• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    43·
    8 days ago

    Naw. Not knowing pisses me off. I’m gonna have to deal with it again in the future, probably, so might as well set some time aside to figure out wtf is happening.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      The only thing worse than code that should be working not working is code where you’re sure it won’t work, but then it actually works!

    • eldaviEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      i used to believe in this; but then i learned the hard way that old/opaque code is gross game of hot potato where you will pay the price if your social standing in your organization isn’t privileged enough.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        Guess I was lucky to have a social standing privileged enough, as a junior dev.

        But also, probably because they actually required determinism, with it being critical and all.

  • HyonoKo
    1·
    7 days ago

    *Scientists: now we have to make it appear as if it was relevant to our field, compress it along with all our past work into 5 pages, fight our colleagues for the order in with the authors will appear and send it to the least shitty journal that might accept it. And fight a few rounds with the reviewers, which legitimately don’t want this crap to be released into science.