Just use the search term "blended" and "vegan" and you'll find a ton

Picking fruit

Of course it wasn't. People on laptops and people on desktops are making the same thing, just desktop users are doing so with more horsepower.

Sure we're all making software which is just bits in memory, but I think that's an extreme simplification. Maybe you're thinking of how we're all just editing text to make programs? But then that doesn't account for what you do with the program you just wrote.

I think you're thinking of using more horsepower for strong scaling, which is a good use, but I'm more referring to weak scaling. You can work on bigger problems with more horsepower, not just solve the smaller ones faster.

This can't be serious

So you think people who avoid unnecessary killing are ethically fucked up? Hitler, is that you?

I know it's probably a custom order, but don't they have a cast which is more similar to the end product that they can use, saving them time by skipping a few steps?

Forging has benefits over casting in cost and in the properties of the finished product.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging

As I understand it, forged metal is stronger than cast metal, because the forging process aligns the crystallized structure of the metal into a "grain" that is parallel to the geometry of the final part.

Care to explain?

I've wasted many, many years thinking OOP is the right way to do things and just realized in 99% it's the wrong approach to develop software. In the end you always end up in a big mess of classes, dependencies. And every now and then new there are new best-practices, design patterns or solutions to fix the problems only to make it even more complex.

Please watch this video. I don't agree 100% but with most of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

I learned that lesson with the transition from WordPerfect 5.1 to WP 6.0.

The new Object Oriented WP 6.0 macro language was unable to do the things I did with the 5.1 macro language (a typewriter mode for diacritics plus spell checker plus smart commas and smart spaces).

Since then, I have always been an skeptic about OOP.

Also: closures are not too different to instantiated objects, one can usually convert from one style to the other while keeping all functionality.

A lot of snobbish comments here IMO, coming from Europe I'm getting an image of the Midwest as a place where 99% people work in agriculture and don't know how to read or write.

It's a very misleading stereotype because where I grew up in the Midwest, seemingly 80% of my classmates had a parent who was an engineer.

A few of the Midwest states in the corn belt consistently out performed the rest of the nation in the pre college tests that used to be given to most of the nations students, though part of this was due to the lack of minority students.

Not Germany.