stilgar [he/him]

IMO an engineer should be able to develop a complex system which an entire company could potentially be based upon.

A developer who isn’t an engineer would focus more on individual libraries, apps or tools that don’t necessarily require the mindset of an engineer to design and maintain.

This looks like a lot of fun to use, I loved the example from What If, so many units!

I couldn’t even start the test because the button was entirely hidden, added some screenshots 👆

This page is completely unuseable with Firefox on Android!

Edit: screenshots

Pro tip: If your code gets flogged by git, you can always get revenge with git reflog 😉

Solidarity to our Swedish comrades, showing Tesla the power of united labour!

It has gone so wrong because liberalism has failed. We need political movements which serve the people, not the corporations.

They’re talking about the rendering speed, not the playback speed.

I’ve got a MYLR and the sustained acceleration is terrifying, its very seldom that I floor it.

The M3P must be bonkers since its lighter, lower and more powerful.

Yes, the Model Y is the best selling car in Norway ever, but your smooth brain knows much better than everyone who has been in the market and purchased one because it was the best option for them.

Presumably because it uses LFP battery cells? If that’s the case, then the lower rated range is not as important since those cells tolerate many charge cycles to 100%.

One typically only charges to 80% with other Li battery chemistries so one effectively loses that top 20% of range.

These “uber commands” tend to be much better since they are more explorable with --help explanations and readable flags.

Much better than the random jumble of characters you’re expected to have memorised for awk, sed, find et al.

Programmers are probably chill af, looks like a very bad day for some network people though.

Only if it’s specified and documented as part of a contract with the user. If they’re relying on internal implementation details, well that’s a good lesson for them not too do that.

Google canned their gaming product though…

There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:

• The terminal can remember everything you ever did. Forgotten the command you wrote 2 months ago? You can do a search for it with a tool like fzfand run the exact same command again.
• Communicating with others. GUI programs require step by step instructions, often accompanied by screenshots while CLI may be copy/pasted.
• Combining programs together. There are a few different techniques for combining CLI programs to search/format output, use secrets without ever having them in the clipboard or on disk, monitor something frequently/constantly etc etc

So while I agree with you that there’s plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.

Thank fuck! I’m so sick of rebasing and merging Dependabot PRs.

Gradle is absolute rubbish, definitely the worst experience I’ve had with a build system. But Maven is also rubbish.

IMO a CLI should be the primary way of interacting with the build system (see e.g. Go, Rust, JS with NPM or Yarn, Python with Poetry) and manually editing the build file should be reserved for edge cases and extensions.

Yes the EU has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which among other things gives users the right to request their data back from platforms.

It’s regulation with teeth since many of the tech multinationals have already had multi billion dollar fines. The fines can be up to 4% of global revenue.