Snarwin

What has happened that people accept lower and lower quality?

Same thing that’s driven quality off a cliff in every other product category: enshittification. When you can buy up your competitors, sue anyone who tries to improve or repair your product, and replace any employees who try to stick up for quality with cheap offshore labor and/or AI, there’s nothing to stop you from making your product shittier and shittier.

Wow that sucks. Imagine having your personal data exposed to people who might use it in malicious ways. It must be so hard for them.

Website is down but I was able to find an archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260702032135/https://slicker.me/cpp/cpp-readable-code.html

Unfortunately, it’s an extremely shallow and low-quality article. There’s no reasoning or analysis, just a list of rules that were probably copied from other, better style guides.

If you want C++ style advice, skip this and read the Google C++ Style Guide or the C++ Core Guidelines instead.

Even if all of this is true, I would rather have uBlock Origin and worse performance.

I honestly don’t understand why it wasn’t shut down a long time ago.

Because if it was shut down, the Epstein class couldn’t abuse their insider knowledge to make money. Laws are only for the proles.

Absolutely not lol. If it were 1936 you’d be whining that FDR shouldn’t go on the radio because the radio stations are all owned by robber-barons.

Communicating with the public is part of his job.

Why can’t he be?

Because he has an actual job, and that isn’t part of it

I haven’t had the attention span for more than short pick-up-and-play sessions lately, so I’ve been trying out Psycho Pinball for the Sega Genesis on my handheld emulation console. I’m not very good at it, but I’m having fun!

The real underlying issue here is that the OS interfaces these programs rely on are extremely error-prone and difficult to use correctly. A naive implementation of these system utilities in any language is basically guaranteed to stumble into bugs and vulnerabilities like the ones described in the linked message.

Works fine for me. Maybe try with a different keyboard app?

People don’t want Firefox translation because they “want AI,” though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it’s quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox’s new “Window AI” feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.

If Henry Ford had given his users what they wanted, he would have built a faster horse.

Users want AI right now because a lot of people have spent a lot of money to convince them they want it. A few years ago, they wanted crypto and VR; a few more years from now, they’ll want something else. We’re already seeing evidence that the current AI boom is an unsustainable bubble. Will “hundreds of millions of users” still be using ChatGPT after OpenAI’s investors get tired of losing billions of dollars every year, and decide it’s time to start squeezing their customers for more cash?

This kind of trend-chasing is what happens when the people in charge have no real principles or vision underlying their actions. Firefox didn’t beat Internet Explorer by following the crowd; it won by delivering a product that was better, and doing things nobody else had done before (like tabs). In order to do that, the people making it had to have a strong vision of what a “better” browser would look like.

The company said that users can opt out of having their data processed for advertising purposes by turning off a setting related to “technical and interaction data” on both desktop and mobile at any time. [Emphasis added.]

This is the real story. Having opt-out data collection is one thing, but misleading users about how they use the data they collect is just slimy.

@notesnook@fosstodon.org As long as Firefox remains the best platform for uBlock Origin, I’ll keep using it.

Summon Night Swordcraft Story has active combat (that’s what makes it Tales-like), so probably not what you’re looking for here.

It’s not just “hardly anyone,” it’s “literally no one.” Varlink was invented by the systemd developers out of whole cloth specifically for this purpose.

If the compiler produces a program that doesn’t match your description, you can debug the compiler. Can you debug an LLM?

Well, remember, a code smell isn’t something that’s inherently bad, it’s “a hint that something might be wrong”.

I’m not saying that anyone should flag lambdas as a problem in code review, just that when you see one, it’s probably worth taking a second to ask yourself if a named function would make more sense.

I appreciate that this article highlights the value of using of named functions in functional-style code. Too often, programmers assume that “functional programming” means using lambdas everywhere, when in my experience, lambdas are actually a (very mild) code smell.