You had me at “nuclear”.

Already with a single standard in a single project things have a tendency to start breaking down as soon as there’s more than one developer and disagreement arises about what the text in the standard specification actually means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwide_Assembler

👆 This.

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

You know, CVS wasn’t really that bad, just primitive and outdated.

Luckily I’m young enough that I never had to use RCS.

The first version control system I ever used was CVS and it was first released in 1986 so it was already old and well established when I first came to use it.

Anyone in these past forty years not using a version control system to keep track of their source code have only themselves to blame.

Ananas? 🍍

I don’t believe that the US has any real high-speed rail.

Electrolux.

Casablanca.

Why do people find it acceptable to use the bizarre word “sideloading” for the fundamental operation of “installing one’s own software on one’s own device”?

10 movies in 3 days!? That’s impressive!

1. Monday: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) rewatch
2. Tuesday: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024)
3. Wednesday: Davos 1917 (2023) miniseries

The second they make it a mixed code base, that’s the same second quality will deteriorate.

I envy your confidence!

Anyone who’s job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.

Well, that’s the problem right there, isn’t it, that a lot of jobs don’t actually produce any real value.

Well, my point is that it’s not considered a u, and Austrian and Swiss don’t use it.

It’s true that u and ü are very different things in German orthography, but it must be some bizarre misunderstanding that ü wouldn’t be used in Austria or Switzerland, the largest city in Switzerland is even named Zürich in German (Züri in Swiss German).

I’ll just leave this here, “An Introduction to German for ABAP/4 Programmer” (SAP):

https://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/sap-germ.html

Once every 24 hours.