I’m not doing this again.

I appreciate that. I can’t say anything is better right now, but I can say that I think I’m handling it better. So that’s something, I guess?

Either way, I wanted to thank you very much for your words. Be well.

I kind of like this. When I’m searching for how to do something, I probably don’t want your entire codebase, just don’t snippet that does the thing.

I’ll probably need to modify it so the thing works in a specific way, so I can make what I need to make.

Usually I just need a point in the right direction and I can assemble the rest.

I was reviewing some PowerShell script today and it was absolutely atrocious. It’s only saving grace was that it was using actual PowerShell, not some hacky wmic call or anything.

I didn’t write it and I’m really glad for that. Whole lines of rewritten code commented out and just left there. Entire lines of # marks. There’s no reason this should be so densely commented. Your code should be self explanatory.

There were multiple queries to the same database that was then passed through a “where-object” selector by pipe, looking for a single value (pulling a database of thousands of entries for one line).

It was disgusting.

I’m not even a developer and I thought it was horrid.

I liked continuum too.

Just saying.

Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?!

I’ve been having a shit week and I don’t mean to be a dick about it.

I’m not sure why I give this much of a shit about a post that should be ha-ha funny.

I’m sorry.

There would still be less dead people.

So this is what a puppet looks like when you pull your hand out… Very interesting.

Man, y’all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.

What was I talkin’ about?

It happens, yes.

Just like people dying in T-bone or head-on collisions. Not to mention rollovers and other crashes.

Each of them carries the chance of fatality.

It’s unpredictable, which is why we can’t eliminate fatalities entirely.

My most recent point is that even the fatalities from being rear-ended are significantly reduced from even 10-15 years ago. Making the small (but still too high) probability of a fatality from that type of crash, smaller (but still too high).

Therefore, the most likely outcome from such an incident would be the destruction of property, not loss of life.

Which is the original point I was being pedantic about. The original comment was that stopping and not driving wouldn’t kill anyone, and the reply that kicked off this insane tangent, was that the people behind might.

And I’m staying, no, they won’t die (it is statistically very unlikely).

Edit to include original context:

Is this the only argument?

Because while that’s dangerous, modern safety standards in vehicles mean the probability of mortality in these situations is substantially reduced.

My point is that people won’t die, not that it’s a good thing to do.

Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.

How calm should I be about driver’s being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because “lol, what was I supposed to do?!?” … Exactly?

Can’t see? Don’t drive. It’s not fucking rocket surgery.

They’ll survive. Their cars might not…

Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.

I’ve been in the situation plenty as a driver and if you don’t know how to handle it, destroy your driver’s license.

Jesus fucking Christ.

You people have the privilege of being able to legally drive on public roads… FFS.

Weird how language works. There’s so many words for so many things but I certainly can’t think of anything that could express “permanently paused” in a better, more concise way…

/s (if it wasn’t obvious)

Oddly specific.

I hope you’re living your best life just to spite her.

fracking clankers.

I mean, you could take the same logic and apply it to many things AI generated…

The list is much much longer than this.