We do this in Ruby all the time, we just prefer methods over variables, usually.

def authorized?
  current_user&.authorized?
end

Might be an unpopular take but… maybe being good at high school math tests is not really such an important gift in the real world.

Or business decides all specs and design decisions that were made last quarter were actually garbage and yes we do want to be able to manually override every step of the carefully designed state machine. We’d like to be able to manually change all calculated sales data, but also the data needs to remain in a consistent state at all times. Oh and while you’re there, we decided the commission calculations will use a different system from now on. We expect it to be online by the end of the week, thanks.

Maybe in enterprises settings what you say makes sense, but for the small to medium startups I usually work for, RoR is great. It’s super easy to prototype and switch lanes. If I had to do what I do in Java I’d go insane. As for Delphi…

The RoR “magic” being obtuse is extremely exaggerated most of the time and more meme than reality. If you think PHP is better, by which I guess you mean Laravel, how on earth is that less “magical”? React? Next? I’ll take Ruby any day.

I mean I’ve been using ActiveRecord for the last 20 ish years and I’ve never encountered or even heard of this bug. Sounds like you came across an especially obscure one.

Ragging on older generations though, comedy gold.

They missed “oh nevermind, I fixed it” without explaining how or ever commenting again.

Mainly because my Windows license is an OEM one that won’t move to the “new hardware” :/

Do engineers take some sort of hippocratic oath?

If it’s a virus presumably it will return. Keep an eye (or ear) on your fan, especially after a restart.

Haha preach brother

Counter point. I had a customer call me back in the day when I was working tech support. Complained that his new computer wasn’t working. Plugged in, light goes on but the screen just stays blank. Turns out he only bought a monitor. Thought the guys at the store were trying to scam him into “buying two boxes” that he didn’t need. When I tried to explain he got mad saying I must be in on the scam.

Bonus points: when the call first connected his question was "why is my email not working?” Took a while to work that back to the actual issue.

Isn’t Balleye on Windows kind of a rootkit? How does that work on Linux? You have to run it as root?

Just wondering, do you feel current lemmy instances are censoring pro-palestinian content?

Of course it’s always fine to start your own too.

Nvim & tmux gang! I’m always happy to see a reasonable number of people mentioning vim in these threads. Need that affirmation that I’m not just a dinosaur.

Ah Emacs.

Too many people in this thread are trying to give a serious answer to this question.

That’s how I thought it was supposed to be used. It’s “copilot” not “autopilot”. I don’t need nor want it to write whole functions for me.

That’s why there’re are different instances. No one can force you to join lemmy.world just like no one can force them to host content they don’t want to host.

Theres no other logging it does? Have you tried running the script yourself from the commandline with the same privileges that cron has?