Notices by mike (mike@micro.mkp.ca)

@codewiz I used hg right up until a year or two ago. The nail in the coffin was that magit is just too good.

@codewiz I keep buying adzuki beans to make stuff out of them, but they are so damn good when they are fresh and hot I just end up eating them all.

@codewiz It’s too much like talking to someone with profound psychological impairment, I can’t deal.

@codewiz It uses so much fatuous speech. The contrivance of first person pronouns, which it doesn’t genuinely understand. The apologies and thank-yous for things that it does not have the capacity to remember outside the context of a single conversation thread. It affects emotions even while telling you that it cannot behave with bias or have opinions. It’s all a ridiculous set of contradictions rooted in stupid science fiction tropes instead of the actual technology’s fundamental reality. I hate it so much. Its outputs are designed to an aesthetic philosophy that I 100% oppose. Computers should talk like computers, if they must talk at all.

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@codewiz I like the colours and angles on this one more. I like how the orange, pink and blue are reflecting off the earth tone foreground.

@codewiz I miss the sun. But I’m on my way back!

@codewiz Tags a photo of animal abuse with #vegan. Dude. Not okay. I don’t tell you about the hookers I strangle, do I?? I certainly don’t tag it, “#notstrangledhookers” and post it to your feed.

#Godot 4 beta 4 warns you when you call a function that returns a value and discard the value. Which is nice, that’s a bad code smell for sure and it reminds me to add old-fashioned error handling since we don’t have exceptions. Except! Most of the functions I am calling in the system library that have return values I am discarding do not document what the return value is! Like Array.resize returns an int, and I’m going to guess that’s the new size of the array, which maybe isn’t what you asked for in some undocumented circumstances. But what the heck is does the return value of int Signal.connect() mean?! The number of already connected signals? An undocumented error code? Who knows! Gotta check the source.

Bi-bip bip. B’bip. Beep-bip.

It’s always bothered me that C++ isn’t called ++C. C == C++! If you’re going to make a dumb joke, commit to it, Bjarne.

@codewiz Rather, Alpha Centauri B, not Beta Centauri, which is a different thing.

@codewiz Grats on beginning a new chapter. I think your decision is brave and wise.

@codewiz If it turns out you got headhunted by Microsoft I might revise my take.