That’s cool if people can agree on what maintainability is, which changes improve it and which changes hurt it.

You can get two people arguing for the exact opposite thing, while both of them use maintainability as an argument.

Or how noone uses the default phone messaging app outside of the US.

Is this a tax that domestic companies already had to pay, but foreign companies were exempt from? If so, then I wonder what took them so long.

So why don’t you at least try to run the numbers. Takes like 2 minutes. Total output, output per car, number of cars - it’s not rocket science.

US and Taiwan both are perfectly happy with the status quo, they would be the last people to start any wars there.

The vibe reminds me of https://youtu.be/Jml7NVYm8cs

Kind of like every other job.

He’s basically just whining about his competition being able to attract more talent by offering better conditions that he doesn’t want to compete with.

It’s no different than complaining that the competition has a better/cheaper product and people are not buying yours.

Democracy is when you need a majority of votes, which they don’t have. If they did, none of this would be an issue.

It’s not nitpicking, stuff like this is far more impactful than choosing between 5 lines vs 10 lines long methods, or whether the hasExtraCommissions “if” belongs inside or outside of calculateExtraCommissions. This kind of thing should immediately jump out at you as a red flag when you’re reading code, it’s not something to handwave away as a detail.

Why is it a void method? This only tells me that some state is mutated somewhere, but the effect is neither visible nor documented.

I would expect a function called “calculate” to just return a number and not have any side effects.

So where do all the renters come from?

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/a-quarter-of-china-city-dwellers-rent-survey-shows - same website that your wikipedia link lists as source

But none of that is relevant to the article of this post. That article talks about money to complete unfinished projects. It’s in the very first paragraph. There are people who took out loans to buy pre-construction apartments with plans to live there, who are now in trouble.

But the article is specifically talking about unfinished projects.

So you don’t have a flat to live in either, you have an abandoned construction site.

Self host with backups set up?

I can’t believe I have to explain this. Anyway

The comparison to Alex Jones and other conspiracy nutjobs was about how they don’t care about any facts or context, and just like to string together random headlines into some doomsday narrative that supports their view.

The phrase “tankie infowars” means basically that - same methods, just different target audience. So you would switch around who the good guys and bad guys are, but not much else.

You don’t think coming to the conclusion “omg, this must be nuclear war preparations”, instead of this just being a regular target, is conspiracy level thinking?

It would fit right into Alex Jones’s show. And it’s the most upvoted comment here.

Is this a tinfoil conspiracy site? Tankie infowars?

It was Medvedev who started talking shit about nukes more than a year ago (and a lot since then)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-wed-have-use-nuclear-weapon-if-ukrainian-offensive-was-success-2023-07-30/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-medvedev-warns-nuclear-war-if-russia-defeated-ukraine-2023-01-19/

This is of course in addition to just taking all the training data without credit or permission by both teams, which usually goes without saying these days.

C is one of the few languages where using goto makes sense as a poor man’s local error/cleanup handler.