(I wrote about this topic in my weekly email this week. This is the blog version, somewhat extended.) Easy to read Two contributing factors that make code hard to read are function length and function complexity.
I'm sure you're aware of the caveats but using function length may not be the best metric to measure complexity. What I'm about to write is therefore likely nothing new to you but I'm doing it nevertheless because there are many voices in the software engineering space that apply a naive law of "long function bad, short function good".
While splitting a function into smaller parts may improve readability to some degree, it rarely decreases the mental capacity needed to understand it. I'd argue that it's quite often even the opposite if the code is well-structured: Blocks can be used efficiently to mimic a function that is specific to a use case, relatively short and not reusable. A separate function would introduce overhead in form of its signature and disruption of the reader's flow because its location is elsewhere in the code. The block can easily be shoved into a function when it becomes larger or when it can be re-used.
When it comes to reducing complexity, what I'd want is to keep mental capacity needed in an acceptable range. In that regard, I'd e.g. value minimising the amount, scope and lifetime of variables within a function over function length. These metrics are likely much harder to provide but maybe they would be a neat addition next to the cyclomatic complexity.
@f09fa681 Kinda agree when we exclude functions extracted/refactored that contain only one call. While a complex call with a GOOD name of the function might be considered helpful, I tend to find it harmful as it is a context switch while reading code, for only one line/call. So it can turn bad if everything is wrapped in small functions - having unreadable code, and slipping right through the metric.
Why do we still call them set-top boxes? When was the last time you saw a brand new, modern television on top of which such a device could be placed? For me, this was probably in the summer of 2003, and that's kind of a stretch.
Does this go into the category of why the save icon is still a floppy disk, why phone cameras still make analog shutter noises, and why phones are still called phones?
well the fact that we're using the 'set' of 'television set' in the term is a bit of a worry. When did you last see a TV advertised as a 'television set'?
@cachondo My uncle collects old stuff. When I last visited his house about 15 years ago, he had an old TV from the early 1940s with a round screen that made motor noises when you turned it on. *That* was a television set.
it's crazy to think that they used to be so modular. The casing was a component of putting the 'set' together.
My grandparents had a fantastic chrome and brass media system for radio, records and so on. Full of valves and dials. Something to be polished. Looking good even when it wasn't in use.
Our TV is up on the wall. It gets a dust with the rest of the room but is far from the centre of things. Interesting how times change.
@cachondo Yep. I've seen consoles with a separate AM and FM radio, TV and turntable. Those were works of art in some cases. You would be proud to have that in your living area.
Now, you've got this non-descript thing that could be a picture frame, a window to nowhere, or a panel of dust, and you don't give it a thought.
I've been working with some gestural models lately. One of the cool things I can do now is shake my hand at my smart speaker's camera to get its attention, then point in a given direction, and the music moves to the next room. But the visual manifestations of that music is just not there. Little balls in the corners of the room.
@cachondo Weird to think that these generally not entirely impressive things are just the standard now. Your average person doesn't have even a mediocre stereo system these days.
yeah. We had a single source of sound for music in our kitchen for years. I have put a stereo pair in there now and it's magic, but when I was younger, stereo earphones were just a given.
Dovedu si ji představit jako komediální herečku. Možná by byla skvělá. Takhle je to ten největší bizár, co si dovedu představit. Nekonečné množství inspirace pro Monty Python. Ale žít to, zoufalstvím bych brečela.
Ja tomu nerozumim 😰 Kdyby mela OF, nebyl by to muj salek, ale asi bych to nejak umela pochopit, ale toto?!?? A nejdesivejsi je fakt, ze jim to ty body prinasi
@Pavlina212 je děsivé uvědomit si, že budoucnost téhle země a celé Evropy do jisté míry závisí na tom, jestli se nám aspoň půl milionu spoluobčanů, včetně aktivních tvůrců obsahu, podaří přesvědčit, aby přešli z amerických a čínských sociálních sítí do Fediverse. Zní to ale dost nereálně.
koho tímhle proboha může oslovit? Mladé? Staré? Dementní?
Mimochodem, dokážete si představit, že tohle by byl blízký člen vaší rodiny a takhle se veřejně prezentoval? To už snad není ani na to se za něj stydět, ale rovnou ho zabít…
To je píča. Sorry, to se slušně nedá. (Ještě poznámka: šel jsem sem z Tw mj. proto, abych takovej xindl neměl na očích. Normálně za tyhle příspěvky dávám mute nebo unfollow, u tebe ale ještě rád počkám... 😉 Jo, mám už filtry na jména, jistou agrofirmu apod., ale obrázky to jaksik nebere! 😅 Tak hezký svátek. 🙋♂️)
@OttovonWenkoff Tak nějak jsem to chtěl napsat 😀👍 No je pravda že jsem tam mohl dát #ANO nebo tak něco. No a když na to koukám zpětně, tomu videu by slušelo, kdyby bylo označeno jako citlivé 😀😀 Jinak já jsem v rachotě. Svátek je v ČR 🤷🏼♂️
Takže jsme řekli jinými slovy totéž... 😅 (Tady musím odkázat na jednu geniální záležitost 👇😉) A na tu tvou Germánii jsem zapomněl 🤦♂️ Tak budeš muset slavit zase v pátek. 😉
Pátá epizoda československého komediálního seriálu z produkce Československé televize s názvem Likér.Vlastník autorských práv umožňuje publikaci tohoto pátéh...
Je to absurdní, ale Evropa se nemůže zbavit závislosti na ruském zemním plynu.
Paradoxně tak Evropa financuje obě strany konfliktu. Nejde jen o tranzit přes Ukrajinu, ale i ruský LNG, který dováží čím dál více evropských zemí. Například Španělsko pokrývá 23 % svých dovozů plynu z Ruska.
I just got word that the 27th #XMPP Summit will indeed take place on the two days leading up to #FOSDEM 2025. Thursday, January 30th 2025 and Friday, January 31st at the Thon Hotel EU in Brussels, Belgium. Save the date! RSVP if you plan to attend in person. If you are an XMPP developer and enjoy long discussions over minute details of XMPP protocol extensions this event is perfect for you!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in person again. Stay tuned for more details.
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Guess who tried being a good girl. Also, guess who got rewarded for it 😇
(Und ja, das ist neu für mich. Ich bin normalerweise sehr sehr bratty, und diesmal aber nicht [zugegeben, das kam vereinzelt trotzdem durch]. Dass ich dann auch auf Knien darum bitten musste, dass man mir ein Halsband anlegt, und am Ende auch noch nach mehr Schlägen gefragt habe, … war neu, und faszinierend, und interessant, und ich habe das Gefühl ich will diese Seite von mir unbedingt noch mehr erforschen. Das war sehr spaßig und hatte ein paar neue Gefühle freigesetzt :3 )
Das Wesen, was den Rohrstock führte, hatte vermutlich auch Spaß daran. Zumindest dem Teasing und dem fiesen Grinsen nach zu urteilen 😁
Video o hodinách na věži frýdeckého farního kostela, mj. o každoroční změně času.
Věž je přístupná veřejnosti a jelikož je v centru Frýdku, tj. na kopci, je z ní krásný výhled na celé město i Beskydy. A naopak já mám z okna krásný výhled na věž, vzdálenou cca 150 metrů vzdušnou čarou 😀
Změna času na hodinách ve věži. 🕰️ V neděli nad ránem se posunout ciferníky ze tří hodin na dvě - končí letní čas. Většina hodin a hodinek to zvládne...
Výzkumníci se domnívají, že by roztátá voda pod krustou marsovského ledu mohla podporovat mikrobiální život. Hned na začátek je ale nutné připomenout, že zatím nemáme k dispozici žádné důkazy o tom, že by na Marsu byl skutečně objeven život. Ovšem nová studie expertů NASA zmiňuje možnost, že by potenciální mikroorganismy mohly najít vhodné podmínky téměř na povrchu planety.
Já už jsem samozřejmě na změnu času připraven. Čelovka nabitá, jen vyběhnout. Kdyby náhodou někdo hledal čelovku, tak Fenix HM 51 R mohu doporučit. Mám jí tři roky, sice dražší, ale je fakt super. #sport #fenix
Grateful to Molly White for pointing out the legal precarity of freelance journalism. For most people, the law is more of a threat than a protector. citationneeded.news/i-am-my-ow…
Já bych bral jen letní, to světlo ráno bude pár dní a budeme jezdit do práce i z práce za tmy Zase kdyby nechali zimní čas, tak v létě ve tři ráno světlo a v osm večer tma. Tak to pro mě taky nic moc .
@ronny Jo to je pravda My už máme děti 19 a 20 let sarý, tak už je klid. U nás má s tím problém hlavně pes )) Jinak jsem ti zapomněl odepsat, omlouvám se. Ty vhsky, běželi asi měsíc a videa nešla, tak jsem to smazal uplně
Oh my word and ho ho ho! We live in such a holly jolly era of miracles and wonders! Classic Christmas song gets authorized Spanish reworking thanks to ‘responsible’ AI techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/clas…
In the decades following its 1958 release, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly-tinged “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has attained status as an all-time holiday
Living in a society where everyone is constantly trying to scam you if exhausting.
Sure, there's the regular scammers we think of. The ones who call or email you and pretend to be your bank, your telco, your long lost family with an inheritance for you.
But then there's all the legal scamming. Phones that come with built-in advertising IDs. Pop-ups with tiny close buttons. Anything where you have to "opt-out". Wherever bullshit Adobe has thought up this week.
When I was a teenager in the 2000s I somehow got the opportunity to interview the drummer from Minor Threat for a hardcore zine.
I asked him for his advice for young musicians. He said “you’re not going to listen to this advice because you don’t think it’s cool, and one day you’ll regret it, but always wear earplugs.”
No, Windows 11 File explorer, I do not want my file list to be grouped by week, or by filetype. What kind of crack are you on? I just want a nice alphabetized listview. And stop telling me that you're working on it, because I'm the one who pressed Enter and am well aware that you will be working on it. thanks!
So I asked #ElevenLabs for "a ham radio operator calling CQ on the busy 20-meter band". As a #ham myself, this is absolutely correct; we all eventually just trail off into unintelligible growling noises. #AI
What #linux distrobution has the best accessible gui? I need to duel boot this on the same machine along side windows. #slint #a11y #ubuntu #fedora #archlinux
Arch can have whatever GUI you set up, so it meets that requirement by default. Slint is also really good for accessibility. Didier is an excellent distro maintainer and really does a great job with accessibility for Slint. Also, if you want to install either of them, you know where to come to for support if you need it. ☺️
I would, but this machine is a laptop so I don't have that option. I will have to use a single boot loader. I do have a ssd and a spinning drive in this machine though.
So in A Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized season 2, the Crunchy English subs make it seem like King Vanessa being a girl is a reveal in ep4, because in ep2, she's referred to as "he".
This is odd since nobody acts like it's a reveal, & her name is "Vanessa". So I looked further b/c Chinese has no spoken gendered pronoun (there is "he" & "she" in text but in speech, it's the same word). The Bilibili Chinese subs say "she" (她), so do their English subs. It's only Crunchy that made the assumption the King is a boy.
I suspect the CR translator was working from just the raw, & without text they had to make an assumption, & they heard "king" & saw somebody who could be a feminine boy & assumed male.
the reason we suspect it's a translator error and not Crunchy using AI translation or something is because in episode 4, a character definitively genders Vanessa, calling her "my sister". That's the first time it's made directly clear. (The character referred to an off screen sister in previous episodes but not that that was Vanessa). And then the Crunchy subs start referring to her using female pronouns. So that's likely when the translator realized the gender of the character.
Crunchy notoriously overworks and underpays their translators so it's likely they don't have time to think too much about these things because of how fast they're pushed to translate stuff, and they're doing it as they get the episodes.
incidentally I really hate how online western anime fandom treats Chinese anime/donghua. There's like constant hate on subsplease and other places on animation that has Chinese audio, and they complain about it being a "dub" even though that's the original language, and then they say they'll wait for the "real Japanese" even tho the JAPANESE IS THE DUB. There's also all the weebs who complain that Chinese sounds worse & is less "real" sounding than the Japanese dialogue and like, most of you can speak NEITHER LANGUAGE, shut the f- up.
And of course Wikipedia often only lists the Japanese VAs for a lot of Chinese anime, and it's so hard to find what the OP of a show is b/c all sites in search results list the Japanese OPs as the only OPs for the show -_-
For anyone who might have ideas. Could you recommend me a Daisy reader for desktop? I can read books fine on Bookshare but would like to be able to save them on my computer. Thanks.
I am currently researching the best NAS for all my data to be stored. My current device has finally decided to die. It was a western Digital. Any recommendations welcome. Also any recommendations to stay away from are Also welcome. Thanks!
ooooh curious what you find on it, I currently have an older Buffalo NAS that has a decent-ish web interface and is paired with 2 3 TB drives in RAID to make 6. I back parts of it up regularly but would be good to find one that's either got built-in drives or has 2-4 3.5 inch bays to load up drives with.
I sincerely regret to see Linux kernel patches like this one removing Russian developers from the MAINTAINERS
file. To me, it is a sign or maybe even
a symbol of how far the Linux kernel developer co
Sanctions enforcement is not a joke, and there is a reason even chinese banks comply with cutting russians off.
Going with your analogy, if hypothetically a non-NATO member Germany would start a war and others would sanction Germany, you as a german developer would rightly get removed from kernel maintainers lists. This is how sanctions work.
I can’t believe this is controversial, programmers are attempting international law and failing again.
@bagder Yes that’s entirely fair, it would not have taken much to state:
“We are removing these names from the maintainers list because of US sanctions enforcement. No, this is not optional, at a penalty of personal criminal liability but I Linus Torvalds would not challenge this removal even if I could”
(Which was i think the gist of the statements that came out later)
“Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”
@alecaddd lol we have candy to hand out as well and they will be clearly separated and labeled. So hopefully none. We’re thinking of making a game out of it idk yet.
Queremos expresar nuestro más profundo agradecimiento a cada uno de ustedes que, desde diferentes rincones de América Latina y del mundo, hicieron posible este gran evento.
Gracias a todos los asistentes, tanto presenciales como virtuales, y al increíble equipo de #GNOME Latam.
I do wonder just how serious about #accessibility is the team behind the MuseScore software. At least on Mac OS things are broken to the point of making it really quite counter-productive to use it. Broken tooltips, strange keyboard navigation, unfinished dialogs, etc, etc. I've been checking for updates for ever hoping to see some progress, but progress I see none.
Heyah there. I spent some time contributing issues and suggestions regarding MuseScore Studio accessibility while I was at Eastman School of Music over the last year and a half and was studying the BANA Music Braille code manuals to gain requisite knowledge to make recommendations regarding MSS' built-in Music Braille support. However, I never had a chance to test things on a Mac, I have since begun focusing elsewhere (I felt the only meaningful way to achieve progress at the speed I would have liked would have involved me writing code, something which I do not yet have the skillset for), and others, primarily The DAISY Consortium, RNIB, and the Sao Mai Center for the Blind, quite simply beat me to the punch and have far more resources, knowledge, and development skills than I.
With that being said, hopefully I can help. Apologies if I'm providing you with information which you already know. MuseScore Studio's keyboard navigation scheme is quite weird and nonstandard on every platform. In general, F6/Shift+F6 or grave/shift+grave moves you through whole sections of the program, tab/shift+tab gets you through different controls, and arrows move ou through buttons, boxes, etc. VoiceOver nav commands will likely not be useful anywhere in MuseScore Studio (ugh). With that being said, I'm pretty sure there are several professional musicians who use MuseScore Studio 4.
There's more info available both in the MuseScore Studio 4 handbook, where there are full sections on accessibility and keyboard navigation, and there is a speciffic page on the MuseScore.org website with accessibility tips and tricks which might be of use.
Finally, a mailing list set up by a blind music educator from New Zealand has become the defacto community resource as well as a place for users and some community contributors to discuss issues and fixes. It can be found here:
A MuseScore Studio 4 WhatsApp group monitored by developers and users is also available. there is also a MuseScore Studio Discord server where developers and users discuss and where you might be able to get some traction for accessibility fixes. Please PM me for links.
This group is here to promote and assist people with the use of the accessibility features of MuseScore Notation Software and the www.musescore.com ( http://www.musescore.com ) score sharing library website.
Also the best advice I can give about both MuseScore as well as Sibelius is that do not use VO cursor. Just use it as like windows app with tab/shifttabs, arrows, space, return, escape, etc. Using VOCursor will ensure you'll get into trouble. lol
I've taken to answering the phone "Potato" instead of "Hello", because a human will go "what?" and a robocall will fail to determine what language it should start its script in.
Matt Mullenweg is making an absolutely spurious legal claim to silence his critics. Because of the fair report privilege, "platforming the claims in the lawsuits" is on rock solid ground. If anyone knows the person behind bullenweg, there are plenty of lawyers who would delight in telling Matt to go piss up a rope. mastodon.social/@mvsde/1133736…
A whopping 10,000 downloads in just 24 hours! We're deeply grateful for your overwhelming support and trust. Thank you for choosing #JetBrainsRider, and welcome to the JetBrains community. Here's to building amazing things together! 🙌💻 #dotnet #csharp #fsharp #aspnetcore #gamedev 🚀
Do you know anything about its accessibility for screen reader users? Unfortunately, everything I've ever tried from JetBrains, was far from being usable by a screen reader user.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •I'm sure you're aware of the caveats but using function length may not be the best metric to measure complexity. What I'm about to write is therefore likely nothing new to you but I'm doing it nevertheless because there are many voices in the software engineering space that apply a naive law of "long function bad, short function good".
While splitting a function into smaller parts may improve readability to some degree, it rarely decreases the mental capacity needed to understand it. I'd argue that it's quite often even the opposite if the code is well-structured:
Blocks can be used efficiently to mimic a function that is specific to a use case, relatively short and not reusable. A separate function would introduce overhead in form of its signature and disruption of the reader's flow because its location is elsewhere in the code. The block can easily be shoved into a function when it becomes larger or when it can be re-used.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •As a general rule of thumb, I agree, I think.
When it comes to reducing complexity, what I'd want is to keep mental capacity needed in an acceptable range. In that regard, I'd e.g. value minimising the amount, scope and lifetime of variables within a function over function length. These metrics are likely much harder to provide but maybe they would be a neat addition next to the cyclomatic complexity.
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