is "drunk coding" really a thing? i can't imagine how.

i prefer working code, so when i'm writing code, i need my brain to be working. the "benefits" of alcohol, like reducing social inhibitions, don't benefit source code.

it can be beneficial in some doses I guess. I get "in-the-zone" more easier when I drank a bit. Happened to me after a couple of nights out when I came home and had nothing to do so I started up a project I was working on and just coded for hours.

that being said, I wouldn't recommend doing it on purpose. It's still heavy on your liver and dehydrating, especially in places with a super hot summer, forgetting to drink water due to being too focus could bee dangerous :c

I don't 'drunk code' but having one or two screw drivers in me can just the whole experience calmer

Not drunk, tipsy. A little less attention to detail can go a long way if you're the kind of person to break problems down into subproblems and then spend an unknowable amount of time solving a subproblem without questioning the partition.

Then don’t do it

I'm late to this thread but wth:

To me it totally is... but I'm and outlier in most/nearly all typical formsts... I've also had to function while on various combos of intense opiods, muscle relaxers and sometimes benzos since 14 (31 now... not recreational-- physical nerve condition/handicap in L arm and L leg)

One issue if I'm ever drunk enough... I'll forget my self-imposed limit of no rabbit-holing to infinity or extreme over-engineering

@awesomeest Alcohol is exactly what makes me lazy enough to regularly reconsider whether every parent task of the one I'm currently solving justifies the complexity I'm introducing.

@awesomeest Otherwise I'm prone to define a generic function over T: Ord + Clone that is used with various number types and then spend three hours ensuring that it copies T the fewest possible times because It'S aN uNkNoWn TyPe ThAt MaY aLlOcAtE

(typically then I'm forced to inline the function because one or more occurrences require custom behaviour, after which all callsites are left looking much worse than they originally did, because they're bending over backwards to avoid copying what are very clearly just numbers.)