stinkbutt (u/stinkbutt)

stinkbutt commented on What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? blog.luden.io/what-do-i-t... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev

shermantanktop · 5 months ago

Same, though my trauma was Ruby. Those Rubyists who were apparently born with the language spec in their heads can do amazing things, but I am a mere mortal who needs to be told I wrote bad code right when I wrote it, not told at 2am on a production server.

stinkbutt · 5 months ago

do you not test your code?

stinkbutt commented on Four Years of Jai (2024) smarimccarthy.is/posts/20... · Posted by u/xixixao

tialaramex · 5 months ago

Having a lot of eyes on it is only a problem if you either have a self-esteem problem and so the inevitable criticism will blow you up or, you've got an ego problem and so the inevitable criticism will hurt your poor fragile ego. I think we can be sure which of these will be a problem for Jonathan "Why didn't people pay $$$ for a remaster of my old game which no longer stands out as interesting?" Blow.

stinkbutt · 5 months ago

yep and JBlow is a massive gatekeeper who discourages people from learning programming if he doesn't believe they can program the way he thinks a programmer should. He is absolutely running from any criticism that will hurt his enormous yet incredibly fragile ego.

stinkbutt commented on JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate barrons.com/articles/jpmo... · Posted by u/yesthis

nielsbot · 8 months ago

Can you explain this? I don't understand the point you're making.

stinkbutt · 8 months ago

WFH debuffs/nerfs an extrovert's primary weapon attribute (soft skills). this gives an implicit visibility bonus to introverts.

stinkbutt commented on JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate barrons.com/articles/jpmo... · Posted by u/yesthis

stinkbutt · 8 months ago

extroverts are not going to win this war

stinkbutt commented on Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022) eugeneyan.com/writing/sim... · Posted by u/7d7n

oytis · a year ago

I don't say it is necessarily a good metric for promotions, but solving complex problems is not the same as finding complex solutions

stinkbutt · a year ago

finding complex solutions to complex problems is easy. finding simple solutions is whats hard.

stinkbutt commented on How have you found purpose in your life? · Posted by u/nativespecies

hammock · 2 years ago

Getting married and having kids. Even if you adopt. Some have said a marriage without children is self serving, which may be fine for many, but is counter to your aim of a purpose greater than you

stinkbutt · 2 years ago

telling someone the path to happiness is through marriage and kids is probably the dumbest advice imaginable. its basically a coin flip on whether or not it ruins your life and the data supports this.

stinkbutt commented on Odin Programming Language odin-lang.org/... · Posted by u/tuananh

alphazard · 2 years ago

I think Odin is the best language in this niche so far. And although I prefer it slightly to Zig, I expect Zig to eat Odin's lunch.

Odin seems to have procrastinated the important things that cause a language to really take off, in favor more trivial features. At this point I think Odin has crossed into the territory of being wrong in the direction of too many features rather than too few. While having not delivered important tools that would cause the language to accrete an ecosystem.

A must-have for wide adoption is a package/dependency manager. As I've said before: Just clone what Go has. Just take it, you need it to be popular, and you probably aren't going to do better. `import "github.com/whatever"`.

I believe Zig has already started on a package manager, while the sentiment in the Odin community is that the unnecessary concept of "collections" somehow solves the dependency problem.

stinkbutt · 2 years ago

what's the niche? the authors described it as general-purpose

stinkbutt commented on Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators resobscura.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/benbreen

staticman2 · 2 years ago

If I wanted to know what an atom is I wouldn't sign up for a college course.

But if I did sign up for a college course i would expect a more systematic presentation of the material than "whatever random thing I thought to ask an AI."

Not to mention just the other day I asked Chatgpt 4 accounting questions and it gave the wrong answer, and only interrogating it prompted it to correct itself.

stinkbutt · 2 years ago

you seem to think "gpt4 is the best learning tool" means "gpt4 is the only tool that should be used in education". i literally said in my original reply that it should be used with other learning tools. your example is the perfect use case. the course is a great tool for providing an outline of what to learn. if i follow that outline with gpt4 im going to learn the concepts much faster than i would with a book, and since i'm learning them faster i will have more time (and motivation) to learn more concepts.