Cratermaker @ Cratermaker @discuss.tchncs.de

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That's a shame, I love that book.

When you really want the floor to be lava.

It helps people relax and feel good, basically. In a similar vein, there's no informational content in a sitcom and yet they continue to be made. Some people enjoy crocheting or playing guitar hero, even though they might not be learning much from them. Personally I like a good blend of entertainment and education, but I also don't really try to justify to myself why I might enjoy one person's videos over another's, it might even come down to the voice or some other entirely subjective factor really.

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I've heard it's more of a problem on the library side. But I've personally had pains with ts when working with quirky features such as enums or discriminating unions. Part of the problem in my opinion is that the types all disappear at runtime, so you lose a lot of the joy of a statically typed language. For example, an API can pass you unexpected garbage and all your ts type wrangling helps not at all.

Idk, I don't see a problem with saying a new language is unintuitive. For example, in js I still consider the horrible type coercion and the "fix" with the triple-equals very unintuitive indeed. On the flip side, when learning C# I found the multiple ways of making comparisons to be pretty intuitive, and not footguns.

Nothing like trying to make sense of code you come across and all the function parameters have unhelpful names, are not primitive types, and have no type information whatsoever. Then you get to crawl through the entire thing to make sense of it.

Might need some evidence of this one!

It's my birthday too! Happy bday!

Originated in car culture to describe people who take Japanese economy cars and make them look like they're from The Fast And The Furious while doing nothing to improve actual performance.

I did, I was in high school at the time and I had just discovered Firefox. I remember it was a while before it was possible to have nested replies. Before Digg I think I just used StumbleUpon. Good times!

If you think that's bad, don't think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.

Infinite Jest, especially the sections surrounding the boarding house. Its strange mix of exaggerated reality and absurdness really made me question and rebuild a lot of my ways of thinking.

My well-trained monkey brain scrolled right past your comment, then I did a double take because I realized Lemmy shouldn't have ads. Thanks for that little scare, lol.

Working on a full stack app hosted in Azure for the last year or so, which has come with a lot of learning. Working on the legacy system next... wish me luck!

Out of curiosity, why not go off-the-shelf? I think you can buy ready made systems for that job.