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I am pretty sure they were sentient, rotting fish guts.

I was porting our old code from PHP to Go at a previous company. I laughed as I copied my then-six-year-old comment “I’m promised by xxxxx that this is a temporary measure <link to slack convo>”.

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Asinine business logic can still make some things very hard to read and digest no matter how well-planned and well-written it is (particularly if it is rushed by the business meaning that engineers don’t have time to do it well). As such, there are places where code can’t/won’t be self-documenting to a useful degree.

Actually writing code that uses them: last month. Commandline: last week.

I mean, you’re technically the leading expert on you, so that’s a start.

Issues around “black hair” (I think is the most common word for it, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here) are certainly real and depressing.

I still don’t think naming a child after a name you happen to like is so problematic (well, unless the name you like is something like ‘Hitler’ or will otherwise cause trauma and issues for the child). If using another culture’s name is a bad kind of cultural appropriation, then either nearly everyone or almost no one is guilty of this (the former because people move and cultures merge and split, the latter being a reductionist take that all human genetics come from basically the same place and/or a “pre-world” language family).

I think cultural appropriation itself is a bit of a weird one. You have people like most Japanese who encourage people to wear kimono and other Japanese styles. I assume that’s true in a lot of the world (I just happen to be more familiar with the Japanese side having lived here for about a decade). But is wearing clothing cultural appropriation? Is cosplay? My Japanese friends and wife encourage me to wear yukata and such, but I generally am just my jeans-and-tshirt self.

Speaking of, were all those Japanese around the Meiji restoration wearing suits appropriating Western culture. Is “Western culture” even a unified culture? Cultures have always borrowed, stolen, and shared. I think if something is intentionally done in mockery or some other way, it’s not OK. Other than that, I think a lot of people are angry, often on behalf of others who may or may not actually be angry themselves.

I mean　チンコ (chinko) is still censored on at least TV, so I think it’s a little disingenuous to say it’s the word. The actual word is 口蓋垂 ( こうがいすい - kougaisui) whose kanji mean something like mouth, cover, and zig-zaggy thing (specifically a type of Shinto zig-zag paper design, according to my dictionary).

Are you saying that if one ethnicity uses a name another can’t? If so, someone should inform all the Japanese people named after various white Disney characters (not that it’s a huge group, but particularly around Frozen there were some Elsas and such).

Sure be a shame if all that selling screwed up the economy enough to completely offset any gains of collecting everything they can carry and immediately sell it instead of, y’know, roleplaying how actual people in that world would behave.

I prefer ‘cubiform’, but I never realized that cubicle could be an adjective.

You can pry my THAC0 from my cold, dead, -10 AC hands

I want to get started 3d printing, partially because I bought a house and farm and need to replace some little bits and bobs that don’t necessarily need to be super strong. It just seems a bit too much to try to figure out right now.

Thanks for explaining! I haven’t set foot in a datacenter since probably 2008ish, heh.

Yeah, I had never seen a connector that looks anything like that, but I figured I was just behind the times (since it didn’t look like Ethernet plugged into it to me)

As a programmer, I don’t even know what we’re looking at. A switch, I would guess, but I haven’t seen hardware in years. In any case wouldn’t “port 21 <bottom|top>” been better?

• Rust has safety and efficiency close to C
• Perl is processing most of your healthcare records
• Ada is doing space stuff
• Go is going places

I liked it (well, after the Duct Tape mod, anyway) and enjoyed having more lore and info. It definitely doesn’t feel like a normal doom game, though, so I’ll give it that.

I’ve only ever used AI to generate examples, particularly for things with crap documentation. That works pretty well.

If you want to get faster at developing, I would recommend two things: 1) plan everything before starting. Have an outline. Have some data structures. Have a flowchart at at least a high level. (2) develop more, particularly TDD (test-driven-development). Some people hate TDD and I used to be one of them, but I came to love it.

Not the same person, but all of the top results in a search for a sandwich not eaten with hands were posts relating to etiquette. Scrolling down, it did mention one sandwich (not the one you link anywhere on the page) but even that didn’t say in the summary that utensils were required.