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luciole , in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

Are passionate about the development lifecycle of other engineers and their pain points.

If you’ve been coding for 55+ years, you’ve almost gone through a whole engineer life cycle and you most probably know a lot about pain points.

RandysGut , in What it's like to be a developer in 2024
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I searched for Magic The Gathering cards earlier on my phone (FireFox mobile), and got YouTube shorts in the results. This was in addition to a large amount of useless info panels and junk in the search results. I just wanted the official links or even an Amazon URL to the upcoming precons, not slowly regurgitated info!

dohpaz42 , in What it's like to be a developer in 2024
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It would be funny, if it weren’t painfully true. DuckDuckGo sucks just as bad as Google. I hear there is a good search engine, but it costs money to use. Shocking. Maybe they are all the same company, making shitty free services to try to steer you to paying for better services.

UnRelatedBurner ,

may I ask what it is?

TWeaK ,

Not the one you replied to but they’re probably talking about Kagi. I crunched the numbers a while back and the higher tiers were kind of hard to make worthwhile, however iirc they simplified the pricing slightly since then.

UnRelatedBurner ,

Oh yeah, I heard about this. Is it rly that much better?

pearable ,

I’ve been using it for a few months. It’s good. I get the official docs for my first result using OP’s query. 300 queries, their starting tier was not enough for my use. I was using DDG before and like it well enough. I’m not sure if it’s worth it but I like the idea of paying for services I use. I stopped using Google years ago because of all the captchas I had to fill due to my VPN

Sir_Kevin ,
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I’m cool with paying for quality, ad-free service but I feel like they’re giving way too little for what they’re asking. 300 searches a month? What is this AOL?

pearable ,

Agreed, I switched to their unlimited tier pretty quickly

morrowind ,
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Maybe they are all the same company, making shitty free services to try to steer you to paying for better services.

Do you expect free services with no catch? You either pay with money or with something else

astreus ,

You literally sent that from a FOSS platform…

morrowind ,
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I give lemmy money. Not so for google

astreus ,

You don’t have to give either money and there is the option to give both money.

morrowind ,
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Someone has to pay lemmy. If you don’t, it’s comparable to a free tier of a paid service. When I say “you” I don’t mean every single person. There’s no option to pay for google search that I’m aware of.

jnk ,

Not true because we’re getting the same experience whether we pay or not. The same kinda goes for google, they have other services you could pay to support them (please don’t), and it won’t make the search engine better. Big difference is one of them is actually free (full meaning of the word) and the other one is just usable without paying.

You’re still using a free platform to say good free software is not a thing tho, kinda weird.

KuraiWolfGaming ,

Nobody has to pay for anything Lemmy or ActivityPub related because its FOSS.

That means Free Open Source Software.

As in, you can get and use the source code yourself without paying a single cent.

Saledovil , in “ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS”

When sacrificing the child, use a dagger made from obsidian. Cut upward from below the sternum, then force the rib cage apart. Push the lungs aside with your hands, then cut out the heart with your ritual dagger. Hold the heart up to the cheering crowd, and then place it in an earthen vessel in honor of the gods. Kick the body down the steps of the temple pyramid.

frezik ,

This ritual is common, but it has a bug in it that can be traced back to a specific SacrificeOverflow comment.

onlinepersona ,

That’s what happens when you use a knife shaped in a crescent moon.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Kornblumenratte ,

Actually no. A transsternal access to the heart is impossible with stone tools, even obsidian. Middle american ritual sacrifices were performed transphrenic – they had less problems with the complications of that access as they didn’t intend their victim to survive, in contrast to — most — modern surgeons.

Saledovil ,

Yes, I made the ritual description up for a joke. I’ve never performed a human sacrifice.

OneCardboardBox , in The real history behind the Lunix operating system

I know this is a joke, but I couldn’t be a programmer without some pedantry. LUnix is actually a real OS! I booted it on my Commodore 64 once.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix

Strawberry , in The easiest problem

mathematician here, where is the joke?

humbletightband ,

This joke is funny only if placed in Arnold-Atyah manifold if Kolmogorov-Ramachandran-Yu metric is defined

CanadaPlus , (edited )

So don’t use it in non-KRY-definite AA situations, or you could get erroneous results. QQX is fine though, as long as you have non-vanishing ABCD. /s

I wonder if Lean proofs become the new peer review like I’ve heard suggested, if mathematics might break from this, and look more compsci-ish in the future. That way non-specialists could get up to speed quickly.

BleatingZombie ,

Variable names should be “self defining” meaning you should be able to understand what its doing from the name. The name also shouldn’t be too long. Combining those together makes it difficult to come up with an “elegant” name

PotatoesFall OP ,

I think they got the joke, they were just joking about how this is common in math :P

Strawberry ,

The most atrocious variable names I ever encountered in code were as a research assistant for a math professor doing game theory simulations. Literally unreadable unless you had a copy of his paper on the subject to refer to

menas ,

tmp3 = tmp1 + tmp2 ; T.T

KillingTimeItself ,

in the linux community it’s really common to have applications like MPD, music player daemon, or MPC, music player client, and ncmpc, ncurses music player client, and ncmpcpp the aforementioned one with ++ tacked onto the end.

Cmus, which from what i can recall is literally “c music player”

etc…

PoolloverNathan ,

fia? fir? fib (part of fia)?

KillingTimeItself ,

exercise left up to the developer!

RandomVideos , in The easiest problem

Since a lot of the english words i know i learned from minecraft, in a farming simulator i named tilled soil"hoed"

I had multiple variables like int isHoed

velvetThunder ,

There’s some hoed in this house If you see 'em, point 'em out

MonkeMischief , in Any Volunteers

Lol I was legit surprised to find it’s an actually written (satirical) article! The other ones had me rolling too, like John Cena coding “Banjo Threeie” LOL.

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/man-with-really-cool-idea-for-game-just-needs-volunteers-to-do-coding-and-art/

Mango , in Any Volunteers

If you’re this guy, You’ve gotta be a really good writer and you gotta write it first.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

“Ok, I did the overall plot. Who’s doing the dialogue?”

Mango ,

Sounds like you have a small fraction of a game Idea that could be generated by an AI trained on tvtropes.com.

AllHailTheSheep , in Added Bugs to Keep my job

“fix for real this time”

Zahtu , in Added Bugs to Keep my job

“Changed consent banner text to reflect from legal, even though they are wrong”

Anticorp ,

“circumvented GDPR despite calling out strong ethical objections, because legal & management are forcing me to”

ving_thor , in Added Bugs to Keep my job

Update coffee list and tex files.

…and yes we have our office coffee list in a git repo.

herrcaptain ,

Do new hires have to submit a pull request to get in on it? If so, I’m guessing the non-technical staff don’t get to drink a lot of coffee.

ving_thor ,

It’s actually just a paper list where people make ticks for coffee. That is then manually synced to an hledger file in git.

Serinus ,

For what? To keep track of who’s drinking coffee? Are you charging for coffee?

MenacingPerson ,

Mfw I git push -f

xmunk ,

Always force-with-lease

ving_thor ,

I work in academia… There is no free coffee here.

theneverfox ,
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Do you have any plans to open source your coffee list? I want to add this feature where I get an iced coffee in the morning

MacedWindow , in The IT experience?
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clydegale , in [Request] Looking for resources on terrible algorithms, architecture, and design
Asudox ,
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great. time to put that in practice.

CameronDev , in I feel proud of myself to recognize that this iconic dude is not at a 'computer', rather, a [dumb] terminal! ]Or...?]

Even if it is a terminal, its connected to a computer. Arguing otherwise is a bit pedantic, its not like he is physically on the computer/terminal either.

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