Idk about the details, I just know that Firefox (just like Chrome, afaik) has separate channels for certificate revocations, which is what matters in this case. You could last update the app five years ago or today, you'd still have about the same experience with the eMudhra certs. Which is actually good, since the web relies so much on TLS security.

Lua is directly comparable to Python, as it's incredible at quasi-interactive scripting. Python actually fits better when startup time doesn't matter, while a Lua script can start and finish a dozen times before a Python process just turns on.

Filesize doesn’t matter, if the functionality is missing.

Lua is meant to be embedded into other applications, not meant to be used on its own.

Wrong. Lua is meant to be used on its own, because it's so freaking good. It provides everything one needs to begin, while allowing for a wide array of libraries to be made. But I know you haven't made any serious number of scripts in either language, simply because you claim 'filesize doesn't matter', while Lua is so fast partly because of its size.

This is a design choice, because Lua isn’t meant to be used by its own.

Wrong again. Lua is amazing on its own, but third-party libraries make it even better.

Oh really? Well guess what, that's a huge benefit for Lua because its entire total size is around 500 KB. It's loaded into memory and executed start to finish faster than you blink. If you need a ‘standard library’, just use Penlight. As I already mentioned, vast majority of libraries for Lua are written in... Lua itself, because it's so goddamn fast. I'm using Fennel, the Lua Lisp that's transcribed on-the-fly, and it's still faster than Python. Lua is great for interactive tasks like desktop automation, e.g. with Alfred, Hammerspoon (which latter uses Lua throughout), or for scripting in Termux on the phone where Python would kill the memory immediately.

Lua's problems with the absence of popular libraries aren't because of any language issues (even the lack of null can be dealt with), but solely due to its non-adoption in the masses. It is very popular as an embedded language in gaming, though, and that's not a coincidence, because it fits that niche precisely because of its small size and extraordinary speed.

It is, yes. But I also commented on Lua vs Python, and if you even try to time them, Lua scripts will be finished before Python starts up. Lua is so fast that people mostly don't bother making libs for it in C, the fucking interpreter is quick enough for folks to skip any kind of compiling and just write libraries in the interpreted language. Oh, didn't I mention? The startup thing is with the interpreter, without any kind of bytescript, JIT and such.

In the same vein, the K and Q languages and the KDB+ database by Arthur Whitney are so goddamn fast at array processing that they're used in banking for decades despite their extremely inscrutable syntax that would shear any Python programmer's head clean off. They just stay in the cache at most times. And they are also interpreted, not compiled at any time.

Python suffers from the same shit as Java, it has to initialize hundreds of objects before the main program even starts, and then it creates hundreds more. Neither Lua nor JavaScript do that. PHP does to some extent, but the fucker is so fast that it can recreate the entire runtime context on every single request and then drop all of it afterwards, and it's still quicker than Python.

That tree reads like “build an apple orchard to discover gravity”.

It's perfect when you know the application inside and out. A completely different story when you get dropped into a project that uses sixteen frameworks and libraries, including widely employed features that are barely documented. You get to do guesswork on whether this pattern is recognised by that library, while your system is constantly swapping under the weight of dozens of browser tabs with the docs and StackOverflows.

Goog's image search agrees with you: "The image shows a section of the Atomic Era technology tree from Sid Meier's Civilization VI". One thing AI is good for.

USians are so insulated that they don't know the rest of the world has 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes each.

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Not sure what the Apple logo is doing there, though Macs did have Boot Camp until the Apple Silicon models.

Funny thing is, that's such an obvious parody of Andy Warhol.

Can't tell if they're twins or the look is just that standardized.

(I have a bit of face blindness, partly thanks to being a turbo introvert.)

It wasn't my project. Afaict it's a standard pytest setup with the Litestar framework (unused in my tests) and an in-memory mock Postgre transaction with like five records per test, so choose for yourself which part of this is 'catastrophically wrong'. However, I can indeed agree that most of it is trash.

Same approach with dozens upon dozens of tests worked snappily as heck in PHP, haven't yet tried it with my beloved Lua.

To this song, presumably.

...I don't use Goog's search, just like probably many people on Lemmy.

Even Nokia with a 100x100 black-and-white (not grayscale) screen had WAP. Web, not so much.

Newsflash: mental health is a valid criterion for choosing a partner. I'm saying this as someone who's sick in the head.

I'm doing that right now, because I don't remember the combover haircut being that prevalent where I am.

Find a client who needs to keep two kinds of books, it's gonna be pretty exhilarating.

Belarus is already just short of merging with Russia. Their entire law and bureaucracy are tuned to Russian ones, except of course for the death penalties for dissenters. They straight up have this thing called Union State.