Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

Wow, so StackOverflow took the questions that are their entire purpose off their homepage?

Seems foolish.

Was roughhousing with my dog this morning and after a brief accident, I now look like a video game character who just defeated a wyvern.

Why does every news organization insist on reporting things like this that aren't news?

Maybe that's why they're bleeding money.

Wow, that new Musk lawsuit is absurdly frivolous and thin-skinned. At several points, it even gives up the game by admitting that what Media Matters reported was true by trying to hedge it with "extremely rare".

Looking forward to actual lawyers tearing it apart in the coming days.

I wonder what percentage of White Castle's business in 2023 is still driven by stoners watching Harold and Kumar...

Why is every single business in America constantly changing the menu options on their automated voice system?

@freemo Yeah, but you could easily get around it by replacing "this" in that static example with either the class name or the "operator" keyword. Either would make syntactic sense in this scenario.

@freemo

In C#, we can define custom indexers like so:

public object this[int index] { get { etc } }

That are then invoked like this:
objectRef[i]

I just want to do the exact same thing, except static:

public static object this[int index] { get { etc } }

That would be invoked like this:
ClassName[i]

This would be particularly useful for central data repositories using the singleton pattern, and it's really no different, functionally, from static methods.

Really, what it comes down to is right now, I have to do ClassName.Singleton[id], but I'd like to shorten that.

Do any #DotNet folks know why we still can't create static indexers for classes in C#?

@davidsirota I'd argue that the decline more closely correlates to the dawn of the 24-hour news cycle.

@jovial_cynic Nonsense. The entire #metoo movement was the marketplace of ideas shutting down rapey establishment folks. So is every example of conservatives bitching about cancel culture.

The free marketplace of ideas does allow any idea to be presented, but it's up to us to debate these ideas and make sure the best ones rise to the top.

@shepgo @bgrinter Well that just seems like punching down...

@petersuber No kidding. When you use a screwdriver as a hammer, you get similar results. AI just isn't a fact machine and we need to stop pretending like it is.

@ovid Now I've got a picture in my head of a dominatrix standing over a submissive partner while taunting "that's right, bitch, you call Verizon and try to get a human being to answer!"

Some spooky shit going on in my backyard tonight.

@emilygorcenski I mean, I genuinely cannot think of an obvious way for a computer to screw up that bad.

Occam's Razor, therefore, is that a human did that.