Me opening man test for the 19th time
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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18446744073709551615, 4294967295, 65535, 255 what is this witchcraft?!
spoiler ...
/toohigheffort
:::...
A lot of sevens in octal, and now your clipboard is full of Fs. /j
Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is "junior react developer", "senior react developer". So this meme seems to have come full circle.
You forgot the part where you step on the rake in different ways to see which one whacks you in the face the fastest.
As someone who's been trying to learn Python recently, this resonates with me. I am glad I will always fuck it up.
BTW you missed a colon at the end of your if statement on line 341. Also you used irregular whitespace on another line, but I'll let you find that one yourself, as a treat.
Btw your import imports an import causing a cyclic dependency. Good luck <3
My DOOM! floppy was corrupted bc cyclic redundancy check.
Doesn't anyone care about MY feels?
I had that one recently! Took me for ever to find it…
Yeah well cyclic implies a circle, so you're just going around and around, like in the desert before you get eaten by jackals.
I've so far avoided using LLMs unless I need something explicitly explained. I don't know enough to be able to verify any code it would produce, so I don't know what the hell these vibe coders are doing.
But I'm also a little long in the tooth to be starting this, so maybe that's part of my problem.
Based to reject vibe coding. Similar to "why learn math when we got calculators".
I am aware of what I don't know, and having something which hallucinates produce something I want to use seems silly. I wouldn't be able to verify it independently because I'm not smart enough. It just seems like asking for trouble. Like I would ask the thing which gave me broken code in the first place to fix it? Smort.
those colons piss me off so much. they are so useless. I hate them
I love them. I love python. I love you.
I love lamp.
Transcription
The stepping vs jumping on a rake meme, showing a stock image render of a person stepping on a rake and having it smack them in the face on top, and an image of a man doing a skateboard trick with a rake below, also landing on it.
The man stepping on a rake is captioned "programming for the first time".
The man performing a trick with the rake is captioned "programming for the hundredth time".
I think you need to mention that the bottom guy also gets whacked by the rake after rail sliding it and landing on it; landing on a rake doesn't imply being brained by it
That's a pretty good point. For these standard template memes I usually go to Know Your Meme and copy/paste the relevant section of their description. In this case it looks like they said "also landing on it", which I think is supposed to get across the same idea, but it does seem easy to read that without getting the intended idea.
I'm not sure how well this works, I upvote the effort, but for someone who's eye deprived, they'd have to click on the post, and then have their screen reader read through all the comments, before they get to your one describing what's even going on.
Honestly I would love to know what the % of people who take part in piefed.social use screen readers. It has to be in the 0.2% percentile, and that's conservative I think.
Yeah, it's much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It's much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don't do it, and it's a shame that Lemmy isn't the same.
For small transcriptions, there's an "alt text" field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.
Yeah no I do it myself, I just think that there's probably a lot of wasted effort, like building a wheel chair accessible ramp to an orange juice stall in the mountains. It's a nice thought but I doubt it's getting used.
My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it's not actually that much effort. And it's an amount of effort that's worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I'll consider the work worth it.
The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that's particularly disappointing.
Yeah for sure, I do it on my posts, IF I remember. And yeah fuck reddit for that fucking shit, man, fuck reddit for SO much shit, man. But anyway...
I think the idea is that this might get upvoted a lot and turns out to be the first comment under this post.
Also it’s copy-pastable for OP.
My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.
If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that's pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don't do myself.
The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.
Maybe they can search the comments for “transcription”?
As someone who has been coding for over 40 years, this is so true.
Every time there's a new site with programmer humor... 2 good jokes, then it's just a bot spamming the same dead ass memes.
I feel like that about life in general.
Had me in the first half.
Skill issue, git guud /s
I just use AI!
It solves so many problems.
And introduced so many more.
But it solves them too.
And so on.
Does it solve the problems or do you tell it how to?
Oh I just ask it to tell itself to solve my problems.
Last time I asked one to write a heliostat driving program I had to tell it how to find the angle to point the mirror, which was better than the previous one which I also had to ask it to use real libraries to get the sun's altitude and azimuth
I ask it to write Hangman in python ascii, and it mostly fails.
I think it's a case of eMacs.
Like, with eMacs you can do anything. But the time you spend setting up and learning eMacs to the point where you get the usefulness you were looking for probably exceeds the time you might have spent just solving the damn problem with pen and paper.
AI is a bit like that. It gives you, like, badly printed 3D printedlego.
Exactly.