@CoreFusionX I think it's pretty nice to be able to assign in a loop, I kinda see the point with conditional but less so.

Ya can do it in python too. Meet the walrus operator.

if (x := y - 1):
...

IDK I'd rather deal with people that knowingly believe things that are illogical than deal with people that believe without proof that they are logical.

Thing is, this kind of algo speak has been rampant in China for ages. The main thing you should take away from them is this kind of censorship on the internet doesn't work and nerds have a sense of humour. It's cat and mouse. There was a study like, 15 years ago by Facebook showing they could manipulate people's emotions by changing what was shown on their feed. There was a lot of backlash and they stopped publishing their research after that. I suspect in western culture it's an attempt to circumvent attempts at manipulation rather than attempts at censorship. Given how divided western culture is, given Musk's control over X and support of Trump. Anyway, thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

Devs don't give a shit. Managers think their opinion is important. Lawyer's opinions are important. Devs just knuckle under.

The link @kiki posted was missing the page extension .html

Enter philosophical discussions about whether the Web should be implementation agnostic or whether we can accept redirects if the implementation ever changes

https://snek.molodetz.nl/register.h...

@jestdotty we actually handle a lot of medical information so for data contracts and regulation requirements we have to do a lot of HIPPA and GDPR training so that does actually make sense.

And what we cover does apply to us but there's very little about what you can do. How you can exercise your rights. What to look out for that might be of concern. What steps you can take. That said, I'm asking them to explain their handling of my medical information and I expect them to lie about what I don't know about, which would be even harder to prove. But I'm an obsessive methodical little bastard and they're like the kids in the corner eating glue compared to me.

That said, regulations are weird. I used to work at RBS in the phone centres doing corporate support and we could quite literally look at the balance and transactions of any company that banked there. We just got told if we fucked around and accessed stuff not for the purpose of helping a client or did anything based on what we saw we'd get fired and go to jail. Way less data protection training. Just "these things are illegal, sign this saying you won't do it and bear in mind we'll check".

@jestdotty I'm hard to kill. I'll drink the poison if they do. One way or another, my problem is solved.

@D-4got10-01 hotdogs are great. It's hard to get a good hotdog in the UK.

@D-4got10-01 country about to start another war says what? Country with most school shootings says what?

Have you watched the newsroom? I feel like America needs that show today.

Or you won't and we'll know why you didn't post?

@netikras now do Nigeria

@retoor the school I went to as a kid was 1/3 American cuz of an army base nearby. I did 4th July as a kid, 9/11 news was on in the hall all day, know people that lost people. I'm Frankenstein English.

@atheist bless you (dad jokes FTW)

Is English Englishnese?

@cuddlyogre I was more meaning the likes of coding agents, they can only handle about 5k lines of code or something, if your code base gets bigger than that it misses stuff.

Also signing off an email to HR with "Good luck" is a nice little fuck you.

Also my new favourite term is "Subject Access Request". Because this is how you ask HR these questions.

Context limits. You can do a hell of a lot until you hit up against context limits. Then the LLM shits the bed and can't do anything. But even then, our job was never writing code. Managers have this glossy eyed optimism that they can "replace coders with AI" and save money, but they don't know what they want or how to describe what they want. That was the hard part of our job. Plus, if the LLMs goal is to make tests that pass they'll definitely pass. If its goal is to aquire as many stamps as possible, prepare to be turned into stamps.

Plus, you're always going to need seniors, and I don't see people progressing to technically senior by telling an LLM to write code.

@SidTheITGuy true dat. I'm already a senior.

@MammaNeedHummus alas, incompetently...

Nope.

@iiii I'd consider it a supply chain risk. Not for vulnerability, but just Mullenweg (owner of wordpress.org site) has quite literally tried to block companies access to source code, plugins and updates based on demands that verge on extortion. He's also tried to take ownership of paid plugins published through his platform (the "official" WordPress platform) and make them free (courts reversed this). The court case is ongoing. I don't see it ending in Mullenweg's favor but until it's settled and only if he's replaced, to me it's a risk.

I really like the community that's left here. Genuinely like interacting with you all, even if I think half the people here are nuts. Like, @iiii perfectly matched my sense of humour, couldn't have said it better myself then @kiki said exactly what I'd have said to gross me out and grossed me out a little bit. Chef's kiss. Aussy kiss. Post BJ wipe mouth with cum cloth. Smooches and snuggles.

I think I might be slowly losing my mind.

Do you know about Mullenweg's ongoing mental breakdown? The time might have been better spent moving away from WP...

@iiii "can I borrow your cum cloth? I want to wipe my mouth" 🙈

Who the fuck decided to call a napkin a napkin?

Skill issue

Meet requirements, ignore pointless expectations.

Add a smoke test that just clicks a load of random buttons and whatever to make sure it's working.