Coming soon, Oracle JavaScript ™…

Yeah I would estimate something like 0.5%.

Yeah I mean obviously the technical points here are correct (and I wish my colleagues would write more robust code with less Bash and regex all over the place), but I don’t know why he thinks you need an asshole manager to deliver that message.

Over-engineered. Too many moving parts. Refactor.”

That was it. No “nice work.” No “good attempt”. Just a hard stop.

Uhm yeah, would writing “good attempt” have hurt? Obviously not. He could easily have been nice and still deliver the technical information.

Good attempt, but I think this is too over-engineered with too many moving parts. For instance x y z would be simpler to maintain, and a b c isn’t robust to 1 2 3 for example.

It doesn’t take much. Don’t be a dick.

No, create a fake social media account praising Trump!

Yeah there’s a new button in WhatsApp that lets you talk to Meta AI. I’m good thanks.

At least it explicitly says it can’t read your conversations, and even that they won’t use your conversation with it for training, which is a bit of a surprise. Bet they had some fun meetings arguing that - and well done whoever won the debate!

Technically they do via a footnote… but it’s a pretty confusing one at that!

The FLS stood for the “Ferrocene Language Specification”. The minimal fork of Rust that Ferrous Systems qualifies and ships to their customers is called “Ferrocene”, hence the name. We’ll be dropping the expansion and just calling it the FLS within the Project.

So now it stands for… nothing. Bizarre.

Ha no. SQLite can easily handle tens of GB of data. It’s not even going to notice a few thousand text files.

The initial import process can be sped up using transactions but as it’s a one-time thing and you have such a small dataset it probably doesn’t matter.

Definitely SQLite. Easily accessible from Python, very fast, universally supported, no complicated setup, and everything is stored in a single file.

It even has a number of good GUI frontends. There’s really no reason to look any further for a project like this.

They’re being tactful. It’s clearly a reference to Waiting for Godot. They even said so.

The name “Godot” was chosen in reference to Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.

Ok so if I’m understanding correctly Hyperlight lets you sandbox components of your embedded system using hypervisor/VMs. Hyperlight WASM is an alternative sandbox that uses WASM for sandboxing instead.

I guess if you only have WASM there would not be much need for Hyperlight at all, but if you have a mix of WASM and non-WASM code this would be useful.

It is definitely a silent t. They’ve just misread it.

I agree, it’s really annoying.

I normally click the “discard all changes” button in VSCode and it asks me if I am sure. That confirmation dialog has saved me a few times!

From the command line I’d normally git checkout . and git clean -ffxd. I guess you could say it’s no different to git reset --head HEAD in a sense…

Asking for it if you git reset --hard with uncommitted changes tbh… I feel like Git shouldn’t let you do that by default, but that would make Git slightly user friendly so I guess we can’t have that!

Glad you recovered your code anyway!

I don’t agree with everything Israel does but you have to consider the environment they’re in. They may be aggressive and racist but they’re not terrorists.

Honestly I think the complaints about the job market are overblown. If you are good then there will always be a job for you somewhere.

If you’ve already tried programming and you enjoy it then it is a really great career. Crazy money (especially in the US) for low effort and low responsibility.

Just be aware that CS is usually a lot more theoretical than most programming. You’ll be learning about things like Hoare logic and category theory. Tons of stuff you only really need in the real world if you’re doing formal verification or compiler design.

Still, I kind of wish I did have that theoretical background now I am doing formal verification and compiler design! (I did a mechanical engineering degree.)

Also you don’t need a CS degree to get a programming job. I did a survey of colleagues once to see what degree they had and while CS was the most common, fewer than half had one. Most had some kind of technical degree (maths, physics, etc.), but some had done humanities and one guy (who was very good!) didn’t have a degree at all.

I wouldn’t worry about the market. Maybe take a look at the syllabus for places you might apply to, e.g. here’s the one for Cambridge. Also I guess an important question is what’s the alternative? What would you do otherwise?

I mean it’s not a totally unreasonable list but what’s with “working alone with headphones on”? And what are “annotations”?

Also Typescript backend can be pretty great actually - especially because it lets you use JSX/TSX. Nothing else is as good.

mainly because of rails magic though whenever I look at it. Convention over configuration hurts my brain some days.

I agree. Ruby has waaaay too much magic which makes it impossible to follow (dynamic typing makes it even worse).

And convention over configuration definitely has huge advantages in terms of consistency and terseness, but it is also way less discoverable because instead of a config file say “the stuff is in foo” you have to already know that everything in foo is automatically treated as stuff.

I often wonder if it would be crazy to have both: you have a configuration file that says where things go, but the values must be set to constant well-known values. Sounds kind of crazy so I’ve never done it but you would get consistency and discoverability. I expect people would complain about the redundancy though.

None of this is nonsensical though.

• Adafruit - brand name; meaningless in any industry.
• ESP32-S3 - product code; random numbers in any industry.
• Reverse - screen is on the back.
• TFT - Abbreviation for the display technology.
• u.FL - Abbreviation for the antenna type.

You could easily have something like that about e.g. mountain biking:

NEW PRODUCT - Sram Xg-1299 Eagle 10-52 Cassette

I’ve definitely seen “this is more correct, but all the other code does it like this so can you change it?”

I can’t say I entirely disagree with it either - usually the “more correct” is not “the existing code doesn’t work at all”, and keeping it consistent makes it easier to fix all of the code later, because you’re only fixing one style instead of two (or more).

Ha you only think this is unique to tech because you don’t have experience of it in other fields.