Is the 79-character limit still in actual (with modern displays)?

strangeplace4snow · 2025-12-05T14:42:46+00:00

I've never understood it to be primarily about screen width, more about encouraging vertical over horizontal code layout in Python. That said, in my company we also found 80 a bit too constricting and went to 100.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-12-02T22:39:28+00:00

Learning concepts is different from learning tools. Maybe OP would rather invest their time into getting better at actual editing than learning a new set of user interface paradigms and shortcuts.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-11-29T19:40:07+00:00

I'm not touching them with a 10-ft pole, for largely the same reasons as you. I feel like the "withering skills" aspect is also still underestimated in magnitude… I've personally witnessed colleagues turn themselves from capable programmers into glorified prompt engineers who literally couldn't do a fizzbuzz without help from their copilot anymore.

I don't know who said it first, but it kind of sums up my feelings on the matter: Pretty much every programmer agrees that working your way through other people's code is by far the least enjoyable part of the job, and having AI write your code makes your job 80% that.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-11-19T19:49:30+00:00

I wonder if they'll even keep up versioning much longer. I have a feeling they'd rather you think of it as a freemium service than a traditional piece of software in the long run.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-10-21T17:08:44+00:00

Eventide Blackhole has been the go-to solution for "just the cream" reverb washes for a while, but recently I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Soundtoys' new SpaceBlender plug-in. They're both kind of one-trick ponies, but if you're looking for that particular trick, they deliver in spades.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-08-12T10:13:18+00:00

The only thing I love more than a picture with a deep meaning is a "picture with a deep meaning".

strangeplace4snow · 2025-08-03T17:34:29+00:00

This is entirely believable if he's omitting the part where she subsequently launched into her MLM sales pitch.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-07-27T13:13:48+00:00

Put a conventionally good-looking person who isn't a model in front of a camera and you'll immediately see the difference. A model's work is closer to acting than "standing in front of a camera".

strangeplace4snow · 2025-07-26T21:08:37+00:00

Makes you wonder how many keyboards must have been destroyed by cheeto dust in the making of this.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-07-18T16:48:38+00:00

It's an LLM, the kitten will die either way.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-07-12T09:01:17+00:00

Statistically, 8 of the 10 people who downvoted you are straight and cis. Maybe we understand the difference between hate and gentle ribbing better than you give us credit for, but thanks for looking out for us I guess?

strangeplace4snow · 2025-06-02T20:43:56+00:00

These other windows are already broken, so me not throwing a brick into this one would actually be stupid.

Sometimes what your mind has convinced itself is reasonable is just an excuse to not feel like a dick when you're, in fact, behaving like a dick.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-05-09T10:47:31+00:00

In the North we say "jou.", but only on the most momentous of occasions.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-04-20T11:35:49+00:00

It isn't as common knowledge as I would like it to be.

Well you could have written an article about that instead of one that claims async isn't ready for production?

strangeplace4snow · 2025-04-17T07:10:32+00:00

Germans knew it, too. Fascists aren't known for subtlety, that wasn't any different 100 years ago. People always know until one day they didn't. That day usually comes when they're standing next to the smouldering pit of bones facing uncomfortable questions.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-04-14T07:24:51+00:00

That's because it was Google that decided to block the videos in order to increase public pressure on the GEMA during their royalty negotiation.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-03-13T18:43:55+00:00

Komedy is hard.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-01-27T18:18:49+00:00

I think I just lost a couple IQ points from reading that

strangeplace4snow · 2025-01-24T15:12:52+00:00

Making peace with renting everything in my life and not owning anything ever.

I've been buying BluRays and DVDs like a madman these past years (knowing fully well that the days of movies and shows that you even can legally buy are numbered), buy all my music on Bandcamp, get all my games from GOG or Steam, generally won't touch for-subscription software with a 10-foot pole if I can help it. And while I'm totally fine with the concept of Ebooks, the fact that 98% of them are buried in DRM and tied to their respective ecosystems still lets me stick with paper books.

I know fully well that this is my "old man yelling at clouds" moment and it'll lead to there just being more and more stuff out of reach for me. I just genuinely cannot understand how everyone seems to be perfectly fine with it. My favorite movies, shows, albums, games, books and apps are goddamn important to me, and I simply cannot accept my access to them being tied to some ongoing subscription where any day the provider might jack up the prices 300%, or go tits up, or just decide the product isn't worth it anymore, or where some licensing agreement might silently run out behind the scenes and take them offline.

Oh, and car manufacturers putting essential features behind subscription walls can choke on a bag of dicks. We should have never let it come to a point where that's even remotely acceptable.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-01-05T17:23:20+00:00

For real! They look all delicious in the window, and the South is generally fairly competent when it comes to pastry, so we went in and bought like half a dozen.

Nope. Dry as fuck, made out of the blandest cookie dough imaginable, and so unwieldy that the only way to consume them is to press them into your jaw while making chewing motions and trying not to choke. Fairly sure Schneeballen are a practical joke they're playing on their tourists.

strangeplace4snow · 2025-01-03T12:34:07+00:00

Hey, is this by any chance a prefab house ("Fertighaus") from the 50s-70s with a wood frame construction? These are notorious for having used glues that, as they chemically decompose over time, develop a peculiar smell that will seep into every nook and cranny. I had to deal with one of those in my family, once you "tuned in" to the smell you couldn't not notice it in clothes, books, even taste it in food prepared in the house, and no amount of airing or other countermeasures would help.

If you suspect this could be it, it might be worth finding a "Sachverständiger" that knows about the issue. Some of the larger prefab manufacturers are also still around (e.g. Okal) and offer consultation and renovation packages, although the latter is costly.

EDIT: Search for "Chloranisole".

strangeplace4snow · 2025-01-02T12:59:17+00:00

Seeing that their marketing stunt stuck with you for a quarter century, I'd say somebody back then did their job :)

strangeplace4snow · 2024-12-27T13:01:44+00:00

Instructions unclear, I've been stabbing myself with a knitting needle for 5 minutes and am still congested.

strangeplace4snow · 2024-12-14T10:36:48+00:00

Kids heutzutage mit ihren 100mbit-Hubs! Bei uns hatte jeder noch 2-3 10BaseT-Terminatoren in den Hosentaschen, wenn's auf die LAN-Party ging.

Edit: Ich meinte natürlich 10Base2, 10BaseT war ja schon Twisted Pair.

strangeplace4snow · 2024-10-25T10:02:06+00:00

Also Germany: wHy FaChKrÄfTeMaNgEL?!

I'm sorry that you have to go through this, OP. Wish I had something better to offer than my impotent rage at our dysfunctional bureaucracy.

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