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Re:The QT Timebomb by sys_64738 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:40PM (#30003736)
Phew. I can't be the only person who worried there was an issue with the QT toolkit. This is something less important.
Re:The QT Timebomb by BearOso on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:02PM (#30003932)
Me, too. I expected it to be regarding the discontinuing of open source support for old QT “LTS” versions. Fits the title.
Re:The QT Timebomb by codetrotter on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:42AM (#30005175)
I thought it was going to be something about the Year 2038 problem, but specific to the Qt toolkit.
Re:The QT Timebomb by malkia on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:56PM (#30003896)
It's Qt :) - lol, me too though, but seeing QT I thought it was QuickTime TBH (... not really ...)
Re:The QT Timebomb by Geezus-42 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:58PM (#30004860)
I though Quik Trip...
Re:The QT Timebomb by peterburkimsher on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:07AM (#30005350)
Naming things :)

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

Some choose short variable names that they can type fast (this might be correlated with vi programmers).

Others choose long variable names that are more descriptive (this might be correlated with emacs programers).

Personally I chose the latter, because copy-paste is easy, and ambiguity can be confusing.

But ambiguities are great fun for making puns and dadjokes.

u = qtπ

Re:The QT Timebomb by guggle on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:41AM (#30005169)
Yes... for a second I thought I would have to rewrite all the QT apps I made. This is the stuff of nightmares.
Re:The QT Timebomb by cperciva on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:16PM (#30004538)
My first thought was that it was something about cardiology.
Re:The QT Timebomb by danuker on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:42PM (#30003761)
I'd argue it's more important, since the interest rate impacts future cash flow valuations, and therefore people's wealth.
Re:The QT Timebomb by jslaby on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:26PM (#30004139)
We can say both are equally important and divide our worry by 50%