Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960's who didn't want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.

So then I guess C is salamander. Also lays eggs and lives by a pool, but doesn't do anything extra, and is a necessary step before most of the other modern languages.

COBOL is a coelacanth. To everyone's surprise, they're still out there. We thought they were an old, very extinct example of a non-terrestrial lobe-finned fish, but they actually hung on in some odd environments. They cause massive indigestion to anyone that has to consume them.

If Node is a mosquito, Javascript itself is another hymenopteran: the yellow jacket wasp. Just as hated, and with a tendency to injure handlers, but widely successful and defended as filling an actual useful role in nature. They build delicate, arguably pretty nests.

Good. With Poland on the way out, who's protecting him again? Austria? Eventually they're going to have to attack Hungary head-on, one way or the other.

The poor penguins.

Wow, yet another way our bylaws are terrible. It's starting to feel like it's on purpose.

While housing costs are widely known to cost more in Canada's two largest cities, he said other goods and services cost more in Alberta — like electricity and insurance, for example.

Huh, I guess burning natural gas isn't the panacea certain people are selling it as. Not sure what the deal is with insurance, though.

The article also notes that incomes are higher, although that's bouyed up by a minority of really high earners, so it doesn't mean too much.

Gee, how far back does it have to go to be authentic? Tomatoes weren't in Italy until after Columbus brought them (of course after 1300), and didn't catch on until well after the later date mentioned of 1700, so there goes all of Italy's most famous dishes.

Hamburgers are American food. Not Native American food, but American. Next you're going to tell me baguettes are Middle Eastern food because grain was domesticated there, or that camel meat is Native American food because they evolved in America before crossing the land bridge in pre-human times.

Butter chicken was invented for the British (in India), but naan bread and the various dal dishes are authentic, and those are the first things I think of. Thai food is good too, but it's different.

I'm guessing you're young. She was kind of a big deal in past decades.

Young trees of many species also grow faster, though, and if the old tree dies and decays all that carbon returns to circulation. Forestry, done right, actually is carbon negative. However, it's also incompatible with the critters that need old-growth forests (and old growth itself soaks up carbon fairly slowly). Environmentalism needs to get better at appreciating tradeoffs IMO.

The local copies cease to exist online. Remote copies on other instances stay. There's a number of communities I subscribed to that no longer exist independently, but which I can still see on my old instance, for example.

Which is kind of what all LLMs are doing. Guess the next word, and don't be wrong most of the time; repeat.