In my opinion yeah, the texture is better, smoother, when they’re freshly brined as opposed to the more crumbly/flaky texture when they’re marinaded in vinegar. But Danish picked herring is also delicious.

Yeah. I’ve had a wide variation of them, some are awful like the ones you had, some are just okay. If they are shelf stable they’re usually never good, but you can get vinegar pickled ones in refrigerated jars or pouches which can sometimes be a bit nice if you’re into that. I would definitely recommend them over tinned ones. But none of them come anywhere close to the real delicacy that’s in that photo.

Even though they’re “pickled” these don’t really keep so you don’t really see them overseas much.

I guess you’re Dutch, you might not know that in English ‘pickled’ doesn’t only refer to things in vinegar, but it can also refer to things put in salt brine for a few days like maatjes.

It would have to be cooked to be in a tin. You can get jarred pickled herring but it’s nowhere near as good as a fresh salted herring.

It’s very soft, you eat it with the skin. The Dutch version of salted herring is the nicest one (compared to Nordic and Baltic versions), it’s quite mild flavoured and has a great raw-fish kind of texture. Ones which are pickled longer are still nice but can get a bit floury sometimes.

Well, I guess it’s good they didn’t call themselves the Dutch social-democratic workers party…

Do it, you cowards

America … you all

No u

No, you’re the one special snowflake doing something different… The original comment was directed at “America”, not you personally, but your identification with it speaks volumes.

Canada has a terrible legacy of atrocities, no doubt about that, but they are simply not powerful enough to have caused the insane amounts of worldwide wreckage that the USA has done

Everywhere there’s humans you’re going to see a history of mass murder.

This is the real jerking yourself off and avoiding responsibility

Yeah remember that time Canada started ww3 for absolutely no fucking reason

Well sure, I guess you’re right, it’s definitely a bit subjective and some people have an easier time with some languages and ways of thinking than others for sure. And I didn’t really mean to say that it was totally super easy, but… no kind of programming is really super easy. It is quite different and that in itself has a learning curve.

My recommendation is for sure anecdotal, but I think the point about it seeming more difficult than it really is because people often use it for difficult stuff is actually true.

People really overstate it, it’s not that hard. It has a reputation of being difficult because people use it for difficult, low-level tasks, OS stuff, parsers, cryptography, highly optimised serialisation, but those things would be hard in any language. For a newcomer it’s, IMO, way easier than say C++, because it doesn’t have a mindbogglingly huge std lib with decades of changing best practices to try to figure out. To do simpler things in it is really pretty straightforward, especially if you’re already comfortable with a robust type system.

There have been some improvements but their poor stability is still the biggest problem yeah

For many kinds of them, yes, but not literally all

Not really, it has a couple of niche uses mainly because people externalised the cost of coming up with a good analytical solution to their data processing problem (e.g. medical imaging analysis) which would be vastly more efficient and give insight into the underlying mechanisms, but that would cost grant money rather than VC capital and further externalised energy and environmental costs which are finally born by us, the taxpayers. Ultimately the technology as a whole is delivering very little value and like all hype bubbles mainly serves as a way of further enriching billionaires. But text generator go brrrrr

The github copilot in vscode is a little less shit than the generic ms copilot (but it still sucks ass compared to just writing anything yourself)

Ok yeah I totally get how that would be a burden… But I wouldn’t like to attempt doing all that stuff in PHP ;)

What do you mean? You can just make some react/typescript template and fastapi server thing, or any of dozens of equivalents, extremely quickly. I’m by no means an expert on web stuff as I develop software for controlling machines, but we used the above for some internal services in my last job and I could get a clean and functional site running in a day with no prior experience. I get that for public facing stuff you’ll have some higher requirements but I couldn’t imagine those wouldn’t apply just because you’re coding in PHP…

Yeah, I get that, but when it dominates the media like that it’s not surprising that it still has a big effect on how people feel