tiredofsametab

The documentation I mean here should be in the repo and checked as a part of the PR process. I don’t mean it should be a manual, I just mean a readme should at least describe what the service does (it has such a generic name in my case that it’s not self-evident and is so broad in scope I don’t know what happened). The functions also have terrible naming and no comments to describe what they do. So, as a guy just coming into this team after re-org with no idea what all this stuff does, I was completely lost. They also changed which services which teams owned, further making it difficult to get knowledge.

I recently got moved to another team after my company restructured. Several repos have zero documentation. Most of those don’t even have comments on the functions. LinkXxxx(some args) like Xxxx to /what?!/ It’s also an over-engineered mess with multiple layers of abstraction. I can’t wait to finish figuring out what everything does and re-write (and document it) like a sane person. This code presumably had no AI involvement which I’d argue is even worse since real humans made these shit decisions. Don’t get me starting on their testing (and mostly lack thereof)…

Worker suggested using AI to write some documentation. Another coworker did. I immediately spotted a bunch of hallucinated shit. Good times. I want to know in my head what a thing does, how it works, and how it fits into the architecture. I can’t do that if an AI is just deciding stuff; it’s like a quiz back in school where I would memorize shit for about one week before 99% of it left my brain forever.

Oh yeah? Well, I’ve pooped at a significant fraction of the speed of sound

I described myself as a coder for a while starting somewhere around '03 or '04 IIRC.

Unscrew it. Throw it away. Keep your spices away from light and air.

If it makes you feel better, Japanese has the same problem (and I’m sure other languages).

I’m cheaper! I’ll do it for having my student loans paid off, my house paid off, and some spending money; I don’t even need the wife!

I stopped. Anyone who wanted to keep in touch with me was given other methods of doing that. Anyone else who couldn’t be bothered to spend 20 extra seconds? Not worth having in my life.

Dude’s electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.

I wasn’t offended/bothered at all.

You say “/s” but, for anyone else reading, Japan is considered rabies free so that would certainly be a big deal we’re it the case.

Kinda. I don’t use most social media, which I suppose is not super helpful

I’m in Japan. It’s not worth it on my scale to even try. I do plan to get chickens for our eggs (and bonus bug eating and compost helping), but otherwise I’m just in the veg business. I have full English support and website which helps me find my market

It’s always a balance of what you can afford, what you want to do, and what your market can bare. You may love raising chickens, but eggs will almost never pay off. I love hot peppers. But I can’t get by growing just that. It is skilled and complicated for sure.

[I]t’s hard work for low pay that is very hard to buy yourself into if you weren’t born with some land.

It’s certainly hard work and low pay (compared to software engineering) in many cases, but it is rewarding.

As for the land, that really depends on the scale and the country.

Senior software engineer and farmer here. I approve.

I have no voice in my head, so I don’t think that would work very well.

Up with this sort of thing I shall not put!

(Apologies to Samuel Clemens, iirc)

We have grave re-use here, but it’s kinda hard to explain (especially for me coming from the outside). Graves are family graves and bones (or maybe just some small portion) get moved to an inner temple after so much time.

There are, of course, grave costs, upkeep costs, etc. which are, frankly, insane in many cases, but that’s just my opinion.

much more appropriate

Says who? -er- According to whom?

Is this so you can show superiority? Separate those pesky lower classes out? Language is spoken the way it is spoken and it changes. “have ran” is something that would have gotten me yelled at as a kid and it, honestly, is still kinda grating. However, it’s not my business. If I can understand that speaker, language is doing its job.