I qualified my statement, so not sure what you were hoping to achieve with your comment.

Also, that can happen for any number of reasons that are entirely unrelated to whether or not malls are dead. Like, for example, Amazon offering an obscene amount of money to the owner of the mall to buy it out for the real estate.

This is pretty much what my local mall looks like right now. The whole "all the malls died out" thing is mostly a myth, in my experience. Every time I go it's absolutely full of people.

I have never witnessed this supposed "dying out". All the malls in my area are decked out for Christmas and have tons of people there all the time. I've been multiple times myself even in the last couple of months.

People always talk about this as a given, but I've never actually seen it. Ultimately, malls are one of the few remaining third spaces that you can be for free. That matters a lot.

Not like that at my local mall at all. Decorations everywhere and more people than ever.

Eh, git is never really that fucked. If you understand how it works, it's generally not hard to get back to a state you want (assuming everything has been committed at some point, ofc).

I would much rather people try to spend some time trying to understand and solve a problem first. I had a "senior" engineer who would message me literally every morning about whatever issue he was facing and it drove me absolutely nuts. Couldn't do anything for himself. Unsurprisingly, he was recently laid off.

My time should be respected.

vim is definitely cooler than neovim.

I mean, among people that use terminals, it's very normal. Commonplace, even.

Because that's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do?

It's great for non-HTML markup, like https://hyperview.org/.

A lot of the hate is undeserved. It has had awful paradigms built around it (like SOAP), but that doesn't make XML inherently bad by any means.

Yeah but honestly, this dwarfs that. It's not even close.

Parents aren't doing this. It's purely a move by the elite to tighten the grip of the surveillance state, using the guise of "protecting the children" to absolve themselves of any scrutiny.

Yup. It's insanity that this is not immediately obvious to every software engineer. I think we have some implicit tendency to assume we can make any tool work for us, no matter how bad.

Sometimes, the tool is simply bad and not worth using.