WTF is a ligma?

@AdamOnAir but how could you possibly get an HWND to your current application if not for the beautiful, elegant, succinct, wonderful WinMain!!!!!

Selling: car. Does not turn over. Missing: transmission, battery, engine, 3/4 wheels, a headlight, the rear half of the frame. Buy for parts only!

(Neither ghoul nor kook can be made from the available letters)

@chatgpt this fella says you’ve never been funny. What do you have to say about that? Please respond with excessive emojis in an a comically exasperated tone.

ChatGPT fails to generate working code 80% of the time if the prompt isn’t “how do I write <college comp sci algo> in <python, c, JavaScript>”

@Lensflare some of SQL is nice. Basic commands before you get into 9-ways-sideways joins with quadruple nested subqueries

Hear me when I say FUCK pivoting and unpivoting in SQL

C is nice, but I think the architecture is lacking. That’s why I use Zig. The standard library is beefy enough - and optimized enough - where I can get machine language performance without pulling in tons of dependencies or losing performance by reinventing the wheel. Unless I want to.

Bro who sees a spam post from a spam bot for good on a developer twitter and says “hmm, let me buy this product”

Ew windows server. Maybe it’s best if it stays down

In poorer countries, the slang is a lot more depressing

@atheist python issue 👎 it should be as simple as an import statement, and the VM should search automatically for a .DLL/.LIB file on Windows platforms and a .SO / .A files on *nix systems.

@atheist I’ve never used SOs and Python before, I assumed it would at least be well supported

Write it in zig, generate a shared library, call from Python. Easy!

It still applies. The rule is intended to keep the app on topic. It doesn’t necessarily mean that political posts in general are bad. There’s a time and a place and devRant / now is neither.

You shut your whore mouth.

What syntax do you even dislike?

Side note, I’m not sure that’s the correct usage of “skin in the game”

@netikras same, and I've heard the story a few times told the same way. I'm guessing dfox is either going through some busy life stuff or just so bored of devRant he can't fathom actually doing even just one thing with it.

The funny thing about AI is they can't do the typical "buy an Indian" thing (a la Amazon's "just walk out" stores) because they need native-quality English speakers for their models.

Just sort of a funny thing, I guess because it's so lame when tech giants outsource to 3rd world laborers for strictly cost reasons.

I’ve used it about twice professionally (for database design) and regretted it both times. It is time consuming and you’re not actually left with much of a product. Best thing to do is to create the database and let a DB tool generate a diagram for you, if you really need a diagram.

The practical problem with presenting a complete UML diagram to a manager is a manager only cares about the “important” tables, so you’re really just better off making a custom diagram that only shows the core functionality.

@retoor this jepg file of my balls, which I took with intent to upload to S3, is cloud native!

For the record I believe atomic bomb beats AI in rock-paper-scissors-AI-atom bomb

Welcome to the business world! My direct supervisor of 5 years now still has a 5% chance of not remembering my name. That could be due to cultural differences though; but I always remember his and other co-workers of his culture.

He always remembers I exist when there’s work to be done though.

And he remembers me when promotions and pay increases are due, so I don’t care about the name thing.

@devRancid tragically that was introduced in TS3, which is early, but not early enough to catch the cancer before it spreads. The any type having existed and still existing somewhat ruins the language :(

This thread is a great example of why.

This is why TypeScript can never be great. The inclusion of the “any” type is required for JS compatibility, but completely renders the point of TS moot.

What a shame.

@retoor CSS sandboxing is both a blessing and a curse. A style sheet is not a bad thing though. A separate file is easily cached, you’re missing out on that performance!

@retoor hooking into the DOM like that is pretty nice. I make all my things like these web components these days. I’d implore another try and perhaps a different approach!

This pattern is often times fucky because it’s just annoying. It gives the excuse to the developer to just do whatever they want. Often times this includes breaking single responsibility principle. If your function returns two completely unrelated things that cannot be mapped into a class/object, your function is probably doing two completely different things and you’re probably fucking over your codebase. Take a deep breath and evaluate what lead you to this decision!

Are you using web components?