just looked that # up. Yes, it is. People are very stupid, but in this case it’s more of 1) a case of needing to know. many people do not need to know how to maintain a computer; many don’t even own a desktop these days and other systems do many auto-updates. and 2) again, these bad practices affect other people who do properly update their machine. We don’t live in a vacuum.

firstly, you’re assuming everyone works in an office.

then, that those lessons stick.

then, that malware only affects those who essentially opt into it.

All of these are beyond-stupid assumptions.

PS. not one security training I’ve had did more than just mention in passing updating your device, if even that. Because guess what, IT departments don’t give a choice. They manage that and force-install updates.

Your other weak-ass assumption is that work lessons (if even applied at work) also come home.

Yeah dude, you’re just wrong in your thinking. Top to bottom.

I’m sure 90% people using computers understand the security implications of not updating and not rebooting,

Deranged. 9% is probably higher than reality. 0.9% maybe.

Also you’re responding to a comment about widespread collective damage as though only a few individuals would be hurt.

I’m so lost. For kids learning to code, I think this image actually might help them understand

Is this funny, or is it a useful illustration?

Unless those are mostly overly complicated, it doesn’t speak to what I’m saying. But I guess it means people like doing their own engineering better than relying on others

I am very aware of the progression. But you’re vastly glossing over how much complexity (and feature set) was added after jQuery. If JavaScript sucks, how would you change it? Shitty browsers implementing it poorly in the past (and safari doing so today) doesn’t make it suck.

JavaScript frameworks actually exist for two reasons, one, vanilla JavaScript lacks ease of use (does not suck and I don’t care who disagrees) and two, people love over engineering the fuck out of technology. See: technology since the iPhone came out. We have advanced systems around the world spinning up processes to make up for the fact that touch screens are hard to type accurately on.

No. Effort, should by all means, be discouraged.

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They cannot be bothered to check spelling. And now someone will get mad at us because we noticed

The message is needlessly convoluted, that is why I said something. Be mad.

That looks kind of funny, but ain’t nobody got time fo dat

Punctuation

Lol I enjoyed this

Ah, I remember ops people talking about “Jankins”

Ask Jeeves?

Interesting. I used Sublime a long time. I actually thought it was a dead project now.

This is the “joy” of Twitter

I had an Intel Mac before (2017 I think?) and the M2 felt like a huge upgrade at the time. My main home machine is faster though because like you said it’s a desktop. It definitely feels faster than the mac laptop on most things but it’s surprising how often they feel comparably snappy.