Agreed. Why would a person need to look it up when the name literally describes it. Directed? Means connections are in a single direction. Acyclic? A-cyclic = non-cyclical, doesn’t have cycles. Graph is… well a graph.

Which part does the author think an average programmer should struggle with?

Most games, image processing libraries and other compute demanding libraries already use WASM in the browser. Have been for quite some time. It’s already widely used in every case where it provides a substantial benefit.

But writing for GUI, which is what 99% of JS is used for, WASM provides little benefit. The speed bottleneck is mostly in DOM manipulation. And every web GUI framework uses 200 npm packages with something like webpack. Getting that to somehow work with your WASM code would be a nightmare if it’s even feasible.

This is quite a bit worse than kicking a puppy. Of course, it’s horrible when puppies get kicked but ultimately they will be on. This, on the other hand would be a major set back to humanity, potentially permanent as our rights and privacy are erroded day by day.

That legitimately reads like it was written by a teenager who played a bunch of strategy games.

So much of it is “this is how it will be” in a prescriptive tone as if you can just will things into existence.

You could describe perfect capitalism in this exact manner, but obviously things don’t work in real life according to your perfect scenario.

He wasnt being 80% Elon. You were just unaware of how shitty he was back then because everyone was kissing the ground he walked on.

He’s always been a massive PoS, he was just better at keeping on the downlow.

Gore… is childish?

It’s not a dark personality to misinterpret things. It’s just a poor grasp of the finer aspects of communication.

For instance, Kathy Griffin made a controversial video holding a bloodied severed head of Trump, who was the US president at the time. That rightfully received a lot of backlash for being in poor taste. Making death threats against the president of the United States in a serious crime, however she was not arrested because it was correctly not seen as a threat by the law enforcement.

The intent is to provide moderators with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

They can’t. Not without removing the part that makes reddit worthwhile, which are small dedicated communities.

Sure, an AI can moderate shit like /pics /politics /funny /gaming. Those are basically just garbage article/repost feeds anyway.

Can an AI moderate say… buildapcsales? Where you need a human moderator to verify if the deal is valid, add additional info to the flair and mark deals as expired? Technically yes, but it would require a specially trained AI, that knows how to scrape particular websites and avoid detection, which is not a great look for reddit and is also a ton of work.

What about a TV show subreddit? There has been instances where episodes were leaked, and the moderators had to protect the community from spoilers. Can an AI do it? Again, if it’s manually trained on this new data it could. But are reddit employees going to illegally download leaked episodes to feed the to the algorithm?

At that point, you’d be spending more time and money on babysitting each AI than if you just moderated manually.

Yeah, I really don’t know what widely used language is worse than Javascript besides php (which is hardly used in new projects).

Nope. Use it very often, though mostly usually with typescript.

Raw Javascript becomes a massive hindrance in any project past half a dozen files and 1000 lines.

Typescript makes it a lot more usable.

It is an overused joke, but it doesn’t make it any less true.

Being easy to understand is one of the primary goals of any programming languages.

The problem with Javascript is that it isn’t easy to understand. Javascript is easy to write.

That’s why it’s easy for novices to pick up and why it ends up being spaghetti code. It’s very unrestrictive and allows writing very poor code that works based on assumptions and breaks when the assumptions aren’t met.

It made sense at the time because it was just a scripting language for some minor website things, and you didn’t want your site to crash if your script ran into a problem.

Now it’s being used to write full fledged applications and it’s past design choices are still haunting it.

The percentage of users that solely used the 3rd party apps to view and comment was relatively small.

Reddit doesnt produce any content itself, so viewing and commenting in general isn’t particularly important. What matters more are valuable contributions. I would posit that 3rd party app users provided disproportionately more valuable content than the official app users.

There is already an army of repost bots which aren’t going away. The bots don’t care about the health of the platform, so we can assume they are at maximum repost saturation.

And reposts still require new content generation to make reposts. You can’t repost the same stale content perpetually.

I don’t think reddit is going to just die. But it’s popularity and userbase can dwindle over time. Tumblr still exists, but it’s a shell of its former self.

I can 100% guarantee that the replacement system has already been designed and it’s over the top scummy.

They are spreading out the negative news to leasen the PR impact.

What in the fresh fuck are you talking about?

The overwhelmingly left leaning administration of Reddit want pro-Nazi spam accounts to convert the vehemently left leaning userbase of reddit into Republicans? This is some Alex Jones level shit.

They just want to force people into using the site and their app so they can serve ads and harvest user data. They are trying to IPO so they are doing everything to make it seem profitable in the short term, they don’t care about the future of the site.

That doesnt do anything anyway. You alwere kinda wasting your own time.

Governments should build their own emergency communication channels instead of relying on platforms that are entirely out of their control.

If anything, it’s a good early wake up call.

Anti-bot measures that affect regular users are amateur level anti-bot features.

Pretty much every major site has anti-bot features. You just don’t know about them because they don’t affect you and other normal users.

As many are speculating, this has more to do with them being unable to handle the load due to internal problems.

These are extreme last option measures they are using.

He never actually wanted to buy Twitter. He was just running his mouth to manipulate the market.

Twitter called his bluff and took him to court. He tried to weasel out of it with various excuses (like there are too many bots) but it didn’t work. When he came close to having the court accessing his personal communications, he folded and bought Twitter.

He massively overpaid for it compared to the already inflated market price, instantly losing many billions. Must have had some insanely illegal dirt in those communications for it to be worth it.

So no, it wasn’t some machiavellian plan to disrupt public communications. Musk is just not a very smart greedy asshole.