tylercrompton

Out of curiosity, in what context has IoT telemetry been meaningful to the consumer? In other words, what data has been gathered that can be sold or otherwise abused? I personally don't see a reason to be concerned about a manufacturer wanting to track which features are being used and how those features are being used.

> Not integrating so well with other open source licenses is one of the cons.

That depends on what you want. If you want a license that will play well with closed source software, then yeah, it's a downside. But the GPL family comes from the perspective of a developer who wants to retain their rights while respecting others' desire for the same. If you care about your rights, then this is an upside.

It doesn't matter that you don't take on debt. The point is to protect yourself from unscrupulous individuals who want you to take on debt on their behalf.

Something about injecting HTML from an API, even from a controlled server, feels wrong.

You so well describe why I played RS back in those days. I tried getting back into it a few years ago and it just didn't feel the same without my friends. But I never realized why it felt different until I read your comment.

I think that it can be both. Yes, weird code will produce weird results but in my opinion, the language should at least help one find the weird code.

Out of lazy curiosity, what change in particular prompted this?

Now they're just showing off.

I would avoid Chromium-based browsers entirely as it still allows Google to strongarm their way into standards that few others want.

In LaTeX, the open quote is denoted by a grave accent and the close quote is denoted by the apostrophe. Look back at the article and you'll find that the author consistently uses these characters in this manner. Why they didn't get processed to the proper Unicode characters, however, is beyond me.

Stack Overflow, surely

Doesn't ChatGPT excel at providing step-by-step instructions? That's kind of what Brainfuck is with only eight options for each step. I'd imagine that it could reach the end result using a combination of those eight options. Can it not?

Wouldn't it be easier to convert VB6 to VB.NET and then convert that to C#? The latter conversion is mostly just a find-and-replace operation, as I understand it.

That's a take.

What exactly makes Electron better for speed than say popular cross-platform GUI library X?