this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Use real words in programming. I don't know how a PDF can compute a natural logarithm but I'm excited to learn.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that's actually the probability density function, must be some quantum mechanics. Not to be confused with a partial differential function, or a portable document format, or whatever the variable is actually referring to.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Darn, I hoped it was a personal dairy fountain and that ln was a way to access my liquor nougat.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

5 per line, obviously. Unless lines start with 0 😳

[–] damium@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

As someone who also has produced code that looks like random characters spewed onto a terminal while using fpdf, I feel this one.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

it sounds almost poetic