It’s all fun and games until you go remove it from the code your new quirky junior programmer checked in, and now production is dead because the artificial delay just happened to avoid some weird nearly-untraceable race condition.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

Roll on snare. Everybody laughs.

six figures for a junior programmer, no less

onn 4k googletv box is amazing. $20 and a launcher swap and it’s like ads don’t exist any more

In broad terms it’s true, though there are some variants of assembly that are newer than COBOL.

Assembly language is one step above machine code, and was the first large step toward a world where people write server-side code in Javascript.

This is from last year.

It was more than kernel anticheat from Valorant that I was aiming at.

There’s an easy solution to that too: Don’t buy games with kernel anticheat.

ECS/EKS: The ocean belongs to someone else.

That surgeon general’s warning sent me into a giggle fit.

This is neat but the selling point for me with the Pebble is the e-ink display. If repebble fails though, my next watch will be a Pine. Hopefully my Versa 2 holds on for a bit longer 🤞

You still have to be admitted

…but you have to get whatever it is you’re transporting to the moon first

Yeah exactly, try bicycling to work in the summer along the US gulf coast. You’ll either arrive at the office dead from heat stroke or soaking wet from sweat.

Sure, automobile-focused city planning is a problem, but let’s not pretend bicycles are a universal answer for all locales.

Chip Defense, an interesting and challenging take on tower defense.

It was probably written by someone middle-aged, so that counts I think

Perl is definitely a WORN language.

Write Once, Read Never

PHP is better than Javascript these days.

Fucking PHP.

The only thing JS really has going for it is ease of execution, since any browser can run your code… though the ubiquity of Python is closing that gap.

You are not alone. I am here with you.

HydRCA

That last one… oof risky