That's rather amusing. "Am I wrong? No it's the rest of the world!"

How are these other frameworks so far ahead? I've used a couple of frameworks and React has been the easiest from the big ones to wrap my head around.

Maybe I'm too idealistic but why does following incentives with no regard for secondary consequences not evil?

That seems unnecessarily brutal (and untrue).

> 2,000 line long modules and 200-line methods with 3-4 if-levels are considered harmful

Sometimes, not always. Limiting file size arbitrarily is not "best practice". There are times where keeping the context in one place lowers the cognitive complexity in understanding the logic. If these functions are logically tightly related splitting them out into multiple files will likely make things worse. 2000 lines (a lot of white space and comments) isn't crazy at all for a complicated piece of business logic.

> Comments that say what the code does instead of specifying why are similarly not useful and likely to go out of date with the actual code.

I don't think this is a clear cut best practice either. A comment that explains that you set var a to parameter b is useless, but it can have utility if the "what" adds more context, which seems to be the case in this file from skimming it. There's code and there's business logic and comments can act as translation between the two without necessarily being the why.

> Gratuitous use of `nil`

Welcome to golang. `nil` for error values is standard.

Just because there is a way to obtain a resource doesn't make it yours automatically..

> Explain tar -xzvf

> Answer: The command tar -xzvf is used to extract a tar archive. Here is what each option does:

-x: This option tells tar to extract the contents of the archive.

-z: This option tells tar to decompress the archive using gzip compression.

-v: This option tells tar to run in verbose mode, which means it will display the names of the files being extracted as they are extracted.

-f: This option specifies the file name of the archive that you want to extract.

So, the full command tar -xzvf is used to extract a tar archive that has been compressed with gzip and display the names of the files being extracted as they are extracted.

However for other types of information I much more care about being taken to a trustworthy source of information rather seeing a summarized view or worse, a synthesized view of various sources that might not agree with each other. References are useful, but it's risky to rely on what a bot says without validating the references at which point the utility of the bot for that type of query is questionable.

Cool, but can you give some concrete examples so it doesn't sound like you're being extremely hyperbolic?

> Even adapting to the new world order puts their primary revenue stream at risk.

Even if Bing and Google end up having similar LLM chat capabilities with Bing being first to deliver, would it be enough to get Google users to move to Bing?

The current business models need to be more than being able to converse with a chatbot. Ads will still need to be integrated and they might come off a lot worse when integrated into a conversation. It's definitely interesting times but I don't see how it's a new world order yet.

But I agree with the thrust of the idea - investing that money in reducing factors that would cause people to turn to crime is a good idea. I assume it's already being done but maybe not as effectively as we would hope?