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Knusper , in Me and my new GitHub repository

I have my repos on Codeberg and one of the ‘disadvantages’ is that, well, it’s a non-profit, so I genuinely don’t want to waste their resources.
They ask you to only host open-source repos there, meaning that using it for backups of shitty personal projects, even if I would throw in an open-source license, is just out of the question for me.

And that has weirdly been a blessing in disguise. Like, if it’s not useful for humanity to see, do I really care to keep it around forever?

And I’ve had three projects now where I felt an obligation to push them over the finish line of actually making them a useful open-source project. Which had me iron out some of the usability shortcuts I took, made me learn a good amount of code quality stuff and of course, just feels good to complete.

rufus , (edited )

Well, Codeberg is a non-profit. I would say if it’s just a few kilobytes/megabytes of code, upload it and donate $10. That should be enough to store that for decades.

I sometimes look for small stuff. Boilerplate code, how other people configure stuff that isn’t well documented, niche interest stuff even if it’s not finished. Sometimes stuff like that is useful.

araozu ,

That’s why I host all my shitty unfinished projects in a Gitea instance in my VPS. Now they actively cost me money and I feel (a tiny bit) more incentivized to do so something with them!

Treczoks , in Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive

I had a friend at university who got a job fixing cobol stuff before Y2K. The bank paid him extremely well, housed him in a luxury apartment during the job, and, as he had no driving licence, dropped in a car with free driver for him.

8000mark , in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

For anybody else looking for the source of this quote: archive.md/RyZI0

amanaftermidnight , in Works on my machine

Then we’ll ship the AI.

…what do you mean, all the ICBM silo doors are opening?

hakunawazo ,

ChatGPT is far too long, let’s call it WOPR. The most capable tic tac toe machine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

mac , in Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation
@mac@programming.dev avatar

Image Transcription: Meme

[Paneled meme with a brain that gets increasingly glowing]

[The brain is smaller than the skull]


<span style="color:#323232;">if dayOfWeek.name == "Sunday" || dayOfWeek.name == "Saturday"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    weekend = true
</span>

[The brain is glowing in some areas]


<span style="color:#323232;">if dayOfWeek &lt; 2 || dayOfWeek > 6
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    weekend = true
</span>

[The brain is shooting out rays of light]


<span style="color:#323232;">weekend = !((dayOfWeek - 1) % 6)
</span>

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intensely_human , in Merge then review

If you’re working in a context where it’s okay to make mistakes so long as they get fixed later, you’re not working on anything important.

MJBrune ,

Honestly that’s okay. That’s how most of the games industry works and you know what? I sleep very well knowing that none of my code is actively hurting people. I do likely have some code in some defense simulator from my work on squad but so be it. Overall I make toys. Works of art and as long as the bugs are caught it really doesn’t matter when. As long as it’s before release. Even then you can just work at Bethesda and just never fix them no matter what.

colourlessidea , in Show me a better text format for serializing

YAML is pretty good for readability, pretty awful for writability

NewPerspective ,

Rule of thumb: valid json is valid yaml. If you’re ever unsure, do it the old fashioned way.

intensely_human ,

I really don’t see how that’s true.

You’re telling me this is valid yaml?

{ firstName: “Intensely” }

How is that yaml?

Fal ,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

No, because that’s not valid json

NewPerspective ,

Don’t listen to me, put that in a yaml validator for yourself: yamllint.com

synae ,
@synae@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Interesting, I find that the other reasonable options are far less writable than yaml

Gentoo1337 , in JavaScript's days are numbered
@Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works avatar

Javascript 2 release date

andrew , in Think of the children
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

Yes but sometimes their kids just talk forever, or they themselves just ignore the reality that their time has come, and we’ve got places to be. So the nice request comes with a deadline.

andrew ,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

And don’t push your luck or I’ll go get Mr. Sysrq Reisub.

MNByChoice , in poorPenguin

I hate those messages. Just be class clear about the failure.

OTOH, keep up the good fight little computer.

yum13241 ,

The first 2 are exactly that. The third one is just a funny status update.

Swiggles ,

It kinda is though. Iirc it received an interrupt it shouldn’t have received and doesn’t know how to resolve. It is not supposed to ignore it, but then the only other option is crashing at this point. Basically it continues in a dazed and confused state.

Of course the message could be clearer, but at least it also makes the message easily searchable.

r00ty Admin , in thisIsGoingToBeASeriousDebate
r00ty avatar

Or, you could just go the whole hog. Create your own simple CPU emulator, design a basic 8bitesque CPU, give it an output port that is the console, and load up some basic ASM to cycle through Hello World to the console port.

umbraroze , in thisIsGoingToBeASeriousDebate
@umbraroze@kbin.social avatar

Oh you fancy PC people and your fancy syscall instruction.

I still don't know why I could remember jsr $ab1e. I didn't even write that much assembly.

AVincentInSpace ,

That looks like a 6502 instruction. What system is it from?

Devouring , in There once was a programmer

If you’re doing something extremely skillfully, chat gpt will make the dumbest suggestions ever…

Chatgpt is good for learning ideas and new things as an aggregate of what everyone thinks about it. But as a coding tool it cannot reason properly and has rubber stamp solutions for everything.

DudeDudenson ,

Well yes it’s responses are based on what the average of the internet would say.

I’m surprised it doesn’t constantly tell you to format windows and reinstall no matter what you ask

narc0tic_bird , in emacs

You guys recommend VSCodium over VSCode. Is there a working sync solution similar to the one built into VSCode where you can sync all settings and extensions between machines?

QuazarOmega ,

Yes! It’s this one open-vsx.org/extension/zokugun/sync-settings I really like it for using a normal repository over a “gist” and so you can also use any git server provider, I think the developer is also a contributor of VSCodium itself

ram , in D or d come on

There are two Linux paradigms that I consider stupid. One is the use of centralized software repositories managed by the distro instead of individual developer maintained installers. The other one is file system case sensibility. They already admitted defeat on the first one with the rise of containerised applications. I wonder how much longer they’ll keep the charade on the second one.

charlotte ,

Sorry, but you’re plain wrong on your first issue. Getting all your packages from one source is one of the biggest upsides of Linux.

onlinepersona ,

Pretty hilarious for mac users, of all people, to complain about centralisation. Like, don’t you live in a walled garden?

EddoWagt ,

Indeed, but I’m sure we can agree that it’s pretty stupid for every distro to maintain its own repo. That’s a lot of duplicate work, which could be spend on more useful things. Luckily flatpak is well on its way to change that

charlotte ,

Hm… But different distros have different philosophies (not just) about updates. That’s part of why people choose a specific distro.

Theres still plenty speaking against flatpak (larger sizes, problems with GTK/qt themes, and it’s only meant for GUI applications - you still need a separate system for the kernel and lower-level/cli tools. And frankly, that makes flatpak unusable to me, because the purpose of a centralized package management system is not having duplicate systems).

So in short: y’all are gonna pry pacman from my cold, dead hand.

tslnox ,

The same goes for me, but with Portage, brother.

EddoWagt ,

I’m not against distros as a whole, some extra work will be inevitable because people have different preferences, but it feels like a waste having a Firefox package for arch, ubuntu, fedora and Debian while essentially all being identical. Indeed flatpak isn’t perfect yet, but it works great for me and it’s steadily improving

MJBrune ,

I have a third one for you. Not being able to pick where things install. Everything installs to the os disk. Terrible idea.

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