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fibojoly @sh.itjust.works
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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right?
  • JsonSchema is a way to validate some JSON. A great thing when you want to stop any sort of malformed data from coming in. Instead of wrecking your head in your code testing whether this bit here is not null, or is that string a valid boolean (I still remember that shitty piece of code they had, ugh!) or that bit is empty or that one is an actual number, or a string that can only have such and such value, well, you can formalise all this in one place, as a data file instead of code. Very convenient.

    Except when it turns out you're using a JSON library that's not one, not two, but six major versions behind, and the security department won't greenlight you using anything recent because... fuck you, that's why. And to add insult to injury, we were the Quality department. Responsible for analysing the code quality of thousands of coders, around a hundred thousand programs (mostly COBOL but also C#), of a European banking group... The JSON schema was for adding a layer of non existant security to our API. But no, let's keep accepting shitty malformed JSON (because of course we kept receiving shitty JSON; that's why we wanted to implement this)

    So I had to rewrite a lot of custom code to patch the bugs we found in the library, and none of the nifty tools that let you put in json and generate json schema would work for us. Heck, they even have JsonSchema to validate your JsonSchema but those wouldn't work either, so far behind our version was.

    Fucking awesome experience. I'm glad it's behind me.

  • Anon doesn’t like Elden Ring
  • And then you get a game like Brigadore where I actually spent in game money to unlock game lore. Absolutely no in game benefit, it was just that well written (imo) and I realised after a bit was hinting at good equipment combos.

  • Appeciating simple pleasures
  • I wouldn't* be surprised if she didn't drive. My wife has no conception of how difficult even just picking up someone can be, and demonstrate it time and again, standing on the other side of the road, or at a corner where I'll block all trafic if I stop.

    Finding a sweet spot right in front of the place we wanna go would be like "well, yeah, you don't expect me to walk, do you?" for her, while I'd probably be as ecstatic as that poor guy.

  • Anon's dad has no words
  • Really? Well, Françoise Dolto is a French pediatrician and psychanalyst. She wrote extensively about kids psychology and her most famous work is called The Lobster Syndrome, about teens and their issues.

    4Chin is a famous influencer and renowned gastronome from China, but that's not important right now.

  • Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right?
  • I feel this in my bones. As an OG dev, I had this incredible urge to smack people when I was working for my last job and I saw the API specs with everything being sent as strings through JSON. Boolean? Sure, let's use a string. Integers? Sure we'll do conversion in our code, that'll be more efficient... So fucking infuriating. Oh and don't get me started on JsonSchema T_T

  • Fun fact: in 2021, China instituted rules stating that cities with populations of less than 3 million people can't build skyscrapers taller than 492 ft, and for cities above 3 million, no new
  • I'm not sure you realise how things are in China, but from what little I saw from living there, those rules seem to increase the average height of buildings.

    Most new building are around 20 floors minimum, a lot go to 30. This reads like allowing them to go to 50 floors...

    Also they already have a nice neighborhood design : you get a bunch of them (about twenty in most neighborhood I visited) with inner gardens, underground parking, and 24/7 guardianship at the entrance(s), some place for deliveries (either automated cases or a concierge, or a convenience store) , then surrounding the neighborhood, usually occupying the ground floor of outer buildings, shops. Lots of restaurants, always, at a minimum.

    I don't know about the US, but compared to France it never feels as oppressive, even with thirty floor buildings, mostly because the streets are so damn large and open. I do wonder what it would feel like with 50 floors. That might be a bit much. And seriously, the building already look crazy thin with twenty, I can't picture it with fifty!

    Or are those rules for specific buildings?

  • You're too slow!
  • Happened a few times in China "hey this is your delivery man. Sorry, I clicked the button to reach my quota but I'm still on my way. I'll be here in a few minutes though, don't freak out ok?" Never would dream of complaining, they are so good.

  • is this employee in the room with us right now?
  • Some people have no life outside of work. When you live in a country where you need several jobs to make rent and afford food, I'm guessing this is the standard.

    Edit: gee, I guess I hit a nerve? For the record I'm from the country where working hard is illegal, as the joke goes. And very badly that we have antiallergique laws to protect our rights to have a life outside of work. And even here we have to fight tooth and nails to get WFH :/