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Oh they give 20 gigs of space, I made a tankietube account after but already started posting on this instance so just kept going with it.
2·4 days agoI also like how it’s It’s offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood.
Again, I’m perfectly aware of how the process is supposed to work and what purpose comments serve. This is the exact same argument people make when complaining that everybody is doing Agile wrong. What I’m explaining to you, as another senior dev in the industry, is that a lot of the time people start cutting corners because they have deadlines, or they don’t understand the code because it was written a long time ago by somebody who doesn’t work at the company anymore, or a myriad other reasons. Keeping comments in sync with the code is not trivial in practice, and it’s often done poorly.
Sure, yet the fact that this happens regularly is the reality of the situation. Simply wagging your finger and saying it’s the fault of people who don’t update the comments isn’t really solving anything. Not to mention the fact that people might accidentally update the comments in a wrong way while being well intentioned. Since there’s no way to validate that the comments are correct, it’s very easy for mistakes to creep in. Anybody who’s done actual software development would understand this problem.
Somebody has to maintain the ungodly large amount of comments as the code gets updated over time, and if people screw that up then the comments become less than useless.
The term authoritarianism is utterly meaningless because all governments rely on coercion to maintain their authority. The state is fundamentally an instrument that’s used by the ruling class to maintain its dominance. The whole notion that political systems can be neatly categorized into authoritarian or democratic binaries is deeply infantile.
The reality is that every government derives its authority from its monopoly on legal violence. The ability to enforce laws, suppress dissent, and maintain order is derived from control over police, military, and judicial systems. Whether a government is labelled authoritarian or democratic, the fundamental basis of its power lies here. Therefore, the only meaningful questions to ask are which class interests it represents, and to what extent can it be held accountable to them.
What ultimately matters is which class controls the institutions of state violence. In capitalist democracies, the government represent the interests of the economic elites who fund political campaigns, own media outlets, and control key industries. Western public lacks the mechanisms necessary to hold the government to account, and the ruling class is disconnected from the broader population. That’s precisely what’s driving political discontent all across western sphere today. Meanwhile, in so-called authoritarian regimes, the ruling party serves the working class as seen in countries like China, Cuba, or Vietnam. Hence why there is widespread public trust in these government and they enjoy broad support from the masses.
Anybody who uses the term authoritarian can be safely dismissed.
Works great in theory, but then people inevitably forget to update the comments and code gets out of sync with what the comment says. At which point you’re in even worse situation than not having any comments at all.
The most dronie thing I’ve seen today.
Confederate racists who pine for the days of slavery certainly are dumb and funny.
A great visual illustration of the fact that police primarily exists to protect capital.
11·12 days agoa good write up on the subject https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
It’s worth noting that Lemmy has plenty of different instances where opinion varies widely, including heavily liberal ones. I also don’t believe in free speech absolutism because some views, like fascism, are objectively harmful. The way I look at it is the real issue with echo chambers comes from people becoming divorced from reality because they only interact with people who hold identical views. I don’t see this being a major problem on Lemmy instances I frequent.
And by that you mean that the views here diverge from the echo chamber you’re comfortable living in.
The big difference is that commercial platforms are opaquely curated by corporate interests who decide what people see, what content is allowed, and so on.
Isn’t that basically trying to do agile within waterfall?
Today I learned that the EU is older than the US actually!
oh nice, I’ll start posting on there at some point