
When something goes wrong on Linux they decide Linux doesn’t work and reinstall Windows.
I’ve had Windows installs slow down till they take 15 minutes to start. I once clicked the wrong button in Visual Studio and the computer became some kind of remote driver debugging target, permanently. Half the settings broke and every startup it would autologin as a debug user.
If anything like that happens on Linux it’s proof Linux is too complicated, but on Windows it’s just one of those things.
The DiCaprio thing is funny.
In the 80s or 90s everyone knew that a movie star having a series of young starlet girlfriends meant they’re gay. They get a beard to cover their sexuality and the girlfriend gets exposure from having a famous boyfriend. They split up because it’s obviously not a real relationship, and the studio finds some new actress to link him to.
But being gay got so much more acceptable recently that people don’t understand being closeted any more. So they think DiCaprio is a dirty old man who will only date 22 year olds.
I wonder what people think of me calling stuff “wicked”, which I started saying because of Richard Blackwood’s song “1.2.3.4 Get with the Wicked” in the year 2000
Never seen anyone else mention this, but when I click a post on page 2 then go back, it shows the page 1 posts again. But because the URL is set up for page 2, clicking next goes to page 3. If I don’t concentrate I end up reading one post from each page and missing 90% of my feed.
It’s something I’ve seen POC on Mastodon complaining about, that everyone in the fediverse thinks they belong in every discussion. It’s been the same with the autism community on Lemmy, I’ll say something about my experience of autism and immediately get a reply like “I’m not autistic but I disagree”.
At least Reddit is big enough that not every post hits the front page and gets a comment from every user, so niche subs can fly under the radar a bit.
But then I don’t get why they never ask me for money? When I get through to the scammer they just ask what I want. I’ll say “they said something about me owing money”, and they act like they don’t know what I’m talking about and get annoyed with me for wasting their time.
If the deal is “they take your money and will never get in trouble” then what’s the downside to just running the script on everyone who calls?
Been thinking about it and my theory is it’s a plausible deniability thing.
Company A runs the robocaller which says “You owe $250”, then forwards the call to Company B. They ask what you want and you say “I need to make a payment of $250”. If you say anything else they pretend they don’t know what you mean. Company B can record their calls and prove they never asked anyone for money, it all came from people volunteering to pay. They might have to return it but they can act like it’s an honest mistake.
I don’t get how scams work. Every time I get a scam call I stay on the line or press 1 or whatever to find out what the scam is, but no one ever tries to scam me. They just act like a normal business till I hang up. Can they tell by your voice you aren’t gullible or something?
Yeah, I hate Reddit as a company for the same reasons as everyone else, but I keep going back there because the quality and diversity of discussion on Lemmy isn’t good enough.
It’s like early Reddit in that people stay on topic and make relatively high effort comments, but it’s dominated by straight white male libertarian software engineers, so you get really narrow viewpoints that overwhelm anything else.
It doesn’t work for anything really, if you let users moderate content through up and downvotes then every community turns into r/memes
What makes a language easy is its similarity to a learner’s native language, or other languages they’ve already learned.
Don’t believe this at all. English is far more different to Chinese than any to any European language, yet I was able to communicate in Chinese much better after a few weeks of learning than after months or years of French and Spanish, because the grammar is simpler.
Familiarity with cognates, word order and grammar rules can’t beat simply never having to use an article, agree gender or conjugate a verb for the subject or tense. Tell me a Chinese verb and I can talk about anybody doing it at any point in time. Tell me a French verb and I’ll have to study declension tables all week.
However, if you learn english words through text and then try to use them vocally, nobody will understand you. (looking at you “beard”, who isn’t pronounced at all like “bear” for some reason)
If someone pronounced beard like bear with a d on the end I’d understand them fine. Particularly since the rest of the sentence would probably be perfectly grammatical since the grammar is so simple.
People might understand “Le baguette sont fraîche”, they might not. How do they know which words you got right and which you got wrong? They just know nothing agrees. Either way you will sound like a total moron. And you need to learn 3 different grammar rules to fix it, not just one pronunciation.
There is absolutely no correlation between spoken and written english
Come on, this is silly. I’m looking at your comment and almost every word has regular pronunciation. Any incorrect pronunciations would be easily understood. The specific examples you give are just regional differences.
English is easier. So the spelling is irregular, so what. You’ll be bad at spelling for a while. It’s just not comparable to having to memorize arbitrary gender for every noun in the language, learn complex verb conjugations, polite and impolite forms and make every verb and adjective agree with the nouns in gender and number.
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Yeah this, setting exact dependencies in package.json is a beginner misunderstanding of how package resolution works and is actually counterproductive.
Package.json is where you specify what version ranges your code is compatible with and should be as broad as possible. This makes it more likely that transitive dependencies on the same package will overlap, so the smallest possible number of libraries are included.
When you install for the first time the dependencies are resolved to exact versions and stored in the lock file, and they won’t change on subsequent installs without developer intervention.
So putting exact versions in package.json doesn’t do anything apart from practically guarantee you’ll include multiple versions of each dependency in your project.
He represents the meme well in the sense that these memes are all made by people who tried to climb up the bell curve but fell back down to the start, and think that’s the same as reaching the end.
He literally says he couldn’t figure it out. That doesn’t make him smarter than people who can figure it out and use Arch with no problem.
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