In idiom meta for this scenario, most Lemmy users are what would be considered ‘the choir’

JavaScript developers hate this one weird trick!

puts on fake moustache “Hello I am new to the area and would like to procure one internet please.”

“I’m suing you!”

“What for?”

“It’s a surprise 🎉🥳🎊”

Wait…y’all were paying for Docker?

Firefox working fine for me

Yeah in reality it’s even the fourth or fifth copy-paste that actually warrants generalizing, inevitably I find some tweak I need to make to two of the places to render the original generalization a waste of time

But if you are going to copy and paste make sure you keep it as similar as possible to the other instances to make it easy to refactor if you revisit in future

Not that it justifies what Spotify are doing, but the terms they have with the big record companies make it virtually impossible for them to increase their margins through other means. They lose $500m a year as it is.

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot allow you to go to the bathroom during classroom hours.

If you ever wanted to see an alleged IRL rent hellscape simulator take a look at this

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

Kaggle has some good free datasets to practice