@ekaitz_zarraga Had the exact same experience last week. Spent all this time setting up something more complex and then it was solvable with a few lines of code.

Imagine getting blocked and then switching accounts to go post another worthless reply before getting blocked again.

Sometimes I think the EU should step up their mandatory warranty from 2 years to 5 years.

If you can't make shit that lasts 5 years with regular usage you probably shouldn't...

It's kinda crazy that Fitbit still hasn't figured out making their watch straps last.

My grandma has had 3-4 Fitbits now and every time she gets a new one it's the strap that wears out.. from regular usage. She has even gotten the strap replaced within warranty a couple of times.

The product works, but if that strap isn't intentionally designed for planned obsolescence then I don't know what is real anymore.

@ekaitz_zarraga I doubt I'd keep my job if I started decapitating my co-workers, tho 😂

At my old job we had an expression "small kings", which referenced a few problematic individuals.

They seem reasonable, and you largely agree with them, but the minute you say something they don't like they derail everything and you never get anywhere.

Can't argue with small kings, it's best just to avoid them.

@ekaitz_zarraga @zatnosk @reynir You might have a selection bias in languages.I can't imagine java or c# written like that. It's unthinkable to me.

It's not a problem for me in ruby, but honestly my natural preference is a tad higher up to about ~90 characters looking at some recent code.

@reynir @zatnosk If you listen to the Python language developers you should just stop writing code with lines longer than 79 characters

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length

@reynir @zatnosk I don't think that Guido cares what language it's in.

Even for the Python C code guidelines it says:"No line should be longer than 79 characters. If this and the previous rule together don't give you enough room to code, your code is too complicated"

Granted I think that policy is full of shit, but it's funny in this scenario :blobamused:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/#code-lay-out

@zatnosk @reynir Accessibility? :blobcatno:

Also, being used to 2-space-width, it's terrifying to double that and THEN have to stay below 79 characters.

The way I learn new programming languages is to just start writing programs in them and then looking up everything piece by piece.

It's no wonder I hated university, which did exactly the opposite and crammed facts into my head before giving me problems to solve with them.

@zatnosk @ekaitz_zarraga I only eat the vanilla ones. But yes, that shit is dope.

@zatnosk @ekaitz_zarraga ah, yes, that's about my level of Spanish. At least the intro😂

@ekaitz_zarraga @zatnosk I can read a Spanish recipe... If the only ingredient is beer 😂

@ekaitz_zarraga @zatnosk no one in particular, it's just to illustrate our hypocrisy

@ekaitz_zarraga @zatnosk while Danes often think less of Americans for buying food out all the time we also know that bakeries in Denmark have perfected the art of danishes and we don't even attempt to replicate it.

Plus the bakeries are everywhere.