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  • Hmm, do you mean in the web console?

    I know Firefox has a bit of a reputation for being rather precise in how it handles web standards compliance. So, it'll show comparatively many warnings and errors, if you don't keep to the web standards.

    This is actually quite useful for web devs, because it means, if Firefox is happy with your implementation, then it's relatively likely to run correctly on all browsers.



  • Yeah, I'm imagining, I've run into these problems in the past and then the compiler told me to do it differently and so I did. I'm definitely glad that such unobvious behavior is being reduced, I just probably won't realize until I'm writing similar code the next time and the compiler does not complain.



  • Yeah, learning Rust has given me greater appreciation for C/C++. Like, the selling feature of all three is that they don't use a runtime, which means you're not locked into that ecosystem. You can create libraries with them, that can be used from virtually any other language.

    It's also easy to say that the performance of Java, Python et al is fine, but having a larger application start up in 1 rather than 20 seconds is still always appreciated.




  • I mean, that makes sense, but consider the other side. You find some document that very clearly says that you have a license to do whatever the hell you want with it.

    In this particular case, you probably heard the news, but in many other cases, you just couldn't trust any license anymore, because there's just no way to know whether something was intended to be licensed like that. It would pretty much defeat the purpose of licensing anything at all.



  • I do that kind of thing, yes. Although I usually find it so distasteful, that I lose interest in watching other videos anyways.

    But yeah, especially when it's a channel making educational content, there's a chance that some viewers take the sponsored section as general educational content (no matter, whether that's because they're gullible, young or did not pay attention when the sponsor segway happened).

    There's also various tech channels which recommend products that are objectively worse than the alternatives, or even exert malware-like behaviour. Those also immediately lose any and all respect from me.

    Obviously, if it was a genuinely good product, it wouldn't need the sponsorship deal for people to make videos about it. So, I do understand the struggle.
    But everyone wanting to make a living off of media has that struggle. If I artificially inflate the view numbers of one media creator, the others receive less sponsorship money.







  • Depends on the distro.

    On my personal laptop with openSUSE, I have plenty confidence doing all kinds of upgrades and sidegrades (between Leap and Tumbleweed).
    The package manager detects conflicts and makes me decide what to do with them. I've never seen the software or distro dependency definitions fuck up, it was always me making a wrong decision.
    Well, and if I do make a wrong decision or anything else should go wrong during the upgrade, I can roll back to the BTRFS snapshot before.

    On my work laptop, the best I can get is Kubuntu. Apt is much more fickle, since it doesn't have as clear of a concept of what constitutes a conflict, but also what a correct system should look like.
    The whole packages feel much more fickle, too, because they've got all these custom patches, so you really don't want to accidentally mix different versions of packages, like might happen in an incomplete upgrade.
    And of course, you get one chance at upgrading. If anything goes sideways, you better have your Live USB ready right away.

    So, that's why I would prefer to install fresh right away. Of course, my workplace doesn't actually allow me to do that either. They really like to keep me on edge.




  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzBig Science
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    3 months ago

    I once had a colleague who was raised to live by the bible, never questioning it. He was also a massive shitposter. No matter what dumb shit he said, he'd always say that it was just a joke.

    Well, one of the few times when I genuinely caught him off guard, was when I explained that science did not actually claim to know the one and only truth. That it wanted to be proven wrong.

    I think, that idea itself conflicted with his whole world view. Like, I imagine, his parents also raised him to never question their authority.