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Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don’t look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I’d go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I...

magic_lobster_party,

Reddit is dead to me. Only time I go there is if a Google search leads me there, which is not that often.

magic_lobster_party,

Mandatory Ubuntu hate as well.

I use Ubuntu btw.

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Who even uses screensavers these days?

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Screen locking yes, but that’s not screen saver.

magic_lobster_party,

But locking the screen is not the purpose of xscreensaver. It’s mostly just an overlay with animations.

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Yes we do

Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at...

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ZFG. He has a nice deep voice. He mostly does Zelda Ocarina of Time speed runs, but as of lately he has focused on playing Zelda randomizers.

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Or just name the variable delaySeconds if you really want to store it as an int. Bonus is that every use of the variable perfectly communicates what it is.

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So you implement A* type of algorithms every day in your work?

magic_lobster_party,

I’ve seen it. That’s why I’m opposed to comments unless they really bring value (like explaining the why instead of the what).

magic_lobster_party,

x += 1; // Increases x by one

magic_lobster_party, (edited )

I’ve seen code that look like this:

int delay = 15 * 60; // 10 minutes

Even if the comment was on the same line someone forgot to update it. People just ignore comments.

Better solution is to write (in C#):

TimeSpan delay = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15)

Much more obvious what the code actually means.

magic_lobster_party,

Those cases are rare. Often the most basic solution is good enough.

If you have to write complex code, then you should write a comment (write the name of the algorithm for example).

magic_lobster_party,

Chances are that the comments quickly turn out of date and become incorrect. Misleading comments is worse than no comments.

magic_lobster_party,

KDE Plasma and Gnome are different desktop environments. Kind of like the GUI of the desktop.

Which is best is a matter of taste. I prefer KDE because of its customization options and better virtual desktop support.

magic_lobster_party,

On the topic of Microsoft support, I hate how useless support boards are. They’re always responding with the same template answers describing the exact steps the asker clearly stated they’ve already done with no results. Microsoft is far from alone in this, but I just wanted to rant a bit.

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Laughs in Object

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JSON for serialization all the way. It’s simple and to the point. It does one thing and does it well. There’s little room for annoying surprises. Any JSON can easily be minified and prettified back and forth. If you want it in binary format you can convert it to BSON.

Yaml is too much of a feature creep. It tries to do way too many things at the same time. There are so many traps to fall into if you’re not cautious enough. The same thing can be written in multitudes of ways.

magic_lobster_party,

Talent show judges when you haven’t stopped the cycle of reincarnation:

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Crypto enthusiasts are hopeful that a once-in-four-years event which rewrites the underlying code of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency will extend the current market rally.

Chill down. It’s just a variable change.

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