Also, the comparison is stupid because we don’t write code, realize it was shit and write a new one.

I mean, you shouldn’t, but it sounds like the quote-poster is asking for that kind of boondoggle of a project.

Yeah, I highly doubt it happened.

And to add to this, you don’t actually do any coding yourself. Just using something to help with boilerplate code isn’t usually counted.

Although, I’m wondering from this Reddit r/vibecoding thread if that’s a Lemmy-specific definition. Most of the people in it seem to be using LLMs in a sane way and are telling OP this isn’t.

That could be, it was a rough period. I wasn’t around for the beginning, and even the end is approximate as locked down mobile OSs and similarly user-opaque systems gradually came to dominate.

Kids today can still learn computers, but they have to explicitly try. I think something analogous happened with early cars. The first guys had to be able to personally maintain and repair the whole thing, and then over time it gradually became an area for experts and the odd enthusiast only.

There really was a magic learning window 1990-2010, I think. Some people who were there are still bad at technology, and a select few from before are good at it and maybe even helped build those systems, but the prevalence is night and day.

That honestly seems like the best way to write conditionalBaptize but I still hate it. Probably because IRL you’d just rewrite baptism instead of retrofitting the function with a clever use of id.

Per the actual wiki, some denominations seem to think it’s a sin or heresy to do someone more than once. Which seems like what the nullification in the baptize function is supposed to capture.

and whether the Internet is doomed to be slow in locations where the only avian carriers available are flightless.

Where would that be? Even inland Antarctica has skuas.

There’s heavy, and then there’s heavy. I don’t have any experience dealing with threats like this myself, so I can’t comment on what’s most common, but we’re talking about potentially millions of times more resources for the attacker than the defender here.

There is a lot of AI hype and AI anti-hype right now, that’s true.

If a request is taking a full minute of user CPU time, it’s one hell of a mitigation, and anybody who’s not a major corporation or government isn’t going to shrug it off.

Fun fact, the Romans would never have labeled their abacuses like this. It would have made calculating very difficult; they effectively worked with modern numbers in bead form, and then used the famous numeral system just to record the results.

Has anybody else noticed that in practice, shit tons of stuff uses a subtly wrong code?