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Yeah, I don’t disagree. And if you hit something small or relatively insignificant but common, that’s all you need

Yeah, I’d count that credibility as a real benefit from helping with bugs.

As far as xz scenarios go though, the AI slop seems to be a really bad strategy.

Hanlon’s razor seems to work well here. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a mix of people who want some real or imagined benefit from bug reports without doing or understanding the work, and people who just think LLM output is gospel—a gospel that must be spread.

Batteries seem to work fine in rural Norway. If you live somewhere warmer and/or with a bigger population or population density than Norway, you should be fine.

Ibelin. Saw it in the cinema when it first came out, seemed like everybody in the audience was crying.

(It’s about a kid with a degenerative disease who connected with people through an MMO.)

Good thing “oligarch” is just used when describing Russian conditions. That would neeeever happen here in the west.

US? Here in scandi tax seems to work well automatically, as in, we just log into the government website and click OK most years. Corrections are easy enough too, if you need it, but it’s usually not required.

It comes off as simulating enums with strings.

And yeah, even the string interpolation seems kind of excessive when it’s just appending _address. Js is even kinda infamous for how willing it is to do that with +.

Yeah, translating between cases isn’t exactly a problem IME. Might be neat to have a case-aware grep though, so you can get kebab-case, snake_case, camelCase and PascalCase all done in one go.

Yeah, I’m reminded of how Germanic languages used to have singular, dual and plural. If we’d still had dual, we’d probably also be talking about not abstracting until we actually have a plural.

I mean, the fact that more than half-century-old COBOL continues to be maintained does speak to the fact that it is maintainable. That might also be part of what makes COBOL painful to the average developer: You’re not only dealing with a language that first appeared in 1959, designed for machines that were very different than modern computers; you’re also dealing with over a half century of legacy code, including all that means for Hyrum’s law.

Unfortunately maintainable and pleasant to work with are rather distinct concepts.

Eevee’s heteroglot entry for COBOL is interesting, coming from … practically anything else.

There’s also someone doing AOC in ABAP (basically SAP COBOL) who posts over in the AOC subreddit. I’ve looked at them and … mhm, I know some of these words!

There are also a bunch of proposed 2025H1 goals. Depending on how things pan out, 2025H1 might have us see not only Rust 2024 edition, but also the new trait solver ready for general use, and new borrowchecker on nightly.