jmull

Fair enough, though shouldn't insults have been left out entirely?

It's interesting what is considered acceptable and what isn't.

Diet and exercise tells people what to do, but not how to do it.

Knowing that you should do something, doesn't necessarily mean can do it. There's still the question of exactly how.

E.g., diet is heavily influenced by hormones/hormonal cycles and access to quality food choices, which vary significantly between people. The glp1s available now are a big help with the hormonal part of this, but they are not within reach of a large proportion of people.

> To me this is just subconscious denial/defending of their food addiction.

If you have to make up unobservable phenomena to explain plainly visible facts, it's usually a sign to look for a different overall model.

"amount" it says. No matter the context, there could be more than you expect.

To me the voting is pretty much on target.

They are both good answers, depending on what you're looking for. The first is clear, concise, and correct -- pretty much exactly what you want to read and write code with the $ prefix.

The other one is more interesting in a behind-the-scenes way, and goes through the thinking process behind it.

I can see why the first answer gets the most votes -- that's usually all people want. The other gets votes for the people looking for a somewhat deeper answer and are willing to spend more time reading to get it.

It shouldn't necessarily be about winning the voting... different perspectives are useful.

I use an 11" iPad with the keyboard/trackpad case pretty extensively and it works pretty naturally to move between keyboard/trackpad and touch.

This includes a lot of remoting into Windows machines (using Jump) where I use the trackpad more, but the touch is still really nice to have.

I love these things. Never going to buy one. But I love what they are doing with them.

Probably. This is what happens when you let Big Bird fund science.

AI Doomer: AI is going to rise up and destroy humanity!

AI Optimist: AI is going usher in an era of unparalleled productivity and achievement

The reality: RAM/Chip prices are way, way up. The starter iPad mini is $700.

> I think the most important thing in any project you’re building...is how completely and accurately you articulate exactly what you want.

That's what code does.

I think he really wants to be having a debate about whether we ought to be using different coding languages, more based on natural languages, more declarative.

I think the law provides an interesting perspective. It has a technical, formalized language, built out of a natural language. Since laws and contracts can be very high-stakes, the technical/formalized aspects arose out of a need to express hard constraints using a language whose complexities seem to be built more for story-telling.

If maintenance continues indefinitely, then all good, (but then I wouldn’t use the term sunset).

Why not just buy the device you want to buy, and let other people buy the device they want to buy?

You can muddy the waters with strawmen and politics, but I doubt you'll convince many people around here.

What's easier, maintaining PHP or migrating/breaking every single PHP-based site?

And who's to say whatever sites are migrated to won't be "sunsetted" in a few decades too?

Seems like a no-brainer to maintain it.

"mutually exclusive" isn't a good way to think of it. "Tradeoffs" is much better.

iPhones are aimed at the many millions/billions of technically unsophisticated users who don't care about rooting their phone, but would be very unhappy to get phished out of their life savings.