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Jayjader

@ Jayjader @jlai.lu

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  • I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

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  • For what it's worth, the second snippet is just to demonstrate their point about looking for function defs names. Reading the article until the end, they propose a bit more than just coloring function names where they are defined.

    I still don't think the example proves their point, but let's not misconstrue it either.

  • I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

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  • In terms of syntax highlighting, something like flowistry seems more important to me than bike shedding the perfect static highlighting approach.

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  • Finally, I am much more often interested in what I/the code is doing to a variable than how it is initially declared.

    Overall, if this approach works better for the author than more power to them! Please stop affirming that everyone else is doing it wrong, especially when you seem content to speculate why we do things differently instead of at least mentioning some reasons we ourselves give for how we do things.

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  • Our eyes are way more sensitive to differences in lightness than in color, and we should use it, not try to negate it.

    I thought the center of our vision is more sensitive to color whereas the edges of our vision is more sensitive to light/dark?

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  • Per statistics, 70% of developers prefer dark themes. Being in the other 30%, that question always puzzled me. Why?

    Have you tried asking any of them?

    And I think I have an answer. Here’s a typical dark theme: [...] and here’s a light one: [...] On the latter one, colors are way less vibrant.

    Does the author not understand that a lot of us code in darker environments where the light background of most light themes either sears our retinas or forces us to turn the monitor brightness so far down that everything becomes a shade of grey?

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  • I find it much easier to find the function definitions when the word function is a different color than most of the surrounding text.

    if the author meant "find a specific function def according to it's name or role" then I could at least appreciate the perspective. As it stands, I can't help but notice that their supposed "better highlighting for finding defs" example is not using the same source code: the preceding anonymous immediately-invoked function that englobes the entire first code block/sample is now off-screen and the code blurb itself is different...

  • I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

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  • Could you share a screenshot and/or list of color codes? This sounds similar to some themes I really appreciate yet can never feel completely at home with.

  • Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

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  • Empathy and intelligence are not the same. As evidenced by some highly intelligent people displaying a shocking lack of empathy, and some highly empathetic people not displaying the greatest intelligence.

    Personally, I'd rather talk about knowledge and behavior. Intelligence and empathy are hard to quantize.

    Leaning into natural selection, proposing we need to let it "run it's course", in a way, to "weed out the weak traits" is eugenics. So is thinking that some traits are "good" and others "bad" without qualifying "for the current social/environmental context". Stupidity might be a good defense against existential depression.

    Why do you yourself call the thought "scary" if you don't think it's eugenics? What exactly is scary about letting "weak traits perish" if not that it's inviting a certain form of eugenics to decide who gets to reproduce and/or be born?

    You'll note I didn't claim you advocate for it directly, just that your arguments are eugenics-flavored.

  • Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

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  • Wealth inequality is returning to pre-WW1 levels and climate change's effects are becoming visible to the average person, making people desperate for a way out. Education budgets in the US have been steadily slashed, far-right agit-prop by people like Steve Bannon has flooded the internet while the political class that could oppose it are pacified by corporate donors.

    No need for social darwinism or sketchy eugenics-flavored arguments to explain this.

  • How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete?

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  • "Top over the last 6 hours" can be a decent middle ground between "new", "scaled", and "active".

  • Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models

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  • Remember to perform 1 Hail Mary and 3 Canticles of the Omnissiah to ensure the AI is cooperative!

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  • The only drama I'm aware of (beyond the small spat with hexbear I mentioned) is how feddit.org's admins were extra cautious regarding discourse on Israel/Palestine in the wake of October 7th. Given the the servers are physically located in Germany (and as such apparently the admins can go to jail over their content) it was disappointing but understandable to me, and pissed off a lot of the more audibly anti-genocide and anti-imperialism users.

    I think, sadly, this kind of tribalism is part of the growing pains for federated online communities, especially the more "Western" ones. Instances behave like villages or city-states towards each other, while in physical space we've all grown up and been socialized inside (comparatively) huge nation-states.

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  • anything else: either nazis or tankies depending on who you ask.

    I'm curious what you've heard of jlai.lu, feddit.org, and/or sopuli.xyz. I suspect that, being more geographically-focused than the topic-focused or mindset-focused like most of the instances you've listed, they don't as easily fit into one box (other than the obvious france/germany/finland boxes).

    Here on jlai.lu, we had a bit of a spat with hexbear a while back because we're too reactionary for their tastes, but even that feels mostly irrelevant nowadays.

  • The Right Jumps to Defend Young Republicans' Racist Texts

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  • Great follow-up piece by Mother Jones to the initial Politico article, thanks for sharing it!

  • ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

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  • On it's own, nothing really? As long as you don't let that nihilism justify making life worse for others.

    Combined with racism and the rest of the bigotry on display in these leaked exchanges, I think it's useful to distinguish between someone whose ignorance has allowed them to be co-opted by bigotry against their own interests, and someone who justifies their bigotry because "nothing really matters". I also think it's useful to accuse them of not actually believing in anything when they're running a political movement. Especially if the target audience for that movement does have a belief that some things intrinsically matter (be it democracy or, more likely here, the christian faith).

    I'll readily admit I was mainly trying to go for more than just "racist pieces of shit", while having a clear impression from the tone and content of the leaked exchanges that there is an undercurrent of nihilism that is, if not fueling them, then at least lubricating them. If you have a better suggestion I would love to hear it.

  • ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

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  • “If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr,” he wrote.

    Get cooked, fuckface. nihilist racist pieces of shit

    Great job on Politico's part, though.

  • Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting

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  • I see, thanks for the explanation!

    I've been working on a frontend/browser client for "exploring" activitypub instances in my spare time, and CORS basically requires me to have some sort of separate server process that can fetch and auth using my account(s). I'm unsure of how much sense it would make to try to bolt my client on top of your software, but at least now I know I can try without needing to involve a Microsoft account.

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • plus my passwords are partials (I salt them)

    I'm curious how you make that work - do you just remember the salts, store them separately, or what? I have like 50-70 passwords in my store currently, there's no way I'm remembering a (true random) salt for each one.

  • Would you use a service that automatically identifies refactoring opportunities in your code?

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  • You're welcome! I would suggest giving it a try, maybe there's a feature or functionality you have in mind that sonarqube doesn't do.