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I don’t happen across Medium very often so I wondered what this sentiment was about.

Apparently Medium is basically YouTube for bloggers and essayists (with apologies to those who surely think that’s an insulting comparison) and the new CEO messed with the algorithm so much that now writers’ content isn’t being promoted as well as it used to be, and the people who subscribed (or followed, or whatever) aren’t even seeing that content as much any more.

~… and it seems there’s no option to get a notification about new content from favourite writer, but maybe I’ve missed it. No “ring that bell” here.~ Edit: When I turned on JavaScript I got a pop-up implying that exists, at least for people who aren’t logged in.

But as far as I can tell, that doesn’t necessarily mean we should hate the content that’s on there.

On my computer, this pushes one core to ~60%, eats ~40MB of memory over the course of about a minute and then segfaults.

I did make one small change to the condition which would mean that it would bail out if available memory got too low, but 40MB barely even registered so it was basically true the whole time. In retrospect, I probably should have been monitoring process count instead (or done both), but I guess I got away with it.

As OP says, you need to create subprocesses with & to cause real problems.

*Bash 5.2.15 / LMDE6 / who knows what other factors. Try these things at your own risk. Or better, just don’t.

JavaScript is in that set of “some” languages. Most of it ties back to C’s struct tm which zero-indexes months (0-11), weekdays (0-6), and the rarely used day of year (0-365), as well as offsetting years by 1900.

The odd man out, so to speak, is the date (or “mday” as it’s called there), which is in the range 1-31. One (Perl) book I own suggests that the zero-based ones are used to index arrays of strings and implies this one is different because it generally isn’t used that way.

But anyway, these are decisions made 50 years ago that still haunt us.

Wait until you learn how months are numbered in some programming languages.

The clever documentation calls it “months since January”.

Keep going. We may be homing in on how the number order was derived for a dartboard.

ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

…hail Hydra?

There’s at least one other option: Making it look like you’re doing what you’re told.

Exchange line 6 for “Su-u-ure. I bet you can’t walk away from my desk without asking me to do something.”

A clever manager would go away and come back in 10 minutes with twice as much “urgent” work as previously and no pretence, but it would be funny for those 10 minutes.

Decades ago, someone wrote a source filter for Perl that allowed for programming Perl-wise in Latin. To the point of conjugating and declining correctly, or at least in a manner that resembled correctness.

I figure with a sufficiently commanding voice you could do much the same with that as with this.

Link (which contains an example): https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/Lingua/Romana/Perligata.pm

Pretty sure druckef should be drucked. printf means print (to) file. “File” is valid German, but it is non-standard and “Datei” seems to be the preferred form.

I could also argue that that d should be capitalised, but I’m already overstepping my bounds considering I know very little German.

I wouldn’t want to say which should take precedence between C’s preference for all-lowercase keywords and functions and German’s Rule to capitalise all Nouns.

Backups are always considered to be too expensive up until the point that not having backups becomes more expensive. This applies to redundancy of all kinds except the one that means firing employees for not setting up the other kinds.

I am old. I am still not over JavaScript existing outside of a browser. I’m not sure I ever will be. And that’s from someone who uses a Linux DE that uses JavaScript and XML as part of its GUI.

Files, hardware / peripherals and programs. The distinction can get a bit blurry what with drivers and the fact that Linux exposes most of the hardware via the filesystem.

OK, WTAF on those word replacements. I’d be freaking out about malware.

As I recall, that is remarkably close to the true story. They wanted something that could make web pages dynamic, wouldn’t crash the browser or any pages that used it and they wanted it in the Netscape browser ASAP.

One man thus threw something together that looked a little bit Java-like and it ended up in the browser fairly shortly thereafter.

Hard to believe that was 30 years ago.

So does JPEG. It doesn’t mean that people (will) use it for that.

When that happens often enough, the supermarket installs something that locks the wheels when the trolleys go out of range.

You can still get the trolley away by other means, sure, but I imagine it’s a pain to have to do that when there are wheels right there.

Now that you mention it, I do remember the backticks and symbols thing for infix, so yeah that’d be something extra that Haskell did. One of the few things about Haskell that wasn’t on the fringes of my capability and understanding as I recall.

I remember thinking that it would be cool if other, more procedural, languages allowed it, but then most other languages also don’t have the capability of setting the precedence of new operators relative to old ones on the fly. A lot of that stuff is hard-coded into those languages’ compilers.

This is one of those rare occasions where “IT” might have been better fully punctuated as “I.T.”, but the thought of using “Scotty” as a verb meaning “generously pad all estimates” amuses me.

e.g. “If I want to cover my a—, I should Scotty it.”