Whatever that weapon is called, it’s responsible for the only defeat on Musashi’s record. So this guy with just a wooden sword is definitely unsafe.

Your point is actually what makes remote work so much more effective. When you work in an office, you get used to things working by chance - people seeing what others are doing, talking about it on coffee breaks and so on. When everybody is working remotely, you quickly realize that those things that happened by chance were actually a lot more important than it might seem at first - and then you can do the dumb thing and go back to having it happen by chance, or you can change your processes to ensure that everyone who may have anything to say about what you’re doing, know that you’re doing it.

I’m actually faithful to the Church of Last Thursdayism, so I do not believe that.

Top headline will be about some new word the young generation is using. The smaller pieces will say stuff like “are you morally opposed to murder? That may cost you your job! 12 out the 14 companies in America say they wouldn’t hire someone with antique puritane views”

If I say “it’s here” she’ll run towards any window to bark.

It became mandatory for all new products in 2011, so a few years after that most people were used to it, though there’s many people still using adapters to this day.

Type N might not be the best but it was like a gift from heavens here in Brazil. We had no standard before it so most outlets would take one or two unsafe options; most houses would not ground their outlets, people would yank out the ground pin from plugs to make them fit; washing machines would often come with a completely different plug that some houses would just have a different outlet for, while others would use adapters. And so many other issues.

Nowadays you don’t even need to see what you’re doing because you can just stick your hand into outlets to feel where it is and insert the plug blindly without any risk.

The kind you get from social media randos.

At one point long ago (just for a short while), I thought Delphi was destined to take that place. It was much higher level while still letting you go as low level as you wanted- it didn’t have garbage collection but it made it pretty easy to keep track of what is or isn’t allocated, on top of having good tools to find leaks on runtime. But it had too many problems too: the Pascal base and the association with drag and drop coders being some of the first ones, followed by a series of bad decisions by whatever company was responsible for it at any given week.

As long as it runs the same code, yes. But things may change, clients may pre-emptively split the string or stuff like that.

Imagine getting a multi byte character at the right position to get it split so that one byte gets in and the other doesn’t.

I’m not saying it’s good, I’m saying I expected it to be even worse.

Reading the paper, AI did a lot better than I would expect. It showed experienced devs working on a familiar code base got 19% slower. It’s telling that they thought they had been more productive, but the result was not that bad tbh.

I wish we had similar research for experienced devs on unfamiliar code bases, or for inexperienced devs, but those would probably be much harder to measure.

Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: “boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies”.

Me, trying to be funny: “oh so that’s why sometimes there’s smoke coming out of my mouth?”

Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.

It’ll be over one day and I don’t know how high the DPI will have to be, but I’m currently at 160 and I still see room for cramming in more pixels.

I started using computers at 640x480, sometimes 800x600. 1024x768 was a blessing. Since then I’ve always cherished every extra pixel I could get. I would never dare use anything above 1x scale.

Audio communication is too slow. If Humans can’t evolve to communicate telepathically, language itself should evolve to account for this. Here’s what I propose:

• we develop a mathematical formula to generate a fingerprint/signature for sentences we intent to say;
• before saying anything, we calculate this fingerprint in our head, then say this fingerprint result, followed by the actual thing we want to say
• the listener then gets this fingerprint result and keeps in mind; whenever it tries to predict what the full sentence from the speaker is going to be, it calculates the fingerprint for the predicted sentence and compares it to the fingerprint received at the start.
• if the fingerprints match, then the listener reports: “I got it” and the speaker can then skip saying the rest of their sentence.

Surely this is bound to improve communication for everyone and would have no downsides whatsoever.

(Sorry, the amphetamines must be kicking in right about now).

I somehow managed to get pretty good at getting a good feeling of “did this person understood what I want them to understand?” and I adapt my level of overexplaining based on that feeling.

It’s something I wish other people did to me as well, as I hate it when people keep talking more to make the same point I already got. Tbh sometimes I even wish people would stop mid-sentence if I already autocompleted their sentence in my head.

Brazil.

If I’m at home and simply unwell, I can walk to the neighborhood clinic (one specific clinic based on my address) and get checked - that usually takes half an hour to a couple hours, but it may not always have a doctor available.

So most people skip the local clinic completely and go to a municipal hospital instead (something doctors often plead people not to do). These should always have a couple doctors available and they’ll see anybody - even if you have no documents. When you get there a nurse will check your pulse and stuff and ask some questions to determine your priority level, then the waiting time can go up to 4 hours if it’s low priority.

If you need specific exams, that will depend on how well equipped the hospital is. Many will do it right there, some will request it from other cities and that may take time, so there’s the option of doing it in private clinics too.

No matter what you may end up needing, if you do it through the public health system you won’t need to pay anything at all. Even experimental treatments and surgeries can get arranged. But there’s always the option of going to private clinics as well. Those can have much shorter waiting times.

Based on my limited experience, this is what people seem to do for each kind of visit:

Emergencies: pretty much everybody go to public hospitals. Most places don’t even have private options for this.

Basic check up: most people will use the public system first, unless it’s something very specific and they are well financially.

Dental care: most people who won’t be financially crippled by it will go private. People tend to stick with the same dentist once they find a good one. On the public system you never know who you might be seeing.

Eye doctor: 50/50. There are nearly as many private options for this as there are for dental care, but a lot of them suck.

Expensive exams and operations: people will try to get them for free at first, or through some Health insurance plan they may have from work. Everybody knows someone who’s been waiting months for something on the public system.

The code is open anyone to inspect, test, and improve. Vulnerabilities don’t stay hidden as they are found, reported, and fixed in the open.

That’s also a myth, specially for a project of the size of nextcloud. Bugs can and do go unnoticed for years while in plain sight - with no way to know if it’s been detected by any black hat.

Even worse: as soon as you merge a security fix in an open repository, people will instantly be trying to abuse it in any environment they can find that is currently running the unpatched version.