dozen = 12 + 1; // one extra for the baker!
I got mad at this when I first saw it but then I remembered there’s some code at work that defines an hour as 50 minutes
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Statistically, this makes your code better
Yeah…. I’ve definitely been the next guy on a couple bad regexes that I wrote
When versioning and feature flags are too hard: just use git and hope for the best
My old senior used to do this before he got laid off and now I’m charge of code that’s littered with old commented out code and no way to know why it was commented out.
Then it breaks years after you’ve left and someone has no choice but to touch it
Saw this earlier from an account called something like “Vets for Kamala”
I often use comments as ways to say, “I know this is cursed, but here’s why the obvious solution won’t work.” Like so:
/** * The column on this table is badly named, but * renaming it is going to require an audit of our * db instances because we used to create them * by hand and there are some inconsistencies * that referential integrity breaks. This method * just does some basic checks and translates the * model’s property to be more understandable. * See [#27267] for more info. */Edit: to answer your question more directly, the “why not what” advice is more about the intent of whether to write a comment or not in the first place rather than rephrasing the existing “what” style comments. What code is doing should be clear based on names of variables and functions. Why it’s doing that may be unclear, which is why you would write a comment.
161·10 days agoSo this is admittedly the first genocide I’ve followed this closely in real time. Is it normal for them to just… announce what they’re doing the entire time? The general who drafted the plan posted it on YouTube? What?
10·10 days agoThe official Hexbear Twitter posted a good thread on PatSocs a couple years ago:
https://x.com/chapo_chat/status/1583163442005147649
The thread for those who don’t wanna visit Ecks Dot Com
People defending Vaush by talking about PatSoc’s. Either this stuff is a psyop or the US is getting a lot of free labor from Twitter libs.
LaRouchites and Vaushites are two sides of the same coin. PatSocs are what liberals imagine “tankies” to be. Vaushites are what ML’s imagine anarchists to be. Both represent American chauvinism with a false veneer of anti-Americanism.
Social media facilitates the distributed creation of brand-personalities, which are much simpler to embody and to understand as an onlooker than genuine personhood. So the question is not, “are these figures assets or did they gain notoriety organically?”
The question is, “what brands are being formed here and how do they function?” In the case of these two groups, they are two poles on a spectrum of opportunism. Both facilitate this self-fulfilling cycle of anti-communism.
Both will point to each other as examples of why the “other side” is incorrect (and therefore why “our side” is correct). But they both implicitly agree on several things.
Things they agree on:
- You can’t be an ML and care about marginalized people
- You can’t be an anarchist and care about the global south/opposing American hegemony (see discourse about what qualifies as imperialism)
- Internet discourse is central to working class liberation
All three of these are nonstarters to actually going out and effectively organizing in your communities, at least for those of us who identify with our ideological labels (remember the bit about how social media encourages personality-brands?)
When we wear our political tendencies as team jerseys, they stop being accurate descriptions of our actions/intentions and start being ways that we signal our morality to the world.
Haz, Vaush, and the countless others who take up otherwise valuable space in our heads just happen to be particularly good at the game of outrage growth. They are figureheads not by merit of their actions, but by the opportunism of their personality-brands.
Linux installs have gotten so quick and painless over the past decade or so. Usually just following a GUI, waiting like 5 minutes for the install, and suddenly you’re booted into a fresh desktop.
15·11 days agoI think you’re going to need to link to some proof or example. You’re clearly using a definition of AI that’s broader than the colloquial definition everyone’s assuming you’re using.
People want to have it both ways.
It’s more a thing with books, “death of the author”, cause the author might say it means one thing but you can look at the text and question what it’s actually saying, infer new meaning etc.
Like Tolkien insisting that his books contained no allegory. The amount of accidentally allegorical content in LotR is staggering.
7·24 days agoIt’s not as close to an exact quote as I thought, to be honest, but I stand by the sentiment that the statement was unsupportive of the trans community.
My espresso has arrived. Clinton asks for more iced tea. I cannot allow the lunch to end without questioning the direction of her party. I say that Democrats seem to be going out of their way to lose elections by elevating activist causes, notably the transgender debate, which are relevant only to a small minority. What sense does it make to depict JK Rowling as a fascist? To my surprise, Clinton shares the premise of my question.
“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” she says. “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
From an interview with the Financial Times
I’d note 4 things:
- The question is obviously heavily framed as an anti-trans question
- A lot of right wing news outlets reported the initial question as if Clinton herself was the one who said it, which isn’t true.
- Most non-right-wing outlets didn’t mention the context that she was responding to a question about trans people at all
- She never retracted or clarified her statement after the fact
Why subtweet Hillary Clinton on this one? It’s almost an exact quote.
Is there a non-sexual way for that to look cozy?
What is the “good” that I’m somehow opposing with my perfectionism? What is good about this bill? Preferably not in the form of the Wikipedia article for another thought terminating cliche.
Can someone who knows more about the engineering of these lights explain why they suck so much? It seems like them being LED rather than incandescent can’t be the whole story. I just want to be able to drive at night without being blinded every time a car comes through the opposing lane.