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I can virtually guarantee a lot of people here not only can imagine it, but use CLI applications heavily every day.

lmfao, this is where the shark has well and truly been jumped.

Or “this ‘question’ is obviously and patently full of shit, and is posted in bad faith”.

Sure, infinite growth is impossible, living on a finite world. I don’t see the relevance, though.

It isn’t clear what “unbalanced infinite progressivism” entails, how it looks, or where it’s happening. That makes it hard to know if OP is right to call it unreasonable. Particularly since they’re seeming pretty eager to get you to agree. (“Ain’t that right? That’s right, right? Can we all say that’s right?”)

Nice debates are easier to trigger if you actually explain what you mean by stuff like “unbalanced infinite progressivism” and whether you see any of it around. Sounds a lot like a false premise or vaguely strawmannish to me.

Without knowing the nature of the simulation, we don’t even know if there is an analogue for RAM or limited memory. Maybe you could walk in and out a door repeatedly and then glitch into a locked room. Maybe the whole thing would crash - our programs tend to do this when memory runs out. Maybe everything would just get paused or “adjusted down” to fit the restriction. The crash, pause or throttle wouldn’t be apparent to us “on the inside” at all if it were happening.

Plenty of people will grab literally any opportunity and quite a few non-opportunities to rant. I’m a freaking edgelord atheist myself, but some of it is just embarrassing.

No! What?

Salt or no salt can hugely affect how things behave and “eat”, by drawing out moisture or a bunch of other mechanisms.

I don’t always have an earworm, and when I do the song varies. I’ve actually been considering logging it like a diary, because I can be stuck on the same song for days, and sometimes, weeks.

Song of the day is Vulfpeck - It Gets Funkier.

Are there any restraints with any kind of outside object your pocket dimension is anchored to? It sounds like this would be super exploitable to pull off some cleverness just as an “invisibility cloak” (although presumably you couldn’t see your surroundings from the inside, or it’d really be OP), let alone if you’re not tied to a physical object. If you wanted to, you could probably rob banks and overthrow countries with that shit.

Oh, sweet summer child…

Do I believe it could work? Maybe.
Do I believe it’s been seriously tried to a significant degree? Nah.

“Wherever you go, there you are” also applies to the human condition and any kind of whatever-cracy. At the end of the day, people are people and a lot of people suck, there’s no fix for that.

The whole point is that “value for money” is not constant across products or kinds of products. The post is asking to optimize value while minimizing cost. It is a reasonable enough question to have legitimate answers.

That’s some twist in a greentext. I usually start with “at least 80% likely to be fake” and adjust upwards from there.

If nothing else, eggs were a way of producing offspring many millions of years before anything you can reasonably call a chicken.

The default for IP holders is to be a twat. If they focused on making their portfolio available to the most people, there might pass an un-pinched penny through their claws. As a result, any kind of IP license must, apparently, be the maximum amount of pain and circumscription and sheer, bloody-minded pettiness it could possibly be.

“What will help me connect with my base? Ah yes, the haircut of a child molester!”

Both the guy and his barber must’ve been on PCP. At a certain point “just fuck my shit up” doesn’t even cover it anymore.

Reducing mental load on the developer helps a lot. There’s no way you can say c is simpler than higher level languages.

Sure, and… that’s why I didn’t say that, I guess? I live firmly in VM/script land - C# when I can, actually. Reducing developer load is fine by me and I don’t have a particular obsession with optimizing for performance - most things I do are not that exciting.

My point is that there’s a difference between layers of abstraction that serve an actual purpose (loops, classes, garbage collection), and weird stuff that grows out of “innovation” that maybe wasn’t all that good an idea, but was tacked on something else for novelty or cargo cult reasons, or the wrong kind of laziness. The idea of being able to only target web is fine. The idea of occasionally shipping a browser with a particular app could be merited. I’m just saying maybe not half of every app needed to be bundled with a whole chromium installation.

Why do computers become more and more powerful, but programs continue to lag?

Because instead of taking advantage of hardware to push boundaries in what we can accomplish, it’s exploited so you can turn everything into its own instance of Chromium, with all the bloat and overhead that entails, for the world’s simplest application. Even on mobile, where power consumption is allegedly important.

The industry spends so much time reinventing wheels and shoehorning things into each other, instead of doing anything… useful. Can’t have a normal web page anymore because waaaah page loads, gotta be SPA, then you gotta reinvent all the stuff that you threw out to make an SPA - probably in the form of several dozen libraries, all of which also keep getting reinvented every other week. What’s that, the SPA is now a 4GB download and seven orders of magnitude slower than the page loads it was supposedly meant to avoid? Lol who cares. Put some more layers of transpiled javascript in there anyway. Keeping up with the NPM dependencies alone is now 40% of the manpower in the corporation? Don’t worry, it’s modular or some shit.

It’s not even about the money, none of this helps generate actual value - in theory, being able to just target web makes sense, but not if relentlessly overcomplicated at every turn anyway. If the money/management people could tear themselves away from being phished for five minutes, and actually understood how much time and effort is being wasted on building mostly redundant card houses of mostly unnecessary tech, they’d have a stroke.

They don’t. Having your native language be easier than another doesn’t mean you’re struggling significantly.