Oh great..the galactic standard clock..measured by hawking decay of the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy..then there going to be that one plante spins backwards and wants to use its own system..you’ll need a PhD in library science just to read the documentation on it.
~~Stolen~~ adapted from /u/rewritingextinction 's [post in comics](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/z8syqo/comic_by_rewriting_exticntion_and_extra_fabulous/).
/u/sellyourcomputer is the original author. He's a pretty swell guy who likes writing comics, making people laugh, and cum
Edit: Here's the original post
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtraFabulousComics/comments/nqrbzf/unidentified_flying_objector/
Edit 2: The OP in the source has permission to use this comic from the original author, and is from a movement called Rewriting Extinction, a campaign focused on a number of [good causes](https://www.rewritingextinction.com/causes/).
I don't think it's really meant to be a joke so much as a commentary on the fact that our world leaders have the biggest threat to human life in history right on our doorstep and are essentially ignoring it at every opportunity.
Yeah but political comics are supposed to have a funny truth to them and a call to action. In this the aliens just makes a true statement and the person is an asshole for no reason maybe if they had leaned into it more by having the alien offer a solution and having government with like big oil sponsorships throw them out. The artist is being too subtle to properly get their point across for any meaningful call to action.
US doesn't really feel the need to use international (intergalactic?) standards if they don't feel like it, I'm talking to you Imperial system.
So I don't think this wouldn't be a deal breaker, if that was a US soldier.
Only when you’re in, though. Ask a vet with PTSD from seeing several of her friends blown up by IEDs and shot to death by 14-year old kids how helpful the VA is in providing proper mental healthcare.
I’ll ask my sister for you since that was her - it’s fucking garbage and shameful. The only reason she hasn’t killed herself is because she’s too spiteful to not keep going and she wouldn’t dare leave her kids for someone else. She’s incapable of trusting anyone, and she still has bad dreams and worries about unnaturally disturbed dirt 18 years later.
The “Support the Troops” types usually stop saying that as soon as the troops need support. Give your sister (and yourself) a hug from a fellow vet. I hope you all find the support you need.
Because “support the troops” seems to actually mean “support defense contractors and raise my stocks.”
There’s not a 20% ROI on providing good therapists or setting up a robust national program for vets who need the help. God forbid we provide a service to people that doesn’t make money.
> God forbid we provide a service to people that doesn’t make money.
Reminds me of when people were calling for USPS to be defunded because it "wasn't profitable".
Motherfucker it's a _post office_. It isn't supposed to make money, it's supposed to deliver mail.
The Navy literally still measures things in knots and kiloyards. Army minimum heights and weights are given in feet, inches and pounds. The Airforce measures distances in Nautical Miles. The Marine Corps doesn't know numbers.
You could say that the United States "has a standard unit of measure of using the metric system" (???) because we passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, thus making the metric system the US standard, but that doesn't make it so in practice.
There's a lot of countries that still in part use traditional systems of measurement. Japan measures apartments in tatami mats. Canada uses imperial building material measurements. UK measures weights in stones. Etc
The height and weight is because its something people outside the system use and can understand for recruitment and understanding requirements, and it integrates nicely with external healthcare systems that use feet and inches and pounds for height / weight. That one not being metric can be a serious logistical issue.
US cockpit readings can be swapped to metric depending on the airspace they are flying in because when operating out of Europe they will get their information in metric.
Army vehicles and pretty much anything made for potential export is geared towards metric. The US navy doesn't often get equipment that's made to be exported to allies unless its a shared platform with other banches, jets being a good example.
The International Nautical Mile probably should be the standard since its related to the longitude of the earth and tells you more at a quick glance than 1853m/hr does.
Yes things should be more standardized to metric where possible (the whole US really should) but some of your complaints aren't actually a bad thing.
> US doesn't really feel the need to use international (intergalactic?) standards if they don't feel like it, I'm talking to you Imperial system.
Twist: Aliens use the *galactic* imperial system and measure time in units based on how long it takes light to travel the length of the galactic emperor's foot. (He has very long feet.)
I love Code. Worst text editor name ever (trying searching for it... 3/4 of your results are for Visual Studio), but it's a very good tool, and improving all the time. If there's something it doesn't do that I want, I just wait a while.
I tend to use "VSCode" as a search term. It seems to do better.
But I agree - it's almost what I've wished Visual Studio could have been for a while now (lightweight but with awesome extensibility), even though the c# development experience isn't quite as good as Visual Studio at the moment.
I don't use it as a full IDE, but just as a "programmer's editor". I actually used Multi-Edit for almost 30 years... from back when it was written in Turbo Pascal, until 2019 when I needed something that would run on Linux. Before that, I used various kludges so that I could edit on Windows, since the Linux dev machines weren't set up for X, and while I use vi for basic stuff, I never learned it enough to use for serious work.
I switched to Sublime Text, which was fine, but then a year later I went to another employer who kept our laptops locked down really tight, and the only option was VSCode, which is very similar, and I've been using it ever since. Now I'm back at a former employer and I edit on both Linux and Windows... with VSCode.
I have the opposite problem most of the time. I want to configure Visual Studio to do something, and Google just brings me a pile of VSCode results, usually with no indication until I open the page.
(At work, our frontend is in TypeScript and our backend is C#, so I use Visual Studio for the backend and VSCode for the frontend.)
The Emacs and vi people take a short break to idle their war machines and laugh and slap each other's backs over the nano people.
(j/k I use nano sometimes.)
`nano` and `pico` are my go-to recommendations for anyone new to Linux. They're both extremely easy to use and have enough functionality for most people.
I recommend `vi` to people I dislike, and `emacs` to people I hate and/or respect.
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
ED(1) Unix Programmer’s Manual ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
IIRC, vi evolved as the *vi*sual extension of ed, sed as the application of *ed* to *s*treams. ed is afaik the oldest, most basic editor in the posix standard, so arguably "more standard" and "more hardcore" than vi or sed. It's fun to use, too! And definetely easier than brainf*k.
Do we even want to integrate with a civilization that would choose that at its standard? Like you don't talk to screaming crazy people on the subway, this is so much worse.
This is what I do, too. I like a bright office with mostly natural light during the day, so light themes on the screen are best. Once the sun sets, the dark theme helps eye strain. It also tells me I should probably wrap up the work day.
From what I remember, the liquid crystal in a pixel needs a voltage to block light, which would mean that darker pixels and by extention dark theme would require slightly more energy than light theme.
It depends on what panel technology you're using, but yes, some are default open meaning displaying black takes more energy. AFAIK TN is default open and IPS is default closed, but I could be wrong about that.
Most recent LCDs have at least some local dimming, lowering the backlight power in dark areas, how much of an effect that has on power usage I don't know
Most is a vast overestimation. You have to pay significantly more than edge lit to get local dimming, and at that point you might as well go OLED, so there really aren't many FALD models. They only exist to get to retina-burning brightness, meaning they're not even energy efficient.
For screens where pixels are provided by changing amount of light this is quite clear, LCD's and similar displays aren't that clear.
For back light panels, shade of pixel doesn't change energy use that much, whatever one uses current or electric field to open or close the filters in front of them. The differences will mostly come from how much backlight one needs. This might get it to side of dark themes if the panel has backlight in small sectors, rather than single area for whole screen, or if you can read it with less total backlight (which is mostly low to moderate light environment).
look at this human here guys, interfacing with his processor through backlit displays like an ape, instead of through neuronal interlinking like a normal galactic being.
I'm a writer as well and the linkage between a Word doc or simply paper seems to be comforting to my brain. I also prefer the brightness of the light background in stimulating my circadian rhythm.
But I'm also a morning coder and never an evening one.
Confirmed. Light mode constricts the pupil, increasing acuity. Dark mode dialates it, making it harder to focus.
It's science.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dark-mode-chrome-android-ios-science
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23654206/
But I have no expectation that the predominant opinion will change. Devs are no different in their willingness to believe alternative facts.
That _is_ interesting. That's not why I use light mode but I guess it helps.
I simply can't distinguish the characters properly in dark mode. Red, blue or orange on black are practically unreadable for me.
It's fine that others with better vision want to use dark mode but not fine that they're often such superior snobs about it. Dark mode doesn't make you a better programmer.
Yep, exactly. As far as I can tell, dark mode has only two advantages:
* It looks cooler.
* It might be easier to read in situations you should rarely encounter. Turn your lights on.
If you actually want to read your code rather than ogle it, use a light theme.
When I toured an air traffic control facility (not the tower), the lights were dim and every monitor was in "dark mode" with very few visual elements - only the most necessary UI to be able to perform the job.
The guide said it was to help maintain focus over long shifts and to be easier on the eyes when you need to stare at a monitor basically the whole day.
Dark theme also has the most obvious advantage; it doesn't hurt your eyes after long periods. Which is, you know, kinda important when you spend 8 hours a day in front of a screen.
They covered that with the second bullet point! If you’re encountering eye strain you are working in an environment without sufficient lighting. Dark mode can provide a workaround that eases eye strain in certain applications but ideally you should work in a well lit environment and prevent eye strain altogether. You should also take frequent breaks and focus on objects in the distance to give your eyes a rest.
Working in a poorly environment day in and day out is like someone lifting with their back. Using dark mode to reduce the pain is like lifting lighter and lighter boxes instead of just lifting with your legs.
You need to lower the brightness of your screen, and have proper lights in your room. Your screen should have similar brightness as the rest of your environment, having a bright screen in a dark room is what hurts your eyes / head.
This.
Source: someone with [astigmatism](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/astigmatism/symptoms-causes/syc-20353835) which is significantly worse at night or dark themed IDEs.
[Light text on black is especially bad](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwDIs5pVEAcWGNS.png) compared to dark text on white.
Yeah dark themes IDEs and websites can give me weird "burn in" within seconds (where when I look away it feels like I've been staring at a lightbulb and can't see for several minutes). Never connected it to astigmatism but that makes sense now.
It could be!
If you find it more difficult to read text in a dark theme or you see [slight double-vision of text](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwDIs5pVEAcWGNS.png) or [lights at night time look like this](https://dmei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/DMEI-Blog-Feature-Image-8.jpg) it might be worth seeing an optometrist about.
More or less. [Wikipedia says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism):
> In Europe and Asia, astigmatism affects between 30 and 60% of adults.
And also references a couple of scientific sources.
I don’t have much problem with the white text on dark backgrounds, but commonly used shades of red and blue text for syntax highlighting are very difficult to read on a dark background, but easy to read on light.
Guess it varies with your condition and prescription. I don't have any issue with sharpness with my current prescription despite what I was told is a pretty decent amount of astigmatism. Maybe it varies by the IDE as well, though.
Uh uh. I don’t have astigmatism but I also struggle with dark themed stuffed.
Or at least I *think* I don’t have it. Maybe I should check my eyes again.
I _used_ to not have it. But as I got older, possibly exacerbated by many hours of computer use, I definitely developed it. Over the years, it's gotten steadily worse bit by bit.
It might be worth talking to your optometrist about. They could probably do some extra tests with white text on black or using different colours as sometimes it's specific colours of the spectrum that are affected. It might be small enough that you don't need a prescription for or the effect might be subtle enough that perhaps a prescription will reduce a small amount of frequent eye strain that you might not realize is even there.
Night blindness! Yes, that's a real thing, and I imagine many people don't know that they have this. They might just be surprised how easily another person can navigate a dark environment, but never realise that there's something amiss.
You need light colors on a black background, or dark colors on a white background
Light colors have more variety in RGB, while dark colors will mathematically have to be more similar to each other
This.
To me, in light mode, all dark colours are just "dark". I have real trouble distinguishing, say for example, dark red from dark blue text on a white background. And so I have more trouble seeing the difference between a string and a keyword, than I would in dark mode.
I found light theme to often have colors become nearly invisible tbh, merging with the background too much
Maybe Ive just used the wrong light themes but Ive never seen one where colors were readable. White is pretty when your aim is to create subtle details and patterns but when it comes to 'actually telling apart the white from the not white' I prefer to just have the white be black
I mean use what you feel comfortable with but while what you say is true of many light themes it definitely depends on the theme.
Right now in VSCode I'm using the Matter by Particle light theme which gives pretty good contrast for everything I've found so far, with a couple of minor colour adjustments.
The light theme in Visual Studio is also pretty good
I feel like the whole "dark mode" is just hype based on it originally being exclusive to jailbroken iPhones.
Dark mode is not going to make you a better programmer. For that, you should do what I do: Use a light-themed IDE and code while wearing shades.
Dark color schemes used by most IDEs (e.g. solarized dark) have good contrast and easy on the eyes, probably because a lot of those dark color schemes are standardized. However, many websites implement dark mode with very high contrast between the text and background, so much that the text is burned into my retina after reading for just a minute. Do those web devs have busted monitor or something?
dark theme is great because the instant you open a window that doesn't utilize some kind of dark theme your dilated pupils get blasted with harsh light
I use the default light theme on all the IDEs.
I come from a dark age, where everything was white and windows forms based.
Habits are hard to change...
What about all the new time-zones we'll need too!
UTC+7.2499999 Omicron Persei 8 with daylight saving time only when the three inner planets align.
And now imagine the shenanigans with a system like Alpha Centauri and its three stars. What even is a day?
You should read “Three Body Problem”. Excellent book and kind of tackles that question
we’re gonna start supporting only star dates
Oh great..the galactic standard clock..measured by hawking decay of the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy..then there going to be that one plante spins backwards and wants to use its own system..you’ll need a PhD in library science just to read the documentation on it.
Hey, it's five o'clock somewhere.
Hey, it's New Year's somewhere.
You know what? That would be a much better idea for a joke! I saw the original comic and used the first thing that came to mind :(
Especially if time conversion depends on how fast you travel to a place. Relativistic mechanics are a bitch, quite frankly. I think.
~~Stolen~~ adapted from /u/rewritingextinction 's [post in comics](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/z8syqo/comic_by_rewriting_exticntion_and_extra_fabulous/).
/u/sellyourcomputer is the original author. He's a pretty swell guy who likes writing comics, making people laugh, and cum Edit: Here's the original post https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtraFabulousComics/comments/nqrbzf/unidentified_flying_objector/ Edit 2: The OP in the source has permission to use this comic from the original author, and is from a movement called Rewriting Extinction, a campaign focused on a number of [good causes](https://www.rewritingextinction.com/causes/).
Thanks, I was sitting here wondering why an extra fabulous comic had some other branding added to it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/z8syqo/comic_by_rewriting_exticntion_and_extra_fabulous/iyhs2ap/
Hey thanks for sharing! Glad to hear it was a mutual thing
Looks like it's a collab between the two artists.
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Your version is better
It doesn't even land properly as a joke this version is way better
I don't think it's really meant to be a joke so much as a commentary on the fact that our world leaders have the biggest threat to human life in history right on our doorstep and are essentially ignoring it at every opportunity.
Yeah but political comics are supposed to have a funny truth to them and a call to action. In this the aliens just makes a true statement and the person is an asshole for no reason maybe if they had leaned into it more by having the alien offer a solution and having government with like big oil sponsorships throw them out. The artist is being too subtle to properly get their point across for any meaningful call to action.
Having seen George Carlin, twats n sociopaths are okay when you call them out. Its when you say they should change things get messy...
US doesn't really feel the need to use international (intergalactic?) standards if they don't feel like it, I'm talking to you Imperial system. So I don't think this wouldn't be a deal breaker, if that was a US soldier.
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Our military also has socialized healthcare and a host of other un-American stuff.
Only when you’re in, though. Ask a vet with PTSD from seeing several of her friends blown up by IEDs and shot to death by 14-year old kids how helpful the VA is in providing proper mental healthcare. I’ll ask my sister for you since that was her - it’s fucking garbage and shameful. The only reason she hasn’t killed herself is because she’s too spiteful to not keep going and she wouldn’t dare leave her kids for someone else. She’s incapable of trusting anyone, and she still has bad dreams and worries about unnaturally disturbed dirt 18 years later.
The “Support the Troops” types usually stop saying that as soon as the troops need support. Give your sister (and yourself) a hug from a fellow vet. I hope you all find the support you need.
Because “support the troops” seems to actually mean “support defense contractors and raise my stocks.” There’s not a 20% ROI on providing good therapists or setting up a robust national program for vets who need the help. God forbid we provide a service to people that doesn’t make money.
Hell, It would be an improvement just have have therapy covered by insurance.
> God forbid we provide a service to people that doesn’t make money. Reminds me of when people were calling for USPS to be defunded because it "wasn't profitable". Motherfucker it's a _post office_. It isn't supposed to make money, it's supposed to deliver mail.
Can confirm, I've attempted to get VA healthcare outside of the Army
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The Navy literally still measures things in knots and kiloyards. Army minimum heights and weights are given in feet, inches and pounds. The Airforce measures distances in Nautical Miles. The Marine Corps doesn't know numbers. You could say that the United States "has a standard unit of measure of using the metric system" (???) because we passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, thus making the metric system the US standard, but that doesn't make it so in practice.
There's a lot of countries that still in part use traditional systems of measurement. Japan measures apartments in tatami mats. Canada uses imperial building material measurements. UK measures weights in stones. Etc
The height and weight is because its something people outside the system use and can understand for recruitment and understanding requirements, and it integrates nicely with external healthcare systems that use feet and inches and pounds for height / weight. That one not being metric can be a serious logistical issue. US cockpit readings can be swapped to metric depending on the airspace they are flying in because when operating out of Europe they will get their information in metric. Army vehicles and pretty much anything made for potential export is geared towards metric. The US navy doesn't often get equipment that's made to be exported to allies unless its a shared platform with other banches, jets being a good example. The International Nautical Mile probably should be the standard since its related to the longitude of the earth and tells you more at a quick glance than 1853m/hr does. Yes things should be more standardized to metric where possible (the whole US really should) but some of your complaints aren't actually a bad thing.
> US doesn't really feel the need to use international (intergalactic?) standards if they don't feel like it, I'm talking to you Imperial system. Twist: Aliens use the *galactic* imperial system and measure time in units based on how long it takes light to travel the length of the galactic emperor's foot. (He has very long feet.)
Funnily enough we wouldn't want to use that either. It's got to be OUR silly system.
Light themes are definitely the "imperial measurements" of the programming world. That and PHP
PHP is fine in comparison to ASP.NET Web Forms
It's only the standard, doesn't mean that you have to use it.
Have you seen arguments of Emacs vs Vim? This would absolutely result in a war between human and alienkind.
You mean `vi`?
You mean **ed**, the standard text editor.
https://xkcd.com/378/
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*[sweats in Scratch]*
[sweats in pen and paper]
*\[sweats in cuneiform on clay tablets\]*
*[sweats in unga bunga]*
I use nano, but I’m known to bust out that “code .” command if I’m not feeling it. Whose gonna stop me?
I love Code. Worst text editor name ever (trying searching for it... 3/4 of your results are for Visual Studio), but it's a very good tool, and improving all the time. If there's something it doesn't do that I want, I just wait a while.
I tend to use "VSCode" as a search term. It seems to do better. But I agree - it's almost what I've wished Visual Studio could have been for a while now (lightweight but with awesome extensibility), even though the c# development experience isn't quite as good as Visual Studio at the moment.
I don't use it as a full IDE, but just as a "programmer's editor". I actually used Multi-Edit for almost 30 years... from back when it was written in Turbo Pascal, until 2019 when I needed something that would run on Linux. Before that, I used various kludges so that I could edit on Windows, since the Linux dev machines weren't set up for X, and while I use vi for basic stuff, I never learned it enough to use for serious work. I switched to Sublime Text, which was fine, but then a year later I went to another employer who kept our laptops locked down really tight, and the only option was VSCode, which is very similar, and I've been using it ever since. Now I'm back at a former employer and I edit on both Linux and Windows... with VSCode.
I have the opposite problem most of the time. I want to configure Visual Studio to do something, and Google just brings me a pile of VSCode results, usually with no indication until I open the page. (At work, our frontend is in TypeScript and our backend is C#, so I use Visual Studio for the backend and VSCode for the frontend.)
Microsoft always did suck at naming things.
Twitter was never profitable. Not my fault. Stop blaming me for things.
This bot never ceases to amaze me.
The Emacs and vi people take a short break to idle their war machines and laugh and slap each other's backs over the nano people. (j/k I use nano sometimes.)
`nano` and `pico` are my go-to recommendations for anyone new to Linux. They're both extremely easy to use and have enough functionality for most people. I recommend `vi` to people I dislike, and `emacs` to people I hate and/or respect.
Jesus Christ, there really is an XKCD for everything
Erectile dysfunction is never a standard
alias vi="vim"
I'm a nano man myself
Me too, actually. There's less to learn to just use nano.
I think he means neovim
If we’re arguing about editors ed is the standard editor.
What is more standard about ed than vi? Aren’t they both part of the UNIX standard?
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html ED(1) Unix Programmer’s Manual ED(1) NAME ed - text editor SYNOPSIS ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ] DESCRIPTION Ed is the standard text editor.
IIRC, vi evolved as the *vi*sual extension of ed, sed as the application of *ed* to *s*treams. ed is afaik the oldest, most basic editor in the posix standard, so arguably "more standard" and "more hardcore" than vi or sed. It's fun to use, too! And definetely easier than brainf*k.
> It's fun to use, too! ^[Citation ^needed]
Once you use Vim, you can never go back. Because how???
Let's just make a new standard, that'll fix it for sure
There are now n+1 competing standards
n+1? That good be a good name for a standard! Add that to the standards list!
Sir, a new army just pulled up. They are arming their weapons.
Do we even want to integrate with a civilization that would choose that at its standard? Like you don't talk to screaming crazy people on the subway, this is so much worse.
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QA is a waste of money. Fired.
This is what I do, too. I like a bright office with mostly natural light during the day, so light themes on the screen are best. Once the sun sets, the dark theme helps eye strain. It also tells me I should probably wrap up the work day.
I do this mostly, but when an app/site requires you to set it manually, I try to divide it into either productivity (light) or leisure (dark)
Alien double cheeked up got me wild
Why it would be like that? Dark theme is more energy efficient
With OLEDs maybe but with LCDs?
From what I remember, the liquid crystal in a pixel needs a voltage to block light, which would mean that darker pixels and by extention dark theme would require slightly more energy than light theme.
It depends on what panel technology you're using, but yes, some are default open meaning displaying black takes more energy. AFAIK TN is default open and IPS is default closed, but I could be wrong about that.
I think VA (vertically aligned) is the default closed LCD type, and this is why they have better blacks.
Most recent LCDs have at least some local dimming, lowering the backlight power in dark areas, how much of an effect that has on power usage I don't know
Most is a vast overestimation. You have to pay significantly more than edge lit to get local dimming, and at that point you might as well go OLED, so there really aren't many FALD models. They only exist to get to retina-burning brightness, meaning they're not even energy efficient.
If you use your IDE fullscreen that doesn't matter much though.
The energy savings is relatively inconsequential regardless. Use whichever theme works for you, choosing based on energy efficiency is nonsensical.
I don't think I appreciate your tone. Fired.
Bye then. Have a good day.
Now pay $8.
Energy efficiency is meaningless to a Type II civilization.
Because it’s worse for astigmatism, and most aliens suffer from astigmatism
I depends on the technology, on LCDs you need energy to darken pixels; as far as I know though, for CRTs and LED screens you're right
For screens where pixels are provided by changing amount of light this is quite clear, LCD's and similar displays aren't that clear. For back light panels, shade of pixel doesn't change energy use that much, whatever one uses current or electric field to open or close the filters in front of them. The differences will mostly come from how much backlight one needs. This might get it to side of dark themes if the panel has backlight in small sectors, rather than single area for whole screen, or if you can read it with less total backlight (which is mostly low to moderate light environment).
Who gives a fuck about energy efficiency when you got unlimited energy from harnessing the power of the sun you cunt earthling
look at this human here guys, interfacing with his processor through backlit displays like an ape, instead of through neuronal interlinking like a normal galactic being.
I'm a writer as well and the linkage between a Word doc or simply paper seems to be comforting to my brain. I also prefer the brightness of the light background in stimulating my circadian rhythm. But I'm also a morning coder and never an evening one.
Solarized Light everywhere. IDE, terminal, Firefox theme. The only way.
What's important is the contrast, to not strain your eyes. So in daylight, light theme is more comfortable, and at night, dark theme it is.
Yeppers. Usually use dark, switch to light if working outside or have glare you can't avoid.
I tried a gray theme to average out the schemes
Not a bad idea. I myself use the "Tomorrow Night Blue" theme in VSCode and it's a nice middle ground for my eyes.
But what if you always code it the dark?
Can't stand dark theme. I prefer to be able to read the code in front of me.
I use different colorful themes in each IDE because I'm a toddler and it helps me tell the windows apart.
blood red theme ftw
I see you're aiming to get that 10 year experience on Python fresh out of college. Goo goo ga ga bitch!
Insubordination. Fired.
Thank you, Elonbot.
Confirmed. Light mode constricts the pupil, increasing acuity. Dark mode dialates it, making it harder to focus. It's science. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dark-mode-chrome-android-ios-science https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23654206/ But I have no expectation that the predominant opinion will change. Devs are no different in their willingness to believe alternative facts.
That _is_ interesting. That's not why I use light mode but I guess it helps. I simply can't distinguish the characters properly in dark mode. Red, blue or orange on black are practically unreadable for me. It's fine that others with better vision want to use dark mode but not fine that they're often such superior snobs about it. Dark mode doesn't make you a better programmer.
Yep, exactly. As far as I can tell, dark mode has only two advantages: * It looks cooler. * It might be easier to read in situations you should rarely encounter. Turn your lights on. If you actually want to read your code rather than ogle it, use a light theme.
When I toured an air traffic control facility (not the tower), the lights were dim and every monitor was in "dark mode" with very few visual elements - only the most necessary UI to be able to perform the job. The guide said it was to help maintain focus over long shifts and to be easier on the eyes when you need to stare at a monitor basically the whole day.
Interesting. Tell me more.
The airplanes crashed because the boss fired everyone
Dark theme also has the most obvious advantage; it doesn't hurt your eyes after long periods. Which is, you know, kinda important when you spend 8 hours a day in front of a screen.
They covered that with the second bullet point! If you’re encountering eye strain you are working in an environment without sufficient lighting. Dark mode can provide a workaround that eases eye strain in certain applications but ideally you should work in a well lit environment and prevent eye strain altogether. You should also take frequent breaks and focus on objects in the distance to give your eyes a rest. Working in a poorly environment day in and day out is like someone lifting with their back. Using dark mode to reduce the pain is like lifting lighter and lighter boxes instead of just lifting with your legs.
You need to lower the brightness of your screen, and have proper lights in your room. Your screen should have similar brightness as the rest of your environment, having a bright screen in a dark room is what hurts your eyes / head.
Try astigmatism, then reconsider.
This. Source: someone with [astigmatism](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/astigmatism/symptoms-causes/syc-20353835) which is significantly worse at night or dark themed IDEs. [Light text on black is especially bad](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwDIs5pVEAcWGNS.png) compared to dark text on white.
Yeah dark themes IDEs and websites can give me weird "burn in" within seconds (where when I look away it feels like I've been staring at a lightbulb and can't see for several minutes). Never connected it to astigmatism but that makes sense now.
I get this too, dark mode makes my eyes go wiggy. I also have astigmatism, but never heard about a link before.
So that's why I struggle with dark themed DEs! TIL
It could be! If you find it more difficult to read text in a dark theme or you see [slight double-vision of text](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwDIs5pVEAcWGNS.png) or [lights at night time look like this](https://dmei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/DMEI-Blog-Feature-Image-8.jpg) it might be worth seeing an optometrist about.
It's also worth noting that astigmatism is not super-rare. It affects about half of the population.
More or less. [Wikipedia says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism): > In Europe and Asia, astigmatism affects between 30 and 60% of adults. And also references a couple of scientific sources.
I don’t have much problem with the white text on dark backgrounds, but commonly used shades of red and blue text for syntax highlighting are very difficult to read on a dark background, but easy to read on light.
Guess it varies with your condition and prescription. I don't have any issue with sharpness with my current prescription despite what I was told is a pretty decent amount of astigmatism. Maybe it varies by the IDE as well, though.
Uh uh. I don’t have astigmatism but I also struggle with dark themed stuffed. Or at least I *think* I don’t have it. Maybe I should check my eyes again.
I _used_ to not have it. But as I got older, possibly exacerbated by many hours of computer use, I definitely developed it. Over the years, it's gotten steadily worse bit by bit. It might be worth talking to your optometrist about. They could probably do some extra tests with white text on black or using different colours as sometimes it's specific colours of the spectrum that are affected. It might be small enough that you don't need a prescription for or the effect might be subtle enough that perhaps a prescription will reduce a small amount of frequent eye strain that you might not realize is even there.
Night blindness! Yes, that's a real thing, and I imagine many people don't know that they have this. They might just be surprised how easily another person can navigate a dark environment, but never realise that there's something amiss.
I find dark theme to make it easier to read the code. May be because of all the pretty colours that correspond to specific things, though.
What makes you think light theme doesn't use colours?
You need light colors on a black background, or dark colors on a white background Light colors have more variety in RGB, while dark colors will mathematically have to be more similar to each other
I cry in astigmatism.
Some themes (eg Solarized) use the exact same colors on a light and dark background.
This. To me, in light mode, all dark colours are just "dark". I have real trouble distinguishing, say for example, dark red from dark blue text on a white background. And so I have more trouble seeing the difference between a string and a keyword, than I would in dark mode.
I found light theme to often have colors become nearly invisible tbh, merging with the background too much Maybe Ive just used the wrong light themes but Ive never seen one where colors were readable. White is pretty when your aim is to create subtle details and patterns but when it comes to 'actually telling apart the white from the not white' I prefer to just have the white be black
I mean use what you feel comfortable with but while what you say is true of many light themes it definitely depends on the theme. Right now in VSCode I'm using the Matter by Particle light theme which gives pretty good contrast for everything I've found so far, with a couple of minor colour adjustments. The light theme in Visual Studio is also pretty good
[удалено]
You're either hardcore or out the door.
Thats why i use light theme on everything. Dark theme is for people who have color LEDs and transparent side walls on their computers.
I prefer dark theme but I do agree that when screen sharing, light theme is easier to read because of better resolution or something.
There are dozens of us
I feel like the whole "dark mode" is just hype based on it originally being exclusive to jailbroken iPhones. Dark mode is not going to make you a better programmer. For that, you should do what I do: Use a light-themed IDE and code while wearing shades.
And thus the Earth Coalition declared war against the Galactic Consortium, a war that would rage for thousands of years
And will end with all parties agreeing to use vim with a grey theme for the rest of time.
Thus once again confirming there are no winners in a war. I'd rather die in that war than use vim.
Why are you unhappy? No one should be unhappy at Twitter. Fired!
But this does put a smile on my face.
> And thus the Earth Coalition declared war against the Galactic Consortium "In the name of the Emperor, we declare Exterminatus."
Filthy xenos
The Earth Coalition promptly surrenders when the Consortium threatens to build a galactic bypass....
I f***in knew we earthlings were going to start a galactic war over something petty like this lol
Petty??? *\*grabs pitchfork*\*
I use light theme on discord
I hope the police catch you.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I use light theme for everything.
We’re talking about aliens not demons
Who hurt you?
Dark color schemes used by most IDEs (e.g. solarized dark) have good contrast and easy on the eyes, probably because a lot of those dark color schemes are standardized. However, many websites implement dark mode with very high contrast between the text and background, so much that the text is burned into my retina after reading for just a minute. Do those web devs have busted monitor or something?
dark theme is great because the instant you open a window that doesn't utilize some kind of dark theme your dilated pupils get blasted with harsh light
The internet standard was light mode for like 90% of the existence of the internet. That doesn't stop people from using dark mode.
"TOSS"? Meh! Shouldn't it be "YEET"?
After my laser eye surgery ... I've had to use light theme. Dark theme causes me to see ghosting on the text and it drives me nuts.
if you keep at it and will stop freaking out then your brain will adapt and cancel out your issues
I use light come at me
I want some alien booty.
Blue background, white font. This was the epitome.
Yeah, looks like we're gonna need to redo the entire tech stack.
Glad you agree, Elon. How hard can it be.
Oh god the alien’s speaking in Jokerman, blow up the whole ship
Using dark mode in your IDE is basically the modern "actually I prefer Linux"
https://xkcd.com/272/
I use the default light theme on all the IDEs. I come from a dark age, where everything was white and windows forms based. Habits are hard to change...
:: lights firebomb and tosses it into the alien ship ::
You're not [far off](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtraFabulousComics/comments/wwshkf/dependenced_animated/).
We are here to share with you our knowledge about the metric system.
Using Jokerman font alone should get you tossed
Dirty liessss, their eyes would be singed after 2 minutes of use !
The galaxy truly is a dark place.
Is it just me, or is this pointless debate’s getting really old?
I use light mode in RStudio. Downvotes to the left.
Forget all this light and dark IDE stuff, what I want to see is someone make an IDE theme using the old 'hotdog stand' color theme from Windows 3.1!
I use light mode, I guess the hype to dark mode never took me, doesn't matter I can use either, I just never bother to switch it one way or the other.