That doesn’t really refute the core point I’m trying to make, but also polearms never really “eclipsed” swords. Sure a spear is much easier for a less trained peasant to use but ultimately a spear or polearm is absolutely garbage against a trained opponent closer than the effective range of your weapon or on a large scale battle where you don’t have enough space to maneuver it. If anything crossbows and later guns would eclipsed swords because it’s very easy to train someone how to use those quickly, and they blew through armor.
Yes, but the creation of the sword was for killing people. They were a status symbol because of that. I’m sure when the next better tool comes along then guns will be the same thing.
Although I agree guns need to be regulated more and there’s too many of them I think your second paragraph is unfortunately unrealistic. Did swords have any purpose besides killing people? Also some guns are used for hunting. Humans go to war and will always create tools of killing I don’t think there’s any way of removing all of those tools because someone will find a way to have them and be at an advantage over others. I’m not sure you can ever convince society as a whole to say no to violence with tools.
I generally agree with what you’ve said for sure. I think I’ve honestly started to use it for helping me to go pinpoint where to go look for issues in the spaghetti code of new code bases. I’ve also mostly tried to avoid using it in my personal coding time but I feel like it’s gotten harder and harder to get legitimately good search results nowadays which I realize is also because of ai. Given the choice I’d happily just erase it from existence I think. Spending hours sifting through reddit and stack overflow was way more fulfilling + I feel like people used to be slightly less prickly about answering stuff because that was how you had to get answers. It seems like lemmy could replace that space at least, I’ve genuinely gotten helpful comments and I’ve always felt downvotes on here have been productive versus what Reddit is now.
It’s basically just for if you’re lazy and don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate or hit your keyboard a bunch of times to move the cursor(s) around
All I want is a DisplayPort and maybe some os with freedom of Linux why is that too much to ask for. The fact I can’t have vrr with my $600 GPU is absolute bullshit
It’s vanguard so don’t think that works. It’s essentially malware but I keep basically nothing of relevance on my windows side so I’m generally not super concerned. I basically just treat the entirety of windows as a security hole.
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