I didn’t say the source of failure. I said a source of ambiguity. And having also been in the industry for decades, I have encountered it many times, where a junior programmer or somebody new to a project read some documentation and assumed a behavior which in fact did not match the current implementation. So you may have been fortunate, but your experience is certainly not ubiquitous.

With respect to variable names, I’d suggest those too should absolutely be updated too if the name is given in a way that adds ambiguity.

I’m not saying comments are bad; rather that bad comments are bad, and sometimes worse than no comment.

And your colleagues are probably correct with respect to this sort of «what it does» commenting. That can be counterproductive because if the code changes and the comment isn’t updated accordingly, it can be ambiguous. Better have the code be the singular source of truth. However, «why it does it» comments are another story and usually accepted by most as helpful.

I’m not saying what they’ll do but the concept of the French being “revolutioned out” borders on comical. It may be beheadings or merely stacking trash in the street, but they aren’t known for staying quiet.

It does mean something. It may not have enforcement teeth, as it is a strictly diplomatic body. However, it still illustrates the state of things and has an impact on international relations.

I also think of The Ultimate Showdown too when I see this.

I had forgotten about Macromedia. I liked Dreamweaver before Adobe got its hands on it.

I don’t either, but you don’t have to use that feature. I don’t. I just use with local db for that machine.

I use fish with atuin but without sync. It is nice because I can search commands for a given workspace. For example the commands within a given git repository.

Also, atuin.sh.

There is no USB-B here and it is pretty hard to get the wrong direction anyway.

Six since it has A at both ends.

If you can write a moderately complex math equation in tex on the first try, you’re a programmer in my book.

Aren’t the x-suffixed files just an xml format?

Comapnie bro!

I meant doesn’t change with respect to time zones. Leap times are still relevant in that scenario as each solar rotation doesn’t divide into a whole number of days and leap seconds due to variance in rotation.

With respect to the meridian I envision it rotating around the earth once per year, hence sidereal. So 0000 would rotate around the earth through the course of the year. Each day it would be one degree farther.

Most likely is I’m just completely full of shit.

My suggestion has always been universal sidereal time. It is singular, doesn’t change, and carries no colonial baggage since it rotates around the whole earth. Even suitable as a home time if we become spacefaring.

Braggart!

Like with everything, context matters. Sometimes it can indicate poorly structured control flow, other times inefficient loop nesting. But many times it is just somebody’s preference for guard clauses. As long as the intent is clear, there are no efficiency problems, and it is possible to reach the fewest branches necessary, I see no issues.

It runs in browsers. It… isn’t poop? I don’t know. I’m all out of ideas.

!sudo shutdown -r now. Or just :x or ZZ, but I guess those don’t fit the motif of this very tired silly joke.