dafo

@dafo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not been too keen on copilot, then we got it at work so I tried it. For my previous position working in an ancient java project which knows no rhyme or reason, a codebase which belongs in hell’s fires, it was mostly useless.

  I switched to a modern web developer position where we do a lot of data manipulation and massage it into common types to visualise in charts and tables, there it excels. A lot of what we do uses the same datasets and are then aggregated into one of a set of common types, so copilot often “understands” what I intend and gives great 5-10 line suggestions.

  These last 3 weeks I’ve had the massive task of separating our data processing into separate files to finally add unit tests. Doing the refactoring was easy with IntelliJ, copilot quickly wrote tests as with 100% coverage which allowed me to find a good number of undiscovered bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I left and joined Lemmy. After a couple of months of being flooded by politics in /c/memes, actually it’s everywhere and very little new content I started going back. Now I doomscroll both. I usually head to reddit after a couple of posts which portray me as a fascist because I’m not a Marxist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aaaaah⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That works. Until you get a cramp in the opposite direction and the same time. It’s the 2nd closest experience to child birth I’ve had. The closest is a cramp stretching from the inside of my foot, up the outside of my thigh, up my back. Nothing but death seems to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else feel like their blood is kind of vibrating?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re reading their comment too literally. I think it’s meant as a joke that the stick is nearing its “EOL”, not the person holding it, but they’re wilfully misinterpreting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The doctor can see you now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is peak comic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Engineering manager, the one responsible for a team

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  €70k as a developer? That’s a middled aged EM salary here in Sweden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Finland you’re thinking of

  (which as an aside is not a part of Scandinavia, but is a part of the Nordics)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A box of DevOps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  S W E D E N S W E D E N S W E D E N

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Sweden you can cancel a subscription however you wish (as long as it’s within reason). You can send a company snail mail, email, go by their office, phone, text, whatever reasonably reaches them. They’re not allowed to pull the “Oh, buy you have to call [number which leads to an antichurn department]” or “please tell us why” (but of course they’re gonna try anyway. If it’s an online form you usually have a “I don’t want to disclose why”-reason).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Signal and refuse WhatsApp. However, my karate club uses Messenger to communicate, for example if you can’t show up one night.

  My shihan asked if I could communicate with him over WhatsApp, which I declined. But I like the idea of being able to text him that I can’t show up, or if there are some changes needed to our website. Things which aren’t exactly sensitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with rr7, I’ve come here because of the Reddit debacle, but I’ve gone away from Lemmy multiple times because politics has made its way into posts and communities where it does not belong.