You need to make the weekend a thing. Maybe I’m too European, but when I’m not on call, my workphone is off.

This is something that can easily get refactored, because the purpose of alia the variables is right there in the name. This is way better that spending three days to try to figure out what the purpose of var1 is.

Speaking as a German and a software developer: just because you can, does not mean you should.

Sometimes it is easier and better to not stuff words together and give readers a bad time than to write “Schiffsschraubeneichungsvorgabenverordnungsüberwacher”.

That there is the joke. The joke is that there. Look there is the joke!

I have learned, that in those circumstances a simple “wow this is a long text, I don’t have the time right now to give it the proper thought. Let me get back to you when things calm down”

Or simply, “sorry busy right now, let me get back to you later”

This way, you acknowledge the message but also give yourself breathing room.

New versions of java have a null coalescing operator?

I didn’t know that.

Edit: a short search didn’t return any answers, as far as I can see java doesn’t have this operator, the closest thing is the ternary if operator.

Yes, it’s very useful when applied correctly.

I’m always disappointed when I remember, that I can’t use such a feature, because I’m stuck using Java.

But what websites can you trust these days?

YouTube? Serves up scammy bitcoin ads. Google? Places ads as “search results” Twitter?

Maybe that one website unchanged since 1998.

Or try having numbers or strings that look like they could be dates.

That would be unfortunate!

Try using Excel in another language than English. You have to hope someone, that speaks your language had exactly the same problem as you, because all the formulas get translated and Excel doesn’t recognize the English version when your language isn’t set to English.

Fuck yeah!

YMCA

So like art. No tangible assets, but the value is derived by the highest bidder.

Heat energy is the amount of particle wiggling. With precisely tuned and oriented lasers you can clamp a particle in space, thus prevent it from wiggling.

No wiggling -> very cold.

Nope, still just piss

That is true, the first fifty years are to be attributed to being better and faster than the other side just for the chance to be better at blowing them up.

Who gives a fuck about space tourism? What the hell does that give us as a species?

You can say that about tourism as a whole.

To be completely honest, dwarf fortress is way more complex then tic-tac-toe.

Yeah my guess is, that it’s either not meant to be funny but more like though provoking or existential horror inducing. In the other hand it can be funny as in “I’m laughing at everything that stresses me to cope with things I can’t control”

Yeah, this theory is not airtight even without me cutting corners in the explanation to keep it brief.

I imagine you can fix the holes with some thinking and speculation, but then again, does it really matter if you are just a “NPC” I mean for everyone else you are, but to yourself it’s only you who can answer that. I can’t look into your head and you can’t look into mine (metaphorically speaking) so we can only give each other the benefit of doubt.