For those who don’t know:

Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare hyperbolically apologized for “inventing” the null reference:[26] [27]

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn’t resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

Sounds like any action move protagonist.

Hey, IT, I imported this data set twice, and now there are a lot of duplicates. Is there something wrong?

– Yes, that happened.

To be fair, just because obj.foo is undefined, that doesn’t mean the key is missing. It could also be assigned the value undefined. const obj = { foo: undefined } vs const obj = {}

If an attribute is null, I would prefer to simply not serialize it.

That’s interesting. I’m on the opposite team. If a customer model defines an optional birthday, for instance, I’d rather have it serialized as a null value if it’s not available for a specific customer.

Indeed, and that turns out to be a problem if the JavaScript expects the key not to be there, but instead it is there. And then you try to tell the backend dev that the key shouldn’t be there, but he’ll try to convince you that it’s the same whether the key is not there or whether it’s assigned null and then you wonder if he’s messing with you, but actually he isn’t and then the only thing keeping you sane is bitching about it in meme form on lemmy.

Sure, Java can tell the difference. But that doesn’t mean that the guy writing the API cares whether or not he adds a key to the dictionary before yeeting it to the client.

In my experience it’s the other way around.

When did adults stop being able to form coherent sentences?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOtR2A5agc

– How rap sounds to non-English speakers

most music I can’t understand what someone singing

Just like the rest of us, tbh.

Then hope they filled it quick enough and there weren’t any Sundays or holidays to mess with it.

I used to think stores didn’t care about Sundays in the US and were always open.

I’m not really sure what suggested to you that they didn’t tbh.

This is an excerpt from the comment I replied to:

I don’t understand how it can possibly take 2 hours to count a couple dozen pills, throw them in an orange tube, and slap a label on it

I can’t understand that you guys are at an (probably minimum wage) employee’s mercy to put the right pills into the right container to get the drugs you actually need and not something that kills you.

In Germany virtually all medications are brought to the pharmacy pre-packaged and (as of this year) stamped with a batch number on the outside and on each inner container, so you can be absolutely sure what’s inside really is what it says on the outside.

I mean, filling the tubes could be done so much faster and securely by a machine.

A version control system no-one uses. Like every other garbage VCS, it has fallen victim to git’s supremacy.

Yay, a likeminded person!

For Microsoft I fully understand that they’d rather have a subscription model for Windows. After all you’re getting updates every fortnight and critical patches ASAP. I wonder they let you buy their shit for so long.

Just in case someone brings it up—and someone will bring it up regardless—: I’m not defending their recent enshittification and “always online” mindset.

The Wall

The Berlin Wall? Pink Floyd’s The Wall? The US-Mexico border wall? More details, please.

I’m amazed that no-one has complained that the graph’s data points are on the borders between categories rather than inside the category bars.

With that out of the way: WTF is wrong with that graph?

Is an alternative spelling to extroversion and more close to the original Latin root.

I used to think that at least the parts that are Fairtrade wouldn’t be affected as much.