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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:57PM (#34189251)
That's 100% on Google. If they (a freaking search company) didn't name it "go" (an extremely common english word which makes searching harder) then it could just be searched instead of using things like 'golang' (was/might still be common name for the language in repositories) that are clearly about the programming language. I have the same conceptual gripe with other ones that use fairly common single words like "rust", "swift", and "python", but I don't (yet) use the first two to know how big of an issue it is, and I can usually use "py" instead to exclude any chance of snakes.
The biggest change that I personally mourn is the death of cheat codes in games. They're all but nonexistent these days, and if you want even the most reasonable gameplay tweaks you have to hope it's both on PC, and mod friendly enough.
Re:Schools should be using open source software on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:20PM (#31561252)
I definitely agree with this, and my only real "complaint" is that this applies to not just schools, but everywhere.

For schools, I'd definitely love to see open hardware, if not just to give the kids a chance to understand the chips that run the software as well.

Interobang‽