I could see the Borg as viewing the non-Borg universe as just something for their feed, though. Something like you can vote for a civilization to be put through Alice In Borderland or whatever, and watch them struggle.
Hanlon's razor seems to work well here. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a mix of people who want some real or imagined benefit from bug reports without doing or understanding the work, and people who just think LLM output is gospel—a gospel that must be spread.
Batteries seem to work fine in rural Norway. If you live somewhere warmer and/or with a bigger population or population density than Norway, you should be fine.
US? Here in scandi tax seems to work well automatically, as in, we just log into the government website and click OK most years. Corrections are easy enough too, if you need it, but it's usually not required.
And yeah, even the string interpolation seems kind of excessive when it's just appending _address. Js is even kinda infamous for how willing it is to do that with +.
Yeah, translating between cases isn't exactly a problem IME. Might be neat to have a case-aware grep though, so you can get kebab-case, snake_case, camelCase and PascalCase all done in one go.
Yeah, I'm reminded of how Germanic languages used to have singular, dual and plural. If we'd still had dual, we'd probably also be talking about not abstracting until we actually have a plural.
I mean, the fact that more than half-century-old COBOL continues to be maintained does speak to the fact that it is maintainable. That might also be part of what makes COBOL painful to the average developer: You're not only dealing with a language that first appeared in 1959, designed for machines that were very different than modern computers; you're also dealing with over a half century of legacy code, including all that means for Hyrum's law.
Unfortunately maintainable and pleasant to work with are rather distinct concepts.
There's also someone doing AOC in ABAP (basically SAP COBOL) who posts over in the AOC subreddit. I've looked at them and ... mhm, I know some of these words!
I could see the Borg as viewing the non-Borg universe as just something for their feed, though. Something like you can vote for a civilization to be put through Alice In Borderland or whatever, and watch them struggle.