I’m not into home automation, but if I was, I’d much prefer a locally running solution that didn’t involve tech giants. I hope this works out.

This is a great summary.

I should save this post for the “what opinions aren’t welcome on Lemmy” question that comes up every few weeks.

I think buddy is asking for honesty in the discussion. If your goal is piracy, just say so, don’t hide behind that one person who “wants to do literally anything else”.

You’re right, generally speaking, but most of us don’t fit into that category.

This one makes the most sense, and has the fewest failure modes.

I really appreciate compile errors in this scenario. In Rust the compiler will freak out when there are missing enum variants in a match. Tests are great, but compiler errors don’t rely on exhaustive and properly written tests.

Some sort of JSON-but-binary format getting built into browser APIs would be great.

I’ll be shocked when dude builds his translator, and every animal, rock, and inanimate object reliably says how much it wants to fuck him. Could the translator be wrong? No, he must be that desirable.

This is why we need AI

Seriously. A snippet library seems like a significant anti-pattern.

I don’t have a library of snippets. Should I?

but what if you are

In a lot of places, engineering is a regulated field, meaning you need a certificate to call yourself an engineer. e.g. this lawsuit.

A contemporary interpretation of Ada’s punch card stack using JavaScript might resemble the following. This version doesn’t replicate Ada’s code for the Analytic Engine but rather reinterprets the algorithm she employed.

The version of the article I got doesn’t include the code‽

I agree with the sentiment that personal data is owned by whoever it is about. And that other organizations shouldn’t be able to exploit it.

You’re welcome to like what you like

The person upthread got downvoted for what they like. 🤷

Who downvoted this person’s preference?

Like “you preferenced wrong”? “You have the wrong likes”? “You like something different from me?”

no

I thought this was one of the parenting communities for a second…

I tried to write a game. The game wasn’t fun, but programming kept mashing the “I created something” reward button in my head, so I kept doing it.