Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I've seen on Lemmy for ages

Also there's the style of delivery - old acting used to be very exaggerated and hammy, then there's the kind of flawless but somewhat natural style that OP is talking about, through to today's more realistic "mumbling" style that everyone complains about.

This is particularly pleasing. The sunset gives me synthwave vibes.

Perhaps you could run an “advent of vis” where on the first of Jan we post visualisations of our solutions for day 1, etc.

Quality post, with plenty of useful and good advice.

I'm happy to see sqlite being recommended - I think people don't realise how resilient and performant a database it is.

Very surprising to hear you need to restart GoToSocial to add new users!

Probably start with Rust again this year, although it definitely makes some of the days a lot harder. I might switch to something better for quick code if I fall too far behind.

I might even try PHP - I coded it professionally at the start of my career but haven't touched it for a decade and I'm curious to know if its improvements make it pleasant to use.

It should have, but I was thinking about the contents instead: loopback is ::1 so it's not that, so maybe it's just something with 4 of a-f (technically correct)

I wasn't saying that unit tests replaces readability, I was saying that back in the 60s they'd reason and debug using their brains (and maybe pen and paper), with more use of things like formal proofs for correctness. Now that we write more complicated programs in more powerful environments, it's rare to do this (we'd use breakpoints, unit tests, fuzzing, etc).

Why should it be relegated to a plug-in? It is a feature everyone would find useful because no-one speaks every language. Also, since Chrome has this feature, new users would expect to have it work without having to research which plug-in to use.

You might not want to use it, but some people don't use Firefox bookmarks and you don't hear them demanding that bookmarks be moved to a plug-in. It's been a very long time since a browser was solely an HTML renderer, and while people were also against CSS and scripting at first, we've moved on.

"AI" has been used for many things for many years. The fact that the news is full of machine learning and generative AI doesn't mean that it's sensible to condemn anything using it.

With the same level of logic and proof, I feel free to say that since you've never made a film, released an album or published a novel, you're not allowed to criticise any of them or the people who have.

edit: It should be noted that @mosiacmango@lemm.ee edited their post after my reply to remove the bad arguments as well as the accusations originally levelled at @Dave@lemmy.nz and me, accusations that couldn't possibly be backed up. It now reads more reasonable and balanced.

The denier line has moved on from "it's not human caused" to "it's too late/expensive to do anything about it anyway", aiming for pessimism and doomerism to let them continue business as usual.

Having things like this we can counter with helps people argue and motivate to continue the fight.

Yes, the article mentions that:

This year, aerosols have been of particular interest because of a 2020 international regulation that restricted pollution from ships