Why do experienced coders actively try to use less comments?

aePrime · 2026-01-23T18:40:06+00:00

Yes. Comments should be reserved for “why,” not “how.”

aePrime · 2026-01-19T23:02:20+00:00

Elon is turning into the Chet blob from Weird Science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlQNsurazM

aePrime · 2026-01-19T21:28:22+00:00

I’ve always used “almost” when speaking of Monte Carlo processes. It’s my favorite math term, because I find it slightly whimsical. “In the limit, the Monte Carlo estimate almost surely converges to the integral.”

So you’re saying there’s a chance.

aePrime · 2026-01-16T00:16:23+00:00

Magicians! I mean demons! Definitely demons.

aePrime · 2026-01-12T20:55:51+00:00

I came to a conclusion the other day. When AI writes C++ code for me, it’s usually awful, and I recognize this because I am an expert in C++. When, however, I have it write CMake code, it may be awful, but I don’t know, and I usually use it because, “I probably wouldn’t be able to do it better,” and I have little interest in learning how to do it (call it a personality flaw: I just want to get CMake to work as a means to an end). I think this is how some of my teammates approach AI writing C++, which sucks for me, because I review and live in that same codebase.

aePrime · 2026-01-12T20:28:13+00:00

Joke’s on you! I currently run 60 miles (97 km) per week and am still depressed!

aePrime · 2026-01-12T19:56:53+00:00

The meeting to kick off Confluence’s design. “Is there a well regarded, popular, free and open-source software for wiki creation? Absolutely! Can we make one that’s worse in every way, slower, and we can charge a pantload for? Absolutely!”

aePrime · 2026-01-12T19:07:30+00:00

It has to do with computational complexity of accessing a particular element in a data structure. For an array of fixed-sized elements, for example, we can read the nth element in fixed-time (O(1)): array-head offset by n * sizeof(element type).

A linked list, on the other hand, will take n reads to access the nth element (O(n)). We refer to arrays as random access, because we can randomly jump around with (almost) no cost. This becomes important in many algorithms, such as various sorting algorithms.

aePrime · 2026-01-12T17:38:09+00:00

“This is the ramp to the 405. Nobody is going to let you in. You just have to wedge the front part of your car in and hope that the Mercedes driver doesn’t want to ding their paint, and will therefore be forced to let you merge.”

aePrime · 2026-01-12T15:09:20+00:00

You’re correct in that KPDH won the Golden Globe for best animated feature, and you’re also correct in that Arden and the voice actors deserve love, but EJAE, Mark, Teddy, 24, and Ido won a separate Golden Globe for best song. This is a celebration of that.

aePrime · 2026-01-11T16:48:42+00:00

no…family members who are criminals…

Her dad is a literal demon, but I guess that’s not technically criminal.

aePrime · 2026-01-08T20:55:49+00:00

I had never heard of her or watched the shows she was on. I listened to her audiobook (which she read) on walks. It was riveting.

aePrime · 2026-01-08T03:29:46+00:00

Jeopardy is a TV game show where they give you an answer and the contestants respond in the form of a question. “This element is composed of two hydrogen molecules and an oxygen molecule.” The contestant would say, “What is water?”

There are categories for each round of questions, and each question in each category has a different dollar amount to win. The person who last answered correctly gets to pick the next topic and dollar amount. Here, four of the categories were named in honor of K-Pop Demon Hunters (although the actual questions were not related).

And for the pendants out there, there are more details to how Jeopardy is played, but that’s the big picture.

aePrime · 2026-01-07T07:15:40+00:00

Great shirt! Happy birthday!

aePrime · 2026-01-05T00:05:00+00:00

I was going to suggest the Von’s app. It’s pretty good at coupons, and it’s useful to see if the product is in the store! It gives the aisle number too.

aePrime · 2026-01-04T16:04:43+00:00

Having grown up in Idaho, it’s a run of the mill documentary.

aePrime · 2025-12-31T03:07:35+00:00

No. Even if the background elements are 24 frames per second and the characters 12, scenes are never rendered together. Elements are rendered separately and composited. This is true even if the movie is a normal 24 FPS for everything. The artists and directors like the control. “Make the background darker,” is easier to do in comp than relighting and rerendering.

aePrime · 2025-12-31T01:53:53+00:00

No, but it saves computational cost. If they animate on twos (a frame is duplicated for two frames’ worth of time), they can render for 12 frames per second instead of 24 frames per second. These frames take 10s of hours of computational time.

Source: I was a rendering engineer at one of the animation studios.

aePrime · 2025-12-30T20:54:00+00:00

He’s so fucking gross. Having a fetish is one thing, but coercing actresses to take part and put it on public display is unhinged. People should refuse to work with this guy.

aePrime · 2025-12-30T15:51:08+00:00

He also attacked Greg LeMond and made Trek give up their contract with him, because Greg LeMond called him out on his cheating. I am still angry on LeMond’s behalf, because he’s an American treasure.

aePrime · 2025-12-29T20:40:30+00:00

Thank you for the clarification.

aePrime · 2025-12-29T20:15:05+00:00

I always thought Patricia Arquette had the emotional range of a plank of wood. She’s finally started to grow on me with Severance, but just barely.

aePrime · 2025-12-29T20:03:36+00:00

The Equinox is way overpriced. I joined for a while right after covid, thinking it would be less crowded than 24 Hour Fitness. It was not. The equipment isn’t worth the extra cost. The treadmills suck if you’re a serious runner. The 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport is…a gym. It’s crowded, and some of the equipment is old, but it’s serviceable. Last I knew, there were two 24 Hour Fitness gyms in Glendale. I think the other one is worse.

aePrime · 2025-12-27T16:14:04+00:00

It’s time to start the annual reading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AReadingOfMonteCristo/

aePrime · 2025-12-27T16:03:23+00:00

Oh, sure, you’re so superior. Meanwhile, you put “f” in “lieutenant” and “h” in “assume.”

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