Because having only half of a printer doesn’t serve any purpose.

There are other countries than the US of A.

PHP: You were a nerd, now you’re just outdated (and/or a WordPress developer).

It’s a war crime.

Sound more like the U.S. than Germany - Germany has the €49/month public transport ticket, relatively good public transport offerings and a green party that has the best election results of the western industrial countries. Of course shutting down nuclear power plants didn’t do them any favours regarding pollution.

• Don’t code in a language/style that requires you to write code that makes prefixing necessary - divide and conquer instead
• Readable code and well written unit/BDD tests is much better than separate documentation that will go out of sync the minute another Dev does some surgical incision into the code
• Be verbose if you need to in order to convey the relevant semantics, the characters are virtually free
• Use the casing that is mainstream/recommended by its’ developers for the language at hand

By no one, I assume you mean everyone, including the Russian troll bots?

Hexbear.net is a Russian nationalist instance… They’ve grown up under Putin’s cencorship and state media brainwashing.

Honey, please fill out these court papers, I need you to change your name to this new ticket number that I’m starting work on next Monday.

The NPP is awarded in Norway, not Sweden. Considering that the prize has been awarded to various Russian dissidents and Belarussian/Russian oppositional groups the past few years - and that Russia declared the 2021 winner a foreign agent, I’d say it’s safe to assume no one from the their official governments will attend anytime soon.

That’s only the construction time though, in addition comes design, planning and regulatory processes. And no one except a single plant in Finland have actually solved the issue of safely storing nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years, let alone just storing them safely against the natural disasters and wars that are likely to occur within decades or centuries.

I read an interview of locals from an Ukrainian village that got invaded - the Russians rolled in and asked the locals “where are the Nazis? Lead us to them!”, and were surprised that the locals just asked them to leave, instead of cheering for their "liberation ".

So the propaganda certainly reached the military, at least.

Here in Norway there was a marked shift to acceptance for more home office post-Corona. We did have stricter and longer restrictions than you guys though, and basically things didn’t go back to normal until winter 2022. At my work I’d say 80% do home office at least 1 day per week, and 30% do home office 4/5 days in the week (we have one mandatory office day per week). I’d also say that a few percent have taken that opportunity to do “quiet quitting” and essentially do nothing (joining meetings from the car in the middle of the day on their way to IKEA and stuff like that, never engaging in or starting initiatives by themselves etc.), but that’s on management for not getting rid of them.

Personally I still go 5/5 days by own choice, because I live right next by, prefer the ritual of switching into job/focus mode that it is to walk to the office, and like sitting in a separate place that has no distractions (compared to home, where I would take 5 minutes to do the dishes, take an extended trip to the grocery at lunch, etc) and that my brain only associates with working.

Yes the current leader is a generic russian politician/stooge, but the previous leader was a real firecracker! He claimed to have been abducted by aliens and to have visited their planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov

While I love it and use it wherever I can, TBF it’s mainly a frontend technology for people who are stronger in the .NET stack than the JS/TS ecosystem. The latter is miles ahead on tooling, size of the ecosystem and the pace of innovation/improvement.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty for a basic rundown - in short, empiric data over the last 250 years show that unregulated capitalism concentrates wealth at a rate that is larger than the economic growth.

Incremental source generators are the new thing, and MS’s docs are not fully up to date. Some introductions:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/features/incremental-generators.md

https://youtu.be/BfYxZ4mfv0E

Most screen sharing tools come with functionality for allowing another person to take control of mouse/keyboard, although it can be a bit laggy compared to more tailor made solutions.

I was kind of impressed of the precision of the advice given - it perfectly explained various FP patterns used in my code, and correctly concluded that it could not be refactored to be better/simpler/more generic, but suggested some good readability renamings. My general worry is that AI tools will hallucinate and/or just provide random or sub-optimal/average solutions.

Do you mean Live Share with an AI, or just as a feature for pair programming with humans? Doesn’t video conferencing tools work well enough for that?

Electric toothbrush makes my teeth feel soo much cleaner than a regular one - I used to have lots of cavities due to having extra sets of “inaccessible” teeth behind my wisdom teeth, and even got a prescription toothpaste with extra fluor. But now it’s all a breeze keeping them properly cleaned (I do need to use dental sticks with a small brush between every meal though).