My ex-wife was a word snob. I wish I’d seen this when I was married to her.

Interviewer: Tell me an interesting debugging story

Interviewee: …

MUMPS has entered the chat.

The slow roll toward Civil War continues.

With multiple cursors, we can see more of the dungeon, uh, I mean code.

There are other version control systems out there, and have been for decades. So yes, I would consider git to be modern.

If you have multiple similar lines, you can perform the same editing on them all at once.

laughs in IntelliJ multi cursor mode

TIHI

Kernighan, what was I thinking?

And the super bright disco LED flashers that all the emergency (etc) vehicles have now. I’ve gotten migraines from them. What was wrong with the old lights that didn’t stab your brain through your eye sockets?

Thanks!

Titan tier. I press it every time a program tells me to.

Ooooo! Got any examples?

Me too. But the other day, a junior developer and I were looking at some fairly old code, and I recognized the writing style in the comment as mine. We ran p4 annotate and, sure enough, I was the baddie.

🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant! Have some Lemmy gold: 💰💰💰💰💰

Only if you name it ErrorClassifierGPT

Good. Gun violence is a public health crisis. I’m glad someone is finally treating it as such.

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wipes eyes

Phew! Thanks! I needed a good laugh this morning!

Good. I hope he cooperates fully. If he did anything wrong, let him face consequences! Because you know what? Even though I think he’s doing a good job as President, I also think that he’s just, you know, a man.