who is the thief here? One who wants outsized profit beyond 10 generations of children? Or the average overworked joe who hates dealing with the 3rd 2 minute ad on a 10 minute video?

Maybe realise that there’s more important things to worry than denying “projected profits” from a billion dollar megacorp which steals regularly from people (in the form of bribing politicians to make policies that benefit them and disadvantage actual people, or destroying the earth for training LLMs, or stealing content to use for the same LLMs)

like Haskell or Lisp?

Everytime there is criticism of monopolistic and greedy behavior that affect us as human beings:

“nobody is forcing you to live in the city! You can live off the land in the hills or jungle or deserts or rural areas!”

Arguments like these imply that the market is equally distributed across store fronts. But we all know thats not true. In order to survive as a PC game company it is necessary to list on Steam.

Here’s a couple of good starting points for the line:

if you have to sell your time/labour for money, you’re not rich.

if you can take a day off and not need to tell anyone about it and not lose money because of it, you’re rich.

Ah ok you’re comment was descriptive… while mine was idealistic.

that is not true. Speed and turnaround NEVER wins over skill and quality. You need skill to produce stuff fast that is also of value.

I guess I realise now that the value of something is not what people believe it to be. It is the length of suffering and effort the creator went through.

use

display: flex flex-direction: column align-items: center

on the parent container

Stackoverflow is for senior devs to clown on junior devs. It’s the inverse of helping juniors.

I can’t cater to everyone’s needs.

Can’t wait for the law to slap you in the face someday.

well yes… that’s what one expects when they go DIY.

lol this whole article and this thread is a bunch of bikeshedding I haven’t had the privilege of enduring in some weeks.

THAT is the message you took from all this? What you’re going to root for the smug ignorant asshole?

I often compare vibe coding to lord of the rings. Saruman blocks the fellowship’s path with difficult challenges. So too does solving hard problems in programming. So Gandalf decides they will take the mines of moria (vibe coding). He knows better but does so anyway. The rest of the fellowship naively follows him down (junior devs). Most of the path is just minor hiccups and the juniors fumbling around. But they get to a certain point and things start to get too heated. The hordes of goblins being the bugs introduced by the LLM as they keep changing the code via different prompts. Then they inevitably awaken the Balrog… the monstrous Complexity Demon that was brewing behind the vibe coding sunshine and roses.

We used to be able to do multiplayer only without the need for official servers.

it’s a bit of a straw man from your side to act like the discussion is about multiplayer when we are discussing about single player campaign based RPGs or about multiplayer when the company deliberately shuts it down in favour of a new version that just milks players for more money; or about toasters that definitely don’t need internet connection to function.

that’s the company’s problem. They made it too complicated.

they’re a business and it’s ok to only care about money. But it’s a big nono for us to do so?

you’re missing the point of the meme. It’s showing you how republicans can’t be consistent even within their own reasoning system. And it is shocking how easily all of logic is discarded if the right people are promised to be hurt.

all well and good but there is one aspect which i disagree. Modern supply chains are an inefficient way to organize our economies. We are destroying flora and fauna at great speeds in the name of maintaining modern supply chains and convenience. We should not consume things which are not able to be produced sustainably and that means only having things that are produced locally.

World spanning supply chains are a symptom of greed, war-mongering, and anti-sustainability. they are world devouring activities.