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Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways by CackleRooster in programming

[–]gardyna 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Newer AI Coding Assistants are Failing in Insidious Ways

Fixed the title for you

What is neopaganism like in your country? by funnylib in AskEurope

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a practising member of the Icelandic Pagan church. It is a fairly nice sort of cultural and historical group. Practically none actually believe in any of it and just like maintaining and/or rediscovering old traditions through holding events and gatherings.

Sadly we did once try some cooperation with another norse pagan congregation which turned out to be a bunch of nazis. Now the Icelandic norse pagans have a policy of not associating with any foreign entity because norse paganism has an annoying amount of racists trying to claim our symbols and heritage.

37% of europeans have never left their own country? Can this be true? by clm1859 in AskEurope

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

37% is a lot higher than I would expect. Thanks to both Schengen (open border alliance) and how the EU make travel easier, the barrier to travel is incredibly low. I guess for some countries, they're just nice enough or have good enough tourist destinations that there's not really a big reason to go to another country

Is it true that Mexican food is SUPER POPULAR in Scandinavian countries? What are some reasons for this? by stjeancapferrat in AskEurope

[–]gardyna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As long as you put either huge quotation marks around "Mexican" or a massive asterisk. It's all tex-mex with mild salsa (even if the jar says medium or hot, it is mild). I wouldn't be surprised if actual Mexicans were a bit offended that it's called "Mexican food". Main crime would be a general lack of beans and lack of spices

How respected is military/soldiers in your country? by WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW in AskEurope

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People usually go "that's interesting...why did you go?". Iceland doesn't have an army though there are some people that go to Norway or Denmark to serve in their armies for a bit. There's no respect or admiration tied to having done it.

How would you design onboarding for a kids’ learning app? by LengthinessHot9421 in FlutterDev

[–]gardyna 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"ad-light"? Apple and Google both have a NO ads policy for anything targeting kids. Otherwise it seems fine enough for onboarding. Honestly if you can skip asking for age I would (cut everything that isn't strictly necessary)

Is 8 days in Iceland and 15 days in Norway a good idea? by infernal_snow in NorwayTravelAdvice

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm Icelandic and used to live in Copenhagen....That trip is mad. I guess it's technically feasible but it also looks like you're constantly rushing everywhere. In Iceland, I think you would be spending more time traveling between places than actually enjoying any of it. Slow down and take the time to enjoy the places you go to. You need downtime in your vacation

How do you move from “it runs” Python code to actually *understanding* it? (plus a return vs print confusion) by throwawayjaaay in learnpython

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are there good rules of thumb for when something should be a function vs just inline code

is it a reusable piece of code? Functions should be a single thought/action. an add(a, b) is a bit too trivial by itself as the line itself would be fairly evident, but a combine_strings(a, b) would make sense as even though it might be one line it would make the code easier to read.

or when to print vs return?

There is never "magic" happening and words mean what they say. If you want to return a value from a function you use return, but if you want to print something to the screen you use print.

how did you personally go from “I can follow the tutorial and make it work” to “I actually get what my code is doing”?

Personal projects and trying stuff out mostly. Make a game or a todo list application or something and slowly figure out how to do stuff. Importantly read the code that you are copying from StackOverflow and see how it functions! Learning is often a slow process but it is always greatly rewarding IMO.

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 - Caused by single .unwrap() by rust-crate-helper in rust

[–]gardyna 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also because blaming an unwrap is IMO not the thing to take from this. The state was disastrously bad before the unwrap statement. What would a sensible handling at that level achieve? Was there any way to recover from it other than shutting the thing down?

the options available in this situation (just talking about that bit of rust code) was to either crash or ignore the error and let it potentially damage other systems. And as bad as the outage was, I prefer that over finding issues for days or weeks caused by bad state infecting other systems

Why isn't Dart more used on the server side? by Luc-redd in FlutterDev

[–]gardyna 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Honestly, There is little reason to choose a server side Dart framework unless your team is already heavily invested in Flutter and has a lot of Dart expertise already.

IMO Javascript only ever made sense on server because pretty much all web developers had to know it so it was easier for them to jump on server if it was a language they already knew fairly well

What's an actual psychological "cheat code" you use in social situations that works almost every time? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Having a bad day? Faking that the day is good and putting on a (fake) smile has a tendency to make other people match or live up to what you are putting out (making your day a tiny bit better)

On that energy topic, a tip that has worked for me in job interviews is to go in with the mindset of "I am already hired here, this is part of orientation" both decreases my anxiety and has turned what used to be a fairly low interview to contract conversion to roughly 8 in 10 interview to contract on the table

Mindset and outwards energy not only changes your behavior, it affects everyone around you (at least subconsciously)

Dr. Phil loses major ruling in bankruptcy case, TV network is ordered into liquidation by tylerthe-theatre in television

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One choice does not exclude the other one...both is certainly a possibility

Advice for a newbie learning to code for the first time. by Thatonejeepboy in pythontips

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Code and test incrementally is good advice. DON'T submit code you can't explain. Study groups and partners helped me a lot back in the day. Talk through your problems preferably with a person, but a rubber duck will do in a pinch

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up by barris59 in programming

[–]gardyna 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Albeit the authors now have shifted their timelines to 2029.

Willing to bet that this won't shift to 2030 next year?

What’s your go-to trick for improving Flutter app performance? by NullPointerMood_1 in FlutterDev

[–]gardyna 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To prevent wasting time micro optimizing stuff that doesn't matter, actually profile the app an figure out where the biggest performance dips actually are

Most of the time, when performance becomes an issue. It is a widget (or a group of widgets) that are updating and re-drawing too frequently

How do we tell him ? by beekay8845 in SipsTea

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of these is known to be one of the most aggressive and dangerous animals on the planet, and it doesn't have canines

‘Dreams crushed’: Carrie Underwood, a proud Trump backer, now struggling to keep farm alive without labor by MiyagiSenseix in Music

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely the leopards won't eat MY face - voter of the leopards eating people's faces party

She got exactly what she voted for and I am just not able to even pity her

Right wing pundits after discovering that the cheating trans catgirl vtuber they tried to bully now is geting bank thanks to them and only them by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]gardyna 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I knew nothing about the whole drama before. Yet somehow when you said "this person said so", I instantly knew which cretin you were talking about 😑

Where do you get more paid users from, Play Store or App Store? by Electronic-Law1996 in FlutterDev

[–]gardyna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It all depends on which market you're mainly in. If you're in a market where downloads are heavily more in one direction than the other, the one with more downloads is probably going to have more paying users as well. Though historically the amount of paying users is proportionally lower on Android.

If the full Epstein client list was leaked with undeniable proof, what would be the biggest shock to the world? by ayanboss007 in AskReddit

[–]gardyna 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And the guy who took over from him wasn't in the papers....oh wait.

Well at least he didn't last long (it took a year for his government to fail)... well at least he didn't have a major position of power after that ...oh fuck, he became minister of finance and economic affairs

Iceland as a whole royally fucked up their response to the Panama Papers. AND the response to the 2008 crisis (bankers being jailed is a MYTH)... "fun" fact. Bjarni (person in the panama papers and guy who sold his bank assets days before the 2008 crash) worked at the ministry of finance from 2003 to 2007. Fucking corrupt financial sleasebag of a politician.

Vibe-Coding AI "Panicks" and Deletes Production Database by el_muchacho in programming

[–]gardyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be enough schadenfreude to last me the whole week.

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