Oh wow.

At first I was like "you guys really need to chill, I don't even see much shitpost in here and one shitpost here and there doesn't hurt, no need to be this aggressive just have some fun", until I read all the comments and saw the JaSe story. That's messed up.

As I say when people ask me what's my favourite programming language, "Nowadays I only code in C and Python. C when I want it to run fast and can afford to code it slowly, and Python for the opposite."

Oh I'm 100% stealing the char mander one. Also probably the bool sheet one.

@ddephor actually, yes. Not the whole "send new locks to everyone" thing, but people changing their locks because their neighbors or friends were actually lockpicked is a thing I've heard pretty often. And also, as you mentioned, the fact that it's much more spread in the IT world is partly due to the fact that it's easier to do it on a computer because 1. People don't know how to secure their stuff, most users don't even know how exactly does a computer work, 2. It's easier to do it remotely and also to automate and reproduce the attack on multiple machines at once, while unless you have an army of robots you can't pick several door locks at once, and 3. The whole "hacker who steals your credit card info" myth is still scary to people who are not really into computers, just like thiefs were when locks were invented.

@bols59 that's a piece of advice I can get behind, thank you!

B-but I like to search for vulnerabilities, it's fun...

For real though, as @JoshBent said, Intel really cared more about having more models on the market instead of actually researching proper architecture designs like AMD because before the Zen line, AMD was almost out of the picture and Intel had an almost total monopoly on desktop and server CPUs. That's a huge part in why monopolies suck.

@CptFox I see, thank you very much for your insight!

@FrodoSwaggins I get your point entirely, but for me I just tend to not care and do my thing on my own in a language I like using just as a personal challenge. I don't play for the points, so perhaps I'm not really playing "competitively", but it's much more satisfying than trying to compete with golf languages.

The Code Golf StackExchange is my favourite for this kind of stuff. Be prepared for all the Jelly nerds and their nonsensical language though.

I'm 22 and I've been coding for technically 12 years, but most of them were basic games in Scratch. It gave me a grasp of algorithms and logic, and I really started coding more on my calculator in Basic when I was 15 or something. I was that kid that would do all sorts of programs to make everyone do their calculations easier and legally cheat on their exams 😊

Thank you @CoffeeNcode @norman70688 @netikras @CptFox for your answers, but the thing is they tend to say "you can't avoid them" and don't really answer my question imo, it's more like "how can I at least not hate them"? How do you guys cope with the feeling that it's all up to you in the end? Don't you feel pressure? Or do you feel it and go "yeah, ok, fine"? Those are my main struggles.

@bigOHNOtation working on an emulator is one of the projects I'd love to have if I had more free time, but I sure am interested in it! Do you have a GitHub page for it?

If you're looking for background music, then as people pointed out why use YouTube in the first place, and how are AMVs a problem since you don't watch the video and just listen to the music anyway? I don't get it

Relevant xkcd?

I never knew I needed this in my life but now I do, this looks simple and awesome wtf

@acz0903 seconding the cron idea, it's what I would've recommended too. Surprised no one said it before you tbh.

@bigOHNOtation oh, you asked the right person. I have plenty! For instance, you probably have heard that Mew, the 151th Pokémon, was a hidden Pokémon that doesn't normally appear in Pokémon Red/Blue? While he is mentioned in the lore as the origin Pokémon Mewtwo was cloned from, he was supposed to only be mentioned, and kept as a myth. The reason for his presence in the game is that when the development of the games were over, when the devs removed the debugging tools, they freed 300 bytes from the cartridge who was entirely full before. They decided to secretly put Mew in as a secret only known from Game Freak.

However, due to some glitches, some users made Mew appear, and rumors started to spread. Nintendo, instead of trying to shut them down, decided to launch en entire event around Mew, with distributions where people could get their own Mew in-game. That's what, one year and a half after their release, made Pokémon reach the n°1 spot in weekly video game sales in Japan.

@niush wait, ads consume *this much* data? Holy crap...

Ducks are the perfect debugging buddies as well! 😊

@odite it was actually an outside observer who made a sociological study on this, a few years ago. I'll see if I can find it again, because I feel it could be useful to a lot of people.

@odite you'd be surprised at how much more often it happens to women than men, and the number of men who don't even realize it until they are pointed out specifically for this is huge. I can't find the studies right now but I'll make sure to link them to you if I have time!

Fixing stuff with a saw, a hairpin and some glue.

Also making food.

@odite interrupting women when they're talking, reformulating everything they suggest, straight up not listening to them, making inappropriate comments in the workplace (not to mention harassment, cause it happens), blocking their access to higher positions with a glass ceiling, etc.

Though to be fair, I don't know how it's like in the US as I don't live there, so...

@odite the issues need to be addressed. I agree that this talk might not have been the most efficient way (though I haven't seen it myself), but all I can see in the comments, minus a few exceptions, are people completely negating the issues by complaining about how said issues are addressed to them.

@Fast-Nop it's exactly what I'm saying: they have the choice to get the fuck away from somewhere they don't feel welcome in.

I also don't get your point on homelessness and prison, you think women cannot be homeless? What kind of world are you living in?

"IT'S SHIT, IT'S SOOOOOOO GIGANTICALLY SHIT"
"fuck qt ffs"
"why the FUCK does this goddamn lib not support https", followed by "you know what fuck this php nonsense anyway i'm redoing everything in python i'm done"

Also reminds me of @gitlost on Twitter, posting swears found in commit messages on GitHub 😊

@12bitfloat there are less women in tech because they are being driven away by sexism and the inherent self-righteousness often met within their male peers. A common example is that in the country I live in, in computer science universities, you don't see more than 10% of women among the students, and they're *constantly* receiving remarks like "good thing you girls are here to *calm the boys*!" (It's a genuine thing I've heard a fucking TEACHER say.)

So of course you could say it's because they have more choice, but it's more that *they have the choice of getting the fuck out of somewhere they're being alienated, mansplained and seen as sex objects*. Which, tbh, I'd do as well if I didn't love computer nerd stuff so much.

Probably Miracle from Caravan Palace. I like bouncy songs as they make me feel like dancing every time I finish a feature 😊