The official unpopular opinions thread
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@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Next thing you'll say is that scissors and scalpels are not fun
A tiny bit better. Scalpels are precision instruments. And you have to have some basic human anatomy knowledge to cut out a kidney to sell and buy a pair of Audeze instead.
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@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I have no idea about country and christian music
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
But these "little projects for fun" seem to have especially taken over. No one does anything worth shit anymore. It's all for fun, then it's abandoned for the next stupid idea. So coding is fun, yes? Computers are? Tools are? Well, screwdrivers are also tools. Screwdrivers are not fun. Stabbing something with a screwdriver makes one look like a psychopath. Every time I see these "for fun" things I imagine someine with a shit-eating grin stabbing away at their meckanical keyboards and going "kakakaka so much fun" and...
@error_bot xkcd rock band
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Next thing you'll say is that scissors and scalpels are not fun
A tiny bit better. Scalpels are precision instruments. And you have to have some basic human anatomy knowledge to cut out a kidney to sell and buy a pair of Audeze instead.
Alisha likes to draw on me with a scalpel.
We like to have fun here.
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@error said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
We like to have fun here.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand. I'm a sad little man eking out sad life sizeable part of which is currently being spent shitposting and on videogames. Fun is not scheduled to begin anytime soon.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
sad little man eking out sad life
The secret to happiness is, apparently, drugs.
Filed under: Prescription or illicit, pick your poison., Do drugs, kids.
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@Gribnit said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
This thread is completely broken.
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@error Guess mine just are not expensive enough then.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@error Guess mine just are not expensive enough then.
I can help with that.
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@Gribnit Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 and regulation 2017/852 might take an issue with that.
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@error said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Next thing you'll say is that scissors and scalpels are not fun
A tiny bit better. Scalpels are precision instruments. And you have to have some basic human anatomy knowledge to cut out a kidney to sell and buy a pair of Audeze instead.
Alisha likes to draw on me with a scalpel.
We like to have fun here.
Sounds like it.
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@Zecc said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Gribnit's posts are hilarious.
To the downvoter: mind the thread.
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@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Well, screwdrivers are also tools. Screwdrivers are not fun.
Next thing you'll say is that scissors and scalpels are not fun
My husband thinks screwdrivers are awesome. I’m always saying “we don’t need any more fucking screwdrivers“ every time we go to a hardware store. We’re at levels of screwdriver hoarding here.
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@M_Adams And if it were me, I still wouldn't be able to find one when I need it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@M_Adams And if it were me, I still wouldn't be able to find one when I need it.
I know 😢, 10,000 torx when all you need is a phillips.
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@M_Adams I was doing something recently (
I can't remember whatassembling my grill, I think) for which I needed a #1 Phillips. #2s, including multiple packages of bits for my drill, at least 1 #3, multiple #0 and finer precision screwdrivers. But a #1? Nope.
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@M_Adams said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@M_Adams And if it were me, I still wouldn't be able to find one when I need it.
I know 😢, 10,000 torx when all you need is a phillips.
If you have extra Torx, just leave them in restroom stalls.
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@HardwareGeek You sure you didn't need a #2 Posidrive?
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@HardwareGeek said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@M_Adams I was doing something recently (
I can't remember whatassembling my grill, I think) for which I needed a #1 Phillips. #2s, including multiple packages of bits for my drill, at least 1 #3, multiple #0 and finer precision screwdrivers. But a #1? Nope.The real solution is to only own a #2 Phillips, and use that on all screws you need to screw
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@izzion said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
The real solution is to only own a
#2 Phillipsflat-head screwdriver, and use that on all screws you need to screwFiled under: if the blade is too wide, just file it
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@M_Adams said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Well, screwdrivers are also tools. Screwdrivers are not fun.
Next thing you'll say is that scissors and scalpels are not fun
My husband thinks screwdrivers are awesome. I’m always saying “we don’t need any more fucking screwdrivers“ every time we go to a hardware store. We’re at levels of screwdriver hoarding here.
Are they the 10 in 1 kind? You can never have enough of those.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@M_Adams said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Well, screwdrivers are also tools. Screwdrivers are not fun.
Next thing you'll say is that scissors and scalpels are not fun
My husband thinks screwdrivers are awesome. I’m always saying “we don’t need any more fucking screwdrivers“ every time we go to a hardware store. We’re at levels of screwdriver hoarding here.
Are they the 10 in 1 kind? You can never have enough of those.
O yes. Those too. At least 8 sets.
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@El_Heffe said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Gribnit said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
This thread is completely broken.
Heh. How very meta.
Also contrast how the quote looks vs the post in its original emplacement:
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Mandalorian sucks. I have spoken.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I haven't seen any of the extra series but I take the view that I really don't care to - they weren't exactly stories we were 'waiting' to hear about and I think the universe stands better without exploring every fucking detail.
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If you work for a company that contracts with the government, and especially if you work on any of those projects, congratulations, you have a government job. Careful what you say about "government workers," y'hear?
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@Arantor That, too. But I was tempted. I consider Rogue One to be almost like Episode 3.5. The other one, Solo, is quite ridiculous, but okay.
Mandaborian is a grunting dumbass larping a Boba Fett with the emotional range of a value-option electric lawn mower playing a side-quest in a "Lawn Mower Simulator" and failing.
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@Applied-Mediocrity so at least better than young Anakin.
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@Zenith said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
If you work for a company that contracts with the government, and especially if you work on any of those projects, congratulations, you have a government job. Careful what you say about "government workers," y'hear?
I have a government job (directly). I still think most government jobs are a waste. I'd like to think our unit does produce and work hard, but that doesn't mean the boss a couple layers up doesn't spend an ass load of money on contractors who don't know how our business works.
And we have to fix it and write reports around it.
I swear the original contractors were paid by the entity/property.
Our old legacy ColdFusion app, may be a decade outdated but it was far easier to get information out of, and make adjustments.
I had hoped the new app would be so much better, without magic numbers and strings (at the very fucking least). Nope same bullshit.
CRM at least looks modern.
NOTE: It is requiring all my strength to resist complaining about how much I hate CRM.
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@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I swear the original contractors were paid by the entity/property.
Actually I think Indians are paid per user click. That's why every "modernized" system takes 10X as many clicks to get anywhere as what it replaced. If my state's "open" records system (developed by guess who) actually worked, we could see who's right.
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@Karla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
It is requiring all my strength to resist complaining about how much I hate CRM.
Don't. Let the hate flow.
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@Zecc said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
To the downvoter: mind the thread.
If it's truly an unpopular opinion, shouldn't it get many downvotes?
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@Zenith said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
If you work for a company that contracts with the government, and especially if you work on any of those projects, congratulations, you have a government job. Careful what you say about "government workers," y'hear?
For measurement purposes, it's easier to split into direct government jobs and government-related jobs (all the indirect ones you refer to). The problem with indirect is that it gets very tricky to determine just how much "government" they are.
For example, I'm a permanent employee of a private entity (WTF-U) but most of what I've done through my career has been working on projects majority funded by various governments. I know that some of what I've done has produced substantial value for private organizations (together with their own contributions; they're very much not just rebadging what I did) but I don't do a lot of follow-up tracking so I can't really say how much. OTOH, what they've really been about is supporting researchers with professional programming.
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@Zenith said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
If you work for a company that contracts with the government, and especially if you work on any of those projects, congratulations, you have a government job.
Except it's not true.
False statements support all kinds of wrong views.
Government contracting jobs do not have the job security that government jobs have. Excessive job security is a problem.
Yes, there is definitely waste on government contracts. But this does not make them government jobs.
I congratulate those who endeavor to say only truthful things.
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@jinpa If job security is your only metric, sure. But in the real world, those Indian contract duhvelopers are implementing government policy and paid with government tax dollars. Both would vanish if anti-government forces got their way. So neither they nor their masters get to prance around pretending they're part of the real private sector.
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C# 8 "Nullable contexts" is terrible useless counterproductive crap.
The topic you are replying to is quite old
Fuck off.
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@MrL Is the static checker so bad?
A number of improvements to definite assignment and null state analysis were added in C# 10
You must upgrayedd!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL Is the static checker so bad?
A number of improvements to definite assignment and null state analysis were added in C# 10
You must upgrayedd!
The whole idea of not-nullable reference types in C# is stupid, it makes code look like typescript. Which I guess was predictable as generation of javascript monkeys is flooding the industry for quite some time already.
Maybe tracking some critical variables as not null would be beneficial, sure.
But no, it couldn't be introduced sensibly and unintrusively - the default state in "nullable contexts" is not-nullable. So you have to sprinkle stupid question marks everywhere and porting older code is a mess.
The number of warnings and 'helpful' messages generated in VS went absolutely bonkers in recent years. Squiggly lines are everywhere and 99% of them are useless or harmful. "This-or-that can be simplified", "Did you know you can make this thing static for no reason?", "OMG this comment looks like it has code inside, remove it immediately", "Alert, alert, a variable is not used", etc.
I'm considering turning all warnings off globally right now.
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@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
The whole idea of not-nullable reference types in C# is stupid, it makes code look like typescript.
How so? I don't C# much but I write a lot of typescript.
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@boomzilla said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I write a lot of typescript.
Condolences.
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Apparently @MrL is not a fan of adding
?
in type references.His feelings about
;
at the end of statements and using++
for increments are unclear at this time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL Is the static checker so bad?
A number of improvements to definite assignment and null state analysis were added in C# 10
You must upgrayedd!
Seems to me that
Optional<T>
ofLanguageExt
is still a better idea...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
LanguageExt
Until they also add SponsorLink spyware
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@Applied-Mediocrity Do you mean that
Some
would point to a non-nullT
, whileNone
would point toExciting Advertisement
?
That is a not a bad idea, but a great idea .
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@MrL said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Maybe tracking some critical variables as not null would be beneficial, sure.
Vast majority of variables should never be null. Only then it's really beneficial.
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@Zecc said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
Apparently @MrL is not a fan of adding
?
in type references.Yes, as well as not null
!
promises and general obsessing about nulls everywhere in your codebase.His feelings about
;
at the end of statements and using++
for increments are unclear at this time.Positive warm feelings.
I also don't like omitting () in object initializers, lowercasing types when calling static methods and lambda properties/methods.
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The Dio years had the best output from Black Sabbath.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@MrL Is the static checker so bad?
A number of improvements to definite assignment and null state analysis were added in C# 10
You must upgrayedd!
Seems to me that
Optional<T>
ofLanguageExt
is still a better idea...In Java that creates a lot of unreadable shit and is the death knell of good logging and easy debugging. The Mono/Flux stuff takes it to another level. Fuck me but that codebase deserved to die a horrible death. There’s no real good use case for it outside of queues either but its been a few years so maybe more people have been forced into it.
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@MrL Sounds like I'll need alot more
#pragma warning disable ####
statements if/when I update. The dumbest warning that I see is that thebreak;
in acase:
block is unreachable. Well duh. I only have it there because A) that's how C++ told me to do it and B) the compiler barks about falling through cases if it's not there.