I blame the weak FP?

Why did someone try to censor that comment? Not the strongest FP, but whose political sensitivities did you manage to offend? (Maybe another approach to fixing the moderation would be to remove the anonymity?)

I actually think you are touching on a big question there. Why? I think it's basically because they didn't want to have a gap with no living humans who had been to the moon. They're getting old and dying off and that basically created a kind of fake pressure on Congress to fund Artemis, even though America's government has become almost totally dysfunctional in recent years.

The story did produce a number of jokes, some of them good, but the one I was looking for would have involved Musk. Proof of incompetence. How come DOGE didn't manage to kill this one? If Musk is really so clever, then he would have found a way to transfer the business to his company. (More complicated joke involves "might not making right", but winners think they must be morally (or politically) correct because they won. Reality is much more random and lucky and the truth is more like the lottery: "Someone had to win." (Latest data from another pesky book, so I might as well stop.))

Hmm... Maybe that's why I never select playlists? One of those problems I learned about and solved with "Don't do that" a long time ago? I do think that these days a lot of "getting used to" has become "learning how to avoid undesired features". The feeping creaturitus is strong with YouTube.

Perhaps the most interesting aspects of Microsoft Secrets by Cusumano and Selby involve their methods of avoiding feature creep.

They just want to justify tax breaks for the wealthy by saying 31% of Americans will benefit...when in reality, only 2% or less truly get more than they lose from a typical Republican tax cut. Nope, those tariffs are not failing!!! Look, more people are getting wealthy!!! No need to look into tax reform or making sure billionaires pay more!

Because Microsoft knows that you pay and use all their other easily breachable low security software without any warranty or fitness for any use and always have since the mid-1970s!

This is why almost every platform for Internet services DOES NOT USE Microsoft software. Because finding a security breach or bug can take months or years for Microsoft to fix. If they ever do...

At least, with Open Source software you can fix it or swap it out.

Kewl insult. Do you have an explanation?...or are too lazy to justify your comment?

Also, your logic is stupid. I'm not authoring the goddamn page, I am just trying to buy a product or do some research or use an app. I have no choice in the tooling someone else uses.

Also, it's not the defacto standard for full stack development. That's wishful thinking on your part so you'll not have to open a book and learn another language. Java still has greater penetration among anyone who has a budget and knows what they're doing. At best, node.js replaced PHP, which was always the low-budget entry-level language. JavaScript is an absolute shit language for server-side unless you move to typescript...and even then...why bother? Java performs far better, has a larger community, more penetration, and is just a better platform. My hope was the AI revolution would lead to less Python and JavaScript where they don't belong. In the browser?...well, it's basically the only option. Node.js was just a means of making users suffer so UI professionals wouldn't have to learn a superior technology. Hopefully, they can just vibe-code some Java until they can afford to hire a real professional. With typescript?...OK, at least they addressed the reliability aspect....but yeah, you're adding the same amount of complexity as Java, only noticeably slower and less scalable and efficient.

And if you're like most professionals I've talked to, I'll anticipate you taking offense at my comment. I'll prematurely respond to what I anticipate your response to be: You may be AWESOME at writing node.js services and write perfect tests and create works of beauty. The problem is you'll be rewarded with a promotion and your app will get handed off to someone more junior.

I inherited one (I'm definitely junior at node.js), it imported a Google lib, which needed a security update to the latest version. They completely rewrote the signature of every function. That's shitty of Google...but it is what it is. If it were Java/C#/Rust/C++/Go? It would be a 1h task to fix. The compiler would catch every error. Not only would Java catch every error in my code I wrote, it would catch every signature error in every lib I imported very quickly, typically on startup. Node.js? Oh, it starts. It will only catch the simplest errors on request.

OK. So here I am with an app I don't understand because the original author rage quit. Her wiki is horribly out of date, just like every wiki page I've written...we're all guilty of that! So I have to guess the functionality. I know what everyone else knows. But had a nice multi-day trial and error of testing every function point to check for missed signatures. Turns out she wrote shit unit tests, which honestly...many devs do...so the builds passed. It ended up being a 2 week ordeal because a whole batch were caught in production, by users, because of some undocumented functionality that was added in later.

If it were typescript? I think it would have found it. If it was Java, I know it wouldn't have passed the build. When you're the only author? You can do whatever you want with whatever you want. If work for a larger employer and have real teams, you cannot rely on your talent alone. That's why dynamically and untyped languages are usually inferior choices for corporate development.

However, the core complaint is not about node.js....that's between you and your hosting-env/hyperscalar. My problem is MASSIVE complex websites that render simple static content, yet make 100s of REST calls to build a page in a real-time on my client...rather than just build the final page...save it somewhere. And to your point, it's not JavaScript's faults that there are idiots out there. However, the community certainly seems to be embracing and encouraging all sorts of complexity and frameworks.

Every front-end-dev I've talked to as well as the ones I work with daily will tell you that you need many modern frameworks in your work product in order to stay employable....specifically meaning if you write a simple HTML page with simple minimal JavaScript, the first guy who sees your page will tell your boss you're a clueless moron who doesn't know his way around React/Vue.js/Angular/Svelte...not that you do know your way and thought they were a fit for larger projects. So let's add 100 dependencies in your build and many frameworks....so people know you know what you're doing. So now the user has this slow page and gets to watch it rerender in real-time on his page...making it challenging to know when it's fully loaded and having links and buttons move around on him/her...I've many times accidentally clicked the wrong function on an app because it moved the buttons around in the time between when I position my mouse and click.

But to the OP's original, this is not about Java. This is fully about JavaScript...and more precisely, misuse by JavaScript. It's just a tool. It's the author's fault the page is a mess and horrible time to use.

386 and 486 CPUs were back in the day. I used a commodore 64 for most of my school life and a word processor / typewriter when I needed something that could print text better than the ancient thermal printer I had (no joke I had an okidata thermal printer for my commodore. Quality was good but when you eventually couldn't get the regular paper you had to buy the rolls and I had the jury rig a feeder)

A lot of people complain about the Sega 32x and Atari Jaguar ports of Doom but it was mind-blowing to be able to play Doom on $300 worth of hardware in 1995. If you wanted a computer that could match the performance of even a Sega 32x you were dropping at least $1,500. Literally five times the price.

But I do remember when prices came down after I got back into computers after a bit. Picking up a 486 DX 100 for about $150 and then going to a computer shop asking for a Vesa local bus video card for it and the guy just pulled it out of a junk pile and gave it to me. Remember going home and booting up primal rage and X-Men children of the atom on that thing and being blown away with that computer could do. Terminal velocity .

Just like "Social Media." That is really based on "personal realities" for each user created by algorithms that the current AI are largely based on.

Look at all the people that has injured. Now they win court cases. And countries smarter than the US are regulating it.

Are they (the bunch) making as much $$$ as the 5 AI US CEOs racing to create an alien intelligence that they nor their engineers fully understand?

for your non tech industry associates and relatives.

The conclusion will hopefully start a lot of discussions and activism to prevent the dystopia path, the chaos path or extinction path.

Like this deep more complete one or the Schoolhouse afterschool special version.

AI is barely OK if you let rewrite a few paragraphs.

When you ask historic questions it makes stuff up, presents it as fact and argues with you about the false information.

So the longer an AI created article, the more fact checking has to be done. And that makes asking initially on anything important, really not worth it.

A lot of the current data in AI models remains biased.

And now we know that: Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time.

Given that almost 75% of participants in a recent study trusted inaccurate AI and would pass it on "as fact" to others, how dumb will this slop make us all as it spreads as "more authoritative" than all the Social Media info and manipulation slop that is already everywhere on the net.

Recommended viewing: THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST

AI slop articles that get summarized into yet more AI slop. I doubt many humans read this stuff.

It doesn't affect text so ctrl F still works. The rest can be mitigated by supplying element sizes in the HTML.

Nice theory. But why would they need to ask? They just offer a salary that is insufficient if the candidate has a family and the candidate with the family quickly answers "No".

If none of the candidates accepts, then they can look for more candidates or call around with slightly better offers until they find a fish.

I think most of those things are clumsy bandages. The fundamental requirement of a real solution would be to transfer money to people who are doing the really difficult work of raising children. However, it looks less expensive to count on lust for sex and love of your own children to get as much as possible of the work "for free". And CPS is another bandage for the resulting problems...