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by Jenk 5y ago
> after spending 150 billion British pounds That's .. not a lot. Not as much you might expect terraforming and colonising _another planet_ to cost over 15 years, anyway. The UK's annual budget is £770B.
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by Jenk 5y ago
I wouldn't expect never[] to mean 0 length array, tbf. It's a variable length array of _type_ never. It should be something akin to: declare foo: never[0];
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by Jenk 5y ago
Then async comes along and you can't use `out` in async methods :) Thus (anonymous) tuples were introduce so we can do it Go/Rust-style: async Task<(bool, T)> Foo<T>(T value) { /* do something async
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by Jenk 5y ago
I regret scoffing at the very idea that Google had a slide in their office. Also thought it would never work to have free coffee, food, table tennis, etc in the workplace as the staff would just slack off. Today I take these perks very seri
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by Jenk 5y ago
I'm not GP but in the 90s I was taught that bigger = better, and to some degree that was true, if you were into old (ergo, very expensive) tech. In the days before the internet, technology was niche (as was the knowledge to develop and
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by Jenk 5y ago
"Hasklug NF" represent!
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by Jenk 5y ago
I actually use the resume as yet another insight into the candidate. Did they send me a bland shopping receipt of skills and experiences or put some thought into the layout and visuals? Have they created a firehose of information that I wil
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by Jenk 5y ago
Regarding teeth, one thought is that over/underbite was less frequent before cutlery became commonplace. Our ancestors had to bite/tear their food using their incisors and canines a lot more than we do, which meant their jaws woul
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by Jenk 5y ago
Are these client-side only extensions that are manipulating the DOM, or are they somehow feeding parameters to google to exclude domains (by e.g., automatically suffixing a series of "-site:blah.com"s to the query)?
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by Jenk 5y ago
I worked with Smalltalk for a number of years, and was even present at discussion during the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) meetup in 2008 that was the very birthplace of Pharo, though admittedly was a little out of my depth with some
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by Jenk 5y ago
I did some freelancing (of the "setup an ecommerce site on a vps with some customisation and plugins for mom-and-pop shop" variety) in the 90s. No big jobs just lots of small ones to make some beer money. The usual process was ins
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by Jenk 5y ago
NFTs remind me of those websites that let you "buy a piece of the moon." Sure, you just spent $x on a certificate that says you "own" a grid reference on the moon, but don't for one second think you actually own tha
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by Jenk 5y ago
It was most pupils in my classes. Kids got kudos for having fancier/louder chimes than others. Then came the rush of calculator watches, so everyone started getting watches confiscated before exams, and that other teacher's favour
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by Jenk 5y ago
The Elizabeth Tower in Westminster chimes a song every 15 minutes, progressively adding a new verse for each quarter, until on the hour you get the full song followed by a bong for each hour that it is. As a child it fascinated me, but as a
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by Jenk 5y ago
> I once imagined a nightmare: a classroom full of children who all had watches that beeped on the hour, not synchronised, with slightly varied pitches and patterns. That was my classroom throughout the 80s and 90s.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Yep, literally translates as the first lady, but means the leading lady. They were the headliners that brought the crowds. If a show lost the primadonna, it lost the audience (and ticket sales) so they had much more bargaining power than th
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by Jenk 5y ago
Fried vegetables are quite unusual here (UK). We boil, steam, or roast them mostly.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Typically "vegetables" are synonymous with "the boring vegetables" when it comes to convincing kids to eat them. They'll jam in the mash potato like it's going out of fashion, but the kale/cabbage gets fun
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by Jenk 5y ago
Funnily enough the same company employ (via agency) devs in the UKR. Most of the country is stable.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Orthogonal to my point. Deliberately worsening the free experience after you introduced a premium service is a dark pattern for UX.
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by Jenk 5y ago
One company that employed me has ops based in the Philippines. Doesn't matter how much you pay, if there's a typhoon the grid is going down and ops will be unavailable.
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by Jenk 5y ago
> What would a paid version of Google Search results look like - where Google can just try to give me the best possible results and not be worried about generating revenue? God please no. YouTube premium shows what Google would do, i.e.,
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by Jenk 5y ago
Single-page thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1477760548787920901.html
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by Jenk 5y ago
Birthdays are an exception to this rule. Generally I think Dates (without time) are usually considered time-less and therefore timezone-less. In fact the examples you mention are only a concern when considering the start or end of Christmas
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by Jenk 5y ago
Crafty alternative: just.. don't strip it? It seems like a perfectly reasonable and simple route that avoids complexity and cost to just keep /api.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Double edged sword.. if they were to use 4 digit numbers, they couldn't use int32 to store YYYYMMDDHHMM. But.. they wouldn't be able to use int32 and therefore wouldn't have had this bug. :)
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by Jenk 5y ago
We agree. :) A "Version Number" is not just a "Number", as I said right at the start. Just to clarify, having an integral incrementing number as the whole version number strategy explicitly prohibits the use of major&#
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by Jenk 5y ago
There are exceptions to that rule, however - Maintenance releases. Node, Typescript, Java, .NET, and I'm sure many more obvious instances I need not list. If you "just" increment you leave no room for showing patching in your
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by Jenk 5y ago
> They still aren't compatible with number types.
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by Jenk 5y ago
I think you need to read the thread again. The point (there is just one) I've made in both replies has been very clear and direct.

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