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  • I teach my students to just code in English from the start. Not all languages/compilers/linkers/whatever handles the Danish characters ‘æ’, ‘ø’, and ‘å’ all that predictably, most companies will require you to use English for international collaboration, and besides most documentation is in English anyway. Last reason is why I urge my students to just use English versions when available. Some FLOSS translations are crap, and you can’t just copy paste an error into askjeeves and get an answer.

    The only thing that has to be in Danish is Excel automation, because for some bizarre reason Microsoft translated all some of the functions. I say some because I’ve seen functions in English that just wasn’t available in Danish Excel.












  • Waddaya mean crusade? Have you accidentally seen one of my other tirades?

    Anyway:

    1. I dislike change. I know it’s not a good argument, but I don’t like change.
    2. I don’t have a lot against dark mode, on a phone. But…
    3. Running an IDE or word processor in dark mode screams unprofessional to me. I work in a well lit office environment, during the day. In a bright office I struggle reading in dark mode.
    4. Using dark mode because you “don’t want to have your eyes scorched”, is the argument of a hobbyist, working in their bedroom.
    5. I like to view my end product on screen. I’m not printing documents in dark mode, and presentations are more easily viewable with a light background.

    It’s not an argument for or against dark mode, but dark mode seems like that time, back in the 90s, when people insisted on using a blue background for word processing. We’re just going in circles on this.


  • Then in the 90s, such restrictions were largely dropped in most languages, and symbol names ballooned in size to take advantage of this new freedom.

    But with great freedom comes great responsibility. I think Microsoft went from digestion noices to indirectly advertising their stake in arthritis medicine. I mean my fingers ache just looking at C# or PowerShell.

    What was so wrong about puts or cout? I know it’s not the most intricate functions, but going from a 4chr function to “Console.WriteLine()” is a symptom.

    And as long as I’m already a riled up old fart, let me tell you about autocompletion. Why does MS have to autocomplete entire commands from ambiguous strings?

    And the kids don’t get it. They don’t even write the code anymore, let alone understand it… I want coffee flavoured coffee, heavy metal and for dark mode to fucking die!

    That felt better, I’m sorry for anybody making it this long.

    I'm just an old fart



  • I think the dark truth underpinning geopolitics right now is that a 3rd world war needs to happen, and Israel, America, and Russia all need to lose in it.

    Counter point: no.

    We don’t need a war for that. Least of which a world war. If you want a war, you can keep it on your own property. Don’t let it spread to my peaceful corner of the planet.

    I’m not putting money on a no-war outcome, but I still think it’s preferable. There’s a small group of ultra rich people, who’ll only grow stronger with war. It’s that exact group that need to know fear. And that group of western oligarchs doesn’t include innocent bystanders.




  • You forget that Americans don’t need training to buy a gun. And cleaning guns isn’t something you see in most gun YouTube videos. Nobody I’ve talked to, who’s been trained on that rifle would have missed that shot. And I’ve talked to a few.

    I know young teens who went from never having fired a gun before, to consistently putting kill shots in a torso shaped target at 300m with a Diemaco c7 (an ar15 manufactured by colt canada) with only a few warmup shots. If you had done just the most basic of training and maintenance, then you should be able to put at least a single round center mass.

    Either it was a result of American gun culture, or it was fake.