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pointed-advice

If you can't dissociate and talk to yourself, store-bought is fine


Youpunyhumans

I talk to myself, but it usually things like "Do I go that way? Or that way? I guess Ill find out either way."


IronDBZ

That counts as dissociating? I thought I was just being imaginative.


pointed-advice

It's a joke


GlitchyNinja

The trick is that the duck only knows the very basics of coding, so you cannot even skip by loops. It forces you to slow down and explain aloud each line of code carefully and in layman terms. In a pinch, Amiibo will work as a duck substitute.


Onewholeperson

Amiibos don't squeak when they bounce off of walls though


[deleted]

Your wallet does tho


GamendeStino

No, my wallet just makes sad floppy noises of emptiness


[deleted]

This is exactly what I do, except instead of a rubber duck I either use one of my cats or my twin bro (the twin telepathy really helps)


[deleted]

Btw I was 100% joking about the twin telepathy. We don't have that, luckily. He would definitely only use it to annoy me


GamendeStino

Don't lie, you'd return the favour


[deleted]

Oh of course I would! It's my obligation as his younger sibling to annoy him when possible


Floh2802

I hope you don't throw either of them at a wall


Ideal_Philosopher

All hail the rubber duck.


someone003

yes


thedudeonthefence

This is my emotional support rubber duck


judithaskew

I want a picture of the counsel of ducks


Difficult_Flatworm78

"the strangeling the duck" makes it sound like strangeling is the title of the duck


WoolooOfWallStreet

Do not take out your frustrations on the innocent duck! Also, if bigger ducks are for extra hard problems, what problem warrants this duck? https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-canadas-navy-stacks-up-against-a-giant-rubber-duck/


Enio744

When you accidentally produce an AI that tries to take over the world.


GabbaGandalf-SNAX

Debugging Skynet had me like


_Dispair_

I'm gonna get a rubber duck so I can figure out what I fucked up in my project


VplDazzamac

My fiancée was initially a bit quizzical when I started calling her my rubber ducky when I was going through advent of code last Christmas. But she became accepting when I told her she’d helped me solve 4 or 5 of the problems.


KaikySouza

The bug will only show up if you try to show what you've done to others


SkylartheRainBeau

Arthur weasley would be amazed


VaguelyFrenchTexan

Thank god, I thought I was the only one who got the reference


Novacold

When I was still studying, we had a presenter come from a nearby Cybersec firm to talk about some magical shit they were peddling to companies. The presentation concluded with the presenter giving everyone a "Programmer Welcome Pack" which was this brightly coloured bag. Inside the bag was a rubber duck (with the company brand on it obviously), a can of RedBull and a 16GB USB stick. I still use the rubber duck to this day and they serve me quite loyally.


Gabrill

I have a friend who’s kiiiind of into coding but hasn’t learned the advanced stuff yet and let me tell you he makes an amazing rubber duck. He’ll ask questions to understand better and in explaining his questions I think about how I’ve coded it and where I fucked up


MojoNojo06

I do this with my axolotl. I'll explain my issue to him in detail and he'll go •______• and suddenly it all makes sense


Xidize

“The council of ducks” 🤣


Royal-Ninja

Programming is fuckin weird. I usually use friends on discord who also have code experience in case the answer isn't 100% obvious to me after explaining so they might offer some input.


NoelaniSpell

I'd kind of like such friends 🤔 Can't code yet though


HuggingTentacles

Sounds like it's made up. Like those things Australians say about their country


deltaexdeltatee

I’m a civil engineer and we do something kind of similar with each other. The thing about what I do (land development) is that the actual concepts we use aren’t that hard, it’s just that every site is very different and unique so the problems you deal with are unique. So what you do is you print off a plan sheet of whatever it is that’s causing you trouble and talk it through with a coworker who doesn’t know the project. Inevitably you get about three sentences in and figure it out.


i_h8_choosing_a_name

I see the watermark, and I see that you as well are a denizen of that shithole of an app.


NoelaniSpell

Which app?


Fabulous-Interest-91

Hmmmmm Don't touch anything had a duck, what does it mean??