There’s already a glut of tech workers. The IT job market already sucks

I don’t imagine AI is going to make it much worse

Emacs

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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Nb WYGIWYG* is a play on WYSIWYG†

*What You Get Is What You Get

†What You See Is What You Get

There may be more than one way to do it, but that really isn’t the best way of doing what perl is best at

Just old style SMTP. That’s nearly extinct on the wild internet now

Round is the safest way of using decimals for money as it corrects 10.499999999 (decimal fractions can’t be stored precisely in floats as binary can’t precisely represent all 2 digit decimals) to 10.50, where floor would take it to 10.49

It is safer to count in cents and have a policy to handle fractions of cents from divisions

That’s how mainframe programmers at my workplace do SQL. I think they do it due to long table and field names and narrow mainframe COBOL files

Create a moderately ok password, hash it, use the hash as your nice unique password, as a private joke for when the database leaks and yours is the only password that’s hashed and you start getting spam saying they know your password hunter2 (because they incorrectly dehashed the password) or 2ab96390c7dbe3439de74d0c9b0b1767 (md5 sum of hunter2; because they correctly read it as plain text)

I wonder if they would have bought it had the dev priced it at $10k/year

For info for those not familiar with minor open source licences: AGPL is descended from GPL 3, and is properly copyleft. No surprise it is poison to Amazon

It wouldn’t take much google-fu to get a worked example of good authentication in whatever language. She can’t have tried, she must have just gone “programming 104 covered how to SQL, I can use that”

Are you talking about the one that detected the malware in openSSH?

This is the harfbuzz documentation

I think it’s Russian uninsured ships “accidentally” dragging anchors across major fibre optic links rather than sharks chewing them

Last time I asked one to write a heliostat driving program I had to tell it how to find the angle to point the mirror, which was better than the previous one which I also had to ask it to use real libraries to get the sun’s altitude and azimuth

I discovered that removing Cortana also removed typing as far as windows is concerned. I could type in anything but OS controls.

I needed to reinstall “basic typing” to work again (their advice is “delete your language pack, then reinstall it, after reinstalling Cortana”)

Does it solve the problems or do you tell it how to?

I think you need to mention that the bottom guy also gets whacked by the rake after rail sliding it and landing on it; landing on a rake doesn’t imply being brained by it

I guess that test is going to become less useful as generation Z age

I got a couple of good ones:

When I first opened it, deepseek also had a correct clock, but I accidentally refreshed the page when I scrolled up to double check its time, second time through only these two were right

Ed. Names are below the clock, the top one was by the clock drawing champion Kimi K2