Or because you must have been Hitler in a previous life and now have to use Delphi, which sometimes falls over with internal compiler errors that might resolve themselves, but sometimes needs an IDE restart, and sometimes a full machine reboot with no rhyme or fucking reason to any of it.

I prefer a bunch of

if (fucked_up) {return(error_code);}

for checking common errors.

Well I’m in agreement there.

The only reason they want everything as an app is so they can push notifications and do any tracking they can legally get away with (and some they can’t but who’s gonna know?)

Dominos have locked all their deals that actually make a pizza a normal price that humans would willingly pay for a pizza behind their app. There’s no reason for them to do this. Surely their business model is selling pizza? So now I go to a little family run pizza shop, pay less and get decent pizza.

What else works across as many platforms and screen sizes as well as the combination of HTML/CSS/JS?

Most attempts to build that just lead to a worse version of it.

I’ll be the first to admit it’s bloated to all hell after 25 years of people stacking crap on top of more crap, and it’s perilously close to being completely controlled by Google, but it is what it is.

Don’t forget to put those new cover sheets on your TPS reports.

Java class names.

Can you even still buy 1080p televisions?

Centering things on a web page is so easy.

I also have to look it up every single time.

I haven’t used GPT-4 for that, but it’s all dependent on the data fed into it. Like if you ask a question about Javascript, there’s loads of that out there for it to look at. But ask it about Delphi, and it’ll be less accurate.

And they’ll both suffer from the same issue, which is when they reach the edge of their “knowledge”, they don’t realise it and output data anyway. They don’t know what they don’t know.

if you ask it today’s date, it actually does that.

It just doesn’t have any actual knowledge of what it’s saying. I asked it a programming question as well, and each time it would make up a class that doesn’t exist, I’d tell it it doesn’t exist, and it would go “You are correct, that class was deprecated in {old version}”. It wasn’t. I checked. It knows what the excuses look like in the training data, and just apes them.

It spouts convincing sounding bullshit and hopes you don’t call it out. It’s actually surprisingly human in that regard.

Google Bard, everyone.

All those reddit communities who migrated to Discord are in for a shock when they pull the exact same shit in a few years.

I use it, but it’s basically “Free Ventrilo but not as shit.” I have nothing of any value on it. It can be yoinked behind a paywall at any time.

I can make HTML look alright if I have to and it’s simple enough requirements.

The real hell is making it look good in an email. Oh, you used something from the last 20 years of HTML/CSS progress? Well fuck you.

Come on, we at least used hex digits.

https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-61/page/n27/mode/2up