I understand your pain - the real reason for that is that PHP was the first “hobbyist” programming language so a lot of self trained folks built websites that ended up slowly morphing into successful businesses.

One of the things I’m actually most proud of from the PHP community is that around 5.2 the maintainers looked around and saw sites like Quora and StackOverflow were littered with the worst fucking PHP advice endorsing functions like mysql_query and ill-advised features like magic_quotes so the community invested a lot of resources in purging answers that preached anti-patterns and replace them with non-terrible answers.

I work in PHP and it’s perfectly serviceable now, we’ve got strict typing, namespaces, lambdas, all the nice shit you’d expect in a modern language.

PHP and C are both fine languages, they have their strengths and their weaknesses. They’re tools and if you feel the need to shit on them then you clearly need more practice using a diversity of languages.

I work professionally with actually useful ML stuff (we parse a lot of weird ass files and it’s extremely powerful in that context) - we’ve looked at integrating gpt3 and it scored much worse on accuracy than the model we trained in-house. We’re also investigating adding front-end AI bullshit to placate the CEO. Even at the good shops, you’ll probably get buried in this bullshit - but there are good opportunities out there!

Fucking awesome writing style there - and a lot of salient points. The only weakness is that it’s preaching to the choir - the use of jargon and technical references probably makes it inaccessible to anyone who doesn’t agree with its conclusion.

That said, it’s wonderfully cathartic.

Works in open source charity driven software - he’s having a ball.

Gaming laptops are far too prone to overheating - either your manufacturer has drastically limited clock speed, your machine will brick itself as soon as you try to launch a performance intensive game… or you spent 7k+ on getting something from a niche company that slapped a jet engine on that sucker.

Yes. I can’t talk about buckwheat in particular but, considering your face goes on it, I consider a good pillow case more important than a good set of sheets.

Make skirts!

Good Afternoon Sir, have you heard about our lord and savior pthreads?

Yea, pointer arithmetic is cute but at this point the compiler can do it better - just type everything correctly and use []… and, whenever possible, pass by reference!

This graph cuts off early. Once you learn that pointers are a trap for noobs that you should avoid outside really specific circumstances the line crosses zero and goes back into normal land.

Honestly, yea… badass.

I went to university to study statistics, and I absolutely love statistics… but I was forced to learn SAS and, fucking hell, I hacked that program to shit… my presentations would have loads of pretty printing, multiple data ingest methods, proper error reporting…

So I switched into CS and liked it a lot… then I took a course on data modeling, which led to a course of Relational Algebra (essentially the abstract logical form of what you’re typing in SQL to your RDBMS) then I went on to become a developer and, while I am multiskilled and able to build UIs and backends and even embedded systems… I absolutely adore data architecture and DB performance tuning.

I really can’t understate how incredibly easy it is for me to look at a query over a system I understand and quickly identify likely bottlenecks and logical errors.

If you re-read my comment, you might notice there isn’t a single “Eureka” moment but instead are a series of them - I think that’s how most of come to be in careers we truly enjoy.

It is insanely interesting to me whenever I come across details in old file formats that were included specifically to work around hardware limitations. The wide knowledge required to be aware of all these wild factors is amazing.

As you can tell, I’m fun at parties.

“To contrast, the human brain apparently can’t remember a simple piece of information like not getting attached to their companion cube. I think we know who would be better at a party, the punchcard.”

My dad converted old assembly programs into Cobol for spending money in uni - his textbooks were full of cast offs.

MicroSD cards also don’t look nearly as badass if woven into a skirt.

C++ is pretty sweet.

It definitely has its issues - don’t get me wrong, but it’s pretty sweet.

Hrm, give me a moment to check the ACLs, I’ll be able to resolve all these complex conflicting rules shortly…

Nevermind, it was easier to just globally disable SeLinux so I did that. Your system should be more secure now.

Also, by actually properly funding immigration courts.