themaninblack
@themaninblack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 week ago:
Well they are in the category of bad MLK statues but yeah I agree oral sex is not very similar to a stern expression
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 week ago:
Same sentiment, though.
“We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”
-Edward Rothstein
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
Being obtuse for a moment, let me just say: build it right!
That means minimalism! No architecture astronauts! No unnecessary abstraction! No premature optimisation!
Lean on opinionated frameworks so as to focus on coding the business rules!
And for the love of all that is holy, have your developers sit next to the people that will be using the software!
All of this will inherently reduce runaway algorithmic complexity, prevent the sort of artisanal work that causes leakiness and speed up your code.
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 2 weeks ago:
Why am I suddenly seeing this guy’s name every single day? Is it a Lemmy thing?
- Comment on Girls 2 weeks ago:
TLC: Taylor, L’Hospital, and a constant
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Well then 5 weeks ago:
These comments are almost there.
You’ll end up working with passive aggressive geeks that are somehow defensive of their shitty code.
They’ll be great at understanding the domain though
- Comment on Irish President suggests UN should exclude Israel and allies 5 weeks ago:
Michael Higgins has never been wrong. He also has cool dogs.
- Comment on Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Man, games used to be fun and include just simple joys written by a small cadre of competent developers. I think Mario 64 was written by devs that had never written a game before? Maybe that was Goldeneye
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
As a senior dev, I agree but am impressed that you’re dealing with a functional architecture to begin with
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Exactly, my coworkers at nearly every job have done this just by their disinterest in reading code and not caring about their craft.
It’s far more effective. Once you have a bad architecture and you keep adding to it over the years in haphazard ways, it becomes increasingly difficult to make any changes.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 2 months ago:
This is the winning response I think.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 2 months ago:
I get this is a battery but the units don’t make sense unless it’s going at 100% all the time
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 2 months ago:
So this is 510 mA per hour, I guess
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 months ago:
Great advice. Also make a PR to an open source project, have some public discussion of trade offs you considered, and get it merged. That’s an awesome differentiator. I’ve seen thousands of developer resumes without this. It shows you can work effectively and productively on good code and with a team.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 2 months ago:
British authorities: you not only have to decide that approximations of a representation of an outlawed group are illegal, which is shaky ground at best, but you would also have to decide that open support of a group that is guilty only of vandalism of military assets is also illegal. To do so, without encroaching on the fucking Magna Carta, which y’all invented, would require an assertion that direct action on behalf of a subset of members of the group disallows the freedom of expression necessary to support the group writ large. Suck a fuckin dick.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 2 months ago:
With the recent insults to privacy (including E2E encryption) and the pro-corporate legislation, has Germany lost its way? Seems like newer generations are forgetting the lived experience of the Stasi and why there are such pro-renter economic circumstances
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 2 months ago:
I’d definitely rather deal with Carabinieri, they’re just early twenties year olds from anywhere in the country that give varying degrees of a shit most of the time. Maybe not at airports and landmarks. American cops are jumpy and hyper aggressive always. You can get that from the Carabinieri but it’s half-hearted, not baked in to their identity.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 2 months ago:
You’ve nailed it. 15 years of experience here.
Scrum messed everything up too - lots of less-technical people needed jobs in software and that’s where they tend to slot in.
The kids don’t seem to think one level of hierarchy higher than the context they’re in a lot of the time. Not much appreciation for holism and design patterns (your mileage with the latter can vary of course).
Elegance is down and writing your own shitty code instead of using decent opinionated frameworks is up.
If I’m frustrated I write code outside of work.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 2 months ago:
Goddamn, with their parents’ history, I cannot possibly think of this as anything but mental decline. The basis of their political affiliation is a reflection of the state of their brain, to be sure.
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 2 months ago:
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” -Walt Whitman
- Comment on Just one more 3 months ago:
Good song about Katy public transit
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 4 months ago:
Fuck yeah. When you come into Melbourne hit me up and we’ll have a drink
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 4 months ago:
Yes, a few times before I have thought, “what possible good can come from this?” In response to utterances by petty, nervous tyrannical managers.
- Comment on Are some people too stupid to feel depressed? 4 months ago:
Depression is not this. It is far more complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Many petty tyrants who couldn’t hang in a normal job. I dealt with these guys in a tech support role. Many are genuinely nice. Some have oppositional defiant disorder
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 5 months ago:
Mint still going strong and painless for me after 6 months
- Comment on It's a fun new game 6 months ago:
I liked this meme until I thought, wouldn’t it be cooler if it were a complex and reversible operation? 3/10 doesn’t deceive enough
