I’m thinking it’s like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.

Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.

The time when people were doing strange and funny websites by cut and paste design on Geocities and Angelfire, new music was found on MySpace, vinyl rips of rare obscurities were posted on blogs you follow in Reader and expanding your music catalogue was amazing on SoulSeek.

I’m quite happy that movie distribution have evolved beyond blocky 1-2CD DivX;-) though.

I believe they can be read by anything that can read rfid and can access the online database for information for that serial number.

Here in Sweden too but my biological chip reading abilities are somewhat lacking.

“Eehh, du?” in Swedish. I’ve done it, I’ve been it.

Coin toss:

1. Heads or tails are 50/50 probability.
2. It is possible that the coin lands on its side.
3. It is implausible that it splits in two.

Nah. We still have the family computer that connects to the internet.

The family is pretty much just me and my dog though.

A civilization on a planet without a moon would probably say the same about earth. I wonder how they would imagine life on our planet to be in comparison to their sad, stable moon-less lives.

Session musicians are technical instrumentalists that excel at being able to play in many different styles as requested by the producer without letting their ego get in the way.

I don’t care much for pop music, but with age I’ve reconsidered my youthful music snobbery antagonism for pop music being “unauthentic” to instead think that they excel at being entertainers with a mass appeal and that it is not necessarily a bad thing either. Not everybody has interest in seeking out auteurs. Who am I to judge how other people bring happiness into their lives.

And I’ve realised that a lot of bands that are considered “authentic” are the day job for the band members and is that one project of many that worked out well enough to be a career.

Instructions unclear, dick computer stuck in post.

The first sequel is so so, but the others that are all centered around Burt Gummer are plenty of silly fun too.

Consider other streaming services than Spotify, like Deezer or Tidal or Qobuz, that pays the artist better and don’t do deceiving garbage like this.

The little death does not risk reincarnation.

Then you do not do Javascript, because it is an interpreted language.

Edit: or Python, or a command line shell, or any CORS, or databases, or… Well idk really what you do use honestly.

Now that you mention it, it is a bit funny how Lemmy is hating LLMs as a code generation tool while also hating on the interpreter for their own hand typed code not running.

It was never intended to run full applications but only the small business scripts and hobbyist homepage stuff that were the thing in the 90s, across inconsistent browsers that were a jungle of hit and miss behaviour where it was preferred that menus keep working even if the mouse effect was not. Anything of scale was expected to be done in Java. Dynamic web pages did not exist and as anything not static was generated server side into a static html file to be rendered on the client.

Anyway, back then it wasn’t considered the job of the programming language to hold the hand of the aspiring developer as it is common today. It’s not a bad thing that IDE and even compilers and preprocessors try to help you write better code today, but then it simply didn’t exist.

JavaScript is from a different time and because it has the hard requirement or backwards compatibility there is no changing it and has not been for thirty years except to add stuff to it.

I think it’s just silly to ask the past to keep up with the present. Bad code is not the fault of the language regardless, even though junior devs and even seasoned ones like to think so to protect their ego. I think it is better to accept it, learn from it and roll with it because every single platform and language has their weird quirks anyway.

Signed, old dude that learned programming in 8 bit BASIC and 6502 machine code without an assembler, where code bad enough would freeze your machine that required a cold boot and starting over from your last save that you didn’t do.

People that try to do mathematical operations with strings blaming the programming language that had a stated design goal to do its best and try to keep running scripts that make no sense because they realized it would be used by people that have no idea what they are doing. Clearly they were right.

Thanks. Yeah, anything relationship oriented tends to become completely and binary moral high ground burn all bridges and salt the earth from people that have no stake in it except to have a short moment of hormones pumping before they scroll to the next bit of entertainment.

Absolutely. That post was not a list of commandments. It was intended as support for OP in this very moment that they are having a crisis.

That’s you reading it that way and others not. Maybe this is your point two playing tricks on you now?

Dude, I don’t know if you are consciously cherry picking to win this argument or if any best interest of OP simply does not exist for you.

Regardless, I have no interest in discussing this further with you as it seems to be a self fulfilling purpose disconnected from the original post. I’m out.

Yeah, the father made a mistake. You’re the one that conflates making a mistake with an oopsie, nobody else has made that equivalence. Mistakes can be big and they can take lots of effort to correct. OP will surely deal with this in their own time and way with all the complex and contradictory and painful thoughts emotions.

But - OP is not an adult when living with their parents. Children or young adults are not adults. They have a dependency on their parents. OP is not responsible for their father. OP should not be required to take responsibility for their father’s mistakes. OP is getting caught in the middle of the worst conflict a child can be caught up in and they did nothing to deserve it.

I think what you are doing is projecting high moral ideals into this that are inconsiderate regarding the consequences when OP is asking for help and advice and support. This is the last thing OP needs right now and it is not helping them in any way. OP is in a moment of crisis.

Discuss morality all you want but this is the wrong context for it.