This is obvious a case of "be careful what you wish for" the music industry has itself to blame for this. I hope it will get more ridiculous over time.
Simple answer: Because the stupid hipsters try to change a simple concept of a state machine into MVC hell.
More complicated answer: The weak side of the open source world is that it attracts a lot of developers with big egos who think that their fancy solution to a situation without problems is the best one. And they all compete with their too big egos and complicate our open source world.
Real answer: too much memory, this causes people to come up with too complex systems as there is hardly a limit to their dreams, real inspiration comes from dealing with limits. That is why programs from yesteryear are often so good when looking at what they do within their constraints.
1. Compared to most compiled languages the toolchain is very easy.
2. Reduced ways of solving things in the language itself.
My main dislike of C and C++ is that there are numerous ways of solutions for the same problems, this forces me to weigh the solutions constantly against things like "Is this a safe way, does it create fast code, will this way fit when my project is further or must I constantly refactor my code".
The extreme flexibilty of C and C++ are more a burden for me than an asset.
Of course not, everybody identifies with the ghost.
Although the brain is a work of evolutionary art, it's still just a dumb machine.
The hallucination within is just a weird artifact of how that machine works.
Just a wave of the radiation, nothing more, nothing less.
We are just a ghost in the machine, we do think that we have control but at all times the physical brain is in charge.
Everything we are is a hallucination, our personality is just calculated sensory input and often things go wrong with that.
There are a lot of outside parameters that make the process go wrong, it is a near miracle that also things go right and that there are things like synchronised collective hallucionations between multiple input/brain interactions (we call that reality).
Sometimes also the physical brain gets damaged by the ghost from the inside.
I have been severly depressed for years and learned the hard way about hallucinations, but learning about that and accepting the hallucination took away that depression.
As far as I see it, thinking is a form of radiation inside the brain, containing particles and waves, and those waves can be disturbed very easy
What I read in this article are 2 things, the urge of getting all you can get out of life and risk aversion.
These 2 things are a sure way of getting stuck with a real depression/burnout.
My generation (gen-x) has learned to let go of things that you are not able stear, things like corrupt structures around you that try to manipulate you to participate in it and play along.
At the same time my generation (gen-x) has learned to try to do yourself things that are interesting even when those structures around you tell you that those things you persue are not relevant to the world.
I say my generation in this case because of recognision that my peers of the same generation generally feel the same as I do with this.
Myself and my peers have very much the punk ethos of taking care of things ourself without being overtly reliant on society and when society tells us we are wrong then we very much raise our middle finger against society.
With younger people I mostly see the oposite, they too much play along and do what they are told to do by society and are afraid to "not fulfil the way that others see them as they should be".
To millenials I would say, take more (calculated) risks, and stop being afraid to make mistakes as they enable one to learn and become a better version of oneself (at least a version that is not afraid to look into the mirror).
Better yet, programmers have the right to curse at bad code because often they curse at their own code.
Also everybody has their mouth full of "right of speech", cursing is speech too as it communicates something and communication is speech.
I have a problem with systems that let you do one thing in several ways instead of one way. In such a system you tend to use the wrong way for your specific solution. For instance, if there are 5 solutions for you to solve one problem it means you have to check all 5 ways to discover which one is best suited and most efficient. This is not a problem in small problem solving tasks, however when your system grows, this becomes a burdon and a nagging feeling wheter or not you chose the right solution.
I love C as language but dislike it's toolchain because of what I explained above here, it's also why I dislike C++ as whole and many others like Java, Python, Ruby and so on. Too many ways to solve the same thing.
At this moment I feel at home in Golang, it has a nice and simple toolchain and not too many complications in the language itself.
I am not outraged, I only know that people were sent to the tribunal for less. He did nothing when his superdeluxe algorithms helped genocide in Myanmar.
Outrage leads to mob rule and genocide, which indeed happened and is happening currently. That is the main reason why FB should be regulated and stripped of it's outrage algorithms. And the main reason why Mark Zuckerberg should be brought to a large war tribune to be procecuted of enabeling and abetting genocide.
In my opinion science is getting less bang for bucks because the low hanging fruit has been picked by now. The big fundamental structures describing nature its working are more or less known. It's about details nowadays and it takes more time and effort to get the details right. You can see that it takes multi disciplinary teams nowadays to discover the connections between these large systems and how they (how all in the universe) connect. People are curious which is our most precious gift from nature and science will go on as long as people stay curious. But yes, not all science is about returns of value in economic sense, a lot of it is fundamental and also often results of science is laying in a drawer waiting to either getting monitized or used for further discovery. Science moves by spurts and hiccups, not straight forward with an even pace.
The lack of a paywall is important to enable people to read real news, the fact that most serious news organisations are hiding behind a paywall enables less scrupulous sources to poisen the collective concience.
The problem is not debunking deep fakes, I am sure this can be done with algorythms easy in the long term.
The problem of any fakes is that it does not need that much sophistication to convince the majority of people that have a lower than average IQ and set them up to do a whitchhunt.
This has proven to work since the time we people roam this earth.
The problem is that the big public can only be convinced of fakery months to years after the hunted has died or the reputation was killed, and even then a part of the public will keep on believing false memes and myths.
I think we never will able to find a solution for that as long as we people exsist.
It is too late, the current path has been chosen and none of the individual players in this game is able to change the rules of this game, every player is keeping all others hostage.
Humankind has passed the treshold of self destruction in slowmotion and there is no way back.
Be very thankful if you are still able to die by natural causes, coming generations will not be granted this gift.
They will live and die under much worse conditions than we are.
You will oppose my view of this but in your heart you know I am right, the door chosen by our forefathers was the wrong one, we are not able to cope with our own weak mind that is playing tricks on us and enable the most poweful of us to do things that are not healthy for our species.
Try to debate me, but remember, you know I am right.
I personally think you should be not affraid, the time to get used to things is mostly not long. See it as an enrichment similar to "I am used to see VHS video and now I am looking at the rich details and colors of Blueray". The experiences stored inside you concerning your lack of vision will in part stay and some of it that is not important for the function of your system later on will be lost.
It is not a miscalculation, by design the European Commission is proprietary and almost always make proprietary decisions that often have to be corrected by the relative toothless European Parliament.
I can understand where you are coming from but I think his decision is not taken lightly, it is about quality of life and his impression of it.
It is bad enough that one is born due to decisions of other people, at least one should have the right to own their body and soul when they are there.
This discussion is about ethics and self determination, these are difficult subjects and everybody has the right of their own position in that discussion.
But be careful to know the difference between your opinion ("I think that he is wrong doing that...") and condemnation ("He is wrong doing that...")
He is 104 years old, that is old enough to decide for oneself what to do with ones life.
If you said "I find it stupid", you could get away with saying that but you are not the one who decides if this is stupid or not.
Besides that, do you really think he is going to listen to you?
It is not at the same level, you need a bignum library to make JS do even correct math, which is something a programming language should be able to do on its own. JS shouldn't be called a programming language but a scripting anomaly.
Facebook just has a big problem, a morality problem that started with "They “trust me”, Dumb f*cks", it seems they never got over that problem and now it is biting their collective ass