https://youtu.be/O9DXgjBpjzM

Why is your avatar the ROC flag if you’re from PRC?

The problem is that “master” means several things. There is Masters degree, master sword, master blacksmith, master copy, all of which have absolutely nothing to do with master / slave.

The Git “master” terminology came from “master copy”. There’s an email thread online where someone asked Linus Torvalds the origin and this is what he said.

The whole thing about it being about master / slave was some random uneducated person guessing, and they were wrong.

I agree that main is simpler and clearer, but it has nothing to do with racism.

Yep, we disagree. The world and technology especially is an extremely complicated place. IMO any complex system that is built upon “humans should just know all this complexity and keep it in mind all the time” is fundamentally broken.

I think you’re saying the same thing as what I am. If it’s more complex than what you may think, the language should guard against it. If not, it should make it simple.

Rust, for example, is the only mainstream language where it isn’t possible to read from a file handle after it’s been closed. Doing so is a compilation failure. This is just a general invariant of “how to use files”.

JS can also be complicated when it tries to hide realities about the world. E.g. is a const array or object immutable? No, the pointer is. But pointers don’t exist! /s

I mean, this is correct in many cases, unironically.

It should be one of the core purposes of a programming language to help humans to write the code they intend. If a language doesnt do that then it’s bad.

I’m still appalled that my Yubikey / FIDO2 still doesnt work on Firefox. I have it as a passkey for GitHub, realized it doesnt work on Firefox, so they just prompt me for my password. That seems backwards to have password as a fallback, too.

Or they stopped using Windows and only use Unix for development.

That’s the whole point. That’s a good thing.

Isn’t that assuming you have access to doing arbitrary SQL queries on the database? Then you’d by definition have access to records you shouldn’t.

Just curious, but if SSNs were not recycled after death, would there be any reason not to use them as a primary key?

There’s a scene from Treasure of the Sierra Madre that’s almost the exact same thing. Great movie.

I’ve had several places say they only deliver through DoorDash.

Take a look at Rust. It’s what I’d call an exceptionally well defined language.

How do code reviews work with contractors? Is it just “you don’t get paid until we approve it”?

Top pic is a Mutex and bottom is lock-free concurrency.

Hard disagree. I don’t understand why anyone would want case insensitive.

Am I the only one who doesn’t go around mindlessly capitalizing letters? Do people find it too difficult to capitalize things?

Do you want case insensitive passwords too?

If I type X I mean X and only X. Uppercase letters are different letters, just like X and Y are different letters.

People go through that all the time. It’s normal. What matters is your learning. It sounds like you did learn.

Also, maybe they don’t care about the text? Some people care some people don’t. But probably better for it to be an email / note. Not a big deal either way. Just learn and don’t ruminate on it. Everyone goes through it.

Why don’t you believe that you can learn or get better at things?

IDK, I think it’s a great story that makes a lot of sense