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If you could be any age for the rest of your life, which would you choose? in c/asklemmy

[–] treechicken 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I liked being 16. Mature enough to design grand plans. Naive enough to actually try them.

Plus the greatest adversary I face for the rest of my life would just be standardized testing :P

[–] treechicken 3 points 7 months ago

I really hope so. Last code I reviewed was full of !! and companion objects trying to emulate Java static instead of top-level consts. Even I'm still trying to figure out what idiomatic Kotlin looks like. We got a ways to go...

New language in c/[email protected]

[–] treechicken 1 points 7 months ago

The interoperability is both a blessing and a curse imo since it let us half-ass the integration by leaving a bunch of Java code unconverted. I could start refactoring everything but then my team would stop reviewing my PRs due to the diff size (and then my manager would eventually find out that I've been using up work time doing this instead of shipping features during crunch week).

I really much prefer Kotlin to Java. I just wish my team had actually had a commitment to it instead of just sorta using it with no migration plan.

New language in c/[email protected]

[–] treechicken 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

This is literally how this all started for us lol. Senior wanted to try to migrate everything to Kotlin in our project. Migration never finished. Now one of our major repos is just half Kotlin half Java. Devs on our team learn Kotlin by unexpectedly encountering it when they need to touch that code.

What did the spider text to the other spider? in c/dadjokes

[–] treechicken 5 points 7 months ago

;;;;)

Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional? in c/[email protected]

[–] treechicken 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I hope not. I'm pretty sure me and my coworkers would be at each others' throats if it were not for some form of typed JS holding our Frankenstein codebase together.

Any good April Fools jokes out there? in c/asklemmy

[–] treechicken 13 points 7 months ago

The folks over at [email protected] have been weighing books all day which has been fun :P

What are you listening to RIGHT NOW? in c/asklemmy

[–] treechicken 2 points 7 months ago

B I R D S

What's an example of good people doing good things, which is not an act of harm reduction or mitigating some kind of evil? in c/asklemmy

[–] treechicken 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh wait you're talking about torrents...

Todays Sunrise over the Potomac River in c/pics

[–] treechicken 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I always love passing over the river on the yellow line

XXX in c/comicstrips

[–] treechicken 4 points 7 months ago

Back in middle school I wore a Woodstock shirt to school and one of my classmates came up to me and was just like, "Oh man I love Woodstock". I literally had no idea Woodstock was even a thing (I thought it was just some random words on a graphic tee). Wanted so badly to just tell him that I only got it because I thought the bird on the guitar looked cool but ended up getting tongue tied :,)

Won the swift student challenge today, I might actually be able to get an internship now 🤞 in c/[email protected]

[–] treechicken 3 points 7 months ago

Congrats! Game looks really cool! Best of luck

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Community Service (lemmy.world)

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[WP] Reverse drive-thrus have become all the rage! It's like a normal drive-thru but instead of you driving up to an order window, food trucks drive up to you! (self.writingprompts)

submitted 8 months ago by treechicken to c/writingprompts

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[WP] The government has suddenly issued a level 4 do not travel advisory for all time travelers to the year 2024 (self.writingprompts)

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Atashi Vampire! (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by treechicken to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to draw Ichijou from It Shows on Your Face, Ichijou-san in the pose from the cover of the Vampire vocaloid and now here we are.

(Vampires sparkle right?)

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Why did the boy refuse to blow his nose with a dollar bill? 'Cause money's not a tissue. (self.dadjokes)

submitted 9 months ago by treechicken to c/dadjokes

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[Question] Is amateur art okay? (self.anime_art)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by treechicken to c/[email protected]

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I sometimes draw but the quality is very amateur level (or sometimes just straight-up a shitpost).

Can I still post it here or is there a better community on this instance for that?

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At what age do you think is too old to be living with parents? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by treechicken to c/asklemmy

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Background+rant: I'm in my early to mid-20s and still living at home with my dad. I'm not a NEET and am employed at a normal office job. I enjoy the comfort of my home. I like being with family (and I believe they feel blessed to have their kid at home longer). I like not having to pay rent. However, I also keep feeling some nagging pressure to "grow up and leave the nest".

Everything in my mind tells me that moving out is irrational. I would lose 1/3rd of my income to rent, go through a bunch of logistical hoops to find a new place, lose the last few moments I have with my family, just so I can prove to nobody that I'm independent, maybe discover new things, and also probably get in on some of that loneliness action that the rest of my generation is going through.

Yet, the pressure is still there. No one looks down on me for it, but I feel a bit embarrassed to tell people I'm living at home, like I'm admitting failure or incompetency. My friends will occasionally ask when I'm planning on moving out and the question just lingers longer than it should in my head. I compare myself to my parents and grandparents and can't help but feel like a child compared to the people they were when they were at my age.

Obviously quite conflicted on this, so I'm interested in seeing what others have to say.

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Firewall (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by treechicken to c/[email protected]

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