I’m sure you wouldn’t get outraged if someone made a movie based on a traditional African tale and the main character was white.

That depends on how often you use it. If I needed to write quicksort as often as the quadratic formula, I’d probably remember it. And if I only used the quadratic formula as often as I do quicksort, I’d just derive it each time.

You don’t need to memorize quicksort. If you understand how it works, it’s trivial to work out the exact details.

Why isn’t there a right wing instance?

Because all other instances would assume that it’s for Nazis and defederate.

Advertising is when they’re getting paid for it. Otherwise it’s called recommending.

Be aware that Mapy is made by Seznam, which is basically the Czech equivalent of Google, including the ads and privacy concerns.

LLMs are a type of neural networks.

Since PHP has to maintain backward compatibility, many of the issues are not and will never be fixed.

You mean the company that makes money from getting children addicted to gambling?

Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft.

This, but unironically.

By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.

Does that also mean I should not browse any websites I don’t already know? That’s very limiting.

Is there anything bad that can happen if you just click a link without logging in or anything? How is it different from opening up a random search result?

The good thing about CLIs is that if they suck too much, you can easily create a wrapper around them.

One reason why pronouns exist is that you don’t need to know someone in order to be able to refer to them. Forcing people to use someone’s preferred pronouns defeats the purpose.

Because a pronoun is not a name.

My Android phone (Realme) allowed me to uninstall most pre-installed bloatware.

You still have the freedom to not use alternative app stores.

Walled gardens are not good for anyone.

On Linux: [Compose]–. for an en dash, [Compose]— for an em dash.