The platform is definitely part of the problem. Bending over backwards to serve the desires of the Trump administration and the executive class

They said they’re new to Lemmy, so they’re probably used to redditors, and anyone still on that platform is very much not okay

I worked with a physicist who wrote code that was so unreadable, it actually made me laugh. He would often include his initials in variable names, even though he was pretty much the only person working in the code base. His functions usually included a flags argument, which was a list of (usually undocumented) integers that you could pass in to change the behavior of the function. For example, one time one of his functions wasn’t giving the expected output, so I asked him and he replied “oh did you put 32 in the flags list?” Like he just didn’t understand that you shouldn’t need to read the entire contents of a function in order to understand how to use it.

Inb4 “well why didn’t you help him?” he was in his 70s and vehemently refused any advice.

Lemmy mods are the best. reddit mods would’ve deleted this immediately

I miss when the Instagram homepage showed all your friends’ new posts before it showed recommended stuff. Now it’s all interwoven

Because Christianity. That’s really it

Except for some extreme forms of Mormonism of course

The Bay Area is probably the only thing keeping that company alive. Every stoplight you pull up to there has at least a couple Teslas

Wait why are distros removing HEVC?