Sometimes I make video games
This tidbit is sometimes presented like it’s a pro-trans win, but the truth is far from pretty.
If you get caught as a cis-gendered gay man in Iran then you’re potentially facing the death penalty. In a legal move that wouldn’t exist anywhere else in the world, you can plea-bargain your ding dong into a hoo-hah.
If the state is offering you a choice between mutilation or death, is it even really a choice?
You could just call this “Programmer programming” and save some screen real estate.
Something something DRY practices
This has similar energy to one of the critters from Flintstones.
*shrug* “It’s a living”
I feel like I’ve seen this bit in some sitcom.
Life imitates art.
I made a video game about this phenomenon, sourced by many years of retail experience.
I discovered comic mono a couple months ago and I’ve never looked back. It’s the perfect font
.2f will format your number rounded to two decimal places. So if you had 1 / 3 it would come out as 0.33 instead of 0.333333
% is the placeholder for the value
.2 tells it ‘two spaces after the decimal’
f tells it that the placeholder is a float
In a similar vein of perhaps too technical but ultimately very informative, there’s The Secret Life of Programs. The author introduces you to how a bit works, and then walks through how to build a computer and web browser and such from it.
I had more of a boot camp education for computers, I find this stuff fascinating even if I don’t really ‘get’ it
I opened the thread because I thought “dang, I bet visiting Iceland would be neat,” and find out I missed the age gap by a matter of months
I didn’t realize being too old would happen so early
Second worst, after me
3 hours of debugging can save you 30 minutes of reading the documentation
I suppose people will always do what they think is easiest