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[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I, too, place 2> /dev/null after every line

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Yes, but 2>&1 > /dev/null is the real hero.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't get it. This isn't funny. I wouldn't approve it in merge request. Most wouldn't.

[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 4 points 14 hours ago

Trying to hide problems and incompetence is the joke. A lot of people don't want problems solved, they just don't want to see them, and will take the easy route. If you just want that, this is the easy route.

Incompetent? Absolutely, that's the joke.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

edit: works better when used together with StackOverflow.comment.enabled = false;

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 51 points 2 days ago

If it wanted to get my attention it should have been an error

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually fixing warnings is for noobs

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if they mattered they'd be errors I'm sure

That's when you do CTRL+C, CTRL+V

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Eh it's Javascript. Anything goes

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, array.length is mutable in javascript. I'm surprised it caught on.

[–] lesnout27@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

If i can just suppress the warnings which need to be fixed till morning in my buggy code, anything goes!

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 102 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (4 children)
try {
    operation();
} catch {
    // nice weather, eh?
}
[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Starting with Java 21 (I think), they've introduced ignored variables, so you can now actually do this:

try {
    operation();
} catch (Exception _) {
    // nice weather, eh?
}

Edit: forgot that this is about JS lel

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So basically the same as a discard in C#?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, Python has it as well. I think the only real use of it is code readability since you declare that this variable will never be used.

[–] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If your joking yes, if your not Java and Java Script are seperate things.

[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

His joking?

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actually made this mistake in front of 20 people the other day. Guy at my job mentioned coding in java and I asked if he was doing web dev 🤦

[–] BangersAndMash@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Plenty of java back end web development, so maybe not as embarrassing as you felt?

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

He said "I've been closing in C# and Java for 2 years" and I asked, in front of everyone, "are you doing web dev?" And he just coldly said no

See this could have been fine if I didn't double down and go "then what are you using java for... OH WAIT"

[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

☑️ PR Approved

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago
with contextlib.suppress(BaseException):
    do_thing()
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I hate it.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On Error Resume Next

Visual Basic is a beautiful language

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

I legitimately use this line in one of my scripts because range.find returns an error of the value is not found. The use case is taking a 2d matrix saved as an array, with data collected from multiple excel tabs and rearranging it for a CSV upload into Salesforce. The initial array contains values that the rest of the data does not have, so when I search for a non existent value, I can skip the error.

Of course vba COULD just implement try/catch statements and that'd be so much cleaner, but alas.

On error goto 0 

Was always syntacticly confusing for me.

[–] pscamodio@feddit.it 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile in another universe one of my biggest win was to introduce this line in our PR validation pipeline.

eslint . --max-warnings 0
[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Works so well, and soothes the warning annoyance brain, and keeps warnings from eventually becoming errors.

[–] pscamodio@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a codebase with a lot of warnings is even better for me to add a disable comments for all the existing warning and then not allow any new one in.

And then each time a part of the code needs to be touched the existing warning there should be solved too.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 13 hours ago

Several times I've set the max warnings to whatever the current warning count is, and then decreased that over time.

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 50 points 2 days ago
[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 60 points 2 days ago

If I can't see it, is it really there?

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Warnings? We’ll come back and address those later. Maybe once we’re feature complete. Or maybe shortly after that.

Don't worry. We'll totally fix all of them soon. Promise. Hand to God. They definitely will not be here five years from now.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago

Warnings are for ignorings :3

[–] cbazero@programming.dev 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

I would add: until it doesn't.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 21 points 2 days ago

This is why:

"It ain't stupid if it works."

is fundamentally incorrect.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Sometimes it’s better to hope while closing eyes

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

-ErrorActionPreference SilentlyContinue