France is a safe haven for foss media codecs because its law does not consider software patentable

TIL there is a country that sees reason about software patents

Oh is THAT why every American knows how big 9mm is

Well, yeah. Anything less than 0 is freezing and anything greater than 0 isn’t.

Ezpz

Yeah, but, like, how many hours will it take for you to deliver 5 complexity points?

+1. I used to think it was just something that happened to old people, until it happened to me

“will the company go out of business if this isn’t fixed in the next hour?”

Litmus test for urgency

Yeah eastern countries just don’t have the same relationship with alcohol that the west does.

Gambling, however…

It’s not just you, I guarantee your cat doesn’t give a damn about anyone

even Valve told Ubuntu users to use the Flatpak for Steam instead of the Snap

Hahaha really? That’s awesome. I wonder if Canonical will ever take the hint that nobody wants Snap when better, more open alternatives exist

Yeah, package manager is a big one. Many of us got burned by rpm’s early on and just avoided all rpm-based distros since then.

Of course as you say that hasn’t been a problem for over 10 years but the scars haven’t gone away.

I’d only recommend Ubuntu to someone if I knew they knew some else using Ubuntu (so I could tell them to hassle that person instead of me when they have problems).

Otherwise, I’d absolutely recommend Fedora, because it’s actually up to date unlike Debian. I use it myself because it tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer while not needing constant tweaking

And then managers go “why does shadow IT exist?”

…you have my condolences

Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!

It’s more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.

It won’t prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won’t cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won’t)

Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.

Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.

Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO

I disagree unless the tests are reasonably high level.

Half the time the thing you’re testing is so poorly defined that the only way to tighten that definition is to iterate.

In this sense, you’re wasting time writing tests until you’ve iterated enough to have something worth testing.

At that point, a couple of regression tests offer the biggest bang for buck so you can sanity check things are still working when you move on to another function and forget all about this one

It’s an acquired taste. Back when I was a starving student and everyone was drinking cheap alcohol and living off 2-minute noodles, I acquired the taste

My house was built in the 1960’s, to New Zealand standards.

We build houses for the climate we wish we had, not the climate we actually have. All the wall cavities are empty, especially the external walls

Wow, and here I was trying to set breakpoints using the devtools debugger and faffing around with sourcemaps.

Wish I knew about this 10 years ago!

Tbh im incredulous that explicit sync wasnt a thing from day 1.

Like what kind of sane API have you ever used that didn’t allow you to buffer / queue up operations and then flush them all at once?