For popular culture, it is a bit of a ghost town, but last I checked, many tech individuals/groups fled to Mastodon the moment Musk got his hands on Twitter. It is possible that they have moved on to BlueSky, but I have not been keeping track.

They should have to run the car through the same scanner when renting it out and pay the customer for any damage that the second scan is not picking up.

Reading the article, it seems that no one is contesting that the damage is not real (and Hertz said that they have employees verify that the damage if the customer questions it). Hertz does not have any evidence that the damage (not noticeable to the naked eye) did not occur while the car was sitting on the lot between rentals or occured before the scanner was installed.

Also, since Hertz is charging customers to repair every dent, scuff, and scratch, no matter how minor, does that imply that that is the new standard for rental cars? If I am renting a car from them, can I go over it with a magnifying glass and, if I can find spot of chipping paint, they agree to take the car out of rotation until they can get it fixed at an auto body shop and will give me a replacement car of equal or better class?

All of those are things that have happened to me (except an IDE that could not handle externally edited files). They are very rare occurrences, but still annoying when I have to get something done.

I agree with all of your points but the last.

Having a medical condition makes life hard. Getting treatment for the condition makes life even harder but eventually it will lessen the underlying medical condition and, in aggregate, make life easier.

AIs are very good at finding a (locally) optimal solution without understanding the context of what that entails. When is the biggest jump in engagement? When an ad ends and the show resumes. Users tend to turn up the volume and return wandering eyes back to the screen. Therefore, every time an ad break ends, the system starts an ad break. This approach also maximizes the amount of ad time per hour of content.

(I am joking, if it is not obvious)

I like GoLang and loath JavaScript, but don't complain about Node pulling in 42 external libraries when GoLang is pulling in 32 external libraries (and using an additional 10 bundled with the compiler).

Could be worse. You could just have your socket disconnect because the back end process crashed.

I agree, Oracle should abandon the JavaScript trademark… and then send them a cease and desist from using the word Java when talking about their technology.

Calling the language JavaScript was a blatant case of trademark infringement, but when someone got permission from Sun/Oracle to use the JavaScript brand, they also got (implicit) permission to use the Java brand.

As much as it sucks, it was always a known issue. The JS community could have standardized on JScript, ECMAScript, or some other generic name. By continuing to use the name JavaScript, the language will always be wed to the Java trademark.

Go, out of the languages I use at work, it is the one I learned most recently and have the least experience with. I am not planning to get on the leader board (or even comple more than the first week of challenges), but it is an excuse to get more comfortable with the standard library.

Same. If I am reading for please, I am reading the book sequentially and love the convenience of ebooks. If I am reading a reference or text book, I like being able to quickly flip between (physical) pages and skim previous chapters for a section I want to reread.

For me, it is easier to learn to use git via CLI instead of a UI. When I first started using git, I learned a few command/flag combinations that I use every day and I barely learned anything else about git after. Everything I don't do regularly I don't remember, but have written down in a text file of incantations. It is harder to write down what buttons and what menus I have to click.

I would be curious what the daily exercises are going to be. Is it just a 24 part tutorial on the etiquette around creating and contributing to open source projects?