Dude, idk.

I was just like “you seem to be telling the dude that he isn’t using tankie correctly, but that’s not how language works”

And then you replied that I’m wrong, and seemed to be making an appeal that the negative connotations had to do with the invalidity of the definition.

Our wires are so crossed at this point that a random car in 1960 Spain just got spontaneously hotwired.

Yup.

You say that like it’s mutually exclusive. Nobody gets to choose how other people use language. Definitions are whatever people agree that they are, even if you’re not one of the people who agrees with it.
You can dislike that definition of tankie all you want, the fact that they used it in this way and that you understood it means that it was used correctly.

The evolution of language may hurt people, but denying the reality of evolving language hurts nobody but yourself. The etymology and history is good to know (and the meme relies on it), but the new definition is still a correct alternate definition.

This is the reality of language.
Both definitions are now correct. The change isn’t a fight you can win.

I know the image post was hyperbole, but the way y’all are gushing over it is borderline religious, in an unsettling way.

Immediately, you call boilerplate a Big Deal and identify yourself as a zealot. Even in Java, a notoriously verbose and boilerplate laden language, it’s a Small Deal unless you’re doing something insane. Let me guess, your coding in VI or something.

Rust looks great. It’s a bunch of small improvements over most languages. But True Believers of any lang need to chill the fuck out.

Anyone anything else
TIFTFY

Yeah, I picked that username for a reason 😭

I said it was better, just not much better.

The maintenance costs of equals is nearly zero. Scrolling over boilerplate seems like a real stretch, like saying a novel with a picture every chapter is harder to read.

I like that you can’t accidentally forget to update it, which is kinda nice but is rarely a concern.
And it’s a bit more readable, which is nice.
It’s better, but folks are talking like it’s Super Jesus and I think it’s more like finding a dollar in the parking lot.

It’s like 5 seconds to regenerate it. Boilerplate doesn’t matter, just collapse it. The only real issue is remembering to update it, if you make a change.

Like I said, I prefer for rust does it, it’s just not a big deal

Why did you even bring up AI? IDEs have been able to generate equality functions for decades without AI.

It’s kinda neat to have this defined directly in the language so that compilers can implement it, but creating equality function is so low effort that this doesn’t really seem like a big deal.

Like, you define the members in a class, then you tell your IDE to generate getters, constructor, equals, hashcode, etc all in like 5 seconds.
I like it, it’s nice when the language itself defines reasonable defaults for things, but realistically you’re saving yourself a few seconds of effort.

I mean, if your IDE does it for you, is it really that much better that it’s shorter?

There are so few native desktop apps these days, it’s all on the web.
And the browser can glean a lot more about user interaction than just web traffic, like where you hover, what parts of the page you’re interacting with, etc.
That’s why I said that (combined with phone), Google probably knows more.

But it’s probably a pretty close competition

They also spy, because just a few billion isn’t enough

I feel like MS and Google should be switched. Web probably has more harvestable info. Plus phones.

I’ve fantasized about this.

I had some friends who actually DID build a secret room behind a bookshelf, where they had their home theatre or something like that I forget (they were more like close coworkers of my wife than my own friends, but they were super nice).

What exactly do you think my current position is?

There was never a fig leaf. They already didn’t need to devote any attention to political cover, the USA already made it clear that it wouldn’t tolerate holding Israel or any of the Israeli politicians accountable in international courts.

The difference between the two is purely in wording and absolutely immaterial. If anything, trump is being more honest about it.

Trump is terrible for other reasons, but they’re both equal in this matter

how about his commitment to arm Israel with no strings attached? No humanitarian aid, no cease fires…

Oh you mean exactly like right now?

Anyone who thinks that orange man is an improvement is an idiot. But anyone who thinks Kamala would be better is also an idiot.

Israel is already getting everything they could ever wish for. There is nothing that Trump could offer that they’re not already getting, including protection from the international community.

Increased suffering?
How can their suffering be increased more than it is now?

Israel is already getting everything could have ever wished for. There is nothing trump could do to make that worse.

There were other reasons to vote for Harris, but this wasn’t one.

What will trump do to cause more Palestinian deaths?
What COULD he do?

Israel is already getting everything they wanted, and facing zero consequences or obstacles.

I don’t disagree with you wrt American deaths, but that’s not what this post is about

Notice how you didn’t actually give a reason?