When I was a kid (80s-90s), we just wore a coloured pinny.

Where I live any establishment that serves alcohol to be consumed on premises must also serve some sort of food option to go with it. So by that token, all bars are restaurants here.

yeah, 98 was trash. 98SE was good

AI has uses when it’s not being rammed down peoples throats or used to plagiarize content (personal assistant/home automation type stuff is the first that comes to mind - I’d like to eventually set up a locally-hosted LLM based alternative to Alexa to control my house so I’m not relying on an internet connection for everything).

Cloud is an essential part of a robust backup strategy, and makes it easier for the average person to create a web presence.

Tesla, being an EV company, is still an important interim solution to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ICE vehicles until (hopefully) better public transit infra is built so people don’t need to use cars as much. Not to mention it was the kick-starter for other vehicle companies to make EVs.

Ads and paywalls: People gotta eat. You want to consume content that someone produces as their job? Pay them. If you won’t someone else will, thus advertisements.

Exactly. I have “manual” HVAC controls in my vehicles right now, but I did have a car with an automatic one. I had that set for 21C 365 days a year, and it handled everything, including switching to defrost in cold weather. I did not touch the HVAC controls in the 3 or 4 years I owned that car. The manual controls need to get adjusted several times per trip.

Why not put the hospital in the train? Instead of taking the train to the hospital, the hospital comes to you

About as often as the Keanu Reeves breastfeeding one

Pretty much the first thing that needed to be solved when moving from 1-way pagers to 2-way phones. Pagers could just get a broadcast analog signal and determine themselves if they were the intended recipient. 2-way needed more bandwidth and a dedicated communication channel to a specific device, so broadcast wasn’t feasible. Thus, phones would send a registration signal that a tower would pick up, and that specific tower would handle all communication to that phone. If another tower got the registration signal, communication would switch to that tower.

Interestingly enough, there was a period (for a fairly long time) that if you were travelling too fast, you could either a) not be able to register on a network, or b) overwhelm the network with registrations - part of the reason why phones had to be turned off on airplanes

didn’t offer the manager a foot rub first. Power has perks

No arguments there, if you’re gonna depend on a piece of code, you better own it or have a rock solid plan b.

left-pad was the first thing that came to mind for me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

I’m a test automation developer, I’m not necessarily bound by the platform that the application is written in unless I’m writing white-box tests.

subprocess.Popen(["bash one-liner"], stdout=PIPE, stderr-PIPE, text=True)

Web testing is also done in python. Selenium has support in all major Python test frameworks. I’ve done SE-only tests in Robot, hybrid SE/Python using BDD with Behave, etc.

Unless I’m testing a language-specific API, I’m probably going to use Python…

Python is the language of choice for most test automation

And even then, you’re still not affecting the guys at the top because they make fuckloads of money elsewhere

Also, they’ve already made their money off of that convenience store, since the store will have already purchased said stolen product.

eh, just squash and merge. Feature branch can be messy as long as main is clean

I do test automation, getting a particularly difficult test scenario working in automation is 🤌