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Cake day: August 15th, 2024

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  • As an American I’ve never heard of a place so dangerous that things get stolen from the back at a traffic light. I know carpenters who leave all their tools in the back when they go to bed and never have a problem. Maybe you need to clean up the crime problem in your country. There are pros and cons to a van vs truck. That you come in on one side does not make the other side wrong, it just means you have lack of vision to understand theirs.

    Have you ever tried to rent a truck? I know many people who tried and discovered the place was all out that day. Then when you find one read the fine print - often you cannot haul your fridge in one. Mean while because I own my truck it is there when I need to do something, no thinking required.





  • Kohls doesn’t have it always on sale. They carefully rotate stock each week to half their stuff is up front and on sale, while the other half is in the back at normal prices. The staff will direct you awat from the normal priced stuff - they don’t want anyone to pay the normal price, they just need to have it as normal price once in a while so they can claim to have a sale. (they fear if you buy the normal price you will be mad enough to not come back and repeat sales are worth more than one full price transaction)


  • I finally gave up. iiwant to keep in touch with what distant friends are doing. Finding and sharing memes is not doing something and that seems to be all I ever saw. Some people need to get a life. (unless you are confined to a hospital bed there are better things to eo with your life.) Too bad - I miss the rare contact with those distant friends.





  • I’ve got a couple other spam messages. Nicole is by far the most common, but there have been others. There will be many more in the future as the fediverse is discovered. The real question is what are the devs doing. Not just lemmy devs - mastodon, mbin, peertube… devs all need to do something - maybe at the protocol level.



  • Works for a small company. If everyone in a large company is allowed the same leeway nothing could ever ship - while no one person (except a few incompetent that get fired eventually) makes too many mistakes, the combination of all of them mean the system is always horribly broken.

    Of course 50% of my job is just getting simple changes though which is annoying - but more than once that process has meant I didn’t break everything.


  • A part of it is when you get old you realize the “kids” are doing the exact same thing you did 20 years ago, but they gave it a different name and changed some tiny details so they can pretend it is different. The real question is how do you get kids to see this - most don’t (including me when I was a kid - and I was aware of the issue and tried to guard against it)

    The more important part at my age is to remember that kids today are just like me. Sure the exact style and what is in/out has changed, but kids are the same as we were. I didn’t even have the option of a smart phone, but I had my own addictions, and the older generation complained about them… Sometimes the old people have a point, but often kids these days are just like kids in the past.


  • There is a reason a lot of web apps run on the JVM - while it does have high overhead, once your app is running it is fast and you get some nice advantages. Plus Java has a large system of helpers and libraries. Even though you can do everything in Rust, you will end up writing a lot more code just because in Java you can just download a library to do something while Rust forces you to write it.


  • Hating the code is normal. After a while you start to realize all the hard to change decisions you made long ago. What you don’t know is if those decisions you wish you had made would be better. There have been a lot of fads over the decades, some of them are complete junk, but the majority have some good points. However all of them have some negatives as well, and there is no obvious answer to which negative is right to accept for your projects.

    The ideal answer is spend 20 years learning lots of different options, then find a time machine and go back in time to and restart the project based on what you have learned. Of course at the end of that 20 years you will hear about some new thing you didn’t try, but you have to draw the line somewhere. (finding a time machine is left as an exercise for the reader)

    Rust is an interesting language with some nice memory safety guarantees. As a C++ developer it speaks to some of the problems I have - but most of my problems with C++ are with 15 year old code from before I was able to use C++11. ( had to put a lot of effort into getting this good with c++ though, Rust is likely a lot easier to learn to my level). The Ada/Spark advocates have long been saying things that really speak to me as well - formally proven code sounds great, though there are others who tell me it isn’t as good as the advocates claim. Go has some advocates saying interesting things as well, though they don’t speak to the issues I personally have as much it might be better for you.

    If you are writing all new code then I would put Rust high on the list. However most programs are adding to something that exists and the friction of writing Rust to existing code is often high enough that I’d stick with what the other code is written in.




  • And bullshit on you not being able to see the lights. They’re specifically designed so that’s not an issue for colour blind people

    Some lights are, but not all of them are. I often say I go when the light turns blue. However not all lights have that blue tint and so I often cannot tell the difference between a white light and a green light by color. (but white is not used in a stoplight and I can see red/yellow just fine) Where I live all stoplights have green on the bottom so that is always a cheat I use, but that only works if I can see the relative position - in an otherwise dark situation I only see a light in front of me and not the rest of the structure and so I cannot tell. I have driven where stoplights are not green on bottom and I can never remember if green is left/right.

    Even when the try though, not all colorblind is the same. There may not be a mitigation that will work from two different people with different aspects of colorblind.