The human mind has limited capacity for things to pay attention to. If your attention is occupied with tiptoeing around the loaded guns scattered all over the floor, sooner or later you’ll slip and trip over one.

Of course, you’re a virtuoso programmer, so you can pirouette balletically around the floorguns as you deliver brilliantly efficient code. Which is great, until you have an off day, or you get bored of coding, run off to join the circus as a professional knife-juggler and your codebase is inherited by someone of more conventional aptitude.

Programming languages offering to keep track of some of the things programmers need to be aware of has been a boon for maintainability of code and, yes, security. Like type systems: there’s a reason we no longer write assembly language, squeezing multiple things into the bits of a register, unless we’re doing party tricks like demo coding or trying to push very limited systems to their limits.

Daniel can be plausibly American as easily as it can be German. Klaus or Reinhardt sounds American only if it’s someone’s great-grandfather from before WW1, whose parents immigrated in 1848.

250,000 lines of brand new legacy code nobody has ever thought about or understood? Good luck with that.

Hey, if you don’t have traumatic brain injury, what are you doing on Lemmy?

They can make the age of consent for porn (or any unconventional sexuality) 25, which will also let them slip in their long-mooted plan to make that the age of consent for gender affirming care.

Heartbreaking: the worst person in the world just made a good point

A normal day on 4Chan

That would be the new ecologically-sound funeral service

If you’ve ever wondered what the pillars of conservative moral authority of the Reagan era were doing now, there you go.

Judaism is so awesome; it’s the only religion made entirely of loopholes.

Spoiler: “erotic mushroom” is the pet name the parents have for the dad’s penis.

Septic masculinity

You just rediscovered Dark Calvinism

Or forces them to take their diarrhoea medicine (a known radicalising factor for the men’s rights movement)

His next project is a reboot of the Monty Python “Mr. Gumby” skit

Which is apparently why burritos from old-school eateries taste so good: they don’t wash the griddle, and the secret sauce is the essence of the entrails of generations of pigs and chickens

Wonder who’ll buy the IP of Sesame Street when it goes to auction, and how they’ll enshittify it.

Authoritarians are probably less likely to keep cats, either because they’re not obedient/useful or because keeping cats is coded as feminine and thus contemptible.

What did the Romans use asbestos for?

If the peasant is from medieval Japan, they may at least understand the umami component