@just8littleBit

What the fuck? But how?

Please don't tell me that it was all dynamic programming stuff to figure out the smallest matrix to optimize matrix multiplication and you have replaced it with list_of_matrixes.reduce((a,b) => a.mul(b)).

Or maybe an implementation of an 2-3-4 tree that was replaced with a std::vec?

Or was the code written by complete beginners which ignored all framework features? Had that once.. That was horrific. They also stopped to use migrations because it was so complicated and changed the database directly. Had no local development environment. Could only see if their changes worked when deployed. It was dreadful.

We were called back in to sort that out again.

I hate how close the name is to Codium. Am I the only one who does not use AI for programming?

I sometimes take my finished code and paste it into GPT, asking it to describe what my code does, critique it and improve upon it. Educational. Some cool ideas.

But honestly, coding with AI is closer to code review than coding. And I am better at coding than reviewing.

@b2plane Just have a doctor check it out. They get money for all the gross stuff. Some might even like it.

Hemorrhoids?

@tosensei

I am with you that magic is advanced technology. But an equal sign. Not a direction.

Also math. Fucking hell, math is magic. What you can reason from betweenness of graphs or statistical analysis of problems.

How many bears are there... Hmm.. Let's catch a bear, mark him with color, release him and then start catching bears until we catch our marked bear again. And we have a pretty good idea of how many bears there are.

I raise my child knowing that if she goes to uni and chooses natural science of any kind, she essentially goes to Hogwarts. Magic is real. Wanna be a witch? Study math and sciences!

@tosensei

Correct, it's just math. But math is magic, though.

Oh, wow. My script broke git.

I cannot use the script and git at the same time... Git uses also ssh and it just calls the ssh command from the path. Hmm.. Back to the drawing board.

@atheist

I think they do 5 2-ways. It is easier and imagine a group chat. Easier to hand out the old key or maybe make a new key if old messages should not be shared than waiting until everyone had been online at least once with the last person online.

I just think it is neat that it is possible. And there will be probably some cool use cases. Like common key for systems that are not in real-time communication? Like a letter system? Don't forget you can always send it home early.

Like 1-2-1

And then just act like that hasn't happened and make it 1-2-3-1. And so on. Might be a cool way to solve a problem with lightspeed delay?

Funnily enough, you can even make it a shared key with multiple participants. You just have to run it in a circle. A chat with 30 people? No issue, just run it from person to person. It is amazing. Shared secret. Anyone listening? No issue.

I think that's often overlooked, but Diffie Hellman can make a key with n>=2 participants. My favorite feature!

Imagine there is a pill that makes you perpetually 25. Your body, your energy, even your hormones. A good age. Lots of scholars did great things at that age. But also great for partying.

You can take the pill and be 25.

Let's assume the pill would not stop you from dying of old age. You just keel over at some point between 70 and 95.

And now imagine your government is offering this pill to you, at the low, low cost of not being allowed to go into retirement when you take it. You have to keep working.

Would you take it? Spend the rest of your life as someone who is 25, even though you have to work or would you spent your life in an aged body, free of work?

I'd take the pill.

What I don't get about these scammers, why long dense texts? Even AI generates better texts. It is completely hard to read. There aren't even paragraphs.

There is the idea that scammers add misspellings on purpose to filter out everyone who is not an idiot. But this is the opposite. You have to want to read this. It filters everyone out that is lazy. Like me.

So, who is the target of this kind of scam? Who falls for this?

You look like the kind of guy who amasses almost 10000 points on devrant.

@retoor

Cannot tell you why, but I just tried it again with your code. It doesn't work. I could probably troubleshoot and figure this one out, but I guess I just accept it for now.

Note, it recognized your code as color code. Otherwise I would get a printout. I don't. But it just doesn't change the color back.

@retoor

There is a code that removes the color. But for some crazy reason, it had no effect. Therefore I just add add my terminal's default color back in.

Will be annoying the next time I change themes again, but hey, maybe that will make me figure out why the color remove code didn't work.

Was decidedly unfunny, but hey, that's why comedies are scripted. Stuff often gets sad that is unfunny, intended to be funny. And often stuff is said harsher than intended.

Write it down. Just like you did. And see if that repeats. If it is a once-off, forget about it. Take two weeks, if you cannot add anything to your note, just wrap it up and throw it away. If something is said once every two weeks, that is just normal miscommunication.

@Root Can you post a pic what that looks like?

Ah, you just know how this works. If they don't answer right away, they don't have a solution. They might have sent a message to their best employee. But that guy also doesn't know. No one is hacking away on the problem for three days. That employee just promised to look into it.

But it is technically not in his queue. So low priority. The other one doesn't know what to do, waits for experienced colleague to have time. At some point, it will flag an alarm. Depending on how busy they are, it will be auto-closed or questioned why it takes so long.

If questioned, you will learn if it is a complicated issue. If it will be answered by the same guy, the experienced guy was able to solve it in 30 minutes. If it will be answered by a new guy, well, they had to transfer the whole ticket over, so the experienced guy had a justification to book his time on.

Keep us updated on this.

I need to play the Kerbal Space Program again. There is the K-OS mod (Kerbal - Operating System, pronounced Chaos. Best name ever.)

You can automate pretty much everything. You just sit there, write code. Starting from staging code, gravity turn, stable orbit, orbital rendezvous, landing on Mun (Kerbal's Moon). Or longer missions. Just sit there, let it play out in real time while working on something else. Telnet capable. Connect via network to it to control it.

Yea, I need to play KSP again.

Doing a lot of Space Engineering nowadays, though. Lots of coding to automate pretty much everything.

@kiki

Did you show him your UI? Bet you showed him your UI.

Hamilton. That's the only case I think that someone working with code is justified in calling themselves an engineer. Doesn't matter if it is data or software or whatever.

And I am getting very suspicious about the claim that someone is an engineer when they have never visited a materials class.

NeatNerdPrime, if your real first name is not Margarete, I don't consider you an engineer.

@thebiochemic

Never ran steam os. Putting energy in my gaming os is not high on the my priority list. And a known solution is usually less effort.

Agni is strong. Believe in agni.

Link. Your UI. My constipation.

Our battle will be legendary!

@thebiochemic

Always the same discussion. Linux is for work. Linux changes my mindset.

It is a completely different thing to close everything down and having to reboot.

In short, if I have games on Linux, I am easily distracted. If I have games on Windows, I do not even want to play games in work mode until my work is done.

Separation of concerns I guess.

You should become very familiar with the API of your nearest pizza place.

Also any online pharmacy that delivers pain killers would be helpful. Automate it, because chances are you won't have time to do it manually.

And if you find a liquor store nearby, well you know the drill. Look up the API and automate it.

@jestdotty

What was it again, the only problem that abstraction cannot solve it too much abstraction?

Put on some Ghoultown and stick to your guns. Someone is digging their own grave, don't doubt yourself.

Well, most languages are fine.

They always have a subset of features you better not use. Once avoided, the rest of the language becomes straight forward.

The difficulty is to figure out if it is an advanced concept or feature better avoided. That question is usually contested.

That's bullshit. I am supposed to believe that this CEO wouldn't have slept with this guy's wife if he hadn't received push back?

RegEx is amazing. Build a state machine, fucking O(n) execution guaranteed. I love them...

Fuck look arounds, though.