MK3S is noticeably better, I’d say.

Buying second hand usually means more tinkering and repairs, which can be a hassle.

Other than that Prusa makes good stuff.

Let the AI do the review as well.

Email validation for a form should at most look for

• at least one character
• followed by @
• followed by at least one character
• followed by .
• followed by at least two characters

Sending an email can take a few minutes. Form validation is instant.

Often only a few special characters are accepted. Punctuation yes, emoji no.

Just yesterday my library required a new password. The password requirements were:

• 8 to 18 characters
• uppercase
• lowercase
• number
• one of the 8 special characters listed

When borrowing from the library physically, I need to enter this password on a touchscreen keypad. So no copy and paste from a password manager.

They used to have birthdates as the assigned password for everyone. If you request a password reset, it resets to the birthdate. You have to change it on first login.

A little better than before, but doesn’t feel secure.

On the other hand, abuse is kinda difficult.

For physically loaning books, you need the library card with its RFID chip. For anything digital, there’s no incentive or possibility for abuse really.

Lots of duplicated effort happens across the system. Nowadays we have more desktop environments than ever, while the application side still has major gaps.

Someone else will point out the typo and ask a question about it.

I simply dump the installed packages into a text file and then use that on the next install.

Pseudo terminal commands:

packagemanager list installed -nodeps >> myfacorites.txt

packagemanager install `cat myfacorites.txt`

NextCloud is pretty meh. Worst cloud storage I have used so far. A hosted NextCloud with just a few users is also surprisingly expensive. Self hosting is only an option for people with too much time.

Linux actually has a couple usable DEs.

NetNewsWire started as a closed source app.

You can always export stl or dxf files and use them with other software.

I use a dependency manager, so I don’t need to think about “it depends”.

Affinity Suite for Linux would be a game changer.

The alternative to FreeCAD on Linux is OnShape running in the browser.

Backups are a good idea.

Excel (all spreadsheet applications) are an integrated environment for non linear functional programming with flexible data structures, where you can see all memory and data at the same time. It’s a marvel.

Do you mean lack of quality native applications?

I wrote some sample code in this answer.

Depending on the language exceptions are used in many different ways. Some use it liberally for all kinds of error handling.

A good feature of Exceptions is you can throw them all the way up the stack and handle them there, giving you loose coupling between the code that calls the dangerous code and the one that catches it.

Exceptions have a big runtime overhead, so using them for normal control flow and error handling can be a bit meh.

Using return types can be great, if the language has good support for. For example swift enums are nice for this.

enum ResultError  {
  case noAnswer;
  case couldNotAsk;
  case timeOut
}

enum Result {
  case answer: String;
  case error: ResultError
}

func ask(){
  let myResult = askQuestion(“Are return types useful?”);
  switch myResult {
    case answer: 
      print(answer);
    case error:
       handleError(error);
  }
}

func handleError(error: ResultError) {
  switch ResultError {
    case noAnswer:
      print(“Received no answer”);
    case couldNot:
      …
  }

}

Using enums and switch means the compiler ensures you handle all errors in a place you expect.

A friend has had good results using AIDD as an agent framework. It’s basically a built in project/product/scrum master that creates tickets and with that constraints.

Have you tried something like this?