A real life version of this I’ve experienced myself is calling the Lyons Hearing Institute to book an appointment for a hearing test and having to deal with a poorly recorded IVR telephone system.

TIL that all of the Flight of the Conchords episodes are on Wikipedia!

This is not limited to CompSci graduates and gets worse the older you get.

It’s also not limited to CompSci.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/17/over-50s-reveal-trying-to-get-a-job-applications-interviews

I wonder if you got the same answer, cats are mercurial like that.

I asked my cat …

I cannot count the number of times this exact phenomenon has happened to me when parking my car in an empty carpark.

That’s very interesting and helpful. In light mode it’s normal.

Edit: And if you toggle Dark mode, it stays readable, but the navigation buttons go white until you open the keyboard.

Edit: Hmm the toggle fix only worked once and navigation stays white on white.

How is your code sample for an object any different from a function definition?

In both cases you need to read the documentation, consult the source, or have an IDE that does.

That depends entirely on how the object is constructed. Plenty of implementations use object.new() and you’re expected to fill in the blanks.

Besides, even if you have a constructor that takes parameters, it’s essentially the same as calling a function. Get it wrong and stuff breaks.

Thank you. I’ll lodge a bug report in the morning.

Which bit isn’t possible?

As far as data types goes, you can apply the same logic to function parameters.

In my experience, naming the elements in an object requires exactly the same documentation as naming the elements in a function call and it makes things worse if you forget to assign a value to one of them, since the object constructor will likely assign an unknown default value.

It’s a collection of repos for different aspects of using SDR to decode, collate and distribute to all manner of different projects.

There’s plenty of documentation and a set of wikis.

Essentially it’s like walking into your nearest hardware store with the instructions to “build a house” … some assembly required.

While this is idiotic and counter productive long term, the thing to remember, it’s not just one scraper, it’s hundreds of them, simultaneously trying to outscrape the other, each trying to hoover up as much as possible as fast as possible.

If that’s not enough, the Facebook scrapers hit the same URL over and over again, even when that URL returns an error. Their approach to web scraping is essentially: “Fuck you, deal with it”, even if the website is run by a small business that cannot financially justify more bandwidth or server capacity.

I’ve seen this process bring sites down, to the point of actively having to block all non-human requests, just to be able to serve customers. This of course doesn’t work long term because the bots continue to probe and morph.

Box Jellyfish, Taipan, Stonefish, Redback Spider, Drop Bear, Hoop Snake.

Yeah, I suppose you’re right, we do like to name things in an understated elegance.

😁

I absolutely think that it was too fast.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/zellic

23 years ago, I wrote a mapping engine using image maps and clickable gifs. I had it to the point where I could draw a country with roads, towns and labels, you could zoom in and out, and I dealt with the different types of projections.

Then Google Maps came out.

With explanations like this, who can blame them 😁

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/reduce