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If ChatGPT calls my problem a "classic" or it's solution a "subtle quirk of <framework>" one more fuckin time I'm gonna be the first human to murder an AI9
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We just hit the 1 million mark on the Stop Killing Games EU initiative! 🥳
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/50 -
What kind of music are you listening to while coding?
Is it instrumental or lyrical?
Sometimes songs with lyrics districts me18 -
i ain't gonna build a tetris game for a code test for a job that might force me to work in the office. fuck that shit. code tests are a retarded way of assessing candidates.7
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Reading many of rants and comments from the last 10 hours or so, it’s pretty clear that retoor content is AI generated and @princess is a bot.
retoor, why are doing that?
Do you want to accelerate the downfall of devrant to make the people switch to snek?8 -
My boss published someones resume online to make fun of it because it was handwritten. He at least blurred out that persons name but not the past jobs & other info...
It took me 30 minutes on linkedin to find the person that I believe it is.
Isn't this a GDPR violation lol5 -
Reminder for Europe meet up.
I suggest August 23rd, Amsterdam. Let's meet at centraal and go from there.
... I expect 5 of you to show up, btw, with one being late and one being very very late. 😐16 -
I noticed an increased usage of the word unalive, such as in "to un-alive someone" on youtube, spoken in the videos and written in the comments.
I suppose this is to avoid the word kill?
So we are at the stage of changing the language just to avoid using a bad word on a platform of hypersensitive woke snowflakes who will cancel you for saying a specific word regardless of the context it’s been used in?
Please tell me I‘m wrong. 😒30 -
Shit.
Thought I had turned off the stove after making dinner but seems it stayed on.
Thankfully the kitchen automatically turns off after a set time, so only the pan and a couple nearby things were lost.
Still, seems some electric wire in the extractor got wrecked because the kitchen line breaker is down and won't go up.
Waking up to your house full of smoke really sends you into panic mode...15 -
In my latest installment of "Swift, WTF?", we look at the "if" conditional in terms of the Swift convention of:
if let x = y { /* ... */ }
so what this does :
1. declares x in the scope of the braced code
2. sets x to y (an ahem, "optional")
3. decides if x is not *nil*, then executes the braced code.
This is very similar in both the visual and the operation to the C code of:
if (int x = y) { /* ... */ }
1. declares x in the scope of the braced code
2. sets x to the value of y
3. if x is not zero, then executes the braced code
which is considered *exceptionally* poor style.
Neither the C nor the Swift construct result in a legitimate boolean value of "true" or "false", although C comes closer than Swift.
In the Swift case the *imaginary* "nil" value has to be interpreted as "false" and thus there must be extra code is for the conditional to check on whatever constitutes the **actual** value of nil in Swift and then set the condition to "false".
(remember boys and girls, "optionals" are not real, they are an imaginary language construct of Swift and have no legitimate counterpart in the CPU operations with memory and registers)
At least in the case of C, if the value of x is zero or NULL (which is 0) then it is technically a "false" which in C is 0. Regardless, it is really poor programming and anyone doing that on my team gets an ear full.
But in Swift this obfuscation of code is common and condoned! Well, why not put more of the program in the condition of the if? In fact, stuff the whole thing in there.. why not? 🙄
This just reenforces my opinion that Swift is not a bird but the stuff that comes out of the underside of the bird. 🐦💩33 -
when you end up in the ER with excruciating pain early on a Saturday morning from persistent inflammation from chronic job stress and getting sick more than normally, you gotta change jobs.
no amount of money is worth your health.
(the drugs they gave me were pretty fun though, but not something I ever want to go through again)5 -
Team 'leads' who consistently introduce scope creep are so fucking annoying. How can they get the basics of project management wrong? It leads to more, constant, work stress ("why didn't you finish this on time?" Well maybe because you keep reviewing PR's last minute and instead of sticking to requirements, you ad-hoc make me 'fix' things that weren't even there).8
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aaaaaand it's back
Didn't even take a day and people were already posting melodramatic goodbye posts lul8 -
Dear GPT, dear Gemini,
cher Claude, cher Copilot,
thanks for wasting my time
with your contradictory advice!
I could as well
roll a dice.9