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due to company reorganization and a recent IPO, we are now 4 independent contractor dwarves and an LLM

at least all those state actors will have to fight it out to control my system

and i have an excuse for poor application performance

oh such hope

in a week IntegerThatTracksOneThingForOnePurpose will be an object tracking 30% of the game state and mutated in 15 places without ever being renamed

The true test of a person’s character is what he they do when no one is watching.

with no apologies to john wooden

mate this is not the place for this

it’s hard work! I struggle with it myself, everyday

here’s a secret, though: you’re good, actually, even if you don’t Do Thing. I will believe this for you, even if your brain won’t

if neither works then you might as well be kind to yourself, ne

oof ouch my bones

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew

A batch of pot-au-feu was claimed by one writer to be maintained as a perpetual stew in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II, when it ran out of ingredients to keep the stew going due to the German occupation.

[…]

Notable examples include beef and goat noodle soup served by Wattana Panich in Bangkok, Thailand, which has been cooking for over 49 years as of 2024, and oden broth from Otafuku in Asakusa, Japan, which has served the same broth daily since 1945.

where doing it man

were MAKING THIS HAPEN

i used to just_post

i low key miss it

it was truly the only good subreddit

post post post i wanna see ur posts

hebhob

hatdug

holy hell

gandalf the greybeard

encino man > george of the jungle

and i will fight anyone who disagrees

whoa whoa whoa

how can we have a flamewar if youre going to be all reasonable like that

oh i never considered that reading of the quote

i read it as more: complaints about a language, particularly the amount of complaints, don’t mean it is a Bad Language that should be dropped in favor of something else

in fact the complaints validate that the language is being used by people, and that–the number of people actually using the language to Do Things–is imo a decent proxy metric for the usefulness of the language

so please complain about your languages’ shortcomings! i hate so many things about terraform / sh / python / golang / java and will gladly rant at length, and then go right back to using them

except groovy

fuck groovy

have you ever tried to recreate a simple shell pipeline in Python