Lord give me the confidence of vibe coders who are saying that Bjarne Stroustrup is wrong about performance and safety critical code quality
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mastodon 4.7.3#Discworld obsessed #cat servant who likes #programming and painting small versions of big things (#miniaturepainting)
Please do not send any unsolicited software design patterns
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Can we go back to the days of personal websites, webrings, and search engines that surface the content you're asking for?
One reason that search is dominated by big tech is the sheer amount of information on the Internet, and because they crawl the web and add everything they can find, but how much of that needs to be listed (automatically)?
I'd like to see smallweb/indiweb go further in this direction.
The hottest of takes: It's not mandatory for you to comment on every programming video that isn't about Rust with how much easier/cleaner would be to do in Rust.
I know it's petty and ultimately self defeating, but at this point I'm avoiding Rust on principle 😅
Today Claude told me that I needed to phrase my prompts more carefully because by saying "Produce a Word document" it thought I meant "Write out a text file and give it a .docx extension"
As you get older, the list of potential symptoms on public health advisories is just a checklist of how you feel on any given day until you get to one or two that say something like "Your head falls off"
When doing a budget, do (warhammer) miniatures come under the category Hobbies, Vices or Medication/Wellbeing?
I got quite far with a community system that I was going to add fedi-integration to, but as the UK government is passing laws that mean you need lawyers/money to run a community these days I decided to shelve it.
I'm now working on individual content hosting app for myself that will have less appeal, but won't leave me as exposed to regulatory issues. If it works out okay I'll make it public
Also switched from .Net to Go(lang) because MSFT are going too hard on AI
Hey @MarcSchulder@fediscience.org some folk in a Discworld group asking about Discwordle being down and I noticed your site is. Just a temp outage or gone for good?
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@akareilly accessibility yes, lack of assholes yes, basic documentation yes. For the rest it will depend on project size and maturity, because you're basically asking for a commercial grade SDLC for something given to you for free, and it would set a high barrier to entry for people who just want to share their passion/work.
If those requirements are set by a consumer of the project then fine, don't use FOSS projects that don't hit that bar, but it shouldn't be a prereq for the author.
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@feditips @ocdtrekkie agreed.
I think it's safe to say that we are all greatful for the Mastodon project, but putting the rumours to bed would help quell the unease that a lot of people are feeling right now.
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@ocdtrekkie @feditips asking if something is true or false only after it's been proven true or false seems somewhat redundant...
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@thisismissem @feditips @Mastodon I'm not familiar with any registered non-profit orgs that say "Nah, we've got enough donations now, let's not ask for any more money"
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@openroomxyz@glasgow.social @dennis_jernberg@mastodon.xyz @Gargron@mastodon.social It seems very "Follow these influential/famous people" based rather than interest based.
I'm not interested in that kind of place. The "Global Town Hall" is a myth on any social network, it's going to end up more like a "Drunken brawl in the town square".
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@dennis_jernberg@mastodon.xyz @Gargron@mastodon.social I only signed up, using a discarded Instagram account, to see what it was like. I've already stopped using it so that makes it 69,999,999 😁
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@ocdtrekkie @feditips he's said he isn't aware of secret deals, it's not the same thing.
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@ocdtrekkie @feditips ok good, we have established that there are no deals. Now I'd like an answer to the question that @feditips asked.
A #Caturday question. After handling anything mint flavoured, does anyone else, who values their fingers, have to make sure they *thoroughly* wash their hands before going near their cat?
Although tbh my fingers are nothing special. I'd only rate each of them one out of ten.
Anyone else had to turn off "Insert selected suggestion by pressing space, dot, or other context-dependent keys" in the latest release of Goland? Since updating to 2026.1, it has started to auto-complete the blank identifier (_) to a variable when typing the following comma. As well as other similar issues.
Specifically, when authoring a member function, it's auto-completing _ to the first member variable of the struct against which the member function is defined.
Decided to try out Fedora Silverblue, but I managed to break it within 5 minutes by attempting to install the nvidia drivers, so I think I'll stick to Fedora Workstation, which I haven't managed to break despite using with reckless abandon 😅