GarlicToast

joined 1 year ago
[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

The average user that will get to join-lemmy will GTFO.

The average user gets their Google account by opening their device and going step by step with nice animations.

Find a person that already has an apartment, bills, work, relationship and isn't working in tech.

A. Ask him to join lemmy. Ask after a month if it happened (spoiler, it didn't). B. Help him open an account, check after he month if he kept it.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

The average user that will get to join-lemmy will GTFO.

The average user gets their Google account by opening their device and going step by step with nice animations.

Find a person that already has an apartment, bills, work, relationship and isn't working in tech.

A. Ask him to join lemmy. Ask after a month if it happened (spoiler, it didn't). B. Help him open an account, check after he month if he kept it.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago

Been a TA when chatGPT was released. Most students shot their own foot this way before we figured what was happening. Grades went from bell shaped to U shaped. A few students got 85+, the rest failed, it was brutal. Thought I failed my students horribly before I found out it was happening in all classes.

If you actually stuck in such a situation, solve as many problems as you can. An approach that will work for most people:

  1. Try to solve
  2. Fail
  3. Take a peek, understand your failure. If the peek didn't include full solution, go back to step 1. Else continue to step 4.
  4. Move to the next question and go back to step 1.

Make sure to skip questions if they are too easy. Evey 4~ hours take a 20 minutes nap (not longer than 25 minutes). If you actually manage to solve enough problems to pass, go to sleep, 4.5 hours or a longer multiplier of 1.5 hours.

After the exam go back and solve all homework yourself. DO NOT cram it, spread it or you will retain nothing long term.

Good luck.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

The real world case I remember also included a TODO to return and fix the code later. In a published scientific software. I wonder how many paper were messed up by this buggy software. As I looked at the code due to the amount of bugs I encountered.

It's been many years from publication, and to the surprise of no one, they did not return to fix it.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 68 points 3 months ago (6 children)

// This line does nothing, however removing it causes production to crash. DO NOT REMOVE

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Forgejo is very much fun

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

I managed to donate a few patches over the years. But the whole ceremony with a PR around a fix is just too much. It takes more time than I have free.

I have a minor error fix sitting on my computer for over month now. No time to get it merged.

Most of it revolves around how bad the housing situation is.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Partial documentation combined with complex code will be great for your bank account.

Code fast, and badly, always under promise and over deliver. Before the shit hits the fan, move to another place.

Next person after you will take the blame. You may be hired again at premium as you can deliver. Blame the replacement Dev for breaking the code and causing a lot of damage.

Fix the little that is possible, at premium rate and move on.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

I enjoy hiking and bake at home, both maybe cause dust like matter to destroy a very expensive device.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

A foldable costs more than my laptop and tablet combined. While being less resilient and less capable.

I'm not going to pay premium for a device that will break if it get exposed to dust.

I will pay premium for durability, fixability, modularity and for gnu/Linux that mobile device that can interface with android apps that society forces me to use.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

After the shit they pulled with the Nokia 9 PureView, how can someone bet money on their crap?

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Print that on my gravestone if I have one.

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