VBScript did catch on originally, though. When IE had over 90% market share, it was nearly as popular as JavaScript was. It only dropped in popularity when other browsers became more common. Back then, most scripting was just to enhance the page, and the page still had full functionality without it, so a lot of developers just didn’t care about making it fancy for the 5-10% of other browsers.

“AJAX” (XMLHttpRequest) was originally an IE-only, VBScript-only feature. It was originally implemented using ActiveX, which only VBScript supported originally.

I’m hoping that more DOM and BOM APIs become accessible in WebAssembly without having to go through JavaScript. There’s a few frameworks that let you build web apps in other languages (like Blazor for C#) but they still need some JavaScript to interop with the browser, and going through a translation layer (WASM to JS to browser) adds some overhead.

Even visual basic for the web would make sense

This is exactly what I did for a few years before switching to JavaScript: VBScript. It was pretty common back in the early 2000s when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. The few remaining Netscape users would just get a page without scripts. There’s a lot of features missing in VBScript that exist in JavaScript though, even basic things like closures and first-class functions.

Wow I’ve watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the past, but had never heard of this movie!

Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.

(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)

It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.

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That was just an example. There’s all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn’t count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn’t count as a view either.

My employer is trying to get people to use AI more, too.

I’m skeptical of AI, but I’m finding it useful for menial tasks - things that you’d otherwise automate using an AST-based codemod tool (like jscodeshift, libcst codemod, etc), a hacky find/replace, or do by hand (boring, tedious work that I’d rather not do). Giving the AI system an example patch for something like migrating away from a legacy API, and saying “do this same thing across these 200 other files”, can have pretty good results.

In general, it seems like a good tool for things where the entire process is well-defined - the prompt and context provide all the info it needs - and I include example code in the context.

I don’t trust it for brand new code in a large existing codebase… Even the best AI models still get a lot of things wrong.

Let me preface with a fuck microsoft.

Yet you’re praising copilot, and likely using an editor built and maintained by Microsoft (VS Code). I’m confused.

I wonder if it could be fooled with video clips.

This is also something I mentioned to them, but some people just don’t like facts and logic.

Thanks for the info. I haven’t used BASIC in a very long time and can’t remember much about the syntax. Must be over 20 years ago now. I switched from VB6 to C# when .NET Framework 2.0 was released.

Page loads don’t count as a view though, because otherwise things like search engine indexing would count as a view. It’s only considered a view if the video is watched for at least 30 seconds.

YouTube only counts a view if it’s longer than 30 seconds, but clients like Newpipe don’t send the tracking data to Google for them to track this.

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of at least one dialect of BASIC that allowed subroutine calls to lack their parentheses

Did sub calls normally have parentheses in BASIC?

I was arguing with someone on another social media site because they were posting nonsense about EVs being horrible for the environment because all the power comes from coal.

Turns out they live in Houston, where 92% of power generation is renewable. lol.

Even across the whole USA, coal is only 16% of power production. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

I prefer zwave/zigbee to keep the wifi less cluttered

Just double check that your Zigbee channel doesn’t overlap your 2.4Ghz wifi channel, otherwise Zigbee will clutter the wifi. It’s a common issue! You should use either wifi channel 1 and Zigbee channel 25, or wifi channel 11 and Zigbee channel 11. Wifi channel 6 isn’t recommended when using Zigbee.

I don’t think I’ve met any anti vaxxers in California, but I live in a well-educated area, so maybe it’s different in more rural areas. California has some of the strictest vaccination laws for kids in school, with no exemptions allowed.

You could say the same about any social media site really.

The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they’re more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they’re more active on TikTok and Instagram.