Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia
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Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge. Describing the code, and comparing to what it actually does, exposes inconsistencies. Explaining a subject also forces the programmer to look at it from new perspectives and can provide a deeper understanding.

  • affenlehrer@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    You’re not wrong. At work I have the bizarre situation that I have a laptop which is pretty powerful but I’m not allowed to develop on it and have no admin rights on it so I have to remote desktop into a less powerful VDI running in a different country with exactly the same access to company information but I have local admin rights on that machine. Also development is super cumbersome because it’s a windows VDI so I have to use WSL2 for a lot of the things I’m doing. Really weird, inefficient and expensive.

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Same, my work laptop is locked down hard but I have admin access to some production servers.

      I guess it comes down to they trust me, but they don’t trust the networks around me.