I already hate people who send voice messages in a world where dictation software exists. I hate whoever even thought of joking about this even more.
But dictation software would omit crucial parts like ummms, coughing etc
Dude you’re not thinking about it the right way. We can define a new multi byte character set to help define mood (both speaker and listener), intention, irony, sarcasm, sincerity, bodily functions, and so on. This is a solvable problem.
Yeah, you🚽 might💨 be💩 onto😌 something💦
!Tried to emulate it as I wrote the above content while taking a dump!<
You missed a /s marker
I assumed it was obvious because honestly who would do that
Some people hace difficulty picking on sarcasm, specially on the internet. That’s why you should use “/s” even if it may sound obvious to you
Generally? Sure.
But this is programmerhumor.
“crucial parts”
I have literally given up friendships from people that wouldn’t stop sending me voice messages.
I accept it from family, kids, the elderly and such. I just can’t believe people want me to turn off my music and slowly listen to your shitty voice when I can easily multitask.
At least most apps added playback speed selector.
I just never set up my voicemail. Then people who actually have a chance of successfully contacting me know not to even try the phone.
I hate it
But all the extroverted programmers will love it
So, nobody?
Except those who convinced the boss that working on-site if for the greater good. Fuck you John, we were happy.
Lol, for real. I think we all go into programming because we dont want to talk to people and only be at the computer
Semi-extroverted programmer here. While I can see how this might be useful in a world where programming is a multimedia craft, if I can’t open it in plain vi, keep it the fuck out of my source code.
but what about programmers with problems hearing? An alternative of webcam video with sign language, pantomime and subtitles is needed!
edit: OOH! Use AI to generate the sign language videos. Could be wild, considering how good AI is at drawing hands.
Mandatory alt-text.
… which is then displayed in a longer comment…
based on text
… where have I seen that before? Genius!
Good point. I wonder if there was a way to like auto-transcribe these voice/video comments and automatically embed them in the source code so you have like a written-out comment that people could read.
Whisper AI? https://openai.com/research/whisper
Imagine spending HOURS listening your colleagues comments… I quit.
You know someone on the team (probably me) that is gonna pontificate TF out of the comment too and you’re gonna get a 10 min diatribe on a 5 line function lol
I’m gonna listen… at 3x speed
Thinking of I think if this happens to be I really need to get into ASMR.
Right all we are missing now is videos in comments.
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Let’s turn github into Instagram. Every snippet of code has to be attached to a picture or video…
You joke but with chatGPT it’s inevitable. Old school programmers will stick to source code but tools for non-programmers will collect plain text descriptions to create functionality.
Inevitably, images and all other media will become part of it.
Future developers will have to navigate those collections and wonder why a functionality doesn’t work when they remove some side-tracking Instagram stories. They will shrug, leave them in place and heap on further memes and comments until they complete their jira ticket.
So what I’m hearing is that computer code will eventually drift closer to DNA where “noncoding” sequences actually perform regulatory functions but in a way that’s super-arcane, and all you know is if you get rid of the noncoding bits the proteins change expression for some bizarre reason…
This guy embeds TicTok URLs in source comments followed by long strings of emoji
We need to be able to add gifs for code reviews.
Looking at how good textual documentation works, it would probably be a 3s long note reading out the method name
Oh hahaha nooooo, it would be 15 seconds, and it would start with a sigh and deep, troubled breathing noises, a finger tapping the mic and someone saying “is this thing on” before the entirely useless comment even starts.
Obviously they should be using syntactically correct JavaDoc format here so the voice messages can be converted to HTML
Don’t kid yourself, it would be 15 seconds of swearing followed by 2 seconds of useless misleading info.
I am deaf. i already struggle with keeping up with subtitles on tutorial videos of some obscure stuff that has little to no docs. Kindly return this idea to a void function instead and try not to catch the erroneous thread with these satanic proposals.
I would enable this in my project so I can ban any contributor who submits an MR with it
All my comments would just be Rick Astley
Never gonna
let = MyVariabledownNever gonna
MyVariable.run()aroundNever gonna
let you = down
Ah yes, source code files that aren’t plain text and can only be opened by certain editors, exactly what the software industry needs
The audio is stored separately and the source code might only contain a comment with specific text and a path which can then be interpreted as the voice note by the IDE.
Save as embedded base64, problem solved
In reality, an editor could have speech-to-text and it would transcribe the spoken comment into a comment with some tag to indicate it was a spoken comment. Then when an editor encounters such a comment, it would read it out using text-to-speech. For example
// transcript: Holy fuck what is wrong with this stupid code‽ for fucks sake! *inaudible* I've spent hours on this. I'm going to... nevermind it was a semicolon. Undo comment. Remove comment. Cancel comment.The rant comment will be forever changed.
And dare I say improved.
You are too dangerous to be kept alive.
why use a resource folder for it, when you can embed a base64 encoding directly into the source file?
Yes, add this and images and svg to the markdown standard
Fantastic idea but I don’t think it goes far enough. Why stop at comments? I want to be able to write whole functions and classes like that!
ffmpeg is now a dependency of gcc
We should make it like Star Trek where you can create entire holodeck programs with just voice commands.
This gem comes to mind : https://youtu.be/KyLqUf4cdwc?si=6kzBGk7_0OKmbbly
