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I can only speak from my own experiences, but I have found commit messages extremely helpful, when they explain the "why" of the change. And as unfortunate as it is, many of us also have to work with unreadable codebases.

They are incredibly helpful when you are trying to find where a bug was introduced, and trying to figure out why some piece of code is the way it is.

No, they say they are not going to store a bitmap in a texture, which is not the same thing as embedding directly in the shader code.

You could compare that to storing some data in a separate file which needs to be read during runtime versus embedding the data directly in the source code.

Portal has been working for us, but storage accounts have been unreachable from certain regions for the past 30 minutes. Possibly Portal is also broken in the same regions.

Drawing.garden 3 years ago

You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says.

You can draw a garden, so drawing.garden seems very apt to me.

For me the most important function of a todo list is to remind me what I am supposed to be doing _right now_. I often get distracted and veer off to do something else, but a quick glance at the top of my todo list gives me that little nudge to go back. Anything further down the todo list will possibly stay undone.

This I agree with. But I would say being available to help and support and whatever is part of the job. If you say you work for 4 hours, but still have to be available for all of the above for 8 hours, you are working for 8 hours, not 4.

Not exactly, no. But how far can you stretch that? Working 4 hours a day is half of what is agreed in the contract. Would you be fine with the employer ignoring the agreed salary with the excuse of no one following contracts exactly?

When I tell fellow engineers about it, they think it’s unethical because my contract specifies 40h/week (I’m an employee). I couldn’t care less what the contract says about working hours.

Honest question, do you unilaterally ignore any other parts of the contract?

It takes a lot of skill to meaningfully communicate complex and deep topics to people who are not already familiar with the field.