Sorry if you wanted to debate me sometime and I just deleted my comment instead; I hope you will take this comic as an token of goodwill.

We’re having trouble finishing the light rail spur that is intended to serve my neighborhood, and our transit authority needs $300 million to complete the design. The budget shortfall is $34.5 billion on a projected $42.5 billion project. And that’s one line for one neighborhood in one city.

Woof. They really went for it on my GitHub

Yes, there is code from 79 repositories in The Stack v3

Sometimes you can tell Zach is very active on Bluesky – they’ve been yelling at each other about a study where people were offering $50k vs a 50% chance at $10m that I am very grateful hasn’t been getting play on fedi.

edit: what have I done

edit 2: to be fair they are actually fighting over $50k vs $1m and I just have a terrible memory

Dexterity is dodging when someone throws a tomato at you for telling an unfunny joke at open mic night (and also successfully weaving your tomato plant into a cage or trellis).

Hopefully it’s enough to win Mbappe a golden boot

Generally speaking, programming languages are like spoken languages, in that as a learner you’re unlikely to be able to memorize and reproduce long passages without extensive practice, and should instead focus on learning to say what you mean, rather than practicing set dialogues.

Just because it’s true doesn’t mean I don’t hate it. Oftentimes, the team with the least political cover is the team who stands up for what’s right, rather than playing politics and shipping what is most profitable regardless of the ethical implications, and my political machinations are an active hindrance

If you’re making a technical decision that’s either going to require work from team A or team B, and neither team wants to do it, you should try to pick the team with the least political cover.

I find this argument kind of facile. Sure, the codebase that you are working in is 10 million lines and you can’t understand it, but your team owns a subset of that, hopefully with a well-defined interface, and it is reasonable to expect a team to fully understand their subsystem. Whether all submodules are broken out into separate repositories or stored in a big monorepo doesn’t change my expectation that when I sit down in a meeting with the engineers from your team, I expect them to be able to readily answer questions about what the system does and how it does it, even if they had to implement something they would have preferred not to for legal reasons.

Complaining about the mods is so incredibly cringe when you can simply spin up a new community with the same name on a different instance.

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I had a senior early on in my career who took pride in producing the smallest diff possible to solve any given ticket and I thought it was so strange – I’m already in the file, why not clean up a bit? In hindsight, they were entirely right, and I always regret doing just a little cleanup without it being strictly necessary.

and get married :3

I invite you to take even the briefest of glances at the communities that I moderate and consider whether you may have misjudged me here.

It is not, because I am from the United States

Getting out of the group is a huge accomplishment for a World Cup debutant, and taking this Argentina side to extra time and coming out to play like you mean it is truly incredible. I’ve never seen anything like it, and lemme tell you I watch a lot of soccer.

There is an easy solution: post yourself

This feels like exactly the feature op is requesting tbh

omg thank you. I thought there were only predefined topics; I didn’t realize I could create my own too

Once upon a time, the joke was that fedi admins required you to remove your pants when summoned. I guess we really have gone mainstream.