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Re:747s and Coding Agents by dongguanxianhao on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:38PM (#47198038)
>hundredths of them

Man, it would rule so much if programmers were literate and knew how to actually communicate what they intend to say.

Re:747s and Coding Agents by MDCore on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:00PM (#47198296)
It's obvious from the context here what the intended meaning was. Everyone makes typos sometimes.
Re:747s and Coding Agents by dongguanxianhao on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:37AM (#47204582)
It is literally not clear. OP could mean that they read hundredths of lines of code for each code they write ie 100 lines of code written and 1-3 lines read. That is in fact literally what they wrote.
Re:747s and Coding Agents by thesz on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:23PM (#47213123)
I read hundredths (100ths) of lines of code for one line of code I write.

My last PR of three lines of code moved into conditional tasked me to read about 8000 lines of code to understand and justify the reason to do exactly that.

Re:747s and Coding Agents by Brian_K_White on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:54PM (#47198222)
Man it would rule so much if programmers could manage not to be assholes by default so much of the time.

It's ironic that the more ignorant one is the one calling another ignorant.

Alright I've had my fun with the name-calling. I will now explain the stunningly obvious. Not a thing anyone should have to for someone so sharp as yourself but there we are...

For someone to produce that text after growing up in an English speaking environment, they would indeed be comically inept communicators. Which is why the more reasonable assumption is that English is not in fact their native language.

Not merely the more generous assumption. Being generous by default would be a better character trait than not, but still arguably a luxury. But also simply the more reasonable assumption by plain numbers and reasoning. So, not only were you a douche, you had to go out of your way to select a less likely possibility to make the douche you wanted to be fit the situation.

Literate programmers indeed.

Re:747s and Coding Agents by epgui on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:58PM (#47198280)
Not everyone has English as a first language.