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Comment Who exactly thought it was? (Score 1) 204

I mean other than random schmucks?

It's a tool. I don't care if it "really" understands what it's doing, if it e.g. correctly generates code for an admin page with 20 fields ...

(And yes, it's an uneven tool ... I'll have to read and test the code, just like I re-read and test my raw code ... and it will have to go through QA, just like my code ... )

Comment Re:DUOLINGO is annoying (Score 1) 46

Duolingo has people saying the word Yo as "Joe". No, nobody says "Joe quiero taco bell."

There are many dialects of Spanish. Mexicans don't pronounce it that way, but Cubans do (think Al Pacino's Scarface), and also a Venezuelan that I worked with.

Came here to say that. Yes, some Spanish speakers do pronounce their Spanish words that way. There are indeed many dialects.

Comment Re:Two dogs fight for a bone ... (Score 1) 13

The best option is to not use PHP based technology. There are so many other options with fewer issues. I understand there are some killer app but nobody in their right mind should start a new project in PHP. Yet Oracle and Azure still find new customers.

Meh.

Most of the web runs on php, and there are reasons for that. Chesterton's fence and all that.

Comment Re:Two dogs fight for a bone ... (Score 1) 13

PHP is not the issue here. The issue isn't about any technical deficiencies in PHP, it's age / relevance as a web framework in the 2020's, or anything like that.

The issue is that Mullenweg exerts outsized influence over the WP community to its detriment. But yes, if the WP community can rally around a new community that Mullenweg does not exert control and veto power over that would solve the main issue.

Well said.

Comment Re:It's not like Big-"Tech" ever was ethical (Score -1, Troll) 52

The difference is that tech companies used to feel like they had to at least maintain a polite fiction that they were ethical and in some way serving a greater good. Now we're in the Trump/Musk era, where being unethical is considered morally superior to being pointlessly encumbered by ethics/morals/empathy/etc, so there's no need to pretend.

It must be very soothing, imagining one's self as all good and others as all bad.

Comment schizophrenia (Score 4, Informative) 75

So for actual schizophrenia:

Estimates of the international prevalence of actual schizophrenia among non-institutionalized persons is 0.33% to 0.75%.

So if we conservatively say 0.33%, that's what. ~1 in 300 people? Out of any decent sized population that's a LOT of people.

Now add to those, the additional ... let's call them merely overly enthused.

Welcome (once again) to the concentrating effect of the internet.

Comment Er (Score 1) 36

The Guardian describes German drives "confronted with maps sprinkled with a mass of red dots indicating stop signs,"

So, which was it? Fake closures, or stop signs that looked like closures?

(Squints at article)

Oh - so, red dots that looked not like stop signs, even though the article says that twice, but red dots that looked like ... road closures.

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