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That's helped by errors.Unwrap() and errors.Is(), though you do need to build and structure your errors appropriately.

It looks more reasonable (literally lol) with syntax highlighting though.

I have a Garmin Vivoactive 3. Fantastic watch but I find the HRM underwhelming. Not very accurate and drains battery. I pair a chest band with it instead for much better quality mo…

Why?

I mean if you squint hard enough, it's the same idea as a cathode ray tube. Each hole scans across the "screen" for the desired width, then the next hole down takes over, which doe…

Not exactly apples to oranges though, is it?

Yup. And using it a lot recently ... !

Yeah, you're probably right. Looking back at news reports, it looks like the Haslemere case may have been the first person infected within the UK, ie they hadn't been abroad.

Yeah, just watching the first few minutes of the program, it's astonishing how prophetic it was.

Well deserved. Her most memorable program for me was her 2018 program "Contagion" which modelled a virus outbreak among volunteers in the town of Haslemere, UK, using an app measur…

I tried running my own but it turned out to be more complex than I was expecting (and desiring). I ended up paying a bit for a hosted server at ShockByte.

The idea of using a subset of an existing popular language is very wise IMHO. We can (and apparently are) debating the merits of the language runtime, but what a subset gives you i…

You may well know this already, but the 2002 "Shackleton" miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh is a pretty faithful dramatisation of Alfred Lansing's book. Well worth a watch if you…

With Polyglot Maven, you don't even need it in Maven either! https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven

Indeed, Stonehenge is not much older. But given that, in human history, Egypt has always been an island of fertile land in a sea of desert, it's not so surprising that the area has…

"Gin" is also an abbreviation for "engine", as applied to various machines during the industrial revolution. Eg, cotton gin. In that sense, it's quite a good name.

That's fair. Got stung by that a couple of years ago. Fortunately there are plenty of models without that.

I think this may be a US thing. Fords built in Europe are pretty decent. Reliable (compared with most other makes), cheap parts and ubiquitous servicing. I've bought Fords (in the …

There's no shortage of anal moderation, resident schizos, and weird cliques in show on the "Walmart" communities.

It'll be a brave man who takes on the IBM legal department over terminology in widespread use.

Punch cards are just text editors in primitive form though, ie columns across and lines down. All very 2D. A visual programming canvas is free of that, and thus can display connect…

A very long time ago I wrote an Eclipse plug in that would read from source comments an ascii diagram describing the state/transition flow of a java class object, and generate/upda…

How? If this, then so is DHI.

"The right tools" in this case might presumably include, eg, a set of repos + docs and specs on the various technologies being used. Or a library of text/images and background docs…