Ahhh, that makes way more sense. Thanks

Why does the bool have brackets? I haven’t really used c#, seems odd

Gradually watermelon… I like shapes.

Twisted translations

How do you pronounce the hyphen in double barrelled names?

From what I’ve seen, it’s Cthulhu.

This sounds like it would create a whole list of fun and irritating edge conditions for some poor bugger to debug. Love it.

Jsonb in postgres is fine, I’ve been using it for years. Much better than letting mongodb anywhere near the stack.

In the shape of a kitten

I love how arbitrary, cultural and opinionated that must be to work with. You’d learn something about the implimenter of the compiler by using it for a while.

I can’t tell if you’re joking and deliberately invoking the original comic above

The question was why do I hate it, and it was because of this. I don’t understand your confusion.

For me, it was this

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

I’m neither surprised nor unsurprised. I’m middle aged and don’t have much insight into what university students are doing day to day.

Is chatgpt the default starting point for inexperienced / early career/ students now?

Agreed. Mypy pre-commit hooks are very useful if you’re starting a fresh project. Adding typing to an existing project which reuses variables with different types… We lost weeks to it.

JSON parsers are getting me recently. The error is somewhere on or after row 1, char 1. Maybe.

Possibly it’s a BOM issue, or someone used double quotes typed on a Mac keyboard. Good luck.

I have a shelf of ducks, and I organised for everyone in the company to get a branded rubber duck at our last meetup. But there’s apparently something special about trying to show buggy code to a real person.

Entirely the opposite for me. Code which I haven’t been able to get to run for days suddenly runs first time when I ask someone to do a code walkthrough with me. Infuriating.

I can imagine lots of things.

So this sounds more like a supply and demand problem. The concept of renting itself isn’t the issue.