XKCD: It's more than a comic

I am a magician, I can summon your desires. Google image "Spiral Pizza" and you shall have your answer.

Python Environment.

Definitely a nerdy one there. I can appreciate the general nature of the joke even though I don't code in Python.

I has always been confused where Python puts its packages when I install them in several different ways. And how it chooses which binary to run if I installed it with different versions of pip.

I just use Anaconda for everything and let God sort them out.

I just use nothing and don't program anymore because I hated it and switched my major because of it

Omg I recently tried writing a twitter app in python I feel the pain

Containers

Oh, there is so much truth in that. Understanding a platform is way more difficult than gluing bits of code together that happen to do what you want.

edited 2nd May '18 11:38:54 AM by Fighteer

Buying two smartphones seems like an expensive way to get a wall display, but I guess you can find anything for cheap on ebay if you look hard enough.

If you convert money into man-hours, then learning to write the software necessary to do whatever he was trying to do would probably have been more expensive than even buying a couple of new low-end smartphones.

Except that by learning to write the software you learn some actually useful skill. It might not be worth it anyway. Newer Android phones support split screen though.

The point of the comic though is that it's often simpler to do a dirty hack than doing things the "right way". However, I don't understand which direction the containers analogy is supposed to be. Running services side by side on the same machine is the simpler, "dirty" solution. Using containers requires more work, but is usually better and safer.

Maybe it's a dig at how a lot of coders will just slap together a bunch of APIs and code snippets they found on the Internet rather than actually write code that they understand why and how it works?

Yes.

IMHO.

• In My Honorable Opinion
• In My Horny Opinion
• In My Hostile Opinion
• In My Honed Opinion
• In My Horrifying Opinion
• In My Hungry Opinion

We could keep this going for a while.

edited 4th May '18 1:52:45 PM by Fighteer

Considering some of her other responses, I'm wondering if the I, M, and O even stand for "in", "my", and "opinion" for her.

I hate these abbreviations. They add no information to the sentence, yet it takes me several seconds to decode them. IMHO is one of the most used and the one I am more familiar with, but I get goosebumps from AFAIK and FWIW.

edited 4th May '18 2:49:34 PM by petersohn

How about something like ROFLMAO?

TAANSTAFL. PEBCAK. WWJD. INWIYAR.

edited 4th May '18 2:54:42 PM by Fighteer

I thought EOBKAC was a thing, but perhaps I'm wrong. It's similar to PEBCAK.

I have nothing against ROFLMAO and friends, as they are usually used alone as a sentence, and it actually contains some information. However, if someone actually says out "LOL" aloud, that's just wrong.

I accidentally said lol out loud once. It doubled down on my resolution to never type that filthy abbreviation out again since I write like I speak and I speak like I write.

Who even puts more than one space after a sentence?

Old people.