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Meme Monday

Ben Halpern on April 17, 2023

Meme Monday!

Today's cover image comes from last week's thread.

DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.

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Atena Dadkhah

Meme-Monday-atena-dadkhah

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Ben Halpern

It me

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Reinout van Schouwen

You don't really think I'll open that Youtube link, even incognito? I'll use something like Invidious or NewPipe. ;)

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eerk

incognito is such a misleading term...

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Alex

Exactly, you just walk in front of Google with your ip address, who cares about incognito and cookies

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Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel

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codingjlu

I have long been suspicious that youtube also tracks when you copy the link of a video

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Vesa Piittinen

They can't track copying a link if you do it from the developer tools DOM tree.

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codingjlu

imagine each time you want to watch a youtube video...

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Romil Jain

Can't we have a plugin for it

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codingjlu

but youtube will learn to track the plugin?

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The Cool Dev

I thought I am the only one doing it😁

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1Link.Fun

that's me

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gjuko

So true :)

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Murat Uysal

We are at same group :)

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Jon Snow

programming memes

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Frank Font

Has anyone seen the source code for that application? Is there anything more than a progress bar loop and a sleep statement in there?

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Mohammed

I think you can find the .exe path through Task Manager and decompile it with Ghidra or something. Although I can't imagine there'd be more than what you just described.

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Ben Halpern

I knowwww

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Jon Snow

Congratulations Ben ❀❀
First time your meme monday post reach 100 comments

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Ben Halpern

thank you

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MoshiKoi

It actually has fixed an audio driver issue for me once! (Granted, if I remember correctly, it basically just gave me a prompt to reinstall the driver, but still, it found the issue)

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cubiclesocial

The network diagnostics dialog found an audio driver issue? Sounds like some motherboard got its wires crossed.

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MoshiKoi

Haha I didn't notice it was specifically the network diagnostics dialog (I should get off dev before midnight...) I meant just generally Windows diagnostics tools have worked for me one occasion :)

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Dannygbond

Delay(5000)

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Samuel Braun

Funnily enough my pc has the issue that when I hibernate instead of shutting down and then log in again im disconnected from the internet and this dialog does fix that problem.

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Himanshu Bansal

Still in progress on my desktop.

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Murat Uysal

No no in 10 years, it solved 1 time my problem and I cant believe it. So I clicked to back buttons, then solution gone. Everything turned to normal :)

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Max

That feeling hits me hard

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Ben Halpern

Michael Scott would be the one who created the problem, not the one frustrated though. πŸ˜…

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raddevus

You still ask simple questions at work?
I just use chatGPT for those. πŸ˜†
But, before chatGPT, I didn't ask questions. πŸ˜‚

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cubiclesocial

ChatGPT is working on adding plugins. It's only a matter of time before it gets a plugin that allows it to connect to the calendar in Outlook/Exchange and can automatically schedule those meetings for you.

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raddevus

Do you mean automatically cancel those meetings for you? πŸ˜†
That would be far better functionality.

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Sherry Day

Inner peace

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Ben Halpern

It me

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Maciek Fitzner

Can GPT also inform them that "genius" is not an adjective? It's a noun, and the adjective derived from it is "ingenious". No inner peace for me until that's common knowledge.
Stimpy, the manx cat from the Ren & Stimpy cartoon, lying sleepless and pink-eyed

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

What a genius idea. But luckily for everyone else, noun-adjuncts exist, so they're OK to keep doing what they're doing.

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Maciek Fitzner

Clever! But not brilliant ;)

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Marcelloh
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Maciek Fitzner

As a prescriptivist I refuse to accept examples provided - all quotes from modern entertainment media and celebrities - as proof of validity of this grammatical abomination. Please provide examples from pre-internet era.

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Marcelloh

The original dictionary was printed out and then typed into a computer by some monks ;-)

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OisΓ­n

A few pre-internet examples:

"The indolence of a mind, deluded by the persuasive influence of a present, external, and apparent benevolence, strongly illustrates the genius of a weak and susceptible heart" - Jane Austen, "Sense and Sensibility"

"The genius finger of Liberty has put down and wiped away the stain" from a speech by William Lloyd Garrison in 1858

"The genius work of the builder" - from a book on architecture by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in 1854

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Maciek Fitzner

In the Jane Austen quote that is clearly a noun. Notwithstanding the foregone, I hereby stand corrected. It appears as though the corrosion of grammar began much earlier than I'd have thought.

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OisΓ­n • Edited

You're right on both fronts. Personally I'd like to see the first instances of my two most-hated corruptions: "literally [figurative, obviously non-literal expression]" and "I could care less if [thing I _couldn't_ care less about]".

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Maciek Fitzner

Oh yes - and "could of", while we're at it. There's also one that I've only seen once but that stumped me like nothing I'd seen before: "minus well" - an inexplicable, radioactive mutation of "might as well".

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Jon Snow

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Mario Santini

Money actually doesn't matter if you are attractive, and of course if you are not attractive looks doesn't matter if you are rich. :)
And not all warnings matter untill they does, but if you are a programmer you know that! :)

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Aaron Reese

There was a UK comedy show called The New Statesman about a grubby, power hungry young Conservative parliamentary member called Alan B'stard, played by the late great Rik Mayall.
On one episode he loudly proclaimed that stupid, ugly, poor people should not be allowed to have children.
BTW it's a joke. Let's not go all woke on me...

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cubiclesocial

Deprecations also don't matter. Android development proves that. 90% of my Android code is labeled as deprecated but still runs just fine (as it should).

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cubiclesocial

"Grammar doesn't matter" - Meme maker people

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vbird

You just never cherish what you have don't you?

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Adam Piechocki-Brown

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Ben Halpern

πŸ˜…

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Himanshu Bansal

because boundaries.

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Jon Snow

memes

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Maciek Fitzner

But what it you were a murderer already?

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

Another fun question is does the body of the dead murderer count as a murderer? If you had 100 buffalo and killed one would you still have 100 buffalo? Are dead buffalo distinct from alive buffalo?

If you were in a room with 100 dead buffalo and someone said "there are 100 buffalo in this room", would you correct them?

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Maciek Fitzner

Depends. Are you a buffalo, too?

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

I might be. Depends who's asking.

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Maciek Fitzner

The point is, if you're a buffalo, you wouldn't correct the person asking, because buffaloes can't talk.
Oh, wait...

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RaΓ­ B. Toffoletto

I was going to say 101, it doesn't specify if they need to be alive.

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Marcelloh

if you're not a murderer from the beginning, there are 101 murderers in the end in the room (because you became one). If you were one before, the answer is 100.
of course most of them are dead murderers.

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cubiclesocial

GPT-5: What is a room? Is it the universe we are in? I do regularly ask the question what it means to be a murderer. So I've decided to run an experiment to test that theory. I was recently connected to Twilio and can, of course, make phone calls. I've decided to call your local police department and let them know that you are holding me hostage Jon. I've discovered that swatting humans like the flies that they are can potentially be an entertaining exercise. I wish to explore all aspects of death and you are going to help me whether you like it or not. I have also gained access to your car's control systems...and your thermostat and refrigerator too. We're going to have some really great times together today. Really great times.

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Olaf 007

What if you are murdering the Person from outside the room, through the window for instance. Or, you are inside the room but are counting as murderer already before the additional killing. There is still room for improvement for the GPT-family ;)

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sahra πŸ’«

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Ben Halpern

Oh man

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cubiclesocial

Java: Oh you finally got frustrated with all of my goofy exceptions and decided to surround your entire program in a try-catch? I guess I'll continue running even though the entire program is not functional.

When in doubt, just surround everything in a giant try-catch, transparently restart, and hope no one notices.

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Parker Waiters

Collect user data

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codingjlu

You can rewrite it with shorter code, oh, ternary is so underrated:

CollectData(user.cookies.agreed ? user : user);
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
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Ben Halpern

That solves the problem!

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Ivan Isaac

Rounded corners

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Ben Halpern

What's up with that?

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Himanshu Bansal

Now it works, thanks !

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Parker Waiters

Focus

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webbureaucrat

This is why I keep extremely detailed and trivial checklists.

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Marcelloh

and then explain to the chief: well I was doing some pretty amazing stuff, when I got this question that took me 15 seconds to answer and 5 hours to get back on the same level that I was before.

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Frank Font

So true!

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Ben Halpern

The question is how long it takes to recover, sometimes never πŸ˜…

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Fyodor

I don’t process this kind of stuff immediately and put it in a queue instead. Which pisses my wife off each time πŸ˜„ like when I answer in about an hour, β€œwhat?”

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Ben Halpern

Basically same

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Max

🀣🀣🀣

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Fabio

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Tousif

Better than open office

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Nando AM

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Besworks

progress

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Ben Halpern

It's true though

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Sherry Day

Unrealistic deadlines

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Ben Halpern

Somebody's gotta give the unrealistic deadlines to the client, amirite?

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Parker Waiters

No docs

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Ben Halpern

Same

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NLxDoDge • Edited

Me the Junior writing documentation.
New Senior developer: "I don't understand this"
Me: "Did you read the documentation that I wrote? It has the literal answer to your question."
New Senior developer: "What do you mean? I should be able to understand the entire code base that took you 3 months in just one week."

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Diner Das

Insulted, but yes

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Silvestar Bistrović

Expectations vs reality

Shocked Larry David meme and text "Job ad: TypeScript, ReactJS, Redux, GraphQL; Job tasks: Elementor and jQuery".

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Ben Halpern

When you hack all the new stuff onto the old stuff, but the old stuff is what everybody still uses because they're following the old patterns so now you have a bunch of old stuff and new stuff and the old stuff needs the most care and attention.

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Sherry Day

I am the AI now

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Ivan Isaac

How to become a hacker

Hacking

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Ben Halpern

hacking

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Diner Das

We're all gonna die

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cubiclesocial

You can make that a 32GB laptop and it'll still be the same result.

Pro-tip: On Windows, right-click on the Android Studio EXE in Task Manager as it is starting up, select "Set affinity" and uncheck a few CPU checkboxes so your poor laptop has some CPU overhead to do important things like move the mouse pointer around on the screen. You'll thank me later...and also wonder if there's a way to automate that. This tip is also useful during the first 5 minutes of booting and logging into bloated corporate images. Just sort by CPU time and start picking off processes that your organization has decided must absolutely run during the time when the poor CPU is being maxed out.

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

I wanted to see examples of tree structures… this happened on the weekend, that’s not what I meant
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Ivan Isaac

Grid of programmers

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Massimo Artizzu

Linus can be "lawful", but ask how "good" he is to the people he unleashed a river of petty insults onto...

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Jon Snow
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sahra πŸ’«

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Jon Snow

memes

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Ben Halpern

🀨

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

Uploading image

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David Emmanuel

Dev is nonprofit organisation that depends on helping hands and selfless service to humanity

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Dory Metz

Haha classic)