It's that time of the year again where I once again swear I need to rewrite this pile of production code into a new platform, open up a new project, start, get 10% in (I'm being generous here), then wander off again. This is not a productive approach. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Lee Fent
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An old man yelling at the clouds. All of them. Also yelling at on-prem deployments. Computers were a surely a mistake, but they are profitable.
This weekend I had a discussion with several people involving the phrase “three areas of coding”. I wasn’t familiar with the terminology and was suspicious I explained that I’d never encountered the phrase but the purported author was a) younger and b) from a different culture so it could have been legit. Then someone pasted in a response from an LLM. It was bad. So very bad. Like a real world example of word salad. Turns out the phrase was a summary from a discussion not a phrase that was used.
@grmpyprogrammer my wife just became a Blue Jays fan. Just saying.
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
Dare ObasanjoThe annoying thing about the tariffs is that they aren’t even well intentioned but misguided, it’s just stupidity.
A trade deficit means you buy more from a country than they buy from you which is normal. Buying more oil from Nigeria than they buy Teslas isn’t a “problem” requiring putting a high sales tax on imported Nigerian oil
Americans buy less Nigerian oil and the deficit reduces. Are you better off or worse off?
Zero sum thinking taken to a stupid extreme.
Marco "Ocramius" PivettaHaving cats 🐱 ~= there's a 95% chance that there's cat puke somewhere in the house (you just haven't stepped on it yet)
Today I had an old contract of mine come back and ask me if I could update an app they had someone else develop for them. The other developer failed to show any code, explained it's all a react app, and that it's hosted in 'a' cloud. I didn't quite nope my way out of it, but it was a close thing.
So I just ran `git init` on a code base dating from (at least) 1993. I may be a while sorting this out.
Spent most of this afternoon wrestling with a vendor's python package. I'm here to report you can do stupid things in almost any programming language. Also, regex... sheesh.
Thank you to technik at thomas-heuer dot eu for leaving a clue on Bug #79702, you saved the day! (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79702)