spacedogroy

u/spacedogroy@feddit.uk
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on Internet is Down · c/casualuk · 2 pts · 296d

TalkTalk. They're terrible. Was thinking of going to Virgin Fibre, honestly, but have been avoiding it.

Cats have the right to roam, whereas dogs don't. The law treats cats in a weird way that doesn't apply to dogs.

This, speaking as a dog owner. Also I get annoyed a lot at seeing dog shit everywhere, so I get it.

Cats are also annoying, in so far they're held to a different standard, but what are you gonna do? 🤷‍♂️

Edit: tbh, as often the issue is inconsiderate people.

Speaking primarily as a Go developer, what I see is companies cutting costs, and Java is battle-tested and there's a tonne of talent out there who know the language. If Java in your area already pays more, I'd say you've already got your answer.

Besides which, if Go truly does eat the Java world in the next couple of years (it won't), the language is still young enough for you to pick it up fairly quickly. Especially with the help of AI.

talks were going well until the BMA resident doctors’ committee told its co-chairs that it could not approve the government’s deal because it did not address the BMA’s demand that resident doctors receive a 29% pay rise over the next few years.

The BMA seem to be of the opinion that money is the deal breaker. As I understand it, negotiations were underway to improve conditions, but no dice.

I feel like they've misjudged the government or public sentiment, or both.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/golang · 2 pts · 1y

I haven't gone through it thoroughly but the first thing that stuck out was the use of a default logger. I don't think libraries should log by default. If you do allow a logger to be injected in I think it should be an interface.

I've switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it's absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn't have ads, which is a big plus point.

I worked with Perl for years, and I don't recommend it for a beginner. There are just too many idiosyncrasies that belong specifically to the language that you'd be better off with Python for learning the basics.

I'm also not really sold on that book, which from the code samples looks really old. I'd recommend two books: Modern Perl and Perl Best Practices.

Edit: I'd also recommend working in Go but potentially the way i/o intersects with interfaces makes it a bit more challenging.

I think defederation should be used as a last resort - specifically, I'm talking about an influx of tankies breaking feddit.uk's code of conduct. I think actions supporting a protest of lemmy.ml should be left to the individual, as to whether they want to continue participating in those communities. Ideally, the communities move themselves to a different instance that's less politicised, but that's not the world we currently live in.