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[–] snowraven 77 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Right all we are missing now is videos in comments.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

This interface is brought to you by World of Tanks!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's turn github into Instagram. Every snippet of code has to be attached to a picture or video...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You joke but with chatGPT it's inevitable. Old school programmers will stick to source code but tools for non-programmers will collect plain text descriptions to create functionality.

Inevitably, images and all other media will become part of it.

Future developers will have to navigate those collections and wonder why a functionality doesn't work when they remove some side-tracking Instagram stories. They will shrug, leave them in place and heap on further memes and comments until they complete their jira ticket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

So what I'm hearing is that computer code will eventually drift closer to DNA where "noncoding" sequences actually perform regulatory functions but in a way that's super-arcane, and all you know is if you get rid of the noncoding bits the proteins change expression for some bizarre reason...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

This guy embeds TicTok URLs in source comments followed by long strings of emoji

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We need to be able to add gifs for code reviews.