The thing it can do best is bewilder developers with it’s strange choices

Integer underflow

It’s a decent language I guess. My main criticism is that the constructor paradigm just isn’t well suited for RAII. I always find myself retrofitting Rust’s style of object creation into my C++ code.

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The modern keybinds might make me drop micro for nano again

I can hear this gif

Where is the piped bot when you need it

How do they work?

It being free is only barely enough incentive to use it. If they ever have effective anti-adblock and force users to watch five ads before every video, I’m gone. I will never give any money to a monopolistic company if I don’t have to.

And buying the movie probably won’t give you a file, but instead just the right to stream it from their servers. At some point they’ll pull the plug on that and you’ll loose access.

Stock gnome feels a bit slow to me, but I love using it with custom keybinds for launching applications. Making good use of workspaces and multiple monitors makes it even better.

Compare the legacy Wikipedia design with the new one. Limiting the line width makes it so much easier to read, cause you don’t loose your place as often when you jump to the next line. This is especially infuriating to me, cause some languages still use the old design. I always loathe using German Wikipedia cause of this.

I agree that it can be bad when lines are excessively short, or when designers make no adjustments for desktop browsers.

Flat UIs with a few shadows in the right places can look geat

That’s not mobile first, it’s mobile only. Pretty much half of my web design course was the professor ranting about designs that don’t adapt to the device they are being viewed on, and how to do that right.

Single page apps are cool when they are done right, but such a huge hindrance when navigation is based on buttons and js.

I don’t think this is a huge problem with a correctly set up text editor and the right techniques to limit code nesting. Doesn’t change my dislike of python tho.

I can drive manual, but I hate it. I don’t want to worry about releasing the clutch just right to avoid jerk, so I bought an electric car. Certainly was expensive, but it’s infinitely more smooth than a manual transmission could ever be. 23 year old, living in Germany.

It’s just a new picture format that is arguably better than jpeg in many scenarios. It has been around for many years. Windows just refuses to do file associations correctly, so people hate it for no reason.

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down… with the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

- Cave Johnson, Portal 2

Maybe not words to live by, but certainly a memorable quote.

You are absolutely correct. Lemmy’s federated nature basically guarantees that free / affordable API access will always be available to app developers.