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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • Funny thing I’ve been driving for 30+ years, and have never had a formal driving test:

    • Permit at 15: No tests, only restriction was to have a licensed passenger in-vehicle

    • License at 16: Had driver’s ed in school, state’s driving test waved, and license transferred to other states without any new driving test

    • Motorcycle license: Took a safety course while in the military, state added endorsement without any test, which also transferred out-of-state

    • Heavy vehicles: Trained on military 5-ton/deuce+0.5/Frontloaders/HMMWVs - all kinds of heavy equipment - no formal tests, only unit sign-off (even on civilian roads)

    • The kicker: I now live in a US state where a driver license is good with no re-testing till age 64

    Gonna suck when I actually do have to take a test. Hopefully there will be sane infra to go completely driverless by the time I get that old.



  • a single strawman: these tools do not exist and no developer in the world cares about the topic

    I haven’t seen anyone make the argument that denies these things exist - it’s that the existence of these tools are even necessary to safeguard the language in the first place is the argument. And then on top of that, you’ll additionally need a shop that is even allowed the time to properly utilize these tools and implement their usage as standard practice within the company culture.

    That there are alternatives which remove (significantly more) footguns is the overall point. Work in one of these other languages so e.g. dumb-ass PMs don’t even have the option of pilfering the time it takes to code safely, as it would already be baked in.








  • An appeal to authority world be “smart guy says hydrogen is dead”

    I was keying in on OP’s statement:

    Yes, world’s largest car manufacturer doesn’t know what they are talking about when they talk about car manufacturing.

    With the sarcasm taken into account, the intent appears to be:

    The world’s largest car manufacturer must know what they are talking about when they talk about car manufacturing.

    Taken with OP’s other arguments, he clearly believes Toyota shouldn’t be questioned simply due to Toyota is the largest and most profitable car company (thus far, anyway). I’m pretty sure that’s an appeal to authority.