AND MY AXE!

Your example didn’t mention the use of the function keyword. Instead, it seemed to be questioning the placement of the return type - placing it after the argument list seems pretty common in newer languages.

Rust and TypeScript use the return-type-at-the-end convention as well.

In modern BASIC variants, DIM has become a backronym: “declare in memory”.

TIL. I always thought it was a backronym for declare in (yo) momma.

only the linter gives a hoot - the interpreter will happily leave that footgun for later

I’m glad I didn’t have that experience. I think I had cases on those phones, so that might have been what made the difference.

Back when removable batteries were a thing, the couple of phones I had both were removable without screws.

I have no strong feelings about what a removable battery should look like, but I love the idea of increasing a phone’s longevity easily.

Will people start caring for their privacy if most of the links posted were tracking free?

No. Most people won’t notice, and the sites they’re visiting have other tracking mechanisms.

I advocated for getting news from tracking free websites/ non-profits, people don’t seem to change.

Yes. Those sites fill a need/role. Non profits typically don’t have the same content factories that for-profit orgs do.

Will people on the long-term change or is it a lost cause?

Legislative change is the only way forward. You have a threat model that involves privacy, but most people don’t. Instead of trying to change everybody, focus on legislation that would improve privacy regulations for all.

Bottom right.

The developers building Lemmy are very different from the folks building bots. I’ve got a half-assed repost bot working, but there’s no way I have the time or inclination to work on Lemmy itself.

Generally speaking, a bot needs to meet a much lower quality/reliability bar than the server does.

I think I’m one of the few users that enjoyed Reddit’s random bots. Seeing the Accidental Haiku bot restructure a comment as haiku, or the Consecutive Number bot point out a number progression was fun.

As long as they’re polite, and respect community boundaries, I think they’re fun.

People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.

Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is

attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend

from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.

Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.

I worry that training myself to be mean will bleed over into other parts of my life.

How you doin? Still got the dot?

Is it orangey yellow? I bet it’s orangey yellow.

Finally, I know who to complain to.

When are the bidet advocates gonna show up? This post has been up for like an hour!

EDIT: the bidet people have arrived. Thank goodness. I was starting to worry that my instance had been defederated.

It sounds like you’re asking about algorithms, which are (sort of) language-agnostic.

You’ll find some neat stuff if you search for bubble sort, Dijkstra’s algorithm, tree sort, hashing, complexity theory, and number theory. The last two are more theoretical.

To my knowledge, Introduction to Algorithms is the standard textbook used to teach university students about them. When I was in uni, it seemed to be the standard. Some people find it accessible. I did not.

Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often.

There’s definitely scenarios where that is the case.

Also, I really didn’t say we were “under attack”

I would describe a massive influx of spambots as an attack on a social media platform. It’s my characterization. I didn’t mean to imply that you said it.