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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:01:49 JST Julia Evans

   I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:07:05 JST esmevane, sorry

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     @b0rk Do you find that explaining the weird things clearly is harder than explaining the stuff that makes sense? Like, I guess, do you wind up in a spot where the stuff you write is more, idk, "apologetic" when it turns focus onto the weirder parts?

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:07:06 JST Julia Evans

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     when I'm explaining something weird about computers I always try to think about if the Weird Thing is really worth the real estate it takes up in your brain or not

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 23:07:07 JST Julia Evans

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     this post is brought to you by me reading an intro to some confusing programming concept and getting mad because it didn't explain that (in my opinion) the confusing language feature is kind of a bad choice by the language designers and that if possible it's easier to just avoid using it instead of remembering how it works

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