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This has been pretty much the way of the Tech Industry since the Internet bubble burst around 2000 - people who didn't ride that bubble up to its peak were almost immediately trying to inflate a new bubble (along with some people who did ride that previous bubble up but wanted to make even more money) hence ideas like "Web 2.0" popping up already in the early 2000s.

It's why the Tech Startup ecosystem has never again been the domain of naive techies trying to do cool stuff that it was in the 90s and now it's all about Pitching and Networking To Find Investors and the Founders are mainly people from salesmanship-heavy backgrounds (Finance, Marketing, MBAs) rather than people from a STEM background.

The entire thing is now a machine to pump up investment bubbles.

About a decade and a half there was a lot less the habit of cycling in London and no segregated cycling paths like this one along the Thames (the best "cycling paths" were just narrow blue lanes painted on the side of the road, and that was just inner London, outside of which "cycling paths" quickly degenerated to literally tiny signboards with a stylized bicycle figure on little poles alongside the street every 300m or so - it's how Boris Johnson could claim he had done thousands of miles of "cycling paths" as a Mayor Of London.

I vaguely remember a Tube strike from back then and basically it was long lines of people waiting for buses and a lot of people choosing to walk (you can cross inner London from one end to the other in a bit over an hour if you're walking at a good pace), especially on the North-South axis.

This looks way better and it's nice that the uptake in cycling has kept increasing after I left (about 5 years ago) to the point that people now feel so safe doing it that so many are choosing to do in this situation - back when I was doing it most people felt too unsafe cycling in London (for the obvious reason that cyclists had to share the road with vehicles and in the early days drivers weren't yet used to having bicycles around and didn't check for them, something that changed over the years as cycling became more common there).

That said, this is all in central London (if I'm not mistaken the video starts right at the crossroads by Westminster Parliament and everything else is taken along several points of this same cycle path along the Thames, all in central London) and I doubt the picture is the same further out, for certain in zones 3, 4 and beyond, but maybe also zone 2,

I bet all babies and toddlers would disappear.

But yeah, beyond that, I doubt there's an adult out there who doesn't break several of the 7 deadly sins many times a week: in present day society Greed and Envy are probably broken pretty much all the time, Wrath is probably a very common one for "conservatives" to break, and then there's Lust which is naturally common, Glutony which is certainly widespread given the overweight "epidemics" in most countries and Sloth is likely very common in car-centric societies - I mean, somebody taking their car to go 500m to a store to buy a pack of beers and some chips is probably guilty of both Glutony and Sloth.

That said, all the babies and toddlers and only them suddenly disappearing all at once would give it away.

They're fine that POTUS "supports babies being mass murdered abroad", their problem is that from the two "baby mass murdering in another land supporting" candidates, the one who won is the one that in the US does not do what they would rather they do.

It's not at all a Moral stand, it's a What's Best For Me stand sleazily being spinned as a Moral stand.

Surely toilet paper would be a more appropriate medium to carry his semblance.

I have yet to meet a Christian who doesn't regularly practice at least one of the 7 deadly sins.

In the modern age, just Greedy, Envy and Wrath are already common amongst the vast majority of Christians - I mean, if you want to punish immigrants becuase you think that "they're taking our jobs" that's already Greed and Wrath and possibly also Envy.

Then even the most pious religious people are generally Prideful, at the very least on how close to the Lord they thing they are and how superior their own moral and ways are.

Sloth and Gluthony also tend to be very common - you certainly don't get overweight "epidemics" in a country without tons of people doing very little when they could do more (say, riding their car everywhere) and eating far beyond what they need.

If there's ever a Rapture, nobody will notice because only a handful of people - most of whom eremits living separate from the rest of the World - dissapears.

In our era, a new way of winning the race to be the British Newspaper with the most Journalistic Integrity appeared: just stand still as a tabloid with little or no Journalistic Integrity whilst everybody else just runs by you in the opposite direction of "better" on their way to Pure Propagand Outlet.

Yeah, that's much better.

Personally I detest not understanding what's going on when following a guide to do something, so I really dislike recipe style.

That said, I mentioned recipes because recipes meant to be blindly followed are the style of guide which has the lowest possible "required expertise level" of all.

I supposed a playbook properly done (i.e. a dumbed down set by step "do this" guide but with side annotations which are clearly optional reading, explaining what's going on for those who have the higher expertise levels needed to understand them) can have as low a "required expertise level" as just a plain recipe whilst being a much nicer option because people who know a bit more can get more from it that they could from just a dumbed down recipe.

That said, it has to be structured so that it's really clear that those "explanation bits" are optional reading for the curious which have the knowhow to understand them, otherwise it risks scaring less skilled people who would actually be able to successfully do the taks by blindly following the step-by-step recipe part of it.

Well, I didn't exclude uBlock Origin because I'm not sure if it's not the combination VPN + uBlock Origin.

I did try disabling one of those (the VPN) and then it works, so I know for sure that uBlock Origin by itself does not result in a forced Log In at YouTube but I still don't know for sure if just the VPN without uBlock Origin causes this result.

I could test it, but I haven't done it yet (and, frankly, can't be arsed to do it) hence I left the mention to "ad block" in my original post.

I think so too and did the same as you.

What I'm saying is that when I'm behind my VPN, if I go directly to a video in YouTube by clicking on an external link that goes to that video directly (for example, a link to a YouTube video in a Lemmy post), YouTube literally demands that I log in to play the video, giving me no other option.

If I disconnect from the VPN and fully refresh the page, it doesn't demand that I log in.

I supposed they have the VPN exit point IP addresses of the VPN provider I use on some list and for connections from those IP addresses YouTube requires Log In before playing a video.

For "all documentation" to "cater to all levels" it would have to explain to people "how do you use a keyboard" and everything from there upwards, because there are people at that level hence it's part of "all levels".

I mean the your own example of good documentation starts with an intro of "goals" saying:

"Visual Studio (VS) does not (currently) provide a blank .NET Multi-platform Application User Interface (MAUI) template which is in C# only. In this post we shall cover how to modify your new MAUI solution to get rid of the XAML, as well as cover how to do in C# code the things which are currently done in XAML (such as binding). We shall also briefly touch on some of the advantages of doing this."

For 99% of people almost all that is about as understandable as Greek (expect for Greek people, for whom it's about as understandable as Chinese).

I mean, how many people out there in the whole World (non-IT people as illustrated in the actual article linked by the OP) do you think know what the hell is "Visual Studio", ".Net", "Multi-platform Application User Interface", "template", "C#", "XAML", "binding" (in this context).

I mean, if IT knowledge was a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 the greatest, you're basically thinking it's "catering to all levels" when an explanation for something that is level 8 knowledge (advanced programming) has a baseline required level of 7 (programming). I mean, throw this at somebody that "knows how to use Excel" which is maybe level 4 and they'll be totally lost, much less somebody who only knows how to check their e-mail using a browser without even properly understanding the concept of "browser (like my father) which is maybe level 2 (he can actually use a mouse and keyboard, otherwise I would've said level 1).

I think you're so way beyond the average person in your expertise in this domain that you don't even begin to suspect just how little of our domain the average person knows compared to an mere programmer.

Well, I for one stopped seeing YouTube videos ever since they started requiring me to Sign On because I'm using an AdBlocker and am behind a VPN.

If for some reason it's actually required that I watch it, I'll disconnect from the VPN and watch it, if not, I just move on.

In the last 6 months or so I have disconnected my VPN to watch a YouTube video maybe once, whilst I just moved on maybe hundred times or so (less and less as I increasingly I won't even click on links for YouTube).