500GB drive costs what? About $40?

I don’t even want to write that into a log message.

Why not? It’s a perfectly human readable representation of that duration, just as intended by ISO.

what the hell am I supposed to do with that?

Just as an example, we use that format to communicate durations between the frontend and backend.

Why would python even expose the current line number? What’s it useful for?

Nowadays the warning even says that this cannot be undone. Maybe that wasn’t present in 1.15, though.

validators is a shitty name for something that actually does type conversion.

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People throwing thrash on the way usually is a sign of not enough trash cans in an area.

No. I regularly see trash on the ground with sometimes as much as 5 trash cans in sight that are less than 20m away.

If you cut yourself with a knife, it might be your fault. And it might be that the knife is sharp on both sides and has no handle.

It feels like I’m thirty years too young to get these jokes.

20 seconds, Germany. Waiting while they checked if my name was on the list.

Completely depends on how often you need to write boilerplate code, and how error-prone it is.

After writing hundreds of instances of ‘fetch this from the server and show an error if it doesn’t work’, I finally wrote a helper for that. It took 2 hours, shouts at me if I use it wrong, and instantly makes my classes easier to read because all the boilerplate is gone. As an added bonus, the invocation is so small that Copilot can write it error-free, which it couldn’t before.

So fetching things is now a thing of a few seconds instead of one minute with a chance of making a mistake. I say it’s worth it.

C) Write a highly specific, custom-tailored boilerplate generator that does 80% of the work and needs only a day or two to implement.

Vanilla Music – the music player I use.

Is that Tom Scott from the future?

Coding must be a nightmare if you’re choosing programming languages at random 😱

But you must also be learning quite a lot.

Programs aren’t written by a single team of developers that speak the same language. You’d be calling a library by a Hungarian with additions from an Indian in a framework developed by Germans based on original work by Mexicans.

If no-one were forcing all of them to use English by only allowing English keywords, they’d name their variables and functions in their local language and cause mayhem to readability.

[Edit:] Even with all keywords being forced to English, there’s often half-localized code.

I can’t find the source right now, but I strongly believe that Steve McConnell has a section in one of his books where he quotes a function commented in French and asks, “Can you tell the pitfall the author is warning you about? It’s something about a NullPointerException”. McConnell then advises against local languages even in comments

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I’m inclined to buy that just because it exists. I hate subscription services so, so much!

This is the best option if you think you’ll use Nebula for more than 5 years.

It’s supposed to help with dyslexia.

If only their “automatic” updater worked without throwing errors on every migration…

I know Safari 15.3 doesn’t support feature Y, but I also know the current version does. Now I want to know if I can just use the feature or if I need to program around Safari 15.3. It would be nice to just look at the server logs from last month and see if someone still uses it.