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If you’re branching logic due to the existence or non-existence of a field rather than the value of a field (or treating undefined different from null), I’m going to say you’re the one doing something wrong, not the Java dev.

These two things SHOULD be treated the same by anybody in most cases, with the possible exception of rejecting the later due to schema mismatch (i.e. when a “name” field should never be defined, regardless of the value).

Buy a keyboard and monitor

NGL, this looks kinda terrible

And the only thing even worse than SCRUM is literally every other option

Remote Desktop

What this shows is how terrible raw JS is, when all of this crap is required to fix all of the edge cases and make things actually work the way it’s supposed to.

If you’re using assembly, then you’ve already given up on the easy ways.

No need, GUIs are better for most tasks.

I’ve heard that enabling CloudFlare DDoS protection on Lemmy breaks federation due to the amount of ActivityPub traffic.

So you’re saying it’s about as robust as a typical Linux application then?

You need to get a cert from Let’s Encrypt (using certbot), then look up directions for configuring nginx to use the cert files generated by certbot.

So what? Malicious extensions can do anything. Don’t run untrusted code on any computer you care about, ever. This is true for any IDE extension, any NPM package, any mod pack, etc.

If only mutable value semantics are allowed, then how can you represent an object graph with circular references (let’s say HTML DOM, for example) while still allowing modifying the objects?
Seems like this would be very difficult to work with in practice.

There are only 3 hard problems in programming:

0: Cache invalidation
2: Race conditions
1: Naming things
3: Off-by-one errors

This is why .NET code compiles to platform-independent binaries that get JIT translated to machine code and optimized for the target CPU. Developers don’t need to do anything (the applications don’t even need to be re-compiled), they will just get conditionally optimized when appropriate.

You don’t need a mail server if all you want is a custom email domain. You can just use something like CloudFlare DNS to have them forward all emails to your domain to another private email address (e.g. Gmail).

Some people here are failing at basic reading comprehension… so many comments talking about “Lemmy clients”, when the whole point is that this for links from OUTSIDE of Lemmy.

That being said, I wonder if this couldn’t be solved by Lemmy directly somehow…? Ideally we could have some way to say “this is my home” that any given instance could know and redirect you from any linked instance back to your home, without any middle-man.

But I don’t know of any way to share that data without some central repository host (which obviously goes against the fediverse vision). Ideally there could be some kind of “shared local storage” in the browser that all instances could use, but I’m not aware any way to do that.

Obviously a browser extension would work, but I don’t think that’s a good solution.

weakly typed languages

Well, looks like we found the problem right there

These languages only exist because JS is so dumb in the first place

Multi-platform images are kept up-to-date on this 3rd party repo: https://github.com/ubergeek77/lemmy-docker-multiarch