As a passionate Golang hater, I can gladly explain!

• It’s not just the repeated if err != nil, even though that’s already bad enough. But the really fucked up part is the := bullshit. It makes moving code around unnecessarily annoying, and it’s telling that few other languages share Golang’s approach.
• The lowercase/uppercase rules for private/public stuff is theoretically not a horrible idea, but it makes the code look much more inconsistent. I find _ much easier to read, and this leaves upper/lower to signal other details. But I see that this is mostly personal preference.
• Fairly basic operations take much, much more code than they should (e.g. deserializing JSON while handling extra args, or basic functional operations - though that should change sooner rather than later with the new generic methods, right?)
• The decision to initialize every non-pointer primitive with the “bottom value” (or whatever it’s called again) makes sense in isolation, but it’s really unfortunate that they don’t support additive types, because this means a bunch of common tasks need to use pointers, and unfortunately the type system is worthless when it comes to preventing segfaults caused by bugs with pointers.
• I find that most Go libraries have basically no documentation, if you’re lucky you get an example that might vaguely be related to whatever you want to know. I’ve had much better experiences in other languages.

All in all IMO most Go code is 5x longer than necessary to actually express itself in a readable manner, all because the language still doesn’t have proper error handling or generic support (until recently at least). At the same time it’s fairly inflexible, the type system is still shallow and basic, and it’s still way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

The only good thing Go has going is the single file deployments, but I’ll gladly spend one hour of every remaining day of my life setting up containers, if it means I never have to touch anything Go again.

IMO ist das ganze viel einfacher: sie sieht es als ihre Aufgabe, die fossile Industrie am Leben zu halten bzw. zu stärken, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste. Der Schaden, den sie aktuell verursacht, wird die erneuerbare Industrie für Jahre bis Jahrzehnte schwächen. Das ist genau das Ziel.

Wenn man das als Überforderung bezeichnet, gibt man ihr aber doch nur Rückendeckung. Ständige wiederholte Inkompetenz ist eine Strategie.

Komisch, die Ameise auf meiner Schulter diktiert mir immer die Worte, wenn ich mal ins Stocken komme. Schön zu wissen, dass es auch in der Ameisenwelt Glaubensvielfalt gibt!

Unfortunately that’s rarely true in the short term, and in the long term it’s still not a sure outcome.

@[email protected] is right in saying that capitalism keeps rewarding companies that dick over their customers (e.g. through exclusivity, vendor lock-ins etc). This reward can be big enough to essentially oust competitors that focus on convenience and affordability, or the competitors’ investors can push them to adopt the same practices to also make more money short term.

We won’t improve this by just ignoring it and hoping that companies will eventually recognize the advantages of ethical decision making. But we can force them to do so by regulating these unethical behaviors.

Do you have any idea how many people Trump killed by refusing to wear a mask in front of cameras? His vanity kept him from doing the most simple, basic thing possible.

Trump deserves not a single positive word uttered about his handling of COVID, all he deserves is to smolder in hell for all eternity.

I love the movement etc. in Prototype 2! 100%ed it more than once, it’s just too fun. Surely we’ll get the sequel any day now 🥲

A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep.

So please don’t be mean, sheep, or the lion will start crying.

Wer dazu mehr hören möchte, dieses Video ist eine gut argumentierte Antwort auf das kurzgesagt-Video: https://youtu.be/UjmsfOXy5oM

Weird question to ask through radio, over.

But that would drastically change the message, no? People should choose to leave the Matrix because the reward is living in reality, even if it’s harder and there’s no other reward.

Hm, I think it does make the message stronger. If a single event (development of sentient machines) leads to our downfall, it’s easy to shrug it off as “bad luck”, because who could have foreseen it back then?

But if we had multiple chances to correct course and we kept fucking up, it removes any doubt that it’s a human flaw, which means “humanity must reflect and change, or this is the inevitable conclusion”.

AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don’t natively support. But of course that’s not what we’re getting.

I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I’d sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).

Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I’d have to write it myself. But I can’t see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.

That’s good! But I’d still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say “please stop producing and sending us trash”.

They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won’t do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people’s lives.

Interesting, as someone who didn’t read the book,

OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.

Me and the boys when we draw swords together

Yes, it’s pretty common knowledge that this is how many fashion trends were set. Unless you’re educated in the field and know that pop sci is wrong on this, there are less condescending ways to ask this.

I wish I could forget, lol

Nope, Season 3 opening.