True, but also, C and C++ is steadily being replaced and really only keeps being used because of existing tooling, processes, and skillsets, not because it’s actually better than Rust or similar. And yeah, agree with JS+Python. My statement definitely was hyperbole :D

Well, pre-2000 is quite a strong limitation here. In the last 25 years in programming, basically everything changed. It’s hard to find anything older than 25 years that’s even still relevant.

But I would say Lisp, or what it brings, mainly the ability to do meta-programming, using code to change/generate code. It basically solves what AI is being used now to solve, namely generating boilerplate code. In many languages, there is just so much shit you have to write to get to the actual creating a solution, problem solving part, which you can very cleanly circumvent with meta-programming, greatly reducing the mental load necessary to understand programs if used correctly. But, like many things, it’s hard to use, easily misused, and thus requires you to be very smart about it. Many programming features and conventions and so on attempt to basically safeguard you from incompetent programmers, or rather allowing you to work with incompetent programmers without them being a detriment more than a benefit. Needing to decipher arcane macros is quite challenging indeed.

There are a couple of Lisps newer than 2000, like Clojure, which I would have mentioned without your limit, and which I’m now circumventing by talking about what the limit prevents me to do.

Things can always be boiled down. But the more you boil it down, the more previous knowledge you assume people have in common, and it might happen that they don’t understand because they didn’t have knowledge you assume they had.

Conversely, if you include too much information, not boil it down enough, you lose people by being bored of getting told things they already know.

In any case, it’s not an easy balance and I’m just doing my best here to guess which amount of “boiling down” is “just right”. But thanks for your comment, I’ll take it into consideration.

People can not actually grasp so many people existing. We were never meant to live in such large societies, historically, we only had a tribe that consists of maximum ~150 people.

It has been scientifically proven that we can’t hold effective social relations to a larger number of people. The exact limit is not clear afaik, but what this essentially means, in a community of millions, we abstract away groups of people into “the left”, “the bourgeoisie”, “the poor” which allows our brain to form social relations to these groups of people with the limited capacity it has, essentially treating each group as a single person.

Now of course, this abstraction is entirely inadequate, as each collection of people is always much more diverse than the abstract concept we use to replace them, and they aren’t really single individuals, they don’t act with a collective mind.

But most people do not understand this. They just work with these abstractions, these groups of people, as if they were real single people, because in some manner, it does work. If the abstraction actually groups correctly, then the ability to reason like this works decently well. But everyone is always wrong about these abstractions. They are always too general. They always fail to consider that there’s not a single mind at work.

It’s such an easy mistake to make. I see smarter people than Musk do it all the time. The enemy, like always, is missing knowledge, missing humility, missing self-awareness, unreasonable confidence, fear of the unknown/being wrong. All of which Musk falls into.

I don’t see any solution but to educate about this whenever possible. To speak to people about it. To raise the education about stuff like this wherever, whenever we can. I’m trying to do my part.

He obviously just greeted everyone enthusiastically.

Sounds like a good policy. In fact I think you should also fuck your sons mom, just to be sure.

Only one way to find out! YOLO!

And people think they’re immune to propaganda. Probably the majority read this meme and think Vance is just that stupid.

I mean he probably is that stupid, but not because of this particular instance of making a joke about the cold.

I’d probably do nothing, since the safest thing I could very likely do would always be to stay inside and sleep all day. Going out to subject myself to cars is probably always more risky.

Change to delivery of food instead of getting it myself. Exercise more often at my home gym. Not meet anyone so as to reduce disease vectors. Just in general really do much less.

That’s a good question, but I’d rather like to know if you have ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

Wasn’t objectively very funny, but we were fucking in like a standing position next to the bed and she started leaning forward, I started leaning forward, and we just tumbled onto the bed in a mess of appendages. Had to stop for a while because we were laughing so hard 🤣

No one said it should be normal or is reasonable. They’re just saying it’s possible, which it is.

It is made up ;) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesäßfurche

China lulz

You can just not choose representatives based on districts.

Home. Travelling is expensive, destroying the climate, and simply not necessary to relax and have a good time.

You shouldn’t change the gerrymandering, you should be changing the voting system that makes gerrymandering possible in the first place.

This game was such a huge part of my childhood, and I completely forgot about it, until now. Incredible. Now I have to play this again!

Me and the people I love growing, finding more love

Ghost them back. Or sometimes ask politely “so that’s it?” and then continue ghosting them.

There’s really nothing you can or should do, except move on.