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Nah, our generation had to tinker with shit to get it working. Kids these days have it easy, which is good from a user perspective, but fails to train them how any of it actually works at a deeper level.

No one has to install a device driver anymore.

It's a beginners book filled with a mix of bad and good advice, which takes considerable experience to separate the two. Those who can point out all the bad advice already don't need the book, and newer developers will pick up absolutely atrocious coding advice. There's simply better books that target beginners better, like The Pragmatic Programmer.

So when you are on-boarding junior devs that have bought into the clean code/SOLID dogma, you're spending several months beating all their terrible coding habits out of them.

Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug used in treating heartworm. It was one of the early conspiracy cures for covid, despite the fact viruses are notoriously different from parasitic roundworm. There was also a constrained supply of the drug used for human treatments, so the qanon types were buying the version of the treatment meant or horses.

He's using the ancient rhetorical device of "I know you are, but what am I?".

public string GetDayOfWeek(DateTime date) => "saturday";

I also calculated it, his result checks out.

Programming is mostly research. Researching curses to cast on the guy who wrote the Incomprehensible mess you're currently debugging.

I've used various Linux distress on a half dozen laptops over rhe last 10 years and I've never had Wi-Fi driver issues

apt remove sudo

sudo is not installed on several distributions by default, so hardly surprising it's not there or that you can remove it.

Doctors used to refuse to wash their hands before performing surgery.

There is no dropping out, and there's no replacement. All political donations have been to the Biden campaign, it is illegal to transfer those funds to a new candidate. The only person who could run for president in his place is Kamala, since she is the other person on the ticket.

It's extremely clear no one talking has any clue how any of this shit works.

Well yeah, 100% of programming errors are programmers fault.

Most can't, but that's why clandestine cyber-intelligence firms like NSO group exist.