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Ah. Thanks for clarifying.

It read like we should age the pans before use like a fine wine. But this makes way more sense.

[…] and don’t use it for two decades, […]

You mean that a pan has to age? Or is it a burn.

Because exceptions are old and the new (recycled) kids are much more fun to play with? Or people yearn to implement the low level switch-case pattern error matching mechanism all over again, which try-catch-exceptions were solving.

I think there is no moving on from a paradigm as long as it has a function.

Dude. Relax. He ain’t a communist. Get yourself out of the tribal mindset. Not everybody disagreeing or hyperbolically agreeing with you on social policies on Lemmy is a communist.

That you are a magnificent bastard!!

Something about hobbits to Isengard.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AqqQ-xNAcCw

A lot is about the temporality of the word. I would like to add the psychology as well. It is to lessen the blow when confronted with the news your account got banned. Using the words ‘suspended indefinitely’ for it has a different impact:

Your account got banned.

Your account has been suspended indefinitely until further notice.

It is the same reason why we like to say someone has passed away, instead of died. Or we like to use lobbying for bribery.

This wording always has me imagining beefy American footballers tackling stained carpets.

Another FYI: winget is usable if you wish to use a native solution. It has its shortcomings over choco, but usable.

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But you can still get a bunch of good ones on the second hand markets. Also, NUCs are still a thing. Intel deemed the formfactor mature enough too pull out themselves and leave it too the partners to develop further.