I don't know how you can simultaneously believe that open source is prevalent enough to kill paid software but also non-existent enough that it doesn't itself fill the void it supposedly created.

Because that void is filled by open-source software that, even if it is not itself enshittified, is controlled and funded by big tech. Take languages and compilers, for instance. It is almost[1] impossible to make a living developing languages and compiler software independently or as a small business. So how do compiler developers get paid? By receiving funding from Microsoft, Google, et al. C, C++, Rust, Go, JS, TS, C#, Java, Python are all owned by big tech, who fund them with their revenues from doing exactly the evil big tech things being decried here. Linux funding is the same story. Browser funding is the same story. So too for most open source 'success stories'. There are exceptions, like SQLite, but they are rare. To the extent exceptions exist, it's mostly due to B2B consulting and enterprise contracts, which is not a business model that works for consumer-facing software of any kind.

[1] Zig is, I think, the only living counterexample.

Modular PSU cables never go in the big box. They go back in the PSU box if I'm being smart. Then I know which PSU they came from and can throw them out in ten years along with the PSU itself.

(I'm rarely smart and have a second big box of modular PSU cables that I maybe ought to get rid of.)

Your loss. The token dump is more interesting than the endless majority of "correct" LLM slop I've had the misfortune to read.

That would be pretty anachronistic; jQuery didn't come around until six years later.

I'm sure everyone in the hospital and with collapsed houses would agree with your assessment that it's not a big deal.

It's kind of funny and also kind of insulting. I'd laugh if a friend said it but said seriously by some rando on the Internet, nah, find a better way to put it.

Admittedly, HN is suffering the same fate to some extent.

To some extent? It's most of the content!

Imagine gatekeeping learning. I suppose the blind are incapable of it, then? Or is taking in information via the fingers somehow more valid than via the ears?

You're extremely limited in the type of learning you can do if you choose not to read. It sounds harsh but the poster is making a salient point. Quality matters and following "I love science" on facebook is not substitute for a proper education (or good book for that matter).

It's quite literally a second order effect. The first order effect is light generation, and a consequence of that effect is heat generation via light absorption.

Depends on where you want to draw the lines. Heating the room and emitting light could both be a second-order effect if you want to say that the first order is heating up the actual heater.

Explain the attack that gets mitigated by reading the diff of a lockfile?

Every major npm attack I can think of essentially follows the pattern of "version X.Y.Z is secretly evil". How does seeing package@X.Y.Z in your lockfile alert you to that?