I’m just a nerd girl.
Which is why I’ve mostly been a console peasant. PC games are like “So let’s spend 5 minutes installing extra shit. And maybe 15 minutes screwing with the settings and fixing compatibility. Oh and are you ready for The Modern Scourge, the Hell that is shader precompilation? We’ll be here for a while.”
Modern games are a little bit better, but yeah…
…It’s okay. I’ve programmed in far far worse languages. …It’s got its advantages. It’s got it’s problems. 🤷🏻♀️
Edit: If you need a serious answer: Much like BASIC, it’s a language often used in teaching programming. In that sense, I guess it’s much better than BASIC. You can, like, actually use it on real world applications. If you’re using BASIC for real world applications in this day and age something has gone really wrong.
experts warn that retrofitting it to meet presidential security standards could take years, cost hundreds of millions more, and risk national security due to potential embedded surveillance.
Oh, but that’s the mindset from before the current administration. Back when presidential whims were at least moderated by process and oversight. Back when people believed that it didn’t matter if America elected a ridiculous tinpot dictator, because they couldn’t do anything just by themselves, the rest of the government was there to see the law and procedures were to be followed at all times. Now? Nobody in the White House cares. Donnie wants a jet, Donnie gets a jet.
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…Dunno, sounds like a you problem to me.
If using plain CSS, usually it’s enough to set width appropriately, and margin-left and margin-right to auto.
If using a Modern Frontend/CSS Framework, then may God have mercy on your poor soul.
(Seriously I just started a new project with TailwindCSS and I’m so confused. But not entirely desperate yet.)
I dunno, most of my experience from Docker comes from docker compose, and it’s “put this thing in a file and edit it and then run docker compose up -d”.
So if anything, it’s best illustrated with the old meme of a dog typing on a computer going “I have no idea what I’m doing”.
Insert random copypasta about biotech breakthrough that turns water and CO2 and nutrients into sustainable building materials which sounds like space age technology but it’s just trees
If I go to a prominent government building, and there’s posters of people on row, my first thought would be that these are either candidates or the freshly elected officials.
[looks closer and squints]
Ah, being a foreigner I don’t know much about the details of American politics, but these must be the “Senate”, right? A drug lord here, a kiddy fiddler there.
I remember it so clearly. “Ooh, multiple desktops. It’ll take forever until Windows gets this.” (It was 1996. Newbies should try messing with fvwm. Now that was configurable.)
I was about to doodle something like this, but looks like folks are beating me to it. Great that debates sometimes lead to results.
Reminds me of an old RPG parody that had a spell like this:
Gas Cloud: To prepare, the caster must eat two loaves of bread and as many plates of pea soup as they can…
It’s even funnier because the guy is mocking DHH. You know, the creator of Ruby on Rails. Which 37signals obviously uses.
I know from experience that a) Rails is a very junior developer friendly framework, yet incredibly powerful, and b) all Rails apps are colossal machines with a lot of moving parts. So when the scared juniors look at the apps for the first time, the senior Rails devs are like “Eh, don’t worry about it, most of the complex stuff is happening on the background, the only way to break it if you genuinely have no idea what you’re doing and screw things up on purpose.” Which leads to point c) using AI coding with Rails codebases is usually like pulling open the side door of this gargantuan machine and dropping in a sack of wrenches in the gears.
Yup. Officially, last I checked, GitHub encouraged people to use a single account for everything. But I wish they’d at least let people create multiple “personas” on the same account, along the lines of “Notorious Open Source Hacker Alias” vs “Random Code Monkey On Corporate Gig”.
You need to be able to pick the recipe option then. If someone knows recipes from ancient Rome, they might just be a harmless history nerd. If someone knows recipes from WH40K, well, I don’t know what to say.
One of the most important space flights ever was Zond 5. Soviets sent the first Earthlings around the Moon and back. They were tortoises.
Did the Soviets let these heroic chelonians retire in grace? No, they were euthanised and dissected. I’m sure they could have gotten the scientific data they needed with less invasive methods.
All astronauts should rescue all space turtles and tortoises they see!
Turtles are great computer science animals. They do graphics, and have shell access.
Maintaining paper notebooks and almanacs and a giant crazy-wall of Post-Its is very fruitful and calming.
“The samurai charged into battle, shouting You must install Adobe Flash plugin to view this content.”
“Cubist”, or as the old-timers call it, “the Management insisted that this thing must work on MSIE 6, and we didn’t have the budget to make it work on anything else”