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...or you can just vibe-code-it back into existence wherever you need it.

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[-] SparroHawc@piefed.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Took me a bit. I was staring at it for a while thinking 'What part of this is socially awkward?'

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I still don’t understand

[-] SparroHawc@piefed.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

It's pointing out the conflict between two coding ideals - first, reducing duplicate code so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel and/or copy-paste code (which often means making calls to libraries) which is represented by the red penguin facing right, and second, wanting to reduce dependencies so that external variables are reduced (which would mean including code in your codebase that otherwise would be an external library call) which is represented by the blue penguin facing left.

The closer you get towards one ideal, the further away you get from the other.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 hours ago

vibe code all the dependencies to avoid license infection

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

in-line all your code and avoid the linker :-)

[-] haerrii@feddit.org 7 points 3 hours ago

They played us absolute fools. int main() is the only function ever needed aside from loops, if you can't implement what you need, then your project is of the devil.

[-] SparroHawc@piefed.world 4 points 2 hours ago

IF and GOTO are the only flow control we need; everything else is for cowards.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

spaghetti is delicious for a reason.

this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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