It’s interesting that the bulk of the article is suggesting that this is a bit overblown.
Quote: "The International Council of Beverages Associations’ executive director Kate Loatman said public health authorities should be “deeply concerned” by the “leaked opinion”, and also warned it “could needlessly mislead consumers into consuming more sugar rather than choosing safe no-and low-sugar options.”
Here’s a post on Mastodon that links to their blog where they describe different clients.
I haven’t experienced any crashes. I’m just getting annoyed with it resetting the view when I rotate my phone by accident. It takes me back to Local and changes my filter back to default. Painful.
How does this work with the code license? If this is all fine, doesn’t this mean that we should be avoiding the kind of license they’re using in the future?
Thanks!
This is awesome! Thank you!
I have a lot of interest in software development (and the Rust programming language specifically). Any plans to add a software development community? I don’t know of any feeds, though.
My first programming language was QBasic, then Visual Basic, then Java, then C# (most experience with), then C++, then Python, and now Rust. Only when I learned C++ in college did I truly grasp the power of memory management. I think it’s important for new programmers to have some understanding of and experience with pointers, but it doesn’t need to be your first language. I think it’s okay to start with Python or C#, but you’ll want to go back and learn the hard stuff at some point (C++ and then Rust). Python will be super easy to learn the basics (data structures, algorithms, etc.). C# is also a good choice, but has you learning a few more things at the same time you’re trying to learn the basics.
They share a genealogy, but as programs are created and maintained in different languages, developers come to wish for different syntaxes that would (1) reduce how much code must be written to accomplish a common logical task, (2) make the code that’s written easier to read/understand, (3) reduce concerns about variable types until runtime, and/or (4) overly restrict not just the variable types but also if/when variables can be modified. This list is not exhaustive.
There is a partial programming language family tree here, showing which languages influenced other languages: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Genealogy-of-Programming-Languages_fig36_260447599
I don’t miss the endless commercials.
Maybe that’s what I should do. I’ve just recently moved back to VS Code from Neovim due to my constant issues with the LSP I was using. I would open a file, make some changes, and then return to the file tree along with a bunch of LSP warnings (as if the file tree was a file). LazyVim sounds like exactly what I want, if the name is accurate.
It’s science like this that gets you thinking… /s
“Buying up Bethesda and trying to acquire Activision Blizzard is, Spencer argues, a way to compete with Sony.” This has the same logic as buying up the largest gasoline chains, making them exclusively pump gas for drivers of your cars, as a way of competing with other car manufacturers. Dangerous.
Why are so few people using Tampermonkey? It’s so useful. Is there an alternative that I don’t know about?
I was surprised at how beautiful some of the art could be. I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I do.
So is Meta just not going to display/embed news in Canada anymore or is this a temporary measure until they roll out their plan to pay publishers?
“then it doesn’t deserve to exist”
When I hear that, I hear an implicit value judgement with Meta as the standard. The value of an instance is in if it can survive against a social aggregation to Meta’s instance. Only then is it worthy of existing, if it can compete with the degree of funding, advertising, and account creation streamlining that we would expect from a social media platform giant.
When I hear that, I hear that small, self-hosted instances don’t deserve to exist.
Passwords “should” be hashed anyway, so I don’t understand why there’s a limit. Are they actually being stored as plaintext in a VARCHAR(60) column in the database? Please tell me that’s not happening.
As a backend developer you’re not doing anything with “looks”. No interface design, HTML CSS, or anything like that.
The most common backend work involves the following:
I enjoy it. It feels like I’m designing special wires that connect different computers together. It can be repetitive if you’re not designing your code to be extendable. If you’re writing the ideal code, you’re always writing new stuff. If you’re just copy-pasting from other examples, that should indicate that there is a general solution that’s being ignored.
So long as it’s not resource harvesting robots, ever expanding outward from their host planet…
I never would have guessed when I first installed RIF that some years later I would end up feeling sad as I uninstalled it.