…cogito, ergo sum…

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Cake day: December 3rd, 2025
  • Artwork@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•How are you?English
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    3 days ago

    A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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    Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. ~ Paul Tillich

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldOPtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•...are you JetBrains or Anthropic, or? // Instead of actually valuable settings, there's "Claude Code Plugin".English
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    8 days ago

    Lemmy trolls…

    I’ve been into web-dev since 2007, I’ve been working with corporations who are processing high load traffic, including payment systems. I tell you that 80% of these work with PHP and have no major issues. Valve’s Steam is PHP even, and still does work, right?

    Have you even considered Laravel, and Symfony? Optimizations as OpCode and Jit?

    It all works and is stable. Not only that, but it’s easy to deploy and release since you don’t have to compile it every single time.
    Depending on the team, the code is greatly organized, syntax is featureful and allows for both static and runtime/dynamic safety.

    You, @Skullgrid@lemmy.world? You might haven’t yet worked in actual enterprise. You should get fundamental knowledge on the subject you raise your voice at.

    I am sorry, but please do invest some accountable time and actually read something about the subject, prior claiming people are idiots and don’t do their own research of almost 40 years of life.

    PHP is a perfectly capable and freaking awesome language for almost any web-dev and is lovely to work with.

    Oh! You might as well ask your “vibes” about the trends/statistics around the globe at enterprise, make some comparisons, or well some valuable research etc. if you are not capable to achieve the same manually, considering your infant attitude to complex systems.

    You do you, indeed.

    P.S. We may wait now for copy-pasted or LLM-generated pros/cons, too, for a sudden “proof” no one asked for.

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The price is correctEnglish
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    19 days ago

    There is a moment, late at night, when the hospital is quietest. Not silent. A hospital is never silent. There is the beeping and the footsteps and the soft pneumatic sigh of a door closing on the ICU ward. But the administrative floors are dark. The compliance department is dark. The revenue cycle office is dark. The spreadsheets are still running on servers in a windowless room on the second sublevel, but no one is watching them. The spreadsheets do not need to be watched. They do what spreadsheets do.

    I go home. I have a home in a neighborhood where the ambulances do not come often. I have a personal laptop. Sometimes, late, I open it. Not for work. For something else.

    The CMS price transparency portal is public. Anyone can search it. I searched it once. I typed in my own hospital. I typed in a procedure I had last year — a routine thing, nothing serious, the kind of thing a man my age gets checked. I found the chargemaster price. I found the negotiated price my executive plan paid. I found the cash-pay price.

    The cash-pay price was eleven times what my plan paid. For the same room. The same machine. The same technician who called me “sir” because she had seen my badge and knew my title.

    I closed the laptop. I did not search again.

    Source: The Price Is Correct

    Related: The Claim Was Processed (Before I explain what my department does, I need to explain why it exists…)