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Your second paragraph disproves your first. Websites' needs didn't drastically increase (I'm ignoring nonsense like WebGPU; render graphics outside the web browser like a God-fearing Christian!), but their complexity did. Why? Well, we told everyone with a pulse they could make six figures "doing web development", and we're reaping what we've sown.

You can still design websites like it's 2005, and they'll be damn fast. But pitch something like MFC or even PHP to a 20-something frontend developer now and watch the blood drain from their face.

It'll only be cheap once the patent expires. Until then, take those pills daily, y'all!

We had a taste when COVID shots were free, and it was magical. So nice not having to make 16 phone calls and then getting billed $800 "by mistake", followed by 20 more phone calls to fix it, only to find out that the pharmacist's sister's mailman was out of network, so we're sending your bill to collections because it got lost in the mail.

You don't need to take HIV medication, but you don't need to prevent the rest of us from enjoying the benefits of modernity, too.

Condoms aren't perfect, and PrEP is cheap and has basically zero side effects. Plus, rapists don't use condoms, no matter how nicely you ask.

Edit: lmao touched a nerve? I will never understand why folks here get so prudish when we talk about sex... "Just wear a condom!" is remarkably insensitive, as though 100% of HIV transmission is your own fault, and not, say, someone else who has bad intentions.

Why not read the PHP docs and any tutorials they might have? The docs are pretty comprehensive.

You always had to configure your web server properly. "Don't let programs execute arbitrary code" was a solved problem even then.

Yeah, like developing a résumé.

Somewhere that isn't the person updating the article, that is. The trick is to make a random website that does the same, and then it's totally fine!

Concur. I cannot believe we've gotten to the point where the tech elite poopoo one of the last remaining jobs that actually keeps people alive because it doesn't make the stock price go brrrrr.

Maybe... maybe some things are worth doing not simply because there's a dollar sign in the result. Let's ponder that this Juneteenth.

Funny how nobody ever says the same about software, which underpins the entire modern economy and has the power to irreversibly change the lives of billions.

It's intended for hobbyists and tinkerers. If you want a computer that screams, you get a desktop. Nobody's trying to play the newest GTA on this chip.

If there were grant money for incorrectly claiming "this other thing that isn't a computer behaves just like a computer", well, we wouldn't need VCs anymore.

I asked my parrot the time complexity of quicksort, and he said "squawk N-squared!" He is clearly reasoning and I would like $500 million, please.

How is it not blindingly obvious yet? It's money. Everything sucks because you aren't an executive or a shareholder. Everything sucks because everything isn't for you, it's to extract money from you. And places like this are the Mos Eisley cantina where everyone talks about the best way to do that.

When did the software community get so bad at handling legitimate critique?

Can we get conversions for kg of CO2 emitted, too?

And to think it culminates in tech companies emitting more CO2 than Belgium to make celebrity deepfakes and tell us to put glue on pizza. Wow.

Nothing! That's my entire point! Because I'm not afraid of the internet, and I trust in my ability to secure the software I host. You're the one struggling with the fact that no software is a platonic ideal, while the rest of us still have jobs to do.

I'm confused. Is this website about furtive self-promotion to land a job or get VC money? Or is it an innocent platform for sharing projects?

Can't you just put it on your calendar? Or use a sticky note? Bonus: a sticky note doesn't need a battery. Alternatively, your coworkers are adults, and can simply wait an hour for you to eat lunch. They won't go into hysterics if they can't find you.

Don't forget the e-waste aspect... You can recycle paper easily, but several rare earth metals and e-ink all mashed together are much more difficult, and require a lot more energy to produce.

Honestly, this is exactly the kind of overconsumption that got us to where we are. I don't care what someone's favorite emoji is, quite frankly, and I don't think it's worth strip mining the Congo just to do a Neat Thing. Use a printer, do it for the sake of your grandchildren's future.

Nobody calls them regulations, come now.

Thought it was pretty obvious we were talking about the tenant, not the landlord. This is such weird nitpicking. When people in the US talk about apartments, they're almost always rented. The only place I've ever heard someone say "I bought my apartment" is New York, but even that is just vernacular, because the governing body is some sort of association or condo board.

I tell you this as an American who's spent enough decades on this earth hearing English, American apartments are rented 99.9% of the time.

Exactly. I don't believe that the argument that some software somewhere at some point could have some vague security flaw in it is usually good enough to justify not running the kinds of software most of us here work on. It's solipsistic, and honestly seems a little in bad faith.

But it's also moot: if you're that afraid of vague security threats, then just don't expose your software to the internet. It's not difficult.

> Who said it's defeatist?

Uh, me, I did. I thought I was pretty clear. Please refer to my previous comment.

> It's realism.

Okay. How are you going to change your behavior?

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. If you want to put your recipe website behind a SCIF, be my guest. Some of us aren't quite so afraid.

What? You think the meeting was unnecessary? Well, you're the only one who disagrees with the outcome. Sounds like you're not being a team player. Let's have a meeting with HR tomorrow.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

The overarching point is "don't take care of your tools". So downloading 500 MB of dependencies and then letting them rot is a great example.

A sense of humor?