That depends on how often you use it. If I needed to write quicksort as often as the quadratic formula, I’d probably remember it. And if I only used the quadratic formula as often as I do quicksort, I’d just derive it each time.

You don’t need to memorize quicksort. If you understand how it works, it’s trivial to work out the exact details.

Don’t most terminals flush the buffer on newline anyway?

Creators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their platform of choice.

LLMs are a type of neural networks.

What a strawman. There are many reasons to not use Google products that have nothing to do with Google being in the USA.

Since PHP has to maintain backward compatibility, many of the issues are not and will never be fixed.

Oh, right! Have you looked into Owncloud, the parent of Nextcloud that claims to be free of the bloat of its child?

You mean the company that makes money from getting children addicted to gambling?

BlueSky is open source.

I’ve recently found Filen and it seems to be working well.

Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft.

This, but unironically.

By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.

SourceHut encourages an e-mail–based workflow that does not require anyone but the repository owner to have an account. In fact, that’s how Git originally worked before GitHub enshittified it.

How would decentralization work for an issue tracker? The issues have to be stored somewhere.

I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.

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Does that also mean I should not browse any websites I don’t already know? That’s very limiting.

Is there anything bad that can happen if you just click a link without logging in or anything? How is it different from opening up a random search result?

The good thing about CLIs is that if they suck too much, you can easily create a wrapper around them.