I feel like on Lemmy I get in more substantive arguments about the subject, and less of the other person playing armchair psychologist when I don’t see it their way.
Yeah but we also have some of the most pedantic people I’ve ever dealt with, who will completely ignore your entire argument because they found a tiny bit of nuance in your word choice that they then cling to like it makes any fuckin sense
It was released in 2004. I had a co-worker who was hugely into it in 2005. Entirely coincidentally, he was also into absurdly overcomplicated code and clusterfuck projects that failed after years and millions of dollars.
He was also the only programmer I’ve ever known whose code literally nearly killed a child.
The code was to remotely control (from a PDA) a baseball-throwing machine that had a top speed of 125 mph. This dude fucked everything up for more than a year but somehow was kept on the project. They then had him write a version of the software to be used for Little Leaguers. He decided to test out this version for the first time on a field with actual Little Leaguers - the first ball from the machine was supposed to be a slow grounder to the shortstop, but was instead a 125 mph knuckleball a foot over the kid’s head.
If you don’t know baseball, a knuckleball is a ball with no spin so its movement is incredibly random.
Edit: incidentally, the reason this happened is that the guy’s code originally specified the speeds of the two wheels (a baseball-throwing machine uses two wheels with tires spinning at high speed and a baseball is inserted between them and shot out thereby) using Ints with positive values between 0 and 32767. At some point he decided this was clunky (true) and changed the API to accept Float values between 0.0 and 1.0. All well and good, but this produced a big mess of compile errors in his code which he “fixed” by wrapping every call to the speeds method with Clamp ( CFloat ( iSpeedParam, 0.0, 1.0 ) ). His Little League code passed formerly reasonable integer speed values of, say, 5000 and 6000 (which should have produced something like a 20 mph ball with a bit of topspin) which were then cast and clamped to 1.0 and 1.0, meaning both wheels spun at maximum speed, ejecting a ball at 125 mph with no spin.
The consistency of when you eat (or the lack thereof) plays a bigger role in this than the diet itself, although it’s known that heavy meals in the evening can disrupt sleep.
every. damn. day. the worst might be i get to the outer door at the office, ready to go outside. and i just stop. 30 seconds later, shake my head a bit and go 'oh yea. i'm leaving now'.
I know this is just a meme but school is an excellent way to have a foundational understanding of how things work, and learning to problem solve including googling.
Yeah! Kids these days are learning (in school) all about containers, service discovery, AWS, production deployment strategies, password vaulting solutions, cryptographic key/password management, and most importantly: politically defensive email practices.
Oh wait: No they aren’t, LOL.
I just interviewed dozens of fresh (CS) college grads a few months ago and only one of them even knew what SSH was let alone anything remotely resembling basic command line stuff, Linux skills, or any of the above mentioned things.
They sure could write a mean linked list though! 😁
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