Think of it like Haskell’s cast from the Typeable class.

Yes, if somebody sends random stuff, you’ll have to handle a failure, or do the equivalent of returning undefined, what is way easier than properly handling it in TS. What you do from there is up to you.

Not really. The things where C++ used to shine are usually best done in higher level languages.

Rust is a great C replacement.

Well, the author is to blame for the choice of language.

That is, unless somebody forced their hand. What happens a lot in professional settings. Then it’s that other person to blame.

Ouch this was yours?

The shitposting community is having an identity crisis right now and don’t know what their rules are. My guess is it was interpreted as being about politics, but I doubt anybody could even explain it further.

There are only 10 types of people:

the ones that expected a binary joke, and

the ones that expected a ternary joke, and

the ones that expected a quartenary joke, and

…

Nor care to have those reasons in the first place.

And if you press them, you get complete bullshit reasons. But SO will also ban you, while ChatGPT only cares about you paying.

Glass is guaranteed to be flat. The thicker the flatter, and mirrors tend to be thin.

The go one asked the php – why the long identifiers?

The c one had undefined behavior and just erased the entire disk.

It’s kind of normal. Printing on a glass is normal, some people pick a mirror because it conducts heat slightly better.

have to check and destructure the result of every function call

Learn how to use enum error types, how error bubbling works, and how to convert between Options and Results.

It’s Rust you are talking about, not Go.

Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.

Microservices:

Several instances of the top panel each doing one of the steps on the bottom panel.

Oh, man, the people that design most REST APIs got loose!

Hum… The US is imploding in general, but there’s nothing on the horizon that could collapse the IT job market.

Some (many? most? IDK) gold sellers are scammers. They will sell you overvalued stuff and insist it’s extra-valuable because of some feature they made up. They are the ones being loud on the web and making you hear about it all the time. So, if you hear an ad, and buy gold, you’ve probably fallen for a scam.

But investing in gold by itself is just like any other commodity. And just to say, the rule on that last phrase is valid for almost everything (it’s absolutely valid for stocks and investment funds).

Yeah, doesn’t look like APL to me, but I don’t know it well enough to tell for certain.

Either way, that much code in a language that is at least as concise as APL… what is this? a full office suite?

The amount changes all the time, and depends on what you define “money” as.

Almost every country (every one on the WTO) publishes monthly volumes. Here’s the one for the US if you consider that money is cash and the contents of all the bank accounts:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

That “M1” is a standard definition, that is easy to search for any country.

If you start to add things like credit card balances and government papers that can be used in most large transaction, you arrive at the other definitions. There’s a wiki page for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply

The M1 to M3 set is an international standard, but many countries add other definitions to their publications.

EDIT:

And of course, I didn’t tell how the amount changes.

Each kind of money changes by its own particular process, that is actually quite obvious once you think of money that way.

Cash is printed by the government, and destroyed mostly by it too (but some times by accident). It’s a form of government debit.

Bank deposits are created when banks make loans (that is, they get somebody’s money and give to another person, but still keeping the first person’s money on their account), and destroyed when the loan id paid back.

Credit card debit is created when people buy stuff on credit, and destroyed when they pay it back.

And so on.

Yeah, let’s pretend the vibe-coder creates praiseworthy code when everything is working…

I hope all those companies go bankrupt, people hiring those CEOs lose everything, and the CEOs never manage to find another job in their lives…

But that’s a not bad second option.

Early 80s: High level structured languages (Hello COBOL!)

Late 80s: 4th generation languages

At least before that people just assumed everybody that interacted with a computer was a programmer, so managers didn’t have a compulsion when hearing the name and decided to fire all programmers.