So to be clear: you didn’t laugh?

Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.

.gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don’t have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.

But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

They started from XML. There’s nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.

FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface

Friends don’t let friends use Java 😜

Whoosh

Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.

All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.

Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.

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I can see why you called it pretzel

Plover-net perhaps?

Do you remember the area code?

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

$previous_job allowed us to pick. One of my coworkers had to replace his laptop, and I convinced him to try out Linux this time. I handed him the bootstrap script and he was back to working by the afternoon.

Our CEO got wind of this and said as a matter of policy everyone is switching to Linux unless they have a good reason (needing excel for financial reports is a good reason). The two new hires who had been setting up their dev environment for over a week at that point were the trigger for this.

Used by search engines for listing which pages should be indexed.

Google’s documentation

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

Did you install from Google Play?

Open the Play Store link on your phone - the automatic update process has been thoroughly broken for at least a year.

If you installed from f-Droid I have no clue - I use stock android without any alternate stores set up.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml released v0.0.51 in mid December, but I think it only reached Google Play on Dec 18th. I’m not sure when/if it was pushed up to f-Droid.

There are some minor issues, but largely it works fine for me on instances running 0.19

Intel, whose investment will be over five years, will pay a corporate tax rate of 7.5% instead of 5% previously. The normal tax rate is 23%, but under Israel’s law to encourage investment in development areas, companies receive large benefits.

Usually these types of grants are never a good investment but the increased corporate tax rate alone covers a third of the grant (9b yearly taxable revenue at 2.5% over 5 years comes out to 1.125b).

Here’s the shortlist of horrors I’ve had to deal with in my career:

• Mixed US/ROW short date formats - DD/MM/YY, MM/DD/YY
• mixed timezones in the same column
• the wrong timezone (marked as PDT but actually UTC, or sometimes the other way around)
• clock drift
• timezones again…because timezones suck
• historical timezones
• NTP configurations

Things I’ve read about but haven’t needed to deal with personally:

• leap seconds
• clock slew vs skip
• hardware clocks
• PTP

The one thing I really don’t care about is relativity

If the set of definitions contains the word set, does the English language implode in a recursive cascade of paradoxes?