Honestly, keeping the excitable children in TypeScript-land is for the best. I just wish they’d shut the fuck up about their AI workflows while I’m around.
It is quite performant, most of the performance issues are more bad architecture than anything else.
Also it scales horizontally rather well without requiring me to build the infrastructure out before the need is there.
It gets a lot of hate. But it also drives a whole bunch of large businesses, and a lot of products. Its not trendy, but it gets the work done. In the past there were many bad products made ontop of it, but those products made sales, so were they really all that bad?
Its popular to use it like a punching bag, but the reality is its sigificantly better than the time period where most of the “hate” comes from. A time before javascript.
Its funny, people struggle to hit c10k with modern application stacks, but we had been doing it since before the iPhone.
I quite like it, its quite clean, the tooling isn’t painful, and its fairly easy to make applications go fast.
tl;dr its a conservative technical choice, and ergo, unfashionable, but also drives a good portion of the internet.
Disclosure: I write PHP unless I have a good reason not to, I also do some .Net and some Go.
lol
Imagine letting the circle jerk program you like that.
you say that like apple hasn’t trained everyone to get used to a 1200 euro bi-annual upgrade cycle
You my friend, have aphantasia. IIRC its about 1-3% of the population.
Its actually wilder than that, some people have aphantasia where they can’t imagine shapes or forms in their mind. If you describe a dog, they do not have a mental image of the dog.
Cuz those goombas are gonna lose a blunt between the seats.
Just saw their LinkedIn… Looks like they already outsourced their cognitive abilities to a computer.
Can we have a button to filter out the AI shite peddlers please?
I got excited seeing “EURouter” and “OpenRouter” as maybe an alternative to Unifi but its just AI middleware shite, and its promoted to the front page.
Many, its just nobody cares when a camry burns down
didn’t ask, also, you’re not cool enough to be your namesake.
Living in it is kinda tiring tho
May I also strongly suggest The Culture Series.
It answers the “what if the (real) AI singularity happens” but instead of the typical “and then we all die” its just that the Minds are actually just cool with us. And I realised after about 4 of the books that the humans are like pets for this curious hyper-intelligences that kinda enable the humans to become better people, if at the loss of some cultural identity.
The Culture is The Borg, but you want to join them because their shit is dope. The luxuries and comforts of The Culture leading to the demise of other societies as they absorb in.
It also explores a lot of interventionism (or when not to) in some of the stories. One is a short story set at the time of the cold war. Which is interesting since earth barely ever is relevant in The Culture novels. Its just another backwater that has pre-spacefaring humanoids on it.
It explores a lot of quite dope concepts, and the visual imagery of the destruction of Vavatch Orbital, and down in the tunnels on Schar’s World happening in Consider Phlebas.
The realisation I had a few days later that it went past me that the god that inhabits Schar’s world wasn’t even the one to create it, this god-like-being is like a hermit crab and just wants to be left alone.
The way that seeing space from a starships perspective was described in Excession when one of the humans is basically given Meat Fucker/Grey Area’s perception was dope.
Its some damn strong good scifi with hopium undercurrents even while entire societies perish (willingly, intentionally). As VR simulations of sentient life is created to give societies a real hell to send people to. As people live and die whole lives inside the VR hell to break in and then break out to prove its existence to bring about its destruction. The unsettling creeping sensation of realising you’re in a simulation, but not because the simulation is imperfect, but because at the bottom of your vision, in big block red letters, it reads “SIMULATION”. Or in a moment where we’re looking through a soldiers eyes as we slowly realise he’s a human mind re-bodied into a turret during a simulated battle. Or later, when the same soldier is squeezing through the cracks in between grains of sand and rock as an amoeba.
I was also high as fuck while reading a lot of this series.
I could espouse its praises for hours, but it would be quicker to read the novels.
We need to retrain our business operators to respect privacy, perhaps some reinforcement training with blunt objects.
Pirates. They’re being pirates. The sooner the US is balkanised and no longer a threat to world peace the better.
I hope I get to see Hegseth receive justice.
The main issue with AWS and GCP and Azure is they’re effectively a triopoly controlled by the Americans.
We need to dump a fat stack into a plurality of providers, ideally operating as national champions.
Something atop of OpenStack maybe. But OpenStack seems bloated as fuck.
If needed? No, do it now. Break the addiction to the US tech sector.
Have you considered not living in satans slimey anus?
You do know that if you’re protesting in a gated community, nobody will be home?
And nobody will care.