• ValiantDust
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      I would never paste code into a Word document. I use Notepad++ for that.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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      93 months ago

      I’ve had more than one person I work with take screenshots of their desktop, paste them into a word document, then attach the word document to an email to get me to help them with their problem. This has the same energy.

      • Prison Mike
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        I’ve always wished Markdown was better supported in email. I work with external companies’ APIs a lot where email is the medium, and typically I use a Windows monospace font for code snippets (I’m on macOS but there are a handful of monospaced fonts that work on both).

        It’s very clunky, and I wish the backtick notation would work out of the box. Whoever decided HTML in email was the way to go should be shot.

        • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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          23 months ago

          I completely agree, and in general working with email programmatically sucks. MIME is a mimefield.

      • @[email protected]
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        Used to work in a place where, to get credentials, a used would need to simple send an email from their mail servers and would be enough… One of them would write a fancy Please add used x letter, print it, have the Head of Whatever sign it, scan it onto non-OCR pdf, then mail it… joy.

      • Null User Object
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        True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

        After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they’re charging people to build websites, they’re own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

        The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

        I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

          • @[email protected]
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            I don’t care what you say, the Apple store circa 2001 is iconic and definitely has that “lickability” factor that Jobs loved so much about the original OS X’s Aqua UI.

      • Prison Mike
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        23 months ago

        I started learning HTML at the age of 10 using FrontPage and Word. There were entire utilities dedicated to stripping out Word’s atrocious HTML at the time.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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    283 months ago

    Start a religion where the clergy maintain both written and oral versions of your code as a sacred text.

  • Daemon Silverstein
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    Have a proper radio ham license. Buy a 40-meter transceiver and a software defined radio dongle. Convert your code into esoteric programming languages such as Whitespace and Brainf, then spell it. “Plus, plus, next, plus, dot, open bracket, next, …”. Transmit your spelling over 40-meter band, while a receiver across the continent is tuned to the frequency. Ask it to repeat and record the QSO. Set the SDR recorder to I/Q packets instead of demodulating AM. Publish it as an audiobook.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      Or pirate radio it and make people think it’s a new number station. Then someone will surely put it on YouTube so you can listen to it there.

    • @[email protected]
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      Or go full CW, and just transmit source code in binary as dits and dahs. (So long as you document what you’re doing it should be legal, though I’m not sure if you should use the CE portion of he band since it’s nonstandard…)

  • Billegh
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    Train an LLM on your code and share the model.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      323 months ago

      If you publish it on github, that’s already taken care of for you!

    • katy ✨
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      43 months ago

      Oh hey, it’s the Minecraft racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic guy

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        Oh, really? That’s disappointing to hear; I had no idea he was like that.

    • @hakunawazo
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      What’s the favorite location of Notch? Cuba.
      /dadjoke off

  • qaz
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    163 months ago

    A classmate I was doing a project with saved his code as screenshots in a word document.

    • @devilish666OP
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      I don’t know if it’s true or just joke, but some of my friends when we are still in uni tell me that they are dreaming code
      What they saw in their dream is everything like matrix movie & every object has its own class/deps printed on it, daaaang… that’s interesting, i wish i could dream like that too but with terminal/konsole access so i can debugging my dream

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        It’s not a joke. I had similar dreams when I was learning object oriented programming. When you really understand OOP, you see just how accurately it represents the structure of things. It’s pretty brilliant.

  • slazer2au
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    103 months ago

    I’d be in favour of that with anything written in Rockstar.

  • @[email protected]
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    93 months ago

    lol, when I first started playing around with programming around grade 6 or 7, I’d print out code to read it

    • @[email protected]
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      I did that for work. Could have my phone but we could read so I just printed out c or python and tried to make sense of what I was reading

  • @MeatsOfRage
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    “Const my function equals opening parenthesis opening curly brace argh closing curly brace closing parenthesis… fat arrow…”