This kind of thing is infuriating. Especially when the actual etymology of “blacklist” is a 17th century play where a list of nobles scheming against the British monarchy is described as a blacklist.

Java class names look like German compound nouns though

Tech debt is like a hole in your roof that many teams don’t start trying to fix until water is flooding in. Companies missing the business value in addressing tech debt leads to perverse incentives for developers where they are encouraged to cram new features into the product and then leave for another job in 2-3 years before the consequences come knocking.

I agree with this. Communist like systems where there is central control of resources encourages corruption as people vie to get closer to the central control of the resources. Capitalism is just more honest about the fact that many people - not all of them - are fundamentally self-interested and entices them into cooperation with others by offering the carrot of individual rewards. Those are probably the same people that would try to exploit the system if it were more centrally controlled.

I remember looking at charity jobs when I was graduating with my humanities degree before I got into tech. Revealingly, the alumi I was speaking to who worked in the sector said something like, “At it’s core you need to remember that working for a charity is essentially a sales job.”

Made me nope tf out of there lol.

dudes rock

I’ve had great results asking about emulators such as PPSSPP

Things like lombok make the boilerplate less of an issue in modern Java too

Yeah I kinda agree. C# might have some nice new shiny features but Java is improving all the time and has deep roots in the open source community.

Scripting languages don’t really compete with Java because they are a different type of tool. Even when data engineers/scientists use pyspark in data pipelines it’s just a thin wrapper around JVM scala code.

Mmm yeah I’ve noticed that my retired parents keep telling me what a great summer we’re having every year and I’m completely unaware of it due to being cooped up inside.

So would you be team BST if we had to pick one? I’m just personally not sure it’s such a loss when the sun is out until 10pm at the height of summer.

Edit: to be honest that would probably be my 2nd preference. Anything except the system we have now where the clocks change!

The UK press every year makes a huge song and dance in opinion pieces about getting rid of DST. However I’m always horrified to see that people want us to keep British Summer Time instead of Grenwich Mean Time. I understand that there are “longer evenings” in BST; however we literally invented GMT and coerced the rest of the world to adjust their times based on that. From the point of view of being constantly compatible with UTC and having more consistent business hours for international companies it makes more sense to me if we kept GMT.

Also the longer evenings thing can be achieved by simply staying up an hour later. It’s not exactly like an hour is being stolen from you when the times switch, the change of clocks are mainly pointless admin.

Lastly I read an article recently that described a correlation between the incidence of heart attacks and the clocks changing. The theory is that just slightly messing with people’s sleeping patterns can cause additional strain on the body.

Loathsome Infinite Dung Eater

Thought this was a linux joke initially given the volume of them on lemmy

Provided your method specifies a strongly bound type you can ensure that you get your nut.

void dischargeNut(T extends Nut) { ... }

Unfortunately steeznson is extremely close to my actual name so I couldn’t resist it

I was at uni there for 4 years and it was extremely expensive to rent. It was getting close to St Andrews at one point. I left in 2015.

Friends who stayed after the oil crash in 2016 ended up getting phone calls from their landlords asking them if they can reduce the amount of rent they need to pay in exchange to stay for an extra year.

I think vanilla perl is also worth looking at if you need the script to be portable

ChatGPT go brrrrrr

The fantasy sports are all about evading local gambling laws. Since only a handful of states even allow sports betting the only way to operate in those states is to have something which is legally distinct from gambling (even though it clearly is). It’s similar to pachinko parlours in Japan.