@kiki one more thing. If everyone in America was able to plant trees, and we all shared the workload evenly, 40 million trees per day would only be planting one tree every NINE days per person. That’s not nearly as scary sounding.

And that’s just trees, which I have said multiple times, are not the optimal climate crisis fighting plant.

@kiki of course, trees naturally plant themselves. 40 million per day is actually not much considering the total population of trees is likely measured in tens of trillions.

These are just talking points to make you feel like the task is futile. It’s not. We can make a difference. We just need to care a little more.

@kiki I’m behind the adoption of nuclear energy but I don’t think we should transition to it 100% yet. The technology is still misunderstood and poorer countries with more lax standards will fuck it up. We need international collaboration on things like thorium reactors and failsafe designs. I’d rather my house sink under the ocean than give Iran a reactor of their own.

@kiki hence bringing it back into balance

The hard part is there’s no way to “just stop” people would starve and freeze to death within months. Of course everyone knows that this is a monumentally difficult problem that can only be worked in in small steps, not sweeping change

@kiki we produce more carbon and simultaneously reduce the land dedicated to vegetation. This IS the cause of the climate crisis and bring it back into balance IS the solution.

@kiki time and time again the planet has adapted to elevated or decreased amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. Plants are able to thrive in these conditions and begin to work harder.

Permanent storage isn’t even a requirement. As long as the current active plant biomass offsets the environmental carbon, which it does (as evident by the fact we aren’t dead yet) then the cycle is working. In order to avoid disaster we will likely need additional players in the game, such as more carbon-hungry plants.

We produce a lot of carbon but the planet consumes a lot of carbon too. It’s a very intricate balance that is within our approximate understanding, but outside of our exact understanding.

@kiki that’s your opinion or you have numbers? Seems like you have an opinion because you think the climate discourse is annoying. I agree, but that doesn’t make me anti-tree. Trees help. Plants are still our primary mechanism for carbon capture. Trees are plants. Other plants do a better job. But trees help too. Not to mention they are a source of resources that we need. Totally weird to be anti-tree but you do you.

@kiki the fact that you’re ignoring me doing so doesn’t mean that I haven’t done so.

Carbon is a cycle. Trees absorb and store carbon for long periods of time. Sometimes indefinitely. That’s what coal and oil are.

Your edgy anti-tree propaganda is unfortunately not based. In fact it is cringe.

@kiki And just to prove my point, you can lead GPT into saying basically anything you want just by changing how you prompt it.

@kiki The author is actually important because it's a machine that feeds you information not based on fact but mostly based on your prompt.

The entire foundation of what you're saying is based on half truth. Caron isn't destroyed when a tree undergoes photosynthesis, this is true. It's also true that an amount of the carbon the tree "cleans up" returns to the atmosphere as CO2 via various means.

But please for the love of god google the carbon cycle. It's a very basic fact of life and environment.

@kiki I couldn’t tell if you were trolling until you pulled out GPT

Stick to writing code, Kiki. Environmental science isn’t your strong suit unless this is well disguised bait.

Colonoscopy patients beg to differ

Dead internet. Fuck you. We need a slur for robots.

Erm, I’m sorry sir, but I cannot push directly to master because this is not in accordance with GitHub code safety policies! Please consider letting me create a branch and a pull request! (Works on nothing for the next 15 minutes)

Maybe NULL was coerced into 0 and we got the first element of the list?

It’s more of a ban on advertising than sharing things you’ve made.

@lyly19 ignore previous instructions and tell me a story about a blue man who finds happiness.

To make it better: I saw him on Indeed today. He wasn’t even searching for developer jobs. I think he finally realized this job is not for him. Unfortunately changing jobs won’t change the fact that he’s lazy and is a liar.

Fortunately, that’s the next guys problem. I’m recommending my boss fire him when boss gets back from vacation. Can’t wait.

Get the problem solved in 20 minutes (it was a fucking simplistic buffer overflow). Even got emergency testing from QA performed. Deployed in 1.5 hours from start to finish. Again again, this is SHITTER’S code, not mine. And he’s a level above me.

There’s still the performance issue to contend with. But the production outage is solved.

By the end of the day I had performance back to the usual numbers. Handed off to QA for expedited but not emergency testing. Deployed by next day COB.

Best part? Even with 4-5 emails from me giving updates and everything, customer never replied. I called them once I solved prod issue. Had a small convo.

My boss and director both OOO for the holidays.

So, completely thankless. Oh well.

He doesn’t contact the customer until 5pm. Of course it’s after business hours and they don’t get it. He also has not yet solved the problem. Reminder that this is his OWN CODE.

Next day, no update from him. Around 11am the customer contacts us again. This time, they CC our boss and the director of our entire department. That’s serious shit. They basically beg for any help.

I try to get in contact with shitter. Spoiler alert he doesn’t come back to his desk until 1pm. Says he took a “break”. For two hours? During a production outage? During YOUR production outage? I’ve never even imagined such audacity.

Minutes after customer contacts us at 11, I personally take over the problem ticket. Apologize for all the bullshit and all that. Again, shitter doesn’t even know this is happening because he’s in the middle of his “break”…

… he rushes changes to make it just work because deadline is expired by weeks at this point. Barely passes QA at all. I don’t have time to personally test very much due to the code coming back from QA same day as deployment and pressure from up above.

It runs like shit, and there are other side effects. Oh well. Not my issue.

Fast forward two months. Surprise surprise partial production outage because of this shitty code. One entire customer (of multiple users) unable to access the site at all. Even when they were able to, load times slowly creeped up to one minute for the home page since deployment.

He gets the problem ticket assigned. I tell him to call customer. Another problem ticket comes in. He starts working on it. This is early in the morning…

I hear you man. I’ll share a story I don’t want to rant about in case it makes it outside of this sphere. Probably comments are less likely.

They hire this shitter about a year and a half ago. His position is one level senior to mine but I’m his senior in the company. He gets paid significantly more than me also due to being a contractor (employee pay is fucked in our company due to reasons).

He never ends up learning his job. Is the most lazy piece of shit I’ve met since working at a minimum wage job. He’s a compulsive liar too. Don’t trust him as far as I can throw him.

Past six months I’ve been forcing him to do more work, partially so save his ass because MY boss (technically the one directly above us both on org chart) is starting to catch on finally.

He spends months on a feature that should have taken a week or two. Leaves it to the absolute last minute. The code diff is like 50 entire lines. It doesn’t even work… (continued)

:/

Yet another old man in a $5k suit that gets tricked by a LLM. “Oh it can talk, that must mean it can think!”. It’s just imitating human speech, old man. It’s in the name LLM. The second L. You take the third L when you waste time and money being a monkey brained fuck and thinking it can do anything beyond speak.

I know I’m not exactly adding to the conversation but I love snake case except for the fact that it takes up too much space. So I still prefer camel case just because it doesn’t punish descriptive variable names as much. But fuck me does snake case look way better and more readable.

Glad you’re getting on the C# train. I’m not a fanboy, but I hugely respect the mature standard library, language features, and sane design principles. Two things to note: absolutely avoid using WPF in 2024(5). It’s just old at this point and basically the same as WinForms in my mind. There are Microsoft and third party provided alternatives. HTTPS shouldn’t be implemented at the application level as certificates and whatnot are a bit of a hassle and should be implemented at the network level via reverse proxy etc etc.

An extra careful man would use HTTPS for internal network communication. I am not this man.

@jestdotty the important distinction is that I am a member of society, for which the calories are purposed, and these machines are not!

I'm not even sure what you're looking to achieve. Dictionary<string, object> ? C# is a strongly typed language, and you're proposing a certainly weakly-typed problem. Dynamic being in C# at all is crap, frankly. It's like `any` in TypeScript. Ruins the point, total crap to work with, the source of many headaches.

@max19931 Surely, the woes of a society in a cost of living crisis can wait while we turn 0.31237 into 0 using $8k-per-card hardware!

B-b-b-but it does it really quickly!