That’s cool if people can agree on what maintainability is, which changes improve it and which changes hurt it.

You can get two people arguing for the exact opposite thing, while both of them use maintainability as an argument.

Is this a tax that domestic companies already had to pay, but foreign companies were exempt from? If so, then I wonder what took them so long.

So why don’t you at least try to run the numbers. Takes like 2 minutes. Total output, output per car, number of cars - it’s not rocket science.

The vibe reminds me of https://youtu.be/Jml7NVYm8cs

Kind of like every other job.

It’s not nitpicking, stuff like this is far more impactful than choosing between 5 lines vs 10 lines long methods, or whether the hasExtraCommissions “if” belongs inside or outside of calculateExtraCommissions. This kind of thing should immediately jump out at you as a red flag when you’re reading code, it’s not something to handwave away as a detail.

Why is it a void method? This only tells me that some state is mutated somewhere, but the effect is neither visible nor documented.

I would expect a function called “calculate” to just return a number and not have any side effects.

Self host with backups set up?

C is one of the few languages where using goto makes sense as a poor man’s local error/cleanup handler.

Trains are expensive to run if you don’t have enough passengers (like in small villages).

Kotlin is a really nice language with plenty of users, good tooling support, gets rid of a lot of the boilerplate that older languages have, and it instills many good practices early on (most variables are immutable unless specified otherwise, types are not nullable by default unless specified otherwise, etc)

But to get the most “bang for your buck” early on, you can’t beat JavaScript (with TypeScript to help you make sense of your codebase as it keeps changing and growing).

You will probably want to develop stuff that has some user interface and you’ll want to show it to people, and there is no better platform for that than the web. And JS is by far the most supported language on the web.

And the browser devtools are right there, an indispensable tool.

Peace treaty signed, then Russia invades 2 years later anyway and takes over everything?

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can’t quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you’re not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

At least Android also proactively asks them whether to disable notifications for an app if they always swipe them away, or if they haven’t used the app in a long time.

You have to go where the people are.

The default now is that apps have to first request notification permissions, on both iOS and Android.

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I don’t see the US restricting AI development. No matter what is morally right or wrong, this is strategically important, and they won’t kneecap themselves in the global competition.

That will never work as long as they’re the only country in that situation. They would need to be mixed with athletes from other unrelated countries for this to make sense.

Well you don’t have to place it in a separate function, nothing stops you from inlining that part and writing li or whatever directly there.

It’s up to you how you organize your components.