Steven R. Baker

Comedian. Purveyor of snark. Software veteran. Creator of RSpec and the describe/it pattern for software description. Emotional support Canadian. 🇨🇦 in 🇸🇪

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@BradyHaran I don’t think this is a question you want a serious answer to. There are _many_ bad things.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@vaxryy Weird that this person minds negative things you might have said about a self-admitted sex pest.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

If only the Swedish government care as much about safety and prosperity as they do about snus.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@devagrawal09 First, you're saying "types" and you probably mean "static types". Dynamic languages have types.

Second, static types are neither a linter nor a test suite. You still need a linter and a test suite.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@quipsfromthekid @jakozloski Pretty much. But also, her older sister was _very_ annoyed that she'd found someone, so there might have been some spite in there too on her part. :)

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@quipsfromthekid @jakozloski Yeps.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

This.

But it applies to humans, too.

[DHH @dhh]

Agents don't need types. They're perfectly capable of pulling off incredible refactorings without. Give them a linter and a test suite, and you have all you need. Token efficiency is where it's at.

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@Fat_Electrician Because they are opposed to progress in general, but the people who are pushing it forward in particular.

It's even less grounded in reality than opposing nuclear power. (Which is not grounded in any current reality.)

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@TheLaurenChen Voters. They gain voters.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@dingoddude @KrisztinaMaria I was too, that’s how I learned that my tax rate was over 70%.

[Anshu @anshuc]

@github holy shit, how did the attackers find a large enough uptime window to get in?

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

I am going to practise my Swedish by writing a passive aggressive letter to the kommun about the state of the road to Junsele.

Language and culture practise: getting two birds stoned at once.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

This so-called "tech expert" apparently doesn't know how to search the internet.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Not only is this impossible it would also kill anyone with a pacemaker in a 5 mile radius. Which is most of the people in Florida.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@ZacksJerryRig Please, explain how we're doing the impossible and killing people with pacemakers in Sweden, then...

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@dingoddude @KrisztinaMaria Is it not the same as Sweden, where the employer pays a chunk on your behalf that is hidden from your payslip?

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@Peakstate89 @KrisztinaMaria In Sweden, the stated minimum ignores the ~ 30% that is deliberately obfuscated so that folks don’t realise they’re paying 60%.

Usually 🇸🇪 will jump in to say that a mandatory fee based on a percentage of your income autoremitted by your employer is not a tax because it’s a fee.

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@dorianmariecom I don't use gmail, and I don't experience this from folks who use gmail.

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

Sometimes I get emails marked "Important".

Does anyone actually use these these flags as a recipient? The mail goes into the same box, and I process it in the order it arrives.

If the sender can mark supposed importance, what actual utility does it have?

[Steven R. Baker @srbaker]

@dorianmariecom Sure. But when arbitrary randos can assign importance to something, it becomes a useless metric.