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I think you could probably just say "it became popular because it's free and everyone could use it to game with friends". Those of us that have fallen out of gaming or people that don't game might not literally have any idea why anyone uses it. So you could both be right. You are taking their zero to one by providing the answer.

I think there is a whole generation of people that have very fond memories of discord and everyone outside that window does not have that connection at all.

An addendum to that might be that other people have used other services before discord even existed that had better (?) feature sets but didn't win out and that can create confusion because neither group of people understands what the other group is talking about because there is no shared experience.

The docs were great for learning. And it made it so easy to recompile the kernel because it was right in the initial setup and you just had to walk through it again.

Compiling Chromium took absolutely forever 5+ years ago. I think a whole system took like 20% of the time that Chromium would take to compile. I can't even imagine with rust extensions added on top now. Gentoo was so awesome though but I had to switch to debian because I would just play with my configuration all the time and break things. One day I hope to return to using it though or setup another machine to use it.

For real. Also I always forget how big of a raging jerk he sounds like. This fits in with some of the other high profile conversions.

I guess he tried it out for a while and now he's 100% onboard. It begins. I guess we can look forward to "L" Stack.

Maybe we need an app store just for agents to make purchases. Imagine a world where startups have their valuations determined by how many agents are using their apps. Those startups... Also operated by agents. We don't even need users anymore!!!

Write a solid piece of software by hand. Spend 20 plus years working all the bugs out and perfecting it. Build a giant community around it. Then use llms to rewrite it in another language, as the last step. Once that becomes unmaintainable, and there really is no community you can start over again by writing another working piece of software in a new language, perfecting it, building out a large community and then at the final step translate again with an llm, repeat.

Are they really adding 2,000 tests a week to their codebase?

Totally weasel words in this time frame. I think in 10 years after everyone has a better understanding of what we are dealing with these weasel words would maybe make sense. Right now it seems more sensible to deem this at best a false positive, or glitch, or if it must be anthropomorphized a screw up or a f' up. I don't think the llms are dehydrated. Although that's funny on another level. Edited: to be less abrasive

As I understand it the cc company takes the fee money from the buyer and it's usually more than the cash back and gambles with it until they give some cash back to the buyer and then pockets the rest. If you have millions of those transactions taking place then you have a huge pool of gambling money available. They also hold the sellers money for a while usually longer than necessary to also boost that pool. Edit: a less cynical view is that you are essentially loaning that money to the credit card company and then it pays you back but it keeps the interest

I honestly have never even heard of this constant and I feel like I've been using python for a pretty long time. Although maybe my memory for some things just gets garbage collected if I don't use it enough. Does it actually get used that often in real world code? Seems like it might be kind of risky.

I felt the same way about moving to Python versus PHP and Perl.

I still really enjoy using python though. It's not really a fair comparison because I hadn't used PHP and Perl for as long but I just don't hit some mystifying issue every single session like I did with those languages when I'm using python. I honestly have never even read about that __debug__ constant. It's fun to hear about it but it's just not something that's comes up much.

Yeah I'm not sure if it's collapse or just the bad that was there all along has been let off the leash. I guess my point is I'm not sure that people lost their morals as much as the people with the morals lost the power.

I had a hard time finding it as well. I think maybe because the text is underlined and the font is small? It is harder to read "into" that text. Maybe it should be on its own line? Or it should be up next to "Full Color" / the cover? Maybe some "copy" pro would know the reason right away but it seems rather hard to find to me.

I guess the only downside might be if you need to push a bunch of things at once. But maybe just a loop is faster than calling extend on a list? This is cool.