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The choice for me was quite simple, paying once for the great Anki app, or monthly subscriptions for SuperMemo?

Since I abhor the subscription trend it made picking easy.

The issue is usually less what species gets endangered or faces extinction, but the fact that this is not done for progress but for greed (be it humanity or corporations).

Destructively changing anything should be approached with extreme care, since you cannot un-extinct a species.

I'd illustrate it like what happens on Linux when you are approaching OOM situations. You can either kill other processes, not knowing what they did or if they were vital, or just stop doing what you were doing. And so far societies have usually decided that mines are not as important as raw materials at some point.

What do you mean by 'hard to please'? The joke about the compiler being some beast you need to sacrifice a goat to seems to put the blame on the wrong end of the computer imo.

Unless what you are doing is not fit for what guarantees Rust gives you, the compiler should just be a crutch in case you missed a step.

Two ways why I think E-Mails are useful at signup:

- Password Recovery (this can be optional though, for my sites it usually is)

- 'Legit Users', sending an email and having them confirmed through a code in them gives a bit more confidence in the user

I also find it annoying that it seems people have transitioned from progressive enhancement meaning 'detect if we can use JS' to 'detect which features of JS to use' to 'detect how much processing power we can abuse without the user noticing'.

As someone who really enjoys his <0.3s page loads (that is fully fetched & rendered, less when from cache) even on mobile it feels annoying to not have a 'middleground'.

For example my current project, which is basically a small website where people can upload artwork, does not need to be a SPA. However, I'd like to integrate some interactivity to make browsing easier. Like a 'browser' view when you click a picture, or in place reloads (so the CSS doesn't need to be reloaded, nor perhaps the JS. However there doesn't seem to be a library for that to my knowledge. All I know are either on the jQuery level where you have small seperated pieces, or the React/Ember/Angular level where you have to write all or nothing in that language.

I wonder if it is even possible to have an 'augmenter' library that just makes existing HTML better (Perhaps with some hints in the 'data-' attributes), or maybe my google-fu is just bad.