wakey wakey

i mean… you can also just look around and see the guy with the dorky out-of-place classes…

yeah, no, im with you on that point where frontend developers don’t care. but why did that framework catch on in the first place? we used to use php where the server would grab all the data relevant to your account and convert it into one html page. but now it seems the user’s laptop is tasked with pulling each element of their own website. maybe it’s easier to scale? like you can have the user’s data split across different servers and not require any communication between servers on the backend?

I’m helping by only reading the title and then proceeding to speculate about the suspect’s ideology and ethnicity in the comments!

User is not in the pleaser file. This incident will be reported.

it’s frustrating because webpages were really functional without this problem a decade ago. i don’t know why links jump around today. is it because it’s cheaper to let the client figure out what content they need instead of using server-side computation?

no 👀

a master class in what-about-ism

yeah thinking of some of the ppl ive met on the internet, id rather be talking to a bot lol… jkjk

but i think finding out after the fact that i was interacting with a bot somehow seems soulless… like, something i like about the internet is the (small) feeling of still being connected to the world. and that’d be lost if i knew i was interacting with a bot. i imagine there’s people who feel differently, but i think that’s nuts. if im interacting with a bot, i want to know it.

also like, in responding to you, i hope to further some intelligent discussion and positively affect the world. if you’re a bot, then that’s hopeless. or maybe im just affecting the ai model positively, idk.

have you met an engineer who doesnt copy code from stackexchange? I’m not saying they blindly paste it in and forget about it, but copying a line or two that you (now) understand is fine.

i always do “read;rm ./file” which gives me a second to confirm and also makes it so i don’t accidentally execute it out of my bash history with control-r

have you needed to use microG for any apps? is it a sufficient replacement for google play?

how do you know it’s not bots?

that could be it… I’ve just thought about it a lot and came up with a new theory.

it seems to me that the limitations of screen real estate seem surmountable. eg: a settings menu could have a search bar like in android, meaning your options can be accessible even though they’re buried in the gui. then, your settings could be “stable” and repeatable by adding flags like in google chrome (another gui program).

you can actually use chrome from a cli with selenium or the headless command (–headless) and I’ve used this to scrape websites locked behind Javascript. but average chrome users don’t demand the further development of these features.

yes, great example. also: when the creators of that program decide the want to redesign the ui, all of your tutorials on how to do things break.

my theory is that its not something inherent about using text instead of graphics: a maintainer of a cli program could also decide that they want to redesign the command line options. but its more that users of guis don’t demand stability or repeatability. they are impressed by a ui redesign and so that’s what they get.

you can still be a good engineer and still copy code from stack exchange. i wasn’t saying windows engineers are bad

i think one difference between guis and clis that people don’t think about is composability. you cant do something like “pipe the contents of a folder into vscode and do a regex find and replace” but that’s what pipes let you do on the command line. with gui programs, you always have to do these things manually… which is nice the first time but then time consuming each subsequent time.

solar isn’t renewable bc eventually the sun will explode

after the demo you can walk outside to experience the full dystopian game

windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product