It's going to get even harder as spammers use ChatGPT like tech to write individual spam messages for each person

No one at google wants spam.

That sounds like a fundamental mis-understanding. Variables do not hold objects, they hold references to objects.

    const foo = {};
    let bar = foo;

If you want the object itself to be unmodifiable there's Object.freeze.

    const foo ...

    let foo = new const SomeObject()

    let field = ve.instanceContext.replace(/(#\/)|(#)/ig, "").replace(/\//g, ".")

    const fieldWithHashMarksUnesacped = ve.instanceContext.replace(/(#\/)|(#)/ig, "");
    const field = fieldWithHashMarksUnesacped.replace(/\//g, ".")

and this

    return moment(input).utc().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')

    const inputAsMoment = moment(input);
    const inputConvertedToUTC = inputAsMoment.utc()
    return inputConvertedToUTC.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')

(1) named intermediate values are sometimes more readable ... though I have examples where it's very hard to come up with names and not sure it helped

(2) debugging is easier.

For (2) though, this IMO is a problem with the debugger. The debugger should allow stepping by statement/expression instead of only by line (or whatever it's currently doing). If the debugger stopped at each pipe and showed in values (2) would mostly be solved. I used a debugger that worked by statements instead of lines once 34 years ago. Sadly I haven't seen once since. It should be optional though as it's a tradeoff. Stepping through some code can get really tedious if there are lots of steps.

As sample example, a binary format could be as simple as

    struct Header {
      uint32 width;
      uint32 height;
    }

    struct Image {
      Header header;
      uint8* data;
    }

    Image* readIMG(const char* filename) {
      int fd = open(filename, ...)
      Image* image = new Image();
      read(fd, &image->header, sizeof(image->header));
      size_t size = image->header.width * image->header.height * 4;
      image->data = malloc(size);
      read(fd, image->data, size);
      close(fd);
      return image;
    }

Reading a PPM file is only simple if you already have something to read buffered strings and parse numbers etc... And it's slow and large, especially for todays files.

As for tiling, Mac does do somethings that Windows (IIRC) doesn't. One is, if you move a window or the edge of a window slowly it will snap at the border of another window. So you move fast to get it close then slow down and it will align nicely.

Also, tiling: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948

But I agree that Windows tiling is more discoverable.

Simple formats are like certain forms of .TGA and .BMP. A simple header and then the pixel data. No CRCs, no compression. Done. You can write an entire reader in 20-30 lines of code and a writer in other 20-30 lines of code as well. Both of those formats have options that can probably make them more work but if you're storing 24bit "True color" or 32 bit "true color + alpha" then they are way easier formats.

Of course they're not common formats so you're stuck with complex formats like PNG

Let's put it another way. If someone says the France sucks, Germany rules. And someone replies "The France doesn't suck, here's a few reasons why". Why do you feel the need to jump in and defend the POV that "France sucks"?

I also listed spending time with people as a plus to the city. It's interesting that you left that out. I'd guess if the author had a job they loved with people they loved their attitude about everything else would change. The fact they're in a job they hate arguably taints everything else about their life. Commuting of course sucks if it's to a place you don't want to go in the first place. To me, commuting by public transport rocks because I got, on average, 50+ minutes of walking (25 each way) for free (added to the 20 minutes of standing on the train)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0

In so many words he said cities suck, nature rocks.

Vs me, who said both nature and cities rock, and that the attitude that one sucks is a poor attitude

I think their opinion of that the city sucks is wrong, full stop, and that a change in attitude would see all the great things a city provides that nature does not so that then you can appreciate both.

To me, enjoying the good parts of both the city and nature is a better POV than shitting one one of them.

Me, best time in my life, commuting in Tokyo to my jobs working on a project I loved with people I loved. All the ads on the trains were eye candy to me. I didn't buy anything that I remember but I did find out about museums, concerts, and other events around town as well as various obscure services which I never used but was amused to read about.

Drinking with my buddies, including work buddies about once a week was great. Clubbing, going to restaurants, and going to events of the kind that generally only happen in giant cities was lovely.

I like the occasional trip to nature but as for me I'll pick the city and the public transportation. I love it!

My belief is Japan doesn't have as much of an obesity problem.

Sure, I'd love a drug that lets me eat more calories and not get fat but I'd also love it if we some how managed to stop eating so many cookies, donuts, potato-chips, sugary sodas, giant portion meals, etc.... I'd also love it if we designed more areas to be walkable and bikeable.

I lived ~15 years in Japan. I never missed owning car because the country is designed not to need a car. I also spent a year in Europe and Singapore and again, never missed owning car for the same reasons.

Let me also add that in Japan, at least in big cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, you are almost always 1-2 minutes away from junk food. You can walk to a convenience store and find whole aisles of pastries, chips, ice cream, candies, etc and yet somehow the Japanese manage not to pig out.

Similarly there are bakeries all over full of donuts, etc...

Somethings that help are the portions are often smaller. Certainly for potato chips most bags in Japan are 1/3th the size of the average bag in the USA. Similarly cookies are small and come in small portions vs the USA where pretty much any supermarket sells cookies in packages of 20 to 40 cookies and each cookie is giant 300-500 calories each.

I guess this is one of those, we're not going to get people to stop eating too much so we have to find another solution? I can just imagine once I get this drug I'll start eating more because I can and companies will ramp up the portion sizes even more.... TACO TIME!!!!!