Yeah they seemed to be editing code live in production with no revision control. What morons.

Well you wouldn’t be driving to the airport if you didn’t have a flight to catch! ** taps forehead

Checked exceptions require a function to declare the exceptions it can throw. The caller function must then catch and handle the exception, or the exception would bubble up a level, in which case the caller must also include that exception among the exceptions it declares that it can throw. I don’t know if C++ does this, but Java/C# do. It sounds exactly like Rust’s system except with different syntax.

My last job was Windows desktop, so I installed vmware and ran Linux in fullscreen mode.

Yes, apply 100% tariffs on all American goods sold in America, until they accept them!

I figured as much. Just wanted to show another option.

I love httpie for hitting urls when i want to see the headers or body without downloading to a file eg testing an api

This was a few years ago so maybe it has improved, but I found that screen would crash and lose my session history and layout too often. That was bad enough, but when it happened it had some bullshit error message about a dungeon roof falling in. I don’t mind some comedy in code or even the interface, but don’t make light of the user losing their stuff. I tried tmux and it is much more stable than screen was.

mkdir -p will not complain if the dir exists

Haha true

in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.

a/s/l?

Velcro sewn to just inside the top of your pocket, so sticking a hand in your pocket makes a loud noise and you can feel it, for any pickpocket to separate the velcro.