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Yeah, you generally just want the same auto-stuff done as would be enforced in CI anyway.

… all the other stuff you could fix but wind up just ignoring because your team ignores it will just glare at you until you sneak it in somehow

It’s just a monoid object in a category of endofunctors, no biggie

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systemd is a relatively new utility that provides an array of components for Linux systems.

what

Snideness aside, systemd timers can be pretty neat. They also have some features like being able to specify “Daily” and setting some looseness in when it triggers if you e.g. have a fleet of machines and don’t want them all to do something at exactly the same time.

Might be tempted to view it through a housing & transportation comparison too. Someone who lives in a too-big house, drives a pickup to the office and complains about expenses and how annoying it is to sit in traffic might not be particularly interested to hear from someone who lives in a comfortable flat, rarely has to go more than 15 minutes by bike and does a lot of bike maintenance themselves, leaving a lot of time & money available for fun.

Big houses and SUVs and pickups have their place, but investing in them because it’s normal and I want to be normal is likely to lead to a lot of complaints.

That said, Kids These Days seem to be treating phones and tablets as their default OS. There’s some push in workplaces to use cheaper laptops like Chromebooks if they can get away with it, which with the rise of webapps is increasingly likely. Personally I wouldn’t be very surprised if Windows users in the future can be grouped into people who need:

1. something that’s barely not chromeos
2. something more like a desktop xbox os for gamers, and
3. something that’s kind of a platform for specialized native non-game apps (which may or may not be legacy stuff)
4. (windows server? what’s that???)

This is simpler than the download, ./configure, make, make install steps we had some decades ago, but not all that different in that you wind up with arbitrary, unmanaged stuff.

Preferably use the distro native packages, or else their build system if it’s easily available (e.g. AUR in Arch)

This is the first I’ve heard something like that about Iceland; but I do know a little bit about Icelandic personal ID numbers.

>What is C++? A miserable huge pile of "should"s

Ah, so we didn’t have to wait until 2038.

And very old. Part of the sales pitch for the COmmon Business-Protected Language was that anyone could learn to code in almost plain English.

Also, the stuff they wind up making is the kind of stuff that people with no coding experience make. Cooking up an ugly website with terrible performance and security isn’t much harder than making an ugly presentation with lots of WordArt. But it never was, either.

Between COBOL and LLM-enhanced “low code” we had other stuff, like that infamous product from MS that produced terrible HTML. At this point I can’t even recall what it was called. The SharePoint editor maybe?

US? Here in scandi tax seems to work well automatically, as in, we just log into the government website and click OK most years. Corrections are easy enough too, if you need it, but it’s usually not required.