Same year!

Mavis Beacon teaches typing. BBSs. Cassette tapes with the pencil. I had a Spectrum that used cassettes before I got my Amiga 500.

I actually still like some LTT videos. I just find the thumbnails off-putting … so unless the topic interests me I don’t typically watch anymore.

I really enjoyed the Emily/Anthony bits too.

Phind.com is pretty good for programming stuff, it’s AI but it cites it’s sources.

I grew a beard after I got food poisoning and the flu back-to-back. I couldn’t be arsed to shave.

I did try shaving years later but I hated nicking my chin with a razor and doing it every day was a pain.

Still high relative to the average but nowhere near their American counterparts.

I’m using Outlook on my Android phone for my really old school Hotmail account. Yes, I have Gmail too but this is just one I’ve had for years.

When I tried opening an external link it asked me if I wanted to use Edge and has it selected above my “default FF” option… I mean, what the hell guys.

Onion architecture. Ports and adapters are other names for it, I think.

YUP! I’m sorry, Apple earned more money than Spotify purely based on their airpod market. I refuse to believe otherwise.

If they truly cared about repairability/maintainability they’d give me a headphone jack phone with a replaceable module in case it wears down.

I freaking hate dongles, I always have one when I don’t need one and can never find one when I don’t. They randomly don’t work or I don’t know if this AliExpress one I bought is actually stealing my data. Just give a built-in jack, please!

“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” said Musk.

F this guy.

Make? As in Makefiles or make-up?

Similar to me. Previous job we tried our best to squeeze any ounce of optimisation out of it. Mainly because I was on the SEO team and we had to focus on the core web vitals. Everything was deferred and every image was optimised.

New job, we don’t even have any metrics.

I think this editor is supposed to be super fast because of their GPU or whatever libraries. It’s also supposed to be written in Rust.

So far there’s no extensions and just on Mac. Maybe when those open up I’ll take a closer look.

I’m not the person you’re replying to but for me, I used to get random headaches and jitters and I feel more consistent now.

The problem is the withdrawal period can be hard for some. It was for me, but overall worth it in the end.

Removed by mod

I think it’s the “economy”. We’ve set up systems where the young pay out the older people. At least that’s my uneducated understanding of the situation.

However what’s funny is that the economy under China (and most places in the world) is why people aren’t having kids now. It’s probably done more de-population than the one child policy.

Lemmy, Hacker News, Mailing Lists … Sometimes I watch the Primeagen, Theo and such.

Well over a decade ago I remember a coworker would just go through the codebase and add his own coding style.

Instead of if (predicate) {

He would do if ( predicate )

I would always ask why he did it and he said, “well we don’t have any coding standards so I’m going to do it” … I replied, “there’s things like unwritten rules and sticking to whatever’s in the codebase makes it easy”. I told the seniors and they chose not to do anything (everyone just merged into trunk) and they just left him for a while.

Then he turned rewrote built-in logical functions in code like this: if (predicate || predicate) {

Into code like this: if ( or( predicate, predicate ) ) {

This was C# and there was no Prettier back then.

Also, he would private every constructor and then create a static factory method.

Eventually the seniors told him to knock it off. All I said was that I initially tried telling them weeks ahead of time and now we got a mess on our hands.

Meh, screw Assange. Don’t want his or his visitors rights violated though. But sincerely, fuck this Russian asset.

I remember doing that as a junior because everyone in our codebase did it!

My new team lead came in and asked me why. I said it’s to reformat it due to the layer it was in. He said “…and what did you really accomplish with that?” All we did was bury our real error really well. It made me think about these things and to question convention more

Oh that was like years ago! Probably SVN, we on-boarded Git a little while after.

No pull requests, you just manually merged back then. It’s definitely a workflow improvement we adopted later and we as a company and as an industry have gotten better.

lol, the thing was just that my manager asked me what I did and I told him. Him getting another dev to “fact-check” me after is what bothered me a bit. I am usually the type of look into issues rather than brush them off and I am the first to confess to a screw up. Which is why I was irked.