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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • Just what was in the main repo (at least one other repo was used for the more secure parts of the code) was a little over 4 million lines. But yeah there's a lot of complexity behind printers that I didn't think about until I had worked on them. Of course that doesn't mean they have to be terrible, it's just easier to fall into without a good plan (spoiler alert: the specific firmware I was working in didn't have a good plan)

    • What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • I used to work on printer firmware; we were implementing a feature for a text box for if you scanned a certain number of pages on a collated, multi-page copy job. The text box told you it would print the pages it had stored to free up memory for more pages; after those pages had printed, another text box would come up asking if you wanted to keep scanning pages, or just finish the job.
    The consensus was that it would be a relatively simple change; 3 months and 80 files changed — with somewhere in the ballpark of 10000-20000 lines changed, — proved that wrong.

    • the ter(ule)minal is immortal

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    • What are some Games that you play that you feel are very underrated?

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  • Awesomenauts

    It's a 3v3 2D platformer lane-pusher with an art style reminiscent of a saturday-morning cartoon. The upgrade system is very simple compared to other lane-pushers, and the games tend to go a lot quicker (15-25 minutes.) It's very intuitive to get into, but still has room for a lot of expression of skill.

    Unfortunately Ronimo (the company who made it) went bankrupt in late August, so the matchmaking server went down in September; but recently Atari bought the rights to the IP, so it's possible it will come back soon.

    • Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

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  • Purge (https://youtube.com/@PurgeGamers) is pretty good. He typically posts full, un-cut dota games, and is lower energy throughout. There's not big volume or tone changes, and they're long enough that you should always be able to fall asleep during them.

    • ...Then you select it, and the Captcha fails.

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  • This is how I approach these: that square only has a single traffic light, not multiple traffic lights like the prompt is asking for