You could make that 30-40 years ago in much of the world outside of North America. My parents certainly believed that was a crazy indulgence back in the 80s. They have since tempered (though I still think twice a day is ridiculous unless you really need it after labor/exercise).

And in many parts of the world, you can relive that experience.

here !== there

As if there's a single `here' on HN.

myHere !== yourHere

now !== then

His point seems to be that nothing fundamental has changed except for people's expectations. People being slightly more odiferous has never been a showstopper before.

And you say it's unhygenic... there's nothing dangerous about not showering daily. It's purely an aesthetic thing. I do it for that reason, but I don't kid myself about its necessity.

Fundamentally, people's expectations have changed. Context, as always, is king.

Which language uses !== instead of != ?

PHP. The !== checks for equality and for type. For example, it is true in PHP that 0 == false, but it is also true that 0 !== false.

Also Javascript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Referen...

Correct.

But given that now and then are both of type Temporal, he should still go for !=.

There are coding style guides that advocate using the strict operators everywhere it makes sense. http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html

Ah, sorry, I read it as "equality of type".

It's strict not equal in JavaScript. 'Returns true if the operands are not equal and/or not of the same type.'

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'==' and '!=' are coercive in JavaScript -- as in:

    5 == "5" -> true

    5 != "5" -> false

    5 === "5" -> false

    5 !== "5" -> true