On the context of a node package,

It’s probably a package with one five line function, and a poor implementation at that.

Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.

Especially if youre worried about power costs.

Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.

Yep.

Altered Carbon enters the chat.

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

No cringe, no pop culture.

embedded RTOS

That sounds like a domain where memory safety is secondary to size and speed… though compile time memory safety guarantees could help.

Good thing we have so many options!

Like riding a motorcycle in a tee shirt and shorts.

Fuck C and it’s lazy shit pointer arithmetic array indexing shortcut. I.e. you just add the index × size(t) to the array pointer.

Bounds checking? We’ve heard of it.

Those damned monkeys…

You’re creeping around in the dark, already on a knife edge… oooh oooh aaah.

Uhn-jun-uhks in NZ TYVM.

Oh yeah.

The night dive remake of System Shock was awesome.

I played the original as a kid and it was just too hard. I also played SS2 and completed that: my gods that was a terrifying game.

I can’t wait.

That’s the thing, it’s a useful assistant for an expert who will be able to verify any answers.

It’s a disaster for anyone who’s ignorant of the domain.

Huh, all see is *******

Supermarkets exploit that behaviour by displaying per-person limits on merchandise. E.g. “limit 5 per person”.

It works.

Carcassonne.

I find it quite fun to play semi-collaboratively too.

Or never even purchased!

Common parts are available and easy to get, relatively cheaply.

Specialist parts are somewhat more difficult.

You may as well just bring your existing gear.

At this point, in the US, it’s “stab myself in the gonads to spite my face”.

Violates the Law of Demeter