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Cake day: June 23rd, 2026
  • Zarobi@aussie.zonetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•reason enough to fail the interviewEnglish
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    9 days ago

    All these job titles don’t really have a formal definition. Software engineer = programmer = software developer. Computer scientist sure does sound fancy though. There’s no committee that will say “actually you’re doing too much math to be a developer sorry.” We all do the code-y thing. Businesses seem to pick one at random based on seniority. I just call myself whatever my most recent job title was.

    Your industry will affect your specialisation and skills much more than anything else.

    - Software Engineer (Maths)

  • Zarobi@aussie.zonetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•English ↔ Claudish TranslatorEnglish
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    16 days ago

    That issue has amazing comments. Including someone who unironically calls themselves an autistic genius with a straight face and is desperately seeking attention.

    Tap for unrecognised genius

    What bothered me is that, not a single person here has tried it - commented on it - given it regard. Because they assume “AI was used” means - Non-technical, AI-psychosis - sycophantic - worthless - low-in-value etc.

    When my work gets disregarded when I know my stuff is top-notch - I can’t help but feel disrespected and incensed by the reasoning.

    Think of it like - you’re a genius. You spend a few hours solving a problem. You drop it into the laps of the people who need that solution badly - and then get told that because you delivered that solution by drone instead of in person - they won’t even engage with it.

    How does that make you feel? Especially when you did it all for free? Least I can get is real engagement. Could’ve just kept it to myself like I was planning to and said F everyone else.

    The feedback is “not” difficult to accept. What’s difficult is ingratitude. Bruh, go tear apart my repo and call me a fool. But telling me you don’t want to even engage because you don’t like AI-generated text is nonsensical.

    The difference between a genius and a crank is often very hard to discern. But usually, you can tell by the difference by which one concedes and scopes their claims and which one doesn’t.

    Name calling? Nice. “Grown an ego” - No, I just don’t like when people are wrong. Calling myself a genius is something new. I never did it before. Took me a long time to accept it was true. Calling myself that on a github comment section is totally extra. I can admit that. I probably have a chip on my shoulder. I can admit that too.

    See? I can admit my faults. I haven’t seen you or the other guy apologize or in anyway-shape-or-form acknowledge my arguments or give them any merit at all. So who really has the ego problem here?

    Botty boi.

  • Zarobi@aussie.zonetoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•GIMP is gearing up for a massive upgradeEnglish
    9·
    23 days ago

    I found a Stack Overflow thread where people discuss this and actually test it. Further down the page is a 2026 test. The results are it’s basically the same, very little practical difference in normal usage. If you’re auto saving a file every 30 seconds you will not notice any difference between XML and JSON.

    Personally, I like XML more for data files like this. I would not reach for JSON as my first thought for deserealizing a complex object hierarchy. Stuff like, a polygon can have a drawing of type vector which can have n paths which each have exactly 2 points… easy to store and validate in XML. Quite messy and complicated in JSON.

    <Drawing type="polygon">
  <Line color="#fed1aa">
    <Point x="6" y="7" />
    <Point x="69" y="420" />
  </Line>
</Drawing>
  • Zarobi@aussie.zonetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Why nano gets usedEnglish
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    30 days ago

    I only use terminal text editors anymore when I need to edit config files à la sudo nano. I just don’t trust visual text editors to do that stuff, I’ve been burned too many times in the past. Files “saving” but not actually saving. Files actually corrupting or changing ownership on save. Etc. Good old nano, doesn’t fuck with the critical system files any more than I already am.

  • Zarobi@aussie.zonetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.English
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    1 month ago

    This is a real thing though; it’s called keeping an open mind and trying to reduce bias. Most people don’t get it because they’re basically running an operating system of biases and stereotypes and groupthink.

    The hard part is resisting people putting you into boxes. Half my comments or posts on Lemmy, people try to force me into an extremist “take” or “position” so they can argue against me. But very often, there is no hard set belief here, I’m just stating my opinion. If I see information that convinces me otherwise, I’ll change it; but no amount of emotional arguments, name calling, or fallacies mean anything to me.

  • Zarobi@aussie.zonetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.English
    21·
    1 month ago

    Also from that Wikipedia article:

    Tap for quotes

    Official government announcements shortly after the event put the number who died at about 300.

    The Swiss Ambassador had estimated 2,700, following a visit to Beijing’s hospitals.

    Records from Beijing’s main eleven hospitals, compiled shortly after the events, recorded at least 478 dead and 920 wounded, though Timothy Brook notes that these figures are an undercount due to lack of information from other hospitals.

    Jonathan Fenby puts the death toll at over 700 in his book

    British Ambassador Alan Donald initially claimed, based on information from a “good friend” in the State Council of China, that a minimum of 10,000 civilians died […] Donald later revised his estimate to 2,700–3,400 deaths

    While public discussions about the events have become socially taboo, private discussions about them continue to occur despite frequent interference and harassment by the authorities. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remained in China in order to speak out about Tiananmen in the 1990s despite the fact that he received offers of asylum; he faced constant surveillance. Zhang Xianling and Ding Zilin, the mothers of victims who died in 1989, founded the Tiananmen Mothers organisation and were particularly outspoken about the humanitarian aspects of the protests. The authorities mobilize security forces, including members of the People’s Armed Police, every year on 4 June in order to prevent public displays of remembrance, with an especially heavy security presence on the anniversaries of major events such as the 20th anniversary of the protests in 2009 and the 25th anniversary of the protests in 2014. On the 30th anniversary of the protests in 2019, the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wrote that “autocratic and totalitarian regimes fear facts because they have built their power on unjust foundations” and he also wrote that memory is important: “without it there is no such thing as a civilised society or nation” because “our past is all we have.”

    Journalists have frequently been denied entry to the square on the anniversaries of the massacre. Also, the authorities are known to have detained foreign journalists and increase surveillance of prominent human rights activists during this time of year. Internet searches on “4 June Tiananmen Square” made within China return censored results or result in temporarily severed server connections. Specific web pages with select keywords are censored while other websites, such as those which support the overseas Chinese democracy movement, are blocked wholesale.

    The actual numbers of deaths seems to be heavily disputed. In a country where the government heavily censors even discussion of the event and redacts all mention of it online, I’m hesitant to take the “official” numbers at face value. The truth is we’ll never know the true death count, we only have unreliable information; but I wouldn’t be surprised if the event was as bad, or worse, than what we know.