That is correct

I’m not in a position to watch the video right now but… is this a The Killers joke?

You might be confused. You seem to be taking about a similar game called “Chest”.

I think they were talking about Chess.

I was sent to the principals office several times in elementary school because my teachers thought I was trying to be a smart ass. Because I would do what they literally, exactly asked me to do, and not what they apparently meant.

I was always very confused because I honestly believed I was doing my best to follow instructions.

It didn’t help that I grew up in the American southeast, a region where patterns of speech are very indirect and lean heavily on idioms and metaphors.

I was in middle school before I figured out what was happening and did not get into trouble in that way anymore. I’m in my 40s now but I’m still a literal-first thinker. And yeah, I’m a programmer.

At this point… yeah, probably so.

I mean, assuming the env and dependencies aren’t totally fucked.

Some of my favorite PC games come from the Windows XP era. There is something about games from that time that seem to make them particularly difficult to get running these days.

I’ve had the best luck in Linux via WINE/Proton, but it probably varies at lot from game to game.

No one dares…

Yeah, I’ve read about the development of the ability to run TS natively in Node. It sounds really promising!

I’m not familiar with ts-node though. I’ll have to check that out.

No worries on the ranting!

In this industry where we are all a little afraid to admit that we don’t know something, it’s nice to be reminded that everyone is always learning all the time and that there’s no way any of us can know everything.

I’m enjoying the learning process, despite its paper cuts, and love where I work. I enjoy TS itself but I do wish the process of setting up a new project/config stuff were more streamlined. Maybe in the future!

I’ve had pretty good experiences with it even situations with moderate data manipulation. There are some tricks you can use to engage different phases of the event loop to keep the data processing from blocking too much.

It’s still not as good as Java/C#/Go, of course, but it can help get some more performance out of Node.

Thanks for the tip! I’ll double check that when I get back to work next week.

I’ve written a lot of NodeJS apps in vanilla JS, and plenty of .NET backend stuff too. The transition to serious TS has been relatively recent. I like it alright, but dislike the added complexity that comes with all the various config files - vanilla JS has enough of that already!

Oh, they are included in the build. But I still get error messages that don’t actually point to the line in the TS source file sometimes.

Maybe I have something configured wrong - TS projects always include a more config files of different kinds than I see in other languages I work in - but it happens.

You are familiar with NodeJS, yes? 👍

Well sure. But the error messages don’t point to those, which was what had me chuckling about this meme.

This happens all the time with TypeScript. The transpiled JS that actually runs will naturally have different line numbers than the TS you wrote!

To be fair, the reported line number is usually close enough that I can find the issue without much trouble.

It’s not my favorite back end language, but it’s what everyone on my team knows…

Yes.

The purpose of technology is to improve our lives, help us overcome problems or disabilities, and make our world better.

Instead we have allowed a small group of sociopaths to turn that on its head. We now work to produce “content” for LLMs to slurp up for the purpose of creating more bullshit.

Which is why I’m a backend developer/infrastructure engineer for a nonprofit organization in the area of social services.

The pay is not as good but I can look my children in the eye and tell them that I am proud of the work I do.

Oblivion

I lol’d

You probably already know this, but most IDEs have a setting to enable Vim keybinds or you can easily install an extension to add them.

I really like Neovim but my job often requires some stuff that it doesn’t easily do. So, VSCode is what I use a lot of the time… with the Vim extension.

Just something to consider if your stack isn’t super well supported in Vim/Neovim or you need tools it doesn’t have for your work.