Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@3psboyd We can do it, but in the words of the Prophet...

@brandonhorst @thaddeus @ambulephabus Yep. Those who rode the Ruby on Rails craze got the joy of experiencing, what, three package managers in the span of five years, until the community started to calm down?

@thaddeus Also, most tech prediction is prognostication.

I went hard into Ruby on Rails fifteen years ago. Now? I never touch it. There are some apps, to be sure, that rely heavily on it, but nothing I care to use.

@dangillmor This is the same paper that identified Hitler's antisemitism as a political trick, not something he'd actually follow through on.

You'd wish in 100 years they'd have learned their lesson, but if the editorial control has passed from one same-voiced soul to the next, it's about what we should expect.

@lauren I don't exactly *like* that capitocracy is the way our government actually functions, but there's some schadenfreude involved watching it happen on a topic like this.

PROTIP for #frc volunteers:

Remember that the audio from the announcer's mike is piped out to Twitch, and it's a volunteer-best-effort to keep that mic cut.

Watch what you say when you don't think you have a mic on you! ❤️

@MissPixiePancake Aw, that takes me back. Had a cat growing up who fell into the sunroof on dad's car and, having not *nearly* the agility to reverse her mistake (she was a chubbs), just settled in the back seat and went to sleep.

He got three-quarters of the way to the office before she woke up.

@SonofaGeorge Not exactly. The right to trial-by-jury is a waivable right, and one may choose to waive it for a variety of reasons.

(... but I think our dear Popehat is mostly taking the piss out of the idea that any pundits have anything useful to say right now about the Trump affair, since nothing interesting or unusual has happened yet).

@yosh It's a consequence of the language being like a billion years old.

The LISP compilers have this too, but a dev notices less because LISP itself is such a flexible language that if your compiler's weird, you can usually macro your way into it working however you want.

@liroyleshed I suspect they might even out to something about the same cross-country per employer (with the shifting factor being "Companies find it hard to get folks to do remote work if they live in Santa Clara, California, but wow can you find some remote workers in West Virginia").

@nathanpitman @liroyleshed So companies like Google pay by geography because what makes a comfortable living in Pittsburgh is near the edge of the poverty line in Mountain View.

They pay more in Cali because if they didn't, nobody would work for them. They pay less in Pittsburgh because people aren't leaving at that salary; there's nobody else to work for paying that well.

... if employees flowed fluidly from place to place, the salaries would equal out, but it turns out a lot of folk living in Pittsburgh don't want to live in Mountain View, not because it's expensive but because it's... Mountain View. And so on.

"And constants aren't CAPITAL_CASE because that's already been reserved for macros, which we aren't supposed to use anyway because they're considered harmful" is the Charlie-Chaplin-complaining-Hitler-stole-his-moustache of my beefs with #cplusplus...

... but oh, *it's in there.*

@amster We'd have to go back to trusted authorities.

... Which, honestly....

I made a Python driver for a #Brilliant Labs #Monocle AR peripheral.

https://github.com/fixermark/brilliant-monocle-driver-python

https://pypi.org/project/brilliant-monocle-driver/

@ocdtrekkie Aw hell, that's no fun.

I hope nothing irreplaceable got soaked. :(

When I'm debugging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkwmB6n3s_g

@Popehat Shit, now I'm hungry.