Shouldn’t the engineer be a bit more worried if the cable’s been cut?

If UDP drops packets it’s probably nothing. If TCP drops packets it’s because something’s actually wrong.

If you’re using TCP and losing packets you should be panicking though, because something is very wrong…

If you’re hosting it, prepare to get sued out of existence!

And here I was typing out iso-8859-1 like a scrub to make sure I wasn’t misremembering the encoding when doing the analogous thing in python…

Their employees have failed Unicode college >:(

They don’t have anything to do with alphabets in theory of computation…

So… UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1? You have failed Unicode college >:(

OCaml allows you to specify return types, but doesn’t force you to.

Yeah but it doesn’t cross function boundaries so it’s more limited.

Yeah most likely.

The joke is that almost everyone calls them vegetables because the botanic categorisation of parts of plants is niche jargon that is not useful in everyday life, whereas the culinary categorisation is useful, and so your shopping list correcting you is worse than unnecessary.