I love how arbitrary, cultural and opinionated that must be to work with. You’d learn something about the implimenter of the compiler by using it for a while.

I can’t tell if you’re joking and deliberately invoking the original comic above

Do we know for sure that Reddit doesn’t keep an edit history for comments?

The question was why do I hate it, and it was because of this. I don’t understand your confusion.

How does a rainbow table help here? They’re more for decoding unsalted encrypted database tables, rather than for actually trying to login.

For me, it was this

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

They’re specifically refuting claims that it had been sunk. I don’t see what your problem with that is.

I’m neither surprised nor unsurprised. I’m middle aged and don’t have much insight into what university students are doing day to day.

Is chatgpt the default starting point for inexperienced / early career/ students now?

Agreed. Mypy pre-commit hooks are very useful if you’re starting a fresh project. Adding typing to an existing project which reuses variables with different types… We lost weeks to it.

JSON parsers are getting me recently. The error is somewhere on or after row 1, char 1. Maybe.

Possibly it’s a BOM issue, or someone used double quotes typed on a Mac keyboard. Good luck.

I hadn’t thought of this. 1 way ticket to Vegas please!

KDE. Not a distro, but I can’t get on with it. Too much screen real estate used by flashy things, and everything moves. I want instant transitions not a shwoosh. It’s probably all toggleable, but I don’t want to fiddle with it for every install or release.

Are we considering the notion that Santa doesn’t just know if human children have behaved themselves, but also all ages of various animals too?

Does he know if my goldfish is a dick? Has he ever given anything except coal to a cat? Does he know whether all dogs are good dogs?

If we’re taking about making the till scanner in the shop go beep, yeah, that doesn’t take extensive training and can be done by the next hungover 16 year old who stumbles in off the street. I’ve been that 16 year old, it was great.

This image is daft, assuming the other trades are unskilled. They’re undesirable, sure, but you can’t do them with 15 mins of training and another hungover moron in the back office “supervising”.

I have a shelf of ducks, and I organised for everyone in the company to get a branded rubber duck at our last meetup. But there’s apparently something special about trying to show buggy code to a real person.

Entirely the opposite for me. Code which I haven’t been able to get to run for days suddenly runs first time when I ask someone to do a code walkthrough with me. Infuriating.

This is delivered in an entertaining way, but it has multiple issues within.

For one, it’s delivered by a “beloved” UK institution of an entertainer, who has power and a podium. Insulting him as he asks would be largely pointless. It’s not a level playing field.

He also utilises a number of straw men arguments throughout, without citation, so a decent chunk can be ignored as he’s arguing against a fictitious stance he’s created for comedic effect.

Also, there’s a suggestion that an insult doesn’t carry weight, impact or importance. Which isn’t true. Again, insulting him would largely achieve very little, but that’s really not the case for most people, especially those who are already struggling in society.

Allowing any arbitrary insult, especially in the widely visible and indefinitely indelible world of the internet, can have long, deep and destructive implications on those on the receiving end of them.

Words have power, those who lie, deceive or misconstrue facts should be held to account for it.

As Pratchett said, a lie can travel around the world before the truth can get it’s boots on.

Adding, and then insisting upon, the existence of a social construct, doesn’t negate the existence of the original paradox.

Of course if we all agree to play by the same rules, those rules make more sense. That’s kinda the point.

The paradox is about what happens if some people refuse to accept those rules. Then it all falls apart.

In this thread: people not understanding sampling bias. Of course everyone here likes privacy, and had friends who think similarly. It’s a privacy themed community on a niche tech forum.