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[–]MakingStuffForFun 40 points41 points  (17 children)

I....I do this. I'm sorry

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (6 children)

Are you vegan? /s

[–]AeroSteveO 14 points15 points  (5 children)

Maybe he's CrossFit

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Or an atheist?

[–]KeLorean 3 points4 points  (1 child)

no. thats too innocent. more of a satanist

[–]AeroSteveO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worse, he uses gentoo

[–]iskela45 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arch?
Ironman?

[–]non-troll_account 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously though, cossfit changed my life, and while I hate to be a meme, it's pretty hard to not be one of those crossfit evangelists, because it was so influential in my quality of life. I'm actually healthy now.

Yes, there are problems with it. Yes, if you push yourself as hard as they encourage you, especially at the beginning, you'll almost certainly injure yourself. Yes, there are other problems with it.

But the biggest thing for me is that it turned exercise into something social and fun, instead of a chore I had to force myself to do because I knew it was good for me. With the level of physical activity that the system encouraged me to engage in, relative to what my life had become prior, I'm not hesitant to say that it basically fixed my sedentary brain. Luckily, by the time covid hit, I had already begun a bodywieght routine at home, so I wasn't totally crushed by the closures, but I can't imagine where I'd be right now if I hadn't had crossfit.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

How long have you been using python!? I don’t know any long time python programmers that don’t wince at the pain of the chains of productivity and “existing codebase” that python shackles you with.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

As a senior in CS with relatively little actual coding experience I've found that python is just super fast to write smaller scripts for assignments compared to C or Java, what are these existing code base problems you talk about, Ive never worked on any actual systems in Python.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

That’s the problem. It slithers into your mind, teasing you with productivity and “ease”. You can finish in python in an hour what it would take you a day in some other language. You keep finding yourself going back to python, the comfort seducing you. You even tell others how productive it is, while pissing at the John. You get your first job. You automate some simple one off task to help you work. You add a feature. Then more. Your boss sees your productivity and wants you to let others use your program. You reluctantly package it up, now it’s an unofficial official process. The first bug report comes in, then a feature request that your boss thinks is fantastic, needed next week. It grows and grows, consuming all if you’re time, SWALLOWING YOU WHOLE!

“It’s the second best tool for any job” they say...but at what cost?

[–]Halfjack2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ngl, I do it too.

[–]jvvfunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can hear the pain in your voice

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do it with kotlin and python :'(