I just sort of let it go and join the background of life experiences. My brain already knows to remind me of a mistake when it’s truly relevant, so why dwell?

Obviously this isn’t great advice for those struggling… but it’s what works for me. Not to brag, but I have an astoundingly bad memory, so not remembering things is kind of my forte.

grimly points in the direction of Ohio

My comment is actually an unrelated in-joke forcibly coerced into the shape of a discussion about git. It’s a whole fictional magical universe thing with a lore wiki and stuff:

• “Odium”/“passion”: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Odium
• “invested”: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Investiture
• “Pushing”: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Steel#Allomantic_Use
• “Pulling”: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Iron#Allomantic_Use

Js is what you make of it. It can be a godawful mess but it also can be really awesome.

Agreed. It wasn’t always a great language, but by some miracle it eventually became pretty alright.

But it’s also a double edged sword because that means that novices can write absolute spaghetti code in it. That’s not the fault of the language though.

Disagree. The best languages are those which can be intuitively used without having to learn the pitfalls. Take Rust vs. C++, for example: both languages have pitfalls, but only Rust is intentionally designed to help you steer clear of them. JS is like C++ in this regard – decades of cruft have coalesced into tempting yet painful footguns, much to the chagrin of many a new learner.

An IDE written in Electron?? What a terrible idea! Nobody would ever be stupid enough to let something like that take off…

Pushing/Pulling might seem simple to you, Odium, but not everyone is so passionate or invested.

I’m a plaintext git patch sent via email and lost in the maintainer’s spam folder

Bold of you to assume that an Emacs user will have anything remotely resembling the default keymap by the time they’re proud enough to brag about it

That’s why my terminal is emacs

They were entering a phase of what you might call “fiction-debt” where the past choices in the story were beginning to slow down the story and make it less intriguing. […] It can also be argued that this “fiction-debt” is why they had to go into the past and do a pre-sequel with Half-Life: Alyx.

That’s an interesting idea. I agree… though, I think that the choice to switch lead characters was more instrumental than the choice to go with a prequel. I wonder if Valve internally ever seriously considered ditching Gordon when they were making HL2? It’s funny to imagine what the fan reception to that might have looked like!

Why not keep it simple? Use the classic Lemmy logo but with question marks for eyes.