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by donatj 1y ago
If PHP scoped to blocks, it would be less of an issue, you could just wrap your procedural code in curly braces and call it a day { $foo = 'bar'; // only defined in this block } I use this reasonably
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by donatj 1y ago
I had this argument in the PHP community when the feature was being discussed, but I think the syntax is much more complicated to read , requiring backtracking to understand. It might be easier to write. Imagine you're just scanning
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by donatj 1y ago
Oh hey, I know you IRL from the PHP meetups! I've been watching this develop on Bluesky! Super cool project.
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by donatj 1y ago
Is that all it is? I've been seeing all the hype around UniFi OS here and didn't really understand what the deal was. I was kind of hoping for a sort of managed OS I could control from the UniFi dashboard.
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by donatj 1y ago
I've talked about it here many times, so I'll be terse. I really hate when I go to the doctor that they just sit there and type the whole time. Barely even look me in the eye. On more than one occasion I have had my doctor literal
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by donatj 1y ago
I feel like this is bound to get kneecapped for the same reason as other canvas features, fingerprinting.
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by donatj 1y ago
I go outside and look at my neighborhood of bungalows largely built immediately after the war, they were not sold as luxury. They were sold as affordable housing.
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by donatj 1y ago
Because most people are out here driving used Ferraris and Koenigseggs and living in old mansions? Your argument falls apart when you realize they manufacture and sell explicitly affordable cars. It's nearly half the market.
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by donatj 1y ago
The bigger problem, at least in my neck of the woods, is they're not building affordable housing. By-and-large they are building luxury apartments and luxury homes. We've torn down half the city to build luxury apartments that sit
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by donatj 1y ago
My wife sees what I do as "sitting in a chair all day" and tells me all the time she could not do what I do.
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by donatj 1y ago
Doesn't seem to work for me. I get to the end, choose my state, the modal spinner pops up and then goes right back to choose your state.
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by donatj 1y ago
I have a terrible fear that someday eBay is going to do the math on my 30 year old eBay account, figure out I was 9 when I opened it and lock me out.
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by donatj 1y ago
Yes! I had an issue with my original Xbox where it wouldn't power on properly, blinking light. After some back and forth with a very Texan man, we determined that I just needed to reseat the video cable. It was fantastic support! I mis
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by donatj 1y ago
Hear me out, it's industry wide. There is simply no real support anymore. My aunt died unexpectedly a number of years ago. Within weeks some man from Nigeria took over her facebook profile. Changed her profile picture from a middle age
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by donatj 1y ago
I mean the goal though is always for the service to be popular
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by donatj 1y ago
This. The cuts were made for short-term stock gains over long-term viability. It's absurd.
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by donatj 1y ago
I created a rule almost ten years ago that I won't buy the domain until I actually have something to host, and it's done me reasonably well. I however have a similar but more expensive problem, I develop side projects to an MVP an
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by donatj 1y ago
As a long time PHP developer, it never fails to amuse (amaze?) me the lengths people go to in order to get the things the browser will give you for free.
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by donatj 1y ago
I miss the days when our best minds developed protocols instead of products. The last 15 years has been just the commodification and destruction of everything the previous generation has built. I'm frankly surprised email has stood up
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by donatj 1y ago
See, I think this is a good idea even for reviewing non-agentic human-written PRs! We've got a huge LGTM problem where people approve PRs they clearly don't understand. Recently we had a bug in some code of an employee that got
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by donatj 1y ago
TIL Anker was selling 3D printers...
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by donatj 1y ago
I always get a kick out of the posts from the people in language communities who post "I'm new to <language>, what framework should I use?" It's like asking "I'm new to driving, what brand of nitros shoul
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by donatj 1y ago
They are also easier to statically analyze and write tooling around.
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by donatj 1y ago
I recall in third grade coming across a QBasic program on my families second hand 286 that could read from the mouse. I have no clue how it worked looking back. Convinced however that the ball mice at the time must use little generators rat
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by donatj 1y ago
Hear me out - tabs are better because there is no possibility of invalid indentation state. "Make invalid states unrepresentable" and all that, If your style rule is 4 spaces, you have 3 invalid indentation levels for every valid
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by donatj 1y ago
I personally really like the old.reddit.com experience on my phone. Everything works surprisingly well. Sure you have to zoom in and scroll around and I know some people hate zooming in but it's never bothered me. I personally can&#x27
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by donatj 1y ago
I'm sorry but what!? Have you talked to your users? The ones that actually are forced to use your app day in and out? They want functional back buttons, they want to be able to open any action in a new tab. No one who actually uses you
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by donatj 1y ago
Is there a way to donate to MDN directly without donating to the larger Mozilla organization? I find MDN absolutely indispensable and would love to contribute in an earmarked way where it wouldn't be diverted elsewhere.
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by donatj 1y ago
Can we disrupt payment processors already? This is getting really old. We shouldn't be bound by the moral compass of payment processors on what we can use our own money for.
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by donatj 1y ago
How much oxygen would they need to leave in the packaging to avoid botulism? Is there a happy medium that would still preserve the fish but avoid risk of botulism?

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