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.

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.

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

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.

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?

My Android phone (Realme) allowed me to uninstall most pre-installed bloatware.

You still have the freedom to not use alternative app stores.

Walled gardens are not good for anyone.

The fuck is HOI4?

Or the people at Microsoft could learn to read. While that takes more than a minute, it can also be useful for other purposes.

Not custom emojis.

Matrix does not support custom emojis, which are the killer feature of Discord.

Why would you not want max brightness when displaying a QR code?