elements of the natural world in a symbolic manner

What about elements of HTML? It also has symbols.

The current legacy code I'm dealing with is full of these:

// TODO: Class description here to satisfy linter

"I can tell you my password is most definitely NOT 6666"
*Agent types it in
"Oh no! Look what you've done!"

I think you're projecting a little. People act like this no matter the field. We swim in the tech pool, so we mostly only see the shit floating in our pool.

I can assure you the neighbour's pool also has their fair share of floaters.

Turned out a bunch of devs at my old job enjoyed more things in common than just shitting on project managers.

We Aussies just sorta mumble to each other,
'oygarn?
nbadyou?
eh.. *shrugs

Anything more than two syllables are not worth saying.

Keywords for people that would like to know more: "sleep hygiene"

Any type of bread following the same standard will fit into a standard toaster.

is how it should be done

No it isn't.

The whole point of partitions is so you can have multiple things on the same drive. Be them data, swap, or... yes, operating systems.

Yes, but. Have you seen the sheer number of motorcycles in most parts of Asia?

50s = just under a minute

No take. Only give.