Seems like you only know StackExchange from other people complaining about it, not from using it yourself. The type of comment that you're fake-quoting is exactly what would be deleted and, if repeated, could lead to a ban, NOT asking actual questions.

I have to start work at 9:00 at the latest. Meaning: I start work at exactly 9:00.

The daily meeting is at 9:15, so from 9:00 to 9:15 I just turn on the computer, launch programs, check if any mail is super urgent, then already start the meeting with microphone and camera off and close my eyes again for a few more minutes.

Once a colleague was actually visible lying in bed for a few seconds during that meeting, luckily that can't so easily happen to me, because there is a physical slider in front of the camera.

@AlgoRythm Warnings, not errors. Every GCC-based installation prints ridiculous amounts of output, most of that warnings, just not usually that extreme.

I'm just installing things from AUR, not anything self-made.

@IntrusionCM How does SSH help in any way with that? I don't want to remotely do something on another device, I want to sync files between local storage and GDrive.

(Late reply, because I haven't been on DevRant for a while.)

Are you using it for actual automatic two-way sync in the background? I have tried to get that to run and came to the conclusion that it's probably impossible. Since them I'm using InSync.

Another update, because I just went back to this post: Nowadays I don't even bother with the YouTube website at all anymore. If I have to add lots of things to a playlists automatically, I use this: https://github.com/Elijas/...

And otherwise I simply put the link into youtube-dl and download it all. File managers and VLC work sooo much better than anything on the YouTube website, especially since they keep removing features all the time.

At an expo I once asked an SAP employee what SAP even is, because I was completely unable to find any information on that, no matter what I tried. His first reaction was to laugh, then he took a surprisingly long time to come up with what should be the most basic answer in his job.

@PublicByte I have a shirt saying "You read my shirt, that's enough social interaction for one day" and an old woman in a train seems to have actually believed that and was surprised when I talked to her. In my case the shirt is a joke, probably people assume that in your case as well.

@PublicByte Copy that comment onto a sign and wear it around, that could solve your "problem".

@BlackOrange What? "one piece of mask"? Which piece? And how could they dictate a price at all?

"corruption in the import of medicines" What does that even mean?

You mean encoding text in base 64, binary, etc.? I like this one: https://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

Armies even advertise on gaming conventions. With disgusting sentences comparing war with games. Of course they totally ignore that respawning is not possible in real life.

Here is a German video about it: https://youtube.com/watch/...

That's just the alt text on XKCD. On desktop it's the mouseover, on mobile it appears there. You can also use m.xkcd.com/<comic_number> to get a button you can press to see the alt text.

I once wrote regexes to generate regexes to generate SQL commands.

@irene Lots of things are Windows-only software, but can still run with Wine.

@ojrask I know at least that I was unable to get paint.net running, even with complicated Wine setups or Mono.

@ojrask Does PHP fulfil the criteria in my comment above?

Oh wow, so many comments. I guess I should have defined my question better: I'm looking for things that I can just program once, without any change to adjust for other systems or devices (unless I want to do GPU stuff and such of course), and that users can just download and run, as long as they have the corresponding thing, like JRE or Python, installed, without having to launch an IDE or use a command-line compiler or whatever. Basically something that Just Works™. I'm pretty sure C does not fulfil those criteria and Assembly definitely doesn't, both were commented here. This was not meant as "which programming languages do you like". In the best case something where I just say "install XY" (e.g. "Java") and it's intuitive to the user what to do, afterwards they can just download and run the one binary/whatever file.

So I guess the list so far is this one?
- Java
- Python
- C# probably
- Go

@beggarboy .net doesn't run on Linux. You can somewhat run most programs with Wine/Mono, but it's not just a matter of download+run.

I guess JavaScript also works similarly? For example I'm running a NodeJS program on my Raspberry Pi with Raspbian right now and I have also previously run it on Debian and even Android and the instructions say that it works for Windows as well. But I've also heard a lot about messy JS setups and other JS weirdnesses on DevRant and r/programmerhumor, so maybe that's not a good choice?

BTW, context: I'm looking for programming languages that are worth learning. If I don't even know what operating system I'll be programming for in the future, it's better to choose something that can run everywhere. I already know Java and have written a simple script in Google Sheets (uses a custom JavaScript variant), but I've not learned any Python or Go yet.

@TobiSGD Does the user just install a simple thing like the JRE for Java and then they can just run it? Or does it have to be explicitly compiled for every device?

@ddephor Sure, but Lists only give their Object ID or whatever, so I didn't expect Maps to do something else.

I just found the cause… No, my code didn't recognise the HashMap as Collection at all, because a HashMap is not a Collection. Instead, it directly called "System.out.print" on the entire map, which puts it into that format. This format looks very similar to the one I use for lists, that's why I thought it was split up by my code.

"1451 users have more than 0 favourites"

Oh… I just noticed that button… :D

This needs a non-ad-blocker: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...

62% of all created accounts are active? That sounds like very much, usually people create and account on a site and then forget about it at some point.

I like how the second line attracted so much attention, but the first didn't at all. I've heard that there are actually some crazy people out there you seriously write "int array[]" in real code, but they should get punched for that.

@iamavalos But that doesn't compile, right? Mine does. It absolutely horrible, cursed code, but it compiles (and returns 1).

@Root So you're saying I should overwrites part of the original image with a different shade of black to improve the transition?