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As for the other bit around AutoMapper. I do my own mapping and so should you. MediatR and what it does you can implement yourself in a few hours that will cover 90% of use cases if you know what you're doing.
All in all I want less dependencies in my code. Everything is bloated to shit anyways.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School
EDIT: Sorry, I misread what you wrote. It's late and it's been a long day. You weren't saying the brothers created Cyrillic. As for whether they were Greek/Bulgarian I cannot say. I've read different opinions on that throughout the years. Definitely Byzantine, but anything else I cannot say.
When I was growing up in Bulgaria my first 7 (I would write the 7 crossed by default for example, the Z as well) grades were in a school where we learned German (and Russian as a secondary foreign language) and I remember distinctly handwriting practice in German using more or less the same ways outlined in this article. Is this way of writing cursive not common in the US/UK?
Reading Greek is easy for _most_ Bulgarians (inventors of Cyrillic if you didn't know that) as you can imagine. Them being a geographical neighbor and the close historical ties etc.
The fact that people don't stay long enough in companies or work on a long project themselves to see the fruits of their labour down the line is a point that is discussed in some of the other comments here in this thread. I agree with it as well. In general if you job hop a lot you won't see the after effects of your actions. And the industry is such that if you want to get paid, you need to move. To reiterate - it's a sad state of affairs.
Unfortunately my stance is that fundamentally things won't change until we get hit with some actual hardware limitations again. Most devs and people in general prefer a semblance of a working solution quickly for short-term gains rather than spending the actual time that's needed to create something of high quality that performs well and will work for the next 30 years. It's quite a sad state of affairs.
With that said I'm generally optimistic. There is a small niche community of people that does actually care about these things. Probably won't take over the world, but the light of wisdom won't be lost!
A week or so ago I gave a talk at a game jam discussing some of these topics and most of the audience being people in their 20's didn't understand or give weight to what I said at all. Only a few people from that big audience came after and expressed interest to learn more. Hope is not lost, but we have to actively push back and fight against the nonsense that comes from all sides.
I can't wait for the AI, AI bros and hype surrounding it to crash and burn in a few years. It's not that these new technologies are not useful - they are. And they have their place, but quality matters. DO NOT SURRENDER YOUR FACULTIES TO "AI". You get good by struggling! If you don't want to get good at this - then don't do it anymore. As another comment in another thread around code snippets said earlier - "No snippets, no LLMs, no autocomplete".
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
As a Dev (and company owner) I would pay for a stripped out version of Windows Pro that contains only the stuff I need for dev and nothing else. No AI crap, no spyware and forced updates crap etc.
If you want something that stirs your mind and makes you truly ponder, especially if you're science/engineering/philosophy inclined, read the books and/or watch the Tencent show (very slow burn, but it's worth it because it's made with love and let's you think, although I do have some critiques on it as well).
As an aside I'd like to say that the whole trilogy is fundamentally not a product of Western thought. You need some context on Chinese history and culture to truly appreciate it. I think many people in the West don't know enough about China and society there to fully grasp the nuance in most of it.
True. Although the article is about writing on paper. I'm a pretty good touch typist and years of Vim have made me efficient with the keyboard. My typing is much faster than my writing. I'd say that even if I am thinking deeply about a subject, if I'm copying the text via typing, it I'll be a lot faster than writing. On the other hand writing gives me the opportunity to slow down. Maybe you're right that both should work equally if I'm invested mentally in the material, but then I'll have the internal pressure to type faster which might hurt that. As a physical motion typing is rather static when compared to writing, so I do believe an actual difference exists.
> Copying material by hand is important because this forces the ideas to go through the mind. The mind is on the path between the eyes and the hands. So when you copy something, it must go through your mind!
For me this is definitely true. Maybe it's like that because when I was growing up we still didn't have smartphones, tablets and widespread computer use at schools and everything was written on paper with a pen/pencil. Most children and young people today probably don't use such tools as much as we did? With that said, I do believe there's something very real in the tactile and spatial feeling of writing on paper that does help learning and greatly improves memorising information. For myself it is definitely true. Maybe for a child today that would be an alien feeling? No idea. I'd be curious to read an actual research on something like this.