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!

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

He said Linux Subsystem for Windows, which I took to mean the opposite of Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux

(for reference, look at the difference between WSL1 and WSL2)

Is the joke that the main river in Paris is so polluted that swimmers would need to wear protection?

Never mind that the swimming events would be held in a pool instead

First version: attempt to reimplement the windows API on top of Linux

Second version: give up and embed Windows inside a VM

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

Some things, like honorifics, dont translate well to English.

For example, the -chan, -sama, -kun etc suffixes are super annoying when the English voice actors try to use them.

They’re fine in the English subtitles against the Japanese audio though

I found this in my first and second year so I stopped buying them.

Half the time it was just “recommended reading” and the book wasn’t even used in class.

Yep, not gonna shell out $120 per book for “recommend reading”

Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

Why would I avoid politics on the politics platform?

They say correlation doesn’t equal causation, but the dick up the arse suggests otherwise

Is it r-unit, or run-it?

I’ve read it as r-unit for so long and now I’ve only just realised that run-it makes far more sense

TIL what movie inspired React state management

“security reasons” is the classic cop-out for making users lives more miserable.

Like what are you gonna do, argue that you don’t care about security?

var context = RuntimeSingletonFactory.getCurrentFactory().getCurrentRuntimeSingleton().getContext()

Yes, you can sideload apps from this century into Debian and run them in an isolated environment with dependencies also from this century :)

Tbh I’m surprised that the Debian kernel is new enough to support cgroups /s

Who cares?

Ubuntu is a shell of what it once was. They’re not going to make Snap optional, they need to justify its existence by releasing everything as snaps with no alternative so you have to use it.

Or, just use Debian if you like Debian-style distros?

Or, wait for it - this is gonna sound a bit radical but hear me out - give Fedora a try? Flatpak instead and unlike Debian Stable has packages from this century

Inb4 btw I use Arch

First step to get a usable machine: disable SELinux

Try Ubuntu mate

'straya!!