Ah, I only just now noticed that this post was made in the lemmy.ml memes community, which is very different in the kinds of posts that it has than most communities that call themselves "memes" communities. Personally I think that you all have awful taste, but taste is subjective so I withdraw my objection that this particular meme is trash.
I was about to unsubscribe, but curiously I don't seem to currently be subscribed to it, which is odd because it definitely appeared on my front page at one point; if that is because the admin kicked me out, then I would like to kindly thank them.
Just so you know, since you are apparently now going to start spamming the meme community with trash, you have become one of a select few on my block list.
As someone who regularly has to deal with code that has been broken needlessly into smaller functions so that I have to constantly jump around to figure out what is going on, this really resonates with me.
The latest case was someone who took something that really only needed to be a single function and instead turned it into a class with a dozen tiny methods.
Best of all, they would not have to work for Bezos anymore.
(I tried staying a subscriber to support the genuinely good investigative journalism they do, but Bezos's changes to it were got to be too much for me to swallow; what finally drove me over was the incredibly congratulatory editorial that the editorial board posted in response to the kidnapping of Maduro from Venezuela.)
You do know that, when you edit your comment to pretend that you had predicted something in advance, that there is a timestamp showing when you made the change, right?
We’ve played this game with browser engines and we find ourselves in a world with no viable community-controlled browser.
Where would you say Firefox fits into this? (This question is not a gotchya; I am genuinely having trouble seeing whether it is a valid counter-example or not.)
Right, and likewise just because your code was written in C99 does not make it any better than assembly code that accomplished the same task, as long as it was written carefully and audited.
I was responding to the following paragraph in the article:
We used to get proof-of-thought for free because producing a patch took real effort. Now that writing code is cheap, verification becomes the real proof-of-work. I mean proof of work in the original sense: effort that leaves a trail: careful reviews, assumption checks, simulations, stress tests, design notes, postmortems. That trail is hard to fake. [emphasis mine] In a world where AI says anything with confidence and the tone never changes, skepticism becomes the scarce resource.
I am a bit wary that the trail of verification will continue to be so "hard to fake".
Ah, I only just now noticed that this post was made in the lemmy.ml memes community, which is very different in the kinds of posts that it has than most communities that call themselves "memes" communities. Personally I think that you all have awful taste, but taste is subjective so I withdraw my objection that this particular meme is trash.
I was about to unsubscribe, but curiously I don't seem to currently be subscribed to it, which is odd because it definitely appeared on my front page at one point; if that is because the admin kicked me out, then I would like to kindly thank them.