4mo ago

Ahh... hearing programmer audiobooks before sleep feels relaxing

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Forgot "Pasting it into a Word document".
- I would never paste code into a Word document. I use Notepad++ for that.
- I've had more than one person I work with take screenshots of their desktop, paste them into a word document, then attach the word document to an email to get me to help them with their problem. This has the same energy.
  
  Used to work in a place where, to get credentials, a used would need to simple send an email from their mail servers and would be enough... One of them would write a fancy Please add used x letter, print it, have the Head of Whatever sign it, scan it onto non-OCR pdf, then mail it... joy.
  
  I’ve always wished Markdown was better supported in email. I work with external companies’ APIs a lot where email is the medium, and typically I use a Windows monospace font for code snippets (I’m on macOS but there are a handful of monospaced fonts that work on both).
  It’s very clunky, and I wish the backtick notation would work out of the box. Whoever decided HTML in email was the way to go should be shot.
- Honest to god, I've seen people from the past trying to write html for a website on Word.
  
  True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.
  After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)
  The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.
  I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.
  
  Did they not know that word can generate very convoluted HTML for them?
  
  I started learning HTML at the age of 10 using FrontPage and Word. There were entire utilities dedicated to stripping out Word’s atrocious HTML at the time.
- Pfff
  I code in PowerPoint

Start a religion where the clergy maintain both written and oral versions of your code as a sacred text.
- Schisms are just feature branches, it all makes sense!
- Hello world, hallelujah, hallelujah
- Now I'm wondering, surely someone has already made a language that's designed to read like scripture?
- When did code reviews become this weird?

Have a proper radio ham license. Buy a 40-meter transceiver and a software defined radio dongle. Convert your code into esoteric programming languages such as Whitespace and Brainf, then spell it. "Plus, plus, next, plus, dot, open bracket, next, ...". Transmit your spelling over 40-meter band, while a receiver across the continent is tuned to the frequency. Ask it to repeat and record the QSO. Set the SDR recorder to I/Q packets instead of demodulating AM. Publish it as an audiobook.
- Or pirate radio it and make people think it's a new number station. Then someone will surely put it on YouTube so you can listen to it there.
- Or go full CW, and just transmit source code in binary as dits and dahs. (So long as you document what you're doing it should be legal, though I'm not sure if you should use the CE portion of he band since it's nonstandard...)

Train an LLM on your code and share the model.
- If you publish it on github, that's already taken care of for you!

Oh hey, it's the Minecraft guy
- You mean Jack Black? Yeah, he is a notch above the rest.
- Oh hey, it’s the ~~Minecraft~~ racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic guy
  
  Oh, really? That's disappointing to hear; I had no idea he was like that.
- What's the favorite location of Notch? Cuba.
  /dadjoke off

A classmate I was doing a project with saved his code as screenshots in a word document.

Dreaming of your code when sleeping.
- I don't know if it's true or just joke, but some of my friends when we are still in uni tell me that they are dreaming code
  What they saw in their dream is everything like matrix movie & every object has its own class/deps printed on it, daaaang.... that's interesting, i wish i could dream like that too but with terminal/konsole access so i can debugging my dream
  
  It's not a joke. I had similar dreams when I was learning object oriented programming. When you really understand OOP, you see just how accurately it represents the structure of things. It's pretty brilliant.

I'd be in favour of that with anything written in Rockstar.

lol, when I first started playing around with programming around grade 6 or 7, I'd print out code to read it
- You were far ahead of professors that make you write it out with pen and paper
- I did that for work. Could have my phone but we could read so I just printed out c or python and tried to make sense of what I was reading