No, it’s the lack of support in web APIs. Every api is based on width and height, viewport width, viewport height. Nothing allows you to find the angle of the display, rotate DOM elements to align, wrap based on diagonal boundaries etc.

Not true at all. Many video games don’t even have save files. And at the very best, the save file is just a side-effect even if it exists. That’s like saying a car is “just” two recliners and a loveseat.

If you are so bad at using a computer you can’t open a PDF, then you won’t notice the difference between windows and linux

So when I type the word “sink” I’ve used the sin() function?

1. A single separator is better than a choice of separators to mean the same thing.
2. A space is not as apparent in a large log of data as a capital T
3. Human language is not as strict as a programming language. There is a reason you see people still using “alot” and “a lot”. That just proves it’s easy to overlook and commonly happens.

This is the most junior developer comment I’ve seen in a while.

Nobody that’s competent thinks that’s shit is hard. That’s not the point.

The point is, it makes it easy to make mistakes. Somebody might see all of one type of strings, assume that’s the format, and forget to enclose the thing in quotes, causing mysterious bugs years later when a differently created date filters into the system. You might have a regex error, you might split incorrectly, you might make a query that works the wrong way and gives an incorrect aggregate, and none of that is due to lack of skill. It’s due to not knowing it’s the rfc standard, not the iso. It could be due to not even realizing the rfc allows for that or is different.

Software engineering in practice is not about making sure there is at least some way for people to use your library/standard/pattern. It’s about making sure the way to do it that’s most intuitive/obvious is also foolproof, easy, and efficient. Adding the space makes debugging harder and adds footguns which is exactly what good software engineers want to stay away from. Otherwise we’d all be writing in assembly. But since you aren’t, maybe you are the one with a skill issue. Either that or you really misunderstand this field.

I definitely don’t agree that the RFC is easier to read, the two numbers can appear to be one at a quick glance without a separator.

no, people making lemmy apps should support android is my point.

I see you’ve never been to a bar with a CS major

(probably also because you can’t get them to go to bars)

Imagine touting the benefits of an open, decentralized, user-centric platform, and ONLY releasing your app for it on the most closed, centralized, corporate mobile operating system.

Not sure if this is hypocrisy or a lack of self awareness or what, but memmy is a joke for doing this

It was totally possible to see coming. The .ml domain deal and its expiration was known far in advance and I’ve been seeing posts about it for months.

This is 100% incompetence on whoever set up the site.

No reason we can’t hope the technology community would be more varied, more about actual technological substance, and not just “top tech company drama”

I know not to do stupid things that could bork my bootloader. I still do stupid things that I know can bork my bootloader.

Trying to transitively get the world to defederate from everybody you don’t like is a terrible idea. That will just lead to over moderation and the community becoming bland. Everybody will want somebody else defederated from everybody else which will destroy the interconnectedness of the fediverse. Pushed to it’s extreme, citing the paradox of tolerance leada to Nazi or USSR levels of totalitarianism and fascism against any perceived thought crime.

They are defederated, that’s a reasonable measure to get rid of most of it. Now just ignore it.