I’m a geek, always around computers, gaming, tinkering, etc.

Once I moved for work, to Spain, didn’t know the language. My laptop broke, like, when opening it, the plastic was fatigued and the screen just bent.

I was broke, expensive training… Couldn’t replace it before a few months.

So I went to the bar of the inn I was starting at. And just, tried to pick up some words.

Long story short, after a while I knew everyone in town, had many friends, and after work, laptop or not, I would go to the bar. I got fluent in Spanish too.

Happiest time of my life. I don’t think my mental health has ever been as good as back then.

Flight Simulator… 2? 1988, MS-DOS

Clown Stripe*

Is this… clean code ? 💁‍♂️ 🦋

There’s a guy, Isaac Newton, he’s 57. Ask him about his second third law, hopefully he came up with it already.

I steer gigantic metal birds pulled by armies of horses carrying dozens of people, to the antipodes… in less than one day… using dead animal juice.

Interesting, but I’m skeptical. Couldn’t find anything that corroborates.

I understand your premise as a quality deficit, but really the issue I had was typing speed / convenience.

It’s more of a QOL thing. The final code is the same quality I think.

Also, we spend much our time reading and thinking about the code rather than writing it.

Well, after trying a US keyboard for coding I never went back to a french one. It’s so much easier…

If you tried copilot at the beginning, it’s improved a lot since, now it’s using GPT-4.