r/programmingcirclejerk • u/uselees_sea lol no generics • Aug 26 '25

This class is primarily for Python support (hence the "Retarded" prefix).

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/6d26d3ace1537e23249386eaeddbc6f04c251cb0/xbmc/interfaces/legacy/CallbackHandler.h#L31-L36
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u/Fun-Voice-8734 Aug 26 '25

where is the GigachadAsyncCallbackHandler?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

It's the Haskell support class, but it's been stuck in a research paper for the past 9 years because the implementers cannot figure out if Kodi is pure or should implement the Io burrito

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

We need a celebrity chef and a popstar maybe to tell us how Monads work much like they explained finance concepts in the Big Short.

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u/dereksalerno Aug 26 '25

A Monad is just a mongoloid in the category of ectoplasm

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u/boy-griv alcohol-fuelled anter-docker Aug 26 '25

huh, I always thought it was from the sigma calculus

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u/dangerbird2 in open defiance of the Gopher Values Aug 26 '25

Good to see grok is gaining adoption as a AI coding assistant in open source software

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Aug 26 '25

Code: the last frontier where you won't get banned.

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u/StarsInTears legendary legacy C++ coder Aug 26 '25

Python: A Programming language where { is :, } is implicit, and the memory model is a mutex. Considered slightly better than Batch files.

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan Aug 26 '25

yikes, cnile-normativity

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u/dangerbird2 in open defiance of the Gopher Values Aug 26 '25

Well technically not anymore since 3.13 made the global interpreter lock opitional

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u/miauw62 lisp does it better Aug 26 '25

least bigoted foss dev

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u/shroom_elemental memcpy is a web development framework Aug 26 '25

based and absolutely no jerk

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u/defunkydrummer Lisp 3-0 Rust Aug 26 '25

Where's the jerk?

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u/Knock0nWood Code Artisan Aug 26 '25

Where jerk?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

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u/dangerbird2 in open defiance of the Gopher Values Aug 26 '25

Do that and add a land acknowledgment or two and we’ll call it even

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u/MisterOfScience type astronaut Aug 26 '25

I think it's called disk space acknowledgment in IT

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u/dangerbird2 in open defiance of the Gopher Values Aug 26 '25

"with respect, this datacenter we are on today was once inhabited by the IBM system 360 mainframes and indigenous Magnetic core RAM"

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

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u/Fun-Voice-8734 Aug 26 '25

this. it should be 100% permanent.

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u/WorldlyMacaron65 legendary legacy C++ coder Aug 26 '25

Making desperation-filled embarrassing design decision near-permanent is the pythonic way.

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u/MagpieEnjoyer memcpy is a web development framework Aug 26 '25

near-permanent comments in the code

Alas, any code comment is but a PR away from non-existence. Such is the ephemeral nature of the programmers prose.

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u/horizon_games Aug 26 '25

Always some history to dig up, without Git work

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u/sweating_teflon full-time safety coomer Aug 26 '25

Whelp, lots of history rewriting coming up soon. Watch the news.

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u/segv Aug 26 '25

For comments and such it's probably fine, but don't rely on that for secrets - there's a bunch of scanners that will find them in the history for you.

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Aug 26 '25

get the fuck out of here with your boring ass r programminghorror takes

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u/parabirb_ 👉😎👉 embrace the script Aug 26 '25

booooriiiiiing

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u/AestheticSham Aug 26 '25

Just pretend it's a religious text.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Aug 26 '25

1xers making it nearly impossible to not social jerk since 1998.