That first bot _did_ actually use an em dash in a comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170066

So what actual problem do NFT artists work to solve?

Boredom

Why?

> "your child wearing a mask makes me uncomfortable"

What about that could possibly make someone uncomfortable. How does it have any effect on the other parent?

So that cloudflare can now MITM their HTTPS encryption. /s

Lol, then don't use Windows. Why anyone trusts their personal data to closed source software, and especially closed source software by an empirically hostile corporation like Microsoft is beyond me.

A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic?

Then why does anybody use cloudflare?

Probably bad cache headers configuration. Even with Cloudflare in front it could be forwarding every request to the backend if the cache headers are misconfigured...

>"Windows but with even less reliability and more security problems plus tech debt"

To me that just sound like it will make ReactOS much more Windows-like. So it's probably a win for the project. \s

>For example, the main "customer" of the module system is the JDK itself

As mentioned in TFA, "The general advice seems to be that modules are (should be) an internal detail of the JRE and best ignored in application code"

So yeah, why expose it to those who are not the "main customer"?

> So yeah, why expose it to those who are not the "main customer"?

How did modules affect you as a user? I'd guess that you had to add `--add-opens`/`--add-exports` during one of the JDK migrations at some point. And the reason you had to do it was that various libraries on your classpath used JDK internal APIs. So modules provided encapsulation and gave you an escape hatch for when you still have to use those libraries. How else would you do it while still achieving the desired goal?

It’s just too complex. They should have went with the internal modifier.

Tell that to Linus Torvalds.

His whole job is just doing code review, and I'd argue he's better at coding now than he ever was before.

I'd be careful with extrapolating based on the creator of Linux and Git. His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers.

> His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers.

Okay sure.

I'll use myself as another example then. When I was a dev I used to write a lot of code. Now I'm a tech team lead, and I write less code, but review significantly more code than I used to previously.

I feel more confident, comfortable, and competent in my coding abilities now than ever before even though I'm coding less.

I feel like this is because I am exposed to a lot more code, and not in a passive way (reading legacy code) but an active way (making sure a patch set will correctly implement feature X, without breaking anything existing)

I feel like this principal applies to any programmer. Same thing with e.g. writers. Good writers read _a lot_ and it makes them better writers.

This is my opinion and not based on any kind of research. So if you disagree, that's fine with me. But so far I haven't seen anything to convince me of the opposite.

Yeah exactly… hardly comparable to the median or mean dev

Sure, but I’m not comparing myself with a typical programmer am I?

It's not only that Linus is atypical, it's also that he is reviewing other people's code, and those people are also highly competent, or they would not be kernel committers. And they all share large amounts of high-quality and hard-earned implicit context.

Reviewing well executed changesets by skilled developers on complicated and deliberate projects is not comparable to "fleet of agents" vibe engineering. One of these tasks will sharpen you regardless how lazily you approach it. The other requires extreme discipline to avoid atrophy.

Linus Torvalds is hardly typical.