Because having only half of a printer doesn’t serve any purpose.

There are other countries than the US of A.

PHP: You were a nerd, now you’re just outdated (and/or a WordPress developer).

• Don’t code in a language/style that requires you to write code that makes prefixing necessary - divide and conquer instead
• Readable code and well written unit/BDD tests is much better than separate documentation that will go out of sync the minute another Dev does some surgical incision into the code
• Be verbose if you need to in order to convey the relevant semantics, the characters are virtually free
• Use the casing that is mainstream/recommended by its’ developers for the language at hand

Honey, please fill out these court papers, I need you to change your name to this new ticket number that I’m starting work on next Monday.

Politicians always side with big business.

That’s not true at all as far as EU tech company regulations are concerned. Examples: laws for GDPR, right to repair, consolidated charging ports, minimum size & pricing roof on roaming data - and related fines for disobeying them.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty for a basic rundown - in short, empiric data over the last 250 years show that unregulated capitalism concentrates wealth at a rate that is larger than the economic growth.

Incremental source generators are the new thing, and MS’s docs are not fully up to date. Some introductions:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/features/incremental-generators.md

https://youtu.be/BfYxZ4mfv0E

Most screen sharing tools come with functionality for allowing another person to take control of mouse/keyboard, although it can be a bit laggy compared to more tailor made solutions.

I was kind of impressed of the precision of the advice given - it perfectly explained various FP patterns used in my code, and correctly concluded that it could not be refactored to be better/simpler/more generic, but suggested some good readability renamings. My general worry is that AI tools will hallucinate and/or just provide random or sub-optimal/average solutions.

Do you mean Live Share with an AI, or just as a feature for pair programming with humans? Doesn’t video conferencing tools work well enough for that?