To make settings inaccessible on purpose or even alienate people deemed “too stupid” for them is called Tech Paternalism, and it fucking sucks.

You’re referring to Windows Registry right?

So are the brick veneers and cookie-cutter layouts

Like my code, it’s ugly but readable

That experience is highly dependent on the Linux distro you’re using. Steam comes preinstalled on gaming-centric distros like Nobara or Pop!_OS. More “general purpose” distros like Mint or Ubuntu might require adding an apt repository before you can install steam from their GUI package managers, but adding an apt repo can be easily accomplished with a GUI as well.

Basically, if there’s no guide for installing steam for a given distro, or the process of installing steam is more than a couple easy steps, that specific distro probably isn’t well suited to run steam.

Ok that’s understandable, I didn’t realize VSCode used to delete untracked files as well as a result of clicking through that dialogue.

I’m not claiming that “discard” is a git action. I’m claiming a git user should understand what’s meant by the phrase “discard changes”. Run git status in a repo that has changes in the working directory. In the resulting output, there’s a message:

Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) 
    (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        ...

The phrase “discard changes” is used consistently in git’s output.

If you use git and understand that VSC’s source control stuff is just a thin wrapper around git, you should understand what “discard all changes” means

I know you didn’t ask, but you don’t need a weird fork of emacs to run a Clojure REPL, that just works in regular emacs

Fuckin goteem

That thread is from like 4 years ago, types in Python have come a long way since then. Maybe they’d reconsider if the community brought it back up

The django-stubs package is decent though

This is me. Software developer by day, endless diyer and hobby starter by night (at least on nights when I’m not dissociating on the couch)

Right, the amount of times I’ve had to put breakpoints in Django/DRF code to figure out what’s causing that weird undocumented behavior is concerningly large

It does, but most style guides and autoformatters will use 4

I can’t believe we still have to justify writing unit tests to management in the year 2024

Nah, hackthebox and many other red team simulation type sites have strict rules of engagement. You’re there to solve a puzzle as defined by hackthebox, not get around the puzzle by hacking hackthebox.

The amount of people who say they do agile/kanban/scrum but have never talked to a customer/end user, let alone released something, is frightening

You don’t necessarily need types for that kind of thing though, a strict linter that flags that code works just as well

We used to do this with thumb drives. You can get a 128G usb3 thumb drive these days for like 20 bucks in the checkout line of most electronics stores. Cool things about a thumb* drive is I don’t need to pay a subscription fee for it, it doesn’t need an Internet connection, and it isn’t liable to be rifled through by Microsoft unless Bill Gates comes to your house and steals it from you.

we struggle getting wifi to work

No we don’t