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That's ironic. Few countries have less readable plates.

Excellent description of the zeitgeist.

Your portrait of before generative AI is a bit hard to square with the ad driven internet, but fits ever better the further back you go.

Yeah, we're turning it all to shit in so many ways simultaneously, it's truly something awful to behold. Maybe there is a singularity coming after all, but it's not one like the credulous tech worshippers imagined.

Git’s unconventional and decentralized design—nowadays ubiquitous and seemingly obvious—was revolutionary at the time,

Of course, there's more innovation in git than being DVC but the decentralized nature wasn't revolutionary.

It was funny when I started using bzr and then git, I kept being told "it's a DVC, which is a different way to work that takes some getting used to", and I was puzzled as it felt very familiar to me. Then I looked up DVCs and found out that Sun's Teamware that I'd used for a decade was also a DVC. It was actually a return to familiar and comfortable workflows after a brief period using abominations like Perforce and Clearcase. I'm so glad they've been largely replaced. Git may not be perfect, but it's better than those in any use cases I have had.

When bzr, and then git, turned up and I started using them, I was told "this is DVC, which is a whole new model that takes getting used to", so I was surprised it seemed normal and straightforward to me.

Then I found out that Sun's Teamware, that I had been using for many years, was a DVC, hence it wasn't some new model. I'd had a few intervening years on other abominable systems and it was a relief to get back to DVC.

Regarding the original post, are there really people around now who think that before git there was no version control? I've never worked without using version control, and I started in the 80s.

I'm particular our bodies are good at selecting the cells and organelles that are most damaged and decrepit to be broken down for material and fuel for the rest of the body. Makes sense they'd evolve to do that.

When you refeeding after a long fast, growth hormones are released that trigger replacement. So there's seem to be some rejuvenation and other benefits.

It's difficult to measure key parts of the process on a still living subject so we have to guess and extrapolate for humans. And other aspects aren't well explained or understood. So there's a lot of questionably reliable info and explanations, some of which are plausible. Like this!

Also "the fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so we can turn it around"

There has never been a young generation not saying this. Many of them have been correct too, but few have turned anything around when it's their turn.

Last time I was in Manhattan, walking to Penn station, I passed an ambulance with lights and sirens trying to get through. 6 blocks later I looked back and saw I was now 2 blocks ahead of it.

Yes it's trivial to host a repo, and then you have achieved approximately 2% of a forge.

If I went back to the vi interface for some reason I'd at least use ctrl-[. I dislike lifting my hand more than I dislike using modifiers.

I used vi for a few years so have the muscle memory and the sole advantage in my perception was that everything is simple typing with hands remaining in the home keys position (except Escape, ironically).

So it's more relaxed if you find using modifiers onerous, but I don't find Ctrl or Alt significantly worse than Shift, and I don't find it any worthwhile advantage.

why is there no switch to enable type checking at runtime?

Have you got problems this would solve? I've done a lot of type annotated Python at scale and I can't think of an example.

Edit: given nobody in their right mind allows code that's not checker clean.

Reminds me how American English uses the verb "rent" for both sides of the transaction. If someone says "I rent this apartment", you can only tell what they mean from context.

In British English, the landlord "lets" an apartment that the tenant "rents", and that are advertised with signs "To let".