I’ve never heard of that and have been working as a professional code monkey for over 7 years at this point.

This YouTube video explains it pretty well. I’d try to summarize it, but it’s been a few weeks since I watched it and have brain fog from a virus rn.

I fucking wish epics were planned to be done over 5 years. I’m lucky if it’s a year long one where I work, and my employer seems less shitty regarding this compared to the horror stories I hear from team mates who worked at other companies.

I guess LLMs will be able to replace human devs after all.

I don’t recall if it covers that sadly. I read it months ago and this part stood out to me.

It’s from Javascript: The Definitive Guide 7th Edition by David Flanagan. It’s the O’Reilly book with the rhinoceros on it.

Gamergate

Humans will be so different from life in space that they will be unable to communicate with it.

So glad that there are sci-fi authors out there who actually put some thought into just how alien aliens would be. Even in some really good sci-fi, the differences between humans and various alien species seems to be, at most, some distinctive biological differences and cultural differences that can be conceptualized relatively easily by humans.

I reckon that the universe is vast and unknown enough that “life” could arise such that humans wouldn’t be able to recognize or characterize it as life.

…I saw some lovely people were commenting in the offtopic channel about how they support Ethan Kleins lawsuit against Youtubers who criticised him, GamerGate bs, defending streamer sex pests and some other stuff. One person offhandedly mentions how they get their information from Asmongold.

Damn. That’s not just reactionary: it’s the cringiest type of reactionary one can be in this moment. I hope Heroic Game Launcher doesn’t also have this kind of cringe going on.

In JS at least, there’s a concept of truthiness and falsiness. 0, undefined, null, and a few other non-boolean values are treated as false if used in conditionals and logical operations, while every other value is treated as true. I’m pretty sure python has something similar.

No need to be sarcastic when they’re right.

I didn’t even know the fediverse was that old.

But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it’s draining.

It’s hard to say without being immersed in the codebase you work on, but wouldn’t making your code DRY (when possible) take care of a lot of the repetition without needing to write a bunch of incredibly similar code (be it by hand or with an LLM)?

They’re a youtube channel run by a pair of leftist Australian rascals. They even have a video where they try to enter a CIA base in Australia.

Brooklyn.

MDN offers webdev tutorials. While I’ve never tried their tutorials out, the MDN docs are really good and they’re my go to when I need to figure out how a specific brower-side API works.

Hermit

This is painfully true. I posted a story not too long ago about some architecture from hell I had to deal with at my day job. At first I hated the dev on the other team who came up with the idea; then I learned that the dev had only made it as a proof of concept to use for his team’s specific use case during some time the company sets aside for innovation. Someone in management saw a presentation he did on it and liked the idea so much he decreed that it needs to be used as the single source of truth for a core part of our application. Any new frontend project that isn’t in our monolith now must use this shitty tool.

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for awhile now and it’s really good. Everything more or less just works.