Our school's library computers (mind you I was early 20s by then) did not allow people to just sit down and go online, an admin had to log in first.
We did have Notepad though. Notepad -> open file -> explorer -> enter URL -> internet explorer -> internets.
Not long after we both got an operating system installed on our removable drive (which we had to pay like 200+ euros for across four years and we barely used it), and bootable Linux CDs became a thing too so the protections were completely moot.
I remember growing up that my dad reading the papers and watching the news was pretty much sacred. Paper maybe less so, but it was his "me time" after work along with coffee and cake, with the occasional chat with mom while we'd watch tv.
Part of me misses it, part of me thinks it's the same, just different now. I do think phones capture attention more than newspapers though, and trigger more violent or faster emotional ups and downs. Scrolling through social media exposes you to something fun, worrying, horrifying, etc every few seconds, I can't imagine that's healthy.
Great insight; I was going to theorize something about objective vs subjective experiences, in that you can't trust a human to make an objective observation about e.g. sound quality. Best thing you can do with human listening tests is gather data and make it about statistics.
But it's never about just what's objectively or even statistically best. Certain modern music is optimized for being played and recognisable on crappy phone speakers or low quality bluetooth ones. And then there's the loudness wars, where the music was objectively of lower quality (due to clipping etc), but sold better due to psychological effects. or whatever it was about.
Plus deploying nukes would be a guaranteed escalation - after WW2 nobody has ever used nukes in war because of this.
But it would and always has been the last resort. If Russia feels like they have no choice left, they might do it.
But also, at the start of the war they used it as a deterrent, promising to use them if e.g. Ukraine were to strike across the border. That ended up being a false threat in the end, but you can see how Ukraine only slowly and carefully started becoming more and more bold with going across the border. All bets are off now though, with long range drones being used to target the very vulnerable refineries and oil industry. If they take out the power industry as well, and given time, it'll collapse Russia's military logistics network and isolate the front lines from supplies.
Flattening a city doesn't win a war. They started the war with the intent of driving tanks into the city and overthrow the government in three days, but (as the article mentions) that didn't work out.
But flattening cities is a WW2 strategy, and it didn't actually do much to win the war in the end, only cause unnecessary civilian suffering.
It's not so much a matter of can, but willingness and (worse) economic viability. But recent worldwide instability - from leadership changes to supply disruptions to war - has given that a push.
I'm not sure myself, as there's Epic the ligitous games company that wants more money from Fortnite, Epic the attempted digital games platform whose main userbase just claims a free game once every two weeks, and Epic the engine company.
I have more faith in Epic the engine company than the other Epics.
I enjoy going back to basics every once in a while; do Arduino / embedded programming on a shitty netbook (it came with Windows but it has only 32GB of storage so it couldn't even update), build games / stuff in Pico-8, start a new Go project with just the main toolkit, etc.
Stock market / investor driven products do not make economical sense, yet here we are; just because they (may) not make a profit, doesn't mean they don't generate value. My house doesn't make a profit, but it does appreciate in value over time. AMD famously didn't make a profit for years.
A lot of people seem to perceive those as left wing woke ideology though, not because they're not true, but because it doesn't align with their world view.
But the main issue is that facts and educated people are considered left wing or woke, and some people - including Musk himself - do not like that. Example: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1967010466539987220, where the statistical fact that 75% of US extremist murders are by right-wing actors is called "cringe idiocy" by Musk. Many such cases.
Have you considered Hack (https://hacklang.org/)? it's PHP with types from Facebook, probably the biggest contributor to the PHP ecosystem at the moment.
It does need a compiler though, unlike TS where an interpreter can just strip / ignore type annotations. But IMO, a compile step is worth it if you get type assurances in return.
There's the blog post (by Anders Hejlsberg, the author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi, currently lead architect of C# and a core developer of TS; I'd say he knows his languages), but they also posted FAQs, here's some good reads:
I'm reading a lot of style / flavor / quality / vibes in your reply, something that will be different between every developer (for the most part); the thing with Go is that there's a lot less of that in the wider ecosystem.
Can you elaborate why that's a factor? The tools are just binaries in how they're used, the language they're written in is no longer a factor then.
It's a good argument if you're talking about transferable skills though, I can imagine some contributors work on both TS and Biome, for example. This is why a lot of JS tools were initially written in JS, too.
We did have Notepad though. Notepad -> open file -> explorer -> enter URL -> internet explorer -> internets.
Not long after we both got an operating system installed on our removable drive (which we had to pay like 200+ euros for across four years and we barely used it), and bootable Linux CDs became a thing too so the protections were completely moot.