"Rival our fossil fuel habit."??? 240 megatons is 240 million metric tons... over 62 years. That's an average of about 3.8 million per year. Cars are releasing 3.5 BILLION metric tons per year. That's literally almost 3 orders of magnitude smaller (almost 1000x). In fact, that comes out to 9.6 million per day. Cars release 2.5x the amount in a single DAY than that fucking lakebed does all year. This is a fart in a swimming pool of CO2.

Is an ETL system that ships literally 10's of millions of records an hour (doesn't even break a sweat, could be doing 100's of millions or even billions), or a reporting system that serves tens of thousands of reports a day, shipping them direct from the database to S3 at around 40MB/s (it could go faster, the application isn't the limiting factor in this case), all running 24/7 with basically no maintenance required serious? To be fair, it runs on jRuby, not MRI Ruby, so I'm leveraging native JVM threads and Java libraries all over the place in these two different codebases, but the bulk of the actual code is still just Ruby.

Yup. This is why we are a doomed species. The bells are already tolling for us.

Your optimism amuses me, that you think there's gonna be a United States of anything. The MAGAdiots and their Republican enablers have been crying "Democrats this" and "the left that". There is no "left" in this country. There is far-right and less right. The ACTUAL leftists in this country are biding their time. The anarchists, the communists, the revolutionaries. You know, the ones that will BURN IT TO THE GROUND and bring out the cake detectors. You know, the things they use to check if rich people are made of cake, since everyone will be starving. History will tell you exactly how this will go, and it is NOT how Trump and his Heritage Foundation and tech-bro puppeteers think it will.

Had a perfect example recently of why AI will never fully replace developers, at least not until there is AGI that can function equivalent to a human being. Had a locking issue in my code, and while talking with a coworker he ran it through Cursor to see what it came up with to "fix" the problem. All it did was rewrite my code in a way that was slightly more readable, yet eliminated subtle things that the code was doing that in essence made it completely non-functional. On top of that, it didn't solve the problem either, but that's because the ACTUAL issue was a consequence of how an underlying service functioned, which undermined the intention of how the locking was intended to work. I fixed the issue, but an LLM would NEVER have figured that out, not without enough prompting that would have just figured out the solution yourself from the prompt.

When you're a fascist cunt suck the only solution is for you to to have your fucking teeth kicked in and to get strung up. Piazzale Loreto waits for you.

I dunno, how has being a disingenuous hypocritical piece of lying human garbage worked out for you? Go walk into traffic.

Personally, I think that while the language used to teach fundamental programming concepts SHOULDN'T matter in theory... in practice it does. For instance, nobody would advocate teaching them with PHP, or Intercal. One is fundamentally flawed, and the other is a literal joke language. And while using a language designed for academics specifically to teach fundamentals is a good idea on paper, if you expect to succeed in the real world and not just in an academic setting, you should probably learn using a language that you are going to see outside of academia. Yes, most real-world languages will let you get away with bad patterns and can lead to poor programming habits. Guess what? You need to be able to identify those when you see them, because they are abundant in real-world applications, and if you learn on a language that prevents them, you may have a difficult time recognizing them in a language that you pick up later that you may not realize allows for certain rules to be broken.

Yeah, was gonna say the same thing. You can push a LOT (if not most) of your app logic onto the client if that's your bag, but you will need SOMETHING on the server side to handle data persistence, assuming that the data in question isn't capable of being fully contained by the client or if that isn't desirable.

Yup, my first thought was, "Welp, either the community is going to fork WordPress entirely and leave Automattic and WP Engine to rot, or everyone smart will move on to a totally different framework... amd leave Automattic and WP Engine to rot."

How to kill a framework indeed

Wow... how does Putin's dick taste? You clearly suck it often.

The only thing that sucks about this is now they're going to get sneakier. Instead of just putting them in the metadata, now they'll add spurious citations pointing to them, to throw off automated detection. Granted, this would have the secondary effect of forcing more rigorous peer review to find this bullshit, something that already needs to be happening, but having to contextually cross reference every single citation for validity is just going to make the process more cumbersome than it already is. Hence... UGH.

Any doctor that prescribes an antiparasitic drug that works by binding to glutamate-gated chloride channels that are common to invertebrate nerve and muscle cells to treat a viral infection honestly shouldn't keep their medical license. There is nothing about that mechanism of action that would suggest ANY efficacy against viruses (which don't have nerves OR muscles), and there IS a certain level of toxicity in mammals, where past a certain threshold it can pass the blood-brain barrier and have deleterious effects.

It sounds like the big win is that it is potentially MUCH more efficient than driving a phase change system. Much of the energy being removed by an A/C system is the energy pumped back into the system by the compressor. It's also why heat pumps running in heating mode are more efficient than regular furnaces. That compression energy is being shed into the house where you want the heat.

Security issues aside... who thought this was a good idea? Using whitespace to denote an entirely different language mixed in the shell script? What if someone sets their tab stops to 2 or 4 spaces and it becomes indistinguishable from their regular spacing? Even if they don't, it can get very ambiguous.