Le torture : programmer

[–] neocamel@vlemmy.net 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Watching my dad right-click, and select "Copy" from the popup menu...

[–] knr1651727105@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I don't watch my dad use the computer anymore as I feel the same as the one in the comic.

That time I saw him log in to his yahoo email (tldr; my dad uses google to go to yahoo)

Open Chrome (which I set google.com as the homepage)
Type in yahoo.com to the search bar
Click yahoo.com from the results
Click on the Mail button thing somewhere in that page

Or that one time I asked him to login to to gmail account while he was browsing his yahoo email. (tldr; my dad does not believe in tabs)

Close his Chrome browser with the yahoo email.
Open Chrome again
Type in gmail in the google search bar
Click mail.google.com from the results.

[–] z3k3lon@lemmy.pt 12 points 2 years ago

This was painful to read. :|

[–] lem_dart@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Oh... Oh No. Closing the entire browser to open a new tab. I don't blame you at all for not being able to watch.

[–] saltyboomer@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

This just made me miss my dad so much. Pain.

[–] einsteinx2@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I read the TL;DRs knowing what was going to happen only to continue reading and feel physical pain. What’s wrong with me…

[–] snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a recurring gag on Parks And Rec about Pawnee internet users needing Altavista so they could use it to navigate to Google. That joke felt very real.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

At least he right-clicked instead of going for the menu at the top!

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My Dad has had a post-it note above his computer for years, "Crl-C Copy, Crl-V Paste"

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Its so rough watching non vimmers use vim

[–] dilawar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of /
Using :wqa! and then reopening the editor instead of just using :w
Deleting an entire line by hitting x repeatedly
Adding to the end of a like by pressing i and then the right arrow key until they're at the end of a line

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

STOP! You're scaring the children!

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deleting an entire line by hitting x repeatedly

The first time I ever touched Double Ds was in vim.

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[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Those last two made me physically recoil wtf

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've heard some people even use :wq over :x

[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

….I’ve been using :wq for years…

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[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are you kidding? I remove nano on purpose so I can sit there and watch them struggle!

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Brilliant! I'm putting this in a script and running it on every single server I have SSH access to.

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It's painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Come on. Dude. Give credit where credit is due. SMH...

Source.

[–] HappyHam@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not SMH, it's SMBC

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SMH = Shaking My Head

It's an Internet initialism.

[–] HappyHam@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know. Just foolin' :)

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh. Sorry about that. Text is not a good medium for tone. xD

[–] HappyHam@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

True that! Lol

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school -- her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.

The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon

I'll add "it's not their fault". In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we've removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.

[–] max@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago

Very interesting! It’s something I just cannot fathom as a 20-something year old. Granted, I’m a software engineer, but I’m very much like the professors in the article. It’s just so intuitive to me.

[–] themelm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yup the first person i thought of when seeing this meme is my apprentice, he is 19 and has only ever had an iPhone and cheap Chromebook. Even at school and everyone he knows is the same. We work in controls and all the technician side programs are all interfaces straight out of the 90s, I let him use my laptop the one day and he can barely use the menus, cant use any office program, had no idea what an IP address is and if the default com port doesn't work there is no way he was going to end up at the device manager page. Not that most people wouldn't have a bit of a learning curve.

Its the "apps" and web-apps its just one more layer of abstraction to turn your computer from a tool into an appliance.

He'll be fine eventually, he's going to buy himself a real laptop and start playing with it he said and there's the internet to learn anything he could need eventually. (Well not always where we work but hell manage). But I'd have almost the same difficulty teaching a young man who'd never seen a computer before as I would him.

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[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 14 points 2 years ago

Makes me glad I'm a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn't so "nice" to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.

Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn't want to get a virus.

[–] two_wheel2@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Uses vim with arrow keys

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Him being naked is completely unnecessary but enhances everything.

[–] DrSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

It's completely necessary.

How else does one click hotkeys while standing?

[+] vtomyvsya@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I bet he is paid per hour

[–] pohui@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I did a short stint as a video editor at a local news channel. Had one colleague who made it a point to lean back and touch the keyboard as little as humanly possible, and use the mouse for everything. It was excruciating to watch him work. He was fairly experienced btw, so I'm sure he could have done the work much quicker, he just chose not to.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's «la torture» tho …

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

Torture is a woman, of course!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago

I've been watching game grumps playing TOTK and every time Arin opens the full inventory to change weapons, I die a little on the inside.

[–] jose@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Comic good. Post title bad.

[–] ellaella_ayayay@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We found out that one of our co workers created tables of formulas in excel, then input a table in Word to manually type in and transfer over the table data. And of course the same formulas needed to be run through a desk calculator once more in case excel got that wrong the first time. Jaw dropping (when that person was shown about this magical copy/ paste feature, it was their jaw that dropped lol)

[–] patsharpesmullet@vlemmy.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm traumatised from reading this.

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[–] oozeling@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

eye twitches

[–] S3verin@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

thats literally my job (web development teacher)

[–] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

You poor soul.

clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Wanna make it worse? Have the dummy user mumble-read EVERY. FRIGGING. WORD.

[–] IverCoder@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I am the old man in this comic and I'm not happy about it.

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