i read that Boeing paid developers in India less than $5/hr for the 737 MAX software

we just need a little more AI

i would go with lowercase and just have it be a reserved word like the other ones. but I’m not super picky, i generally like to stick to what people are used to, and i can understand the reasoning behind the choice.

guido, why did you make python so weird?

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yeah, you formatted a markdown table. now you’re just repeating yourself. Prettier handles that just fine. I have the Prettier VSCode extension and set it as default formatter on save and this gets done automatically for me.

before:

after:

Didn’t require a small lake of water and a gigawatt of electricity to compute… it even works offline!

ah no there’s actually a free plan! /j

oh nice! i use Prettier for that and it has worked fine for a decade or so, but it is really lacking any AI so i have been having to search for alternatives.

maybe PrettierAI, it can use LLMs to format all your code!

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yeah i work in tech (at a bank rn) and the mainframes are hilarious. a constant source of downtime, and insanely overpriced hardware to boot.

literally i can’t think of any downtime our services have had in the last six months that wasn’t caused by the mainframe’s downtime. this is dozens of cases.

but they will basically never be replaced. maybe in 100 years? ha

so have i. this is the technology community, after all. for a couple years i worked for a major cruise line and each ship had an AS400 on board. so I’m familiar with mainframes, and sure they are un-removable for a number of reasons. but that statement was stupid

what ads?

ok this article was a hilarious shit show. full of gems like

The former Treasury official told us that mainframes—and COBOL, the ancient programming language they often run—are really good for what they do,

ffs

just a couple of regular old politicians

.NET ecosystem is filled to the brim with paid libraries tho.

it’s like, want to parse JSON? only 399 for enterprise use. i had never seen so many paid libraries until i worked at a .NET shop

i just knew the fanatical rust fans would just have to push Sprongloxide. Broken records!

there’s so many! but which ones!?!

same on Voyager (in post view)

106%

also, the disrespect for software that powers the fucking touchscreen is insane (as a non-biased software developer)