Sure, “no man sets foot in the same river twice”, but that does nothing to argue against the preservation of cultural items.

Take music, for instance. I never feel the same way the second time listening to a song as I did the first time, but that doesn’t make the music less special or change anything about it at all, and it certainly does nothing to advance a hypothetical argument that music shouldn’t be recorded or that the recordings of it shouldn’t be preserved for future enjoyment or different audiences.

You know, I’ve always loved C and doing my own memory management. I love learning optimization techniques and applying them.

That’s awesome, and honestly who knows what you’ll come up with if you’re given time to follow your passion there. Decades ago SCM was done through CVS and SVN and other pieces of garbage until Linus came out with Git which a main reason that it is so good IMO is its speed. Google Chrome arrived on the scene in a lot of the same way (of course now it’s as bloated a cow as any other browser, but at the time it was faster than anything available).

I don’t think you can blame people for trending away from quality software. Its clearly against the grain.

No definitely not. Electron is basically a creation of idiot middle management who insist that the web app and the app app be the same exact thing and be developed by the same group of understaffed, underpaid, underappreciated developers. So they worked out a framework to make it so they could change something in one place and have it reflected everywhere.

But it’s still as potato as it gets.

I will also never understand how JavaScript development has gotten so complicated with seemingly zero benefits. It takes minutes to do a “frontend build” and the output grows larger all of the time. I bumped into some Angular crap that was hundreds of megabytes somehow, and still AJAX fetched the same info 4x on page load because the “MVCC” or whatever it’s called didn’t even buy them the abstraction of using the same values multiple times on one page…

I have developed personalized tools as part of my job and I chose qt to write them in partially because if a company I work for would ever try to commercialize them, they’d have to either buy qt licenses or open source them.

I cheat a bit though because I use qt through python.

The fact that electron both exists and is one of the most popular cross-platform development frameworks tells you everything you need to know about the current potato’d state of software development.

I hate fucking snap. It might be enough to make me switch distros if Ubuntu keeps up with it (which I am sure they intend to).

The continual “you have new snaps” or whatever it was message every time I’m just trying to have a web browser open made me eventually figure out how to install firefox for real on all of my computers.

EDIT: I think you may have convinced me to try out Debian on my next OS installation.

Once (I liked it so much I saw it twice…my apologies to Ted Lasso)

I don’t know if that fits the definition, but it’s an album being written within a movie which sounds like “media within media” to me.

Ah, I see. You can’t do basic math. That tracks.

Ah, gotcha, you need new underwear and a new stick of deodorant for the job. That makes total sense then, be sure to hold up traffic so you can back in to park. It’s essential.

Doing a lot of heavy duty crew cab needing work at the local target?

You hold up those people as well when you’re reversing in.

Backwards parking is often necessary for cars with shit turning circles.

Who told you to drive a parade float to the store?

Again, when you’re reversing out, someone can take your spot (the person who was held up by you leaving). When you reverse in, you’re holding others up just so you can take up a spot. They get to sit there and watch you fumble parking in reverse for absolutely zero benefit to them.

All I park in is urban lots. Then some asshole backs their Dodge ram into the compact spot next to me and opens their king cab door into my car.

They have a fisheye view, you can entirely see the road behind you using one. Also fuck you.

Getting into tighter spaces is great because it makes it so that people have to turn into a sheet of paper to enter or exit their cars beside you. Good looking out! /s

It’s annoying as hell, it blocks the flow of traffic, and it causes the cars to lineup the wrong way with each other which makes people more frequently open their doors into the side of my car.

Backup cameras exist. In fact parking in reverse is increasingly popular because they were added, because most people do not have the ability without the cameras to maneuver their cars in reverse.

And again, you’re adding delay for everyone’s parking activities for nobody’s benefit except your own. When you’re backing out, you’re perhaps adding delay to only people who are on their way to leave, but a person looking to park can just take your spot.

Backup cameras exist.

When you’re leaving you’re freeing up a spot. When you’re reverse parking you’re holding up traffic to eventually take up a spot.