As a sysadmin I have sadly encountered too many situations where a programmer thought “oh, this will never happen” to agree with you that a code construct that provides no information to the user should be used in such cases.

No, I actually meant it as in the traditional meaning of literally. As in

[lints.clippy]
unwrap_used = "warn"
expect_used = "warn"

along with a pre-commit hook that does

cargo clippy -D warnings

(deny warnings).

There are always better ways to write an unwrap, usually via pattern matching and handling the error cases properly, at the very least logging them.

There are a few very questionable things in there. Unwrap should literally never appear in production code so if your code base uses it so often that you want a short-hand syntax for it that calls into doubt everything else you wrote.

In 99% of those cases you would want it to resolve .. components though.

const expressions are evaluated at compile time and can be used in locations where you would have to otherwise specify a literal (or something that amounts to a named literal like a const value).

I made it to about episode 5 with Discovery (the one with the security officer getting mauled because she walked into that cage with the wild animal unarmed) by actively giving it more chances than it deserved, not sure how you managed to watch a whole two seasons of it.

Especially when all the workarounds to make it barely usable from Mastodon spill over into Lemmy in the form of bots posting weird hashtags or headlines being full of hashtags,…

Big Tech will eventually comply because the alternative would be to let the EU grow some alternatives themselves and that would be much more dangerous.

It is about as common as using a database server for content though to use something like ES, Solr or similar software for search.

I don’t really see the point in forking a project like Mastodon unless you are already deeply involved with its development. It doesn’t do enough that you couldn’t rewrite it better (as in in a way you understand better and with lessons from the original taken into account) in the time it would take you to fully understand all the details of the existing code base.

Icon themes do seem like the kind of thing where updating the standard first shouldn’t be that hard to do.

This post might be relevant to your current work in case you hadn’t seen it.

I haven’t really written any Go but from trying to debug some issues in Go software and looking at the source code it seems to be the kind of garbage language that is write-only and likely most major projects written in it will take a full rewrite if you want to overhaul it for a new major version (as in the kind of major version where the code base changes significantly, not the kind where you just broke some minor API).

You included the . at the end of the sentence in the URL so it doesn’t work properly.

Not good at reading comprehension, huh? If something is expensive even though half of the costs involved are covered by subsidies the real costs are even higher which means nuclear is even less competitive if you took all the costs into account.

Funny how that story in various sources is literally the only place where the term “structural decline” appears (it is the whole page of top results for that term when searching for it), almost as if they needed to come up with a new kind of decline they could claim to have achieved specifically to talk about their numbers.

Meanwhile France, a country that gets most of its power from nuclear has had nothing but problems in the last few years.

If anything is a total disgrace it is the temper tantrums of the nuclear fanboys in recent years when their technology of choice falls further and further behind price-wise despite extreme government subsidies and building new power plants becomes embarrassingly expensive and long to the point where it couldn’t save us from climate change even if all countries of the world started building plants for 100% of their energy use 10 years ago.

Complete nonsense. The phaseout was going to happen either way. This is only about the few months extension for the last three nuclear power plants and even there the evidence is more than flimsy.

Seems like a reasonable size limit for a modern phone camera picture.

I don’t understand the complaint about the ‘without prior notice’ part? How else would you seize devices or other forms of data? With prior warning so people can delete all incriminating information?

I can’t really judge if the raid itself was justified or not but that bit seems like an odd complaint to add on.

It would be great if we could use a tool like that to discuss each major political issue once and only add to the discussion if truly new arguments appear instead of going in circles with the same arguments all the time.