Rustacean or Ferris

Both python and node engineers will be equally offended by the pip/npm one

Angular/react? React folk might just think it’s a variation of the HTML shield, angular folk will just be happy someone has paid attention to them

I’d like that if we end up in a reality where he’s willingly left office alive, one of the first pieces of legislation should be “Trump’s big beautiful bill”: an itemised invoice for the cost of undoing all the bullshit he signed his name on

You’ve reminded me of my favourite one of those that’s probably mostly experienced by British people

On a country or language list I’m either looking for, “United Kingdom” “Great Britain”, “Britain”/“British”, “England”/” English"

Now that’s kinda fair enough, it’s usually UK, so I go to the bottom and start my hunt there.

The big problem comes when the list is ordered by whatever value they’re using to represent the choice, not the text itself, so you get stuff like “United Kingdom” where “Great Britain” should be.

This is not uncommon

I’d say long term, neither of those should be problems

The electricity it uses is not sustainable.

Many EV users also go for solar panels to alleviate energy costs. Also as a country’s electrical grid modernises, it should make use of a greater share of renewables given they’re cheaper than the alternatives now.

It has lots of tracking etc and in some cases remote control.

Slightly less certain, but I’d hope this kind of thing is legislated away at some point. There’s also always customer choice, there will be manufacturers that compete on the privacy angle if enough of us care

The main problem with EVs is it doesn’t solve any of the problems inherent to cars being treated as the main mode of transportation in a given area. Places like that will see EVs as the solution compared to an alternative of investing into better public transit infrastructure.

Infrastructure that is basically inevitable, since we know now that any town/city that eschews anything but car transit will ultimately bankrupt themselves on road maintenance alone.

After a lifetime of being tech support for everyone I know outside of work, I do not relate to this

It’s all just Unicode

You can have emoji as your WiFi network name too

Kinda interesting to see what older devices do when faced with such a network

Needs to be a sleep(3) and sleep(5) between the last ones just to add suspense

role is never instantiated, so the… privileged…logs… will never be called

Edit: Actually no logs at all, I read the null as undefined on first skim

No project is too small for tests

Tests double as your documentation for your intent

Take it from me who has 20+ years of personal projects behind me, the ones that I’ve kept around are typically the ones that have some form of test suite.

It’s easy to build on something if you know you’re not breaking something in the process

Honestly this is the reason TDD is most important for personal projects.

If it’s your job, the code isn’t getting merged without decent tests. Yes you should probably write them first so you think about your implementation properly, but let’s face it, many tests are written after in practice.

If it’s something written in your free time, you’re just not writing those tests most of the time if you didn’t write them up front.

Kinda wild what became of the engineer behind it

Oh.

Shit.

My job is computer

Fuck.

Oh really? I had no idea Microsoft was doing rust at all

Hey now, about 1% of the Linux kernel is Rust now!

Of course it’s the Torygraph promoting the robber baron

I’m hoping given this is the age of information, what’s being burnt is not truly lost and is mirrored/archived somewhere away from his grubby mitts

The people doing this will be the first to go in the purge

Because most projects are worked on by multiple people, and you shouldn’t trust that everyone who will work on something will have the same skill level as you

If there are two languages otherwise equivalent in NFRs, where one lets you make the mistakes and the other doesn’t, you’re a bit silly if you don’t pick the latter.

Good engineers shouldn’t struggle to use a different language, so that’s not an argument

It’s saudade but artificial

Fauxdade