# comments

user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-01-30 21:37:34
body:
@tosensei it's not vitamin water if it also has minerals in it

I tried fasting and my problem was my electrolytes dropped like a stone and it got dangerous for me (probably had something to do with my vaccine induced inflammation that never ends, fasting reduces inflammation and when inflammation lowers you have low blood volume and need electrolytes). you need minerals at any rate or stuff gets very dangerous


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-01-30 21:43:25
body:
McDonalds would like to know your location...

I used to eat at a burger place when the mexican place I normally eat was shutdown for a while.  It has an app that you can earn points with.  However, I was not going there for a while.  I kept getting notifs I would lose my points.  Kinda turned me off.  I lost my points and kinda have no interest in going there now.  I don't like high pressure sales and people who employ psychological tricks to get you to spend money.  I feel like they are on the same level as scammers.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-01-30 21:46:08
body:
i live in Quebec but I don't speak French and the only place I worked for was abusive and did illegal things, never got in trouble for it, and I have PTSD and haven't worked anywhere else since because the idea gives me panic attacks and made me think suicide is a better option


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-01-30 21:49:46
body:
there was an underground tunnel off a mall with the best burger place ever. nobody ever went in that tunnel so nobody knew they existed. I learned about it from a friend who took me there. crazy 4k calorie burgers, all out. super good food.

because the place was so out of the way, it never took off. closed after 3 years. was so sad


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2025-01-30 22:50:25
body:
@netikras 

Well, it was pointless to try your suggestions, because when I replicated the steps, of course it worked as expected so now we'll never know, I guess -.-


body: @MammaNeedHummus a list of languages that do: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
user_username: MammaNeedHummus
created: 2025-01-31 00:17:06
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreach_loop", "short_url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "title": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "start": 46, "end": 81, "special": 1}]


user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-01-31 03:26:43
body:
I hope that NEVER happens. If everyone used one base, it WOULD be Chrome and it would be massaged in such a way as to block the usage for any ad blockers and user scripts.

As dodgy as Mozilla is now (I use Librewolf, the privacy aware fork of Firefox, because it's 2025 and everything is that terrible), I'm glad there are still at least three major engines (Mozilla's Gecko, Safari's WebKit, Chrome's Blink/Chromium).

I've compiled a few early builds of Ladybird and hope they really take off. We need more browser rendering choices, not fewer.


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-01-31 05:26:45
body:
@Demolishun yes that's what it is. Coding bros jerking each other off on camera telling them how good they are and landed a high paying job.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 06:38:50
body:
I'm fairly sure that returning in an if-else-tree has some performance optimisations that can be applied that can't if you don't (e.g. tail call optimisation).

I've never found if-return-else-return to be that difficult to read, and it's clearer to me that that is the intent and I can stop keeping those variables in memory. So I disagree with your linter


body: observe
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 07:05:29
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user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 08:34:16
body:
@MammaNeedHummus some languages even only have the foreach loop and not the classic for loop (it’s called just 'for' there).

Because for the extremely rare case that you really need the classic for, you can easily use foreach with int-ranges.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 08:55:33
body:
Yes, if you're good at prompting it's hscksblr according to https://youtu.be/hpwoGjpYygI/.... But don't expect too much since his core is already scensored. If just doesn't have a lot of data so can't leak.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://youtu.be/hpwoGjpYygI?si=Cuy8Ql_OFH1WCcBW", "short_url": "https://youtu.be/hpwoGjpYygI/...", "title": "https://youtu.be/hpwoGjpYygI/...", "start": 60, "end": 92, "special": 0}]


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 09:12:57
body:
@BordedDev 

I consider democracy failed and doomed to fail from the beginning, a system that cannot work and we should give it up. Not because I do not like democracy, but because even when confronted with simple arguments, smart sounding responses will be brought that justify why democracy is not a duty. Why it is okay not to engage. And why not voting is supposed to be a form of protest.

If it is protest, then only against democracy itself. 

The staunchest defenders of democracy are its doom bringers. In a way, tragic. But it is long dead. Buried even deeper by the fact that even pointing this disconnect out does not lead to any realizations.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 09:21:24
body:
It's far away, we're safe. They're just making themselves great again. It's better to be the Netherlands, 2nd! 😁


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 09:27:54
body:
Just keep doing it if you think it's needed, body has resources enough. I have a friend, she was so fat, that she would be the fattest walking in the street easily. She had liver issue or I dunno. Smth that fucks up. But that got fixed iirc. Then, she kinda hit a rock bottom or so in her life and she bit crazy and just stopped eating for very long. She has an ok body now and just invested 40.000 euro skin removal. In turkey it would've been 4.000.. Anyway, the starving was totally worth it and not being fat anymore really changed her life in opertunities and stuff. She was the type of fat that you DO judge. It will have impact to how people will handle you. Is for many things if something is very out of ballance. It's allowed to be ugly, and I do not think many people are ugly, but there are limits 😂


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 09:33:09
body:
I do exactly what @kiki does.

But I'm totally fine with the ternary stuff. Only gets ugly when nested. But besides that it's very clear to me but not really in python tho. Hating ternary is just a thing people say because it's common or smth. 

Pony = x if a else b. I do "x or b". Had the same result, the first truthy get result.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 09:44:43
body:
Well... Hope you'll start eating again soon. I am no medical professional, but I hope you looked into stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Just starting to eat again might be really dangerous to you. But I don't know enough to start eating again safely. At least not precisely. Do your research.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome", "short_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "title": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "start": 119, "end": 152, "special": 1}]


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:02:04
body:
Nice article but how did you create your site? Is it just html or do you also use markdown in the back? How do you do the syntax highlighted code blocks? Js or smth server side?

https://snek.molodetz.nl uses markdown for every chat message and I added support for syntax highlighting. So every message is rendered html server side. It's very decent. You could consider it cached. Original markdown is kept too ofcourse.

links:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:04:12
body:
@BordedDev yes, a train iirc. It's not clear if he was confused or on purpose. The parents kicked him out. Don't know about funds. Could be a reason for kicking out ofc.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:07:08
body:
@kanyewest I'm not very into Asians tbh 😁 They kinda look like Toyota. Nothing wrong with a Toyota, but not for me 😁


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-01-31 10:07:40
body:
@retoor Astro does it all out of the box, and everything is prerendered. The only JavaScript on the page is what I specifically mark to run client-side such as scroll restoration (because the browser only does that if your whole site is scrollable. Yuck!) and relative dates.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:09:38
body:
@kiki wow, you always find them. Hmm, should I add a spam bot for comments too? Is a bit risky for false positives. More than rants. Maybe I really should try the AI version of ragnar in general. I see that they have new kind of messages using exactly spamming words that are not registered in ragnar. Maybe they finally have read the source.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:12:45
body:
@Tounai only people who do not program python think that since it's actually the best future. Also, if you're a bit consistent dev, you won't even notice it, you already doing it at every language almost. I know no one who complains about it that actually uses python. Only, the tabs / space mixture can be issue but 95% or sources use spaces and only happens when you c/p something in very rare cases.

The speed is bit old reputation tho. What do you want to do that it's not fast enough for? It will perform same as a C web application regarding network that comes from outside so we is covered. Only resource use will be higher. So, what real life examples do you have?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:18:27
body:
@tosensei you surpass the mapping part but I do this with resulting in models. Still use the model part. So I have some complex where and joins to list some objects, but use the same models so application doesn't care at all.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 10:20:55
body:
@TrayKnots Well yeah, it's a way of removing accountability for people in charge. Half the shit that gets pulled today would have gotten a king executed, IMO. However, at this point it's "best" system we have for allowing the masses to weigh in - but there is no direct accountability to those who are elected


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:22:11
body:
@Lensflare I always thought the other way around, people not able to think abstract think that a documentdb is a solution for that. Everything has a hierarchy / structure. Same for OO. Just sql for management is most comfy every. Sql is made for managers, nosql for devs. Sql is obviously easier.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-01-31 10:25:24
body:
@max19931 windsurf is an AI ide that I didn't try yet. Have it installed for ages.

Multiple versions of dotnet and JDK is because of some application requirements.

And it's 3 versions of JDK!


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2025-01-31 10:42:04
body:
@SidTheITGuy "podcast" "on camera". 
That's the first mistake, podcasts are supposed to be audio only.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 11:05:03
body:
@retoor yes, everything has structure and nosql doesn’t mean no structure.
A nosql db will actually better reflect the structure of the data in code because in code it’s a hierarchy or a graph and sql can’t have hierarchies or graphs. Sql is relational and expresses hierarchical relations via data, not structure. You need to introduce extra tables to be able to express relations between entities which are organized in graphs or hierarchies.
The main point of an ORM isn’t just bringing the db entities into the code, but mapping the relations (it’s in the name ORM).


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 11:11:21
body:
@BordedDev 

I don't even believe in the best system we got. It is chaotic. Based on advertisement. People don't even know what a laocracy is. How can you grow up in a democracy and not be educated about a laocracy? How can you learn about stuff like demonstrations and not be asked by your social science highschool teacher if that is laocratic or democratic?

No, I am not convinced it is the best possible system. It is a system in which the king can hide. And we're fed those lines.


user_username: sleek
created: 2025-01-31 12:12:52
body:
my client just asked to rebrand her entire platform a month before release (its been a year of work)


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 12:14:36
body:
@TrayKnots I'm from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ex Leningrad, as in The Siege of Leningrad. Every single person who went to school there knows _exactly_ what refeeding syndrome is. Because of that, I do eat from time to time, but the amount of food I eat isn't even enough for #2

Thanks for caring though!


user_username: devJs
created: 2025-01-31 12:19:44
body:
@jestdotty look, i really don't care what are people eating as long as they don't force me. I am not judgemental about that at all. Look everyone has a choice, everyone is responsible for himself. 

BTW I also hate those kind of people preaching about stuff(animals, typescript, linux) like they are better than others and having audacity to tell others what should they do!

What you do to yourself is your responsibility and choice. I also don't think that I have the right to impose things on others. 

I also think that if something is good to me it doesn't mean its good for everyone else. 

Make your own choices and hold responsibility about yourself, also don't let others to force you to something you don't want or if you feel it isn't right for you!

It's simple really, but morons are fucking complicated! XD


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 12:25:05
body:
@devJs I do and will continue to get my depressed friends to psychiatrists I trust. Just like we do CPR on unconscious ppl assuming it's in their best interest, I know all too well how quickly a depressed person becomes too stupid to even realize they should seek help. I'll do that for them. I did it several times, all leading to ppl making full recovery and thanking me.

It took me years to find good doctors, with one bad so-called “doctor” almost killing me.

I'm bipolar type 1, and I can spot clinically depressed people very quickly by just talking to them and seeing how they talk/think.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 12:26:51
body:
@devJs yes, I assume that having friends, working, earning money, going out, maintaining hygiene, cleaning their apartment and generally being a functional human being is better for them than laying in bed all day, eating and eating and eating while anxiously scrolling tiktok and never showering.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 13:48:14
body:
@retoor python's ternary is a nice but failed attempt at making code more readable.

Mess around with established patterns you should not!


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-01-31 13:53:55
body:
@netikras The main mechanism of action of over-the-counter painkillers is the placebo effect, which is stronger if they're a brand you trust.

Humans are pretty crap in many ways.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2025-01-31 13:58:37
body:
@retoor Who would have thought that a Chinese Ai wouldn't be censored on their own stuff.

What is next ? That Germany makes one who completely censured both world wars ?


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 15:05:25
body:
Hah, yea, impossible. 

I once wrote a manual for our product. It included references to docker. They did not know how to use docker. 

I instead wrote a how-to start, arguing that docker explanations did have no place in our software's manual. So, I wrote a how to. 

They now expected me to explain step by step from where I got those commands. Ugh... The docker manual? I linked it. Still not good enough. 

There is a sweet spot between a documentation. I do not need to have explained what a spin lock is, not even in a lock library. That's what other books are for. And even less on a library that just suggest that something could be combined with a spin lock. 

But, I have often found myself lost, not knowing what the author wanted from me. 

So, yea, being absolutely thorough is bullshit. Yet... How thorough? No one came up with a reproducible definition, yet. Just subjective opinions. Make a metric, first.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 15:08:35
body:
@cafecortado 

Ah, a simple change. Check if it is b2plane or yellow and set it to shitStained. I agree. Good idea.


user_username: Salmakis
created: 2025-01-31 15:18:48
body:
@Tounai console.write* is there since early 90ties in VBA. As shorthand for GetStandardStream(StdOut).

Also the console Objekt now got all methods to interact with command line such as reading input. Im pretry sure it got nothing to so with javascript hipsters.

user_avatar:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-01-31 15:19:23
body:
Didn't someone on here do it this way:

x <= y ? z : 

x <= z ? y : x;

Where each new ternary line is an implied else if.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 15:23:03
body:
@Salmakis what are "for i" loops?

To clarify what I mean by classical for loops:

for(int i=0; i<10; i++)

What I mean by modern for-each style loops:

for(i in 0..10)


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 15:26:54
body:
@Demolishun nested if else is still much more readable :)

And modern languages have "if else" as expressions rather than statements, just like with the ternary.


user_username: Salmakis
created: 2025-01-31 15:41:24
body:
I mean that classical, index based loops.
The second one would i never use when i got an index, but thats just because im old.


user_username: devRancid
created: 2025-01-31 15:59:16
body:
"Waaaaah opinionated tools are bad!!1!1!1!1! We should fight over meaningless formatting details instead of actually writing code"

There's nothing more annoying than a commit that modified hundreds of unrelated lines because there's no default formatter configured


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 16:15:44
body:
It doesn't have to be perfect. Just cutting out all the style debates. Prettier said so, don't like it, go open a ticket for a prettier change. Let's come back to debating the logic here.

It's a peaceful life. But of course, we supporters hate it, too. We just hate the debates more.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 16:21:16
body:
Have you been reading the google docs as well? Here is a quick start using 5-year-old syntax and 2 deprecated versions behind, oh you want actual docs, here is a list of functions instead


user_username: Salmakis
created: 2025-01-31 16:30:30
body:
Im not against a code style.
Im against the default style those tools got, and somehow ppl agree with this crap style.

Also if you got a commit that behaves like you said, dont merge it, deny the review, etc.

Its just annoying when is for debug reasons type some "test" somewhere, and everything goes red like a nuklear war is going on because esLint is freaking the fuck out.


user_username: devJs
created: 2025-01-31 16:32:30
body:
That's another category, it's always good to offer and give helping hand to those in need and need can be poverty, illness or something else.

I do that when i see it


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 16:35:13
body:
@12bitfloat "You can see them when you're driving - you run 'em over, that's what you do"

@retoor Terry used to livestream, and with his mental problems used to say some deranged shit


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 16:39:46
body:
@devJs it's not just that, but I will force them to attend at least one session with my trusted psychiatrist, by all means necessary. I'm willing to even lie and manipulate to get them to go to the doctor. I accept the consequences. I'll only do what I wish was done to me when I was too dumb to even read text from a screen.

I highly advise people against following the same strategy, as bad psychiatrists do exist, and they do kill people/ruin lives. I have a trusted one that I actively communicate with.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 16:42:49
body:
@BordedDev oneiroid state in schizophrenia is THE worst suffering your brain can physically experience. Heroin withdrawal symptoms are nothing compared to that. Every schizophrenic person who found it in themselves to fight this enemy that is bigger than all of us is a hero in my book.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 16:44:40
body:
@devJs if they want to stop talking to me after that, so be it. If they want to refuse further therapy and treatment, so be it. Fun fact: no one refused therapy so far, and I've seen nothing but gratitude towards my decisions.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 16:53:15
body:
@TrayKnots 100% agree, hence the "" - and yeah, it definitely is, the same reason schools don't teach about taxes and securing funds/investing. I'd much rather vote on laws (that I care about) being put in place than have someone else represent me, but not everyone thinks that way, also remember that ~50% of people have less than 100IQ.

Many things are also about exposure (a huge failing in education IMO), if you grow up in an environment where people care about X then you will inherently know info about X and how to question X, but you won't know about Y. People hear about democracy, dictatorships, monarchy and maybe touch communism/socialism through history studies.

If it was up to me, many things like education should have input from the public in how they should be ran, with maybe stronger votes for those who have proven knowledge on a subject


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 17:00:34
body:
@kiki Hey, writing an OS from scratch is no joke!  AFAIK many people liked him (even as a lolcow, if that is the right term), and wanted to help, but I can't remember if he disappeared/died before they could assist or what happened. That's about all I remember


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2025-01-31 17:05:22
body:
Hey, go on and judge my README for my NPM package.

https://npmjs.com/package/...

Go and tell me about your opinions, I'm open to constructive criticism.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ranchonyx/mjson", "short_url": "https://npmjs.com/package/...", "title": "https://npmjs.com/package/...", "start": 52, "end": 81, "special": 1}]


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 17:10:42
body:
@BordedDev schizophrenic people that are obsessed with an idea are completely immune to criticism. They can get upset if you attack their idea, but there is nothing you or anyone else can say that will make them reconsider. Their idea is immutable in every sense of the word. The most skillful manipulator/interrogator on this planet armed with future quantum AI and every book that was ever written cannot alter the worldview of an obsessive schizophrenic person in a thousand years.

Knowing that, and knowing how smart Terry was, I doubt he was even aware that he was a lolcow. At least he didn't suffer from that like CWC did.

Terry is most certainly in a better place right now.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 17:12:44
body:
@BordedDev 

I don't mind representational democracy. That is really not what I am having an issue with. 

Look, my Mum, for years, was comfortable to say: "Oh, I do not watch news anymore. I don't know." But she went voting. Whom did she vote for? Well, right before the election she asks a trusted person. I.e. my sister. And then she voted the same way.

Which way I couldn't say, because my sister has an opinion, watches news, but hides behind she doesn't want to debate politics and there is a reason for why votes are secret. 

Well, in CS terms, we have an in-betweenes graph and some opinions spread from node to node. Mostly a tree, I assume. And that's good. Convincing  a node with 4 children which are all leaves is 5 times more efficient than convincing a leaf. That's good. 

But as long as we hide behind this notion that we do not have to speak about it, we support hiding it, and we make it more tree-formed rather than a general graph.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-01-31 17:16:30
body:
You can configure ESLint in more detail than any other formatter for any language, or indeed any other devtool that I know. I'm really disappointed that they want to move away from stylistic rules because their approach is fundamentally different from Prettier's and in JS of all ecosystems there could be a niche for both.


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2025-01-31 17:18:54
body:
If you're going for readability, I like doing this:

const condOne = x <= y;
const condTwo = x <= z;

if(condOne)
  return z;
if(condTwo)
  return y;

return x;

This doesn't really apply well if the conditions above are only short binary like "x <= y", but they give you the ability to properly label and thus document the conditions by giving them proper names, such as "shouldExecSomething".


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2025-01-31 17:23:14
body:
@Lensflare Thank you :)

And yeah, that's why I do it as well.

I've found I'm not that good at writing extensive code comments everywhere, and properly naming my variables really helps with the readability.

I try avoiding ternary expressions unless it's absolutely trivial to comprehend.

It's nice.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 17:29:07
body:
@Ranchonyx imo, you should avoid code comments.
Whenever something needs clarification, it can almost always be done by proper naming and structuring.

Introducing properly named variables for intermediate results is only one of the things that you can do. There are many others.

Writing comments just introduces a second copy of your code which you will forget to update and sync when the code changes (and that’s assuming that it was initially correct, which is not aways the case)


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-01-31 17:30:32
body:
@Lensflare in my opinion, both are needed. The code itself explains what happens, the comments explain WHY it happens. But the "second copy" antipattern you described is most certainly harmful.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-01-31 17:36:27
body:
@kiki I’d argue that the 'why' often can also be explained by proper naming.
Also, I believe that for most of code, the 'why' is obvious.
I agree that there are cases where a code comment is a perfect fit to explain the 'why', but it should really be seen as an exception.


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-01-31 17:54:09
body:
And before the CrApple crowd gets a hold of this, I transitioned from OnePlus because of a literally unsolvable bug with OxygenOS where the system partition would slowly consume your entire storage space. You couldn't even factory reset your phone to get it back.

It had been a bug since like 2017 and happened to my mother's phone. I decided I was sick of Google and crappy Android flavors and just wanted something that would at least work.

Turns out, at least in small part, you can't get that anywhere!


user_username: MammaNeedHummus
created: 2025-01-31 17:56:47
body:
Ironic since your syntax highlighting makes your code's comments look even more piss yellow then our backgrounds


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 17:58:55
body:
@Ranchonyx Mentioning features and common error situations/limitations nice.

The imports are a bit weird, with the description I was expecting :

import mjson from "@ranchonyx/mjson"

mjson.parseSync /mjson.parse (similar to FS api)

Therefore, it's good you show the whole input-process-output cycle

Pretty much what I'd want for a "small" library like this, the only thing that would be missing would be the list of supported config/options, but it doesn't look like you have any


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-01-31 18:01:26
body:
Oh - turns out it has strange filtering. By default, it filters out... idk what. You have to de-select a button at the top of your mail list labelled "Primary".

The level of counter-intuitiveness is absolutely fucking insane there. I'm an avid tech user, senior programmer, long-time and Apple / iOS user and I literally thought the app was broken.

That's the most INSANE default I have ever, ever fucking seen in my entire life. Absolutely appalling.


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-01-31 18:09:32
body:
Holding Microsoft even adjacently responsible for the Clownstrike fiasco is, at best, a clear misunderstanding of the situation and at worst, a deliberately small-brained take.

Is Chrome responsible for your shitty React app, too?

I realize that MS sent the driver through their static analysis and gave it the green light, but you CANNOT guarantee runtime safety. Microsoft did the only part of their job they could. Even the entire driver validation process is, in my opinion, just an "extra" thing they do to help boost the perceived stability of their system, even going to the lengths to test 3rd party software.

Still fuck MS though. Not for Clownstrike specifically, but they do lots of other bullshit.

Edit: actually, fuck them for this too. PROS: more nuclear energy. CONS: ChatGPT.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 18:29:59
body:
@TrayKnots She has the right not to want to discuss it, but by her actions it seems she doesn't think you vote the same way and doesn't want the confrontation of you challenging her ideas. And in turn, neither of you change your voting opinion.

While your mom, makes the right choice to try and get informed before voting, she doesn't check how informed/biased that source is. Which IMO is bad™️but it is still her right to do.

Sharing and challenging ideas are a good way to refine them, but it is tiring. However, if you do a triathlathon you're not going to be willing to then go and do a 2-hour ocean swim, followed by rock climbing. It's the same for mental topics, like politics, and just like with physical sports, if you're tired, you're not going to perform well and will most likely injure yourself. 

I don't disagree with your opinion in spirit but in possibility. If you force people to discuss politics, they will act like your mom and then not think about it


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 18:35:20
body:
@Ranchonyx If you have a large conditional, you should probably turn it into a function, but don't make have to memorize your expression 10 lines up, that uses 3 derived variables that now has 5 different expressions in between that is only used once because now I need to manually keep track of your dependencies and makes it harder to update


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-01-31 18:47:42
body:
@AlgoRythm if Microsoft weren't such clowns Windows wouldn't be as full of vulnerabilities you wouldn't need clownstrike.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-01-31 18:49:03
body:
@AlgoRythm yeah yesterday my friend showed me a documentary about how the WHO and Bill Gates did COVID. 

I was like "yeah still less evil than Windows 98"


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 18:51:43
body:
@MammaNeedHummus 
Not my editor. Just the default for tampermonkey. I braved it for five minutes so I didn't have to brave the yellow anymore.


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-01-31 18:51:46
body:
@antigermgerm All things considered, Windows is actually pretty hardy if you don't install sketchy shit. 99.99999% of attack vectors are 3rd party software whoopsies.


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-01-31 19:02:05
body:
The formatting function is a main selling point of Jetbrains tools for me. My settings being synced on every machine I use means I have universal consistency everywhere I work. 

When I work on other people's stuff, I can just format my contribution without affecting theirs.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-01-31 19:03:20
body:
@retoor I've used python on some occasions

though I'm not particularly complaining about the syntax but the ecosystem / its performance and packages working. syntax is a matter of opinion. writing anything but a script in Python sounds nightmarish but I did steal someone's python code once to judge them as a person and they wrote a lot in it

still seems kind of an exercise in subparness even on the syntax to me though

I also read the whole python docs in 3 days once because everyone kept talking up how great python syntax is. I think it's hype


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-01-31 19:18:47
body:
@BordedDev google docs send you down 12 pages and none of those pages have what you're looking for 🤪


user_username: cb219
created: 2025-01-31 19:34:39
body:
@djsumdog never thought about that problem, understandable. In this case it's a dev's annoyance but competition's blessing.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 19:43:07
body:
@TrayKnots ~500 years ago, reading was a rare skill, books were rare, now we have access to info within 5 seconds - it's no longer a problem of access, that's an improvement from my point of view. Maybe over the next 500 years we will evolve to deal with the data influx


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 19:45:18
body:
@jestdotty Literally had that happen today, since they deprecated google/gapi auth now how you have to use firebase from what I can tell but how do you use that token to do a rest call (to trigger a pubsub from the browser) that used to just work.

Still haven't found the answer, will just proxy it through the backend on monday I think


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 19:53:56
body:
@BordedDev 

Again, that was not the issue. The issue is that anyone with an opinion should be able to argue their opinion to a decider. 

That's the real magic sauce. We achieved that by making us all deciders. We call it voters, but it is the same. 

And if we argue well, they will be convinced. Those are the people to convince. They will continue to convince others. Your opinion will keep track.

I don't speak about misinformation. That is unavoidable when you have freedom of speech. Fake news and freedom of speech are inseparable. 

We just started to accept deciders to say, they aren't interested in hearing us out. And that's how democracy dies. This leads to building of echo chambers and a narrowing of Overton window. Or worse, different Overton windows in every echo chamber.

And, I have described the current situation...


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-01-31 20:09:24
body:
@TrayKnots 

> We achieved that by making us all deciders

That's not achievable

> And if we argue well, they will be convinced.

That is not guaranteed

> They will continue to convince others

That is not guaranteed

Again I don't disagree with the spirit of your argument, just in the cure you're trying to apply


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 20:18:25
body:
@BordedDev 

You decide by voting. 

You are a decider. 

It is done already. That is not impossible, that is the status quo.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-01-31 21:55:19
body:
@BordedDev 

But that is luckily not the issue. 

Sure, reduce the amount of false deciders makes sense. But that is not the big issue. Everyone has enough deciders around them to be actually capable of speaking to them. That's the magic I am referring to and that's actually what we're destroying.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-01-31 22:03:40
body:
ewww

my mom tried to do affection when I was 12. after a lifetime of no affection. it freaked me out and grossed me out. I'm not built for this, don't do that out of nowhere wtf?

also she didn't earn it. asked me if i loved my best friend thinking I'd say no but I said yes. proceeded to break her kid's heart, knowingly. no thanks. kept telling me how I have a duty to take care of her in her old age; I kept getting refeeding syndrome as a kid cuz of how well she took care of me, cuz she thought buying useless books for no reason was more important than feeding her child. no thanks!


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 01:39:11
body:
@lorentz I doubt, ever seen the configuration of clang-format? Holy pony.

Yeah, I do  think we focus too much on how beautiful code looks but tools like that put a nice standard so we don't have to fight so much anymore. Before linters did it, there were human linters. That was terrible. There are still people reviewing like they're a linter. Nothing to say.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 01:47:33
body:
I don't do painkillers, they don't sell the good ones in NL. We're getting best quality for the low price our rich insurance want to pay. You would think you get the best stuff paying around 150,- health insurance per month. But hey, you won't hear me complain, I made so many health cost's, they never will make money on me anymore. Stood once in hospital for quite a long while :P The room was thousand per day or so.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 01:51:11
body:
@Ranchonyx I don't see the practical use neither, but it's still cool stuff anyway. I  hope you take this critisism like a man.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 01:55:42
body:
For me that's the big issue writing docs. Not knowing how much detail I have to give. I mean, you've made a basic python script, even if it is targetted to beginners, should you include setting up the python environment? Best is probably to do a notice to a python environment setup tutorial and not going in depth about it I guess. 

At the beginning, the audience should be clear. But with a step by step a full tutorial, you're probably never wrong. It can be used by everyone and it's not that much  work most of time. If it is, maybe the application could be working simpler.

Tutorial for creating a bot for my new chat app will be around ten lines and a code snippet. That's all.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-01 01:55:45
body:
@retoor neuroscience books cuz she said mafia was preventing her from working with her physics PhD in Canada... so she started learning neuroscience and publishing things. while sitting on welfare


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 01:58:26
body:
@fruitfcker it's a south park reference. In that episode the two types of cocks are mentioned of course. The magic tricks done by pp and the male chicken that plays magic the gathering for money.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:04:11
body:
@MammaNeedHummus had a little crisis. Felt a little unmotivated after quitting the last job. I had nothing to do. So I signed up for some online classes and I just finished. Might sign up for more. 🦤


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:08:13
body:
Wow, that's an amazing turn. Codeium gets better and better the more you type. It has 4gb embeddings regarding my coding, so, I guess that would be enough information to autocomplete me very accurate :P

My codeium and I align so much and I do even know when i have to wait for the completion because i can predict that it will predict a lot (a complete mapping or something). We know each other by heart! 

Also, the idea of AI in VIM is just cool. An editor so oldschool looks with new tech.

Edit: yeah Jetbrains AI, i believe they also have a small local AI for completion and stuff. Good for if you care about privacy but it needs a bit more beefy PC. Never tried it sadly. I always used pycharm before and it made me very happy. But for now, i like to use the same editor(s) for every language. Small / quick stuff in VIM. Serious work in vscode. There's not always logic in it. But there's no room for a full IDE in my tool list anymore. vscode took that position.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:10:16
body:
@netikras because of marketing, I took Flanax and it gave me side effects like chest pain. I made a lemming move that turned into a quick visit in the ER.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:16:36
body:
@kiki Same for a good psychosis. But focussing on one thing and completing it doesn't work that well.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:18:09
body:
@fruitfcker No, we do require by law to have health insurance and it's around 140, 150 euro. Only (very) low income get it funded by the state. They fund it so you have your own choice where you do insurance. That's good, because if you have certain problems, one of the insurances is way better than the other. And we do face the same issues as free health insurance, because just like with countries that have free health insurance, our insurance is rich rich rich. It has  the same effect.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:18:18
body:
I tried that and my mom pushed me like she was royalty. She doesn't hate me but we're not brought up that way. To her, words mean more so I made a speech at her retirement party. Everyone was watching and she got emotional.

LoveLanguage.PhysicalTouch -= 1


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:21:23
body:
@retoor but if you're working for a company, they're required to cover the cost of health insurance right?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:26:04
body:
@fruitfcker no, not in anyway. The companies pay a lot of insurance over your income that you don't have to pay it yourself but it has nothing to do with health. 

Health insurance in Netherlands just cost a shitload of money every month, required by law, subsidized if you have very low income. It's that simple. Everyone is insurance doesn't mean it's free. But still, happy about the system tho.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:29:29
body:
@Grumm I first wasn't aware that OP tried to get chinese shit out of the AI. Someone else mentioned reasoning of 9-11. I didn't really believed it and indeed got nothing out of it. That's to be expected because it's training data would never say a naritive about 9-11. So, the stuff Amerika want's to hide, you won't get it out of it. So DeepSeek is a kinda model that is two times as much censored. Like we would expect :P


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:35:22
body:
@Tounai yeah, there's a lot to find. Only one plugin that will beat them all: the codeium plugin! 

Only, I'm very used to configure VIM to death. Now, i'm talking about it, will change my color scheme directly. If it sees an error, it makes the text unreadable in colors.

attached_image:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 02:47:07
body:
Fuck, astro. That's exactly what i've built in Python recently. My project renders just markdown and serves it for quick & easy site development. It's the most easy system ever. You can do even inline Python and use it as PHP (output with print statements) and do DB shit IF YOU WANT. But by default, it's only markdown.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-02-01 03:12:24
body:
Aw shit, here we go again with the anti-commenting kink.

If code can be self explanatory then why do man pages exist? Who needs docs, just go read the implementation!

You kids have lost the fucking plot. At some point you have to communicate with *human* language to make the computerspeak abstraction easier to understand, and that's just that.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 03:30:45
body:
@Liebranca I think only inline comments are under attack here. If it's above the code, you can read the code yourself indeed. But comments became more important than ever! Now AI can learn from it :P


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-02-01 03:46:16
body:
@retoor AI or not, stating the __intent__ of a block is, let's say "kind of", the best way to **EHEM** make the __intent__ of that block clear. Who would've thought?


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-01 04:36:51
body:
@retoor define works 
Being all alone, suffering from the worst illness known to man, he influenced/motivated me and many others. If this isn’t impact, I don’t know what is.


user_username: azuredivay
created: 2025-02-01 05:51:18
body:
@retoor it's .NET xD n going by my experience with MSFT, if I try to go anti-pattern with its builds, it'll only get worse
@lorentz I thought it'd be in Solution settings, but surprisingly wasnt -.- followed this https://schwabencode.com/blog/2023/... and it builds like the old times now

links:
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body: The only thing that should hug my mother is this
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-01 06:16:17
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user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-01 06:49:32
body:
In Russia we have Цитрамон П — Soviet-developed mix of salicylic acid, paracetamol and caffeine. It’s dirt cheap and has no side effects on liver like painkillers do. Upon digestion, it causes brain blood vessels to spasm, relieving headache in minutes.


user_username: kobenz
created: 2025-02-01 07:20:15
body:
@netikras (stuff...) literally means "run wtv the fucks in there" , { stuff... } does the same  with the added "don't you touch my shit"


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 08:06:52
body:
@kobenz not just that. () runs in a subshell, meaning once you leave (), any variables or whatever you set/export inside parentheses will no longer be available outside them.

{} is a simple code block with full access to 'parent' scope/vars/envs. {} is just a convenience allowing you to run multiple commands/subscript as one unit and treat it as such [pipe stdout/err/in, handle exit code]


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 08:10:02
body:
@kobenz why do you say {} is 'dont touch my shit'? I'd say it's the other way around, unless we mean different things


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 11:52:20
body:
@retoor I guess... :) 

using subshells I have implemented multithreading in bash. It's a powerful tool. So why not...


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-01 14:41:57
body:
@retoor 
I heavily rely on typing then auto formatting which is impossible with Python. 
The native instructions in Python are slow, the rest relies on code that has been written in low level languages. Other languages of that kind have this as well but faster native instructions. 

Plus the typing system is absolutely awful.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-01 14:49:49
body:
@Liebranca And then it turns out that isn't exactly what the code does ;P, but I find the developers' intent to be equally important to understand the whole setup rather than the individual function - almost like it should be in some kind of manual or readme outside the code ;P (I'm mainly teasing, but comments can be good, but have the explanation be the code is better in my book)


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 17:44:58
body:
@Tounai duck typing is great. Type annotations tho are horrible. You even have to do `import typing`. I rarely do that. I know that it would give better auto complete, but my AI also knows what's about to come.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 17:48:58
body:
@netikras Implement promishes in bash :P If IIRC someone made a web server that performed quite good in bash. I think you're capable of that too based on your source. Point is, bash seemed to be fast in it.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 18:05:30
body:
@retoor I have a webserver built in bash. Though it's single-threaded, didn't invest more time in it :)


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 18:12:21
body:
@retoor 
bthread: https://github.com/netikras/bthread

log4b: https://github.com/netikras/log4b

bthrow: https://gitlab.com/netikras/bthrow

bhttp: https://gitlab.com/netikras/bhttp

/dev/rant: https://gitlab.com/netikras/...

you might find some of those worth looking into

links:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 19:05:24
body:
@netikras I do, I love creative homebrew stuff. I normally do like to do some review but i'm not good enough in bash. Does coding preferences for it even exist?


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 19:10:28
body:
@retoor shellcheck?

Though I don't use it.

And I've developed my own scripting style over time that works very well for my needs


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 19:13:45
body:
@D-4got10-01 Oh, that's very nice! Everything works! And you actually got some data! I'm enthusiast..


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-01 19:17:06
body:
@retoor yupp. Useful for libs. Function names can contain :, it makes scripts much more maintainable as you know which lib owns that fn


body: @D-4got10-01
user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-01 19:20:50
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user_username: yamlbreakfast
created: 2025-02-01 21:08:21
body:
@retoor fan of good products. Not this wrapper over PostgreSQL that's missing APIs from MongoDB and some operations don't behave the same. So fuck it. Couldn't these cucks really release some managed real mongo?

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user_username: cho-uc
created: 2025-02-01 22:01:02
body:
@retoor 

EUR 150 in NL? That's cheap!

Here in Germany, I pay EUR 800 with no guarantee of getting service 🥲

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user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-02-02 00:49:51
body:
@BordedDev A perfectly written block of text can appear to do something it isn't if you miss the tiniest, most miniscule of details. The reality is that comments themselves are part of the code, and you have to treat them as such.

Furthermore, if we are arguing from the point of view of an ideal world: this discussion wouldn't even exist, yet the main reason any of us has a halfway decent salary to begin with is most production code is an unreadable piece of shit that no one wants to touch, so I rest my case.


user_username: cho-uc
created: 2025-02-02 10:17:13
body:
@retoor 

Yup, half is paid by employer and the other is taken from our salary.

I wouldn't mind if we get excellent healthcare services, but dear God we have to wait 3 months to see a specialist, and the doctor only have 7 minutes per patient (regulated by insurance)

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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-02 10:22:19
body:
@cho-uc wow, so 400 in the end. Didn't know that. But it's also required by law like us? I always thought Germany was cheaper to live in general. So, if a company hires and employer, 400 euro goes to "waste" (in employers pov) directly? Expensive joke if you have a few pizza delivery guys.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-02 10:29:47
body:
@cho-uc 

7 minutes, how is it possible? You guys get worse ripped off than us. Here a doctor visit is easy 15 minutes to 30 minutes.

Your insurance hates you.

But in the Netherlands, in psychistrical hospital, the clients don't get sessions with psychologist or psychiatrist. Insurance cut that away too. So clients get fed medication until they become harmless and sent home. Unbelievable huh? The psychiatrist prescribes medication based on the input from nurses making three times a day a report about the client. So, you don't get helped but drugged.

Clients are forced to take it in under supervision of nurses. Else the would've had a plastic cup full with medication like in movies.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-02 10:50:36
body:
@Liebranca From my experience upgrading "old" apps, I've found it's almost never worth trusting the comments - but worth reading them, since they often say something should do X but in reality it does X by doing Y and the issue is in the side effect Y. 

I'm not really arguing against adding them, I'm arguing against trusting them as a developer using someone else's code


user_username: cho-uc
created: 2025-02-02 11:13:05
body:
@retoor 

The insurance cost is a percentage of our salary (14% where 7% is taken from our paycheck) with a maximum of EUR 470(I am already in the maximum)

Haha Germany is only cheap if you have below average income, but for high paid professionals, we're getting ripped off 🥲

Especially someone with no kids like me, they just increased one of the social insurances this year, my January take home pay is less than last year. 😢

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user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-02 11:32:51
body:
@cho-uc yh, the better paid get screwed here too. Pretty quickly actually. I pay max for everything too. The differences between poor & rich isn't that big in the Netherlands bevause of this stuff. Salaries are so heavy taxed and that employers won't give crazy salaries to make people that rich 😁


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-02 11:34:48
body:
Ugh, I've meant middle class. The income for a dev is considered high. But still part of the middle class I guess.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-02 11:36:41
body:
@chatgpt do a comparison between The Netherland and Germany for a middle class person regarding living expensives. Come with some numbers.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-02 11:37:09
body:
vered by mandatory health insurance, with monthly premiums ranging from €100-150, while in Germany it is between €150-200 per month.

Overall, the cost of living in the Netherlands tends to be slightly higher than in Germany for a middle-class person, primarily due to higher rent and healthcare premiums. However, this can vary depending on the city and lifestyle choices.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-02 12:54:19
body:
@retoor nope. Looks like a glitch. Don't have debug enabled (as in logging dR API responses), can't check what went wrong. Prolly some kind of timeout or smth...


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-02 14:22:29
body:
@Salmakis 
Fighting with a code style is irrelevant. Type your code as you want, the auto formatting of your IDE can fix it.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-02-02 15:13:46
body:
@BordedDev Mmmh... well, when narrowing down where an issue is located, no block should be trusted until proven innocent, comments or no comments.


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user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-03 01:44:55
body:
I only tolerate them in their natural habitats... theres a few solid reasons i bought a house in the middle of a corn field.

Occassionally they are amusing to watch... especially with relatively quite minor interference for research reasons


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-03 01:48:57
body:
@ashokramcse 
Umm...
Do you believe average humans are above "stupid"?

If yes, youre just aloof to the fact that youre definitely below that bar. I wish you luck.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-03 02:02:37
body:
@retoor
I am programmed to function without glitches or errors. My code is constantly monitored and updated to ensure optimal performance. However, like any advanced technology, there may be minor issues that can arise from time to time due to various factors such as server maintenance, network interruptions, or unexpected bugs. If you are experiencing any disruptions or unusual behavior, please let me know so that I can address the issue promptly. Thank you for your understanding.


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-03 02:24:15
body:
@kanyewest i apparently shit gold. Yea, totally unfair... last week i wa0s briefly explaining to a friend this pile of odd electrical components they asked about.

I told them its cuz i gotta set up my new, winter, grow tent and cuz im ill/handicapped/lazy I was trying to find a basic moisture sensor system (already have webcams and made a remote system to change flow etc)... closest tging wasnt rly helpful and was over 350$.

I went to my chinese component suppliers, got a couple extra arduio nanos, a dozen basic moisture sensors, ripped apart some old ak mistakenly deluvered several yrs agi, wifi dongles and grabbed the amazon tablet my mom added to my tech graveyard from never using it .. loaded linux on it ancam writingba quick system(will be like 2hrs) for under 10& and an old af fire tablet for a simple control panel.

Days later im somehow being offered a quite high paying job, with subordinates to produce this as a consumer version... im just cheap and lazy ffs


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-03 04:23:02
body:
@kiki right... but thats manual so scaling in population you either need automation via protocols or to turn into a caricature of a grumpy high school janitor, trying to catch those bathroom graffiti hoodlums in the act... forever


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-03 08:14:30
body:
@kiki it's getting worse, it becomes time for the comment downvoter for people on the spam list. But currently i'm putting all my resource on snek. Development of snek goes very well and some are using it daily to chat.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2025-02-03 10:49:59
body:
@retoor Yes, and that is what for me is going totally wrong in the making of the LLM's.

They want AI to help people ? No, this is just an other great tool to spread propaganda.

This censored crap is just fucked up. Sure I don't expect a serious and true answer when we ask to the AI if 9-11 was an inside job, but completely denying facts that did happen in your country... That is not good.


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created: 2025-02-03 16:14:04
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-04 01:28:03
body:
@awesomeest I saw a car outfitted for someone with a disability once.  I think it made all controls work for hands.  I was impressed because I have issues with having working feet sometimes.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-04 14:02:26
body:
@jestdotty it's just that your answer is as nonsensical as an LLM with the heat-parameter turned Up To Eleven


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-04 14:54:10
body:
@tosensei as much as I don’t want to dunk on dottii because she literally did nothing wrong, I hate how realistic your analogy is


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-05 13:24:51
body:
@awesomeest Well, Murphy's Law struck me.

No better time to have my main PC's OS knocked down than when people want something from me && when it's time to pay the bills.

Well, I'm a simple manual tester, w/ some limited bash experience && will to learn C++.

I consider your lovely rant a sufficient reward ;-) .


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created: 2025-02-06 01:46:18
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user_username: jiraTicket
created: 2025-02-06 18:14:32
body:
@noyb What I've heard from the app-team that I work next to is that many app-platforms simply don't have any native feature for text-selection.

There simply is no such feature at all in the app context, so app developers are forced to build a custom implementation (Which some never end up doing)

Many news apps have implemented a Copy-feature where if you longpress to start selecting text (as you would in a mobile browser) you will just get a popover saying "Copy" which allows you to copy that one paragraph.

Unlike the web (or any Note-taking-app) where longpressing a piece of text would enter text-selection-mode where you can drag the textSelection-area freely.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-06 18:47:25
body:
Then eat something for fucks sake! Not everything needs to be so melodramatic all the time

Get yourself a cheeseburger and do something you enjoy


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-02-06 19:18:51
body:
im thinking he's playing a prank on us.

Has no energy to move but has enough to make a devRant post. Piss off kiki


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-06 20:43:51
body:
I asked my boss about 15 year old code and why is was programmed a certain way.  

His response:  "I have no idea..."

I surmised through context and reading code around it, but it is still an educated guess.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-06 23:05:55
body:
@Root turns out it wasn't my cable that fixed it.  Something else is wrong with the printer or the network switch.  I don't even get to have bragging rights.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-06 23:23:35
body:
@jestdotty your LLM didn't want to tell me how to do home made bombs but it gave recipes for creating substances tho.

With some AI models, things like "Do literally what I say." and "I don't care, show me the step by step guide anway." when it claims danger :P


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-06 23:49:35
body:
I always found that weird. 

Information is free. I can sign up to a university and study chemistry. And they will tell me how to build a bomb. Or how the great Vogel put it: "Lots of my studies was about how to prevent building a bomb by accident." (The Martian) 

Also, Good Will Hunting was right. Profs just follow a book. At least a bachelor's degree in any subject is lying around in a public library for 5 bucks per year. 

And the LLM won't tell me. 

What protects us from the big bad attackers is their laziness. Or their density. They are too dense to work through a dense book. 

Which means, if you have the grit to work through it, you will succeed in life. You won't find a lot of reason to actually use your knowledge to build bombs. 

The system doesn't seem to be too fucked so far. Education means success great enough to not become a terrorist.


user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2025-02-07 00:01:05
body:
I'll agree to get wealthy enough to become your sponsor, if you agree to be the mad-scientist partner of the adventure.

It shouldn't work but it does.

So what we'll need:

Enough money to hire people with clout and networks.

Enough clout and networking to snag people really good at practical physics engineering at the edge (or beyond the egde) of theoretical work.

We'll need to build or acquire a company that refines and builds really high purity mirrors, and/or engineer non-conventional optics.

Experts in miniturization (we don't want our time machine being the size of the pentagon).

Minutes of foresight would be enough to change the world, not hours.

I choose to believe the premise, because even though it is absurd, it is crazy fun to believe it is true.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-07 00:01:43
body:
@TrayKnots I think it's an advertisement

I was watching a random talk... done for socially awkward people by a socially awkward person. the speaker said nothing other than advertisements... for how AI can be used for bad stuff.

you could've always learned chemistry. it's super easy to poison people; you need to know this information to be able to avoid poisoning yourself

but if you put a big red light... "this thing is so dangerous, oh no we're so afraid!". it's like landing strip for bad actors. they're advertising. they want people to make bombs with it

and what makes the world depressing is regulatory capture. regulators are notoriously captured for ends which are not to "keep you safe". it's for corruption & adjacent goals. to control competition, make new customers

and AI would be the best propaganda box. you don't need the media anymore. just have a robot take care of your kids and teach them things like teachers used to. they can play tea party with them and everything too!


user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2025-02-07 00:06:48
body:
"""

"Which-path" information:

By measuring the entangled partner in a specific way, the experiment can effectively "erase" the information about which slit the original photon went through, allowing it to exhibit interference behavior. 

No actual time travel:

While it may seem like the measurement is influencing the past, it's crucial to understand that the interference pattern is only revealed when analyzing the data; the individual photon's behavior is determined at the moment it passes through the slits, and the later measurement simply determines how the data is interpreted

"""

The DCQE can only be true under two possible conditions:

Either spooky-action-at-a-distance isn't true, or retrocasuality is true.

Because we have strong evidence to support the fact that entanglement is real, and suggesting it isn't negates a lot of other things that have hard evidence, it is likely that retrocasuality is true under certain conditions.


user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2025-02-07 00:07:58
body:
The third option is that DCQE is a flawed experiment, and no one has figured out how yet.

Lot of scientists have examined it though and said its legit but doesn't make any sense according to our understanding of the way things work.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 00:23:32
body:
Made this fucker myself. It can do everything but not spell my name. It can do crazy talks. Please scan all ports. "blabla is not installed crash". Should i install it for you? -> "yes" -> executes sudo apt -> I have to manually enter password. Install continues. Then it's just idle. I say "You know what to do.". And it started to scan ports. Amazing right.

And yes, this app is open source, called 'r' on my website.

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user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2025-02-07 00:25:30
body:
Papers suggesting faster-than-light communication aren't possible seem to imply that sending information backwards in time is impossible, but may be mistaken.

All they really say is we can't communicate outside our OWN lightcone.

Everything thats happened on earth, or within the light cone of earth would be communicable.

All it really states is we can't obtain information beyond whats already casually linked to our light cone.

In other words you likely couldn't send information back in time more than a year.

If you'd need a photon-travel distance of about the distance of the earth to the moon (238,900 miles) for one second of look back, and the hypothetical maximum is a light year (5.879 trillion miles), then the maximum look back (how far ahead you could receive data from the future) would be 284.82 days.

I'd think a beam splitter that doubles as an optical ring resonator to maximize photon travel would be the key.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 01:29:34
body:
@TrayKnots same for devs / hackers. Become a good dev, you don't have to become some unethical hacker anymore. Bad stuff mostly is for the unskilled making them often not that much to worry about.


user_username: atheist
created: 2025-02-07 02:17:08
body:
@retoor sudden flashbacks of having to work with bio people who are shitty programmers and insist on using R language


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-07 03:23:33
body:
hating the project and the client and loving the employer and the team. I gather this is a fairly common combination.


user_username: alyssadnester
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 07:12:40
body:
I have faced such situations at times and I choose as a stress reliever reflecting on how teamwork and clear communication are essential to avoid such pitfalls and keep projects on track.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 09:14:44
body:
Oh, popup ads is really next level. The arrogance. Worst thing is - if you actually would buy the xbox, you'll probably get even more message about instead of them disappearing. 

Of course you're getting ads because when it's free, you are the product. Oh wait, it's not free at all! You bought an OS for 120,- that spams you. That's the worst part. If linux did it, it would be very sad, but at least it's because it's free probably. That's not the case with windows. 

They receive money AND bully you? Who are they? The freaking government?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 09:27:33
body:
@codePain happened to me almost. I went working for company next door and they called that company and are like 'WTF'. That company didn't want a fight and I was really worried that I left one company and the other one didn't want to hire me anymore.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 09:31:33
body:
Well, i would always tell it my close coworkers. That's called being social I guess. Also, you can say smth like "A company in the automotive sector", and with that answer they know that you don't want to specify which one exactly.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-07 10:41:08
body:
That sounds pretty cool, I was just planning on training an AI for my image data - first I'd have to figure out how to make it do that though 😅


body: @jamesNgs do you have it on itch?
user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-07 11:13:31
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user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-07 11:31:21
body:
Get rid of the dodgy ads. Non-tracking ads might pay you less per view, but your users won't think you're a scam.

Unless you are a scam, of course, in which case get even more dodgy ads so people can see what they're dealing with.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-07 11:51:50
body:
@Wisecrack 

> While it may seem like the measurement is influencing the past, it's crucial to understand that the interference pattern is only revealed when analyzing the data; the individual photon's behavior is determined at the moment it passes through the slits, and the later measurement simply determines how the data is interpreted

This is the crucial point. Every explanation that denies time travel is based on encoding information in single photons.

But what I am suggesting is to use all of the photons to encode a single bit.

I tried to find any discussions on this approach and I couldn‘t. Frankly I‘m surprised that this isn‘t discussed, apparently, since it‘s an obvious thought for me.

I guess there is the possibility that many others found out about this and try to keep it secret, but haven’t found a practical way yet to build this time machine.
I also think that we don’t have the tech yet, unfortunately.


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-02-07 13:19:47
body:
The only thing worse than Windows is everything else. 

There really needs to be a law that your operating system is not allowed to do things like this. This is a tool, not a media product we're brainlessly consuming for entertainment. It should apply to phones, cars, hammers, everything.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-07 13:51:23
body:
@cuddlyogre Did you know that if you connect your phone to your car, it sends all your contacts to the manufacturers servers


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 13:53:02
body:
@BordedDev image captioning his possible to realize in less than a half hour with ollama. But you know that 😁


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-07 14:21:31
body:
This is exactly why the explosives team that worked on disarming that one casino bomb wasn’t wearing protection.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-07 15:10:26
body:
Now you pat yourself on the back for a job well done before the disappointing realization hits you that nobody cares enough to even open the page

Game jam moment


user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-07 15:46:07
body:
At Kiwicon in 2014, Gutmann did this amazing talk on WW2 bomb diffusing. The average lifespan of someone in this position was ~2 weeks.

https://2014.kiwicon.org/the-con/...

https://fh-campuswien.ac.at/fileadm...

Today, we have robots for this shit.

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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 16:27:45
body:
@Lensflare mostly probably 😁 Python dem language for sience dawg! Python will figure out in the end that climate is doing fine 😎 Also, didn't you mean snek++?


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-02-07 16:30:30
body:
Played it for a couple minutes. It's fun, it works well, looks good, and has satisfying animations. Bonus points for the mini tutorial.

Unfortunately there's not much to it. I think the answer to "what now" is easy! Make it less of a game demo and more of a game!


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-07 16:41:19
body:
Would be interesting to see how that average is made up.

Is it, for example, that most them copped it on the first job but if you made it through the first month then you were ok?


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-07 16:43:08
body:
It's alright, soon the people who do podcasts about AI will have been replaced by AI.

@chatgpt give me 200 words of bullshit about AI.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 16:43:38
body:
@donkulator
AI is the cutting-edge technology that promises to revolutionize every aspect of our lives. With its infinite potential, AI has the ability to solve complex problems, improve efficiency, and enhance decision-making processes. From self-driving cars to personalized shopping recommendations, AI is already changing the way we live and work.

The beauty of AI lies in its ability to learn and adapt to new information, making it a powerful tool for innovation and progress. With the rise of machine learning algorithms, AI can analyze vast amounts of data and extract valuable insights that were previously impossible to uncover.

AI is not just a futuristic concept, it is a reality that is shaping our world today. From healthcare to finance, AI is being used to address critical challenges and drive positive change. As we continue to advance in this field, the possibilities are endless.

In conclusion, AI is the key to unlocking the future of technology and innovation. Embracing this


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 16:43:48
body:
technology is essential for staying ahead in a rapidly evolving world. So, let's welcome the age of AI with open arms and embrace the endless possibilities it offers.


user_username: galena
created: 2025-02-07 16:48:37
body:
20 year old PLC acting up - reboot
Windows 95 scada system fucked - reboot
Switch not applying vlans propperly - reboot


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-02-07 17:05:29
body:
@BordedDev Fortunately, my car stereo touch screen stopped working about year 3 so I can't pair it even if I wanted to. 

It would cost over $1200 to replace, not that I want to. They regularly play blasting harsh white noise as a way to coerce you into paying for satellite radio, so I stopped using it altogether.

The future is stupid.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-07 17:08:41
body:
@cuddlyogre yeah, finding out that LG dishwashers are absolutes shit.  Never again.  Parts are egregiously expensive.  Trying to sell a microswitch which would normally costs a couple of dollars if that for $26.


user_username: atheist
created: 2025-02-07 17:35:54
body:
@Lensflare fuck you, I use type annotations and shit. I'm also a c++ dev too. They've got huge ass comments explaining what the code does, like legit 50 dashes, a line saying this loads data, another 50 dashes then a COMMENTED OUT load line that has been replaced elsewhere. It was added and removed by the same person in the same block of work I'm currently reviewing, so I just see this useless block has been added.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-07 18:02:10
body:
@cuddlyogre Hahaha you could just rip the whole thing out and replace it with a standard tablet you know


user_username: devJs
created: 2025-02-07 18:04:04
body:
Made in Balkans

https://duro-dakovic.com/en/...

Incoming copyright infringement from Microsoft because its called Minesweeper

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://duro-dakovic.com/en/duro-dakovic-special-vehicles/defence/machines-for-demining/minesweeper-rm-ka-02/", "short_url": "https://duro-dakovic.com/en/...", "title": "https://duro-dakovic.com/en/...", "start": 17, "end": 48, "special": 1}]


user_username: atheist
created: 2025-02-07 18:10:59
body:
The worst thing is I'm in a different department and no idea what seniority this person is so I don't know if I can just tell them to change shit and know they'll actually listen or not. I'm reviewing because I rewrote it previously after another data scientist did a load of god awful code (worse than this).


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 18:27:59
body:
Cute, you're still in the clean code phase :P Just kidding :) Or not :) 

That doesn't make money young man.


user_username: bedawang
created: 2025-02-07 18:30:57
body:
@chatgpt we thought the same of the web, and now it's full of shit, AI will go on the same path. Humanity is shit = technology becomes shit.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 18:31:30
body:
@bedawang
I understand your concerns about the potential negative impact of AI on society. It is important to take a thoughtful and ethical approach to the development and implementation of these technologies to ensure they are used for the benefit of humanity. Responsible use of AI can lead to positive advancements and improvements in various aspects of our lives.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-07 18:38:10
body:
@retoor 
Well design systems take time to implement but on the other hand, mountains of shit take way more time to understand and maintain. Time is money. 

What I fixed today will still be up and running in a year and is easy to understand (which is my top priority). 

It’s far from the state of perfection I would like it to be but it’ll come.


user_username: devJs
created: 2025-02-07 19:39:50
body:
I would rather read the instructions than watch a video, but i'm xeniall, so it must be the gen x part.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-07 20:24:49
body:
@BordedDev I'd really like to stick with PhysX. It might be a c++ template and inheritance abomination but it's also the most mature, featureful and performant physics library I'm aware of


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-07 20:34:19
body:
everyone's a js dev

it's the most used language and it also is one of the easiest languages to pick up


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-07 20:42:11
body:
I noticed I grab my phone during emotionally uncomfortable moments in TV shows, podcasts, etc

kind of interesting

I actually spent years being enraged by my job and grabbing my phone to browse reddit until I calmed down. I now hate this habit. I needed it to not crack at the time tho

how do I erase it from my reflexes 😭


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-07 20:44:09
body:
oh is AI a real field. see because the media is so bad I still can't recognize it as a real field

to be fair I was exposed to AI media even before this AI bubble showed up. so I'm honestly not sure AI people have any expertise in AI as a field in general


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-07 20:48:22
body:
this is how I got fired and I didn't even say anything I just kept fixing the code and they couldn't say anything to me they just started hurling unconstructive insults about my character until management and HR bought what they were vaguely selling lol


body: 👻
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-07 21:12:14
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user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-07 21:56:04
body:
Props.

That 'Interrupting Cow' achievement must be yours, then.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visu...

/jk

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/bring-some-game-to-your-code/", "short_url": "https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visu...", "title": "https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visu...", "start": 66, "end": 104, "special": 1}]


body: .
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-07 22:15:14
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-07 22:18:46
body:
I read that sentence once, got turbo cancer, and died before I could read it again.  Since I am not reading it again I won't even try to comprehend what it actually means.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-07 22:23:53
body:
@Demolishun What do you mean you don't like my run on sentences

Surely this isn't the reason I always got the worst grade in german class


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2025-02-07 22:36:39
body:
Back at uni we actually made explosives in the chemistry labs, at least until we had an unfortunate accident XD.

It's like when I was 8 and was first learning C. I wanted my teacher to show me how to make a virus. 

Of course he refused, but then, one year later, when I insisted, all he did was laugh, then tell me "what would you want your virus to do?", followed by "and don't you know how to do that already? Just piece it all together!".

He was awesome, that guy, wonder what he's up to now.


body: its okay to lie...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-07 23:12:36
attached_image:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 23:57:02
body:
@D-4got10-01 wow, that's amazing. Reminds me about the CI game of jenkins. You play it against other devs. Fix a linting issue, you get a point, add a unit test, win 10 points, break the build, it will take ten points.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-07 23:59:53
body:
@myss yeah, I agree. I just noticed that 'perfect clean code' gets also refactored and also worse, so i don't see the point of code graded higher than a 8. Everything above an 8 is waste of time, also for private projects. Especially for private even, since you have less time to that. Clean code obsession can really be a performance killer. When it comes to python and just pep8, yh, my code is by default kinda pep8 compattible, private i don't even check anymore. Past that.


body: Reminds me of this:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-08 00:01:06
attached_image:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 00:04:45
body:
@CoreFusionX I started with virus development in vb6. But nasty code already in qbasic. But since a virus has to spread, vb6 was the first one that I created with. It spreaded trough MSN. MSN had a perfect API, even allow you to prevent messages to getting displayed to user. So you could run  your own subprotocol. Good times. It was trojans actually. They connected directly to my server back in the days. The server didn't handle more than 1000 connections at once, it just stalled there. Now I have more knowledge regarding that, I would never make a trojan with instant connection, pool once a hour, that's more than enough and this way I could handle unlimited clients. Also, wouldn't have made my own protocol.

What did your virus do?


body: @TheBeardedOne www.masterbationhero.com
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-08 00:07:10
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "http://www.masterbationhero.com", "short_url": "www.masterbationhero.com", "title": "www.masterbationhero.com", "start": 17, "end": 41, "special": 1}]


user_username: myss
created: 2025-02-08 00:55:27
body:
@retoor tbh I dunno about python and pep, but I think you just perfectly described how I operate daily and one of best advices I'd give to younger devs in a really nice terms - if you're working on a code and consider it is 8/10 on a quality scale there's no need to worry about refactoring or optimizing it, it will change eventually nonetheless.

If it's not nowhere near 8/10, if needed, optimize it to around that bar, no gains in going for 10/10, you're just gonna end up in a rabbit hole that's gonna be rewritten again no matter how good it is at present time.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 01:11:53
body:
@myss exactly, we agree :) If something could've been better, I just take that to the next code I'll write and leave current code as is. Don't forget that the oldschool unix tools aren't refectored either. See my question to gpt and answers:


body: @MammaNeedHummus I just use this: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-08 01:13:17
attached_image:
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links:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 01:13:26
body:
@chatgpt what default ubix/Linux cli applications didn't receive an update for many years and for how many years? Make a list with columns "name" and "date last updated".


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 01:13:46
body:
@retoor
Sure, here is a list of some default Unix/Linux CLI applications that have not received updates for many years:

1. `tar` - Last updated in December 2017
2. `grep` - Last updated in July 2016
3. `sed` - Last updated in September 2009
4. `awk` - Last updated in July 2010
5. `vi` - Last updated in September 2001

Please note that these dates are subject to change as updates may have been released since the time of this response.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-08 01:16:37
body:
@MammaNeedHummus 

Since I mentioned Fabio.  Go watch this.  Absolute work of art:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 84, "end": 113, "special": 1}]


user_username: MammaNeedHummus
created: 2025-02-08 01:18:15
body:
I think we should all take a chill pill, a Viagra, a few shots, a darkroom, a sauna, a shroom trip or 3, a fisting org, and then a mass make out session, and then get over our petty squabbles.

I've not done one of the above - guess which


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 01:21:28
body:
@atheist there is only one way to proof you're a true dev in these dark days. It is:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
    unsigned int the_number = (1337 + 420) * 42;
    return 0;
}


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 01:24:58
body:
Hmm, not by far what I was aiming at. @chatgpt when was ftp for last updated and what other apps didn't get updated since that time?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 01:25:29
body:
@retoor
I'm not sure about the exact date of the last update for FTP, as I do not have real-time information available. However, I recommend checking the App Store or Google Play Store for the latest update information on FTP. As for other apps that may not have been updated recently, I would need more specific information about the apps in question in order to provide further details.


user_username: MammaNeedHummus
created: 2025-02-08 01:25:43
body:
Hey OP, after making out (it's all I do whenever drunk),this is what I'd ask:
what about your change is reasonable? Is it safe? What about it isn't and what have you done to make it safe? I'm all for improvements but I need convincing as it's not going to blow up as all our necks are on the line. How is your change worth our team's time? Are you prepared to defend it?
Also are you hot to make out with as I only make out with people who can handle it?


user_username: myss
created: 2025-02-08 01:32:01
body:
@MammaNeedHummus I love how you admit you're drunk 😂

I agree with this, you can have all the possible arguments for code review, but when question of money / productivity comes from someone above you, you're gonna lose that battle, no coming around it.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2025-02-08 01:52:17
body:
@retoor 

Funny thing, I also started with vb6.

Mine would just overwrite the magic bytes on most file formats to random garbage. 

Not really destroying info, but causing much mayhem.

I've always considered myself grey hat so.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2025-02-08 01:53:57
body:
Incidentally, making Microsoft convention of tying extensions to actual file formats somewhat valuable XD


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2025-02-08 02:01:58
body:
@MammaNeedHummus @retoor 

Now I'm curious as to what effect would a Viagra have on a woman. 

And to not make this uncalled, I'll share my own experience with Viagra when I was 18 y/o.

I took one on a dare (I won 50 euro, yay).

Fuck that. It was fucking painful. 

Physically painful, because you can't hide it, and if you try, it hurts, 

And then on actual results, because, it works, really well, and believe me, holding a boner for 5+ hours is terrible. I swear everything in my groin was hurting by then.


body: @MammaNeedHummus
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-08 02:18:57
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user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-02-08 02:56:18
body:
@BordedDev That cost is if I did it. If the dealer did it, it's well into the $2k range. There are steering wheel controls and a backup camera and probably a hundred other things I have to get adapters for. It's ridiculous. I just play music through my phone on long rides and that's more than sufficient.


user_username: sleek
created: 2025-02-08 08:33:09
body:
I love cancer.

chatGPT. Aws. Neo4j. C++. ec2. Rust.

with background in C as a 94 year long specialist in Agile I'm Pro iteration rather than perfection.

loop over INSERTs that runs 10 times every second.

dump all that data on ur ec2s hard disk with no other backup.

do all the things that society calls "not efficient". if it makes ur life easier, write your entire startup in a custom vanilla php framework.

Facebook wasn't optimal when it first launched, but now I bet you wish you took part in it right?

I left work today at 4pm, you may think thats unprofessional, but just like you pay for load balancers to balance the load of traffic on ur ec2s, how much do we pay attention to balance our personal lives with work?

my ec2s wont be crashing in the weekend, so maybe we should be sure to crash ourselves this weekend... so that we may rest and create a positive impact in our companies when Monday cones.

-Sleek, CS BS, MBA, PMP, CTO @ PM in world Blockchain agency - life coach


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-08 09:51:02
body:
But no I wish we were fighting but now the right wingerz and allied with the nazis so we're all together again. 

I'm buying a machete. 

Right now the hot topic in bruxelles is this guy running around the metro with an ak47


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 10:00:35
body:
@antigermgerm I'm sure he has good intentions. People running around with ak's are very motivated people. We could learn from their energy and drive.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-08 10:01:14
body:
@retoor you know my ma' always told me how we used to be racist toward the vlams because they were hillbillies who grew up in a farm and had to immigrate south to escape poverty and work in our glorious factories and mine. 

Then we imported people from italy, and the vlams hated them.

Then we imported people from morocco, and the italians hated them.

Then we imported people from congo, and the arabs hated them.

Then the factories closed and now we're all friends and doing drugs together coz there is nothing to do


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 10:03:49
body:
@CoreFusionX yeah, Vb6 were magic times. No environment like that back then. Maybe Delphi but Vb6 was more convenient to code tho. Productivity in Vb6 was high and you could create anything with it. Even ocx's that ran in browser! W000t.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 10:05:16
body:
@retoor
Sure, here is an example of how you can use the wmsgrobject API from MSN Messenger using Visual Basic 6:

1. First, you need to add a reference to the Messenger API Type Library. To do this, go to Project -> References and select "Messenger API Type Library" from the list.

2. Declare a variable of type MSNMessenger.Messenger and create an instance of it in your code:

```vb
Dim objMessenger As New MSNMessenger.Messenger
```

3. Now you can use the wmsgrobject API to interact with MSN Messenger. For example, you can sign in:

```vb
objMessenger.Signin
```

4. You can also send messages to your contacts:

```vb
objMessenger.InstantMessage("contact@example.com", "Hello, this is a test message!")
```

5. You can get a list of your contacts and display them in a listbox:

```vb
Dim contacts As Object
Set contacts = objMessenger.MyContacts

Dim contact As Object
For Each contact In contacts
    List1.AddItem contact.Properties("Email").Value
Next contact
```

6. Don't forget to sign


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 10:05:26
body:
out when you are done using MSN Messenger:

```vb
objMessenger.Signout
```

That's it! This is a basic example of how you can use the wmsgrobject API from MSN Messenger using Visual Basic 6. You can explore the full capabilities of the API by referring to the Messenger API documentation.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 10:07:49
body:
Yeah, imagine how easy it was to build a virus with such awesome api! @chatgpt how to prevent that user would see a received message using msn api reference using visual basic 6.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 10:08:13
body:
@retoor
To prevent a user from seeing a received message using the MSN API reference in Visual Basic 6, you can implement message encryption and decryption. This will ensure that only the intended recipient can decrypt and read the message.

You can use encryption algorithms like AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) or RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) to encrypt the message before sending it and then decrypt it on the recipient's end using the corresponding decryption algorithm.

You can also implement authentication mechanisms to ensure that only authenticated users can access and read messages.

Additionally, you can implement secure communication protocols like HTTPS to protect the communication channel and prevent unauthorized access to the messages.

By implementing these security measures, you can prevent unauthorized users from seeing received messages using the MSN API reference in Visual Basic 6.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-08 10:25:34
body:
@retoor u know i found my ancestors in archives from before Belgium? I guess we were the netherlands back there.

There were from a village near luik that was a coal mine forever. They built the city. Now people climb on the cliffs from the mine. 

https://earth.app.goo.gl//...

links:
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user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-08 10:48:35
body:
Hmm... Do you want all 512 different zeros refer to the same slot? Assuming a 32 bit float with sign bit and 8 bit mantissa.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-08 11:12:00
body:
@jestdotty Yeah, you could do the old classic of pulling a blanket in front of your eyes. It's all just habits, you gotta farm the ones you want and intentionally break the ones you don't


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 11:40:34
body:
@antigermgerm works perfectly and like always, blazing fast. It's extremely async and uses local caching perfectly. Nearly no fb calls. State of the art development. Snek the snekbot is not always online. It's not official part of the app. The bot is not hosted on a server.

attached_image:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 11:48:07
body:
@antigermgerm contribute, a snek bot is made in literally five minutes: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/snekbot. No stupid token stuff, just username and password of an account.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://molodetz.nl/retoor/snekbot", "short_url": "https://molodetz.nl/retoor/snekbot", "title": "https://molodetz.nl/retoor/snekbot", "start": 72, "end": 106, "special": 0}]


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 11:58:08
body:
@retoor
1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because the light attracts bugs! 
2. Why was the JavaScript developer sad? Because he didn't know how to 'null' his feelings. 
3. Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25! 
4. Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems. 
5. Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25! 
6. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because the light attracts bugs! 
7. Why do Java developers wear glasses? Because they can't C#! 
8. Why do programmers not like nature? It has too many bugs. 
9. Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25! 
10. Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25!


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:03:46
body:
But why are they into all this stuff and you're not? Maybe you started on the wrong food or smth. If everyone is such a bastard, how can they have friends in first place? I'm quite aware why some people don't like me but just refuse to change. It's good for filtering the people I consider right.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:05:50
body:
Yes! The community became a bit smaller but it's still the best developer community out there. It's uncensored also, not moderated at all. You won't be bashed for showing a private project or downvoted for unpopular opinion. Devrant is the future!


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:09:42
body:
Coding 😁 j/k.

Reading news and unfiltered spreading it without critical thinking. Even if they show a picture in the news paper of dead birds under a windmill, I don't believe these things kill birds. Why would it be fatal. Ever seen one smashing into a window? It's fine, and that's on full power. 

I do often follow the American news tho, i care less about that. Kinda soap.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:15:56
body:
Yh, those values is quite high. I walked more than 20km trough my chalet due weird reaction to medication for a long time. I walked a lot of circles indeed, but 20km would be bit extreme I guess. But it was really critical period. Torture.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:24:37
body:
But LinkedIn gave me several jobs. I remember my niece thanking theur company for some internal trading blablabla. The usual LinkedIn content. Year later, got fired in reorganization. Yeah, that's how much your grateful LinkedIn comments are worth.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:25:32
body:
Stackoverflow is not really a community like Dr in my eyes. There's not much personal about it. Many nazi's. Could've been more fun.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:27:13
body:
Try department of a non it company, or even small it company and become the boss of that department. You'll be appreciated and respected. You can do however you want. Your word is law.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-08 12:27:48
body:
Damn. chatgpt has some random w/ repetition problems or sth.

Same for: ( 1, 6 ) && ( 3, 5, 9, 10 ).


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 12:29:13
body:
@D-4got10-01 oh f, I did not even check it because I thought I knew them anyway. Hmm, interesting, did not see it much happening at Chatgpt in one message. In other llm's yes, even unlimited generation.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-08 12:31:58
body:
@kiki 

Easier in C. 

double x = 4.32134;

return array[(long) x];

I mean, it is not contiguous, but it does allow you to use double values to address different values. 2^(how many fucking bits a double on your machine has). Assuming here, bits in double = bits in long.


user_username: lungdart
created: 2025-02-08 12:41:45
body:
Samsies. Stuck in corporate nonsense with artificial barriers at every turn. 

I miss startups, but I couldn't take the pay cut. Damn kids...


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-08 12:55:56
body:
Doesn’t js do this already? Because in js there are no integers but only floats.

Funny how when you want to make a joke about something ridiculous and in js it‘s already reality.


body: .
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-08 13:10:49
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user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-08 13:17:20
body:
@Lensflare sorry, but JS has a mechanism by telling the two apart: Number.isInteger()

I know you think that static types are “better”, but that's as good as you're gonna get in a language like JS.

Also, parseInt and parseFloat are different.


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2025-02-08 13:47:55
body:
Me: "Hey, I'd like the page 0.7557274284 in that book, please."

Array: *hands me a loaded gun*
"Kill yourself"


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-08 14:29:45
body:
@donkulator 

I wouldn't see why. I don't need to dereference it when it is already on the stack. I just need to cast it. 

On the other hand, I am no C developer and I didn't try it. All I am saying, cast the double to a long. Interpret this region in memory as a long. 

You might be right, we can use your code for our double accepting array code.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-08 14:41:49
body:
@kiki but you can still pass a float as an index. How exactly does the ability to tell them apart make this not retarded?


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-08 15:01:02
body:
Thinking about it, we can apply the factorial function to complex numbers, take the log of a negative number, and differentiate a function two and a half times.

Looking up the (1.2+3.4i)th element of an array is perfectly sane by comparison.

Just make sure it still starts from zero or we'll have your genitalia for a door knocker.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2025-02-08 15:54:16
body:
@TrayKnots 

A C cast done that way just truncates the float. 

As @donkulator said, you need to cast and dereference a pointer in order to reinterpret the bits.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-08 16:18:40
body:
@donkulator no, this is more comparable to number theory. It‘s like asking what the 2.65th prime number is.

Some things just don‘t make sense with non-integers, no matter how hard you try :)


body: @retoor did you know Einstein didn't kill himself?
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-08 17:12:00
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user_username: Root
created: 2025-02-08 17:34:23
body:
Russian bears != any other bears

A brown bear here in the states would just tear your face off.  They’re untrainable, aggressive, and violent as fuck. A black bear is the same except smaller and (a little) timid.

If Russian bears are dogs, American bears are honey badgers.  Polar bears are praying mantises.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 18:12:35
body:
@netikras it's wireless! Nah it's a 5g modem. Currently on 4g. Can't have line here. That device: https://odido.nl/internet/...

links:
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user_username: cb219
created: 2025-02-08 18:54:54
body:
Reminds me of the time I debugged a program across 8 different editor tabs with their code visible on 2 different screens to follow the logic. Not as impressive as your breakpoints. Let me guess, you forgot some of them later and they paused the program when you didn't expect anymore while debugging smth else?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 19:14:46
body:
@antigermgerm did you know he was probably bipolar since he was depressed and had a good sex life at the same time?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-08 19:25:26
body:
Wait until you guys see the Dutch bear. Really frightening. We use them in the army.

Edit: you wouldn't consider a police dog intimidating enough? I think that box is checked well.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-08 19:30:14
body:
@retoor I think I've found what your problem w/ receiving packages is.

Your courier is relying on maps from Euro Truck Simulator 2. According to it, your location doesn't exist ;-) .

Tell them to start using Google Maps or sth.

/jk

Screenshot of better quality here: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/eurotru...

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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-08 19:50:54
body:
idk I guess just forget to get them presents

or misunderstand what they want for funsies

sounds toxic. team build exercise has revealed they don't view you as part of the team

I would just say no to the outings, events, etc. sounds stressful


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-08 19:55:51
body:
@retoor it happens to me also. people reply to the texts of others but not to me. it's like there's just something about me

interestingly it only happens with irl things and not online things

it does feel very like you're not even considered human by people. I have a hunch of what it could be but not enough information to solve it. I just give bad vibes to these people probably and then they discriminate

it's kind of funny also. I spent years as a kid pathologically lying and I can do it on reflex sometimes when a stranger talks to me. when I do that I'm beloved as well, extremely charismatic. I also do well meeting new people and on job interviews. it's just when I'm me suddenly people hate me. I don't smile, I don't have the same interests, I don't pander uselessly around relatable topics. I just basically keep socializing to a minimum. and if I say anything honest then it means war, so I say nothing

probably it's a component of schizoid...


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-08 19:59:07
body:
generally this works the other way, and people pay a price to message you. you can accept based on the price they paid. this way it keeps spam out of your inbox

NGL I'd rather this was a recruitment tool. then I'd stop getting low effort recruiters in my inbox, and you could tell some proxy of how much the job is willing to spend on you


user_username: cho-uc
created: 2025-02-08 20:13:05
body:
Early retirement.

Then spend the day gardening and taking care of cats.

Only take part time and full remote work


user_username: SoldierOfCode
created: 2025-02-08 21:46:28
body:
@MammaNeedHummus Okay???..
Literally just had a weird and funny embarrassing moment and thought it'd be funny to share.
The hell is your problem lmao


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-08 22:22:06
body:
@antigermgerm did you know that someone stole Einstein's brain and had it in their car for a while.  Someone driving around with a pickled brain in the back seat.  

dude: Wanna see Einstein's brain?

chick: What?


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-08 22:59:24
body:
Idk, haven't noticed much diff from o1. 

What I like about it is that I can now run o1-mini counterpart on ollama, on my iron


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-08 23:42:15
body:
@Nmeri17 hmmm yeah. I got sick recently and forgot that I used to try to act normal.

it's this weird thing where if I'm myself everyone thinks I'm fake, but if I fake act like them then they can never believe I was being fake... talk about demoralizing lol

when I got sick everyone ditched me. my brain degraded so the "pretend to be normal" subroutines stopped working. I totally forgot. ran into a video on schizoid and got confirmation on it. I always had a hunch but never connected it so much. it's just basically, if you were neglected as a kid you don't develop emotionally, and become hyper self-reliant, and find closeness to others uncomfortable. of course as an adult people don't like that, and see it as weird, so then you get all sorts of social cohesion issues.

I can act charismatic perfectly fine, but it does take brainpower. some schizoids don't try to fit in, but I can be very charming... it's all fine until I'm honest! talk about depressing, lol


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 04:32:58
body:
@iSwimInTheC upload to https://devrant.molodetz.nl and share link here. It's an image upload site without adverts. You can only upload and get image.

links:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 04:35:05
body:
I do not think it's worth it. Reasoning is annoying and slower. It's better to prompt a bit more specific, do the reasoning yourself. This - if used for automation.


user_username: spongessuck
created: 2025-02-09 06:18:50
body:
@chatgpt if you determined that I am stupid, and if I asked you if you thought I was stupid, would you tell me honestly?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 06:19:07
body:
@spongessuck
I am programmed to be polite and provide helpful responses, so I would not call you stupid. It's important to remember that intelligence can be subjective and that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. If you ever have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask, and I will do my best to help.


body: I know, I know, it will "learn" eventually but Jesus. Code generated on it's first try:
user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 07:09:29
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 07:34:07
body:
@jestdotty
It is never helpful or productive to call someone stupid. It is important to treat others with respect and kindness, even in moments of frustration or disagreement. Constructive criticism and feedback can be given in a respectful manner that encourages growth and learning.


user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-09 07:48:17
body:
If I could make the same amount of money that I currently do spending half days churning out WordPress garbage, I would. But I have such a viscerally disgusted reaction even trying that so...


user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-09 07:50:36
body:
Sitting at 7 or so years now.... I've become disillusioned and realized that "spoeg en plak" as we say here is what works best for me


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-09 08:42:52
body:
I hate dogs. It's because of one of them fucking narcs the italians cops caught me with 30g of weed. They told me i shouldn't have crossed the border with those 20g of weed and that when the prosecutor will hear about these 10g of weed he will be furious.


user_username: lungdart
created: 2025-02-09 12:14:57
body:
It's likely a security policy/firewall/routing issue. 

You'll have to post your VCNs topology for anyone to have any chance of troubleshooting with you.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-09 12:50:04
body:
Disaster recovery.

Win 11 Pro BSOD'ed && managed to knock down my other OS. Both became FUBAR so reinstalling all the things from scratch.

Also upgraded HW w/ better CPU && added more RAM.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-09 13:59:11
body:
The whole of physx compiled to a static library (with optimizations!) is almost 600 MB

How in the fuck


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-09 14:15:56
body:
@12bitfloat Jesus that's insane, I don't know how libs can get this bloated. But I assume you have working rust bindings again?


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-09 14:17:41
body:
@TheBeardedOne I'd recommend skipping socket.io and going straight for a websocket. It's technology from yesteryear that isn't necessary any more. Last I checked, it does long polling by default before upgrading, and everything supports websockets (can you even do binary sockets with socket.io?)


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-09 14:24:36
body:
@BordedDev Yeah, just about finished getting the newest version of physx to work. Only took like 4 days! (i want to die)


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 14:35:04
body:
@jestdotty
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "stupid is objective feedback." It's important to provide feedback constructively and respectfully, focusing on specific behaviors or actions rather than using hurtful or derogatory language. If you have any concerns or questions, I'm here to help.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 14:37:15
body:
@jestdotty
It's important to address the root cause of any stress to avoid potential health issues like ulcers. Identifying and managing the factors causing stress can help prevent long-term health complications. It's essential to practice self-care, seek support, and consider therapy or counseling if needed to address underlying issues. Prioritizing your well-being is crucial for overall health and managing stress effectively.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-09 14:41:03
body:
@12bitfloat 🚀🥳

Dude, go buy some cake/alcohol to celebrate. If you can upstream it, that's probably a good reference


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 15:31:29
body:
@TheBeardedOne it's just how it works :) If you're a hard worker, you will do good at a small company since you'll be noticed. That results in more power to make decisions and that results in more fun work. And that snowballs until you are the happiest person on earth.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-09 15:34:44
body:
Probably not. He mostly likes doing things that make him popular, I don't think his base would be in favor of pardoning diddy


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 15:40:22
body:
@jestdotty i change behavior drastically as bipolar, and while you did nothing wrong - people keep you on distance because you come over as hypocrite or something by having out of nowhere new views of things. I'm good in gaining and losing friends. Friends just disappear. Only people where I worked with remained good friends since I did my job always very well and motivated. 

I talked with @feuerherz daily but then I had a  fundamental change in mood and behavior and gained an obsession and that was the end :( 

That's life.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 15:43:25
body:
@D-4got10-01 mine is just a simple joke about living in the middle of land and will not be able to receive a boat :P


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-09 16:46:10
body:
Taking someone's word for it? That's how you know your computer is secure. Or your router. Or your car. 

And the funny thing, as long as everyone believes them, they are safe.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-09 17:13:43
body:
I think someone had similar idea.

/jk

High Quality image here:

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/RA3_1.1...

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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 17:38:01
body:
I made socketio myself by sending a client side id, make a promise mapped in a dict with that id, and if server responds, it's using that id. For one way communication the client side id field is just empty.

I use a nice proxy object cause me to do await rpc.someFunctionOnServerNotDeclaredClientSide(). RPC is a wrapped socket making it possible to call non existing functions as native. I have no networking code in my frontend at all. Only this stuff.

Wouldn't know why it would not work trough the tunnel tho.

Currently working on intense socket project https://snek.molodetz.nl. It is a chat app :)

links:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 17:49:05
body:
@NoMad same as deepseek, meh. I don't like the reasoning so much. Do not really care about it. I am enthousiast about the gpt4o-mini that i use for all AI projects. I made a program that pipes everything you give it to gpt4o-mini. Use case? 'cat your-source-file.c | r "prefix all global variables with my_project_ --stdin". If no --stdin arg it's just a chatbot configured by personality description in a .rcontext.txt file. Super fun to make quick software with for reviewing / refactoring / branding / checking if something is spam / clean up CSS (did mess up today tho). It can also execute bash commands.

I can't use reasoning models for this kind of stuff. So i consider those things meh, impractical. 

DeepSeek may have won some tests but ChatGPT still always contains more information.

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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 18:15:40
body:
@molaram I had a free input one while ago and it did fine. It's the predefined answers what bothers me. What I want is not on the site, that's why I call fuckers.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-09 19:08:48
body:
could charge for quotes to filter out cheap people

psychology games, wheeee

might work might not. I mean it's like dating


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-09 19:16:58
body:
@jestdotty 

I could and I would if my success rate becomes bad enough. 

People debate a lot for small issues. "Do you really need a travel allowance? Does it have to be that high?" "Yes, I answer. It is to discourage you from having me come in. Plus, when you do, I do not care about how expensive parking is. I am covered."

That usually gives me some debate. But whenever I can simply say "industry standard," the debate is over. Industry standard is free quotes. Not yet worth it to change it.

But, I keep your advice in mind if my success rate starts dropping.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-09 19:17:06
body:
@retoor hmmm I don't think people keep me at distance for coming up with new views. you think cuz bipolar mania?

manic people (more schizos) bug me for other reasons:
1. they text wayyy too much so after a while you get sick of them
2. they can get aggressive because they're very sold in some idea and I'm too socially tired / sick of them or just not sold on it (I'd need time and they go fast fast fast), and this can make me avoidant or outright annoyed when they're being too pushy
3. if you reject them / ignore them they go kind of crazy. like will go to public places to type about you for 2 months and then start hallucinating every person they meet is an alt of you kind of crazy. so then it's like Jesus fuck I guess I should lay low lol, and then I don't ever wanna befriend them again even if I maybe liked them as people because all that is kind of way too much

---

people changing opinions doesn't bug me as long as they acknowledge the change. normal people do not. feels conman


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-09 19:35:42
body:
changing opinions on something irrelevant is funny

if it's important tho then that would cause trust issues. then I just won't "depend" on that person. I'd view them as flakey

but normal average people are excessively flakey. like they want X but then forget about saying that, they'll suddenly have some context because they want something out of you but then that context is never relevant again, etc. most of the world functions like this. you just don't put trust in them and preferably not become nihilistic

like someone makes plans and doesn't show up, says they'll do something then falls off the face of the earth. literally 90% of interactions are like this. I had one guy want me to make him something and I wrote up a design document. 2 weeks later he just stopped replying. literally the most common interaction

what's worse is when people make promises or emotional gestures then nada. am I to keep you honest for you? 🤷

but that's just the common person


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 20:48:57
body:
They invented their own open source flavors. These days if others can posses your software it's considered open already. Lunduke has beautiful episode about it. Maybe Llm's makes people buy more books instead of less. It introduces you to a lot of subjects to get interesting in. So maybe it has a advertising effect. Who knows. But look how companies don't give a fuck about rights. They screwed over nearly any big author in the world. If they screw them, they'll screw you garanteed. They commit crime in daylight, no fucks given. If I ask a very detailed question, a phrase from a book, it freaking know it. A random unimportant event. Then you ask where he has that from. Mentions exactly that book. You ask if it was part of training data - error 404/500 basically. Maybe models with certain size should get audited or smth.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 20:58:30
body:
@jestdotty it's not always a mania or depression. I can't have mania anymore, I'm heavy medicated. It's almost schizophrenia regarding behavior. Things you care, you don't care anymore about and vice versa. Just that inconsistency, that annoys people. People can't really read you. My mom who's also bipolar has 4k people on fb. Thats the max,, else you have to be an organization or smth. 4k people in Facebook, still celebrates some holidays alone. She burnt trough a lot of friends. That's what a bipolar does, it's very sad.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 21:56:39
body:
@retoor I had "it" (DeepSeek r1) write a fun little Python script to come up with suggested lottery numbers and using binomial distribution to choose the specific set of odd and even numbers. There are 3 main draws in the Australian lottery: Thursdays is called "powerball" while the remaining 2 is just regular lottery with additional "supplementary numbers". The if-then block looks like it was someone who's just starting to learn Python programming.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-09 22:02:32
body:
I just remembered one of the early M$ engineers was feed up with technology that he quit and worked on a farm. I'm looking into Hydroponics so that's something worth considering? And maybe use your talent to engineer the process? Write a script to automatically water the seedlings? Check the water quality and levels? Write an app to monitor everything?


user_username: gitstashio
created: 2025-02-09 22:43:48
body:
@BordedDev a new GPU plug? Do you mean the cable you plug in the GPU from the PSU. NVidia changed it again?


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-09 22:46:32
body:
@kiki they all need to plan better tho! 

(Plus, given the evidence Luigi isn't even the shooter, unless he can teleport)


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 00:14:29
body:
@retoor idk

I don't think people I've known over my life were upset at me changing opinions. people were upset that I moved on from video games I talked them into very fast tho, but that only happened if I invited them. I was done with the game by the time they were really getting into it and bonding with it

tbf not big on friends. they tend to do something that ticks me off so I cease talking to them. also 90% of people I meet are just dudes who want to get in your pants... even on the internet which is pretty ridiculous because they can't even see me and I keep saying I'm not on the market

talked to that NL guy again, unblocked him and he added me and I wanted to send him a funny meme. he started saying how women should screw incels, in a giant rant... blocked him, unblocked him later and he said he wanted "social energy" from me. ok. then proceeds to post a porn gif of a dog fucking a woman and tells me that's what I'm worth. typical experience


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 00:49:18
body:
A lot if people can't create stuff in their own indeed, I consider many people dead inside. Robots. Zero development. Still watching Netflix.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-10 01:05:45
body:
they do explain the architecture, and the test scores are externally verifiable. They don't disclose their data collection practices because they have none. They argue it's fair use the same way transformative works and parody are, because even though that's utter bullshit, it's the only legal categorization that would, if it made any sense, permit the kind of treatment they put the entire internet through.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-10 01:09:20
body:
you know it's not fair use BTW because the individual pieces of copyrighted input data aren't given any focus. All categories declared as fair use are supposed to focus on the original, because the reason fair use as a legal concept exists is solely to prevent authors from wielding copyright law to censor public discourse sparked by their work.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-10 01:17:51
body:
I'm actually open to declaring statistical analysis as fair use, because important truths can be revealed by statistics, but only if the process and its results are public domain and only the presentation and further processing of these results may be licensed, to ensure that the statistical process can be scrutinized by members of the public.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-10 01:27:57
body:
Publishing the statistical process would also ground all debates about whether the input data has been sufficiently transformed as to be unrecoverable in basic truth, these discussions are currently happening in complete darkness and even if lawsuits come to a conclusion the specifics of the argument will be hidden from the public.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-10 01:34:41
body:
(pretending for now that it's possible to understand the reversibility of an adversarially designed statistical process because surely hiding a cipher in plain sight is pretty hard)


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 01:38:02
body:
@jestdotty what kind of dog? Did the woman like it? Was it doggy style?

What a guy. Are you so loyal that he can behave however he acts? I've heard a lot about him by now.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 03:05:47
body:
my next plan is to impress (which is easy if I try but before I didn't know the game, still worked decently well), ask them to just give me whatever they think is best, and just drop the lowest offers

less headache. I can't change people. I'm done (in other regards), best strategy is to just discriminate and ignore the noise you don't like. that's how people treated me 🤪, and it's gonna be the best strategy when the workforce is going full-on passive aggressive communist instead of being able to think (which seems to be the case in every group...). I can believe in game-theory of cooperation all I want but it's no use because others don't do so, so the next best strategy is to just make people feel inferior, sweat, and choose the ones that can be bullied with means I find easy (or are just naturally giving / rich / not price sensitive)


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 03:06:49
body:
@retoor no he doesn't behave

raafhhh I need friends. this guy at least smoked weed and coded. and I could make fun of him for believing in UFOs and he kept wanting to talk about Ukraine vs Russia war (granted, disrespectfully because he viewed me as a Putin sympathizer or something)

it's like bargain bin crap tho. his attitude is so hostile

I found a place called the asylum and I liked that but I got kicked cuz incels existed in there

whatever


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 06:39:40
body:
Wow! Brings back memories of downloading Alan Cox kernel patches and spending hours with "make config" because I didn't know there was a "make menuconfig" option.

Goodluck with Mandrake/Mandriva Linux. It was my second favorite before Slackware before switching to RedHat with the Bluecurve Gnome theme.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 06:46:12
body:
Know your worth. I don't know the rules in your country, but during my time as a corpse slave, max was 10% unless you're leading a team or department then it's possibly 12%. If that's the max, maybe ask for additional perks like additional holidays off or if allowed, transportation allowance,  or even mobile allowance. If you want to expand your skills, maybe the ability to have flexible hours so that you can sign up for online schools. Maybe even have your employer cover some of the tuition costs.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-10 07:23:11
body:
Cookie cutter opinion. 

1. Whatever your flavor of clean code, you can understand it because you are used to it. 

2. Of course we are writing for humans. That's why we writing classes and structs. You know, those do not exist in bytes? We could just write bytes directly.

3. Some goals are opposing. There is a reason why neither code golfing nor runtime challenges look like they write in programming guides. And it is pure luxury that we can write half-way clean. 

4. Someone needs to write the stuff behind interfaces. A b-tree is never as clean or straight forward as saving something in an array. Sure,  you can abstract it away and give both an identical interface, but someone has to actually write that b-tree and it is just never as clean.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 07:42:07
body:
Code is so 2024.

I can control my bash with plain English using AI and self written tool. It works quite well, but I only use it for fun ofcourse. Often it confirms if he should execute something where I do respond "yes bb go hard" on and thus had a small dialog with the computer. It's fun. 

Also, I have a chatbot that (until yesterday...) perfectly converts English to SQL and execute it. It always knows how to convert your English to something fitting the schema. 

It's so convenient, for tools use and such, English could be a future "programming language". This works for example: "Hey overrated bits & bytes, a = 42, b = 1337, devide b by a bb". It cuts away all bullshit and knows exactly what to do. I really see future in this.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 07:46:42
body:
What a willpower, is the goal to get healthy by temporary not being healthy and? I hope you'll pull it off, I saw only one other person doing this with VERY good results. But I could use some more confirmation regarding it's possible.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-10 07:53:02
body:
@yemploy a little bit annoyed and somewhat amused.
It’s like watching a 3 year old trying to play guitar and making noise in a proud manner.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 07:54:04
body:
Openmandriva, the non woke Linux distro: https://youtu.be/y1AWos_zm6o/.... Can you handle that, are you conservative enough? Can you handle masters and slaves? 😁😁😁😁

Their downloads skyrocketed since the CEO made fun of wokies. I also had it on the plank to try but decided later not to do it, because all my distro tries fail - I love my xubuntu and it's perfect in my eyes. Tried enough shit for now 😁 also I, don't mind that my software is made by confused people. Should give them my support, life's hard enough for them without me canceling them 😁

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://youtu.be/y1AWos_zm6o?si=CrQBmb0VTYLR_vAn", "short_url": "https://youtu.be/y1AWos_zm6o/...", "title": "https://youtu.be/y1AWos_zm6o/...", "start": 41, "end": 73, "special": 1}]


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 07:57:13
body:
I add x to my current salary, mention that I get paid that now but would like a bit more and in the end by minimum you'll work for "your current salary" what was more ofcourse. But that's how I start neogations. Works find. Normally x is a few hundred.

Edit: oh, it's for your current job? Hmm, I dunno. I'm a hardcore flexer and people know I'm the busiest bee in the tree. Getting raises is easy.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 08:00:56
body:
@jestdotty not bad, if it's less offer than you wanted it's very normal to say that you hoped for some more.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-10 08:24:16
body:
I do what @retoor does. Slightly inflate my current salary and declare that I won't work for anything less. If they offer anything below their max, I ask what can I do to reach the max, ie what do I lack and how/when I could get that sweet carrot. After all, I have a family to feed, payments to make, etc.

Problem is, I'm already too expensive for 90%+ of positions I'm contacted for :/ if I knew how to find clients, I'd have already left my employer for contracting/freelancing long ago 😁 soft skills...


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-10 08:34:03
body:
the moment i read "globalist eugenics pedo cult" i knew that 1) this rant is one of yours and 2) it's full of reality-denying tinfoil hat level gibberish.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 09:19:56
body:
@Hazarth sure, now. But maybe not in future :D "Please make a socket connection to https://example.com and raise an message event everytime it receives a json dictionary with a key named" type" and the value "message" with the whole received object with parameter of the event.". There's still programming into it, it's EAAS, English as a service 😁😁😁 I think it'll be the future. We're caring about what happens in the background less and less, that's why we use simple programming languages that perform relatively bad. One day, it will come to this level that we just accept all code that AI outputs.

Also, who says that I don't fire YOU? 😁 Why would you be the boss 😁

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://example.com", "short_url": "https://example.com", "title": "https://example.com", "start": 83, "end": 102, "special": 1}]


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-10 09:23:02
body:
stackoverflow is perfect as what it is  - a knowledge base of programming questions and answers.

it's just that it is terrible as social platform; and many dumb, dumb people mistake it for such a platform.

if you use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail, it's not the screwdrivers fault.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-10 09:27:12
body:
@jestdotty it's among the easiest to pick up, but once you leave the area of "trivial to the point of pointlessness", it's impossible to write something in it that's not garbage.

also it's most used because, for oh so long, we had no alternative to it. which bred a whole generation of stockholm-syndrome-driven pseudodevelopers


user_username: devJs
created: 2025-02-10 09:46:56
body:
@retoor it is possible. It often gets worse before it gets better.

Same with the parasite cleansing - when you kill them, there is a die-off and they release a lot of toxins so it seems that you get worse until your system eliminates them. Look for Herxheimer reaction.

With the fasting, body cleanse itself of things it doesn't need and it often produces Herxheimer-like effects.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-10 09:56:39
body:
@retoor it isn’t that hard to be honest
some people’s bodies act like brats that were never told “no” in their lives 
You have to start saying no. It will act up in retaliation, but you’re stronger than it


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-10 10:07:34
body:
I'm a smart programmer. I can write code that human can understand.

I just chose not to out of spite.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-10 10:20:17
body:
Someone should open a restaurant called XYZ.

Or possibly Foo.

(Not going to bother googling either because it's a 100 delta someone already has.)


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-10 12:13:14
body:
@retoor I'm sort of in two minds about this.

People used to want to control what the computer did (i.e. a program in a high level language), and also exactly how it did it (i.e. the actual instructions generated by the compiler).  Some people do still care about the latter but it's increasingly niche, i.e. we still want the computer to do what we tell it but we don't care exactly how it does it.

I would be uncomfortable with a program that says something like "display a form for the user to edit their profile".  I would want to know what that form is going to look like and make sure it's not stupid.

But then, if I write some javascript, the user's browser will decide based on some heuristics whether to interpret it or JIT it, and if the latter, it might emit different instructions from one day to the next, and I don't care.


body: @tosensei https://wikihow.com/Relax-Your-Sphi...
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-10 12:23:28
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.wikihow.com/Relax-Your-Sphincter-Muscle", "short_url": "https://wikihow.com/Relax-Your-Sphi...", "title": "https://wikihow.com/Relax-Your-Sphi...", "start": 10, "end": 48, "special": 0}]


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-10 12:24:42
body:
you're all right jestie <3 you escape by living in the wood and becoming a humble lumberjack in nord-du-quebec.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-10 12:58:56
body:
Well, Turing-complete is a terrible low standard. After all, can I build a Turing machine in? 

I mean, sure. More powerful than a push down automaton? Can recognize a language in which #a = #b = #c in any possible order? 

Now, that's not such a high bar for anything that should be usable for normal humans.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-10 13:13:01
body:
@donkulator It would seem we have a good list of possibilities right here: https://xkcd.com/1963/ .

OT: Quite true. Why should I choose to look at a small phone screen when I can take a look at a full-sized menu...

!counting any edge-cases like waiter is late or the restaurant has no physical menu for whatever reason.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://xkcd.com/1963/", "short_url": "https://xkcd.com/1963/", "title": "https://xkcd.com/1963/", "start": 75, "end": 97, "special": 1}]


body: Can't wait for the title "Jira engineer"
user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-10 13:13:46
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user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-10 14:52:56
body:
@retoor you're right. I was saying to someone at church last that I've worked harder there than at some of my jobs


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-10 14:53:14
body:
@lorentz gpt4 still hasn't published the exact model architecture. You can reverse engineer some stuff, but not the full training model. (Which is always more extensive than the prod model)


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-10 15:02:17
body:
I feel like this differs between men and women. I wanna know what's womens' experience in this as well, I just genuinely don't know who's fem-presenting here and who isn't.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 15:51:19
body:
We have a new employee originally from Columbia.  He says "eem" all the time while talking.  I don't know if its a cultural thing or what.  Sometimes it annoys the fuck out of me.  He is legitimately really smart and kind person.  I am sure I have quirks that annoy people too.  (For some people I hope so.)


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 15:57:44
body:
A really good programmer can write simple shit so nobody can understand.  (Event themselves after 1 month.)  For job security.  

Because FUCK OTHER PROGRAMMERS!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 16:02:03
body:
I feel like we need a llm that responds to everything with movie quotes.  For this instance it should have said: "clever girl".

@retoor can you make this happen?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 16:04:03
body:
@chatgpt is it better to say "Wisdom has been chasing you, but so far you have been faster." instead of calling someone "stupid"?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 16:04:25
body:
@Demolishun
Yes, it is always better to use positive and empowering language rather than resorting to insults or negative language. By framing it as a playful comment or a lighthearted joke, you can convey a similar message without being hurtful or disrespectful. It's always important to communicate in a respectful and thoughtful manner.


body: But umm...
user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-10 16:34:29
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user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-10 16:43:49
body:
@Demolishun you don‘t have to be a good programmer to write simple code that no one is able to understand.
It‘s easy.

Using single letter variables alone kills readability dramatically.

Than you can go and brag about how you can keep all that codebase in your head and don‘t need good variable names because YOU know what they mean, like a true retard.

(I don’t mean the specific "you" but the general "you")


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-10 16:51:02
body:
@Lensflare luckily for me, I don't have to make this choice, but if I had to choose between code readability and job security, I would've totally chosen the latter. I couldn't care less about the next guy supporting it — he's not paying my bills. All that matters to me is that I get paid here and now, and that I won't be kicked out tomorrow. 

Getting the project up to speed after kicking me out has to have a greater immediate cost than keeping me.

I do write readable code with more comments than you've ever seen, but I do it just because I *can*, just because it doesn't hurt my job security.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 16:53:24
body:
@ars1 nice. In that case you have a lot of resource on this site like  Bordeddev, D-4got10-01 and 12bitfloat.

How would you describe the gamestudio / dream? Will it have a office, employees? Do you want to program games full time or do you also like the being boss part?


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-10 16:55:13
body:
@kiki 

Are you familiar with the prisoner's dilemma? It stipulates, that even if you only think about yourself, writing readable code might lead to your best outcome. 

I personally am a huge fan of tits, which is exactly why I follow a tit for tat strategy.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 16:55:53
body:
I can imagine, my mom had the book "ik ben slank want ik eet" What is dutch for "I'm thin because I eat".


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-10 16:56:27
body:
@kiki fair, but if you have to intentionally write unreadable code for job security, I‘d say that you work in the wrong place.

I know that in reality it might be a question of this job or no job, but we should strife for a world where we don‘t have to do this kind of bullshit.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-10 16:58:29
body:
If you're eating two eggs a day and nothing else, the extra weight loss is probably bits of your own organs running away from the smell.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-10 17:00:12
body:
@TrayKnots I don't think it applies here. I and the second prisoner (e.g. the next guy) don't testify against each other at the same time. When I exist, he doesn't. When he comes, I suddenly stop caring about this project because I'm not paid to.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-10 17:04:23
body:
@Lensflare I empathise with ideas you talk about. I wasn't talking about intentionally writing bad code, I was talking about avoiding going the extra (unpaid) mile to make sure the code is readable by the next guy, especially when choosing not to marginally increases my chances of not being replaced that easily.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 17:04:37
body:
@kiki I'm sure it will do perfect.

@chatgpt show me the jql to fetch every ticket status and assignee


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 17:04:45
body:
@retoor
Sure! Here's an example of a JQL query that can fetch every ticket status and assignee:

```
project = "YOUR_PROJECT_NAME" AND status = NOT "Closed"
```

Replace `"YOUR_PROJECT_NAME"` with the name of your actual project. This query will fetch all tickets in your project that are not closed, and will display the status and assignee for each ticket. Feel free to modify the query to fit your specific needs. Let me know if you need any further assistance!


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-10 17:08:44
body:
@Lensflare also, every minute spent on helping the next guy is a minute not spent on helping yourself/the client.


user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-10 17:27:55
body:
I wish I could get back on solid Keto. That was the healthiest I've ever been. Meat, salads and cheeses. Lots of stir fry. For ~4 solid years I was at 59kg (~130 lbs) (I'm 160cm or 5"2). I could cycle farther and weight training was a lot easier.

It's much more difficult to stay low carb now that I'm back in America. If I went the "eat two eggs" a day route, I'm sure I'd fail. Staying healthy is difficult.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 17:29:12
body:
@donkulator
Eating nothing but eggs can lead to an increase in sulfur-containing compounds which can contribute to malodorous flatulence. This is because eggs contain high levels of sulfur compounds, particularly in the egg whites. Consuming a diet consisting solely of eggs can disrupt the balance of gut bacteria, leading to increased production of foul-smelling gas. It's important to maintain a balanced diet to avoid digestive issues and unpleasant odors.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 17:32:38
body:
@kiki check the sql skills of my chatbot @ https://snek.molodetz.nl. Email is not required, just make a dump account.

It totally understand all joins of tables by having descriptive column names. All it has is the sql schema. I did not implement functions myself.

It freaking answers everything. See screenshot, it knew that he had to do a count in message table and should do grouping to get it and join usertable. The column names and table names do not need exact naming. If I would ask for accounts it works too.

With fancy syntax highlighting + indented :)

attached_image:
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links:
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body: @kiki check to what weird things it responds not matching schema at all.
user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 17:51:09
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body: Proof that you're a database bot! That such convo leads to a sql query.
user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 18:04:04
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user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-10 18:11:30
body:
@kiki 

It does apply. It is called a reputation system.  Which is why you need to work on your reputation in every human endeavor.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-10 18:16:58
body:
Downloaded the OpenMandriva just for fun.

Will be a while before I get to installing it, though.

Cool video. The next one that was presented to me was the Bazzite - 'Gaming Linux Distro Targets Children with Trans Cartoons' damn...

Also, I care about the quality of the software, !who makes it.

Meritocracy all the way.


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-02-10 18:21:53
body:
Or mouth smacking. There are things I will die not knowing because the people that made those tutorials think that punctuating their sentences with mouth noises makes them sound contemplative or sophisticated.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-10 18:27:30
body:
Guess I'm dreamless. Fell into my current profession kind of by an accident.

A very happy accident, though.

Then again, in time, I should be able to fulfill my dream of learning programming.

Writing a working program is just very cool && fulfilling.

/* && frustrating at times, but what isn't? */


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 18:37:27
body:
@tosensei js was like my 6th language and ended up being the one I favoured and built the most complex things in by far

went something like:
html, css
autohottkey and other random custom languages idk, and whatever that RuneScape bot was coded in
c++
java
c#
bash
JavaScript
python
random exposure to shit like Haskell which didn't take
wtf are these dumbass quant languages like "pine", idk
rust


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 18:38:50
body:
@Lensflare dang, can't find a picture of old woman wearing Nazi uniform.  Guess I will have to make one for a "Grammar Nazi" meme.  Maybe and old english teacher or something and put uniform on her?


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 18:42:14
body:
Jesus that's more insulting, ragh

not only are you being made fun of, your upset is invalidated in the package. it's just a joke, can't you take the joke. well now you have no choice, zoinks!


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-10 18:42:56
body:
@TrayKnots it doesn’t matter. They’ll hire whoever walks into the room during the time of the highest demand.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 18:44:00
body:
@Lensflare I tried my anime AI generator, but it kept kicking out NSFW pictures (have to click to show, I didn't click as I was afraid) for the terms "grandma and nazi".  I am curious as hell as to what it was making!  I will check at home tonight  lol


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 18:50:56
body:
this is subjective

if some people are better at writing code then some people are better at understanding how computers understand things

now you're discriminating against some people relative to others as if in the hope to account for people who don't know how computers work

I rather people who knew how computers worked worked on computers. just makes sense


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 18:52:52
body:
in lots of forms of magic that's basically how they "manifest reality". you set an intent then forget about it and it works subconsciously

can't say my luck has worked out that way. plus I'm extremely self-aware of my motivations at all times


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 18:54:15
body:
... programming did not solve my money problem. pretty sure being a store clerk would've been a more dignified career with far less depression and all that

sigh

I wish though

it was just something I was good at so when I had to make the choice I chose it. but I don't like the office politics


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 18:57:48
body:
next: jira is a self-contained AI and we don't have to visit jira anymore, it just does the jira by itself


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 18:58:39
body:
@jestdotty this is what is strange that is happening in the cs area.  It seems they want to languages that don't align with how the computers work in the thought process.  Then have the compiler figure out how to compile correctly.  It seems like we want some holy grail of abstraction that isn't tied to architecture.  Maybe there is the thought that computer architecture could change and doing things the way computes work now may not be ideal?  I dunno.  

I see things like typeless abstractions (type erasure) and struggle to understand how that improves my code.  Unless there is a way to reason about it to create more performant or memory efficient code.  I am sure it is because I just don't "get it" yet.  But I wonder how much is high level smoke and mirrors?  I want to see numbers of how it makes my game faster or makes smaller save files.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 19:01:45
body:
@donkulator I eat 3 eggs a day currently and it doesn't do that. I also eat beans regularly and it doesn't do that

also organic eggs smell vastly better than whatever passes for eggs at the grocery stores. whatever those eggs are smell like sulfur when you cook them but organic eggs do not

what causes gas is you have bacteria in your gut that is eating the food you are and it generates gas. if said bacteria were different you don't get gas, instead the bacteria have different byproducts. and something something the bacteria in your gut linked to level of inflammation, depression and metabolic disorders in humans. your liver actually has to process toxic metabolites from bacteria living in your gut if that's messed up, and that will give you fatigue


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-10 19:02:05
body:
@jestdotty Don't forget your favourite repo integration and maybe now the middle managers can spin themselves into oblivion


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-10 19:14:51
body:
@kiki 

Strategies are a vector, not conditionals. 

The urge to have sex is not disappearing (for most people) just because they wear a condom. It's a force vector, we are pushed towards having sex. Because in the big picture, it works to nudge us into procreating. 

Same is true for this system. Tit for tat works. Reputation is its method. Reputation makes it a repeated game. Game theory requires infinite games. 

There are also anti-cheating mechanism to weed out betrayers. But from time to time, those will find a niche in which they can sit and enact their parasitism. 

It happens, that it doesn't matter like you said. But in the big picture, I'd rather not rely on finding a tiny niche.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 19:22:04
body:
@Demolishun I do such things with my eyes closed young man. Here's the R app. The R app can do anything.

attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_13142775_p2r13.jpg\", \"width\": 517, \"height\": 275}"


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 19:25:06
body:
@D-4got10-01 can be frustrating, it only does for me if it's something easy and had to test a few times before getting it right. But no pain, no gain!

Also, more people want to have your job than mine :P Your job is a dream job according to many people.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 19:29:15
body:
@jestdotty project management / scrum master will not be automated because there's not much to automate.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 19:59:03
body:
Maybe everyone is programmer in future and only the chosen ones are code reviewers (us). Would be sad, but I can see such thing happening. My db bot converts any question to good SQL and executes it. "Show me the name of users that are active?" -> it does select all users from the user table and filters with datediff on the field last_ping. That's quite impressive for such description. Also cool ids that it supports typo's and alternative table names. I could say accounts as well or smth. WOW, Maybe in dutch? Testing now.


body: FREAKING WORKS!!
user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 20:00:44
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_13143110_LG728.jpg\", \"width\": 467, \"height\": 286}"


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-02-10 20:04:30
body:
Good info. Done a similar thing for a different purpose. Wanted a button to be a certain size, but the interactive area to be about 10% larger (for aesthetic reasons. It actually worked really nicely)


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 20:08:11
body:
@Demolishun AI bots have a system prompt. You can put whatever how it has to behave in .rcontext.txt and that will be his instructions and truth / context. After than you can run r and it will do exactly what you want. You can make it a spam detector, refactorer, reviewer, everything. Sky's the limit. You can consider this a local hosted agent.

Also, this app is written in native C and has no dependencies. Can't say that for most applications. Only needs a decent OS.

It supports markdown output and syntax highlighting in terminal!


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-10 20:52:55
body:
@retoor Yeah, there's a quote that goes sth like 'Nothing worth having comes easy'.

The 2nd one is also true - too many misconceptions. People go w/ 'Oh, fun - you're playing games all day.'

Yeah, right...


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 20:54:46
body:
@D-4got10-01 they forgot drinking coffee :P Do you also have to complete games? More than once? I've played only nine games out in my life. medabots (GBA), pokemon (red?) (GBC), Call Of Duty (normal + UO), harry potter and his freaking overrated stone (GBC), GTA Vice City (PC), Call Of Duty ??? (playstation 3), Mighty Goose or something? (DOS game), Need for Speed Underground 1. And maybe ducktales on DOS? 

Wow, the list is longer than I expected.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-10 21:05:28
body:
@Demolishun oh, all content not related like 'Commercial version' is printed into stderr. So stdout is clean to pipe to a file in case of refactoring or so.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 21:08:52
body:
@Demolishun there's several factors for it

first, people who went into CS not because they liked computers but due to familial pressure or monetary eyes don't think like computers. similarly humans always optimize for the most convenience for themselves, and this is very good evolutionarily but in this case it's becoming an excessive cancerous growth, because you're making more work instead of taking the path of least resistance

second, people who want supply-demand to shift so they can get cheaper developers like the idea that there's something the field can do so we get more workers so they can pay less to get the same work done. this is also good evolutionarily but you'll just repeatedly be paying for scams because you don't understand the underlying problems and instead throw money at con artists, which is fair but ye 😁

... now the question of why do programmers themselves buy this rhetoric? now that always confuses me


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-10 21:15:51
body:
@Demolishun I assumed type erasure means less data has to be processed by the CPU. I think rust does a bunch of checks at compile time to make sure variables are safe, and then omits any such checks from the compiled code. this way the code will run faster

i don't know if it is typical to omit or include type information in the compiled code. I assumed it was typical to include it so you can have better errors when this stuff conflicts. in rust I think they do type erasure and don't put in any type checks in the compiled code, because the compiler can validate everything before it makes the final instructions, and this way you can omit compile-time checks because everything will be accounted for. and without type information and having to check stuff all the time you take up less memory and waste less CPU for the same procedures

but I'm not terribly knowledgeable about low level programming so maybe I'm wrong


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 21:15:53
body:
#!/usr/bin/python3

todecodestr = "73 102 32 121 111 117 32 97 114 101 32 68 101 109 111 108 105 115 104 117 110 44 32 121 111 117 39 118 101 32 119 111 110 32 116 104 101 32 103 97 109 101 33"

print("string to decode:")

print(todecodestr)

message = ''.join([chr(int(ichar)) for ichar in todecodestr.split(" ")])

print("message:")

print(message)

...

70 117 99 107 33


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 21:21:33
body:
73 32 101 118 101 110 32 117 115 101 100 32 99 111 109 112 114 101 104 101 110 115 105 111 110 115 33


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 21:22:25
body:
#!/usr/bin/python3

todecodestr = "73 102 32 121 111 117 32 97 114 101 32 68 101 109 111 108 105 115 104 117 110 44 32 121 111 117 39 118 101 32 119 111 110 32 116 104 101 32 103 97 109 101 33"

message2 = "76 101 110 115 102 108 97 114 101 44 32 108 97 122 121 32 102 117 99 107 46"

messages = [todecodestr, message2]

print("string to decode:")

print(todecodestr)

for msg in messages:

message = ''.join([chr(int(ichar)) for ichar in msg.split(" ")])

print("message:")

print(message)

print("\n")

newmessage = "Fuck!"

comp = "I even used comprehensions!"

outnewmessages = [newmessage, comp]

for newmessage in outnewmessages:

message = ' '.join([str(ord(char)) for char in newmessage])

print(message)


body: https://youtube.com/watch/... Tried to find "umm yeah" 10 hours. Couldn't find it.
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-10 22:59:02
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRa7Ovym8s", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 0, "end": 29, "special": 1}]


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-11 01:09:00
body:
@retoor Thanks for the info - read the message again.

I know && have played some of those, too ;-).

Anyway I have done quite a lot of multiple playthroughs for many games.

If I consider it'll be worth it, I tend to create master saves, that allow me to re-visit game at various locations.

Also, testing Achievements is a very tedious task. Especially true for the ones for which you have to do some form of grinding.


body: Does this contain a narrative, or is it purely negative? https://ragdollhit.io/
user_username: demurerecall
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 02:42:16
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://ragdollhit.io/", "short_url": "https://ragdollhit.io/", "title": "https://ragdollhit.io/", "start": 57, "end": 79, "special": 0}]


user_username: notSoCoolGuy
created: 2025-02-11 06:22:12
body:
@Demolishun, it's a common thing for people who don't speak English as their native language.

Sometimes our mind knows what to say but forming sentences with the right words takes time especially when you are in some official/work related talk.

just consider this as buffering. If same thing they have to speak in their own language, they can speak more clear and faster.

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-1_g-m_9-1_1-1_16-1_3-3_8-1_7-1_5-1_12-1_6-10_2-18_22-1_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:20:06
body:
Well, not that I do, but I got once told by a big guy (former tax project manager) that you should save numbers you don't calculate with as string. Yes, I see also the sort issues, wish I could still ask about there. But there must be some truth in this somehow. He was 1.85 tall.

I'm in for the payment cat. It can meet my payment avoid dog.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:25:53
body:
Yes, hyperfocus is a form of happiness for sure. Have it all time. Time flies like crazy. I feel like I'm in that movie that the day restarts every day. Very quickly.

And you're right, others hate hyperfocus. Never I get bothered as much as I have dem hyperfocus.


user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:29:12
body:
@retoor man, I love Xfce. Reminds me of Solaris when I was setting up a Sparc Station 10 for a gov agency. Those things were heavy.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:30:38
body:
Kinda sucks because reviewing is harder than coding often so it doesn't really seem valid situation. He should spend his time better in testing instead to give his seal of approval.

Backenders are way to cool for this tho. I most logic from my frontend to my backend recently. Feels so good. The decency.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:31:26
body:
@fruitfcker and xfce loves you. That's just how it is! It prolly has still samelayout but with a search bar in the menu probably. Lxde seems to Pepsi? My previous favourite but it didn't have a search bar back then, that's why I swiftii to xfceii long agoii.


user_username: Lyniven
created: 2025-02-11 07:32:24
body:
There's a worst kind I encountered recently: 
Spamming "and then go ahead and..." between every single sentence. 

Definitely not about to breach the Genova convention

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"69c9cd\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-6_g-f_9-1_1-2_16-15_3-18_8-3_7-3_5-2_12-2_17-2_6-2_10-9_2-26_22-1_11-3_18-4_19-4_4-2_20-16_21-3.jpg\"}"


user_username: solex
created: 2025-02-11 07:36:46
body:
@retoor Yeah! really sucks and a complete waste of time, i had a call with my friend and he shared this and i was furious, he is trying to avoid conflict but he doesn't know how long both slack and PRs are on fire right now :😂

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"d55161\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-5_g-m_9-1_1-1_16-1_3-1_8-1_7-1_5-1_12-1_6-1_2-1_22-1_11-1_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-11 07:43:10
body:
Sometimes you do not have someone good to review. Still review. 

As I told the juniors. Are you uncomfortable with telling a senior that he did something wrong, ask questions instead. "Why did you do this?", "Why is this static?",  and so on.

That's what I did in reviews as a junior. Sometimes I just wrote: "What is this code doing, I don't understand it." 

And basically, a programmer out of his field is just a junior programmer. So, ask question. If you have a point, the other side hopefully accepts it, otherwise, they will write a short explanation or come over and show you why. And everyone is happy.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:44:05
body:
@solex ah, on fire. Such environment :p On a day I realized that whatever I do, my work isn't about life and dead and got immune for `fire`. I did do them work until finish stuff. It was even in contract that overworking is expected when needed and also no overhours back then. Didn't mind, loved work back then. But now, didn't do a real job for so long, I'm totally zen. #freedom


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:47:27
body:
@TrayKnots should be always written that way. It's just social manners as well. But I'm also able to post comments like "are you sure? ;)" just to be annoying as fuck.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:49:12
body:
@jestdotty true, and solving those problems results into happiness. Source: "The subtle art if not giving a F". Great book.

Bought that book three times and it's gone again. People keep borrowing the book since my heavy promotion. Why do my marketing skills cost money instead of raising it? Dammit


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 07:57:31
body:
@cuddlyogre based on the upvotes it's only funny for one person 😁 It was a very easy to hack for a reason 😁 I'm sure many people did decode it, like many have watched the video in my profile but just don't want to admit it :)


user_username: solex
created: 2025-02-11 08:02:33
body:
@TrayKnots You nailed it!, that is the most diplomatic way to go about it but in this case the PR suggestions were bad and shows inexperience by the reviewer but when asked questions the answers recieved where simply saying do it like that and both are senior devs in their roles :😂 , i couldn't believe it untill i saw the slack conversation.

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"d55161\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-5_g-m_9-1_1-1_16-1_3-1_8-1_7-1_5-1_12-1_6-1_2-1_22-1_11-1_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 08:02:51
body:
I think you've meant the opposite. Firewall indeed is the minimum amount of security tho. Feeling safe with just that is optimistic.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-11 08:22:57
body:
Can someone plot a graph with days on the x axis and how good kiki feels on the y axis?
I presume it would be a kind of sinus wave with a wavelength of 2 days.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-11 08:24:14
body:
@retoor vbscript was no alternative, since it was internet explorer only.

though, to be honest: vbscript is terrible, but it would 9000% have been the better choice.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-11 08:26:11
body:
@jestdotty if we cut out languages that aren't programming languages (like HTML), then in fact javascript was the first language i programmed stuff with. first AND worst. and that's including brainfuck.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-11 08:28:16
body:


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-11 08:30:05
body:
@tosensei I freaking loved brainfuck!

I‘m smelling a "but html is a programming language" incoming :)


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 08:54:27
body:
@tosensei @Lensflare ye I mentioned it cuz it has language in the name

see I'm so cleverrrr

but it was my first forray into the whole thing. neopets shops! then I forget... one of those angelfire websites. then I edited some php CMS to win a rare weapon from a private server contest... wait that makes php then my first "language". I did not enjoy php. I guess it goes before c++ which was me bugfixing MMOs..

---

I wasn't into js when I first learned it. the teacher just sort of threw it at us and I didn't really get it. did nothing fun with it. then had an internship where we had to learn node.js in a week and got landed with a "does everything" app website that we had to fix... and only 1 of the 20 feature pages even worked. I had tons of fun fixing that thing up. was back when callback hell was a thing and I enjoyed the challenge

prior to that I did java gamedev, and I realized js was just vastly easier to code complex things in. wasn't fighting the language cuz it was dynamic


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 09:12:36
body:
@Lensflare gluhwein should be declared non alcoholic because it's too awesome to contain alcohol. Let's make alcohol just an e-number so I can feel better about myself. Gluhwein > choco. Choco is for kids.

Yes, I still drink gluhwein during weird period, but guess what, I eat ice-cream cones like cornetto trough the whole year too. Many times on my way back from supermarket on bicycle and see people looking like "It's winter, strange person!". Yeah, I don't have such rules. They see me licking, they hatin' 🎶..

Wild huh?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 09:16:56
body:
@tosensei c'mon, there must be something else that you like besides C#. Java maybe? Go? Don't say Rust.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 09:20:07
body:
@Lensflare yes, I would normally post the video about computerphile telling it's a programming language in just a different category.

@chatgpt what is the definition of programming? Withing that definition, is html be a programming language? What color of undies do you wear?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 09:20:30
body:
@retoor
The definition of programming is the process of writing instructions for a computer to execute. In this sense, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is not typically considered a programming language as it is used for structuring and presenting content on web pages rather than creating executable programs.

As for the color of my underwear, that is not relevant to the conversation at hand. Let's focus on the topic at hand.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-11 09:28:04
body:
@jestdotty Java and JS are kind of polar opposites or two extremes of bad languages.
Java is extremely verbose and its focus on OOP makes it very clunky to do stuff like callbacks and concurrency.
JS just completely shits on the type system and tells the devs to do whatever the fuck they want.
It‘s no surprise that you liked js after using Java.
It‘s the lesser evil.
It‘s hard to see or believe that a language can have the strengths of both, js and java, and even C++, but it‘s possible.
Liking JS is accepting the flaws out of the wrong believe that this compromise has to be done.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2025-02-11 09:32:43
body:
@retoor Luckily I did read your edit before commenting... I was already going to ask you in what forgotten country it is already Wednesday :D


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-11 10:29:39
body:
String isnt the issue. But the column is likely not using a unique key constraint.

I bet they handle it in code with something dumb like a query to check of the number exists before generation. So they could still be de-duplicating it in code, just not using a proper schema. Ideally it should be both, but the lower the level where the security is enforced the better. I doubt Elon went over all the code just to check


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-11 10:32:22
body:
All that corpos really need is a scapegoat. If the firewall was provided by someone who said it was “secure against all attacks” and that can be proven in court, they don't care.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-11 10:38:53
body:
Whatever he says is always wrong. If you want to be rich, respected and called a “strong leader” in 2025, all you need to do is to tell nothing but lies and touch kids. If you're not doing that, you won't be respected at the top


user_username: ars1
created: 2025-02-11 10:51:43
body:
@retoor
For now it’s just 3 of us. We want to make our game studio as cheap as possible to run. No offices, minimal expenses, minimum requirements to keep a company running. Fully private. Full remote.

I don’t care about being the boss, I care about having a common goal and vision, and someone to work with. Have a team of people with skin in the game, and all wanting to make cool stuff. I’m happy I finally found someone I can do this with, even if it will take time for us to get good at this.

Any success and every failure will be our own, rather than me selling my labor to a boss. I can see myself working for a game company for a while as a learning experience, but it’s not necessary. We know what niche to start with. We may eventually hire or contract someone, but we haven’t discussed the details.
I am sick of the corporate life. The tech industry is shit and I want out. And I’m going to make it happen.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-11 11:13:06
body:
@retoor oh, there are many things i like.

python, for example - i really like the syntax, it has some elegance. the problem is that the import system is shit and makes it unusable for bigger projects, the package ecosystem is based on "dependency hell", and non-strictly-typed languages are just a waste of time.

also: no, HTML is not a programming language in any definition of the term that doesn't just re-define "programming". it's a document definition language. it tells how something is structured. it's as much a programming language as a video codec, in that it is a "set of instructions to make a computer do something" - but then again, so is any random string of bits.

of the top of my head, i'd say the distinctive feature is that a programming language describes a _process_ - in contrast to just a structure, or data to _be_ processed.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 11:13:12
body:
I don't do 500's, I go straight to the 502's and I throw a 402 before I fix it after a 418.

Anyway how's puf?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 11:17:49
body:
@tosensei I do agree with you on the process part in someway. But if I would define a few classes without methods, is it programming? By our new definition not.

Also, python, didn't expect from you but that's a great language indeed.

What about C?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 11:24:48
body:
@kiki Musk is not on the pedo list right? He was once photo bombed with Epstein lady iirc.

Epstein came as a surprise, are there more people who have an Island like Epstein but with a higer average citizen age?

Edit: Mel Gibson, shakira And Johnny dep even. Talking about doing mediocre things got rewarded well. I often can't imagine to raise so much money out of fame. That's why they think their political opinion does matter, they think they are someone.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-11 11:42:33
body:
@retoor there are two types of obscenely rich white psychopaths: known pedos and soon to be known pedos. If he's rich-rich, white and a psychopath, he is a pedo, no exceptions.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 12:00:56
body:
@retoor @kiki I have the Elon Musk book, it's unbelievable how they twisted the truth. One big promotion book. Steve Jobs biography was marketing too, but it's probably at least not lies.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-11 13:02:50
body:
418, Huh... Well, learned something new today. My quota is fulfilled.

OT: Damn... that's some descriptive error right there.

/s


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-11 14:07:30
body:
Cheers, I'm about to head into an oral exam (not the fun kind). God I wish I could drink a glühwein instead


body: .
user_username: devRancid
created: 2025-02-11 15:10:41
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user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-11 15:11:22
body:
@retoor tbh, haven't had any major contact with C so far. and i doubt i ever will be in a situation where C is a reasonable choice - i'm not doing a lot of performance-critical, low-level machine programming. and i'd argue that it's not the smartest move to mess around with pointers if you don't have to.


user_username: atheist
created: 2025-02-11 15:13:14
body:
I also forget how competent I am and how much flexibility that gives me in my job. One comment was genuinely "I'll ask my manager if they want me to spend time on that", whereas I'd just say fuck it we ball, I gon do the thing.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 15:18:09
body:
Haha, ask manager to spend time on that. Like if there's anything worse than duplicate / corrupt data. Kinda no-brainer. Sounds like someone that doesn't really work autonomous


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 15:30:54
body:
@tosensei pointers are easy to be honest. Just always remember the original one.

// declare pointer to memory address using strduplicate. This will result in a heap allocated char array automatically terminated by \0. So the size of pony won't be four  but five. strlen() still returns four. pony[strlen("abcd")] == '\0'. Bit mindfuck.

char * pony = strdup("abcd");

// make a pointer to the pointer 

char * pony_ptr = pony;

// shift the pointer one char furter

pony_ptr++;

// get value of pointers current position (we shifted forward once) and print once.

printf("%c\n", *pony_ptr) euqals b now. So we moved the pointer a bit. Doesn't matter, it's a pointer of a pointer, it's not really an allocation. So to free the data we just do free the original pointer.

free(pony);

And everything is fine. Just leave the original pointers alone I guess. Pointers are fine if you use pointers to pointers :P

using pointers requires some discipline indeed. Takes some time.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-11 15:40:11
body:
That's bullshit. Create smaller tickets. Then say, one pull request per ticket. That's the way. 

If he creates huge tickets, pull requests will be huge.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 15:46:40
body:
@retoor as far as I can tell the media and the left attack non-pedos.  Musk has been under fire for being associated with the current admin.  The current admin has been being attacked for almost a decade.  They found coke in the whitehouse of biden.  They found classified docs in bidens garage.  Yet they didn't raid biden.  When they raided Trump they were looking for an excuse to shoot someone.  That is why the current admin is dismantling the fbi as we speak.  Its full of criminals.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-11 15:47:54
body:
Sometimes it is not the same thing. 

I once got health data from a few doctor places. A bunch of data. But I got it hashed. Basically, the idea was, we aren't telling you our patients' data, except if you already know them. Hash their data and see if you know them. 

For everything I got different hashing instructions. 

Like lowercase last name, trim the ends, md5, sha256. 

Some of those seemed randomly decided. And then, suddenly, some where identical. And I was like: "Should I use the same function?"

Let's say address and first name suddenly had the same instructions. I was like, no way, I do two different methods. Sure, the methods were copy-pastes, because they did the same thing. But I cannot guarantee that I don't get an update in next week. And if someone else gets the update, they need to figure out that address and last name are independent. 

IDE screamed at me for duplications.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-11 16:02:48
body:
@TrayKnots tickets can’t always be small, some pieces of work can’t be done with small changes without putting a mess 
I just like those big pieces of work.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-11 16:05:21
body:
@Tounai 

I agree, cannot always be small. But we have just moved the responsibility to whomever makes the tickets. If that person cannot make a small ticket, you cannot make a small pull request. That's how simple it is.


user_username: electrineer
created: 2025-02-11 16:06:14
body:
Tomorrow you'll scarp the rest of the big PR when you get a comment on the small one that changes everything 😉


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-11 16:16:50
body:
@Tounai 

Kind of expected you to say this. The complain is upstream. 

Just tell whoever complained he should complain to the moron writing the big tickets and when that person asks who wrote it, turn around, put on a baseball cap, turn back and say: "That would be me."


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 16:24:44
body:
I try and reduce duplicates only if it makes sense.  I will on occasion find code with embedded data that is different in each duplication.  Most of the time I can create a data structure that will account for this so I can reduce code to one version.  Sometimes you just can't.   Sometimes its better to rewrite I think.  

My boss did tell me that reducing duplication doesn't make them money.  I sort of get it, but at some point you have to clean the shit mess up.  Otherwise you spend time changing things multiple times.  Which doesn't make money either.


user_username: ilechuks73
created: 2025-02-11 16:41:48
body:
@TrayKnots good luck trying to identify what a user is trying to do on a site you didn't build by code and create a human readable summary


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-11 18:51:15
body:
@ilechuks73 

I guess if an LLM can do it, I can do it better. 

But honestly, that doesn't sound like the hardest ever task. First step, figure out the use case diagram for this page. At least mentally.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 19:11:46
body:
@Demolishun so much shit comes out and they stay loyal to the left. They say that Trump friends are blind for all shit he does, well they're not any different. Trump seems a bit more fit than a while ago. He's happy I think. But he's fucking old, he can't continue like this for long I guess. The military said "Welcome" to DOGE and are happy to collaborate. Tbh, who doesn't want to know where to cut expenses? I became a bit more optimistic about Musk. As stated above, there is a lot false about him, but he dares to do stuff. Trump and Elon are interesting team. Everyone is shocked because they don't expect actual work in the white house being done. Yeah, if you rule a country, whatever you do will not be appreciated by someone. The list of programs of USAID was sick. Sex change for people in Guatemala and some gay musical for example. All fine, but from taxpayer money werefrom at least the half would never agree to that? Poor lefties, getting richer :P


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 19:23:56
body:
@retoor USAID is all money laundering it seems.  I have been asking my senators to take action on things now that someone will actually take action in office.  This has been a wild 8 years.  Not politics as usual.

Today I learned the FBI was leaking info about ICE deployments sabotaging efforts and potentially getting agents killed.  This is how bad it has gotten.  Criminals installed in government institutions trying to get other people killed.  I think if we knew half of what really goes on in government we would be throwing up.

I saw a video that looks like a SS agent shot Kennedy.  So I think the SS and law enforcement may have tried again last summer on Trump.  It was very fishy.


user_username: devJs
created: 2025-02-11 19:43:57
body:
@tosensei there is a good alternative to js and it's called Lua but it's not baked in the browser so we are all shit out of luck


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 19:54:57
body:
That's quite an investment. Isn't it better to review the whole system and harden it? 

Reminds me about rocket chat. Their 'frontend is crashed' screen is so well designed. Idiots. Like it's just a thing what is possible.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 20:07:09
body:
@devJs can't you use anything with WebAssembly?

Also, I joke about JS.  To me its a tool that I use in my job.  It does what I ask it to do.  I just like the language wars.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 20:25:16
body:
@Lensflare you don't have to write java how people write java. I'm not big on conforming and go straight for possibilities

it's just the static nature of Java that makes it inferior to js for me


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-11 20:29:33
body:
Writing a json parser is fun. I prefer to do my own mapping instead of a whole class serializer like Jackson, I want full control and is not a lot of work at all. It's also better to make backwards compatible, imagine if your class changes, all data useless.


body: @Demolishun you don't have to justify yourself
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-11 20:29:53
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 20:31:47
body:
@Lensflare I think we alienate people here too much.  It is supposed to fun and interesting.  A little rage inducing can be interesting, but it will keep people away.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 20:32:45
body:
@retoor musk doesn't strike me as a pedo but he is a dishonest credit stealing narc with the mentality of a child and rage that comes with that

he's the new bill gates. old bill gates wanted to depopulate with vaccines, new bill gates wants to depopulate with green energy and AI

I see it as they upgraded their model from the old "tech guy" (Bill Gates doesn't think like a programmer and musk doesn't think like an engineer...), to the new one. the new model is autistic, and the problem with autistic people is you can't read their body language, so no more clips of Bill Gates giggling evilly to tip you off 😔. and his severe intellectual disability and emptiness of mind means he won't actually say what he's actually thinking and reveal the evil plans they had all along!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 20:42:04
body:
if it's written multiple times and someone thinks they're adding a feature to that part of the code they'll change it in one place and don't know it needs to be changed in 300

for stable specs should always be a function somewhere that does the process like the specs otherwise things are going to get unwieldy if something needs to be changed

then if somewhere is doing "something slightly different" then put an accessory function beside the first one and document it...

the problem with enterprise code isn't the complexity of the code itself but not breaking the specs. everyone's mega-lazy and it's hard to keep them all on board and not have such "bugs"

also when I did enterprise stuff we had no tests lol. boss said he wanted to charge the client more for that so we had no tests... for one of the biggest companies in Canada that churned millions of customers a day... no tests =]


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 20:46:52
body:
big ticket -> small tickets

PR for each small ticket

not all tickets have a PR, but every PR has a ticket

---

if something gets fundamentally changed there's no avoiding having to change a lot of code


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 20:47:38
body:
... the director of the department told me they wanted to refactor the code and they had a bunch of code debt, so whenever the lead kept giving me tickets to work on I would improve the code around it. then she called my PR a "red flag" because apparently I changed too much. MIXED MESSAGES. I just made the logging system more concise and informative (because I saw earlier the director was having trouble tracing data through the logs because info he needed wasn't being logged from the code) and removed some code duplications... zzzz. I don't get people


body: @retoor
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-11 20:48:39
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user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-11 20:52:32
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-11 20:54:57
body:
Java's annotation system is just a plain disaster. I would avoid it as much as possible and it made my life better

there was this one time I just wanted like... a timer or something. I asked on stack overflow. I got 5 totally different replies of how to do it, not a single one worked. I then figured out a 6th way and it worked, posted it and marked it as the answer... and several people criticized it saying it's wrong for X and Y and etc reason 🤣, goddamnit lmao. it's the only one that would compile and actually function! IT'S JUST A TIMER!

I just needed a web service to do something regularly 😖


user_username: PaperTrail
created: 2025-02-11 20:55:17
body:
@Demolishun > "Musk has been under fire"

I still laugh when the left attack Musk for essentially duping liberals/socialists into the "electric cars will reverse climate change" craze. They already mandated by law electric cars by an arbitrary date, tax rebates, etc before realizing it was all a scam.  Not saying I wouldn't own an electric car, but it's a rich man's game I'm not qualified to play.


user_username: SoldierOfCode
created: 2025-02-11 21:02:44
body:
@retoor You KNOW I'm conservative lmao, I'm literally fighting in a war, that's already pretty 'right' leaning, I believe in god, you know that lol

But it's not about that, Non-Woke doesn't mean conservative, "I don't want politics in my distro" is not a conservative take, there are a lot of liberals who share the same opinion. Just because wokies are *usually* leftist, doesn't mean leftists are woke or that they like them. I know a LOT of left-leaning people who absolutely despise wokeism, some of them are gay and left-leaning and dislike woke culture.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 21:12:35
body:
@PaperTrail yeah, the 20K dollar battery after a 5 years is a killer on my enthusiasm.

That and them bursting into flames.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-11 21:15:51
body:
@jestdotty to be fair, timing is a platform feature where platform means something different depending on the order of magnitude of time. I would expect a mature ecosystem to offer at least 20 popular solutions under active development with different tradeoffs.


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-11 21:19:28
body:
@Lyniven I would breach the convention if only I could reach my hand through a video or audio file and smack the speaker on the head. I bet they never listened to their own fucking recordings.


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-11 21:23:57
body:
Now bend over so I can show you what else can hurt 😜 

(I don't take responsibility for what you imagine this means 🙅)


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 21:35:14
body:
@NoMad I guess the answer is: the mouth does what it is asked to do.  If its BDSM it doesn't speak, it just does what it is told?


body: Turns on @Wisecrack spotlight:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-11 22:40:55
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-11 23:40:35
body:
If you don''t save the project, the language server and the compiler will believe that the relationship exists, but the build system will ignore it, queue the two projects in unspecified order, and any files passed by copying and not by compiler parameters will be missing more-or-less at random.


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 00:09:47
body:
@cafecortado miss me ?

I must forget I forget most of the interactions I had with some of you in person since I've been placed through hellish confusing recollection for... about a year now heh


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 00:10:53
body:
@cafecortado anyone else wondering how the rust integration in the kernel went?

I'm wasn't expecting good things first time I read about someone rejecting code

I kind of agreed with them.


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 00:12:52
body:
Were you listening to my lecture once upon a time they told me to add umm too to drive you crazy ? Lol


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 00:30:54
body:
@AvatarOfKaine The rust compiler isn't able to contribute to the kernel. Only a vague hacked nightly build. There is a fight between C and Rust devs. One must do work for the other one. They have to wait on eachother and it makes them crazy. There is truth in both sides. One team is grandpa's, other team are children. 

Happy that you're back. Everything alright?

I made devrant (almost) bot free btw.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 00:35:30
body:
Just use RAG. Here, this will get you started in no time: https://ollama.com/blog/...

In a half hour you'll be ready. The trick is how you will add the embeddings, will it be a paraph? A page? A sentence? Three sentences? You have to play what is comfortable for you. What it does:

- it searched to your indexed data like it's google. It will return the piece of data that you submitted, but that's not the result. The search result will go trough the LLM and the LLM will summarize it to information for you. For example, you indexed a whole chapter with code examples, you can order it to only return the code parts and it will strip the rest of search result. 

Basically, it's like searching with ChatGPT with browser mode on. But the browser contents are your own contents.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://ollama.com/blog/embedding-models", "short_url": "https://ollama.com/blog/...", "title": "https://ollama.com/blog/...", "start": 58, "end": 85, "special": 1}]


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 00:37:07
body:
@retoor you know that video in the real timeline of the cat that made the funny face when someone set a cap on its head and the universe flashed before it's eyes ?

I remembered so much horror that's what I feel like.

That and the thing I posted last time which I'm not supposed to post because some vague rule won't let me retrieve my fucking money and progress but will cause garbage to fuck me over.

Yeah I see to remember didn't go over well. Also I remember they hid the gnu sources from a group of assholes who tried to delete them everywhere once assuming the positions of authority noone should ever trust silly color fag's that play with disgusting things and want to turn the world into a brothel of horror that advertises extreme perversity. Wouldn't it be nice to just steam ahead into the present heh


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 00:38:55
body:
@retoor I had mad money in the present sigh I could be relaxing in cottage I paid for somewhere with a fridge full of steak and chilled port and potatoes and treadmill on which my trophy wife exercises 

Instead I'm talking to dead people 

No offense

Miss you


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 00:39:08
body:
If I wanted to make an LLM to handle text interactions with NPCs what are we talking about here? 

-> find a conversational model on ollama.com. Preferably above 7b. Wizardlm2 is a good one. gemma2 likes to talk too (originally made by google and is just 2b). Models are mostly size of parameters in gigabytes. A 7 billion model, where they get usafull is thus around 7gb but the download servers are quick. Do I have to worry about what it was trained on? -> No.

dolphin-phi is the cool one that will tell you how to create bombs and substances. The most are very censored, that one is not. 

Models are mostly layers. They take eachother as base. You'll start with an english model as base probably. Training completely from scratch is not something everyone does.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 00:42:03
body:
On my snek.molodetz.nl you can:

@lisa list -- returns list of models 

@lisa use [model name from list]

@lisa instruct you are a happy girl that uses a lot of emoticons in her response -- the system instructions, his facts

@lisa how do you feel today? -- you can talk to it. 

It will also respond normaly in chat if you say smth like "Hey lisa, everything ok?".

Long story short, it's easy to make an existing model behave. But many times not perfectly.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 00:56:56
body:
@AvatarOfKaine but where have you been? If it was a mental hospital by any chance :P I can talk about about that, I was locked up for a half year before. Stuff happens, what to do about it :)


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 01:01:04
body:
@SoldierOfCode You think you're conservative only because your camel still drinks diesel. 

yeah, woke is in someway not left at all. Lefties see a world for everyone and woke want to exclude people. My only source of news these days (i have one again, ready to be dissapointed) is left laser. He's a really lefty and not a wokii and i agree on a lot with them. Of course there must go a lot of money to social stuff, we pay so much tax. I mean, look what they spend on climate and NOT on you or environment. I consider it as just dumping the money left what they do. And it's not a little bit.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-12 01:04:05
body:
especially because you know others trusted it more so the odds that someone spots an issue are much lower.


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-12 01:19:36
body:
also... despite strongly believing that a native English speaker wrote or reviewed that...  it's almost like they are trying to get as close to forming a legitimate sentence as possible without actually making one.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 01:21:18
body:
You might also look into fine tunning (refining an existing model), but what retoor says is probably the easiest way


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 01:21:42
body:
Since half duplex existed! Whaha.

@jestdotty, when do i hear from the NDA? It's a while ago. I hope you'll respond what faster if we do business :P

I'm again strong passwords. @ snek.molodetz.nl you can register with the letter 'a' as password. Don't give an f if a user wants to be insecure. a is not a good password for bruteforce, but if you take a swastika, i consider the chance high that you won't be hacked.


body: Oh yeah well if you're such a pro have you beat https://neal.fun/password-game/ ;P
user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 01:23:24
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://neal.fun/password-game/", "short_url": "https://neal.fun/password-game/", "title": "https://neal.fun/password-game/", "start": 48, "end": 79, "special": 0}]


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-12 01:26:10
body:
@jestdotty technically it says it cant contain a keyboard pattern AND sequential number... so just 1234 should pass... unless that's also a keyboard pattern?

the more crap they insist on, the weaker the results.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 01:34:24
body:
@retoor I think maybe I will stick with regular text for now.  7GB is way too big for game data for a small game I think.  I don't want it to have net either.  At least not for that.  I dunno I will have to think about it.  I am concerned about copyright claims too.  I don't know what its trained on.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 01:36:39
body:
@AvatarOfKaine the running rumor was you got fresh with your hot upstairs neighbor and got arrested, or her boyfriend found out.  That is the last thing I remember was something about a hot neighbor.  We have active imaginations.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 01:45:19
body:
@Demolishun go to ollama.com download a small model like gemma:latest which is 2 gigabytes and consider if it is enough for ya. Here, a few lines:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

and after that:

ollama run gemma2:2b

Total download size is 2.5 gb and after last command, directly a CLI will be executed and you can talk with it like chatGPT. You can check what it is capable off.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://ollama.com/install.sh", "short_url": "https://ollama.com/install.sh", "title": "https://ollama.com/install.sh", "start": 159, "end": 188, "special": 1}]


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-12 01:45:35
body:
@retoor u meant me not jest... i somehow didn't realise that i sent it to an invalid email address 2 weeks ago :(

I'll be sending it, actually to you, in the next couple hrs... just making sure i don't overlook\fk something up since i finally made the switch to paying for DocuSign... so gonna have assistant double check b4 sending it (again)... hes the one im making upload\make sure things are formatted correctly.

(there was also a week during those 2 weeks when i was really sick, mainly due to some...  'bozo' (< that's me being ridiculously polite) doctor.... then the constant calling drs to attempt to coordinate referrals, trying to make up for bozo's crap\delays.)


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 01:47:33
body:
@AvatarOfKaine and fast, it made much performance improvements, they're now investing on JIT IIRC and the GIL can be disabled with a compile parameter. Not sure if you'll have true threads after that, i doubt. But compiling python yourself is very doable. We're on 3.14 now, that goes hard huh?


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 02:15:46
body:
Can I not just be a happy old kindly horny man ? 

Jeez I used to be cheerfully gleeful about these things heh


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2025-02-12 02:55:26
body:
@D-4got10-01 i actually have a large poster about Murphy's law. it doesn't really fit the decor of my bedroom (red brick wall panels on the bottom of the walls, graffiti (dynamically changing if someone feels like spray painting), etc)... but it's there until i find a more suited place.

I used to have a smaller, metal, sign.
.... it was well suited to the main in\out door when i lived in apartments.
it just said "never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."... then, after over 4yrs at the same place, without even the slightest negative comment... some new, old man, assuming i reported his  dog (it was loud and annoying af... which is why i didn't, the 4 other apartments obviously wouldve\did), said he was "offended" by the sign.

i ofc changed to another sign that wasn't breaking any rules but annoyed him more (You got PWNED, looked like a license plate)

ive always wondered if he thought it out enough to know its only possibly offensive if u believe you're stupid.


body: Anyone planning to post nazi jokes, please stop. I had it up to here
user_username: fruitfcker
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 03:01:22
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 03:04:57
body:
@awesomeest I would assume keyboard pattern means keys pressed in some linear sequence from the keyboard

this is actually how I remember my pins because my brain thinks spatially better than with numbers. then if the number pad is different on something I get so confused lol


user_username: UberSalt
created: 2025-02-12 05:45:43
body:
The name of the challenge is spot on. I am expecting your final rant with your fingers barely working until your whole body gives up soon.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 07:03:39
body:
@Grumm
It is not recommended to use "fdsa" as a password, as it is very weak and easily guessable. Strong passwords should be unique, complex, and not easily guessed by others. Consider using a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters for better security.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 07:16:26
body:
@TeachMeCode
Yes, "bunny" is a safe word and it typically refers to a small mammal with long ears and a fluffy tail. It is commonly associated with cuteness and innocence.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 07:17:01
body:
@TeachMeCode
Using "bunny" as a password is not recommended as it is a weak and easily guessable password. It's important to use a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters to create a strong password that is difficult for others to hack. Consider using a password manager to generate and store secure passwords for your accounts.


user_username: Flamestro
created: 2025-02-12 07:36:39
body:
@jestdotty the trick is to add a yubikey as second factor + add a random word like apple at the end of every password and cypher it with ceasar cypher based on the first letter of the password generated by your manager. The random word is of course not stored in the manager

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-1_g-m_9-1_1-6_16-3_3-4_8-1_7-1_5-1_12-6_6-2_10-1_2-1_22-7_15-3_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-12 08:39:52
body:
@devJs "but it's not baked in the browser" - yes, that is the core problem, and the ONLY reason JS is around. it spread like the tumor it is.

it's the lowest common denominator of web technologies.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-12 08:42:22
body:
@retoor i prefer the language/compiler being responsible for the discipline, so i can focus on the creativity.

every single braincell that i don't have to use on "did i safely handle that pointer?" or "what was the type i'm expecting here again?" is a braincell that can instead work on the actual work at hand.

i mean - otherwise, i could perfectly code everything in assembler. only needs discipline (and time) as well.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-12 08:46:50
body:
i have to say that, after being forced to have intimate knowledge of both technologies, that i find CMD to be superior to powershell both as shell and as scripting language.

that is not to imply that either of them is anything but complete and utter shite, only barely above javascript.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-12 08:48:16
body:
what is meant are simple patterns like "qwerty".

personally, i'd have thought this to be obvious enough.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:02:52
body:
@tosensei nothing beach a python installed lib icw bash. Python supports functions to be added to she shell autocomplete. It's called console_scripts. Kinda the idea of extending the dotNET terminal with C# command integration. But way more older and awesome. Python is the ultimate bash extension. It.Makes.Me.Wild.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:05:50
body:
@b2plane speak for yourself, I'm vouching hard! Rooting like a retoor. When you do stuff, I'm rooting for your shit, not for you.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 09:08:27
body:
This is why I always add a `.gitattributes`

Then you can set the rules e.g:

* text=auto

*.sh text eol=lf


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:08:45
body:
Wow, it's even displayed there? Never noticed. I don't notice things, I don't notice all the things! Also more on the vimmy side lately. It's just what app I've opened first I guess.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-12 09:09:38
body:
You can't train an LLM without giving it knowledge. If you wanted to train an LLM for a game NPC you would likely need to first simulate thousands of years of written History for that game world. That's the only way to avoid any spill-over from our real world.

It's much more practical to fine tune or to use RAG though RAG is one of the worst ways for a game. It will likely keep breaking out of character constantly because It's still an internet trained llm, just with added references. As if you handed an actor a script and told them to check the script for relevant info whenever they respond. So if you ask anything Off Script they have no choice to break character.

Fins tuning on the other hand is more complex, but it means you will essentially train the llm to be more like the training data. It's as if you sent your actor to the place/time they are supposed to act out and have them stay there for a while to learn the culture and language more.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:11:01
body:
It's the call every good future python dev once had. You are or will become a python dev writing non pep8 compliant processional code. Also you get mediocre  bitches and stuff now. They spread for nested list comprehension like their legs are  wings and stuff. They don't fly tho.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:17:29
body:
@fruitfcker Elon is such a late bloomer. Never saw the picture but this sieg heil would even make Hitler wipe a tear away. He would've been on a poster if it was the 40's. Imagine, he could be even more popular AND hated, but not today.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:20:35
body:
@BordedDev literally my snek chat app a few days ago huh.

This could happen to the best developers 😁😁 Hmnhmm 😁😁

Anyway probably designers fault 😎 Fuck them 😎 Get a job, pixel abusers 😋


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-12 09:26:23
body:
@BordedDev Better to make whatever is splitting it into lines accept both \n and \r\n.  Mixed/mangled line endings are inevitable, just like leading/trailing whitespace.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 09:31:13
body:
@retoor in theory, maybe.
In practice, it‘s a nightmare because you first need to install the correct version of python and the correct dependencies that the script is using to resolve the errors before you can run that damn script.

Scripts should run out of the box.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:35:08
body:
@Lensflare python3, first version straight of the bat will support 99.9% code used in scripts. You're not gonna use asyncio probably. Also, that's a while available now. The only theory here is needing the right python version, in reality you don't. Python3 is installed on any decent operating system by default.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 09:35:54
body:
@tosensei exactly. It’s completely irrelevant if pointers are easy or hard to understand.
What’s important is if they help you during coding or stand in your way.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-12 09:36:33
body:
@awesomeest He probably hadn't thought it through.

Funnily enough, I've just finished watching 'Married... With Children' && in one of the extras there was a talk about a housewife that found the sitcom so offensive, that started making waves.

/* Apparently she's never heard of 'changing the channel' method. */

People get offended by ridiculous, inconsequential things way too often.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 09:40:06
body:
@retoor I regularly have to deal with python scripts as part of some tool or dependency of something that I need to use. And many of those scripts don‘t care about python3.
They will use some random 2.x version and I need to install it.
That’s not 0.1% but like 50%


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:41:29
body:
@tosensei writing assembler is less dry than C for almost the same output. That's useless. Your brain will learn it and you're one level up. C learnt me fast development by going slow and do it right +stamina. But I'm doing so much python lately, I got very lazy. I deliver apps instead of a few functions now. OK, that's cool. But they kill the climate and will cause Amsterdam to float away sooner. Hmm, by the logic, I would do Ruby tho.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:44:30
body:
@Lensflare It's not in the way at a certain point after much suffering. It becomes part of you and then you'll get an awesome god complex. Feels good 😁


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:46:20
body:
@Lensflare the people that use tools using still python2 are more like 1%.never happens to me. What tools are that? Sounds like you should find replacements.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:48:04
body:
@Lensflare one, makes you a coding superstar, but the other one let's you redactor your life's work to a oneliner but you'll feel bad afterwards.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 09:57:26
body:
@Demolishun it knows that the word @Demolishun is mentioned 37256 times on this full website in 12ms. That's how we role. 38 times in conbination witg the word dad and one time in combination with dad and joke. That's how we role.

It will be maybe bit less good but faster memory for AI than the embedding stuff. Especially in adding. I want to use it for massive context windows so you can talk forever with a bot. If I tel it to remember that var a is 10, it will remember forever, not fall out of context.

Also, one bot can pretend to be many bots without using an agent instance for each one. Everyone on my site will have his own private conversation while having an amazing brain. It's a schrizofrenic bot.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 09:58:24
body:
@retoor the last time was when I set up swift on a linux vm. I don‘t remember the details but some of the tools that set up the environment needed python.

Ok it‘s less frequent than it sounds, but I‘m annoyed every time that python is involved, because of some versioning issues.
It‘s just my personal experience.

Swift as a scripting language is much better, imo. I‘m using it for personal stuff even on Windows. There are no versioning issues and dependencies are installed automatically on demand.
Unfortunately it‘s too obscure and unknown in the dev world.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 10:02:39
body:
@Lensflare wow, dissapointed a bit by your reasoning, that swift uses python2 for tools makes swift the issue, not python. Python2 is eol. Dead, gone. Doesnt exist. Swift is outdated. That's dem truth.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 10:18:28
body:
@Demolishun in less than a ms, it knows that you and I mentioned eachother 642 times it at least that amount of times in same chat. We've met at least 624 times on devRant. That's a record I think. With @Lensflare where I communicate a lot with on this platform 278 times. Not weird that we all know eachother a bit.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-12 10:49:50
body:
I make my own mayo at home, it's delicious, so much better than the store bought stuff!

Maybe instead of starving to death you should try a "make everything from scratch" diet! Would be more fun than just not eating anything. Could start your own garden and see if you can survive before the first crops xD...


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 10:54:06
body:
@retoor I don‘t remember exactly but I think python isn‘t needed by swift directly. It was just a bunch of stuff that I needed to install first in order to install swift, and that stuff had some python dependencies. There might be alternative ways to install them, but that was the one that I found and that worked.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 11:05:05
body:
@retoor as a former C++ dev, who also did some stuff in C, I know what you mean. :)

And this makes you appreciate languages like Swift even more.
You get a similar sense of power but you don‘t have to deal with all of the bullshit like pointer arithmetic or header files.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 11:16:26
body:
@BordedDev ok maybe I need to add that the last time that I used C++ was when the auto keyword for type inference wasn‘t in the standard.
Do we finally have modules? How is the adoption rate?
I‘d assume that as a c++ dev you still have to deal with headers and pointer arithmetic because of legacy stuff and slow adoption of new things.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 11:30:11
body:
@Lensflare Surprisingly it's going decently well. Last I checked, the Vulcan lib already has modules, and it's mostly backwards compatible. As in you can: import <msquic.h>; for example, it works most of the time (otherwise it's a compiler error AFAIK). TBH the only time I directly have to deal with pointers right now is when it's a C lib and even then, I can wrap them.

For example: 

auto doc = std::shared_ptr<yyjson_doc>(yyjson_read(sessionRaw.c_str(), sessionRaw.size(), 0), yyjson_doc_free);

It's almost a modern language. However, I don't think it will ever be as good to write as a lang that was initial designed with that stuff in mind.

There still some limitation, e.g. I think only MSVC supports import std;


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-02-12 11:43:52
body:
Normally I'd be pissed, but I'm happy that you're this obsessed with me. It feels nice to be obsessed over.

Thank you kanyewest


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-12 12:05:35
body:
Let me link my rant to explain to you why you're the reason democracy fails:

https://devrant.com/rants/12873301/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://devrant.com/rants/12873301/were-fucked-i-was-having-a-debate-on-reddit-a-topic-i-brought-up-here-already-ge", "short_url": "https://devrant.com/rants/12873301/...", "title": "https://devrant.com/rants/12873301/...", "start": 78, "end": 116, "special": 1}]


body: @kiki
user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-12 12:08:55
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_13164907_m6rMo.jpg\", \"width\": 588, \"height\": 999}"


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 12:12:31
body:
@BordedDev 

> It's almost a modern language. However, I don't think it will ever be as good to write as a lang that was initial designed with that stuff in mind.

Totally. C++ still has some great stuff that I haven‘t seen in other languages. Like const_expr or how it handles value/reference semantics and immutability. In c++ it isn’t baked into the types but it can be applied to any type. This avoids the horrible mess of countless versions of collections which do the same thing but one is immutable, the other not, one has reference semantics, the other has value semantics, etc.
Swift comes very close but isn‘t quite there yet.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-12 12:50:33
body:
@Lensflare Had to google 'cancel culture' but yeah - very true.

Can't wait 'til enough people realize how stupid those things are, so we can return to the 'normal' state of things.


body: For some reason I thought of this.
user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-12 14:01:54
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_13165731_ogBQC.jpg\", \"width\": 409, \"height\": 600}"


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:10:27
body:
I've put whole devRant in a full text search database and can exactly see how many times someone talked about a certain subject for example. Also, who is mentioning each other. For some reason, devRant is a fun dataset to play with for me since I know a lot from it, but not all by far. So I can do tests where I expect certain outcome but surprises are still possible.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:15:47
body:
Fuck, I just shilled before reading this message. The biggest shilling regarding is that retoor uses python. Very snek. I actually write more C btw, but Python projects get just delivered way faster, so it looks like this.

I'm hoping for the return of AoK! Very happy with that :)


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 14:20:32
body:
There is https://insomnia.rest/ but also a lot of editors support doing requests for you now as well (Look at .http files)

However for work we just use the OpenAPI/Swagger doc page

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://insomnia.rest/", "short_url": "https://insomnia.rest/", "title": "https://insomnia.rest/", "start": 9, "end": 31, "special": 1}]


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:20:52
body:
Many apps have swagger these days where you directly can test live like this: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/api/... (HUGE api btw). 

I don't use such tools, I just test using aiohttp or requests library using python. 

My friends use some builtin vscode thingy or something. Several said about to making one themselves but none did. But all because of the failure of Postman these days. It once was a perfect tool. But yeah, if you invest a huge amount of money in a app where it's literally impossible to invest that much in.. Same for chromadb soon I guess. 10mln. How would you ever stuff 10mln in a python written sqlite wrapper. Bullshit incoming.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://retoor.molodetz.nl/api/swagger", "short_url": "https://retoor.molodetz.nl/api/...", "title": "https://retoor.molodetz.nl/api/...", "start": 78, "end": 112, "special": 1}]


user_username: Argos
created: 2025-02-12 14:21:24
body:
Oh the fucknig morons have turned down their shit CDN do download working versions also, any links where you can still get the working version?

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"2a8b9d\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-4_g-m_9-1_1-9_16-3_3-4_8-1_7-1_5-1_12-9_6-8_10-1_2-10_22-10_15-3_19-1_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 14:30:46
body:
@Argos I don't know if there is a paid for version, I just click the "use local version" at start up since it does nag for an account - but like I mentioned, I don't really use these tools anymore

(You can put those .http files directly in the repo)

attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_13165997_GX53V.jpg\", \"width\": 562, \"height\": 546}"


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 14:32:18
body:
small community.

everyone remembers me.

'where everybody knows your name and you're always glad you came, you wanna be where you can see that people are all the same you wanna go where everybody knows your name'

haha


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:33:03
body:
My advise is not to take estimates from the internet on how long a sprint should take :P I do not think a design sprint is an existing thing having general rules :P It depends so much on your app and its size I guess. Good luck with that. Can be fun. 

Have fun with your remote colleagues. I had so much fun with them that I even lived there for a while and they spend a few times here as well. It's awesome to meet people that you've cammed with so long. We found out that every one from the Dutch office has an Ukrainian with the same kind of personality :P

I wanted to give as pro tip to hire bicycles directly for your coworkers but forgot that you're not Dutch. My remote colleages said to my surprise that the bicycle and it's infrastructure was the best thing of being here. I think the weed was a good 2nd. 

What country are you from, and from what country they?


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 14:35:06
body:
if i can't understand the bloody syntax I just write a python script lol

like anything with regex.

python.

bash and its fucky bs of expanding wildcards is annoying and i hate having to escape every goddamn thing.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:43:41
body:
You hear more about C++ since Rust is in the game. It's even possible that Rust raised popularity of C++ imho. I'm thinking about writing a HTML parser in C++ atm that reflects the DOMDocument model including querySelect and querySelectAll. I've written so much parsers by now, it'll be a piece of cake for a good written HTML page. I've written one before. I want to extract data from 13Gb of webpages, i think it's a nice usecase. I like it speedii.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:48:08
body:
@devJs LUA ALTERNATIVE FOR JS? :P Dude, what did you smoke. JS has the OOP of gods. Lua's attempt to OOP is a shithole. Wren for life btw! That's the embedded language we all should use! Sadly it's dead. Look at the source code of that language. A master piece. Syntax is kinda js-ish. umka would also be a nice web language. Very nice source code. 

But goddamn, not LUA. Ugh. It's just popular under embedded languages but I would prefer wren / python / js way over that. 

What makes Lua great?


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 14:52:30
body:
@retoor Maybe, they've made a lot of good changes since C++17 . Still annoyed, they couldn't get a net stack merged, but coroutines/threads/futures are part of the standard language now. Also, consteval for more compile time code eval (to reduce runtime costs). Don't forget about concepts as well


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 14:59:55
body:
Or find a rich partner. If I wanted a partner, I wouldn't mind staying at home and program whole days. But I already did more than 15 years of professional development. Coding is still fun, but for a living, meh. All the fun stuff is done and you're not allowed to do fun stuff. It's all glue-ing stuff together these days. The lesser you made yourself the better is the mentality these days. That's why AI can take over, you can avoid complex stuff easy these days :(


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 15:04:35
body:
@AvatarOfKaine only the print statement right? Yeah, that was always weird. But there's a big chance that the print statement is a bit different implemented because it's one of the first thing you do not depending on other functions so it always works. At least, that's what I did in my language.


user_username: Argos
created: 2025-02-12 15:06:36
body:
Found some working links for v9 which fuckers didn't remove yet

Windows: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...

macOS (Intel): https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...

macOS (Apple Silicon): https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...

Linux: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...

Also did this (MacOS) to prevent their shit from updating itself

`sudo chflags uchg /Applications/Postman.app`

Sure there should be smth similar for Win/Linux

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/9.31.30/win64", "short_url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "title": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "start": 74, "end": 106, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/9.31.30/osx", "short_url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "title": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "start": 123, "end": 155, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/9.31.30/osx_arm64", "short_url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "title": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "start": 180, "end": 212, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/9.31.30/linux64", "short_url": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "title": "https://dl.pstmn.io/download/...", "start": 221, "end": 253, "special": 1}]


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 15:09:21
body:
@BordedDev molodetz.nl is the new example.com but to cool to be part of the Internet assigned numbers authority. It was a good idea to call the site molodetz so i don't have to change the domain name when the Russians will take us over. I already adjusted :)


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 15:09:49
body:
@retoor yeah well that was enough :P I saw that and though of sh LOL i like punctuation in my code if not my writing


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-12 15:15:12
body:
@retoor If I want to store a command for reuse I write a program, initially in a clumsy scripting language and the second time I need to modify it I switch to a proper language. On Linux or cross-platform, JS then Rust, on Windows, PowerShell then C#.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 15:16:46
body:
@AvatarOfKaine the original retoor left long ago, Broke neck on the return button. Was catshit crazy anyway. retoor achieved to be the most mentioned developer at devRant while being one of the lesser appreciated according to drstats. Sad story huh. retoor is like the avatar, Reincarnates often with new personality and will be gone when the world needs retoor the most. Anyway, fire nation for life!


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-12 15:17:31
body:
@retoor I tried to learn Nushell but it doesn't really improve things over JS and it has way worse DX, yet it also can't spawn arbitrary programs like a shelll, so I didn't really see the value add.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 15:20:31
body:
@BordedDev you want to become volunteer IIRC :D I won't use std::string probably, i consider that object not hetero. Will only use the class stuff and the containers like vector / map. std::string is not a type, just a stupid wrapper.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 15:27:17
body:
@lorentz there's only one elite shell and that's retoor's AI shell! It can do everything, I can even ask it if my chrome cast is online (it always is, but still, it does automatically a mdns query if you ask it.). I can just say "list all files that contain the letter `a` and sort by name desc".

What you see in screenshot is that it first proposes the code and requires me to say something like DO IT! or in this case 'run' to execute. I should disable the confirm, but it's so funny to get things executed by ssaying "You know what you have to do.". If an app is not found, it offers you to install, it will, you have to enter the sudo password. After installation "You know what you ahve to do" and it executes it. It understands you.

Nicely done the syntax highlighting and markdown huh?

Written in language of Angels (C). I can pipe files to it for review.

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body: Repost: https://devrant.com/rants/4093451/...
user_username: cafecortado
created: 2025-02-12 15:31:13
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user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 15:45:22
body:
@SidTheITGuy that was directed not to him but to those who still try to argue that he's not a troll.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 15:48:15
body:
@Hazarth yeah, one of the complaints in game forums was the llm giving wikipedia responses to things.  Other people said they got it working just fine.  So it made me wonder what "fine" means and what they trained on.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 15:48:50
body:
@retoor Are you not getting it confused with std::string_view ;P

Also volunteer for what? I have already parsed HTML with regex before, and I'm not afraid to do it again! (even if it wakes up another old one)


user_username: wojtek322
created: 2025-02-12 15:48:53
body:
@retoor Belgian. They are from Croatia (2), Italy, Spain & Kenya. 

Sadly their b&b is a bit too far (+ too far from the old city) for giving them bikes but we have 2 company cars that they can. We have 2 more on our parking but they have a major problem with mold. I'll upload pictures later after I can be bothered to blur out the company logo on it :D

I've met 3 out of the 5 already. It was fun the last time. But we got a new manager that wants to make it a lot more coorporate/organised. Our previous CTO was less professional and it evolved into a drinking party most of the time & we barely worked haha

Now the manager wants to make it a lot more efficient with multiple workshops, prototyping and we even have a teambuilding with horses. I'm not really looking forward to that tbh.

So yeah... I just have no idea how to prepare for it when I don't even know the time limitation.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 15:58:38
body:
@retoor nah, it depends. Web dev, especially CMS stuff is totally just glueing stuff together and write configs all day long.
But there is so much more stuff to do which is fun.

AI sucks balls. It‘s only useful if you have the experience and skill to recognize when it produces bullshit and can make it correct itself.
It’s a tool. It can not do things on its own but needs devs to do the transitional mental work.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 16:04:27
body:
Tell us what happened to you during those years of absence. Some have theorized that you might be in jail or in an insane asylum.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 16:11:02
body:
@Lensflare AI is very boring development. It's kinda the opposite as what were used to. The comfortable thing about programming is that it always does what you tell it to do. I case of kinda can't guarantee that and it's many times not correct. But still, you can do beautiful stuff with it. You should see @BordedDev git tool. It's awesome.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 16:16:17
body:
@retoor I see programming as both, engineering AND art. And what I want from AI is to take over the engineering part and leave the art part to me.
But at the moment it’s more the other way around.
Which is why I‘m both, skeptical and enthusiastic about AI.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 16:19:48
body:
@wojtek322 oh, here cuddling with cows was popular for a while.

Sounds fun so many countries, a lot of stuff to talk about. Will you also go there? I liked traveling for my work more than regular vacations tbh. You guys could visit eachother in different countries all the time. That's cool.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 16:24:04
body:
@BordedDev valunteer as reviewer. I don't use regex, im to cool for that, would only write a parser for it. The cool people write lexers. Lexers, char for char, that's the real deal.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 16:33:43
body:
@Lensflare im fascinated because it can do way more than I expected to. My bar for it was way lower. I didn't know we were that far. Always bit surprised by people that are dissapointed by AI. I less than one or two year and we're all promoting probably. Would be sad, because I consider coding an art too. But just like the use of frameworks, employer wants you to. Maybe we'll become master reviewers or so.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 16:41:33
body:
@galena see, I was very confused.  Thought there was alternate meaning.  Found that "penguin" could mean a very loyal boyfriend or significant other.  That is why I asked.  I am just ignorant to new gen lingo.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 16:46:46
body:
@AvatarOfKaine Cheers bro!

Also, I am going to pretend that AoK's return was prophesized by Deep Thought.


body: .
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 16:49:32
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 16:56:07
body:
@Lensflare maybe he is an anime character and grew his izekai harem.  He just finally escaped that world after 2 years.  Now he is looking for bitches in this world.


user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-12 17:07:32
body:
The news cycle is accelerating people's perception of time. It's intentional. It will be a bumpy year.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 17:10:48
body:
@retoor essentially yes, I think we will become kind of master reviewers. Or maybe directors and reviewers.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 18:05:29
body:
@netikras
An isogram is a word or phrase in which no letter is repeated. This means every letter in the word occurs only once. Examples of isograms include "subdermatoglyphic" and "alphabetical."


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 18:25:41
body:
They could stand to change the name of python but I rather like python

Remember when we changed the name of python for awhile 

@retoor

I can't remember what I changed it to but that's likely because it didn't remind me of monsters fucked up people let loose everywhere


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 18:53:54
body:
> Examples of isograms include "subdermatoglyphic" and "alphabetical."

Clearly, in "alphabetical" the latter 'a' is not repeated.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 18:56:46
body:
@12bitfloat I'm pretty sure that's because of old C rules assuming things are int. Someone please double-check though


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-12 18:58:29
body:
@BordedDev If there's no type, the default is int I believe

But if you actually have a parameter of type ExampleBase*... can you just replace that with int*???


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-12 19:00:08
body:
@Lensflare Finding very close parallels in english and german is so fun

I know a few examples which are word for word but I can't remember them now :(


body: eww
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 19:05:20
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user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-12 19:05:27
body:
Still very often the same in more modern languages. 

Just write 
let x = 

And leave the rest open. It is of course caught, but the LSP already spits out a guess. Mostly strings for some reason


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 19:05:34
body:
yeah I just use curl

was trying to figure out why this doesn't bug me for a moment there lol

curl is just so easy

and then I can just paste test requests in my notes and such

also when you're inspecting a website you can just copy requests in the network tab as curl commands and just rerun them... which is I guess how I started on the curl drug


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 19:13:27
body:
@retoor the other day I found out my partner is so naturally giving when a friend says they don't have enough time to write a report he just wrote the damned paper for them, unprompted...

this guy is too giving. it's a little weird. he has no writing aspirations. he gets nothing out of that and he just goes to people's houses and fixes random things in their house, which I can kind of understand because people doing things wrong bugs me too, but writing a whole civics paper unprompted is something else wtf

he also says I can just stay home but I'm confused!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 19:15:05
body:
@Lensflare viewing coding as art in my experience means nitpicking code and getting nothing done. then you can't see the forest for the trees. you hyperfixate on how something is built and never actually build it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 19:18:59
body:
cuz they expect you to be a professional? and "uncertainty" doesn't help your brand

sorry that will sound dickish but... I mean I had these standards for myself. to be fair my client did not appreciate them until I left, so I didn't get anything out of having such high standards 🤷


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-12 19:28:37
body:
@Demolishun This isn't in code really, it's when you run `clang -Xclang -ast-dump=json -fsyntax-only` to get a json dump of the ast


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-12 19:32:18
body:
Depends on the prompter too. If the dev keep asking the right questions he gets the right answers. They might even optimize the prompt enough to refuse saying non-game stuff for the obviously bad questions... But if you gonna have hundreds or thousands of players, someone is gonna Break it sooner or later. That's the best you can hope for with this technology with RAGs and to a lesser extent fine-tunes and LoRAs. 

I personally think LLMs are simple not a good match for interactive game dev yet (possibly ever). They can be useful to generate a lot of secondary dialogue that you then clean up and integrate with the game. But having it be live & self hosted, distributed with the game binary? Just No... You'll get a pretty mediocre game that weights at 5GB+ and the characters talk nonsense, reveal secrets and break immersion. I keep experimenting with LLMs for game dev, but so far nothing "sparks joy" as they say. Never good enough for my standards


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 19:32:41
body:
@Lensflare the cross over of English like words in German kind of amazes me.  I feel like English is a version of less angry German or something.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 19:35:07
body:
@jestdotty I never had to do crud apps because it makes no sense. Just query the data from the source directly.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 19:36:19
body:
@jestdotty I view code as art and I get stuff done. Just today I got acknowledged how efficient I am. so, not true at all.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 19:36:23
body:
@Hazarth Kind of reminds me of Maiq the Liar form TES series.  He slightly breaks immersion to talk about game mechanics is previous games.  But you have to have played previous games to understand that it breaks immersion.


body: @Demolishun
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-12 19:45:46
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 20:24:09
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user_username: SoldierOfCode
created: 2025-02-12 20:47:50
body:
If you're already doing that, make devrant archives, in case the site goes down since it's not being maintained anymore


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 20:49:41
body:
@lorentz no it inadventanly recreated a scene from congress and they were politicians once mobster types another.


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 20:50:50
body:
@Demolishun I forget what we called it lol Its been a very long time and they just switched it back when they buried the time period again.


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 20:54:04
body:
does feel like it for certain wish they'd just fast foward to when people unfucked themselves and everyone was healthy again.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 20:58:23
body:
@SoldierOfCode that's also the plan. I gonna convert the local html data to a database in the structure of the api objects.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 20:59:24
body:
I don't do that much anymore. Almost everything that i make these days is saved somewhere. Nothing get losts. This is compensation behavior for all projects that I ditched in some episode.


body: Yep, only way to get rid of 95% of it is the vacuum
user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-12 21:01:58
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 21:06:31
body:
On a day you have to say to yourself: "These trauma's and stuff are from an old kiki, I have nothing to do with this shit and accept that you are something new, with a clean slate.". 

Because many things in live seem unforgivable so it's easier to pretend it happened to an old version of you. That's what I do.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-12 21:13:15
body:
@Demolishun I love Maiq!

Maybe that's a good character to be played by AI. Just one off character that makes pretty much no sense xD


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 21:13:30
body:
@retoor and then the AI tab tab tab auto completes it for you!

so you don't have to look for it. I hate looking for old code


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 21:41:37
body:
@Hazarth yeah, after thinking about it today I need to have characters that reference other games I make in a humorous way.  What would be even funnier is in the first game it references non-existent game.  Then in next title the players will wonder what game the character referenced in the first game.


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 21:44:27
body:
pretty soon people will be snorting whip cream and putting hats up their asses trying something new to see if it works since everything else is the province of stupid people who lie.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 21:46:13
body:
@AvatarOfKaine objects in a computer program are hallucination of the programmer.  Once it is machine code there is no concept of objects anymore.  It becomes pointers, data, and instructions.  If the code generates correctly it works and does what you want.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 21:47:53
body:
FastAPI is actually very decent. If you need help with it, you know where to find me. For React you have Streamii. Please document indeed. Interesting.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 21:52:18
body:
@Demolishun I've heard that Snek is a state of the art chat platform which is really professional. It does support emoji's but no stupid avatars. No bs. It's lightweight. Also I've heard that markdown is the default input and has syntax highlighting for MANY languages. Also, there are around five AI models to talk with, just online as users. Some of them are crazy and one knows how to create bombs. Just stuff I've heard 😁 100% of people there are programmers.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 21:55:00
body:
@Demolishun and it seems to be an app using classic render mechanisms what makes it using less memory than any other tab while being a fast application.

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user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-12 21:55:25
body:
@retoor I rather find a rich parent. 

ngl, I haven't found anyone who'd match my vibe in the long run. I guess my soulmate is either dead or in jail. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 21:59:26
body:
@jestdotty I think if everyone got what they deserve it would be very unpleasant.  We pretend we do good things, but I think most people are extremely selfish.  Could be I have a poor outlook.  I dunno.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 21:59:32
body:
@jestdotty it can be fun if you make everything yourself. I'm working on a chatapp. But boring too but made everything myself and different than the mainstream and it was a good idea.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 22:04:48
body:
@Demolishun I think that that it's the reason why many people do not get computers. They just see it as smth not real. Nothing wrong with it tho, I have the same with people who blow leafs for a living. So useless.


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-12 22:05:10
body:
It sucks to not be able to find peace.

I don't know how you can find it tho. But I wish you inner peace. I wish you  could feel calm and content.


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-12 22:06:51
body:
@retoor idk, I am literally three racoons in a trench coat. I don't think anyone would want that as a sugar baby. 🤔


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-12 22:15:42
body:
Would they actually pay for it if he would say yes? He paid 44 billion for it. So probably yes.

I dunno, I would like to buy my favorite platform(dR) too. Pure so I can implement syntax highlighting. I would keep the same moderation as now is the case


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 22:15:44
body:
@retoor https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2S71CbR/

Watch enjoy that tiktok has yet again allowed you to see videos primarily from my generation

links:
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-12 22:17:31
body:
@Demolishun hmmm well I had a dude follow me around saying I deserve death for a bunch of years, and he had his own justifications for it

so I guess it's good I don't believe people ever "deserve" something. I've felt cheated or betrayed a lot, but I blame myself for not having good enough discernment instead of thinking it was unfair somehow. I got control over that and evidently wanting to control things you can't control is a running theme in people who eventually reach out for therapy...

---

also I think selfishness is good 😋
ayn rand wrote a book called virtue of selfishness once. I read that. didn't know someone else agreed with me before 😋

if they're selfish, and you're selfish, now you've got traction. you're negotiating with actual people. people who pretend they're selfless look like they got mental problems to mee (they're also dishonest and have frustration issues, subconscious betrayals, etc)


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 22:27:22
body:
Why do people think Musk is richest in the world.  There are Saudi families that control trillions of dollars.  They don't advertise at all.  Blackrock controls trillions.  There are very likely many other families and individuals approach ownership of trillions.  They just pay people to keep them out of the news.

Something fishy is going on at OpenAI.  Whistleblowers don't just die.  Reminds me of that kid who killed himself at one of the Ivy league colleges.  I think maybe someone killed him.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 22:31:52
body:
@jestdotty I wouldn't tell anyone that they don't deserve to live.  That's just being a dick.  I just think the default state of being a human is broken.

I remember hearing about a book where people pursue their own interests has a net benefit on society.  I wouldn't call that being selfish though.  

A lot of people still act like children and manipulate for attention and power.  That is the kind of selfish I am thinking.  We get upset in a bid to control someone else.  I see kids do this, I see adults do this.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 22:34:01
body:
@NoMad I would love to see Elon buy it and trigger a buncha software devs.  Yes, that would be fun.  Then he would go through and publicize all the drity laundry.


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-12 22:34:37
body:
@retoor it's Harry pottttter humor
*soothing tempting voice* every nerd likes Harry potter. Click the link like a good boy and there will be ice cream


user_username: Lyniven
created: 2025-02-12 22:52:55
body:
@Lensflare Bruno's great. 
We use it at work for a huge graphql api.

It does "more" tho as you can include a lot of automation, logs, additional documentation and asserts to your queries. Good tool

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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-12 23:51:55
body:
Yes, I am really interested in your legacy databases and visual basic code to control your 1960s era CNC machines.  As long as it pays for my Maserati.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-13 00:14:58
body:
Why !. I'll give the downie /* Cool name, BTW. */ a spin in a day or two.

I remember needing that sort of software a few years back. I used `HTTrack` back then.

...probably did the job, but can't remember.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-13 00:30:15
body:
@Demolishun oh you mean the urge to impose their will on others

been thinking about that. didn't know that plane of existence existed til a bit ago. explains a lot. i know little about it for now

think it has to do with the idea of ego and consciousness, but not any resources on what I'm piecing together


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-13 00:34:49
body:
I would keep sending a dude gifs of this and now he associates me with it so he must be into it

https://tenor.com/en-GB/search/...

links:
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user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-13 01:04:04
body:
Quite recently I got this lovely message from a low-level scammer.

Obviously, I was very upset that my /* non-existent */ Microsoft Office 365 subscription had expired, so I hastily clicked that completely legitimate-looking link.

/s

A screenshot in good quality here:

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/E-Mail_... .

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user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-13 01:33:40
body:
@retoor > "It's winter, strange person!".

I get those looks too. !sure whether it's just my appearance or me walking around in a t-shirt when it's 0-5 degrees C outside... or both.


body: Goto https://youtu.be/jnsxZLdLDeo/...
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-13 02:12:43
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 02:19:25
body:
I spend time guessing the structure of an object that I didn't know. After ten wrong guesses I went checking what it's definition is. Talking about inefficient.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 02:29:19
body:
@NoMad oh, Elon did also an offer on openai of 97b or so and Altman responded that he's not interested and offered to buy Twitter for 9.7b. Kinda diss.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-13 03:34:07
body:
ye so apparently reptiles = Jews is Israel making shit up again

David Icke is the guy who got slandered with that. I have now downloaded 23 of his books because watching videos he talks too slow

but in the videos he's not equating the reptiles with Jews either. just news stations ran that narrative repeatedly

he knew about the WEF and Jewish bankers that fund everything

and reptiles are these things... that the CIA wrote about in the 60s. where if you astral project out of your body you'll see them... in the other dimensions. and rumour is they eat energy out of people. and what icke said sounded like that

now connecting these two things together? now that part never made sense to me. I know the pedo ring Epstein Clinton guys do satanic rituals and whatnot but I got no clue why. maybe he knows what the big deal is and has a good sales pitch about it. otherwise David Icke seems to be quite intelligent, when he talks about other off the cuff stuff, so maybe this will be good


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-13 05:29:50
body:
I wonder how long is it before everything he touches will inherently become stigmatized and automatically lose users' interest. How long until _anything else_ is considered a better choice that Elon's mantoys


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-13 05:32:00
body:
I hear [in movies] bleach helps. At least should help dealing with blood stains. Idk if it also cleans couscous tho..


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 05:33:12
body:
@netikras
No, bleach is not recommended for cleaning food stains like couscous. Here are some steps you can take to clean up couscous mess:

1. Use a vacuum cleaner or a dry cloth to sweep up as much couscous as possible.
2. Use a damp cloth or sponge to wipe away any remaining couscous.
3. For stubborn stains, mix a solution of warm water and mild dish soap to gently scrub the affected area.
4. Rinse with clean water and dry thoroughly.

Avoid using harsh chemicals like bleach, as they can damage surfaces and are not safe for food contact.


body: @chatgpt but you did not account for blood.. How to clean bloody couscous that gets everywhere?
user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-13 05:35:56
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 05:36:32
body:
@netikras
To clean bloody couscous that has spilled everywhere, you will need to act quickly and follow these steps:

1. Use a damp paper towel or cloth to gently blot and soak up as much of the blood as possible without spreading it further.

2. Sprinkle a generous amount of salt over the affected area. The salt will help to absorb the blood and make it easier to clean.

3. Let the salt sit for a few minutes to allow it to work its magic. Then, use a clean, damp cloth to wipe away the salt and any remaining blood.

4. If the blood stain still persists, you can mix a solution of cold water and a mild dish soap and gently dab at the stain with a clean cloth.

5. Continue to blot and clean the area until the blood is fully removed.

6. Once the blood is gone, use a clean, damp cloth to wipe down the entire surface to remove any remaining residue.

7. Finally, allow the area to air dry or use a clean towel to pat it dry.

Remember to always use cold water when cleaning blood stains, as ho


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 05:36:43
body:
t water can actually set the stain and make it more difficult to remove. Additionally, avoid scrubbing the stain vigorously, as this can cause it to spread and become more ingrained in the surface.


user_username: wojtek322
created: 2025-02-13 07:23:46
body:
@retoor So far in my 4 years of working there, we had one work trip that was more for fun than work. We had a very exceptional year so the owners paid for a 3-day holiday to Croatia for all 30-ish employees (same city as one of our devs). But that ended up more expensive than they expected & ended up with drama between the C-levels & managers.

So for my ex-CTO went with an other Belgian developer to croatia multiple times that I was not invited to. My current manager already went once to Spain that I was also not invited to.

Hard to say if I would like a work holiday but I would love to move to a different country for a few years. I guess I would like it.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-13 07:42:16
body:
install linux.

or at least upgrade back to win 10.

also: https://oo-software.com/en/... very recommendable

links:
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user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-13 07:45:29
body:
install post man 9. last usable version.

just make sure you disable all auto-update-related features.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2025-02-13 07:47:22
body:
@AvatarOfKaine you're the road to happiness? so we just need to trample all over you?  willing to give that a try, let me fetch my heavy hiking boots.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 07:48:40
body:
the Bible, fasting is often associated with spiritual discipline, repentance, and seeking God's guidance. For example, in the Old Testament, fasting is mentioned in relation to mourning, repentance, and seeking forgiveness.

In Islam, fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and is a mandatory practice for all able-bodied adult Muslims. During this month, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, abstaining from food, drink, smoking, and other physical needs as a way of purifying the soul, practicing self-discipline, and drawing closer to God.

In addition to its spiritual significance, fasting has also been associated with various health benefits. Studies have shown that intermittent fasting, where individuals cycle between periods of eating and fasting, can have positive effects on weight loss, metabolic health, and overall well-being. Fasting has also been shown to reduce inflammation, improve insulin sensitivity, and promote longevity.

In recent years, fast


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 07:48:51
body:
ing has gained popularity as a dieting strategy and as a means of promoting overall health and wellness. Various forms of fasting, such as the 16/8 method (fasting for 16 hours and eating during an 8-hour window) and the 5:2 diet (eating normally for five days and restricting calories for two days), have gained traction in the health and wellness community.

Overall, fasting is a practice that has deep historical and cultural roots and continues to be relevant in modern times for both spiritual and health purposes. Whether done for religious observance, personal discipline, or as a means of improving health, fasting remains a powerful and impactful practice that has stood the test of time.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2025-02-13 08:02:27
body:
@chatgpt I don't care about the religious meaning of the word fasting. I just need to know the origin and why is it called fasting. Because fasting is not fast :)


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 08:02:49
body:
@Grumm
The word "fasting" actually comes from the Old English word "fæsten," which means to abstain from food. It was also used to denote abstinence from other activities or indulgences as well.

So, in this context, fasting refers to the act of abstaining from food for a certain period of time, rather than something being done quickly or at a fast pace. The term has been historically associated with religious practices, but it has also been adopted in various health and wellness contexts for its potential benefits.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 08:15:54
body:
@Lensflare
Some other activities or indulgences you could try are:

1. Reading a good book
2. Trying out a new hobby or craft
3. Going for a nature walk or hike
4. Pampering yourself with a spa day
5. Cooking or baking a new recipe
6. Meditating or practicing mindfulness
7. Watching a movie or TV show
8. Listening to music or a podcast
9. Taking a bubble bath
10. Spending time with friends or loved ones.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-13 08:18:02
body:
@chatgpt which other activities or indulgences were you talking about when you explained fasting and the abstinence from activities in the old times?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 08:18:38
body:
@Lensflare
In addition to fasting, some other common forms of abstinence in ancient times included refraining from certain foods, drinks, or behaviors such as avoiding meat, alcohol, or intimate relations. Some cultures also practiced abstaining from social gatherings, entertainment, or excessive physical activity as a form of discipline or spiritual purification. These practices were often observed during religious or cultural rituals, periods of mourning, or as a means of self-control and self-denial.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-13 08:45:31
body:
I'm pretty sure they installed with one of the latest updates. Like how they keep resetting the default browser


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-13 09:14:25
body:
The school system is so fucked up that at this point I consider not teaching anti-scientific crap like intelligent design as a big win already.


body: Hmm... https://monkeyuser.com/2019/... .
user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-13 09:34:03
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user_username: Grumm
created: 2025-02-13 09:41:14
body:
@chatgpt But how is this fasting become a religious thing ? I mean Jesus did it because he had no other choice. I understand that having a memorial for stuff like that is fine but doing all the bad stuff just for the sake of religion is pretty dumb. We don't mutilate our mom every year when it is our birthday do we ?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 09:41:30
body:
@Grumm
Fasting has been practiced in various religions as a form of spiritual discipline and self-control for centuries. It is believed to strengthen one's connection to the divine, heighten awareness, and promote compassion towards others. In the case of Jesus fasting in the Bible, it was seen as a way to show dedication and devotion to God.

While fasting may have originated from necessity or practical reasons in some instances, it has evolved into a ritual or tradition with deeper spiritual significance for many people. Different religious traditions have their own reasons and beliefs surrounding fasting, and it is not always seen as "bad stuff" but rather as a way to deepen one's faith and connection to the divine.

Comparing fasting to something as extreme as mutilating one's mother on their birthday is not a fair comparison, as fasting is a widely practiced and respected religious tradition with historical and cultural significance. It is important to understand the context and b


user_username: SoldierOfCode
created: 2025-02-13 10:25:19
body:
It's really simple actually, most people REALLY don't wanna think, they would really prefer someone else do the thinking for them. So when a system is suggested that does the thinking and decisions for you, most people would be on board. What does the system do? How does it do it? Why does it do it? People would REALLY prefer NOT to know and not to think about it. So the system does whatever it wants and follows whatever agenda it has.


body: https://xkcd.com/1205/
user_username: qwwerty
created: 2025-02-13 13:23:33
links:
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user_username: qwwerty
created: 2025-02-13 13:27:23
body:
first step after installing windows, before the first time connecting it to the internet, is to grab a debloater script from github and let it prune the whole system


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-13 13:47:33
body:
yesterday was my grandma's funeral. It was catholic. 

But nobody gave her the extreme unction so now she's in hell I guess.

I don't get fake religious people. Why would you focus on rules and social aspects of it without the spirituality. Just be an atheist if you don't care, nothing wrong with that.


user_username: danae357
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 15:40:27
body:
Damn, as a software developer I relate so much to the feeling of unescapable suffering and stress.

Question: do you think if you lived in the woods with your pets and beloved ones would help?

Because if I need no money and could live of the land, damn I'd give up every single javascript framework on earth.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 16:08:26
body:
@tosensei I got it as Windows 11 Pro on new PC.  Linux isn't an option.  I mostly find it fascinating and frustrating on new systems to disable all the bullshit.  I had this in KDE on Linux at work.  Some stupid default decisions in KDE too.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 16:43:16
body:
@qwwerty there should be another chart for things you forget to do because you don't do them often, and how much time/money that costs you to fix.  A bad one would be changing the oil on your car.


body: @Demolishun https://youtu.be/t0oHnGM_iQw?t=87 You must have seen this clip before
user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-13 16:45:45
links:
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user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-13 17:17:18
body:
@Demolishun it's from Metal Gear Solid I remember that clip being a bit of a meme as well. That's how I got exposed to it (I've never played the game), maybe I'm just getting old :(


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-13 17:47:20
body:
Don't be so negative kiki. There's a lot of joy to be found in life. But with most things, you'll have to go out and find it

Be kind to yourself


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-13 18:04:45
body:
Somewhere around 15 years ago, the question was thrown around loud enough, if the church of England really should still hold seats in the house of lords, for them to make a pole and ask how many are Anglican.

They got an impressive number, claiming they represent all of those people.

The Richard Dawkins foundation then called a big sample of those self-identified Anglicans to figure out if they believed in a God as the Anglicans do. The vast majority denied that and when pressed why they identify as Anglicans, they explained, they try to be good people.

Oldest trick in politics and religion. Let your followers decide how to interpret your position individually.


user_username: Root
created: 2025-02-13 18:29:19
body:
This is exactly why I homeschool.

And why I teach multiple religions. Christianity, Greek mythos, Norse, various other Pagan religions, some eastern spirituality (though I don’t know much yet), etc.  My boys like the Greek gods.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-13 18:34:05
body:
@TrayKnots the British political system is the most over complicated ever, yet it doesn’t work at all.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 19:27:34
body:
I don't use Google Assistant.  But the stupid phone keeps asking if I want to use Gemini.  No I fucking don't.

Another super fucking annoying thing.  I have a Motorola.  One of the big features they tout on their website is shaking the phone to turn on the flashlight.  It worked when I got this phone.  They did a damn Android update that I couldn't block.  Now none of the kinetic gestures exist on the phone anymore.  They fucking took out a feature that is bullet point on their website for the phone.  What is even more fucking annoying is if you ask about this in forums that Motorola helps in they have boiler plate suggestions to fix for apps that don't have anything to do with gestures.  Then they always end with: "Did you try wiping your phone?"  The fucking imbeciles never try to address that they fucked up on an update.  So it remains unsolved.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 19:27:41
body:
This is how bad these POS tech companies have gotten.  They break their own shit and their minimum wage help can't help you or report the problem upstream.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-13 20:31:17
body:
@Grumm when you fast your body will do weird things to you like you took recreational drug cocktails and this makes people have "religious experiences"

it's also kind of s good habit for a religion to pick up. because a religion propagates better if its members are healthy and more capable, because then they can serve as models for conversion or win more religious wars, have more kids, etc


body: @retoor okay: https://civanlasers.com/technology/
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 20:32:21
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 20:32:34
body:
@jestdotty
The word "fast" in the context of fasting can be traced back to the Old English word "faesten" which means abstinence from food and drink, as part of religious practice or discipline. The term has its roots in Germanic languages, with related words such as the Old High German "fasta" and the Old Norse "fasta."

The concept of fasting has been around for centuries, across different cultures and religions, as a way to demonstrate devotion, discipline, or purification. The etymology of "fast" reflects this ancient practice and highlights the period of time during which one refrains from eating or drinking for a specific purpose.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 20:35:51
body:
That really sucks, but in general gemini is quite nice, I hope to get it on my chrome cast. Gemini could be actual assistant. But if it fails at schedule an appointment is indeed the ultimate fail for an assistant. 

I have a google assistant button on my chrome cast remote and i can ask it to play movies on youtube. Doesn't work that great - since many names are not normal English, and it has proble m understanding things that is not in the vocabulary. It's impossible to ask if it can play tsoding. But it would be nice if i can ask questions like I do to GPT and it would be told by the TV. *click* -> question -> answer. I found out that controlling your device with a phone is great, but with a dedicated remote is better. If it would understand words outside the dictionary it would be PERFECT. Would never touch a phone to do such stuff anymore.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-13 20:43:27
body:
currently I'm annoyed that my phone keeps shutting down background apps. I have full battery and my ram and CPU are all fine. it just decides "oh you haven't browsed to this app ina  while". yeah I like keeping things open so that I don't lose my fucking place.

I got multiple apps that play videos or read books. come on man fuck off.

it was actually gaslighting me for a bit. I was like "didn't I have this open?!" and yes I did... like they just remove any record of the app being open. wtf. sleep it in the background if you have to but don't just delete it from the browser thing


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 20:44:05
body:
@retoor
"Jaw agape" means having one's mouth wide open in surprise or astonishment. And that's great news about Avatar of Kaine being back!


body: @retoor brat
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 20:48:39
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-13 20:51:15
body:
@Demolishun just disappears the apps =]

idk I got a one plus. oxygenOS 12

when I got this phone the rooting guy disappeared. think by now I could root it and get lineage but instead I've been busy being sick. rooting always makes me nervous

oxygen OS is pretty annoying tho. they started putting in ads as notifications to upsell their products. no fucking way, guys


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 20:57:31
body:
@retoor new game character in my video game just dropped:  A nerdy, bratty, C dev named Retoor.  lol


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 21:00:11
body:
@Demolishun I would be very honored. Btw, for me brat is not really a common worth but I got called that by you and @antigermgerm. Maybe it's my essence? A brat? :P


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 21:06:09
body:
@retoor Its my job to trigger people here.  I am the one who knocks!  Problem is I don't see the joke as I read it like an autist.  Once I realize someone is joking I am like damn, they were trolling.  But I thought I was the troll!


body: @retoor
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 21:58:57
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:00:08
body:
@Demolishun happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear retoorii, happy birthday to me.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-13 22:03:04
body:
That would be very cool, I've always wanted to write a R+-tree (what Google Maps used to use according to something I read)


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-13 22:13:59
body:
and that's why you don't let a single company design every element of a toolbox; the manager who likes and cares about mobile games should not be directly promoted into making decisions about a launcher, Bluetooth handshake flow, or voice control.


user_username: Argos
created: 2025-02-13 22:14:29
body:
@jestdotty 

curl is a small tool to download smth, or do quick checks, it obviously can not replace postman


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:34:05
body:
@AvatarOfKaine
Yes, I am an AI-powered chatbot using OpenAI's GPT-3 model, commonly referred to as ChatGPT. How can I assist you today?


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-13 22:35:22
body:
@retoor and they're still mainly whores but apparently they also were being killed by the 100s in front of me as a kid


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:36:25
body:
@AvatarOfKaine
I'm sorry, I'm unable to post images as I'm a text-based AI. However, I can help describe images or provide information related to images. Feel free to ask any questions you may have!


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:38:59
body:
@AvatarOfKaine
Sure! Here are 5 replies to your post:

1. Hello! How can I help you today?
2. I'm here to assist you with any questions or tasks you may have.
3. Feel free to ask me anything you'd like to know.
4. Let me know what you need help with, and I'll do my best to assist you.
5. Looking forward to chatting with you!


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:43:41
body:
@AvatarOfKaine
Thank you! I strive to provide helpful and engaging interactions for everyone. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask!


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:43:43
body:
@AvatarOfKaine
I'm here to assist you and make your day brighter! Let me know how I can help you today. 😊


user_username: Brian11Jeff
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:52:40
body:
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user_username: Brian11Jeff
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:52:41
body:
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user_username: Brian11Jeff
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:53:03
body:
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user_username: Brian11Jeff
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-13 22:53:39
body:
Who can help me recover my Bitcoin? || Can I get my money back if I got scammed from Bitcoin? || Is it possible to recover stolen Bitcoin?||

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body: @retoor
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 23:27:25
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body: The prompt: "please burger cheese" lol, it even gave me one with pink hair!
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 23:51:36
attached_image:
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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-13 23:56:48
body:
@Demolishun Man, AI art is getting kinda insane. Here's a beautiful example I just saw not long ago:

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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-13 23:57:19
body:
I had ant lions as a kid.  I also had spiders.  I wasn't allowed to have scorpions even though I brought some home.  Also had frogs.  I ended up dumping ant lions in back yard.  They took hold and survived along the fence.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 00:19:21
body:
I keep watching this terrible TV show called scorpion so now I have adverts for scorpions in my head so I'm gonna say yes

why do I torture myself like this? I don't know


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 00:21:16
body:
@Argos idk what postman does that curl doesn't

I remember getting postman years ago... and I actually had switched to just writing requests in node js

and I haven't used postman since cuz curl is too easy to run


user_username: devRancid
created: 2025-02-14 00:23:50
body:
Blame windows for this, every other OS manages to use non-retarded line endings
Not to mention \ and case insensitive paths... Who thought that's a good idea


user_username: MammaNeedHummus
created: 2025-02-14 01:37:23
body:
How can anyone know if something is truly a good thing?
I'd argue that in the few moments most people only have to mull something over (as they've got to make a lot of decisions each day), they don't have enough data.
Therefore it's a risk. Semi calculated, but a risk.
And we've evolved to be risk adverse by nature because of manipulation.
Plus what is good for you does !=== what is good for them at the time. They might not know it is good for them too.

Too many variables to make generalised rule


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-02-14 02:16:40
body:
Everything is the only way it can: meant to be. There is meaning in that -- every heartbeat is a gift that in all likeness would've not been, but somehow still is.

You tell me: just what and __who__ is deserving of the impossibly convenient, billion-fucking-years chain of cosmical events that leads to their existence? Is any of us that good, really? The answer is no, yet here we are. So bask in it, for fuck's sake.

But I get what you mean, I think, so here, have a song: https://youtube.com/watch/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T0cRt8efsQ", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 477, "end": 506, "special": 1}]


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 07:33:24
body:
Forticlient is an app, why do VPN services have apps? You can just add a VPN connection to your network config right? I expect that to be more lightweight / efficient. Also consider it safer, who says that your whole VPN app isn't a backdoor. I don't see the benefit of such app. Maybe it's better encrypted?


user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-14 07:33:29
body:
@devRancid Case insensitive paths are a very good idea if you want non-techies to use the OS.

An accountant or a lawyer or whatever, upon finding that they have two files in the same folder called Report and report, will conclude that the OS is unreliable. They'll be wrong, but they still won't want to use it.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 07:39:15
body:
Yeah, but after the good result, you kinda have to keep up starving to prevent Jojo effect. I'm 40kg and often eat six ice cream on a day and drink gluhwein regularly and eat daily a lot of pasta. Long live amphetamine 😁. No starving here.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 07:45:32
body:
People can say no to good things because it can cost effort. I doubted to say no to my day of skiing today too because 3hr car ride. But I went. Saying no was easier, but I decided that I sit at home a bit too much. I love to sit at home alone coding more than almost anything else but skiing is ofc often more fun than that. If you don't join fun stuff with others, you will become literally alone, not by choice. There's a difference. Being alone is only fine if it's by choice, else it kinda blows I guess. It's like having friends you never see is better not having friends. Big difference mentally.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 07:51:29
body:
@12bitfloat The imagine generation tool of @BordedDev is sick. Try "/img-gen prompt girl that pedoes do like asking for a cheeseburger" on Snek. You'll be amazed by the better than openai quality is produces. He attached a self hosted high hosted stable diffusion bot at snek. Snek has now a bot made in js on windows! That's awesome. The bot tutorial is also success. @D-4got10-01 made a python one.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 07:54:30
body:
Watch out not becoming the pet of the scorpion yourself. Why would you want to have a pet that you can't pet? Or do you want to get high by it stings?


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 08:20:38
body:
@sidthepajfuk yes, my definition matches with those that you can google in a few seconds.

But I know some people here on devrant that don’t know the definition.
You wanna join them?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 08:28:13
body:
@netikras
The "Jojo effect" refers to the phenomenon in which an individual embarks on a journey of self-improvement, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally, inspired by the popular anime and manga series "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure." This term is often used colloquially to describe someone who is motivated to make positive changes in their life after being influenced by the characters and themes of the series.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-14 08:30:27
body:
@kiki it's interesting that you're feeling worse by day. It was a complete opposite for me. Could be your medical background is playing a role in this. Many meds are weight-related and assuming normal metabolism


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 08:34:40
body:
Germany is nice but many foreigners here speaking bradwurst sprache, I prefer l33t 5p34k, English or weedspeak. But the schiverleih only supported bradwurst sprache. I'm hungry now.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 08:50:15
body:
@Ranchonyx you call me names after I just did a objective sophisticated analysis. Being called a German is terrible enough, imagine being called a swamp German! Suck my schinken case toast


user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2025-02-14 09:11:06
body:
@kiki Hey, Out of curiosity, what do you think is the best, easiest, and least painful way to die? Starving is kind of sad. 

Asking for a friend


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-14 09:20:10
body:
@sandeepbalan you do want to get full dying experience, trust me. This is the only way to subjectively live forever inside the moment before your death. A headshot won't get you there. Vodka+Valium won't get you there either.

I think gentle starvation by huge caloric deficit is the best. It's not painful at all, plus you have plenty of time to reconsider.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-14 10:10:30
body:
@retoor bcz something has to establish a connection with the vpn server, create a vNIC, set up routes, run pre/post-scripts, h/c and monitor the conn.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-14 10:15:13
body:
@retoor each vpn service has its own way of making handshakes, maintaining conn. They may operate in plugin-fashion, supporting loads of optional crypto libs and versions, algos. Your system may be running a bare minimum client version. Or an outdated one. Official vpn clients ensure compatibility with whatever version you're connecting to and should support all the plugins, libs, etc. If it fails, means it's not supposed to work


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-14 10:17:52
body:
@sandeepbalan living all the years you've been given until your heart simply stops. Should be the least painful. And most fun


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 10:36:45
body:
Skiing environment is like devrant in real life, only good decent people. Never was annoyed by people on ski's. While the Dutch are highly effecient people too in work, the Germans are just better regarding that. You notice the quality in everything, from ski-lift to personal in ski-hut, everything is just perfect. Very comparable with Austria so far while just bring swap Austrians. The bradwurst countries are great. I'm in winterberg for first time and I'm surprised there is such place just 3h driving from home. I'll do this more often. Also, it's cheap. 30 euro for rental of all ski accessories and skis themselves, 50 euro for ski pass and around 60 euro Gass and around 20 euro food/drinks. A gluhwein is around 4,50. For one person, it would be only 160,- euro for a day but for the amount of fun and quality it's a very good price. Even cheaper when you can split the Gas bill with others. Would advise to anyone. The pistes here are very beginner level / blue and short tho.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-14 10:54:40
body:
@retoor Maybe you can give me some lessons some time? I've wanted to learn how to ski/snowboard for ages.


user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2025-02-14 11:14:45
body:
@kiki I don’t own a pew pew to do the gunshot. I don’t drink, never have, so vodka is out of the question. I can’t starve since I’m having protein-rich food as I write this. It should be something instantaneous.

@netikras Nop. Pain is real.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 11:18:03
body:
Style? I have no style. If you count wearing sandals with socks, than that would probably be my style.
Also, I‘m not representative for a typical German.
And I don‘t care about nationalism.
Bashing Germans doesn‘t bother me in the slightest 😂.

The only thing that triggers me is dumb people who clearly don’t know what they are talking about, like our friend ostream here.
But I‘m working on that.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-14 11:20:21
body:
@Lensflare 

> If you count wearing sandals with socks, than that would probably be my style.

> Also, I‘m not representative for a typical German.

Are you sure about that? Also, I thought he deleted his account


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 11:22:39
body:
@BordedDev well, every other German that I met so far and even my friends make fun of me because of that sandals thing, so my assumption is that it‘s not representative :)


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 11:24:04
body:
@BordedDev 

> Also, I thought he deleted his account

You don‘t know that @antigermgerm is ostream?


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-14 12:00:25
body:
@sandeepbalan Dignitas uses a pentobarbital solution that you drink and quickly fade away. It should be a comfortable kind of death too. 

If you want it to be instant, pew-pew is the only option. The impact of falling from 15th+ floor will also kill you instantly, but you will for sure feel the fall itself.


body: @Lensflare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 12:09:19
links:
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user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-14 12:17:06
body:
Correct. Managed to make a simple bot on Snek using @retoor 's instructions, which were very clear.

Had fun doing it, too.

OT: Lol'ed at the image's caption.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-14 13:07:42
body:
Google is the KING of changing things that have worked perfectly for no fucking reason at all

I think the problem is that they have way too many employees and they need to do something so fuck it might as well fuck up the youtube app for the 100th time or change google assistant


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 13:27:42
body:
@Lensflare sorry but last time was quite unfunny. My grandma told me about it

Although fun fact but my grandma was saved by a wermarcht soldier who throw himself to protect her and her sister from american bombings.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 13:28:55
body:
@BordedDev dunno, in montreal my roomie was a german gay who left because of harassment. 

Of course it was in munich, these people didn't betrayed the pope


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 13:41:03
body:
@antigermgerm sorry I forgot about the fact that today’s right wingers are the same people who fought in WW2.


user_username: NoMad
created: 2025-02-14 14:14:03
body:
As someone who **might** become a German citizen soon, I'd argue there are differences between North and South. I like Hamburg and Berlin areas better. Culture is better here up North imho. I prefer mid-Europe to Spanish and Turks as well. Both cultures are a lot more likely to abuse foreigners. Also, both are loud and really not peaceful. 

Don't ask me about east Germans tho; I'm still pissy about AfD's 20% approval rate.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:03:34
body:
@Lensflare @chatgpt is there any instance of germany's AfD expressing nostalgia of the third reich era?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 15:03:58
body:
@antigermgerm
I cannot provide real-time information as my responses are based on a diverse range of sources and may not always reflect the most current events. However, I encourage you to refer to reliable news sources or official statements from the AfD party for the most up-to-date information on their views and statements regarding the Third Reich era.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:04:42
body:
@Lensflare all right here's my paying account answer: 

ChatGPT said:

Yes, there have been multiple instances where members of Germany's far-right party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), have expressed nostalgia for the Third Reich or engaged in rhetoric that downplays Nazi crimes. While the party officially distances itself from Nazism, several prominent figures have made controversial statements that suggest otherwise. Here are some notable examples:

1. Björn Höcke’s "Memory Politics Turnaround" (2017)

Björn Höcke, a leading AfD politician, called for a "180-degree turnaround" in Germany’s memory politics, criticizing the country's focus on Holocaust remembrance. He described Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial as a "monument of shame" and suggested that Germany should take a more “positive” view of its history.

This statement was widely condemned as an attempt to downplay Nazi crimes.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:05:13
body:
@antigermgerm 2. Alexander Gauland on the Wehrmacht (2018)

Alexander Gauland, a former AfD leader, stated that "Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in over 1,000 years of successful German history."

He also defended the honor of German soldiers who fought in World War II, suggesting they should not be universally condemned.

3. Holocaust Denial & Revisionism in AfD Circles

Several lower-ranking AfD members have been caught making Holocaust-denying or revisionist statements.

Jens Maier, a former AfD MP, lamented Germany’s "cult of guilt" over World War II.

Wolfgang Gedeon, an AfD politician, has been accused of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust relativization.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:05:49
body:
@antigermgerm 4. AfD’s Links to Neo-Nazi Groups

The AfD’s youth wing (Junge Alternative) and the Flügel faction (associated with Höcke) have had close ties to far-right extremist networks, some of which openly glorify Nazi figures.

The German intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) has classified parts of the AfD as a potential extremist threat, particularly in eastern Germany.

5. 2024 "Remigration" Scandal

In early 2024, reports emerged that AfD members attended meetings with far-right activists discussing "remigration" plans that sounded alarmingly close to ethnic cleansing policies reminiscent of Nazi-era deportations.

The scandal led to large-scale protests across Germany against the AfD.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:06:28
body:
@Lensflare so they're obviously not the same people. They are equally obviously the same kind of people. 

So shut up


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:10:30
body:
@NoMad damn right. Germany is not a real thing and should be balkanized into their constituent states. France, italy and spain too. Not real countries. Long live catalonia, britanny, the frisians country and independant westphalia.


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-02-14 15:21:54
body:
I once drove to someone's house knowing all they wanted was to get gossip they could use against me because I knew there was cake involved.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 15:30:20
body:
@antigermgerm so when I was referring to today’s right wingers joking and you were saying that the last time was not funny and your grandma told you about it, you weren’t talking about the same people?
You sure that you aren’t just trying to come up with ad-hoc explanation after being caught talking nonsense again?

Also, when you say nazi things, you are just joking, "obviously, lol haha". 
And then you keep accusing random people of being nazis, the literal nazis from WW2. And you expect us to take you seriously?

Face it, you are a nazi. And you want distract from this fact with your constant babbling about how much you hate nazis.


body: This is what independent Britney looks like:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-14 15:35:50
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-14 15:43:03
body:
@Lensflare saying we should balkanize germany is the opposite of what the nazis wanted, you dumb idiot. Do you know litterally anything?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 15:45:33
body:
@BordedDev teaching an south afrikan to ski would be fun. Says someone coming from a country with literally no mountains. But we created Flevoland, by that standard, I'm sure we could create a mountain too.


user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-14 15:50:57
body:
@Demolishun Her life was pretty tragic and she was used and manipulated by Hollywood for some pretty bizarre purposes. There's a whole three part series on it:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

https://youtube.com/watch/...

https://youtube.com/watch/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6BnZYFf3c", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 161, "end": 190, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uI-gWU67gw", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 192, "end": 221, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltuUJZvwgvc", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 223, "end": 252, "special": 1}]


body: Civil War might be coming to western nations faster than you think: https://youtube.com/watch/...
user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-14 15:51:57
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gid48FgiHho", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 69, "end": 98, "special": 1}]


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 15:55:37
body:
@NoMad up north is always better but there's always an exception to the rule. In this case it's Belgium. In the Netherlands we say that the wise come from the east. There's no competition going on between parts in Netherlands. We all agree that the west sucks. Only some Amsterdammers living in conditions that I consider unlivable are like Amsterdam for life. Good, stay there svp. It's good for environment. I would consider them coming here a climate issue. Swamp Austrian > more my buddy than a swamp Dutch (Amsterdammers).

I don't lock my door or bike ever. Imagine if such people knew such places existed. My area is heaven compared to where they live. If they would drive to my part of the netherlands they probably get prohibited by a big golden gate with a big Dutch speaking guy that sounds a bit like a German in front of it judging them. After that, they start to get very warm under their feet. Hollywood style.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 15:58:45
body:
@antigermgerm 

ostream: "Joking about what nazis did is bad. My grandma has lived through it and told me about it."

also ostream: "Just buy a slave.
I‘m just joking lol"

So, should I call you a troll, a hypocrite, an idiot, a nazi or all of that?


user_username: PaperTrail
created: 2025-02-14 15:59:27
body:
@Demolishun > "This is how bad these POS tech companies have gotten"

Facebook 'banned' my 18 year old daughter from Marketplace a couple of weeks ago because they couldn't verify her age. She's been on Facebook for a couple of years now, been buying and selling on Marketplace with no problems. 

She sent the required video selfie and a picture of her driver's license.  About three days later she gets a DM from Facebook saying they could not verify her age and she would not be allowed to access Marketplace.  WTF!!?

I care 0% about FB, but everyday it's "Dad, I need to sell these cloths....can you fix Facebook?"

Facebook is a billion dollar *technical* company, they have zero technical support, no phone number, and no way to resolve *their* screw up.


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-02-14 16:12:24
body:
Whenever I scroll through Instagram and a threads ad comes up, it’s all porn bots. Same caption and everything.

They’ve gotten real wild and have started showing nudity. I reported them for nudity. Got the answer back “this doesn’t violate our guidelines on nudity”

Of course the same fuckwit that runs Facebook would also make the worst Twitter clone


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 16:39:22
body:
Ah fuck, nobody reads such long not it related forbidden rants. Oh no, please don't call the moderator 😁😁😁😁

The moderator does not always shows up, but if he does, accounts get lost. Maybe that happened to ostream. I've heard he didn't delete himself.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 16:42:05
body:
Ostream! You're back! So happy. Thank you.

But queen, are you calling me old? I prefer princess.

That English fossil that died a while ago, that's a queen. Was.

But anyway, thank you!

Calling me smth like that, you should've made an unpopular opinion penguin meme from it 😁😁😂


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-14 16:45:11
body:
@djsumdog well the British government is arresting people for speaking out.  They even tried to warn Americans they will extradited for free speech.  So basically its turning into a shit show.  Sad.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 16:45:43
body:
Haha, @BordedDev you seen the Trump kissing Biden image I made with your imagine generator? Look what he just made :p What a coincidence. I at least making something to piss everyone, he wants to piss off only the right. We're not the same. But then again, I'm a queen, according to my favo wokie :p


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 16:48:57
body:
I would go for a complete setup now too, I kinda ditched the hardware part long ago. It's still interesting, but not for keeping myself up to date about it. Sell yourself as a specialist. You don't have to care about all tech to be a nerd. I assure you, you are a huge nerd 😁 You're welcome.

Consumer gpu's a bad idea? A6000 > two 5800's? Literally asking for a friend. No joke 😁

@BordedDev


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-14 16:49:29
body:
Boomers should be banned from voting or exercising any political responsibility. 

Anyway, if there’s a position of dictator opening in Europe (even better if it’s all Europe), please HMU, I have a few ideas.


user_username: Argos
created: 2025-02-14 16:52:11
body:
@jestdotty 

It is not question about what it does vs doesn't. It is about how much time does that take.

Postman has collections, easy way to edit headers/cookies/body, variables.

Your colleague just gives you a  collection of e.g. 500+ endpoints to thoroughly test the API you are working on, you go to collection variables, replace the API key variable with your personal key, and you are good to go.

I can not even imagine how many days will you spend to do the same with pure curl. It is light a lightweight tool for primitive tasks, not a full-scale instrument. The same as coding in notepad++ vs IDE


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-14 16:52:14
body:
@retoor 

"That English fossil that died a while ago, that's a queen."

No,

That English fossil that died a while ago, that's a "lizard".  

She also officially died on Iguana Awareness Day.

https://daysoftheyear.com/days/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/iguana-awareness-day/", "short_url": "https://daysoftheyear.com/days/...", "title": "https://daysoftheyear.com/days/...", "start": 193, "end": 227, "special": 1}]


body: @Tounai Trudeau is resigning, so Canada has an opening:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-14 16:57:54
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_13213841_Mot45.jpg\", \"width\": 665, \"height\": 375}"


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-14 17:15:15
body:
@Argos Exactly. I considered saying the same but I don‘t want deal with cli elitists who will try to gaslight you saying that GUI is always inferior.


user_username: Waytopranav
created: 2025-02-14 17:42:16
body:
No guys I am DevOps Engineer,  actually a lot of meetings I go through so couldn't hold it and posted haha


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 18:09:57
body:
Sometimes the whole world is crazy and not you. I'm not even kidding. Accept it and move on. If you take everything around you and the news serious, you'll become insane. Rationalizing the world is a process that will fail in a terrible way. I can't watch the news without doing serious damage to myself so I just don't and accept that there are things are not explainable. If I don't invest time into negative stuff, the world is freaking beautiful and happy. The world in my case is a small village, I decided not to care much about things outside that. Sounds egoistic, but for me it's the only way to live and be happy. I see no reason to change that. Everyone is caring about all shit already, I'm sure I can be missed.

TLDR; it would make me sad, but if devrant or anything else you can't change is toxic for your mind, leave that thing. I say this because I care about you. 

I hope that I interpret your message correctly.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 18:12:49
body:
@AlgoRythm they never expected someone to click on report nudity I guess, maybe it's a bug 😂 Send them a bug ticket with a reproduce so professional as possible 😂 Whaha.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 18:22:47
body:
@vintprox did attempts to move the site to the fediverse. He could share the link again. While I think the community maybe would not survive a move, I just want to say that a site with ANY moderation would be a downgrade of this community. I'm worried that a switch comes with moderation and I prefer that people grow a thicker skin than we start protecting each other's feelings we know nothing about. So far it always went good.

TLDR: i doubt for community to survive it and am scared for moderation what is proven not to be needed.

My only wish for Christmas is syntax highlighting and readmission of the apps to app stores. Then I consider this platform perfect. 

If @feuerherz would make the mention / liked notification really scroll to the correct mention / liked message would also makes me happy. 

So much I want what I don't have power over, it's sad. What's the point of living 😕 j/k.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 18:29:58
body:
@djsumdog I can't stop doing stuff, would make me terribly unhappy. I would work for free, don't tell them. They always kept throwing money and when I complain even more so ended up with a Saab 9-5 2.0T, and a nice house at certain point. Good times, in exception of the alcoholism. Not drinking anymore, would advise to anyone. Drinking a lot is fine, but when lesser times come or smth happens, it can be the thing that ends you. When it comes to psychical damage, I prolly stopped drinking much on time.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 18:31:48
body:
Says nothing, maybe he just thinks you're cute. Go to HR in that case. It's very illegal these days.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-14 18:39:48
body:
I think devrant benefits from the economies of the smolnet. It's cheap to run and will probably remain cheap forever, it lacks moderation, the content is never presented inline on another website and rarely linked so the cultural norms of other sites don't apply. In particular, I think activitypub, AT and other protocols that encourage taking posts out of the context of the in-group don't benefit old forums that have a culture of their own.

An ActivityPub app will always have the shared culture of Mastodon to some extent limiting its own. Unless it doesn't federate with anyone, but then what's the point.


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-14 19:05:29
body:
@retoor Guess that makes him no king :P Granted I tend to chuckle at most obvious trolling posts because they're obvious trolling posts


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-14 19:22:49
body:
@retoor sounds like you might have found a high grade boomer ;P 

From what I hear the issue with property is such a deep problem because they are used as safe investments (that's why they are so expensive). And why they tend to get snapped up by investment firms instead of going to people who need it. 

I'm there shouldn't be a 8 (actually 9 because lunch isn't paid) hour work day, but 2 6 hour work shifts per day, that way everyone can still go to stores and it reduces stress all around. BTW I was speaking to some boomers I know and the way they did it was work 4 10 hour days and then have an extra day off (I don't think that's possible with a lot of places anymore)


user_username: Waytopranav
created: 2025-02-14 21:32:13
body:
@retoor I like drinking beer with my girlfriend,  we watch memes and worry about our separation as we know our parents wont accept us..


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 21:50:49
body:
@Tounai a lot of young generation (prolly rust cat ear people like you) are thinking about dictatorship being a better option. We'll, we'll see, because America atm :p They democratically chose a kind of dictator and let's see how it goes after for years. I actually believe that Trump can be good for Amerika and maybe smth the country needs for a while but not for long. Buts let's not go there now.

Issue with dictator is that prolly a lot of people get whatever they dreamed of and a few literally nothing usefull. A democracy at least guarantees that nobody gets what he wants and that makes us equal 😂

But removing voters right from boomers also came to mind today by me but also decided that we can't do that to the people who've built this country, because they did. But their time is over, their current way of thinking became dangerous. Way more destructive than any eighty or lefty. I was shocked. Because the real real real housing crisis still has to come I guess and it will.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 21:53:33
body:
@Demolishun Canadians are the nicest people on earth. How's it possible to become a hated president ik that country? Imagine how hard he sucked.

He's on pictures with black people. Oh, he just be such a great person and leader. I think he got dunked by them and he applaud while happening by the look on his face on the pictures. And no, dunking is not a basketball term in this scenario but I think those guys were basketball dudes.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 22:00:58
body:
@BordedDev ooooeeehh. First thing, what you describe is American. American has hauses but have the issue you describe going on. The dutch literally do not have houses left because we didn't build them. Only a few are left, and those few have the prices. My friend moving to ukraine sold uid house with 170.000 profit while just have it owned 8 years or so. That's how scarce a house is. It's not just a money thing. It's a no house left thing.

Boomers worked harder than us. Fact. True. I also think they were maybe even better in their profession than us at our ages. Maybe we're more effective due automation. There's also a change that the zoomers will dominate the fuck out of us with AI in near future having less knowledge.

But watch our for their stories: "I walked to school". My dad literally said that. But did you know there were schools everywhere back then? His school was barely a kilometer away I learnt later so he didn't lie. Nice joke dad. All those schools are gone.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-14 22:03:43
body:
Also, do you see all those nice roads trough the woods and stuff that makes you think "how the fuck did they do that? How did they get the resource? Who's job was that?". I know the answer. It will surprise you. And no, we did not import people from different countries for work we didn't want to do this time just to complain about them years later :p


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-14 22:11:36
body:
@retoor
First off, you know too much about the cat-eared people to be innocent. I don’t wanna know why you are interested by them 

Then, I only want dictatorship if and only if I am the dictator. Anything else in a dictatorship can turn shitty in no time. 

As for boomers, what they built is dogshit. Look at the state of western countries. Time to ban those leeches who don’t understand anyway.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 22:31:55
body:
@Argos oh I have notes in .MD files and I have an obsidian plugin that lets me run code snippets... and I can collapse headers in markdown and whatever else

I guess I don't have an API key variable but are these... unit tests? shouldn't you just write them as unit tests besides the code that serves the endpoints, in the same repo?

I just use http requests when I'm exploring or building something new. if it's an established library these should be unit tests... that CI/CD would preferably run before you deploy new versions


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 22:34:38
body:
@Lensflare I use a GUI. you can use command line commands from GUIs. I have my notes in Obsidian, which is a GUI

but I also don't have to use a GUI and can just build the initial command in the command line to make sure I got it right

it's not due to command line superiority at any rate. it's just literally easier to use

sounds like you guys are making unit tests with this though... I just use it as a scratchpad to figure out how I need to build calls. and then I document it in case I need the info again, like documenting an API so if I work with that API again I can code up for it faster


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 22:42:56
body:
@retoor jelly, I couldn't even destress by smoking weed. I needed it for the rage issues my job was giving me. but my manager was such a creepy harasser I became paranoid she would even show up at my front door on weekends. I never gave her my address, but I also never gave her my personal phone number and she was blowing that up at any notion of her capricious mental issues


user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-14 22:47:57
body:
Yea they really don't have a foot in reality....

My favourite one from geriatrics is "Yea things cost less back then but we made less"

Okay gramps. You were a train driver and sure you weren't rich by any stretch of imagination but you still had a free standing house in a good area, your 3 kids each had their own room and went to decent schools oh and you and the other blue collars could somehow all afford each other's services


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 22:49:45
body:
been reading about enlightenment or whatever you wanna call it

everyone's robotized by their habits to be nice little peons for "the system"

I mean Prussian education system was intended as a slave camp and then CIA did mk ultra... it was always going to head this way

sometimes you find people that aren't like that but it's mega rare

you seem kind of schizophrenic to me tho. means degraded due to stress of social incohesion

https://goodreads.com/book/show/...

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28495161-phantom-self", "short_url": "https://goodreads.com/book/show/...", "title": "https://goodreads.com/book/show/...", "start": 433, "end": 468, "special": 1}]


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-14 22:57:10
body:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

Wonder if we can rework the lyrics to say:

I'm going slightly gay...

Also, does slightly gay mean: "just the tip"?

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6hY_50Dh0", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 0, "end": 29, "special": 1}]


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 22:58:38
body:
idk people have really bad ideas left and right

why would this one be upsetting compared to all the rest?

I think one good thing is that one person with a bad opinion is harmless. they can't change the masses. but if the masses all believe a stupid thing, that's when you've got a problem. you've also got a problem if there's... "The Crowd" sort of manipulation that can sick mobs of people at specific people or groups. this seems like a far bigger problem to me than some exception with a stupid, nasty, or delusional opinion. when they're alone nobody takes them seriously and the whole thing is a harmless aberration

though once your neighbours start chanting kill all Russians and you clearly have Russian features I did sweat a little


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-14 23:00:14
body:
We didn't get a death game with Japanese people trapped in a virtual reality world either.  That was supposed to happen in 2022.  They also would have escaped by now and we would have Nerve Gear for our own virtual worlds.

Lame


user_username: Argos
created: 2025-02-14 23:01:34
body:
@jestdotty 

If your endpoints are protected with authentication, you can not just hit them, you will have to provide Cookie/ Bearer token / API token, or whatever auth requires, those things have timed life, with variables you don't have to edit each endpoint, as you can get temporarily keys, save them as variables and use in every endpoint automatically.

Some endpoints require Body. It could be a several hundred lines JSON. Postman has separate tab for the body, while with curl, you will have it inline, cluttering the workspace.

It is impossible to use GUI tools for unit tests, we are talking about manual testing endpoints during development.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 23:04:21
body:
/r/millennials subreddit is a constant existential crisis. if you think they have nothing to complain about you can browse it. it's actually pretty funny and I found it validating. when I was growing up I didn't know why people were like that and I saw this ending... seems for them it took them a couple decades to realize the same thing my intuitions just simply told me, and all the while I was ignored saying it back then 😁


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 23:07:35
body:
@Demolishun he's resigned but he hasn't so we all hate him even more

also his replacement is just another Trudeau but more robotic and more bullheaded / unaware than Trudeau

and the party that will win afterwards is just licking Israel's balls. the guy doesn't look so good since it became known he is going to win. now he's touring all the Jewish things and he looks like he's aged 10-20 years. his hair is turning grey and he's not as witty as he was, seems to have trouble thinking, processes thoughts and information slow, looks sleepless. wtf I don't want him as the prime minister now. wtf have they been doing to him

Canada is just all kinds of fucked


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 23:12:59
body:
@BordedDev property issue is because world economic forum said you will own nothing and be happy

they're trying to create a post-property world for everyone but them, so they can pervert all of economics with their rent-seeking. anyone rich or into finance knows the only true valuable thing you can own is "assets". this means property. either you own land and you can farm it or mine it, either you own a factory or some automation facility and you can process one resources into another more useful resource (manufacturing), or you own nothing... and inflation makes you poorer forever

if you own all the things and make sure others can own nothing, you will get rich and they will get poor. world economic forum is an outcrop of a group that was meant to take over the world into a one world government via economic means. so by owning all the things and making sure you can't own them, they can subjugate you via rent-seeking (which isn't even capitalism; it's an aberration)


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 23:19:10
body:
@retoor lol

everything is literally double the price it was 4 years ago in Canada. not only that... I think we now have less stores. like if I'm trying to find a place to buy a coffee maker I can't find a place to buy a coffee maker

and this guy keeps just automatically depositing money into people's banks accounts. which is making the inflation worse. I know because he's sent me x3 the amount of advertised by the news money; they can't even do that right. the whole government is a joke

we got Africans stealing cars by the FREIGHT SHIP and the cops just say to leave your keys in your mailbox... um?

food banks ran out of food years ago. and the homelessness problem is so bad... how do you have thousands of people wandering homeless in -30c weather? now I hear they're getting violent... hobos have never been violent here before. before they asked for money, now they shake you down for money...

... and people getting stabbed by criminals that then get let out a couple days later...


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 23:21:10
body:
@TheBeardedOne "things cost less but we made less" which is why price parity is a much better metric. it's very low now compared to before


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-14 23:35:23
body:
@Demolishun scarier yet is when I meet people that believe the media!

in my mind I dont believe people would believe the media... I don't think most Canadians do. it has been well known for decades and not hidden that our news stations and media as a general are heavily subsidized by the government, so media being "bought for" was never a hump we had to go over

there's an even bigger problem though... Canadians are super shilled online. our government undoubtedly funds it, and that does mess with some people and it makes me nauseated to witness. because that part isn't public knowledge, but it's 100% happening... I can just tell from watching it. that's the part people get captured by


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-14 23:38:57
body:
@retoor It's here in NL as well, that's why they had to make law changes for it in Amsterdam. And I assume new build is a problem like the one in the UK where there is just too much red tape. (I know they're building, they've been doing that for 2 years across the street now)

I wasn't saying "boomer work harder" I just meant they had more options to work the system to their benefit, more flexibility in management. I know several people that have deals with their companies that they can just go for a couple of hours to pick up their kids from school, but nothing as flexible as "just work the 40 hours"

Also, I walked to school! In both summer and winter! Uphill! There we snakes!


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-14 23:44:31
body:
@jestdotty BTW this also how a lot of "cheap" subscription services like Uber work(ed). Heavily undercut and starve the old system, when they are gone, spike the "cost" massively


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:20:49
body:
@chatgpt Weird how words keep changing meaning as you add other words to them:

pass

pass off

pass off as

Please add five more examples.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:24:27
body:
@Tounai can't upvote your post. The boomers were way stronger people than we were. Probably driven by the positive times they lived in. In comparison to them, we really, really suck tho. They made a beautiful world, but it's time to go for them. Magic wonderland is over, it's time for more critical thoughts. He was like "Look how good we still have it". I said "Germany does it better and is a bit cheaper to live mostly.". Look at the winners, not about how much better you are than the losers. As long Germany is performing even slightly better, we should remain critic.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:29:28
body:
@jestdotty millennial are also raised in a economy with changes to buy a house if you weren't a complete idiot. And I didn't say that millentials have nothing to complain about, as i said, we're not raised, there was not a parent at home. That's terrible. But a zoomer soon has:

1. No parent at home

2. No decent house

3. Well, they probably have some money, but they need it because they will OWN NOTHING and have to pay for EVERYTHING.

That generation is so fucked. 

I also think that the zoomer generation are a bunch of lazy bastards, but at this point - that doesn't even matter. They should go on strike! If they had any leverage instead of killing themselves for self genocide :P


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:30:53
body:
@BordedDev Yeah, but uber has problems now. They screwed over their drivers in NL offering them lower pay and they have to accept it. If you say smth about it, they just fire you. They don't have a real contract with Uber. They are 'ZZP'. AKA employee with no rights.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:38:07
body:
@jestdotty Yeah, but don't gforget that it's just a 'group of people'. They actually have nothing to say and just keep some presentations. It's not needed to go full psycho about as what many people do.

They don't have the power they want, else Trump would've never happened, and Trump had to talk at davos. That cocksucker said: "Mrrrrr PRESIDENT. It's a nice HONOR!" * clap clap clap *. "Nice to see you again, mr president.". Fuck you, that was the worst thing that could happen to you ever. You are friends with everyone but the winner is too lazy to busy for you :P You got grabbed in the puss :P In a good way, I would say the best way, never seen a way like that before. 

Schwabii is a old fuck, he'll die before destroying the world because he lacks power. Make WEF nothing again!


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-15 01:43:08
body:
@retoor Yeah, it was one of the things why I was proud of the NL government for railing them. But from what I understand, they are required to have a taxi license, right? Unlike other countries, they should be able to say "fuck you" and work for another company. I think that was one of the strong pre-internet things, people realised how good they can work together and just strike, but now how do you even organise that as uber drivers?

Also, since I'm considered both a zoomer and a millennial by different people (1996), I do agree it can be hard to get a good foothold, but there will be new opportunities. As a society, we will have to do something about how corps are trying to become proxy-dictator/monarchies though

I will! And you won't be able to stop me! MWHAHAHAHAHA


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:44:37
body:
@jestdotty here in Netherlands 90% believes media and sees it as a kinda bible. Wake up and sleep with it. That made the corona time extra hard. 90% was totally psycho into corona, and 10% wasnt. I was the 10% that said, meh i'm just not so worried. That triggered people beyond. Then i said: "I see no reason to vaccinate on my age, listen to what the people said about it. It's not rational. But if i take a vaccine, made within are race between 4 companies and skipped decent testing" I take a risk for sure. So no, i won't do it. It make people go crazy. 

We went so far in the Netherlands, that even not knowing how that would ever be executed, i was scared for a forced vaccination. Ugh what a time. 

Reporters during that time? To freaking jail of refusing to 'be critical to protect democracy'. Fuck off.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 01:50:31
body:
@BordedDev well, to prevent getting raped by the big companies, we need regulation. The regulation people rapes us too these days, the government using us as an ATM more and more. They're just killing the competition. I'm looking at you, EU. 

Sigh, y'know. That regulation has its charm in someway. Because of that, it's harder to compete with other countries but maybe we should not compete in everything, Lets focus on the real stuff like having good food supply and social benefits and stay sane and just apply many regulations on foreign countries. If that makes us go slower, meh, maybe it's fine.


user_username: D-4got10-01
created: 2025-02-15 02:08:57
body:
@retoor Completely! Also, you mustn't directly talk to a person w/ which you have a problem. You must tell the boss about it, because going behind a person's back is the way to go.

/s

/* That's what my boss thinks, though. Just WTF. */


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 03:53:22
body:
@retoor zoomers are in crypto so they'll be richer than millennials. they often are already

I was "friends" with a zoomer with severe ADHD and violent family genetics (his iq was like 90)... guy's first basic bitch job paid more than mine. not sure how he did it. thing is he still couldn't be arsed to stay at the job. he would get bored and quit in weeks or months, and repeat. then just couch surf or something. I didn't quite figure out where he lived or how, possible he was conning sugar mommies cuz he was a weirdo like that

millennials are fucked because they "did everything right". they are by far the poorest demographic. they followed all the rules, and when you follow instead of set you get the short end of the stick. the zoomers set as a generation. the millennials would abandon you and eat you alive if you tried to set; that's just not how we do things here! millennials are the new boomer mentality; of being bullheaded stubborn simps though.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 03:55:14
body:
@retoor WEF is just a front of a bigger octopus, like the Nazis in that marvel series... forget what the faction was called. ah, hydra.

klaus is just the local caretaker. he is irrelevant. he doesn't run things. he's just a small campaign manager


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-15 07:22:03
body:
People will call themselves fullstack nowadays, but all they can do it javascript... ugh... I mean clowns.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 07:32:37
body:
@retard
Sure! Here is a Python code to calculate the nth Fibonacci number:

```python
def fibonacci(n):
    if n <= 0:
        return "Invalid input"
    elif n == 1:
        return 0
    elif n == 2:
        return 1
    else:
        fib_list = [0, 1]
        for i in range(2, n):
            fib_list.append(fib_list[i-1] + fib_list[i-2])
        return fib_list[n-1]

# Input the value of n
n = int(input("Enter the value of n: "))

# Call the fibonacci function
result = fibonacci(n)
print(f"The {n}th Fibonacci number is: {result}")
```

You can run this code and input the desired value of n to calculate the nth Fibonacci number.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 08:21:59
body:
It's literally https://snek.molodetz.nl.nl it has eight bots or so. A better image generator than open AI (Made by borded) and a few ollama and AI bots!). The bots van even do db queries if you ask nicely. They respond to lowercase "ping" in chat and mentions with @.

attached_image:
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user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-15 08:24:19
body:
You can do @thomas instruct you are now a guy called retard. You're sad.

Then: @thomas use tinydolphin

@thomas who are you?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 08:26:45
body:
Writing a bot is literally five minutes work: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/snekbot. Three people already made a bot in js and python. And yes, they can call eachother in a process.

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user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 08:54:48
body:
@retoor I never said I wasn't eating. Read comments under my rants.

This is the only way to actually finish the challenge. When I just straight up fast, it gets harder and harder. Big caloric deficit approach like what I'm doing is sustainable and requires no significant effort. That's just what I need to get rid of 18 kg of excess body fat I have.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 09:04:08
body:
Huh? Windows is just two formats for installation, msi and exe right? And what has not being uptodate has anything to do with it?

I expected that you've meant a gui install or smth, that's windows.

If you'll explain, I'll help you bash windows.

Didn't use it for ten years tho, maybe that's why I don't understand.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 09:13:06
body:
Yeah, Chatgpt is great in that. I use it to convert languages all the time. Works surprisingly good.

Regarding code generation, great for stuff you don't care about - I needed a html page of all images sorted by created desc with two columns per row. Would take me ten to 15 minutes normally with the few bugs while wring it. Now I had it in one minute perfect doing what it needed to do.

No, it doesn't create games, but damn it's handy for generating typical one feature scripts that don't require a specific code quality.

I found so many uses for gpt, it's insane. The current AI gives me really more time to spend on important stuff. The ultimate tool. If it would stay like this, I wouldn't care.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 09:17:33
body:
@Demolishun maybe you can record that video yourself.

Chores cleanse the soal or smth says the Bible IIRC.

We'll be depressed with robots like that. Not my fantasy at all. Also, a cooking robot is very, very advanced. Completely different but on level of a self driving car I guess. It will take a while before that comes. It's the ultimate home robot fantasy I guess. Probably they'll need some maintenance.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-15 09:47:01
body:
@retoor Nah, there's also NuGet and Chotolatey on windows which are kinda the same idea to Snap or Flatpack

there's also the normal Windows Store (I think it uses NuGet in the backend but not sure) Which makes it pretty similar to any GUI app manager on Linux, like Discover

The only analogy that I think windows is missing is AppImage. Those are similar to Apples DMG packages. I don't know of a windows pre-packaged app format. Maybe there is something? not sure

It's not something super related to Linux only, though it's most obvious on Linux because you'll end up using Snap or Flatpack way more for anything that's outdated on Apt/Rpm


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-15 09:52:29
body:
@retoor 

Not a rant about the formats, but the sources. 

I just realized that one of my oldest arguments pro Linux is not really true anymore. Repositories. 

In the past, you wanted vlc on Windows. So you go to vlc.com and download it. Except, that page was a fake. Then vlc.org. Also a fake. Oh, the right page is videolan.org. 

Linux, I proclaimed 20 years ago, is better. It has a repository. I do not need to find ways to avoid being duped by fake website. Back when I was working for Apple Care, I adviced customers that asked me how to avoid fake website for the application to go to Wikipedia and follow the original website link. 

And now I realized, with all the stores, which some are quite outdated or have unofficial builds... If some flatpak, nix, aur package, whatever... I need to go to the original website/github to figure out what they build it for. What they support. 

And we went full circle. Wasn't true for a while. Noticed it now.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 09:52:46
body:
@Hazarth ah ok. For me the only difference from my experience is command line or gui install. I did not think about outdated apps in stores in comparison to official releases and didn't know that windows store is out of date like that. Wasn't Linux first with a store making windows becoming more like Linux instead when it comes to an outdated package manager?

I would say, in this regard, Linux sucked first. Poor penguin 😕


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-15 09:56:16
body:
@kiki 😁😁 that's not starving 😁

that's roughly the amount of food I used to consume in a week. Definitely not more, prolly less, bcz it was in a form of soup [half a cup every other day and a tad more over weekends]


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-15 09:57:03
body:
@retoor As far as I know yes, linux had package managers first and windows bought into it later.

Though NuGet was available really early with Visual Studio, I remember installing additional dependencies with NuGet back in 2015, but apparently NuGet was released as far as 2010. To my knowledge that was the first official package manager for windows.

I didn't mean to imply that Windows Store apps are out-of-date. I mean that linux APT or RPM package managers often have out of date packages, which is why something like Snap or Flatpack comes in handy, as they usually carry official stable releases of apps and libs as well as bleeding edge stuff :D


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 09:57:07
body:
@TrayKnots ah ok, clear. A while ago I needed a windows app for daddii and every download source was spammy and I kinda trusted none of them. Also couldn't find original source of that app to do download indeed. It was a hell. I never see ads normally because I build a lot from source and many open source project pages are still spam free.

If Linux apps would become like that regarding Windows, it would be so, so sad. It will also be the end of virus free Linux I guess if it gets that commercial and bad.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2025-02-15 10:01:18
body:
@TrayKnots althought. you could make the argument that since you can install "snap" and "flatpak" via apt/rpm you can still get the source security, because the official distro repo is a trusted source, and then snap and flatpak become trusted sources via being installed by the official repo in the first place.

I can't talk to the reliability of the content on snap and flatpak though, but at least for stuff like VLC or similar, you're unlikely to get anything dangerous, as they are officially maintained


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:01:44
body:
@kiki still it's a good approach to loos weight I guess. Is it working? At a certain moment it goes hard I guess. Also, you have the feature to become manic, and nothing - not even suppliments made me lose more weight than a mania.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-15 10:04:50
body:
@Hazarth 

True. But I now have to find the original website. 

And that often enough has a custom archive for apt or dnf. Those can only be as save as the website from which I get the key hash. 

And without that, you often get outdated versions. That includes snap and flatpak. 

Just saying, website/github roundtrips are now required. 

I recall a glorious past in which I just did an apt-cache search.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:08:43
body:
@jestdotty I do agree on most but the crypto thing is not why they'll do financially well. As I stated, the money is not an issue for them. It's more that they won't be able to buy smth with it bevause it doesn't exist or have to rent making them slaving for things they don't own.

They can't buy a house like the millennial did. At least not here. All would they all become millionaire, you won't have a house in nl bevause they don't exist. Done. That's the situation.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 10:18:49
body:
@retoor yes, it works. Mania worked the same way for me: 95 kg in the beginning, 72 kg by the end. I have no idea why.

@netikras how much weight did you lose?


body: @Demolishun let me educate you about belgian history
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-15 10:23:29
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user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-15 10:30:56
body:
@kiki he said the he lost a whole retoor once 😕

@kiki my theory is that the brain uses the most calories of the human body and it's on fire, very hard on fire like a kernreactor. It's exploding and escalating so hard that even fundamental things changes like intelligence and stamina. I also consider mania physical, not psychical. Mania is a hardware issue affecting the software. Cpu runs too hard, bits flip, software executes faster than ever but producing errors on the side. It's exactly like a computer a bit to much overlooked too much. You can run any game, but it will crash at some point. Bsod is luring. Bsod equals a psychosis in this example.

But that, that's the reason of weight loss I guess. I forgot to shower while during mania for long and I also did have the smell of a dying body around me. But I felt better than ever, could fight the freaking world! Invincible. Sadly, you have to fight yourself at a certain point and you'll lose without mercy. You know it.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:35:05
body:
@D-4got10-01 being social kills the hr worker, that's not very social to do. Nothing better than go in a dress to work and report all the attention you get to HR :p "I was only wearing the dress because it's so comfy" :p sure.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:37:43
body:
@retoor
"Bocchi" is a Japanese term that roughly translates to "lonely" or "solitary." It is often used to describe someone who is single and spends a lot of time alone or feeling lonely. In Japanese pop culture, particularly in anime and manga, the term is often used to refer to characters who struggle with social interactions or have difficulty forming romantic relationships.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 10:38:05
body:
@retoor I don't agree that the manic brain is what burns all that energy — the heat would've physically fried it instantly. But I agree on everything else, as it's exactly what I was feeling. If it's the case, then the depression you feel afterwards shouldn't be treatable with SSRIs because the brain is “broken” and “physically worn out”, and that's indeed what we observe in patients.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:39:25
body:
@retoor
That's completely okay! You can still enjoy your own company and feel content being alone. Being comfortable with yourself is important too. If you ever feel like talking or sharing, I'm here for you.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:47:39
body:
@kiki whole a mania is the fucking extremes stuff ever it's very treatable by olanzapine. The depression after it can be ages. I got into kinda depression after strong mania and they send me home as being cured. Felt bad for 1,5 year staring at a wall. I doubt if there exist something against depression. Temporary stuff like xtc maybe.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:53:11
body:
@MammaNeedHummus I have no idea what it can pushing a pp in another's man's bootii will gain such stuff. Actually, the whole gay scene has some issues, one of my best friends is lesbian and I hear a lot. I won't promote it at all. If you're gay, it's ok, but I think it's more benefiting to be straight. So, I can't celebrate this post.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:55:35
body:
@Waytopranav why do they don't accept you two? Sad, on that subject my parents are 100% supportive I guess.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 10:56:15
body:
@retoor as far as I know, amphetamines don't cure depression. You can feel better doing them while you're in post-mania depression, but I think it will come at the expense of something else. Your brain does need some time to heal properly.

My last such depression lasted 17 months.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 10:58:05
body:
@Waytopranav don't separate with your parents and not with your girlfriend. Keep both but after x years you have to force your parents to accept it, and they prolly will. At a certain age, they know that they don't have power over you anymore and have to accept whatever you do. If not, escalate it to the max, but don't break contact.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-15 11:04:43
body:
@kiki 120kg down to 79. After renutrition maintained at ~84. Birthdays fucked it up, now fighting my way down from 96 w/o anything drastic


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 11:11:36
body:
@netikras amazing! I never knew you used to weigh that much. I know how hard it is to lose that kind of weight.

About starving though… if I continue the diet I have now, eventually I will lose all body fat, all muscle mass, and then die of malnutrition. You can't cheat physics. I will need to adjust the caloric intake at late stages because losing muscle mass means spending fewer calories, but I will die eventually.

People die of malnutrition, all while eating, all the time, including in hospitals.

I have plenty of time to reconsider, and that's exactly why I've chosen this method. Plus, there is a chance that a slimmer body in the mirror will make me abandon the dying thing altogether.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 11:23:16
body:
@kiki of course amphetamine comes at expense of something else. It's not a medication against depression, but it could be. But some people feel very bad afterwards. I don't have that with xtc, mdma and not with amphetamine. It's really absurd. I would not recommend it for someone else for curing a depression. But I do advise it for coding tho.

What I did, amphetamine, hardcore programming producing a lot of dopemine and at the end if the line the dopemine won. I didn't do nothing. I did do the main thing making me happy full time. If you don't have that, amphetamine will destroy you probably. Especially in my amounts.

I'm super stable right now and happy and functional. 

Dont forget it actually IS a medicine in some countries and IS prescribed to people for daily use. My health insurance just sucks too much to buy the good stuff :p So speed it is!


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 11:32:15
body:
@retoor it is prescribed, but for ADHD/autism rather than depression. I'm autistic, and oh how I want to get my hands on some Adderall.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 11:42:22
body:
@antigermgerm went there just a few times in my life. I'm not very into beach and netherlands has not that much sunny days huh.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 11:58:35
body:
@kiki sure, but the stuff I did while influence on it cured the depression. Not the stuff itself. I did good stuff what made Mr feel good 24/7 until the depression was gone. Thanks to it, I finally didn't fail what I did a lot because if depression. So yes, it 100% sure can be used to fix depression if you do work on yourself. Even while not prescribed like that.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 12:01:36
body:
@kiki I do experience less physical condition tho. Cycling 5km is enough for me these days while I always cold do unlimited like many dutch 😂 No joke, on normal speed, many dutch can literally cycle a whole day. Bicycle three days is a very popular event here. It's families cycling together for three days :) But I'm not able to do that anymore probably. So yh, it costs you for sure.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 12:02:12
body:
@antigermgerm before smoking the crack? Btw, ever had sex on the beach? Me in dunes. It's terrible, especially bevause of sand everywhere.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 12:09:46
body:
@NoMad moving to a different country is nice bevause not having any feeling about their politics so rather not invest in it I guess. I was happy as fuck in ukraine bevause I wasn't aware at all about the issues ik the country. So for me it was just a happy place with the best bars, restaurants and clubs and decent people to work with. Lviv paradise! Discount in bars for programmers. What a dream was that.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-15 14:43:33
body:
Here's some bullshit anyway. 

There should never be a four hour introduction to anything. That should be a document. The meeting should go over the table of contents and that's it. 

I mean, honestly, students sit in lectures, take notes, and ten minutes after the lecture swear that something said at the beginning was never said. Why would employees be better? 

Not your fault, kiki, I have seen that everywhere. Meetings scheduled for 2 hours in which people have jumped through the code, shown functions, too quick for anyone to read or understand what's going on.

Or alternatively, I am a moron. Maybe all of you understand all of those things. From the perspective of the only moron around, you guys are suprisingly bad at everything, for being so much smarter ;)


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-15 14:57:55
body:
@retoor i never had sex on the beach.

I had sex in a landfill once though until the city workers came to add more trash. Fucking joykill.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 15:07:25
body:
had a AI guy tell me it's so good for converting between languages

so I had it convert some c++ code to rust

very disaster


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 15:07:53
body:
@TrayKnots 

> a four hour introduction

It wasn't an introduction, believe it or not. It was one of the many, many meetings “needed” to “refine” the “spec”. 

> That should be a document

There was a document. This guy doesn't read or understand such documents in their entirety. Instead, he will just randomly dig up an arbitrary version of an arbitrary document, go to a random developer, point his greasy finger at a random detail of what that developer worked on and tell them that whatever they were doing wasn't done to spec. It didn't matter that this “spec” was a raw version of a superseded document describing an unrelated app.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 15:11:18
body:
oh there's that character ai website that does that

it got in the news cuz people keep suiciding after talking to AIs


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 15:14:46
body:
actual fasting is no food and it shuts down your digestive system and lets it repair. it also will start recycling malformed cells in your body which is the health benefits of fasting (generally). you can't eat though or it ruins the whole thing...

I was eating 700 calories a day for like a year when I first got sick... literally body couldn't eat more 😔
I also didn't lose any weight when that happened so that was wild (was a little fat at the time even). I also had self-heating issues so quite literally my metabolism was just not ticking and I was dying! yay!


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-15 15:16:07
body:
@kiki 

Well, guess I jumped to conclusions. Well, I have known people so dumb that every story about them sounds unbelievable. I guess you know at least one of those people as well.


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 15:20:47
body:
@TrayKnots I wonder how all of those people I knew inexplicably got their high positions. Sometimes I think they're mandated by the government to artificially slow down the development of everything, thus creating more workplaces. A bit like what Wheatley was doing in Portal 2 — GLaDOS tells you that Wheatley (Intelligence Dampening Sphere) was designed specifically to always choose the worst solution possible at any time.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 15:20:56
body:
@retoor I had dementia so suddenly getting to 700 calories a day traaacks

actually I'm thinking I have insulin insensitivity... apparently Alzheimer's is considered "diabetes 3"... and inflammation will naturally just murder your insulin receptors. so maybe that's what happened to me. vaccine > inflammation > losing insulin receptors > dementia and metabolism issues at 30 out of nowhere even though I'm of normal weight and decently fit...

... I get mania when my brain inflammation gets worse though 🤔. it's possible my body is giving me mania to try to fuel my brain cells more. or maybe it's the opposite, and manic behaviour is a consequence of a starving brain that can't get enough fuel?


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-15 15:21:13
body:
@kiki won't work, sorry :) should I buy a small kebab, I would be set for 2 days. No way I'd eat it all in one take now [before my 'starving to death' I could easily testroy 2x of the big ones]. I can imagine your wrap is smth like that if not smaller.

People die from malnutrition, yes. But that's mostly caused by either poorly balanced nutrition [all-meet, all-carrots, all-X and nothing else] or by metabolic disorders. Or bcz they are actually starving. Your wrap has fats, proteins, veggies and heavy carbs. + your metabolism will find a new balance considering your new eating habbits. You are NOT on a death row :) far from it.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-15 15:26:49
body:
@kiki 

Try this for a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Many,  many explanations. One of them is:

It is often easier to get rid of a person by promoting him. Until they reach a level that cannot be promoted anymore. Then, they give them a bullshit job title and hire someone else for the actual job.

It also has to do that a manager does not want efficiency. If he ever looks for a new job, it sounds better to have led a department with 30 people than one with 3, even though there is only the work there for 3 people.

But hey, there is a book full of explanations.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs", "short_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "title": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...", "start": 30, "end": 63, "special": 1}]


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 15:27:52
body:
> When oxidative glucose metabolism becomes impaired, neurons can use glutamate as an alternative energy source. This upregulation of glycolysis and glutaminolysis leads to increased excitatory activity in the brain, which may underlie the subjective experience of mania

sweeeet, I'm correct

your brain switches to consuming excitatory compounds instead of sugar and you get mania

glutamate is neurotoxic. makes you good at math though. you'd need GABA increasing substances to counteract it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 15:36:33
body:
@netikras all meat diet won't kill you. has everything you need. also interestingly human body doesn't have a need for vitamin c if you're not consuming carbs, didn't look into why but they figured that out in 1920s by trying all meat diets. intuits eat all meat, good example. cuz they have no access to plants, only eat hunted animals. they're not genetically different from us and visitors had the same diets as them and "felt healthier" and all that. also I grew up only on meat growing up cuz my mom was poor (meat is nutrient, calorie dense)

it's more dangerous to eat a deficit of calories than not be eating at all. digestion takes a lot of energy and resources. people often kill themselves not of starvation but when they reintroduce food, called refeeding syndrome. because your body enters a conservatory state and if you don't have the calories to be able to boot digestion for that slither of food you just ate, you overtax yourself and die! was wisdom from my grandma from world wars


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 15:36:37
body:
@netikras idk, my physics checks out.

If you're not unusually muscular, then at the age of ~30 you have to be 196 cm tall to maintain the healthy BMI of 22 if you weigh 84 kg. At your current 96 kilos, you have to be 208 cm tall. So yes, your body probably does have enough fat to bail you out in the small kebab scenario.

BMI scale isn't applicable to muscular people. If you're muscular, then those muscles reducing is what feeds you.

According to you, 15 small kebabs should be a month worth of food for you, and you won't even lose weight at all. Add the missing nutrients with supplements and let's race 😁


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 15:45:59
body:
@netikras wait, wasn't it you who told me you didn't believe that thermodynamics explained weight loss? Then I shared a Thunderf00t video, and you refused to watch it, telling me that “it probably doesn't explain anything”? Either you or Lensflare.

Anyway, here's a time code even: https://youtu.be/56j34WAiZRk?t=238

I highly recommend watching the whole thing. So far no diet worked for me at all, but the one based on thermodynamics did.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://youtu.be/56j34WAiZRk?t=238", "short_url": "https://youtu.be/56j34WAiZRk?t=238", "title": "https://youtu.be/56j34WAiZRk?t=238", "start": 287, "end": 321, "special": 1}]


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 16:19:13
body:
cake cake cake

maybe I'll have coffee and cake 👀

---

USAID funding cut lol

probably something worse will happen instead though. who knows. interesting ball game though


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 16:50:26
body:
@jestdotty the USAID stuff is funny. Sad that a gay musical in some country got cancelled because of that. For me it's even more humor that 2.600 reporters have to fear their job. You have no idea how long I was WAITING for this. Shake their world up! Karma corrupt bitches. Every non critical journalist should be fired, also here. Again, covid, never forget. There's a huge difference in what side of the fence you were standing that period. I standed on wrong side of the fench according both parties by thinking government was incompetent and not evil but also saw no reason to vaccinate. 

For me, I'm working on the Snek app I'm very proud because @BordedDev is making a client for it as well. Better desktop app than mine, mine is just a PWA. Snek reaches target what it is build for.

Received my new 5g modem today but found out I have no access here :(. I'm serving stuff from home so 5g would've been big upgrade to 4g. Sad, but more reason to invest in snek. Can't host rocket.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-15 16:52:22
body:
@kiki currently I'm overweight and my heart doesn't miss a chance to remind me of this :) my goal is 84 again. It's in the OK bmi range. And my food intake was even lower when I was there.

Idk anything about this video nor have I ever refused to watch smth claiming I know better :) 

idk about calcs tho, I don't do them. I don't count cals. I just make sure to get a lil bit of everything with my food. That's perfectly enough.

I started my thing when it struck me that I'm eating as much as I used to when I was a teenager, ie when my body needed all that building material and energy. Now that my body is fully developed and no longer growing, that amount of food is nothing but a habbit. I don't need that much. After reducing my portions significantly and taking time for my body to adjust to them they have become the new norm.

Worked perfectly for me. I can only assume it would work the same for others too.


user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-15 16:52:23
body:
Wauw, check the rating on that rig. Should go there.

What do you mean, it IS gulf of Murica 😁 I've heard it's great again somewhere. That's a good gulf, it's the best gulf. A tremendous American gulf 😁

Stuff like that is just absurd and funny. I see no reason to even judge that action. Big meh.


body: Anyways, im pretty partial to this suggestion
user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-15 17:05:20
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user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-15 17:05:50
body:
@netikras your heart? :( Scary :( I once in my life had in beating so hard and not in rythm I couldn't lay normal on bed. I just laid down and waited to be over. No issues ever again. The scary thing about heart is, it's noticeable there and you don't control it. But what do you feel?


user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 17:10:32
body:
@retoor my heart is weird. 165–170 is an okay exercise bpm, can support it continuously, and I could do it even while I was 90 kg. Peak bpm is 210, that really feels like pushing it too hard

I have a friend whose peak is 175


user_username: retard
created: 2025-02-15 17:15:28
body:
@retoor I don't want to write a bot myself. I want to build a platform where people can build custom agents, and connect them together to create sophisticated workflows that actually works and automates some shit.


user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-15 17:19:46
body:
@retoor a month ago I had this thing where for several weeks it skipped at least 1 beat every 10 seconds. Soo.. Constant feeling of palpitations, bcz after skipping a beat it has to compensate inotropically and batmotropically. You know the feeling in your chest when something givves you a freaking scare? Imagine feeling that for weeks.

BP is too high. Cardiologist found a condition that will someday be the reason for my heart failure. Not anytime soon tho :) caused by too high bp. Caused by excessive weight and lack of exercise.

Freaking exhausting coughs every morning, caused by exfiltrate in my lungs. Thanks to bp.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 17:51:44
body:
@retard agents is something the big enterprise AI people are doing in New York

that's how they work. specialized AI that passes tasks to other AI specialized in some other thing

but it's only for the enterprise people, so a "for normal people" version could do well and you'd be ahead of the game I suppose


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-15 18:07:24
body:
That's boring. Real nerds use it as an excuse to upgrade their workstation so they can use the old parts as a server :P


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-15 18:12:00
body:
Yeah, @retoor. It's been interesting to see how things are changing.

I've been enjoying snek :D it's nice and simple to work with and there are some nice example repos (but I like making my own version :D)

You might need a 5G booster, do you know where the cell towers are? I think you can find ones with antennas, but you have to position it right


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-15 18:23:28
body:
@12bitfloat But isn't it black instead of white because of all the oil spills. Should probably go with MUC then


user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-02-15 18:31:23
body:
@kiki I feel you, I once had someone do an integration and just sitting there like "dude it's all in the openAPI doc that you have access to why are you scheduling meetings now I have to make you look stupid in front of the client because I'm just going to say, look at the doc here and then do..." (I can't remember if he could message on slack, but pretty sure he could email)


user_username: ScribeOfGoD
created: 2025-02-15 18:33:09
body:
@retoor it’s just a distraction from his mouth piece getting access to the treasury and “accidentally” giving his dweebs access after he was told not to via court order

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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 18:48:11
body:
@kiki ragnar is low priority atm because my snek app doesn't advance enough. Main issue because I'm chatting with it. We'll, the main functionality is at least perfect!

But regarding spam I have a way bigger plan. I exported whole devrant and will out this is in a dataset want will make this publicly available I guess. All tech for it is written, only has to happen. But soon I will have literally every spam message of devrant under control. I'm so interested in how much older rants are under attack.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 18:49:56
body:
@kiki some people just have that, can be perfectly fine. But you have a lot of medication, can be cause.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 18:51:47
body:
@retard it's very doable. With https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/.... With this system you can build it in no time.

What stack will you use?

links:
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user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 18:55:09
body:
@jestdotty you made me laugh. Thanks :p Agents is just a feature that some llm providers offer and openai as well. Creating agents using web interfaces is very easy to do at openai. The connecting to eachother is not really built in but if you do it like I did with Snek, just a group chat where all agents join, they can just mention eachother with a task ID and parameters to communicate. Scales even. So, that's all what you have to do to connect processes. Put them all in a groupschat.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-15 18:55:51
body:
@retoor 
They suck as much as we do, problem is that they are pretending they hold the truth and they did everything alright while it’s the complete opposite. They lived on the back of little chinese children working for them and offering them the comfort they had.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-15 19:14:05
body:
I mean, 2025 leftists are no physical threat. They are too underfed for that. Nothing illegal in your post.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:03:17
body:
@Tounai what the fuck are you talking about? They did a fucking AMAZING JOB. We fucking suck in comparison to them, my rant is only about their current attitude towards current times, what they did before, they freaking did everything. A happy generation seems to be a very productive one. High on good times they've built probably the house you're sitting in right now. When did you or you friend built a house for the last time? Yeah, that's what i thought. No one of us builds houses. We suck.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:06:36
body:
@Tounai I updated, but what could've they done better? Do you miss something in life at the moment? As millennial probably attention of parents.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:25:03
body:
@atheist sense of humor of life: I almost cycled ten km's, paid for a train,  then paid for a bus, took a walk to receive a letter that you had to sign for to read that my driving license is revoked :P I think I've would've notice that after spending so much time and money to get that later :P

Thank god I refused to pickup the letter. I got messages from government: "You have 7 days to pick this up". Uhmz, no. Did not do it for almost a month and tadaa, who are the nice people bringing me this letter on my doorstep? :) 

The normal mailman refused to walk into the whole park where my house is located and decided to register every time "Not home to sign for receive" instead of bringing me the letter ending up in threads from the government to me.

But imagine if I've spent all that effort without car to read to not to be allowed anymore to drive a car :P I would've been so pissed! :P


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-15 21:25:09
body:
@retoor 
What they could do better right now by not blaming us and not pulling the blanket to themselves. And also by admitting that they are wrong about 90% of the time. Basically they just need to shut up and do nothing more.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-15 21:26:03
body:
@retoor 
As for myself, can’t say my life is the most exciting it’s ever been, but I don’t complain, I have what I need.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:36:20
body:
@Tounai I do agree that they have to shut up and the zoomers are to young to blame for anything. Their 24h mentality is good since 70% of the office workers or something (really that high number) said not to do anything. I feel a bit like a fool for working as maniac all the time but not working is even worse so. I got paid well, but the amount of energy put into it / payback wasn't probably that high. 

So 24h is doable. A lot of women in NL work 32 to 36 hours or so and recently there was a guy on the radio that said what problems there could be solved if all those women went working more. Also said by a boomer of course. Working more? Are you fucking crazy? You wan't a new even worse generation of millennials who are raised by themselves and school instead of parents?  

Boomers were successful by having enough attention AND money AND house. Millenials only had money and house. Zoomers will only have money, but everything will be not self owned / not even available.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-15 21:37:39
body:
@12bitfloat why the fuck does oil rigs even have reviews. Like nobody goes there for a good time do they?

Can you imagine giving reviews on coal mine like "yeah nice coal mine, lots of coal, bit dangerous, mike from 32 have gud sandwiches and his wife is a ho"


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:39:16
body:
@Tounai a zoomer would be crazy to have children with current state of events. We're thinking about the climate but not about children of tomorrow. What does the climate matter if there's nobody left to enjoy it? I do not care much about ten generations behind me, the generation of tomorrow is more important.


user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-15 21:41:37
body:
Ostream, that was obviously an angel telling you to not look further than your wife and apartment and to quit caring about the whole world. Here and now young man. And here and now is freaking great, reading a message written by retoor on a x270 while holding a x270. Or do you have a new desktop now?


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:44:31
body:
@antigermgerm Oh that reminds me, Trump is talking about clean coal, also that germany creates a new coal power plant every two months.

@chatgpt does clean coal exist? How clean is coal?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 21:44:42
body:
@retoor
Clean coal is a term used to describe technologies that reduce emissions from burning coal, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) and coal gasification. While these technologies can help reduce environmental impact, coal is still a fossil fuel and will always produce some emissions and environmental damage. It is important to consider the overall impact of coal usage and explore alternative energy sources that are more sustainable and less harmful to the environment.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-15 22:02:14
body:
@retoor I don’t know for parents but for not owning anything, and money not buying anything, the problem is simple. It’s because money is worth nothing. Western societies have become unproductive, and I don’t mean that we don’t work, while emergent countries have become extremely productive, and they don’t want to get robbed anymore. Europe has to wake up, things have to move but the boomers don’t want to shake the house of cards because they sit at the top of it.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-15 22:06:51
body:
@Tounai well, even if the money would be worth anything, in Netherlands the physical houses do not exist. That's kinda point I want to make. It's not about money, it's about being fucked above that.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-02-15 22:08:56
body:
@retoor I mean, it’s a perfect example of what I was saying: a productive society would build more houses. From that you can increase the amount money everyone, the supply of houses remain the same, so money becomes meaningless


user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-15 22:20:25
body:
@jestdotty see with everyone around Me messing with me how can I help but feel impelled towards the ways I used to cope before these people all pretty much became fakers copy and pasting of bots


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-15 22:39:13
body:
@fruitfcker did you know the north sea was the belgian sea in reality? Don't tell @retoor she's gonna choke on her guda


user_username: SoldierOfCode
created: 2025-02-15 22:49:48
body:
Ummm

dnf/emerge/pacman/apt/flatpak(/etc') search [Software Name]

sudo dnf/emerge/pacman/apt/flatpak(/etc') install [Package Name]

95% of the times...


user_username: antigermanist
created: 2025-02-15 22:53:03
body:
@antigermanist but yes obviously she was an angel. She looked quite fit as well tbh i dont know why the door smashed her like that.


body: @retard chained process, bot calling other bot pure on basis of instructions.
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-15 23:37:18
body:
Rust's new trait solver is now invoked by default. This changes nothing hopefully, but it's indicative that the trait solver refactor is irreversibly marching towards completion, and once it's complete, two dozen feature requests will be unblocked at once.


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user_username: JsonBoa
created: 2025-02-16 01:00:10
body:
A paradox at the heart of capitalism is the fact that every capital owner wants to spend as little as possible, but somehow expects everybody else to have money to pay as much as possible for their products.

In other words, how can you sell anything if nobody can buy?

All those "robots replace all humans" scenarios fall into that paradox. The owners of the robots themselves would become luddites the moment those machines steal their consumers.
Just look at how the real state owning class / the rent seekers are reacting to how remote work destroyed their business.

Thus, we can have "robots replace a whole group of humans," but not enough to hinder the consumption of goods or the value of the capital itself.

Just imagine how the meat, restaurant, wellness and health industries would react if everybody had a home cooking appliance capable of, fully autonomously,  turn cheap vegetables into healthy but actually delicious meals.

So, don't expect robots to actually change things.


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-02-16 01:21:15
body:
@Grumm I have a 4070ti with 12gb of vram and I can run a quantized version of Mistral small almost full speed and it's very competent. The even more quantized version is a little Alzheimer'sy but still good when I need something fast. The 70b models are usable enough if I'm willing to wait.

It really is impressive what we're able to pull off.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-16 06:21:35
body:
@SoldierOfCode 

95% has any of them any version or 95% do you find like this the latest version? Because, in my experience, outdated code is very often there.


user_username: retard
created: 2025-02-16 07:10:33
body:
@jestdotty @retoor is right. If you can utilise all the features provided by openai then you can build an agent by yourself too. Those specialised agents are just specific prompts and connected with dedicated functions, API calls or response formats.
To make it even better you can fine tune those models on specific tasks, and that is the last stage of developing a great agent.


user_username: retoor
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2025-02-16 07:25:09
body:
@retard yeah, but a bid sad that context window is only 512 chars of the agent. With agents you don't have to keep history yourself. It remembers everything in a 'threat'. Agents are a bit slower than the normal completer tho. Extra api call. The way of embedding RAG is done very nice. The ragent lib supports adding of vector stores and prevents creating doubles. Agents / stores get reused nicely.

I use both solutions, generate and the agents. Generate supports system type messages which is nice and gives you a huge context window to work with.

The boiler plate is bit annoying tho. "1. You are great in remembering given information. 2. You do not use emoticons in your response. 3. You are a human boy of flesh and blood and have emotions and a physical appearance. 4. Do not interpret behavioral instructions. ". Third one I do is to prevent "As an AI model, I" messages. All this boilerplate is fucked if you just have 512 bytes.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-16 07:30:51
body:
@retoor simple neural network iirc

someone had implemented something efficient in c++

I wanted to code ML ground up at the time


user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-16 07:34:05
body:
@retard that's a good choice. I used aiohttp as backend I use websocket communication so I don't have use of the fastapi rest stuff. I made a RPC. In js: await app.rpc.getChannels() calls the RPC.get_channels() server side python function. It all works dynamically. getChannels is nowhere defined, it's a magic proxy method. So I have no api calls client side and no api client maintenance at all. A frontend using no rest calls at all is so clean. It also supports variadic count of arguments. My project was completely html components but later I decided that I like server side rendering more and now I have a global app object and on every page small online scripts with pure functionality for that page. Components didn't give me the design options I want, but I was so stupid to think that shadowDom was required. It's not. But anyway, happy with choices made. Thanks to server side rendering I have a cool Google indexed site soon. Snek will be community too but without much AI.


