I like to jump out of bed and put weight on the leg.

That is if my blanket doesn’t trip me.

20 seconds, Germany. Waiting while they checked if my name was on the list.

Completely depends on how often you need to write boilerplate code, and how error-prone it is.

After writing hundreds of instances of ‘fetch this from the server and show an error if it doesn’t work’, I finally wrote a helper for that. It took 2 hours, shouts at me if I use it wrong, and instantly makes my classes easier to read because all the boilerplate is gone. As an added bonus, the invocation is so small that Copilot can write it error-free, which it couldn’t before.

So fetching things is now a thing of a few seconds instead of one minute with a chance of making a mistake. I say it’s worth it.

C) Write a highly specific, custom-tailored boilerplate generator that does 80% of the work and needs only a day or two to implement.

There’s a great section in the second Hitchhiker’s book about this exact topic – if anyone’s interested.

Ahh, the joys of no interference and a highly fun freetime activity.

I’m right with you. When you find yourself attaching random entities to a power pole just so you can read the signals and debug the circuit, it gets annoying.

I’m not a wordologist. Do words become harder to say when they’re longer? I mean, alalalalalong has 6 syllables.

The low eyebrow looks strikingly neanderthal.

Vanilla Music – the music player I use.

Psst. We don’t do logic here.

Since I don’t like Veritasium, I’ll suggest the CGPGrey videos:

• First Past the Post
• Alternative Vote
• Single Transferable Vote

Is that Tom Scott from the future?

Might be my imagination is playing tricks on me.

I think this refers to everyday household items being powered by some unspecified kind of uranium engine.

Coding must be a nightmare if you’re choosing programming languages at random 😱

But you must also be learning quite a lot.

Programs aren’t written by a single team of developers that speak the same language. You’d be calling a library by a Hungarian with additions from an Indian in a framework developed by Germans based on original work by Mexicans.

If no-one were forcing all of them to use English by only allowing English keywords, they’d name their variables and functions in their local language and cause mayhem to readability.

[Edit:] Even with all keywords being forced to English, there’s often half-localized code.

I can’t find the source right now, but I strongly believe that Steve McConnell has a section in one of his books where he quotes a function commented in French and asks, “Can you tell the pitfall the author is warning you about? It’s something about a NullPointerException”. McConnell then advises against local languages even in comments

Please don’t use your phone while driving.

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I’m inclined to buy that just because it exists. I hate subscription services so, so much!

This is the best option if you think you’ll use Nebula for more than 5 years.

leveraging their games to make people buy their console when those people just want to buy the game

That’s the whole point of exclusive titles and every console vendor does it.