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Undefined is not part of JSON specification. It’s also not a thing in Java.

I’m bad at being a good person, so that would make me a bad person?

That’s good to hear. I haven’t touched Eclipse in maybe 15 years and back then it fueled me a burning hatred for IDEs. It felt like a huge confusing mess. But maybe it has become more streamlined lately.

Now I have grown out of my hatred and can’t imagine a day without (non Eclipse) IDEs.

Is anyone using Eclipse anymore? I’ve barely heard anything about it the past 10 years.

GNU’s Not Unix Isn’t Much Pretty

Which doubles the maintenance work to keep docs in sync

When someone writes API docs, should they assume the reader knows nothing or can they assume the is already experienced?

It takes a lot of effort to write documentation towards newbies, at the cost of making it more difficult for already experienced to find the answer they need.

Whether they intend it or not, these engines are built to funnel you back into the lowest common denominator, most broadly appealing stuff, because that’s what the algorithm sees gets the most clicks from the average person.

That’s not my general experience. Spotify for example is good at recommending me songs with less than 10k plays which I vibe on. I’ve discovered many smaller artists thanks to Spotify recommendations.

Recommendation is part of the service. If they know I like something, then it’s reasonable they recommend me something that’s similar. It’s like going to a restaurant and asking for recommendations.

Advertising is when things are promoted outside the service. It’s like going to a restaurant and they tell me about Raid Shadow Legends. I don’t want that.

I think recommendation should be linked to usage data like watch history on that particular service. Location and other external information shouldn’t be used. I don’t want my recommendations depend on which friends I have or recent activity on a different service.

One grain of rice in A1

Only thing I can find is that it has 128-bit graphics-oriented floating-point unit delivering 1.4 GFLOPS.

Probably only for marketing reasons. Everyone was desperate not to be worse than N64.

It’s a poorly worded article. YouTube premium “limits ads” as in being completely ad free (besides in-video sponsorships). YouTube hasn’t gone down that route yet.

I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m not sure how YouTube can deal with it best. There’s sponsor block, but it’s relying on crowdsourced data.

Probably not in consumer grade products in any foreseeable future.

More complexity with barely any (practical) benefits for consumers.

Where are you getting that from? YouTube premium is ad free (so far).

Not true 128 bit. It has 128 bit SIMD capabilities, but that’s about it. Probably mostly because of marketing reasons to show how much better it is than N64 (which also is “64 bit” for marketing reasons).

In that case, we’re having 512 bit computers now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512

When you hold a hammer everything looks like a nail. Just because it’s useful in some cases doesn’t mean it’s always the best solution.

The article mostly rants about front end devs using unnecessarily complex solutions for simple problems. Like using React for generating static web sites.

When web development started to move away from jQuery towards Angular, React, Ember, Vue and all that shit I made the conscious decision to stay away from front end development. Well, I already made the decision after struggling aligning elements in all web browsers with CSS.

I’m glad I made that decision.

Simplicity is unsophisticated and lacking in many parts. The simplest solution to a problem is always the best solution. Choose simplicity. I’m begging you. Your future is begging you.

This goes with all of programming. It’s rare someone makes a clever solution that doesn’t immediately turn into “technical debt”.

I’m mostly joking about that Embracer is more effective at shutting down studios and cancelling games rather than making them.