Absolutely does look like young them

Whoops. I commented, decided to rephrase and edited. But it didn’t result in an edit and I didn’t notice as that’s when I went to bed.

I think this person actually wants to run linux, but they are using Mac as a test case.

They mentioned “install an alternative operating system” - which on hardware sold for Windows very much implies Linux.

But if Linux is a no, and even macos is a no - which is from a “big and proper organisation” with support agreements and everything - then the company is obviously a lost cause who are dead-set on windows for life for all time.

I think this person actually wants to run linux, but they are using Mac as a test case.

They mentioned “install an alternative operating system” - which on hardware sold for Windows very much implies Linux.

But if Linux is a no, and even macos is a no - which is from a “big proper company” with support agreements and everything - then the company is obviously a lost cause who are set on windows for life for all time.

fast food

What about Hyper Casual and Legendarily Casual?

Developing a taste for black coffee is where it’s at.

All the caffeine, none of the calories.

This is exactly how I feel too. A little bit of repetition is totally worth it, versus having inappropriate coupling, or code that jumps in and out of parent/child classes everywhere so you can hardly keep it in your head what’s going on.

I freely accept that I AM a mediocre dev, but if that lends me to prefer code that is comprehensible and maintainable then I think being mediocre is doing my team a favour, honestly.

I’ll say this now.

Inheritance is the most misused capability of OOP which programmers think makes their code look smart, but most of the time just makes a giant fucking mess.

Unit tests that pass first time

It IS going to happen, if you keep using big tech operating systems and services, because THEY want it to happen and will not stop pushing until it DOES happen.

Bad PO: “So it will only increase the chance of bugs if we don’t do it? There won’t necessarily be any. So we can skip it and just put the feature in.”

I hope you have a good PO who is on the same page as you, but to a bad PO, it still sounds optional.

A civil engineer doesn’t say “If we don’t put supports there’s a chance the ceiling will fall in and people may die,” because history has shown there are plenty of unscrupulous project managers who are quite willing to take construction risks, even with people’s lives. As a result of this there are now plenty of laws in construction, and a civil engineer has a convenient fallback of saying “If we don’t put supports it won’t pass inspection, and we won’t get paid.”

Everyone wants to get paid.

In software we don’t have many laws we can fall back on to justify our work, but we can still treat our tech debt and refactoring as if it’s equally mandatory.

“To add feature x, we need to resolve problem y. The feature can’t be added until we’ve completed this prerequisite.”

Same.

I do find myself using my phone a lot more than I used to - all my Lemmy activity is on my phone, and most of my messaging is too. Those are things it’s very convenient to have in my pocket. But I could not survive without a laptop.

Any sort of actual task, be that shopping, banking, research or general browsing, is all far better there.

Trying to do anything involved, like compare and buy car insurance on my phone, feels utterly crippling - as if I’m operating at 20% efficiency, and I can feel my fingers burning with frustration at how much quicker I’d be with a keyboard, trackpad, and decent multitasking.

Here you go fam

So infuriating when you have some dickhead making themselves unfireable by intentionally convoluting the codebase and chasing out any other hire. And even worse when management bought into it and think the guy’s an actual irreplaceable genius.

Probably even believes it himself. I hate narcissists.

I had the same thought as you, but there are perhaps other factors which could contribute to this too.

We see the chart and assume the shift is due to more negative bias in how people respond, but it could also be due to a change in how people post.

For one, the demographics of reddit would have slowly changed over time, from largely a bunch of nerds in 2010 when reddit was niche, to a more general cross-section of society as reddit became closer to mainstream social media.

This (among other factors) may have brought with it a shift in motivations from people genuinely seeking advice (and therefore posting truthful stories) to people seeking validation and a cathartic dose of upvotes (and therefore posting highly biased stories which favour themselves, and paint their partner in a terrible light)

Now, I don’t think that explains all of it. I do feel on a purely personal and qualitative basis that the Internet in general has certainly become more toxic over the past decade, and that people are more angry and hostile now. But I don’t think it’s necessarily a single-factor cause.

As far as I understand, it’s purely marketing semantics.

The point of the ‘Turbo’ button is to slow the CPU down to provide compatibility with old software that was written with a fixed clockspeed, where the software would become unusably fast on newer CPUs.

Calling this a “slow” mode or “compatibility” mode wasn’t very marketing-sexy however, so manufacturers just flipped it around and called the normal speed ‘Turbo’.

With later systems, developers all became aware that varying CPU frequencies were a thing, and started to base their software timings on the realtime clock instead.

So in later systems there was no longer any need to have the CPU run at anything other than its maximum (normal) speed - and the turbo button simply went away.

Not in my case, no. The content was completely custom to the organisation. I assume they were big enough that they felt like a lot of the risk would come from coordinated spearphishing carefully crafted to look like genuine corp email.

No mom, I’m gonna BE a girl for Christmas. puts on programming socks

For real! A course is work. If I’m working I get paid for my time. End of story.

Don’t let them rob you! (any more than they already are)