Denmark. I bought something from the US. About 300 DKK. I had to pay for shipping. About 300 DKK. I had to pay the toll. I had to pay a mandatory 120 DKK fee for the postal service to charge the toll. I had to pay taxes on the fee. I had to pay taxes on the purchase. I had to pay taxes on the shipping.

In the end I paid about 1000 DKK for a 300 DKK package.

Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.

An Enermax keyboard has been my daily driver as a programmer for my career that started in 2007. It still works just fine and I still have no reason to change to something else. Lots of reasons not to, since I like the classic keyboard layout and the flat laptop keys.

Oh, he’ll just change the unit test if it fails.

But then how will I avoid breaking rules in the future?

That won’t be an issue.

My dad’s friend told him this when they were discussing something. My dad pointed out that the other guy was also keeping the discussion going, being just as guilty of wanting to be right as my dad.

Well, neither is iso…

singular they/them has been in use for literally centuries

Even if has been in use since forever, a more appropriate word can be introduced now.

Given your username it’s probably for the best.

What? Why do I see “removed” instead of whatever curse is uttered?

Why?

I’m chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.

When you have a great programmer working on your project he will be cycled to a new project in 2-3 months. Your new senior developer who silently takes over the project is part time because he’s working on finishing his education.

No one knows how anything works, except that one guy, who left the company half a year ago. That’s how all software development is.