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Democracy working as intended: people keep voting freely, people keep getting what they want.

Nice, but still lacking proper generics (i.e. à la C++ templates) and typedef.

> It's obviously information that's stored _somewhere_

It's likely stored in the disk blocks reserved for the filesystem metadata. The disk may always appear empty, but available space will get lower and lower eventually.

A comment preventing fellow readers from wasting their time is not shallow.

> you have to deal with RAII

If you find that RAII is a problem, I pity how poor a programmer you must be...

> The CE mark is worthless, since it is a self-certificaton.

Boeing 737 MAX tragedy did happen because of self-certification abuse, still I would not call FAA certification worthless.

Quality was never the norm: cheap always beat quality with a hand tied behind his back!

Western working class has spent decades complaining about cheap imports from China... while feeding that market with their own money.

Western frequent fliers keep reminiscing about the grandiose pre-deregulation era or air travel, but cry a river when their low-cost carrier of choice actually enforces the limit on cabin baggage.

Everybody hates ads, but no-one is willing to pay a penny for a service they use daily.

The software development realm is bigger than web programming.

You get that when you refuse personalised ads.

> Discord chats, AI and social media videos

A.k.a: no trustable source.

Mathematics is a tool. What make such understanding possible are the relentless, disciplined, often-pointless-looking collection and categorization of data of any kind, by generations and generations of selfless scientists.

> They are renowned for their form of prayer that involves running for extended periods of time.

Mark me as atheist!

> Several times a day I'll prompt regular Claude chat to "Clone x/y from GitHub and tell me how Z works".

In principle, you should not need the source code: the AI should be able to answer by examining the binaries.