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Why maintain complexity Super Lloyd?
While all the answers seem to dissolve over time like plaque the best questions persist?
There is a huge problem with the prosthetics we are wearing. They are infected with malignant complexity. All the machines we are becoming dependent on are infected with a sort of cancer that has them needing to grow constantly... the code has to grow to cover the complexity in hardware and thus the hardware has to grow to cover the code overhead and on and on... and the curve is not supportable?
Reduce and streamline?
I challenge code and hardware manufacturers to build it and they will buy it. It being a system made in the country where it will be used. In factories that are secure... not kind of secure but absolutely secure. Build a dedicated user platform coupled with a separate and dedicated security interface with the outside. Put in one box a processor dedicated to one job, to serve the user that is protected by an optically coupled and dedicated security processor. The vast majority of the overhead in code is due to two things. One is the need to interface with a universe of devices that are full of vulnerabilities, including those made in a competing and or adversarial country? The second is integrated security stemming from all the compatibility needs, complexity of code and constant changes in all of the above. Why, oh why, not remove the negative feedback loop completely? At least do so in the most important infrastructure?
... The current state of United States computer infrastructure is an abortion! That is not my opinion it is Word!
thank you for reading my rant on how we are dependent on unnecessary complexity and prosthetic devices that are a huge threat to Humanity.
blessings
chuck
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Super Lloyd wrote: I think Microsoft.NET API code looks quite neat and simple.
It is easier to keep separation of concerns separate for libraries. Especially when they started both as a product and a library.
Super Lloyd wrote: and simple.
Unless you want to mock some of the functionality. But when originally developed that wasn't as significant.
Super Lloyd wrote: against the growing complexity?
Work for a startup that hasn't written any code yet.
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Quote: Choose the projects you want to load by right clicking and selecting Reload Project or load the project and its entire dependency tree by clicking Reload Project with Dependencies.
woooa.. I have to give it a try! 
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Apparently someone did snap a photo of the culprits.[^].
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I am fairly certain the silliness disease has spread across the globe.
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When they started erecting fixed speed cameras here, they soon had a vandalism problem.
So they put a security cam on another pole nearby.
So the smartasses just trashed that first.
The authorities had to fit two security cams watching each other....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A few places have discovered that these cameras can't withstand shotgun blasts.
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Don't tell me! JSOP??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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So, it worked as intended? 
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A lawyer would call that entrapment!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Next thing you know, they'll steal the toilets back at the police precinct.
The cops will have nothing to go on.
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A policeman sees a guy leave a pub at closing time and get into his car. After observing some erratic driving, he pulls the man over.
"Where are you going at this time of night, sir?"
"I'm on my way to attend a lecture about alcohol abuse and its effects on the human body, as well as smoking and staying out late."
The officer asks, "Who would give that kind of lecture at this time of night?"
"My wife."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Suddenly I need to care how many "em"s high text in an <h1> tag (and <hN>) needs to be.
I feel like I just stepped off the edge of the earth. Or maybe stumbled on a path wherein if I follow it at the end there's some guy named Ted who holds the keys to the kingdom - all of this arcana that nobody cares about anymore because everyone just uses webkit.
What am I doing? *headdesk*
Edit: Aaand I found this Zuga.net | HTML - Heading elements h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6.[^]
Brilliant!
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 28-Jul-21 17:35pm.
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You are going mad 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nice day for it. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's always a nice day for mild to moderate insanity.
And think of it this way: if you kill all the psychiatrists, are you no longer crazy?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If you are into simple typesetting, you should look to the code of TeX from Donald Knuth...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If my post made it seem like this is something I *like* doing then I wrote it wrong.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Love Tex, but it's old. LyX would be the somewhat modern approach. Or Markup. Markup seems to be the new thing for html typsetting.
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honey the codewitch wrote: all of this arcana that nobody cares about anymore because everyone just uses webkit.
Huh, wait a minute, who's using WebKit anymore? I know Apple still use it for their Safari browser, but Chrome (and the new Edge) uses the Chromium engine and given that Chrome is the most used browser, I'd be focusing more on Chrome!
That being said, I spent a while away working on REST APIs and microservices, and some legacy web applications which were put together by 10 year old scaffolding, so coming back to modern development and discovering that everything is now measured in ems and rems, that was a culture shock. Though I think it makes more sense, let's abolish the age of having to get pixel-perfect padding to prevent your whole page from collapsing like a Word document.
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Every e-reader that I'm aware of (I'm not saying all of them mind you) uses webkit.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Say I don't have room to wrap a single world like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
In the real world, I'd just find a syllable and then hyphenate.
I don't think I can do that - and i don't think i *should* do that in html and css.
I don't know *what* to do.
What would you do?
Real programmers use butterflies
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