steventhedev

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steventhedev,

I am in this picture and I don’t like it. I accept it because chances are I really did make a bad decision but I still don’t like it.

steventhedev,

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

steventhedev,

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

steventhedev,

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

steventhedev,

Whoosh

Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.

All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.

steventhedev,

They started from XML. There’s nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.

FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface

Friends don’t let friends use Java 😜

steventhedev,

Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.

Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.

steventhedev,

AP decided this was not headline worthy:

Concerns still loom large — the pier was attacked Wednesday, the U.N. official said, as four high-ranking U.N. officials were visiting the site. The military said the mortar fire from Gaza militants forced the officials to take shelter, but no one was killed or harmed.

apnews.com/…/israel-hamas-gaza-aid-port-eb8a701b3…

steventhedev,

IDI are vocal in their criticism of Netanyahu, but their statistical methods tend to hold up. They answer your question pretty succinctly:

We found that a very large majority of the total sample (89%) think that Hamas bears a great deal of responsibility for the suffering of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

And also:

we asked: “Given the current circumstances, is Israel’s leadership is doing its utmost to secure the release of the hostages?” We found that slightly more than half of the Jewish respondents think or are certain that the leadership is doing all it can to bring the hostages home. Only a small minority of Arab respondents concur.

steventhedev,

That is legitimately one of the most level-headed replies I’ve read here in the last few months. Kudos.

Two things I want to add:

  1. one of the two IRGC generals killed helped plan October 7th - one of the semi-official war goals is to kill every person who was involved
  2. Ignore the amount intercepted - that’s not what matters for geopolitics. An equivalent escalation would mean Israel responding with 15,000 ballistic missiles and 30,000 suicide drones

Iran fires drones, missiles at Israel in first-ever direct attack; IDF downing them (www.timesofisrael.com)

Iran on Saturday night launched a large wave of attack drones from its territory toward the Jewish state, in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by the Islamic Republic, with warning sirens activated in Israeli communities throughout the country early Sunday as the military worked to intercept the Iranian aircraft....

steventhedev,

Hamas and Hezbollah have been launching near daily rocket attacks on civilian targets for over 6 months now. This attack is larger than the usual daily salvos, but still smaller than what Hamas launched on the first day.

It will be incredibly interesting to see if they continue to launch rockets after Iron Beam is deployed operationally with a marginal cost of interception far lower than the cost of a rocket or drone.

[Solved] Seeking a name, from the mists of the past

In the Silicon Valley / San Jose / Bay area, there was a BBS that had a hierarchical message board, Replies were ordered under posts or other replies. In the 80’s this was an unusual feature of a bulletin system. The BBS was named for a character from some story. It was a hard to pronounce word/name starting with the letter...

steventhedev,

Plover-net perhaps?

Do you remember the area code?

steventhedev,

Got it. From this list: bbslist.textfiles.com/408/oldschool.html

408-336-3134 Ben Lomond, CA Pyrzqxgl (1986-1987) Tané Tachyon Pyrzqxgl tree-structured discussion BBS software

I can see why you called it pretzel

steventhedev,

$previous_job allowed us to pick. One of my coworkers had to replace his laptop, and I convinced him to try out Linux this time. I handed him the bootstrap script and he was back to working by the afternoon.

Our CEO got wind of this and said as a matter of policy everyone is switching to Linux unless they have a good reason (needing excel for financial reports is a good reason). The two new hires who had been setting up their dev environment for over a week at that point were the trigger for this.

steventhedev,

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

https://xkcd.com/2867/

steventhedev,

Used by search engines for listing which pages should be indexed.

Google’s documentation

steventhedev,

Dwarf Fortress almost made me fail a few courses in undergrad.

That is a game that redefines the concept of fun.

Israel accuses Australia of forgetting ‘Hamas’s culpability’ for Gaza war as ministers consider UNRWA funding (www.theguardian.com)

As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.

steventhedev,

Bluntly - step outside lemmy and you’ll see plenty.

There’s little point for even trying to discuss it here - that died with the stickied post about the ICJ ruling and a mod who joined in rather than preventing hate speech.

steventhedev,

Did you install from Google Play?

Open the Play Store link on your phone - the automatic update process has been thoroughly broken for at least a year.

If you installed from f-Droid I have no clue - I use stock android without any alternate stores set up.

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