BTW Satan is a very cool guy, follow him on Twitter: @s8n

And people are seriously considering federating with Threads if it implements ActivityPub. Things have been so crazy recently that I think If Satan existed and started a Lemmy instance, probably there would still be people arguing in good faith for federating with him.

If I remember correctly, the properties the API returns are comment_score and post_score.

Lemmy does have karma, it is stored in the DB, and the API returns it. It just isn’t displayed on the UI.

someone watching you code in a google doc

I’ve had nightmares less terrifying than this

Wow, an actually good summary of what the problem is with Reddit

Lemmy actually has a really good API. Moderation tools are pretty simple though.

Did I miss something? Or is this still about Beehaw?

The best hacker is of course the one who can guess the password the fastest (all-lowercase, dictionary word).

This describes 99% of AI startups.

The company I work for was considering using Mendable for AI-powered documentation search. I built a prototype using OpenAI embeddings and GPT-3.5 that was just as good as their product in a day. They didn’t buy Mendable :)

This is an excellent explanation of hashing, and the interactive animations make it very enjoyable and easy to follow.

I absolutely agree. But:

• sometimes you need to modify existing code and you can’t add the types necessary without a giant refactoring
• you can’t express units with types in:
  • JSON/YAML object keys
  • XML tag or attribute names
  • environment variable names
  • CLI switch names
  • database column names
  • HTTP query parameters
  • programming languages without a strong type system

Obviously as a Hungarian I have a soft spot for Hungarian notation :) But in these cases I think it’s warranted.

I understand what you mean, and I even agree with it, but just to be a little pedantic, variable names are code, or at least they are more code than comments or docs.

But yes, encoding units into the type system is a much better solution. It doesn’t work however for config options, environment variables or CLI switches.

I’m sure it’s a nice client but I don’t understand why so many GUI projects have no screenshots in their READMEs. It would be great if I could immediately see if I like it without installing it.

EDIT: thanks for adding the screenshot to your post! It looks awesome!

Nice to see some OC on here! (And it’s also funny :) )

This is pretty awesome and it shows how far .NET has come in recent years.

You’re right, they also have to prove their counterarguments, and those who don’t do it are often bad programmers. But I’ve also experienced the same with some actually brilliant people.

That may be part of it but I’ve also observed it among fellow programmers.

You give your opinion about something and your coworker has a smug, arrogant knee-jerk reaction based on some cargo-cult belief without actually thinking about the details of the problem. Then you need to walk them through why what you said is not what they meant step-by-step, and while it may be wrong it is still a valid opinion. If you succeed, they completely change and become cooperative, and you can have an actually useful discussion. But you have to be super patient, like when taming an irritated feral cat that wants to scratch you. If you’re good, the cat becomes cuddly and cute.

This works but I’m extremely tired of having to perform this dance with 60% of the new coders I meet.