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My most recent manager was exactly like this.

I fully agree. I think a major meta-problem with patterns is that the straight-forward ones get written about the most, and/or read about the most. Now we have tons of devs out the…

Are you asking what A) the countries that meddle with US elections, and B) their relationship to the US, has to do with Israel, on this comment thread?

Does the UK or Japan engage in election meddling in the US?

Are North Korea and Russia "allies" of the US?

Can you point me to a language that encodes the handling of errors in a less verbose way than C++/Java/C# exception handling?

You're right about recover being in 1.0 of golang. I definitely fully understand the trade-offs of returning result/error unions vs handling thrown exceptions. Exception handling i…

The anti-exception mind virus of the 2010s did a lot of damage. Go designers finally caved and added panic & recover, but jeez, the damage was done. The whole ecosystem has excepti…

The convention of explicit error handling after every method call is absolutely bonkers to me. I would never use it for anything serious.

AFAIK this is called sleep consolidation.

For the few times a month I need to have two windows/panes visible at the same time, I take five seconds positioning and sizing them then move on.

Same. Need multiple terminals visible at once? New window. Need a few separate sessions? New tab(s). All the bells and whistles people have shown me over the years... it never even…

Do they build a lot of cinder block homes with flat, tarred roofs?

The blog post points or the flawed spacecraft? /s

Do you think sex and gender are the same thing?

TUIs are very in right now. Nostalgia/vintage-computin-aesthetics & guru-gatekeeping around command line savviness are front and centre in the HN-and-adjacent mindshare.

Is the Israeli intelligence facial recognition system in the room with us now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Tha...

/s?

The only comic worse is Garfield. I have no idea how anyone enjoys either of them.

Yep my electronics engineer dad was like "you cannot do this" but it worked! He got me to put an aligator clip wire from case to case so the grounding would at least be joined?

What?

Yes, agreed. At this point I have seen many fantastical interpretations of what happened there. I assume popular US media coverage of it was a contributor there.

Are you referring to the "Freedom Convoy"?

Are you hinting at the lack of an `AsyncLock` in .NET?