It’s a video game show that uses the rules of the video game world.

“Monday”.length is working JavaScript and does equal 6. No print command afaik though.

The Lock In / Head On and Dispatcher series from Scalzi are pretty good.

The entire Murderbot Diaries series.

The first Hell Divers book was good (I haven’t read the rest yet)

I don’t even understand your rant. The committee running WorldCon each year has total control over the Hugo awards. This year the “Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China.”

What did that have to do with the UK or any other year’s WorldCon?

The caveat being that writing quality isn’t a reason to mark a book as “Not Eligible”. So even with your critique, it seems odd that you’d have increased confidence in the awards because a government censored a book you didn’t like.

I’d watch it because I distinctly remember being let down by the ending of the last version – everything after the writers’ strike was hot garbage. American TV really needs to learn to do tight seasons and series instead of dragging everything out until fans give up on it.

The go community is strongly opinionated in unique ways. For example, using libraries is generally frowned upon. You either use something included in the language itself (standard library) or copy/paste the code you wrote in another project. There’s also advocacy for shorter variable names which generally seems counter to the normal “write descriptive variable name” mantra.

All in all, I hope the ideas / opinions came from a good place and then some people took them as black & white rules. But they also come off as one or two people’s pet peeves who got to build a language around them.

I’m going to have to print out the Go version for all future “it’s idiomatic” and “but the community!” debates at work

These people don’t even read their own literature. The Catholic church’s ban on alchemy is about falsely claiming something is a valuable metal in order to pay for debts. It has nothing to do with the occult – the ban was because it’s a sin to lie / cheat / steal. A saint is even on record saying that alchemical gold is ok if the end if product is real gold.

With that context, of course God doesn’t give a shit if you use SQLAlchemy as long as you aren’t using it to defraud people. If you were defrauding people, it wouldn’t matter what tool you used.

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What’s a situation where you need an unused variable? I’m onboard with go and goland being a bit aggressive with this type of thing, but I can’t think of the case where I need to be able to commit an unused variable.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, Strange New Worlds is definitely the best of modern Trek. This season especially has really reminded me of TNG.