For real. I type like a boomer, but I never had any problems at uni or work (as a developer). It’s not about how fast you’re typing but what you’re typing. And any good developer generally spends more time thinking or testing than typing.

Bur bad managers can’t accept this, they need dumb metrics like typing speed, added lines of code, useless certificates, etc

I’d say it’s still accurate for quite a lot of us. Personally I avoid any “smart” device like the plague. I’m kinda done with tech outside of programming. I’d have a dumb phone if it wasn’t such a hassle in today’s society, none of my appliances is connected to the internet (apart from PC and phone), I like using old DSLRs and film cameras because I don’t want to look at another screen when out and about, I read physical books instead of digital, etc. I don’t own a car but if I had one it’d probably be some old piece of shit that just works, without all the smart shit if I can at all avoid it.

I have printers that connect to the WiFi, but they’re turned off all the time unless I need them. There’s no way in hell my washing machine gets WiFi, nor any other applicance like it. And I’m also very distrustful of video doorbells or even worse, those kind of digital locks that unlock with a phone or something. I’m just tired of everything being connected, everything being a subscription, everything being a security nightmare, everything needing power or having to be charged.

We should sprinkle IT people around the offices like wifi routers. To project their aura of auto-resolving constantly throughout the workplace. As a programmer I have more of an aura of auto-breaking any system that I’m near so hopefully they cancel out

It does feel like that yeah. But honestly it would probably still be pretty fast if the GPU driver support didn’t cease. Being on the integrated GPU has made the thing age another 10 years, that piece of shit was already horrendously slow when the Laptop was new

Looks like he’s just toying around with it in some project. Why would he take other’s words for it when he can just test it himself? Try it out, see what happens, draw conclusions.

There’s a lot of mindless hype and a lot of mindless hate around these tools. Makes sense to try these tools and form your own opinion

Haha. The video is a bit pessimistic tho, I know people who work at companies with Haskell running in production (who are happy with it). Personally I have used monads, and I’ve wished for their functionality in other languages like Java, but I couldn’t reasonably explain what they are.

Also, as someone who know just about enough German to understand some of what they’re saying, it’s always quite hard to follow these videos. My brain doesn’t understand it when it hears “Das war ein Befehl!” and the subtitles ramble on about something completely different

Jokes on you, I’m into that shit

It slowly started happening in the last few years. And then I got a burn-out. I haven’t really written code in months now. I don’t think it’d really stress me out, but honestly I just don’t really feel like it most of the time. I try to spend most of my time away from a screen

Damn that’s very lucky. Every device with Nvidia hardware that I installed Linux on has at some point during updates or whatever gone to shit. However I must say that it has become way better in recent years. My Thinkpad was the worst because it was my first Linux device and it had an integrated Intel gpu and a dedicated Nvidia GPU and getting it to work was horror. In the end a friend of mine who was better at Linux just forced it to always use the Nvidia card because then at least stuff worked reliably ™.

But even then it pretty much always died during Ubuntu release updates. I’ve nuked my whole system once because the screen went black (due to GPU drivers presumably) during one and after an hour or so I forcefully turned off the laptop because I couldn’t do anything anymore. After restarting into a tty my laptop was in some sort of limbo between 2 Ubuntu versions and I basically just had to reinstall.

Ever since I made Linux (Arch btw) my main OS for gaming at the start of this year it has been quite stable though. I did switch to LTS kernels and after that everything has been pretty chill.

In terms of performance yeah. Though not every old device keeps working. You’re still vulnerable to driver support for newer kernels. My old Thinkpad no longer functions properly because the Nvidia drivers are not compatible with newer kernels. I can either have an unsafe machine that runs fine or an up-to-date machine that can barely open a web browser.

Still grinding Hades 2. Just like the original Hades the game just keeps throwing new stuff at you, so you keep playing. One thing I do find weird tho is how quickly I managed to unlock the different weapons. And also that the initial staff weapon is by far my favorite, so every weapon unlock thereafter felt a bit underwhelming. I guess it makes sense that they provide you with the most all-round weapon first.

As a programmer I’ve found it infinitely times more useful for troubleshooting and setting up things than for programming. When my Arch Linux nukes itself again I know I’ll use an LLM, when I find a random old device or game at the thrift store and want to get it to work I’ll use an LLM, etc. For programming I only use the IntelliJ line completion models since they’re smart enough to see patterns for the dumb busywork, but don’t try to outsmart me most of the time which would only cost more time.

Same. No wonder I’m burnt out. The human brain can only handle so many screens at the same time :/

Hmmm yeah. But most of it lives in an automatic cloud backup as well… Photos, important documents, game saves, programming projects. I’ve lost drives before and apart from one or two moments where I couldn’t find a very specific file I didn’t really miss anything. The only things that I really do need to backup at the moment are my music projects and the raw files from my photography

Had this multiple times. Reading code from 2 years ago and being like “what idiot wrote this” only to find out the culprit was me. Then the memories came back and I remember why the compromises were made. What I learned from that is not to judge people too much on their code. What you see is a combination of both their skill and also a whole bunch of necessary compromises for which you may not know the reason. Nowadays I don’t get too annoyed if the code is a bit messy. As long as it’s well tested and documented.

I used a PS/2 keyboard until like 2 years ago. At some point over 10 years ago I decided that I’d only replace it when it died. But it wasn’t very good at dying, and 2years ago I finally had enough of the cheap rubbery switches and the fact that I couldn’t press enough keys at the same time

We can clearly see that this design is silly, because it allows for so many invalid states. Yet when we represent some type, let’s say in Java, were so often forced to do this exact same thing. Have variables in a container of which only a certain combination is valid. And then have at most a comment saying “this number is only valid if X is also set” or “if the validity boolean is true”. Luckily Java finally has some ability for the so-called sum types now, just like Haskell’s data types or Rust’s enum types. Imo any language should have this.

Damn I should do this. I’ve gotten “Dear ${name}” before tho

Tbh at the moment I just have an idea, tell everyone about it, and I have no energy for it for 2 weeks and forget about it. It’s more frustrating because you don’t even get the satisfaction of starting anything and seeing the early rapid progress before ditching it

Are you me lol? I did exactly the same, and at some point I started computing how many slides I had to make to make anything larger and I pivoted. My dad didn’t know this stuff but I also ended up at gamemaker