People like this are the reason AI is so unreliable at exploring code issues.

Like, I just want Copilot to look at my dependencies to explain a vague error I’m seeing and it’s telling me to downgrade Ruby, upgrade Rails, and install Python. Bro, it’s a node package.

I think this is just a picky optimization.

The first one runs the constructor to instantiate a new string, then gets its class (which is presumably a static property anyway). The second doesn’t have to run any constructor and just grabs the static class name from the type.

Maybe there’s more implementation nuance here but it seems like an opinionated rule that has zero effect on performance unless that code is being called thousands of times every second. And even then the compiler probably optimizes them to the same code anyway.

OH MY GOD I SAW A TIT

Wasn’t it Visual SourceSafe or something like that?

God, what a revolution it was when subversion came along and we didn’t have to take turns checking out a file to have exclusive write access.

Elon’s shock and fury about the database key sounds like he got a report from an out-of-breath 20 year old DOGE kid who thinks they’re hot shit and discovered some massive flaw.

Elon also seems like the kind of person that believes a database schema is all that’s needed to govern a population.

Technical education opens doors, or your child.

Please don’t open my child.

Guess how many bombs the TSA has protected people from.

Warnings? We’ll come back and address those later. Maybe once we’re feature complete. Or maybe shortly after that.

Uplemmingers? It’s called VALIDATION

Correct. I can’t use the stairs because otherwise my already flailing joke wouldn’t work at all.

Given how slow the elevator is in my building, I’d do nothing. I’d be dead before it showed up.

You mean FLOTUS?

It’s not monthly. They bill per blink. A la carte blinkers are so hot right now.

A+ shitpost

I suspect the real solution is somewhere between that and corporate land acknowledgements.

A full stack developer is either a back end developer that has no business writing front end code but does it anyway, or they’re a front end developer that has no business writing back end code but does it anyway.

Or they’re perfectly capable of doing both because they’re at a startup that’s years away from running at scale or having to worry about performance and security.

Last week, a vendor sold an item for $10. With tax, that item costs $12. Let’s pretend a 50% markup (which is reasonable for retail but insanely high for groceries):

• they made $5 profit
• they recouped $5 for their costs
• they collected $2 of tax for the government

Now the government has a GST holiday and there’s no tax. I went to the store and bought the item and it still cost me $12.

• they made $7 profit
• they recouped their usual $5 for their costs
• they collected $0 of tax for the government

The main thing is that their costs for that item didn’t increase and they’re still selling it at its original ”final” price (because they added the tax amount to the sticker price). That tax savings went straight into profits. It was intended for the consumer to save money but the consumer is spending the same amount and the government isn’t getting anything. That money went somewhere.

Edit: that assumes that the claim made in the post is true. It’s definitely not going to be true across the board, but doubtless there’s some fuckery afoot in some stores.

Explain your math. It’s absolutely 100% benefit to the seller and 0 benefit to the buyer.

If the part of an iceberg that’s exposed to the air is hacked away, the rest of the mass will float up and a new section will be clearly visible.

This process can continue until there’s no ice left at all.

I’m only talking about ice, of course.

“PRs are always welcome”