What is this article? There is no author, and it is written as if it were an objective truth when it is clearly subjective.

There is no conclusion, it’s just an introduction paragraph that says “do this, this is good design”, followed by a pro-con analysis, and then the article just ends. Given that it has real drawbacks, you would think it would be more nuanced than “do this, this is good design”.

Furthermore the analysis is not even complete. The only 2 drawbacks mentioned only affecting the developer of the language. And ignoring more obvious drawbacks that would affect the users of the language:

• Aesthetics. Annotations are just uglier than modifiers. Due to their special syntax instead of just a naked keyword.
• Annotations take up more space. Screen space is valuable, annotations usually are stacked vertically, which takes up a lot of vertical screen space. This is in order to mitigate their use of horizontal screen space by their syntax.
• Disorder. Annotations are not ordered, which means they are harder to parse by a human. And if there is a wall of annotations, a human might miss an important one because it is surrounded by others that are just boilerplate.
• “Downgrading” modifiers to annotations removes their perceived importance. Modifiers modify the class/function/whatever, annotations add to it. Usually, you can ignore annotations and just look at the modifiers. If modifiers are annotations, you have to read the annotations to filter which ones are important to you and which aren’t. Which is harder to do due to the previous point “Disorder”.
• If annotations were objectively better than modifiers, the logical conclusion would be “your language should not have modifiers, do annotations instead” instead of “if your language has both, remove modifiers”.
• Namespacing is not objectively better. I don’t want to import “public” in every single file. It’s just useless boilerplate at that point. And some dependency might export their own “public”. Or even worse, a non-annotation (function, class) named “public”. If reserving keywords for modifiers is a concern, you can just prepend the uncommon ones with “__”. Nobody is going to complain that they can’t use the name “__readonly” because it’s reserved.
• Variable declarations do have modifiers too (for example “const” in C). Annotations are awful for variable declarations. See the point about screen space. Same for closures or code blocks.

Headline: says something. (That is obviously not true and just clickbaiting)

Instant disclaimer: the headline is not good, it should be instead “don’t do this other thing”.

Later in the article: how do we avoid doing the thing I told you not to do? By doing what I told you not to do.

The dude may be correct (idk, haven’t bothered reading the rest of the article), but he doesn’t know how to write/communicate. I don’t believe he’s respecting my time. Just tell in the title what you actually want to talk about.

5 seconds at every boot and shutdown is important.

The reason you shouldn’t blindly benchmark an init system is because most of the time is not caused by the init system itself being slow, but the processes it manages being slow.

As the other commenter says, it is very easy to make the system “faster” by just configuring the timeouts to be lower. If you just set the timeout to 0 it will be very fast, but it won’t be a very good system.

It was a dream when it wasn’t available. Once it existed, we saw the many flaws it had. That’s why statically strong typed languages still exist. And even new ones are being created.

You have to trust them though. That’s my point.They may say they are funded only by donations and still sell your data.

In fact the first link says the same as I do as the first phrase. When using a VPN, you are moving your trust from your ISP to your VPN provider.

Of course there may be exceptions that are actually free and don’t sell your data. But the ones that sell your data will rarely state so.

Idk what either of those are. I don’t endorse any VPN. All I’m saying is that it doesn’t matter how strong the encryption algorithm is, you still have to trust your provider.

VPNs have the exact same power over you as ISPs. Using a VPN to avoid your ISP is just kicking the can down the road. That’s why you better choose a VPN that you trust.

It’s not the cryptography you have to trust. It’s the other end of the tunnel. A free VPN most probably sells your data. Nobody offers free services for actually free.

It works. As long as it’s not a Thursday. Or any other day with a 5% chance or so.

I just selfhost in my own computer. 100% uptime when I need it (I don’t need it when my computer is turned off). And as a bonus, it’s not on the public internet so I’m not training slop scrappers.

Jokes on you. Boost does not support spoilers, making it 0 clicks.

The UN is not a society. There are many groups without a leader. But when talking about anarchism, people usually mean anarchist society.

That’s like saying FAANG is anarchism, because they talk among themselves without there being a leader.

They already trained their AIs on basically all the GPL code. They don’t care.

Idk why you are discarding python for the reason that makes python the best option. If there is a programming language that a non-programmer should know, it’s python.

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It overflows and goes back to 0x00

A LOT of people out there just read whatever tho google AI tells them on their search. They’ve been trained that the answer is always the 1st non-ad link on Google. And now the thing at the top of a Google search is their LLM answer.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do what you do. You just asked why someone would be against doing an image post when it could be a text post and I answered.

What you are doing cannot be done with text posts because of reason 2 and 3.

It’s a hyperbole. It’s not unethical. But many people don’t like it/hate it.

1. An image is just more expensive than text. Text is usually ~1 byte per character. An uncompressed image is ~3bytes per pixel. Of course, most images are compressed, and compression does a lot of heavy lifting. But still. Also, you don’t need to uncompress plain text. More amount of bytes means more storage expense, more network expense, and worse user experience due to latency.
2. We have plenty of tools that work for text. You can copy-paste it. You can easily edit it with just a keyboard. It is easily configurable via fonts and font sizes.
3. Accessibility: text can be read by screen readers. Images (without alt text) cannot. Maybe there are some fancy screen readers that OCR images, but then it’s the case of point 1.
4. Text is easily indexable. Which means that it’s searchable. If the reddit search tool were any good, it could find the post. Not for images. Alternatively, 3rd party search tools such as google and DDG work.

There’s probably many more points.

What a bad take. Notepad was never meant to have formatting, as the post states. Notepad’s purpose was to open war text files as raw text. For formatted text, there was WordPad. What made notepad great is that it was the fastest and easiest way to just know what is in the damn file.

Not so sure though. Some are going to die to distract from the Trump-Epstein files. The split is not clear though. Let’s say 50% for Trump-Epstein, 50% for oil.