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Was gonna write that it pays dividends only from a certain project size onwards, but in fact it could be true from a certain org size instead. So yes, it has some component of bureaucracy-as-code, and I agree with the author that that can be a good thing.


I'm seeing this way too often in production code, despite linters and reviews. So we have to keep plastering over.


"They know what’s intuitive and what isn’t"

... and then they ignore it? It triggers me when someone calls hidden swipe gestures intuitive. It's the opposite of affordance, which these designers should be familiar with if they are worth their salaries.


They don’t ignore it, they’re weighing up the pros and cons properly, something you don’t seem to want to do in good faith.



https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/#:~:...

and, setting that aside, the very next paragraph says that this is a legit representation of -2.0 which means something has gone gravely wrong

  value: -
    # change this to 3.14 one day
    2.0


Funnily, 1.5 decades after Golang popularized formatters, in 2024 it is the only language that I work in that requires me to think about formatting. Mostly line length, but super annoying.


They have tons of commuters and business travelers. Didn't look into the methodology, but my first guess would be that those are included in the numerator, but not in the denominator.


That's what options are for. But I find it more cost effective to just diversify my investments.


Not familiar with the details, but page fault != segfault.


What Linux calls a segmentation fault is actually almost always a page fault.


Ok satire and i fell for it. Nice.


Do it. I recently built a beefy machine, the first time in years that I have something I can play on, it's Linux only and it's great. Deepening on the games you play, check protondb first.


I agree with that, but null safety would be a big deal for correctness.


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