Waddaya mean crusade? Have you accidentally seen one of my other tirades?

Anyway:

1. I dislike change. I know it’s not a good argument, but I don’t like change.
2. I don’t have a lot against dark mode, on a phone. But…
3. Running an IDE or word processor in dark mode screams unprofessional to me. I work in a well lit office environment, during the day. In a bright office I struggle reading in dark mode.
4. Using dark mode because you “don’t want to have your eyes scorched”, is the argument of a hobbyist, working in their bedroom.
5. I like to view my end product on screen. I’m not printing documents in dark mode, and presentations are more easily viewable with a light background.

It’s not an argument for or against dark mode, but dark mode seems like that time, back in the 90s, when people insisted on using a blue background for word processing. We’re just going in circles on this.

Then in the 90s, such restrictions were largely dropped in most languages, and symbol names ballooned in size to take advantage of this new freedom.

But with great freedom comes great responsibility. I think Microsoft went from digestion noices to indirectly advertising their stake in arthritis medicine. I mean my fingers ache just looking at C# or PowerShell.

What was so wrong about puts or cout? I know it’s not the most intricate functions, but going from a 4chr function to “Console.WriteLine()” is a symptom.

And as long as I’m already a riled up old fart, let me tell you about autocompletion. Why does MS have to autocomplete entire commands from ambiguous strings?

And the kids don’t get it. They don’t even write the code anymore, let alone understand it… I want coffee flavoured coffee, heavy metal and for dark mode to fucking die!

That felt better, I’m sorry for anybody making it this long.

The sandwich I sorta get but the pickle?

What orifice does the pickle go in?

nic_cage_thank_you.jif!

That was much better

Nah it’ll be fixed eventually (quote 1970 devs)

I don’t get it. Why’s that picture included? Is there something in the picture I’m supposed to notice?

And here I was thinking this was about emacs and lisp. Yougster complaining about not knowing how to quit Vi smh they have never experienced the horrors of emacs

Jokes on you, they’re hiring for “World’s sexiest Lemmy user”

And here I thought I had it all figured out. But it does make sense. Doing it with an analog signal introduces noise and measuring pulse widths is going to be simpler.

Except that wasn’t a serial port, it was midi, and the reason it was on the sound card was because the input was analog.

Your joystick was just two fancy potentiometers, and your soundcard decoded the voltage on the middle legs into a position.

Soundcards handled joysticks because they had the fastest ADCs.

as the legacy instruction sets are interpreted/translated.

Wth? That’s it, I’m sticking to the AVR then

I get what you’re saying. I guess what I’m yelling at the clouds about is the common discourse more than anything else.

If a screw has a slotted head, and your screwdriver is a torx, few people would say that the screwdriver won’t allow them to do something.

Computers are just tools, and we’re the ones who created them. We shouldn’t be submissive, we should acknowledge that we have taken the wrong approach at solving something and do it a different way. Just like I would bitch about never having the correct screwdriver handy, and then go look for the right one.

Stupid cloud, who’s laughing now?

I get the analogy, but I don’t think that it’s valid. Soldiers are, much to the chagrin of their commanders, sentient beings, and should question potentially illegal orders.

Where the analogy doesn’t hold is, besides my computer not being sentient, what I’m prevented from doing isn’t against the law of man.

I’m not claiming to be infallible. After all to err is human, and I’m indeed very human. But throw me a warning when I do something that goes against best practices, that’s fine. Whether I deal with it is something for me to decide. But stopping me from doing what I’m trying to do, because it’s potentially problematic? GTFO with that kinda BS.

But it will let you do it if you really want to.

Now, I’ve seen this a couple of times in this post. The idea that the compiler will let you do anything is so bizarre to me. It’s not a matter of being allowed by the software to do anything. The software will do what you goddamn tell it to do, or it gets replaced.

WE’RE the humans, we’re not asking some silicon diodes for permission. What the actual fuck?!? We created the fucking thing to do our bidding, and now we’re all oh pwueez mr computer sir, may I have another ADC EAX, R13? FUCK THAT! Either the computer performs like the tool it is, or it goes the way of broken hammers and lawnmowers!

I use my real name, but I’ll put the business as my middle name. So when l get an email saying “Dear John StoreName Doe”, I’ll know who either got hacked or sold my info.

That’s not a rock, that’s Dwayne Johnson, you know the actor

1. the lets put a lot of shit in the title bar of our app trend. Fuck off, I use that bar to pull the window around.
2. The idea that I should adapt to the technology, and not the other way around. Don’t force changes on me, especially when they’re only implemented to be able to slap a new version number on the box.

Counter offer: dark themes as default for professional software.

I don’t write software in a dimly light geek cave, I do it in a well lit office. And I can’t tell that dark red string from the background.

I did wonder why my client put the word “spoiler” twice, but I already had the picture block and I didn’t want to accidentally put boobs in the comment section, so I just rolled with it.

Good to know, thx