Is that what the point of the meme was? You can read it as being about how much lower the stakes are, too.

I don’t even think it’s fashion. Some ideas sound good but are bad. Or, overlappingly, are convenient to use but actually turn into nightmarish spaghetti code. I don’t know how many people are still pushing MongoDB and BASE, for example.

Meanwhile SQL hasn’t changed, and C didn’t until someone figured out memory safety in Rust.

5 years is also a pretty arbitrary span to go with. You could smoothly discount future time savings instead, but then your discounting curve is arbitrary.

The most rigorous way to go would be to set some kind of future goal, and then work your way backwards to find some kind of statistical description of the shortest path there, or else set some kind of future metric at a specific time and find the path that maximises it. This is pretty much how you design your investing portfolio, just with money instead of labour.

Outing yourself as a Windows abstainer isn’t the worst thing, I guess.

There seems to be a real tendency to want to narrow the band of what a functioning adult is, centered right around whatever age the poster happens to be at.

Not zero-indexing people’s attractiveness SMH. /s

So then this would mean a 1 in binary is a decimal 5?