@Lensflare I was figuring that providing the etymology would automatically remove doubts from the spelling. Glad you got it sorted.

P.S.: þeraz = "the other of two/which of the two"

Perhaps I can help.

"which of two; whichever" implying choice.

Constructed from the interrogative base "who" + comparative suffix -theraz (þeraz) where "þ" is read as "th"/"theraz"

-> hwæþer = whether (="which of two", old English). Example: "Hwæþer is betera?" ("Which is better?") (interrogative)

-> old English lost their sounds and so it merged from æ to e

-> after Norman Conquest (1066), English "hw" was reversed to "wh" and replaced þ (thorn) with "th", so hwæþer → whæther, æ got merged into "e" or "a"

-> the language weakened from "-az" to "a" (from "-theraz") and finally vowel sound "a" also lost, so "-theraz" became "-ther"

-> thus resolving into "whether"

Complete deconstruction:

hweaber -> whaeber

ae -> e

theraz -> ther

finally -> whe + ther -> whether

sources: etymonline.com, ChatGPT

@cafecortado Assumptions. You know what they do. lol

Yeah, I think it's usually 'management' that does this. They do things in a chaotic manner anyway. For them to understand the precise way of working of a developer? Nah.

Ideally management should understand how computer science or even how mathematics work: we use abstractions to model that which we are trying to create and mimic in real life. Not all can be modeled in exactly the same way and neither is reality like that.

I can relate to this as I've been severely micromanaged towards the end of my previous job and according to my metrics I lost about 60%+ of productivity because of it. I can also relate to the flow that you described; much better than all that micro-interruption.

@fateOfTheStars Good point indeed and that may be one of the reasons other than them being really old and old-fashioned. Some of these guys know that the company entirely depends on them or it would break and they're doing their best to keep minimum effort and money streaming in. I keep hammering to them that they should do knowledge transfer via documentation and all I get is "no time, no time, this is not useful". To laugh out loud.

@lorentz Yeah and depending on corporate you need to have the person first click 'Agree to' or have the option on. Then a corporate agree comes after that when forced org-wide.

@jestdotty Yes indeed.. learning by practice and experience always works well.

@jestdotty Ha... well-explained, jestdotty. Now it makes sense why I had a very difficult time with their theory of mind as well. Yeah, my head gets overwhelmed and I think it is therefore the reason why I also have a hard time.

lol

Incidentally, I learned from another Senior that being a Senior involves being able to manage other people's bullshit and staying calm, which is very, very hard to do.

Yes indeed. This is what you get with bad upper management.

@lorentz I knew it would be math. lol. It reminded me of (,] and [,) notations.

@Lensflare I aim to find out why.

@Lensflare I diiid. : D Their codebase had zero tests... lmao. No testing whatsoever.

@Lensflare Nooooo, not the circular dependence! :O

It's working under the alias dr.molodetz.nl for now, as I heard.

@Lensflare They wanted it done in one hour without tests. lmaoooo

@Lensflare I had to use it for a client in the sense of:

- send an e-mail to the client in a template format where client wants x and y in the heading, a and b in the body, c and d in the footer, but not e and f, and if an image is present, then... etc. It can get convoluted. I was obliged to write it in Java. lmao

@Lensflare I'm brushing up my skills.

@jestdotty lol. You are an interesting person.

@jestdotty I dig.

On a more constructive note: yes, I think a lot of us - especially in corporate - are tired of the A.I. craze. Leadership team constantly nags us about it and overuses the term. I would even count how many times the term is used in a day in a corporate setting, even more so at big meetings. lmao

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@Lensflare Yeah, as it should be.

@jestdotty Well, best answer.

@jestdotty The times it is spaghetti and sucky code it's written by either non-caring seniors or very junior devs.

From my experience, a requirement for code going to production was for it to be clean because of reasons such as time and money.

I do thank myself for making code flexible because in the particular framework I wrote it allowed easy portability to switch up frameworks when desired instead of the nightmare of rewriting everything.

What is clean code? Well, code that doesn't smell (haha). Code that adheres to SOLID and such, the use of interfaces, of common patterns.

@Lensflare Yeah and now it's.. it's all... :depression mode: it's all turned into run of the mill. Ahhhh. lol. Though, yes, those were exciting times. All those breaking changes that would promise to resolve all the old ways of working..

@jestdotty I mean, we do, if we choose so, but I think I understand what you mean there.

I would say it would help with little edge cases where some of those might prove useful (git -blame and git -log perhaps, insofar they are not considered basic).

@devJs Nice responses. lol