There is no situation where you should start a greenfield c++ project in current year
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Small personal project, like a console app that searches a directory for files of a specific type and produces a json output? I think you are incorrect sir
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What are the "unpopular opinion" rules on Lemmy?
My original understanding from outside Lemmy is you should upvote the truly interesting unpopular opinions for visibility.
For example:
- "I think potato chips are gross" - that is an unpopular opinion and I am truly interested in why you would say that...upvote.
- "Elon Musk makes some good points" - not interesting at all and probably political bullshit trolling...no upvote and a downvote if enabled.
Even on reddit, my understanding was upvote if it's relevant to the post and contributes to the conversation.
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If you're getting upvoted comments on this post, you got it wrong.
Or people understood it as unpopular and upvoted something they disagreed with because it fits here.
Would have if they were more aware. Go look at the top posts. Look at the bottom posts.
Get back to me.
Digital Marketing doesn't work. Digital Bubble is here and it will burst hard ending the "free internet" in a process. The more you work in marketing, the less you are inclined to agree... or even listen...
This will not be preaty.
The type of people that are on Lemmy will generally agree with this, but let me just say as somebody with a wife and plenty of friends that are girls that digital marketing very much works, very much is effective, and youβre probably just not the target market. This, of course, is independent of your Digital Bubble remark, which I generally agree with. Also, not in marketing as a disclaimer.
You are observing just one side of the equation: people who watched adds are using a product.
You don't see the other part that is the problem. Cos of running those ads is higher than a profit gained from additional sales.
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Milk should be poured before the cereal. I've always done this because pouring milk on top of the cereal gets the top wet and also kind of pushes the cereal down. I love crunchy cereal
Milk first makes it possible to get the wrong ratio of cereal to milk because
- the cereal floats and you have no idea how much you put in there
- You can underestimate how much volume the cereal takes up and not leave enough room in your bowl
I need the cereal wet. I don't like dry cereal, it is too hard on my mouth and gums up my mouth.
I put the cream/milk in before I pour the coffee though. This guarantees there is always room for the right amount of milk and it mixes automatically without needing a stirrer.
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MIT and BSD software licenses might as well be renamed to βI love big daddy companies and trust them 100% uwuβ
There is no reason not to choose GPL/AGPL/MPL 2.0/LGPL/SSPL if you are writing open source code.
MIT and BSD just let companies enrich themselves at societies expense.
That is a quite popular opinion judging by the votes. I think they function quite differently, and are useful for different things, which might be more unpopular.
BSD and MIT are more like "public domain" or "creative commons" licenses. Some people genuinely just don't care and want literally anyone to use their work.
Libraries, languages, APIs, OS's, etc... Work well because they have mass adoption. They have mass adoption (often) because people get the freedom to use them during their paid time. Companies are exploitative and evil, but often their dev and engineer employees aren't.
Copy left licenses (GPL, AGPL, CERN-OHL-S to not forget about open source hardware) really shine for end products like hardware, applications, hosted software, games, etc.... Where you want to preserve a "unique" end product against theft, exploitation, and commercialization, and really care about having not everyone be able to do whatever they want.
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Nickelback is an alright band. Far from my favorite, I just don't get what all the hate was about.
In fact, I'd go as far as saying that their first album is pretty good, and I like it. Except from that song which is severely overplayed and mediocre.
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Just for lemmy:
Most people on here care more about being right than affecting any sort of progress.
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Here's mine, and the exact opposite of another "unpopular" opinion here which is upvoted:
Guns.
First of all pandora's box has been opened in the US and can't be closed, there's 600,000,000+ in private hands with no registry to know where/who and trillions of rnds of ammo and everyone who has any of that intends on keeping it. "American gun owners" actually end up being a larger army than most countries militaries, you're just not going to be able to short of finding a way to Infinity rock (or whatever Avengers sucks) them out of existence.
Secondly, good. I'd rather people be able to defend themselves if need be than not, be that against forces foreign or domestic, or against the crackhead down the street with a knife. All the way from the improbable fighting our government, or red dawn style fighting a foreign power on our soil, to the more likely Black Panther style activity and defending against your average deadly threats, or even just hunting for food in the event of a small/large catastrophic event that affects supply chains (if you can't get food at the store because of a natural disaster or something, at least food is walking around, it's just more work). It should never be your first resort, but you shouldn't exclude it from being your last resort.