We didn’t get a chance to ask that as everybody over 30 had already crumbled to dust by this point.

Yeah, I’m starting to doubt he’d ever seen a GameCube either.

He thought the save icon was a printer…

I drew a floppy disk as part of a workplace online Pictionary game, only to find somebody I work with has never seen one.

We work in IT.

The rest of us tried to explain what they were and he was like “did you use them in a GameCube?” and “was it like a USB stick?”

It was strange being there at the dawn of time, to see Google utterly displace Yahoo.

We were on conenctions barely faster than dial up and Yahoo’s homepage was a complete clusterfuck of everything you didn’t care about. Weather for somewhere else, celebrity “news”, sports in another country. And all you wanted to do was look up a way to run some very dangerous unchecked SQL in PHP.

Google was just search. Nothing else. And it was so fast. You could have that potential SQL injection so much faster there.

And the sad thing is with phones and browsers defaulting to it, and even the word “googling” (I don’t remember ever Yahooing anything), it’s probably here to stay with it’s terrible addiction to ads and AI. Won’t be long before I’m served glue at a pizzeria.

Not for long anyway.

I tend to agree. The right time to build nuclear was like 30 years ago.

The same people who opposed it then are the same people saying it’s the future now. If anybody agrees to build it, the you’ll have 15-20 years of renewable energy being cancelled because the “nuclear is on the way”.

And it passes the Acid3 test, which is more than Firefox does.

They’re beaming electromagnetic waves into your eyes, man!

As he counts his money.

Half of them aren’t in China though. It’s dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

Or the funders get bored of waiting after ten years of “no Mars yet” and cancel the project, leaving you with a half finished rocket.

I guess whether it’s worth it depends on whether you hate writing code or reading code the most.

Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.

And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

Yeah, it’s the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.

If they haven’t been doing so for at least a decade, I’m sure their shareholders will want to know why not.

You’d think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?

0 == []
>> true

"0" == []
>> false

0 == "0"
>> true

Some automatic conversion is fine.

a=3+0.2

print(“Hello {name}. You are {age} years old”)

That kind of thing. But the principle of least surprise definitely applies. If you get to the point where you’re adding two booleans and a string, I feel like the language should at least say something. At least until the technology exists for it to physically reach out of your screen and slap you.