Oh god, SGML. That’s a memory I had successfully repressed.

Can you spoke readen English, though?

The best Hello World I saw used a random library. Because there’s no true random without hardware, the author figured out the correct seed to write Hello World with “random” characters. I’ve used that to show junior devs that random in programming doesn’t mean truly random.

Farming is god-awful if your livelihood depends on it. I’d rather be a carpenter or a metalworker once I’m fed up with that computer stuff.

I don’t think that holds true in all scenarios. You need to use a key that has some guarantees. In many systems you will use data you don’t control, like email addresses, IBANs, ISBNs, passport IDs and many more. You have zero control over those keys, but because each comes with certain guarantees, they might be suitable as a foreign key in your context.

Do you always succumb to the need to publicly over-analyze everything?

Very, very slowly.

Yeah. And I also take these posts by outraged people with a grain of salt. Sure large companies do shady shit, but we’re getting just one side of the argument and it’s from an angry person. Also, in this case, an online casino. Not exactly a source I trust 100%.

Ain’t nothin’ but a G thang

I’ll give you the p, but in which world is that a G?

20+ years writing code have taught me a few things. The first and most important is that every code base, given enough time, will end up being difficult to maintain and full of things you hate. And you might have written some of those things yourself. And I think that’s fine. Striving for perfect, clean code is impossible, because the understanding of what that means changes over time. Code needs to do its job and be reasonably easy to maintain. That’s what I strive for these days. And if that is too boring for you, you’ll need to find a new job or write open source software. A company that decides to pay you isn’t usually looking for your ideas about which tool or paradigm you get excited about. They want you to make them more money than they pay you. You can bemoan that, but it will be as effective as complaining that water is wet. I actually enjoy solving problems and luckily as tech lead I still get to do that, because they pass the real hard problems on to me. That’s enough for me to enjoy my job. Of course the money helps too.

WH🌍

CARES

Here they were called midi towers. And you’re right, I didn’t see the second picture. It’s obvious there.

That’s not a midi tower.

While I thought the same at the time, since then I’ve adopted a more nuanced view. My guess is that she was planning to divorce him for a while and just used an opportune moment to actually do it. Some rumors that can be explained away are not something that would end a healthy marriage.

I’ve learnt about byte/nibble over 30 years ago and just now got the pun.

Who the hell shit my pants?

How much for a new joke? Six months in Dachau.

No, that’s mostly a circlejerk.

There’s also a Sabaton song, “Father”, about him.