That’s one of the problems with you absolutist weirdos. I’m not locking anyone into anything, including any one of the many standards that you lot keep creating. Maybe the next one will finally be it. Hasn’t worked for decades and decades, but maybe the next one will be it.

I’ve worked with getting shipping working with a few a different companies. I find it a little silly to try to use shipping as an example of a non bespoke system. They can’t even agree whether to do HxWxD or HxDxW. They agreed on one thing, great, that doesn’t do much for the systems.

I don’t think it’s necessary to completely unbespoke the systems, we’ve wasted decades and decades on trying that and only ended up creating more and more different standards.

I also don’t think that everything needs needs to remain as disjointed and insanely different as it currently is. But whenever I hear a person say, “don’t reinvent the wheel.” They, so far, have always tended to lack the understanding of how things actually work in the real world.

It’s been a long time. At some point people need to abandon this idea that all needs and wants must align exactly so that we can have only one standard. I understand the pull for it, but it’s not realistic.

Yes, let’s not reinvent any wheels to save time and money. What? Why do you have to use three different screens from two different applications to get the information you need for one shipment invoice? Because we didn’t reinvent any wheels. You’re welcome.

Maybe that future is a utopia to this person.

Yes, I who knows a lot about programming, only use one file per application.

Don’t worry, we saved at most $2 million by letting US AID food rot.

The bombing is worse, but using signal instead of official communication channels is still really fucking serious. They want to plan and commit war crimes and avoid any responsibility for it by trying to keep it from ever getting under public scrutiny.

I’d love to read the police reports and see the other side. In cases like these, listening to both sides will get you further from the truth.

Not you. They have so much money that they do not have to concern themselves on a personal level. As long as things keep working out for them on the macro level, they will keep doing fine.

How is the guy (biden) who’s in a position to actually get shit figured out responding like it’s our responsibility to?

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country…

I think that’s one of the worst quotes from a president of a country. The government is for the people, it’s supposed to be doing stuff for the people. It should be our sword and shield against the corporations and fascists, but instead it’s become the shackles of the people.

Companies will use them before they are perfect.

I can’t seem to get over that this dude looks like the lead in a bad 1970s comedy.

Beginners, in general, can’t necessarily read a long list of things and figure out which one of the things applies to their question. So simply closing as a dupe without any guidance is not good.

And even simply closing and marking as a dupe is fine. But that’s not what the person I’m responding to and I are talking about. Having someone come in and shame a beginner and then ban their account is not mentioned in your response, but is the shitty behavior that needs to change.

Unfortunately, this is how it has always been, at least for me over the last thirty+ years of programming. It has been getting better, but there are still a bunch of old school assholes who seem to think that being shamed and learning everything through personal trial and error is the best way to learn because that is how they learned.

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Look at how many Palestinians have been killed vs Israelis. Just look at the numbers. What kind of psychopath is willing to kill even more people who have been being killed and oppressed for almost a century?

If this is a justification you accept for this level of violence from Isreal, then you can’t argue against anything Hamas has done without being a hypocrite.

And on a purely emotionless evaluation of the numbers, this kind of response from Isreal hasn’t worked for 80 years, but they keep killing innocent people. Maybe it’s time to try something else. Unless of course that’s not actually the reason.

Like with most things, consent and intent matter. I went out on Halloween when I was a kid and got free candy, so why is it bad if I break in and steal other people’s candy?