By not giving them any rights even though complex expression through language implies a high level of intelligence and sapience. The dog and cat that you can talk to are still considered your property that you can just take to the vet and put down. Animal shelters can now just tell the animals their kill dates so they don't get too hopeful. Slaughterhouses will be filled with screams you understand instead of just screams. Cosmetic companies and labs can now ask their test subjects for the level of pain while smearing makeup in their eyes. Sea World, zoos, circuses, etc would make peak profits now that they can address their slaves as if they were human slaves.
I mean, all humans can communicate with each other and we still don't give rights to some of them. Anyone who thinks we'll be nice to animals just because they can talk is either a child or otherwise doesn't know how humans operate.
Equal shame for all the countries that abstained. There is not a damn chance any country is genuinely unsure how they want to vote so an abstain vote in this case is just "I want to vote against but am too embarrassed to."
Which happens to be the entire West, not a single country commonly considered "Western" voted in favour. Surprise surprise
It's better to get it fron F-Droid because you never know what kind of spyware "analytics" or "error reporting" Google Play injects. Repacking an APK is not that hard, especially if you control the cryptographic keys for signing them.
Also worth noting that some of the workflows that were available in languages like CL or Smalltalk back in the 80s are superior to what most languages offer today.
In what ways? I don't have any experience with those so I'm curious.
I get what this is saying but on the other hand...
Programmers now:
💪 Can spin up a minimum viable product in a day
💪 Writes web applications that handle millions or even billions of requests per second
💪 Remote code execution and memory related vulnerabilities are rarer than ever now
💪 Can send data across the world with sub 1 second latency
💪 The same PCIe interface is now 32x faster (16x PICe 1 was 8GB/s, while PCIe 6 is 256GB/s)
💪 The same wireless bands now have more throughput due to better radio protocols and signal processing
💪 Writes applications that scale across the over 100 cores of modern top of the line processors
💪 JIT and garbage collection techniques have improved to the point where they have a nearly imperceptible performance impact in the majority of use cases
💪 Most bugs are caught by static analysis and testing frameworks before release
💪 Codebases are worked on by thousands of people at the same time
💪 Functional programming, which is arguably far less bug prone, is rapidly gaining traction as a paradigm
💪 Far more emphasis on immutability to the point where many languages have it as the default
💪 Virtual machines can be seamlessly transferred from one computer to another while they're running
💪 Modern applications can be used by people anywhere in the world regardless of language, even things that were very difficult to do in the past like mirroring the entire interface to allow an application that was written for left to right languages to support right to left
💪 Accessibility features allow people who are blind, paralyzed, or have other disabilities to use computers just as well as anyone else
Just wanted to provide come counter examples because I'm not a huge fan of the "programmers are worse than they were back in the 80s" rethoric. While programmers today are more reliant on automated tools, I really disagree that programmers are less capable in general than they were in the past.
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Fun fact: The US votes against that one because it prohibits giving the death penalty to minors.
Yeah.