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Too real (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47150767

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[–] 83 points 5 months ago (17 children)

My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the "Edit" menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.

    I had to walk away.

    I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    She told me this way she knew it was working.

    To be fair, I always Ctrl+C multiple once to make sure it copied, even though one would be enough. Humans are pretty irrational

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I am the same.
    I type the code myself, so I know what it actually means, instead of letting AI do it.

    It might seem different now, but 10-20 years down the line, they might be the same energy.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I mean maybe. But one is a deterministic way to do the exact same thing, the other is a nondeterministic way to maybe do a similar thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah, that's right.

    But are enough of the AI generation people going to understand the difference?
    I feel like, due to the reduction of quality expectations, they will just end up feeling the same about this as we do about the previous one, despite the difference being visible as night and day for us.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    People use the mouse to switch windows?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.

    If I'm clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it's quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it's basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that's only icons, same thing but not as pretty).

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Forgive my ignorance as a non-Mac user, but isn't the screen that shows up when pressing WIN+Tab similar? It shows all your open windows and their content, plus (iirc) let's you switch to/create additional desktops.

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