pervasive unchecked nullability

Framework management is hell, fat binaries inconvenient and not default

No option monad in the standard lib

Cross version dependencies simply don't work in some contexts

Compiler output only marginally better than working with c++

At least it doesn't have Gradle.

Real answer:

1. Get out of debt
2. Hold a few months worth of expenses in cash/easy access savings
3. Maximize any yearly contribution to a tax free savings, investment, or pension account
4. If there's still more left, open an investment account and buy into a world index fund like IWRD if you're in the UK

You should also play black mesa, portal, and alyx

This is such a stupid take, the author is either a lemming or doesn't understand how resources and commodities work

Orwell wrote openly about the things he did throughout his life, both in casual letters and widely read short stories

Don't get too excited, there's insurance for houses

There are a lot of dumb takes here in the comments

Developer displacement works the same way it does for any other technology

The problem is not that the job is eliminated but that fewer are needed per unit of output

My startup only has 4 engineers because we don't need 5

This trend will continue until the SV hiring bubble bursts

Lots of refreshingly, considered takes on Lemmy today

Not really. In California it's called a smog check

And many American states do not have any kind of mandatory inspection

The UK MOT covers a lot more than just emissions. The vehicle needs to have appropriate tyre tread, windscreen in safe working order, no check engine light, etc. And mileage is recorded to reduce potential for fraud. Many other things are checked.

Worst advice possible for new investors

Quoting from the repo:

This library (including the schema documentation) was largely written with the help of Claude, the AI model by Anthropic. Claude's output was thoroughly reviewed by Cloudflare engineers with careful attention paid to security and compliance with standards. Many improvements were made on the initial output, mostly again by prompting Claude (and reviewing the results). Check out the commit history to see how Claude was prompted and what code it produced.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!! You can't just use an LLM to write an auth library!"

"haha gpus go brrr"

In all seriousness, two months ago (January 2025), I (@kentonv) would have agreed. I was an AI skeptic. I thoughts LLMs were glorified Markov chain generators that didn't actually understand code and couldn't produce anything novel. I started this project on a lark, fully expecting the AI to produce terrible code for me to laugh at. And then, uh... the code actually looked pretty good. Not perfect, but I just told the AI to fix things, and it did. I was shocked.

To emphasize, this is not "vibe coded". Every line was thoroughly reviewed and cross-referenced with relevant RFCs, by security experts with previous experience with those RFCs. I was trying to validate my skepticism. I ended up proving myself wrong.

Again, please check out the commit history -- especially early commits -- to understand how this went.

This is a brilliant take. Whoever designed my car's screen system can kick rocks

The latest update from openai calls this "laziness" and discusses a fix coming

https://effectiviology.com/argument-from-incredulity/

Revenue is a standard unit of measurement for any venture backed business because it gauges interest and growth better than profit does

Wow, TIL that the speed of sound has this equivalence

Some scuba divers train to eat bananas underwater. I suspect that wouldn't be too bad in the shower

What are you supposed to do to break them in? Mine cut into my feet like hell

Ahh yes the random rolling stone article that refutes the point

Let's revisit the list, shall we?

If you stop eating for a week you can lose a cool 7kg of a lot more than just water mass. Get off your high (uninformed) horse