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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • Funny thing I’ve been driving for 30+ years, and have never had a formal driving test:

    • Permit at 15: No tests, only restriction was to have a licensed passenger in-vehicle

    • License at 16: Had driver’s ed in school, state’s driving test waved, and license transferred to other states without any new driving test

    • Motorcycle license: Took a safety course while in the military, state added endorsement without any test, which also transferred out-of-state

    • Heavy vehicles: Trained on military 5-ton/deuce+0.5/Frontloaders/HMMWVs - all kinds of heavy equipment - no formal tests, only unit sign-off (even on civilian roads)

    • The kicker: I now live in a US state where a driver license is good with no re-testing till age 64

    Gonna suck when I actually do have to take a test. Hopefully there will be sane infra to go completely driverless by the time I get that old.



  • a single strawman: these tools do not exist and no developer in the world cares about the topic

    I haven’t seen anyone make the argument that denies these things exist - it’s that the existence of these tools are even necessary to safeguard the language in the first place is the argument. And then on top of that, you’ll additionally need a shop that is even allowed the time to properly utilize these tools and implement their usage as standard practice within the company culture.

    That there are alternatives which remove (significantly more) footguns is the overall point. Work in one of these other languages so e.g. dumb-ass PMs don’t even have the option of pilfering the time it takes to code safely, as it would already be baked in.


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    8 months ago

    There was a post about an older dude that went camping with his girlfriend and popped an ol’ blue to get freaky. They wrapped up and fell asleep, but the dude woke up 4 hours in excruciating pain - his erection had never gone down. They rushed down the mountain to the hospital, another two hours later… ER docs told him it was too late, amputation time.

    So it’s always a good idea to stay awake long enough to flush the pipes with a good piss to avoid a uti, the story just reinforced that notion for me about 1000% more.