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haitchfive
·mese scorso·discuss
What surprises me most is some of the virulent reactions that code generation appears to elicit, sometimes citing reasons such as craft, artistry, and originality. As if the entire disciplines of computer science and systems engineering never depended on assemblers, code generation, compilers, JIT. Or really, just writing bytes that can represent machine code, P-code, or bytecode.

A reaction that doesn't appear to make the very direct connection with the systems of exploitation, but chooses to target the tools, or the users of tools is difficult to justify as extremely sophisticated.
haitchfive
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I don't understand what's the new contention. You are a leftie. Okay, so?

ReactJS only pays off at Facebook scale. Corporate front-end development is overengineered.

Not exactly a secret. Any other news?
haitchfive
·7 mesi fa·discuss
And O2 helped to kill the nicotine cigar business. And the electric car helped to kill the fossil fuel industry.

Do people read what they post?

Ad blockers are a rational response to bad incentives and blaming them is like blaming progress for displacing harmful industries.
haitchfive
·7 mesi fa·discuss
In many countries it is VERY illegal to watch someone die and do nothing.

The United States, thankfully, is not the same as the universe, as much as Americans find that hard to believe.
haitchfive
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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haitchfive
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I don't want to drop anything. Anti-scientific is anti-scientific.

Go read some books.
haitchfive
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Just logged in to downvote this anti-scientific garbage. Who allows this garbage to propagate via feeds?

Ignore the OP, pay attention to actual science, and why safety measures matter:

https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-rover-finds-potential-s...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/10/life-on...