While I don’t disagree, this article is pretty bad and unconvincing. Is it a draft or something dashed out to collect referral fees?

Telescopes don’t allow you to hear sound from space though…

I wondered if they meant that you couldn’t help but imagine the sound when seeing it - I don’t know if there’s a word for that (or where to ask on Lemmy).

audibly blinking

Huh?

Found the source: https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/quirky/1411124/i-hurl-18kg-rocks-for-a-living-mother-33-ditches-scientist-career-to-become-uks-only-female-trebuchet-master.html

btw, it’s a rite of passage.

Oh, you’re right - somehow I missed seeing the entire bottom third of the image.

And they’ve highlighted the whole of the UK for “England”. Scotland has the thistle, Wales has the daffodil and Wikipedia says that flax is widely used as a symbol of Northern Ireland.

I think of England’s rose as red, because of the rugby.

blood alcohol content of 0.16% — above the legal limit to drive

I had to look it up, but that’s twice the limit.

what fucked up tumblr subculture has my shitpost reached

I’ve never been on tumblr and just assumed the whole site was like that.

I like that idea of using the different fonts for e.g. Copilot suggestions - reminds me of reading Asterix comics as a kid when they’d use gothic black for the Goth’s speech, etc.

edit: e.g.

Looks to be riffing on this story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ngyely232o

It’s good to see the Beeb join the hallowed ranks of The Onion and The Daily Mash.

That doesn’t sound heatlhy.

Well yeah, you need to do the computation somewhere and it’s not doing it on the server so…

I’ve been using Vimium C, but as it’s based on Vimium it may have the same problem.

After duffing the ball all over the golf course, I sat on my duff, ate some duff, drank too many Duff beers, then some duffer threatened to duff me up because he thought I’d got his sister up the duff. After this duff day, I went into the woods and lay in the duff.

Probably not; I’d expect the places where you need something like UUIDv7 (large, eventually-consistent systems) to not be entirely suitable because you can have records added out of sequence. You’d have to add a received-at field - but in that case you may as well just use a standard incrementing ID as your primary key.

In time-based pagination, the suggested fix to lots of data in a selected timespan is:

simply adding a limit to the amount of records returned (potentially via a query parameter) transparently solves it.

This means clients can’t see all the results, unless you add a way to view other pages of data, which is just pagination again. Or is the intended design that clients view either the first x results (the default) or view all results?

The problem with articles like OPs and others is that they don’t allow custom sorting, which is often a requirement, e.g. interfaces that present the data in a table, where column headers can be clicked to sort.

Yup, I think a lot of people just use their web browser for everything, and they can definitely just switch. Outside of work, how many non-techies have set up their email to use a native program? Very few, in my experience.

I think documents are sometimes the exception, since there’s a sizable (perhaps older) group that like to use Word for everything.

I felt the same when reading that book, and I never finished it because following the rules he suggested produced horrible code.

If memory serves, he also suggested that the ideal if statement only had one line inside, and you should move multiple lines into a function to achieve this.

I once had to work on a codebase that seemed like it had followed his style, and it was an awful experience. There were hundreds of tiny functions (most only used once) and even with an IDE it was a chore to follow the logic. Best case the compiler removed most of this “clean” code and the runtime wasn’t spending most of its time managing the stack like a developer had to do.