In many ways a vending machine is precisely that.

AI generated SPAM is beginning to leak through. It’s getting pretty personalised and harder to distinguish from real email.

What does the future of this look like?

Why are these batteries not called 11Ah batteries?

I moved from VMware Fusion after a hardware failure and migrated to Proxmox. I use VMs to isolate client information and to test and use different OS versions and distros.

I have a VM that runs Docker and connect to it via SSH for running applications I don’t want to install on my main workstation.

My main workstation is also a VM.

I came from bare metal Linux for years and found that I spent too much time recompiling kernels to make it work with my hardware.

Now that everything is a VM, changing underlying hardware, and even hypervisor is trivial.

If VMware hadn’t been bought by Broadcom and allowed me to virtualise x86 on Apple Silicon, I’d still be running VMware Fusion. UTM by the way is completely unreliable … I really tried.

As it is, I’m running Proxmox on AMD.

in summary, Proxmox allows me to build what I need when I need it virtually and it’s running on a standard Debian host.

Edit: #$#__# autocorrect (unreadable -> unreliable)

This is not limited to CompSci graduates and gets worse the older you get.

It’s also not limited to CompSci.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/17/over-50s-reveal-trying-to-get-a-job-applications-interviews

How is your code sample for an object any different from a function definition?

In both cases you need to read the documentation, consult the source, or have an IDE that does.

That depends entirely on how the object is constructed. Plenty of implementations use object.new() and you’re expected to fill in the blanks.

Besides, even if you have a constructor that takes parameters, it’s essentially the same as calling a function. Get it wrong and stuff breaks.

Which bit isn’t possible?

As far as data types goes, you can apply the same logic to function parameters.

In my experience, naming the elements in an object requires exactly the same documentation as naming the elements in a function call and it makes things worse if you forget to assign a value to one of them, since the object constructor will likely assign an unknown default value.

While this is idiotic and counter productive long term, the thing to remember, it’s not just one scraper, it’s hundreds of them, simultaneously trying to outscrape the other, each trying to hoover up as much as possible as fast as possible.

If that’s not enough, the Facebook scrapers hit the same URL over and over again, even when that URL returns an error. Their approach to web scraping is essentially: “Fuck you, deal with it”, even if the website is run by a small business that cannot financially justify more bandwidth or server capacity.

I’ve seen this process bring sites down, to the point of actively having to block all non-human requests, just to be able to serve customers. This of course doesn’t work long term because the bots continue to probe and morph.

Box Jellyfish, Taipan, Stonefish, Redback Spider, Drop Bear, Hoop Snake.

Yeah, I suppose you’re right, we do like to name things in an understated elegance.

23 years ago, I wrote a mapping engine using image maps and clickable gifs. I had it to the point where I could draw a country with roads, towns and labels, you could zoom in and out, and I dealt with the different types of projections.

Then Google Maps came out.

With explanations like this, who can blame them 😁

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/reduce

PHP is written in text files which can be managed using any number of version control systems. Pick your poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_software

As someone else said, you can document your patches with a Docker file, but you’ll still need to track your changes.

Ultimately, what you’re essentially doing is maintaining a local fork of the code and keeping it synchronised with upstream.

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists who were members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist network, hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C. In a coordinated attack that transformed the planes into weapons, the hijackers intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and another into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Learning about the other hijackings through telephone calls, passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack. When the passengers attempted to breach the cockpit, the hijacker pilot, who had changed course toward the nation’s capital, crashed the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on that day, the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil, and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. Approximately two billion people, almost one third of the world’s population, are estimated to have witnessed these horrific events directly or via television, radio, and Internet broadcasts that day.

The bolt that holds the flag pole unfurling mechanism planted on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew, because it’s likely to be part of human history for quite some time to come.

Also, I’m aware that the moon landing wasn’t in 1959, but I imagine a NASA engineer pulling it out of a bucket of bolts from previous projects, ie. memorable place in history, not particularly noticeable or special.

Disclaimer: I have no knowledge whatsoever of the actual construction of the flagpole or its origins.

Politicians.

That said, the alternatives on offer seem orders of magnitude worse.

https://jointhefediverse.net/learn/?lang=en-us

Given that its CEO has some serious issues with democracy, I can’t say that I care one iota which language abomination is powering his empire.

All of them.