What terrible deeds have you done to outburst so harshly?

claude> "We want to add a title section that shows what page we are currently on, use cook to manage the development process"

* coolers whirring, gpus on fire, tokens flying, investors happy, developer goes for 6th break of the day

It can be about any resource. You get it when two concurrent functions access the resource without a queue, atomic operation or wait, and one of them modifies it.

> caveman from 200K years ago would have been just as intelligent as any of us here today, despite not having language

There is evidence to the contrary. Not having language puts your mental faculties in a significant disadvantage. Specifically, left brain athropy. See the critical period hypothesis. Perhaps you mean lacking spoken language rather than having none at all?

https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/curtiss/1974%20-%20The%2...

> stopped writing code in C decades ago.

And what were they supposed to use in 2006? Free Pascal? Ada?

Someone suggested C++ and you should see the response from Linus

https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

Of course I specifically avoided invoking that language's name within the context of kernel programming in fear of summoning a Linus.

And he's so right. I didn't think like that back then, but new/delete (which have to be overloaded for kernel) behind allocators behind containers, vtables, =0, uninitialized members, unhandled ctor errors, template magic, "sometimes rvo", compiler hints, "sometimes reinterpret cast", 3rd party libraries, it would have been a disaster 20 years ago. Now he's being nice to Rust partially to spite that lang I love some more.

> being worried he might eat them, so you put the dog in a crate, together with the documents.

Maybe you don't want the dog to shit all over the place after eating said documents, so you put it in a crate.

The biggest (and worst planned) change was module names. Your imports didn't work, forcing hacks like

    if sys.version_info.major == 2:
        import old
    else:
        import new

Or worse, people used try/except in their imports.

> moral degradation is off the charts

Nah, I still see it on the logarithmic scale.

In this case, a heuristic like "less parameters, less operators and less function calls" covers all the cases.

It doesn't, because we might consider different outputs "simple" depending on what we're going to do next.

Sure, an example would be nice.

Examples in TFA and at least one in the thread. Or say 4-quadrant atan might be simpler or less simple than 2-quadrant atan, depending on what you're doing next. Lots of stuff like that. Is a factored polynomial simpler than unfactored?

Allowing trading is a big part of it. Most online games never allow trading the things bought with real money, they get tied to your account. I guess as a way to prevent CC fraud but it still contributes to the issue.

Trading wouldn't work due to online game deflation. They have to set you up in order to retain you. When you open a new account, or are a "returning player" you get a bunch of free/easy to get stuff that took someone else a decade to collect.

It's a double-edged sword. For the seller, the ideal would be getting people just as addicted but not allowing trading, since that increases the average spend required to get a specific desired pull substantially.

Just to be clear, the biggest problems are associated with games that allow trading.

You can't return an opened pack of Pokémon cards and more than you can get your money back for a used lottery ticket. It's absolutely gambling. Low stakes gambling maybe, but it's still gambling.

If you want to allow Pokémon cards and not casinos you have to accept that your rule isn't just "kids can't gamble".

>No child will bankrupt a family at a trading card game store.

Let the child use a separate debit card? Bank cards are personal and work as an authentication factor.

> Let the child use a separate debit card?

I remember that cartoon. Was it Richie Rich?