Naming things is one of the two most difficult issues in IT, alongside cache validation and off-by-one errors.

@wth @Spyros We need one universal graphical tool kit that works everywhere!

GTK: Hi, I heard you're looking fo—
Me: NOT YOU

I beg to differ.
https://e621.net/posts/3365597

@196 oops I forgot that it federates and makes a new post when I mention the community on Mastodon

Hi to all the cute queer people in my phone

The beauty of the Fediverse is that it doesn't matter if it does. There could be instances like Voat/Poal, and there could be instances like pre-Digg-exodus Reddit, and if the divide is big enough the two sides will defederate from each other and won't communicate. This is a solved problem in the microblog side of the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc), where there is a huge variety of instances. Sign up on an instance whose rules and moderation you prefer, and you'll be fine.

I am of the opinion that regex for email address is a bad idea. The only two things that you need to check an email address are:

Does the address contain an @ symbol?
Is there a dot to the right of the @ symbol?

Then just try to deliver to it, and let the MTA do the rest.

Email addresses can be complicated, and there's plenty of valid addresses that can be excluded by attempts at regex validation.

@custom_situation @yoavlavi

Python has had syntax support for type annotations for a while now. The Python runtime doesn't enforce the typing at all, but it can be enforced by a linter or by your IDE. And I believe you can introspect the type annotations at runtime, because they are actually part of the syntax.

There's even an alternative way of doing type annotations through specially formatted comments, just in case you might still need to write code that is backwards compatible with Python 2.

@escapesamsara @navi @programming

I want the Xenia trans rights sticker

@words_number @Sibbo that was one hell of an opening sentence to misread.

@atocci I'm in this photo and I don't like it

@Zagorath I love me some spicy small-town drama.

@btaf45 @mspencer712 The whole point of Scrum is to use the retrospective to stop doing what doesn't work and start doing what does.

At one point, when my team's workload changed to less-timeboxable work, we threw out the entire concept of sprints and just used kanban instead, and stayed like that for a year. We still did retrospectives on the old sprint cadence though.

@bristle Pro tip – when replying to a Lemmy thread from Mastodon, remember to tag the community (i.e. @tech) in the reply in order to ensure your reply actually shows up on Lemmy. If you don't, it won't always federate back to Lemmy.

It seems to federate without tagging when the thread OP is a native user on the Lemmy instance, and when directly replying to a Lemmy user. Still unsure exactly when it will and won't.

If you have a disagreement with someone, and they make a good argument, that's worth an upvote.

Yes, it is. You can even do new posts by tagging a community such as @lemmy (this one). Put your title on its own line at the start of the toot, and probably put the tag at the end of the toot otherwise it messes up the formatting in the title.

@Zagorath That is a stupidly large sign

It's the other way around. The YAML schema supports JSON because YAML was designed as a superset of JSON.

@Lynxtickler @canpolat

@chalkman this is cursed

Also, good luck using switch without any breaks, but I'm guessing that's not quite what your teacher had in mind.

The teacher, probably: “You must always put a switch in its own function! Then use return at the end of each case.”

@zib @UnRelatedBurner @programming

@RothyBuyak @196 oh look it's my brain