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  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•To people who choose not to swear (for non-religious reasons), what is your motivation to be that way ?Deutsch
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    2 days ago

    I had a phase as a teen when I was constantly swearing. My parents told me that, it can’t be that bad and it’s really annoying.

    And it’s mostly an impulse reaction and we’re kind of above that.

    It doesn’t mean that you can’t express pain or anger. You’re just not insulting people’s ears if you scream “Aaaaah” when you bang your toe against a table leg or something. And your environment really doesn’t deserve it. Most people are somewhat compassionate and you’re just swearing while they try to help… that’s not a pleasant environment for them to be in. It makes it harder to help you.

    No to both questions. I just made a change and that was it. And it has never stopped me from expressing anything.

    If anything, it lends more weight to the regular words.

    A _______ criminal? Or a criminal?

    You can still put the same emotion into the words, they’re just not swear words. :)

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•AI's take on XMLDeutsch
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    8 days ago

    I’m not sure now that I think about it, but I find this more explicit and somehow more free than json. Which can’t be true, since you can just

    {"anything you want":{...}}

    But still, this:

    <my_custom_tag>
<this> 
<that>
<roflmao>
...

    is all valid.

    You can more closely approximate the logical structure of whatever you’re doing without leaving the internal logic of the… syntax?

    <car>
<tyre> air, <valve>closed</valve>  </tyre>
<tyre> air, <valve>closed</valve>  </tyre>
<tyre>      <valve>open</valve>  </tyre>
<tyre> air, <valve>closed</valve>  </tyre>
</car>

    Maybe I just like the idea of a closing tag being very specific about what it is that is being closed (?). I guess I’m really not sure, but it does feel nicer to my brain to have starting and closing tags and distinguishing between what is structure, what is data, what is inside where.

    My peeve with json is that… it doesn’t properly distinguish between strings that happen to be a number and “numbers” resulting in:

    myinput = {"1":"Hello",1:"Hello"}
tempjson = json.dumps(myinput)
output = json.loads(tempjson)
print(output)
>>>{'1': 'Hello'}

    in python.

    I actually don’t like the attributes in xml, I think it would be better if it was mandatory that they were also just more tagged elements inside the others, and that the “validity” of a piece of xml being a certain object would depend entirely on parsing correctly or not.

    I particularly hate the idea of attributes in svg, and even more particularly the way they defined paths.

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Paths#curve_commands

    It works, but I consider that truly ugly. And also I don’t understand because it would have been trivial to do something like this:

    <path><element>data</element><element>data</element></path>
  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•AI's take on XMLDeutsch
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    9 days ago

    It is very cool, specifically as a human readable mark down / data format.

    The fact that you can make anything a tag and it’s going to be valid and you can nest stuff, is amazing.

    But with a niche use case.

    Clearly the tags waste space if you’re actually saving them all the time.

    Good format to compress though…

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"English
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    19 days ago

    At the cost of sounding naive and stupid

    It may be a naive question, but it’s a very important naive question. Naive doesn’t mean bad.

    The answer is that that is not possible, because the compiler is supposed to translate the very specific language of C into mostly very specific machine instructions. The programmers who wrote the code, did so because they usually expect a very specific behavior. So, that would be broken.

    But also, the “unsafety” is in the behavior of the system and built into the language and the compiler.

    It’s a bit of a flawed comparison, but you can’t build a house on a foundation of wooden poles, because of the advantages that wood offers, and then complain that they are flammable. You can build it in steel, but you have to replace all of the poles. Just the poles on the left side won’t do.

    And you can’t automatically detect the unsafe parts and just patch those either. If we could, we could just fix them directly or we could automatically transpile them. Darpa is trying that at the moment.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulationEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Sure. Yes. I’m aware.

    The point is, if an employee isn’t productive, the company should notice, because they should be running some kind of oversight over the work either being done or not being done.

    If the work is being done, even if the employee isn’t always 100% focused, the company shouldn’t care.

    If the work is not being done, the company should care, regardless of how active the mouse moves.

    using mouse jigglers to fake being at work is the kind of thing that keeps more companies from allowing WFH.

    No, companies don’t allow WFH because they don’t trust employees or can’t verify, employees doing their work from home. Most of the time, because the company people don’t understand that work and couldn’t judge if it’s being done correctly without adults in the room.

    tldr: people should be hired and fired based on their performance. Crazy talk, I know.