Both HTML and CSS (when together) are turing complete, and JSX syntax only supports HTML comments in many places.
JavaScript having single line comments isn’t really relevant. Multiline comments are in heavy use there, arguably moreso than single line comments.
Edit: and I should add that “programming languages” is moving the goalpost. The person I responded to didn’t qualify their statement to programming languages.
Multiline comments are a bit of an anti-pattern at the best of times.
If you’re making this as a general statement, it varies from language to language. For example, CSS (and arguably HTML and Markdown) only supports multiline comments, and multiline comments are often used for documentation (as with jsdoc and, though only comments in the same way that heredocs to /dev/null are, Python).
But yeah, if you actually do this in Bash, wat.
Remember when Claude Mythos/Fable was the end of the world?
I guess you can’t end the world if the world already ended in 2012.
DHH is actively promoting Omarchy as a “beginner distro” (it’s not, it’s Arch with a tiling WM)
LOL a tiling WM for a “beginner distro”?
Arch for newbies would be something like SteamOS (a console-like experience), not something that presumably requires learning hotkeys to change which window you’re looking at. Sure, I like tiling WMs, but most people still right click to copy/paste.
Anyway, it just sounds like one of those rightwing grifts. Thanks for the context!
Somehow I keep seeing articles about how people use Omarchy or how some random rich person likes Omarchy or whatever and I haven’t met a single person who I’ve heard uses it. Does anyone actually use it?
Why not both? Sell the products to the customers, then sell the customers to the other customers. It lets you double-dip for extra shareholder value!
So what exactly are you saying to do here? Because I already write to my representatives and advocate against these things. The reality is that lawmakers don’t care what people want, only what’s going to make them the most money.
In any case, the point I was making was that this law isn’t age verification, and spending energy fighting against this when you could be battling the myriad actual age verification bills and laws is a waste of energy. In CA, there’s also the 3D printer BS around scanning and blocking print jobs.
There’s also the ALPR issue, data centers, and so on that have shown that representatives would rather put up a democratic facade than actually listen to their constituents.
For software not exempted, the California Digital Age Assurance Act takes effect on 1 January 2027 for requiring age collection at device setup time and age-bracket signals for applications.
As a reminder, the law doesn’t require age verification, only attestation. It’s a really stupid law that accomplishes nothing for the services that now require age verification and nothing for the people opposed to it. It just makes some OSs (but apparently potentially no longer Android?) ask your age on account creation.
I still have no clue how this will work for Windows server (and the cursed Mac servers), but honestly it’s on you for using that over a Linux server.
Notepad had a “Copilot” button at one point. No clue if it’s still there though since I’m fully on Linux now.
But really, nothing should be doing strong identity verification outside of stuff like government (e.g. passports), or anything that commonly exploits identity for crime (e.g. major financial operations).
FYI the article title (and the name of the law) are both misleading. The law does not require age verification, only age attestation.
Does that make the law even dumber? Probably, lol.
What if an asteroid flies into the Earth and splits it in two?
Edit: I’ll add more now that I can sit down and focus.
Age attestation has existed for longer than I’ve been alive. Every service with an age requirement (must be 18+ to view, must be 13+ to play, must be 8+ with parent permission or 18+ to play, etc) used user attestation. The law is stupid because:
This law isn’t age verification. It’s just politicians being technically illiterate imbeciles.
What does this have to do with an exemption for Linux on a shitty OS-level age attestation law…?
The law is stupid for many reasons, among them being that Linux devs aren’t often even located in CA or subject to its laws, and that people can just lie about their age. Corporate takeover of technology doesn’t really have anything to do with this.
The law requires the OS to ask the age and provide it to applications, not verify the age. Linux can provide the same API with a static value or “no age” signal if needed.
By the states, and for that particular issue, yes. Though I believe “double jeopardy” only applies to criminal trials and not lawsuits.
From the AP:
If approved by the court, the deal will stop an avalanche of litigation by states against Meta, although the company still faces lawsuits from individuals and school districts throughout the U.S. For the states, the settlement delivers money for mental-health programs for kids, including after-school or summer activities and digital literacy counselors.
Imagine a system that runs as normally (either first past or a sensible voting system) unless >50% of eligible voters fail to vote or vote ‘none’ or something like that, and then a random citizen is put in power.
This is actually interesting, but I’d change it a bit. Every voter who doesn’t vote is treated as a vote towards “none”, and candidates must defeat the “none” category as well. If “none” wins, then that means none of the candidates won, and you resolve it through some other means (like lottery).
On the one hand, you can’t really believe the US government these days. On the other, the same can be said about the Chinese government.
You know what would solve this, though? Make the government actually exciting to work for. Get people excited to work there, and you’ll find some talented security people who can lock things down. Instead, all the good positions are offered by companies, and the government isn’t on anyone’s radar especially after Trump/Musk fucked around with it and fired everyone.
For all the money spent pointlessly on military, you could hire the most talented people in the country to run government services and you wouldn’t even need to sacrifice anything in the military if you just allow them to shop around and buy from the companies that won’t bend them over and make them beg for it. Hell, you could do all that and still provide healthcare to the entire nation.
This is such a reach. The best argument Mike can give in favor of face filters is that they’re free speech, apparently, which is dubious (we’ve already decided that under-13s don’t get any social media “speech” at all). Maybe Mike is in favor of removing that caveat too.
It’s also wrong. Meta has no obligation under the US constitution to protect anyone’s speech, nor does any private individual or business. This is just a case of “free speech absolutism” (aka “freeze peach absolutism”).
What might (and likely would) be unconstitutional would be a law forbidding children from posting modified pictures of themselves anywhere online.
It means neither of those, actually, just that CSS supports only multiline comments.
Multiline comments remain prevalent across ecosystems though (like in JS and Python). If you believe they’re bad there too, that’s fine, but the fact is that it would be an anti-pattern to go against those established standards.