rockSlayer

Infrastructural APIs are much slower to change, and in a lot of cases the use of those APIs are dependent on a specific version. The change will definitely occur over time as the practical limitations are discovered

I love it as a symbol, but I'll save the evangelism... Unless asked

Dynamic stacks are pretty common in the most popular scripting languages, but considered bad practice from folks who use systems languages

Lmao my mind totally filtered the "the" part in both comments, nice catch

In this context it means being creepy, but it's a generally negative analogy

Precisely. It's why I reject being too strict about ruling out judgement due to "signs of the times". In the famous words of Parenti, ancient Greece actually had a whole segment of the population opposed to slavery. They were called slaves.

You're correct. In my area, we call them rafters

I can't speak for others, but I have autism and interpret things literally unless there are obvious signs of a joke. I'm one of the people that benefit from textual tone indicators.

What part of "satire" could be called credible?

You witness a huge political display at the start of every game. The NFL was paid by the department of defense for the athletes to be present on the field for the anthem.

These dumb ideas never come out of nowhere, usually it's because they forgot the KISS principle

Wait, are they building the rafters on the frame?