I had a female boss.

Adjective is fine, using it as noun is icky

Yeah, but a satirical one, not one to be taken literally.

I mean, if you treat your inbox as a to-do list, that’s not that far-fetched

Weird how he’s helping the far right in both cases.

• complying with Erdogan
• refusing to block fascists

Python is just glorified shell scripting

Absolutely not, python is an actual programming language with sane error handling and arbitrarily nestable data structures.

I don’t like the indentation crap

Don’t be so superficial. When learning something, go with the flow and try to work with the design choices, not against them.

Python simply writes a bit differently: you do e.g. more function definitions and list comprehensions.

Not only is there a UInt8Array, there’s also a bunch of others: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray#typedarray_objects

Once git no longer depends on it, it’ll be gone from my system

Nah, gross. You need to set a bunch of global options to get sane behavior on errors.

Nushell is shaping up really really nicely, and it’ll actually stop executing if something fails! Even if that happens in a pipe! And it’s not super eager to convert between arrays and strings if you use the wrong cryptic rune.

No reason. It’s just that when there wasn’t anything to experience it, nobody asked themselves that question.

So the question is a consequence of our existence, and that’s the answer

Negative rings are a horrible proprietary liability.

That’s been clear from their inception, and this changes nothing.

Huh, I really like code like that. Having a multi-step process split up into sections like that is amazing to reason about actual dependencies of the individual sections. Granted, that only applies if the individual steps are kinda independently meaningful

To adapt your example to what I mean:

Baz do_stuff(int count, boolean cond) {
	Foo part1 = function1(count);
	Bar part2 = function2(cond);
	return function3(part1, part2);
}

This allows you to immediately see that part1 and part2 are independently calculated, and what goes into calculating them.

There are several benefits, e.g.:

1. if there is a problem, you can more easily narrow down where it is (e.g. if part2 calculates as expected and part1 doesn’t, the problem is probably in function1, not function2 or function3). If you have to understand the whole do_stuff before you can effectively debug it, you waste time.
2. if the function needs to be optimized, you know immediately that function1 and function 2 can probably run in parallel, and even if you don’t want to do that, the slow part will show up in a flame graph.

dbg!() for Rust users

He works on Linux where he controls the whole stack down to the metal and I love that for him, but other people have to call library code, and them debug that if it doesn’t work as they thought it would.

You can theme plasma and turn the effects off. Why isn’t that exactly what you want?

You can update the whole base image. Vanilla OS and SteamOS have an A/B partition that holds the currently-in-use image and can also hold a to-be-used image.

Updating works by adding the to-be-used image, setting a configuration option that tells the system to boot that one, and on the next boot it’ll check if the new one is bootable, then either boot it and mark it as working, or boot into the old one and display an error about how out wasn’t able to boot into the new one.

There’s smart things going on like maybe hard linking files that didn’t change between the two images and therefore saving space and copying time.

The result is that you never have a broken system, but you can still frequently update the base image.

I feel like that has been superseded by Nix these days. Arch is now boring stable tech.

You say that as if somebody was disputing that.

The distinction ceased to be meaningful the minute language servers got introduced.

Laptop tries to reboot for 5th update of the day

I can’t connect to the internet, Dave, I’m afraid I cannot allow you to start me up again

You try to ignore helpful tips from the guy next to you, pretending your headphones are still active.

You choke back tears as Windows had enough from your feeble attempts to boot and the power button stops doing anything.

Doesn’t apply to the author here, so I don’t understand why you brought it up?