Reducing mental load on the developer helps a lot. There’s no way you can say c is simpler than higher level languages.
Sure, and... that's why I didn't say that, I guess? I live firmly in VM/script land - C# when I can, actually. Reducing developer load is fine by me and I don't have a particular obsession with optimizing for performance - most things I do are not that exciting.
My point is that there's a difference between layers of abstraction that serve an actual purpose (loops, classes, garbage collection), and weird stuff that grows out of "innovation" that maybe wasn't all that good an idea, but was tacked on something else for novelty or cargo cult reasons, or the wrong kind of laziness. The idea of being able to only target web is fine. The idea of occasionally shipping a browser with a particular app could be merited. I'm just saying maybe not half of every app needed to be bundled with a whole chromium installation.
Why do computers become more and more powerful, but programs continue to lag?
Because instead of taking advantage of hardware to push boundaries in what we can accomplish, it's exploited so you can turn everything into its own instance of Chromium, with all the bloat and overhead that entails, for the world's simplest application. Even on mobile, where power consumption is allegedly important.
The industry spends so much time reinventing wheels and shoehorning things into each other, instead of doing anything... useful. Can't have a normal web page anymore because waaaah page loads, gotta be SPA, then you gotta reinvent all the stuff that you threw out to make an SPA - probably in the form of several dozen libraries, all of which also keep getting reinvented every other week. What's that, the SPA is now a 4GB download and seven orders of magnitude slower than the page loads it was supposedly meant to avoid? Lol who cares. Put some more layers of transpiled javascript in there anyway. Keeping up with the NPM dependencies alone is now 40% of the manpower in the corporation? Don't worry, it's modular or some shit.
It's not even about the money, none of this helps generate actual value - in theory, being able to just target web makes sense, but not if relentlessly overcomplicated at every turn anyway. If the money/management people could tear themselves away from being phished for five minutes, and actually understood how much time and effort is being wasted on building mostly redundant card houses of mostly unnecessary tech, they'd have a stroke.
Amen to that. It takes quite a bit of work to try to curate away all the communities that are explicitly political, and then you need to deal with thinly veiled political soapboxing in AskWhatever, NoStupidQuestions, meme communities, etc too - despite there being communities specifically for political content.
Some of us just want to have a silly laugh without being confronted with the lightspeed decline of humanity every five minutes. Fuck us, right?
Diffusion of responsibility, nobody wanting it enough to force the issue or shepherd it through committing to it/planning it/developing it, and/or not knowing if the considerable amount of effort will "pay off" in the sense of actually getting merged.
Note that I have no clue about Minetest specifically, I'm just guessing
This tickled a half-forgotten memory. I was into a few "ASCII" "game engines" when I was a kid, ZZT and MZX. There was definitely a Hitchhiker's game on one of those. Doubt it was official, of course.
Bad comedy or badly mixed, sure. There's mood, tension, pacing etc. to consider, and the odd funny or more lighthearted moment can help, not hurt, if it's done right.
There's no point spending twice the time making something that corresponds 1:1 to code - unless the code is truly horrific, and then you've got bigger issues. One generally assumes people involved with a project will know or learn relevant languages.
It's more commonly used for things that are less obvious from the source itself - like "what's sent between the client and server in this handshake" or "what is the overall architecture of this part of the code"
Flowcharts may be a bit more common when studying algorithms in general
Edit; from your other comments, you seem to be talking about protocols, not algorithms. An algorithm is a set of steps to do something. A protocol is a description of how different systems interact such as in a chat application.
You're wrong, then. It doesn't necessarily work drastically and for every single person in need of help. However, claiming it does not work period is just wrong.
Sure, it's a strategy. It will lose you a lot of money and make some casino very happy, but it is that. Sounds like Martingale, Wikipedia has an article that explains why it doesn't work.
Imagine that you’d rather not deal with the Reddit admins, for whatever reason. You have two options: either you suck it up and deal with them, or throw away all Reddit content, communities and people, because of those admins.
Unfortunately the fediverse, at least in the Lemmy/kbin sense, doesn't solve that particular problem. This exact scenario can still happen because a community belongs to an instance, and that instance can still be maliciously or just ineptly managed. There are also added complications with federation, defederation, instance/community politics, and just dealing with "duplicate" communities in general.
For example, certain highly political instances host many communities that are not political, and have been known to silently ban people from the whole thing just because their politics were "wrong". Sounds Reddity to me.
This is true to a certain degree, but the cartel's way out of the bag on this one. They don't just produce/traffic substances, they're firmly entrenched and armed to the teeth. They are not going anywhere, even if you take one of their major cash cows away - they'd just pivot to something else.
Now, getting MDMA and psychedelics into a therapy setting is something I hope happens very soon, ideally long before anything is fully legalized as I imagine that will be a long time.
So not only does he want to replace a perfectly cromulent word that everyone uses and whose meaning most people agree on...
... his suggested replacement is "Unlocking World". Yes, I sure do love that Unlocking World genre...