Some of the GoF patterns over-emphasise inheritance, but by-and-large, you don’t build large systems without either using or rediscovering software patterns, whether they’re OO, FP, or what-have-you.

No, it didn’t.

The point of Java is to be a language for 90% of programmers. The vast majority of software development is not sexy, doesn’t require a PhD. Java was intended to be a commoditising language and in that it succeeded wildly.

In the UK, in general, take advice. If you’re bang to rights then a guilty plea (in court, not to the police) can affect sentencing.

Unfortunately, having said that, the UK conviction rate for rape is unbelievably low. “She liked sex ergo she deserved it” is still a line that juries are too willing to buy. It’s fucking depressing.

Heaven’s Vault.

If you had a brace of five-syllable lines bracketing that and managed to reference the season, you’d have a perfect haiku.

With massive OOO pipelines, what’s the alternative?

What precisely is your interpretation of Falkner’s assertion that trans people should lobby for a “third place”?

Thousands separator.

570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.

Data on “hundreds of thousands” of people can’t provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.

It can reliably predict when people are black, though.

Not just domain logic. The implementation logic is often weird too. Cobol systems have crash/restart behaviour and other obscure semantics that often end up being used in anger; it’s like using exceptions for control flow, but exceedingly obscure and unfortunately (from what I’ve seen of production cobol) a “common trick” in lots of real-world deployments.