This supposed Chief Technology Officer appears to understand very little about how Technology actually works.

Google does pay Canadian news companies to show their content.

Part of the issue is that Facebook and Instagram can show news stories without linking out to them, so users don’t get the opportunity to see the news companies’ ads or to sign up for a subscription.

As a former Lightroom plugin developer I feel erased!

+1 for Immich, I tried photoprism and had a lot of trouble importing and organizing an existing library. Immich works much more intuitively and had all the features I needed.

An obelisk from The Fifth Season?

YES! I rewatched recently. I thought it would age poorly but it’s still extremely watchable.

I’d say it definitely counts as competence porn though, it’s got tons of high-stakes hacking and problem solving.

Resistance is hootile

I think они would work better no?

I think of it in terms of the cp command: Source first, followed by destination. The last argument is always the new file/link you are creating.

This is the real answer, overloads are meant for exactly this purpose.

It’ll be something like this:

from typing import Literal, overload

@overload
def foo() -> Data: …
@overload
def foo(return_more: Literal[True]) -> tuple[Data, Data]: …
def foo(return_more: bool = False) -> Data | tuple[Data, Data]
    ...
    if return_more:
        return data, more_data
   return data