But then why did they recover once they moved back to a monolith?

He’s not really blaming the infrastructure as such either. More the fact that they were trying to do it with 4 engineers. I would definitely blame the infrastructure too though. They didn’t have microservices, they had a distributed monolith.

It’s some inventory management SaaS btw.

Es gibt doch diese Erweiterung, die Tweets von Trump als Gekritzel darstellt. Vielleicht könnte man sowas auch für Forderungen der CSU haben

There’s also the US-backed coup in Hawaii where they put the queen under house arrest first thing.

Due to the blank between Harada and TEKKEN, the title reads like he said TEKKEN as he imagined it is dead, but what he actually wrote is his X handle (with the underscore), so he’s talking about himself.

I think that’s a very strange prediction that looks like it basically assumes market share is only influenced by regulations. Gas stations losing 83% of their customers is a huge change with cascading effects, but this chart looks like it assumes combustion engines will just stay popular forever, only bounded by production limited by regulation…

Again with the easy choices though? It’s trivial to avoid a few car brands. So far you’re only listing companies people are likely to randomly not buy from anyway. When someone asked a question about something where it’s not as easy, you blocked them. You’re not avoiding Nazi collaborators, you’re just virtue signaling in the cheapest way possible.

Just wondering why you’re singling them out like that. Especially if you want to avoid anyone that has anything to do with them. If we’re talking acquisitions from IBM, the largest owner of patents originally owned by IBM is Google (they bought around 2.5k). Companies that had significant dealings with IBM include Microsoft, which would probably not exist in its current form without the original contract from IBM to develop DOS. (Linux would also be quite different if the influence from RedHat, owned by IBM, was removed.) And pretty much every PC manufacturer who’s been in the business for long enough would have licensed IBM technologies at some point or at least copied them. Even though they failed to make money from licensing the original PC design or later inventions like USB memory sticks, IBM created a lot of computing basics such as DRAM.

Avoiding Lenovo kind of sounds like a random easy way out. They have much less influence. I’m not consciously avoiding them and still have nothing from them. They’re not difficult to avoid at all.

You’re avoiding a random a Chinese company founded in the 80ies because they bought the Thinkpad brand from IBM?

The main indicator you’re in a different city in Tokyo are the signs that public smoking is banned in the city you just arrived at. Everything else is basically the same.

Yeah anything not too complex will work. We had to implement a PIC simulator in university, I thought that was a great exercise too.

Although 6502 actually was my first assembly language.

Tbh I think teaching 6502 assembly would be a great idea. You can learn the basics of how computers work without having to deal with all the complexity of a computer from 2026.

The interview appeared to be one of the most extensive conservations Trump has had with journalists on his health

Heh.

Ich verwende den echten Namen. Rechnungsadresse, Lieferadresse, Kreditkarte, SEPA-Mandat etc haben die ja eh auch. Probleme hatte ich damit bisher nicht. Ich mach jetzt aber auch nicht dauernd neue Konten bei zufälligen Shops auf. Amazon/ebay/etc.-Konten sind auch aus dem letzten Jahrtausend, also die hätten genug Zeit gehabt.

I have written code this holiday, but I was afk on vacation for a month in November. That was a good reset too. But tbh I like programming, the reset is more for the other circumstances of my work.

I was surprised how many of these I’ve actually done at some point in the last 35 years.

scopeguard would be one way to get defer in Rust

In Rust you’re kind of stuck with it, but at the end of the day combined return types are just syntactic sugar for something a lot of languages can do. Even in plain old C there’s a pattern where you pass pointers to your return and/or error variables. In many languages you can return structs or similar. In some I’d argue it looks nicer than having to write Result<>, e.g. in Python or in Swift you can just return a tuple by putting things in parentheses. (Of course you can also still use something more explicit too. But if every function returned (result, error) by default and every call was like result, error = fn(), I don’t think it’d be necessary.)

However I don’t really know of any language where people prefer to use this over exceptions if exceptions are available. Even in C some people used to use setjmp/longjmp in macros to implement exceptions. Exceptions have their problems but people seem to overwhelmingly be in favor of them.

Personally I like exceptions in languages that have some kind of built-in “finally” for functions. For example defer in Swift. You can have proper error handling for a lot less typing in many cases because passing through exceptions is fine if your defer blocks handle the cleanup. And if you do want to handle an exception, Swift also has optionals, and a try? that transparently converts a return value into an optional that’s nil when an exception was thrown, and a coalescing operator ??, which means you can catch exceptions and provide a default value on one line, instead of a 4-5 line try…catch/except block or an error checking conditional for every call.

Well that’s true too. As humans we should generally aim to be more cylindrical than spherical.

It would have been crazy in the CRT age and maybe the early LCD age. But then we got screens that require significant electronics to even be able to show an image, built into smart internet-connected TV’s which sometimes also have microphones and cameras built in. At the same time we also kind of dropped actual TV, and switched to streaming, where the streaming provider automatically and necessarily knows exactly what you watch, when you’re awake, what languages you speak, and so on.

Which IMHO makes it even more crazy to say it. Like why would a sane person say any of this is secret.

Madagascar got the same kind of attention from Europe during the colonial era. As a result the people there speak French, and Americans absolutely can’t deal with that.