So being recommended videos is bad now? Dam

I’ve found it great for tracking down specific things in libraries and databases I’m not terribly familiar with when I don’t know the exact term for them

That’s kinda the point

Oh man, the absolute horror of being told about new features! The absolute abject tragedy!

It was probably shown to you in a banner that looked like an ad that you closed out /s

I mean, I like being told about new features rather than needing to discover them myself twenty months after they came into existence

Rust used to be correct in 2014 when this was made. It’s pretty fucking good, now

Happens at compile time! It’s relatively quick. You can also run a command to write the query results to file for offline type checking which is mostly useful for CI

I’m currently using SQLx which you write raw queries in and it validates them against a currently-running db, using the description of the tables to build the typing for the return type instead of relying on the user. It makes it pretty hard to write anything that supports injection

RustRover isn’t ready for actual usage, I’ve tried it

Unfortunately RustRover is still garbage for actual usage. And I refuse to use an ORM when I can just write the SQL in a more common syntax that everyone understands across every language instead of whatever inefficient library-of-the-week there is. Raw SQL is fine and can be significantly more performant. Don’t be scared.

Please tell me what IDE you’re using that’s capable of highlighting SQL syntax that’s embedded inside another language source file

Also please fucking stop with the “it’s current year stop x.” The year is not an argument.

That double indented from is hurting me

Donations don’t work by themselves. Pretty much ever.

Ad based models aren’t great, but the alternative is subscription based. And we know exactly what the internet feels about that. Look at the amount of people here in this thread given that exact choice and refusing to pay

You adding views to some random video absolutely does not offset the cost of your usage through ads. Ads can make a surprising amount of money for a platform (upwards of 4 or 5 dollars a month per free user). Based on YouTube removing premium Lite, I think it’s actually very safe to assume that the consumption of free users is around that, so approximately $7 per month on average. Do you honestly think this would offset that cost in any universe?

It’s okay to want stuff for free. Just make sure you fully understand the consequences and don’t try to play it off like you’re the good guy.

Okay, let’s get rid of all ads and move to subscriptions across the entire internet. What a fantastic idea.

Whether you like their actions or not, they still have bills to pay

Gotta pay the bills somehow

“I’ll put in enough ads to actually support your usage habits and you can pay if you want to not deal with them”

Slur? That’s not a slur. Fuck outta here with that

My first “real” job (I used to work at McD’s and Walmart, barely three months each) was 120k a year as a software engineer. I left that job for 200k within six months and here I happily stay

That or they can just eat the very minor cost difference in each region

Variable taxes based on region. The rates don’t change within a single store, which is where all of the labels are printed. Just print the label with the tax added.

Being inflammatory isn’t really helping the situation

You’re less likely to get a transplant if you’re more likely to ruin it based on your lifestyle.

The vaccine underwent the exact same rigorous testing that literally every other vaccine or medication gets. The only difference is that COVID vaccines were given a free pass to the front of the line at each step necessary. As well, due to them having a much shorter timeline and higher competition, it was economical to run multiple tests in parallel that would normally have been done in series.

It wasn’t “rushed” as in sloppy, it was “rushed” in that it was given priority in the various governmental queues.

Developers? Panicking? Developers will rejoice that they don’t have to build these garbage mechanics. Publishers and game studio execs? Yeah they’ll panic

Yeah but who cares about that

Why so?

This gets funnier the further away from 2003 we get

Enable LTO, abort on panic, and a higher optimization level and it’ll drop that a ton

I just tested the character name thing and it got it on the first try. Maybe GPT-4 just handles it better?

Did this as well. I got my mom over early, but my dad being kicked of Facebook (don’t ask, but you can probably guess) was what finally got everyone to move over in one fell swoop. Pretty much my whole family is, now

Just would like to note that honeybees are not native to the US, we have tons of native pollinators

Still sucks though

I use both, but don’t bother with social media on my desktop. Phone access feels nicer to use and requires less context switching, since I don’t have to swap between desktop and mobile interfacing.

Besides, I use a computer all day for work and for my side projects: I need to get up and do things outside of my office, which requires mobile access

Hard disagree honestly. There are tons of people who would be happy to support if they knew it was an option. I’m a software engineer but generally don’t access this on anything but phone because web is usually lower performance and I can’t pin it to my home screen. Native always feels nicer to use.

Considering a ton of people left Reddit due to shit mobile apps, most people probably won’t even see it since it wouldn’t be visible there

I really wish it saved me money

I’m not saying they’re not perfect, I’m saying they’re effectively worthless. They’re so easily bypassed that it’s not worth supporting in the first place.