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I mean, it's not unlikely for a programming beginner to write Python, but I certainly had a hunch this was Python before reading to the end.

So, yeah, this is at least partially the Python experience, not generally the programming experience...

Before throwing away an old laptop, I had it do that to itself. Well, more specifically I used shred, which doesn't just mark files as 'deleted', but also actively overwrites the bytes on disk.

I started it from a TTY, so that there was no GUI that could want to load files from disk and then potentially crash the whole operation. But yeah, it just went through like normal and I ended up back on my shell (which makes sense, the shell should be in RAM).
It was only when I ran exit to close that shell, that the system showed it was irreparably broken.

I did then also take out the hard drive to whack it with a hammer, just to be sure. ¯(ツ)_/¯

I feel like companies were all hoping to get in early, to get a solid chunk of the cake. Well, and then a lot more companies got in than anyone could have guessed, so the slices of the cake are a lot smaller.

We'll have to see what happens, though. It's possible that the startups have to give up and only a few big fish remain. But if those have to increase prices to become profitable, this market will still be a lot smaller than people were hoping for.

As orbitz said, my comment is mostly about how much of a different person you are at that point.

There is an ethical argument to be had. After such a long time, the more noble purposes of punishment fade out (e.g. protection of society, correction of the offender), and then especially with death penalty, this looks rather barbaric.

But we would need a lot of details for this to be anything but a theoretical exercise, so I did intend to formulate it in a fashion that even if someone thinks eye-for-an-eye is peak morality, they could still be onboard with it.

Man, just imagine being 48 and getting the punishment for something your 25-year-old self did.

I do think the unnumbered variant of such anonymous parameters is useful, if you've got a team of devs that knows not to misuse them.

In particular, folks who are unexperienced will gladly make massive multi-line transformations, all in one step, and then continue blathering on about it or similar, as if everyone knew what they were talking about and there was no potential for ambiguity.

This is also particularly annoying, because you rarely read code top-to-bottom. Ideally, you should be able to jump into the middle of any code and start reading, without having to figure out what the regional abbreviations or it mean.

Problem is that they can still compromise it. Simplest method would be to just take what you've typed into the UI and send it two times. One time to your communication partners and one time unencrypted / decryptable for themselves.

But even if they're exclusively sending via Signal's library and not tampering with it or anything, they can still instruct Signal's library to add another member to a group chat. And that 'member' can be their server. It will be sent, fully end-to-end-encrypted, but to an end you don't know about.

We're getting customers that want to use LLMs to query databases and such. And I fully expect that to work well 95% of the time, but not always, while looking like it always works correctly. And then you can tell customers a hundred times that it's not 100% reliable, they'll forget.

So, at some point, that LLM will randomly run a complete non-sense query, returning data that's so wildly wrong that the customers notice. And precisely that is the moment when they'll realize, holy crap, this thing isn't always reliable?! It's been telling us inaccurate information 5% of the usages?! Why did no one inform us?!?!?!

And then we'll tell them that we did inform them and no, it cannot be fixed. Then the project will get cancelled and everyone lived happily ever after.

Or something. Can't wait to see it.

You mean vscodium? VS Code is not OSS...

I just have some empty phrases for that purpose, like "It's going!" or "It sure is a day!". Feel free to combine with facial expressions that are difficult to interpret for maximum confusion.

Thing is, it's smalltalk. Smalltalk serves a purpose and it's not the acquisition of information, so your concrete answer is kind of vain.
Smalltalk is rather for getting an emotional feel for each other. It's the first step towards any sort of interpersonal relationship. And it can also lead to deeper topics, but it doesn't have to.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's a non-commercial title, so it doesn't care to do the best job selling itself, and even then it's quite niche, but well, here's the webpage: https://crawl.develz.org/

We've also got two communities here on Lemmy: !dcss@lemmy.ml !dcss@lemmy.world

I've heard the idea before that this happens, because the blood is busy¹ moving digested food into storage, so it can't transport sugar into the brain as well. And then that feeling of low blood sugar causes your dumb brain to look for sweets.

Respectively, I've found that actually eating less per meal or eating a mix of nutrients where most take longer to digest (proteins, wholegrain, vegetables etc.) can lessen that effect.

Additionally, you can also try to get into a habit where when you do get this low blood sugar feeling, that you specifically don't give your body sweets (to not reinforce this as the solution your brain craves).
And then instead, you can try to increase your heart rate to improve sugar circulation, by taking a little walk or doing a stupid little dance or whatever sport you can quickly do without puking.
Ideally, your brain will start craving this physical activity.

¹) I'm guessing 'busy' means it circulates more actively through your stomach and less actively for other sections of your circulatory system.

Oh yeah, no, I agree. I just wasn't entirely sure, if they thought it was even weirder than it still is, because they did not know the joke about the USB sticks. Just trying to help via dumb memes. 🙃

My favorite game is a roguelike game. So, you know, a game where when you die once, your game progress is erased.

And one of the playable races is a cat. They're quite shit. They can cast spells, but can't wield weapons and can't wear armor, except for a hat.
But, well, you already guessed it, they possess the superpower of respawning after a death, for a limited number of times.

And so, because most deaths in that game happen due to a blunder, that actually makes them kind of a viable race, even though they feel like hard mode in a game that's brutally difficult to begin with.

Are you talking about userContent.css? For that, it makes sense to me that it would be visible to webpages, since it applies styles to webpages.

But OP is talking about userChrome.css, which styles the Firefox UI. I would be very surprised, if that's not isolated from webpages.

The German government has an ongoing investigation into achieving this: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Service-Navi/Publikationen/Studien/SiSyPHuS_Win10/SiSyPHuS.html

I'm mostly posting this to say that it's a lot of work. They dubbed it "SiSyPHuS", not because that acronym just came naturally from the study's title...

We built a whole quality assistance software to prevent human error in manufacturing. After political non-sense, the project got essentially cancelled when it just started to become useful.

We did ship it for one use-case, though. That use-case doesn't monitor human labor. Nope, they have robots that were supposed to be more reliable than humans and now we're quality-checking those robots.

How is that the use-case where we're most needed?

Yeah, I've learned to not try to do such deep cleaning. I clean the floor regularly in hopes that removes 80% of the dust. But everything else, I clean as I see that it's dirty. Well, and without putting it off for too long, otherwise I do need to do a deep clean when someone visits.

Gendered languages can also have a neutral gender. For example, in German masculine/feminine/neutral 'the' is: der/die/das

But yeah, as others said, these don't have much to do with the gender identity. For example:

• the person → die Person (feminine)
• the girl → das Mädchen (objectifying women neutral)