It’s so fucking coincidental that it seems hard to believe this wasn’t an act of deliberate sabatoge.

It turns out the Doctors did have borders.

Nah, this is totally a reasonable move given how Russia has been trying to collect hostages for trades lately.

At this point… we can only hope. Hopefully, there aren’t any other inspired disciples out there.

Gosh, yall are trying to upstage the Munich Conference now.

Hey… what’s a little murder between geopolitical allies of convenience…

Fucking amazing, putting cash in locals’ wallets will provide a serious boost.

That’s fair enough.

C is an extremely expressive language. There’s a reason it won’t die and, while we all love to shit on it for the memes, you can write perfectly safe software in it.

I don’t really like phone based systems but I use voice assistant reminders (like Google Home/Alexa) constantly to prewarn when meetings are and the like.

They may be obvious to the reader but they may be impossible to see if tabs and spaces are mixed together.

Closing tokens are always clearer.

Sorry, what’s confusing the fact that "Hi my name is {$this->name}" works and "Hi my name is {self::name}" is unintelligible gibberish! /s

Yes it would - look at optional braces for short if expressions in C family languages and why it’s so discouraged in large projects. Terminating characters are absolutely worth the cost of an extra LoC

For those highly complex situations is Lua still viewed as the ideal solution? Lua is sort of legendary for game configuration and seems to strike a good expressiveness/accessibility balance for modders and the casually technical.

So Poe’s Law and all that… I really hope you’re being sarcastic because having non-technical people hand edit JSON is a nightmare. It’s also quite annoying to read without a lot of extra whitespace which most editors that’d help less technical folks omit… and comments to help highlight what different things mean are hacky, hard to read, and actually read as data.

Because people over use it. YAML is pretty good for short config files that need to be human readable but it falls apart with complex multi line strings and escaping.

I think there are much better clearly delimited for machine reading purposes formats out there that you should prefer if you’re writing a really heavy config file and, tbh, I think for everything else .ini is probably “good enough”.

Why would you ever relaunch it, though?

Maybe it’s time to put on some tunes and take a brain break.

I’ve made it work surprisingly well in software development - I work in the architecture field and as long as I’m truly diligent about note taking (or am lucky enough to have a trusted coworker to lean on) I’m able to make it work.

Also, micromanagers are your fucking bane if you have ADHD - sometimes I’m not working, I accept that and do house shit when I can’t focus… I still produce more output than most of my coworkers but I absolutely do need full brain breaks.

What an absolutely irrelevant observation.

America is a really good example of why elected judges is a mixed bag - in counties where it happens you’ll occasionally see some righteous dethroning of a corrupt judge… but you’ll also see most elections go unnoticed with judges winning based on party alone and flying under the radar to enrich themselves.

Compare that to the Supreme Court which appoints staffers based mostly on merit (obviously the current panel of justices is fucking disappointing) or political appointment by congress that’s given us Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Cannon.

Election of jurists or internal career paths both have their advantages and disadvantages… political appointments is the only system that’s truly balls.