[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

It used to be called early access. At least it wasn't a misleading term.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Learn to make your own, then sell them on Etsy, wait, oh no!

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

You can put any type of value in an array in JavaScript. You can have numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, and objects. So what should the default sort function sort by? Sorting by numbers makes sense, but what if it wanted to sort strings instead?

When you don't know what value is in an array ahead of time you can't assume how to sort it. When you're controlling the program you can provide a sort function for the type of values you know will be in it, but when you're writing the standard default sort function, there's only one type that you can convert all the other types to safely and simply in the most predictable way, which is strings.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right, nowadays you need to win the lottery to afford having kids

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the fediverse

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

NFT buyers were also scammers since their intention was to sell it off to the next patsy

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Lol, I'd be super surprised if open ai started adding ads, it doesn't make sense with their business model.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I view the problem as us treating a tool as a system of government. Capitalism is an incredibly powerful tool for increasing efficiency (real capitalism as in a healthy free market, not monopoly bullshit). But we should be using that tool to our benefit, not having that tool use us. We can use it as a tool without it being our basis of society. Also, capitalism is not self regulating. That's a bullshit myth created by elite monopolists. Unchecked capitalism leads to monopolies and monopolies are the antithesis of capitalism. We used to know that. We used to bust monopolies. We need to learn when and when not to use capitalism. Certain things need to be monopolies. Like transportation and the power grid. Since healthy competition cannot prosper we cannot make them capitalistic. We already need to recognize that capitalism is a tool for us to use. It's ok to break capitalism in special circumstances for the greater good, because the good of the people is more important than perpetuating capitalism. I think abolishing it leads to apathy and inefficiency, but worshipping it leads to inhumanity, and we're not even worshipping it properly because again, monopolies are not capitalism. Like all things in life it's about balance.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, I can't log into my bank on chrome, but Firefox works just fine.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Yo man this isn't enders game

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

There were absolutely paths forward that would have worked to allow 3rd party apps without price gouging them. The whole thing was in bad faith and they never wanted to allow 3rd party apps at all, they just didn't want to announce they were kicking them off the platform. It wasn't just about the money, it was about control. Control over the users by forcing them to use their app where they could push unwanted content on you and degrade your experience to maximize profits. The 3rd party apps made money by providing a better user experience which was directly counter to their aims to maximize profits.

3rd party apps did not make a huge percentage of the user base, so why were they so afraid of them? I think the answer is that they are planning on making the user experience on the main app much worse and they know users would be looking for alternatives after, so they went out to kill the alternatives, or charge them an insane amount.

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