I heard of some people having trouble getting their head around React. I didn’t, and I thought it was because I had a pretty good foundation in functional programming. React’s magic is transparent if you understand things like first order functions and immutable data.

Now I wonder if the disconnect was even more fundamental.

That can be an advantage. Some of the enterprise-level tech has trickled down to consumer WiFi in recent years, which includes browsing between multiple access points. With several access points with relatively weak signal, you get signal right where you need it without broadcasting up and down the street.

Except it has some really good ideas that should be copied. There are other languages that have a syntax for denoting regex, such as ~r'foo' in Elixir. This gets the syntax highlighting you need without a big addition to the language.

Syntax highlighting works fine as long as your language has a way to distinguish regexes from common strings. Another place where Perl did it right decades ago and the industry ignored it.

Dude, this is standard framing that’s been done for ages and is in tons of houses in the US. It works, and it’s mandated by code for a reason.

Its purpose is to slow it down, not stop it. There would be a chimney effect where smoke rises out of the channel and fresh oxygen is allowed to come in from below. The blocks here prevent that from happening.

Elementary school librarians told me reading would open up my mind to new possibilities. They didn’t specify what kind of possibilities.

One thing I recommend along those lines: commercial soap dispensers in bathrooms. Doesn’t cost that much, they’re meant to take some abuse, hangs on the wall, and can go a year between refills.

You will generally run into fire stops in the framing, like you can see here:

https://www.oneprojectcloser.com/fire-stops-fire-blocking-in-studs/

When I ran wires to my office, I had to cut out one section of drywall above it, another below it, and then use a right angle attachment for my drill to go through it. Pull wire through and seal it with fire block foam.

My house is relatively new (built 2005), and they pulled cat5 for all the telephone lines and just didn’t hook up the extra pairs of wires. Since nobody uses landlines anymore, I rewired most of the outlets for RJ45.

Have pulled a few more wires, including fiber to my main office PC (so I can have a very fast connection to my NAS). Once you learn a few techniques and the way your building is laid out, it’s not that hard.

Exactly. It’s a lot like Java to me. Looks readable on the surface, but it’s actually adding a bunch of crap you don’t need and does not help anything.

They also have to implement a long list of features. These projects tend to focus on the handful of features the authors specifically use, and the rest get sent by the wayside. Taking the Melody language that was mentioned in another message, it hasn’t even fully implemented [^A] or [abc]. We’re not even talking about somewhat obscure stuff like zero width assertions or lookaheads. These are very basic.

There’s a built-in feature that Perl has that only a few of the languages claiming PCRE have actually done, and it makes things a lot more readable. The /x modifier lets you put in whitespace and comments. That alone helps a lot if you stick to good indentation practices.

If all other code was written like an obfuscated C contest, it would be horrible. For some reason, we put up with this on regex, and we don’t have to.

https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2022/06/2022-06-06-how-to-write-regexes-that-are-almost-readable/index.html

People have unironically done that. No, it isn’t better. The fundamental mental model is the same.

33,000 would come from other programs that store the year as a 16-bit signed int. Year 32,768, to be precise.

A common method of storing dates is the number of seconds since midnight on Jan 1, 1970 (which was somewhat arbitrarily chosen).

A 32-bit signed integer means it can store numbers between 2³¹ through 2³¹ - 1 (subtracting one comes from zero being effectively a positive number for these purposes). 2³¹ - 1 seconds added to Jan 1, 1970 gets you to Jan 19, 2038.

The solution is to jump to 64-bit integers, but as with Y2K, there’s a lot of old systems that need to be updated to 64-bit integers (and no, they don’t necessarily have to have 64-bit CPUs to make that work). For the most part, this has been done already. That would put the date out to 292,277,026,596 CE. Which is orders of magnitude past the time for the sun to turn into a red giant.

One of the subtler jokes in Arrested Development is Little Briton having an “American-style” restaurant where the whole plate is covered in fries.

Did they ask an AI “are these pictures of the same person?” and went with whatever it said?

In fairness, the NYPD doesn’t know a lot about guns.

Do you really need to ask why we hate a health insurance CEO?

This might be the most accurate version of the original scene done in real life.