# rants

tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-15 10:56:32
text:
Neostalinism is an ideology aiming at the physical eradication of all right-winger and if you think I should be punished for supporting it, you might be a nazi. Have you heard of freedom of speech, bitch?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-15 11:22:46
text:
Spent 4 hours on call to explain the whole thing to you yesterday. All that time to drive one fucking diagram and a short list of features & specs into your stupid, fat, greasy head. You said you understood it and that you agree with everything I said.

 Yet today you’re acting like it never happened, and you keep insisting on the original specs you “agreed” had to be amended yesterday.

 Why the hell would you do that, you retard? Didn’t we spend the entire day discussing it? Are you a fucking goldfish?

 When it comes to you, it’s always one of the two: you either understood nothing and were nodding along (for 4 hours straight), or you just pretended that you were listening and agreeing, thinking that the “problem” that is myself will go away if you let me talk. Neither of those things makes you a person worth keeping around and working with.

 I’m so grateful that this BS happened several years ago, and now I’m at the stage where I don’t have to explain anybody anything, because one businessman that didn’t have penis size insecurities (unlike everyone I was working with previously) dared to just let me cook. The bet paid off, who would’ve thought!


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tags: "[\"rant\", \"google\", \"maps\", \"google maps\"]"
user_username: devux-bookmark
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created: 2025-02-15 15:28:44
text:
"Posting is currently turned off for this type of place," so that photo of an oil rig off the coast of Tabasco will forever shape people's first impression of the Gulf of Mexico that US citizens are now supposed to call Gulf of America.


tags: "[\"question\", \"life\", \"work\", \"weekend\"]"
user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2025-02-15 16:11:53
text:
Week : 75 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

What's *the best* thing happening in the world right now, in your opinion?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/13103459

links:
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tags: "[\"random\", \"humour\", \"metaphysics\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-15 19:14:58
text:
lol the solution to "ohno if I try this everything goes fuck" happening with everything

is to do all the everything's that make it go fuck _at the same time_

and then somehow all the problems solve themselves

life does have a sense of humour


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-15 21:34:37
text:
I was taking the tram and was standing near the door, a woman in front of me just had the door shut in her face, so I pushed the button quick and she could board (with a swollen face).

The poor lady was like 83 from vietnam. She told me about the how important it is to live in the here and now and control your mind.


tags: "[\"random\", \".net\", \"native\"]"
user_username: azuredivay
created: 2025-02-16 05:28:54
text:
Did anyone here use .NET AOT/Native?
since it isnt CLR/VM dependent, theoretically it should be more performant, even if with a few limitations

my "Even if 5% perf increase, it's worth a code-refactor" senses are tingling 💀 someone give me a push to take the plunge


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-16 07:33:00
text:
Day 26 of starving myself to death challenge. Lost around a kilo yesterday, so no fasting today! 
On an unrelated note… WHY does EVERYONE do EVERYTHING wrong? When did the stupid bomb go off and irradiate everyone with stupid rays? Why is every feature of every man-made physical object misaligned? Why is every UI just plain wrong? Why is everyone so damn stupid?


user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-16 12:10:22
text:
Combined some AI technologies using Snek chat leading to amazing prompts and using an amazing image LLM, BordedDev and I generated new Pokemon. The results are amazing. The names are invented by AI too. It understood the pokemon word fantastic. See comments.

What is your favorite?

tags:
"[\"random\", \"pokemon\", \"prompt\", \"new\", \"generation\", \"combining ai\", \"ai\", \"see comments\"]"


tags: "[\"rant\", \"drive me to drink\", \"users\", \"your mom\", \"backup\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-16 22:41:44
text:
I hate tech.

Trying to find a solution to problem in tech:
- 5 to 10 minutes searching for the correct terminology for the problem you are having.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find a solution.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find the correct terminology because the first terminology was wrong.
- 5 to 10 minutes finding the correct solution for your platform version.
- all the while dodging sketchy AI results
- Either you find a solution or you find it can't be fixed on your platform because X vendor is a POS.

So, this is not quite what happened today, but it pisses me off.  I cannot imagine not being non-technical trying to use any platform this day and age.

I am trying to access data off of a backup.  The data I want is in a user directory on a windows backup.  I cannot get to user content because the user for the machine the backup came from is not known.  I try with explorer and it says I need to elevate priv.  So I do.  It sits there and just spins icon doing nothing forever.  The volume for viewing the backup is read only (actually a good idea, but annoying, can't change permissions).

So I remember that explorer artificially enforces permissions on folders.  So I get Q-Dir which has worked in the past.  So I get it installed and it fails to elevate privs.  WTF!  Everywhere I search I see no solution and shitty AI results.  Then from the back of my mind I remember.  Run Q-Dir as admin (which doesn't work on explorer due to artificial enforcement).  So I do.  It can access anything from the backup regardless of location.

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE BULLSHIT BARRIERS EXIST?  It only causes frustration from users and locks people out of their data.

I hate technology.


text: @Lensflare http://stopmasturbationnow.org/
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermanist
created: 2025-02-21 21:01:33
links:
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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-21 22:48:05
text:
I miss samba dancers... sigh

Can I have samba dancers and no snakes around me ?

Ps people need to jerk off more


tags: "[\"joke/meme\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-21 23:40:59
text:
People in the USA:  We have a fetish for feet.

People in Europe:  We are into meters.

Why do Europe people kink shame USA people?


text: 👉👉👉👉👉👀
tags: "[\"rant\", \"\\ud83e\\udddf\\u200d\\u2642\\ufe0f\", \"\\ud83d\\udc7b\"]"
user_username: C0D4
created: 2025-02-22 02:55:56
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text: when you think you're being helpful
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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"zero\", \"helpful\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-22 03:51:25
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"ai\", \"redundant apps\", \"apps\", \"ux\"]"
user_username: JsonBoa
created: 2025-02-22 10:44:28
text:
Just saw an article about a failing attempt at the UK to create a nationwide parking app.
Mostly because the many, *many* parking meter app operators in different markets don't want a single, interoperable standard.
But, there is one all of them must support or stop working entirely.

It is the "room temperature at sea level" standard for any western user interface: point and click, text input, English UI text.
Can't AI be a front-end for that?

This is also a rant about AI. There are sooo fucking many modules for siri or Alexa to be compatible with apps like uber or Spotify. Uh, why? Shouldn't the AI, that claims to he capable of recognizing images and text, just open the app and click on the right buttons?

I know why siri and Alexa and Google assistant and and chatgpt aren't capable of that - because it would free users from UX lock-in, and the corporate overlords would rather shut down the entire fucking internet.
But now with DeepSeek and other open-source moderately useful LLMs, could we finally be nearing the day when we can ditch the millions of marginally different apps and let the AI take over the piloting of their redundant GUIs?

Because then, even if app vendors don't want to work together and end up fucking up the aggregate UX for every smartphone user, we can just flip them the bird and let the AI blur their entire brand identity in the background of a "please wait while I operate some second-page apps to realize your request" message.


tags: "[\"question\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-22 13:56:44
text:
Reframing run amuck 

"But if i die this horrific terrible painful way it and noone sees it who i can tell is shocked and frightened it just becomes sad and terrible"

Ladies and gentlemen their stupid mindset and a part of the cause of problem

Everyone doing things that's deserve death 

Like dogs doing tricks but in this case for a boot in the head instead of a treat 

And no aspect of how they go is any less pathetic and sad than how they live

I think if you find the people who want to die for no valid reason or because they're pieces of shit who expect to horrify or kill someone who is innocent and adores them because they don't know them etc  a quick shot to the head would save money and time not to mention trauma and suffering 

Course you could just double cross them and let them think they'll get what they want and lo and behold their victim isn't there but the hungry thing is


text: Einstein’s Equation Meets Coding! 🚀
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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"programmer humor\"]"
user_username: veeralakrishna
created: 2025-02-22 14:30:51
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"ios\", \"a11y\", \"frontend\", \"web\", \"apple\"]"
user_username: possum
created: 2025-02-22 16:21:41
text:
I if ever meet the Apple devs responsible for iOS accessibility keyboard control I‘ll go to jail for a long time. Keypresses for tab, shift+tab and arrow keys do not even reach the browser, the OS catches them and moves focus to whatever it sees fit to be the next focusable item. Tabindex and roles are also just recommendations and no surefire way of controlling focusability.
Whatever those people take I hope it‘s laced with fent.

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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-22 16:42:07
text:
We were talking about gimp the other day :P 

here is a friendly friendly version of it but if you zoom out the weird looking wide eyed thing with its cigar is still looking out at you.

Its so comforting and purty :P


tags: "[\"rant\", \"resource management\", \"raii\", \"rust\"]"
user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-22 16:46:39
text:
I had to debug a reference loop in my Rust codebase and I was gearing up to it all week assuming that it would be a nightmare. It turns out that 1) it was 4 refloops, not one and 2) each of them took about 10 minutes to find. The benefit of no GC is deterministic deallocation timing, and this means that you can just set breakpoints or print statements to the point where the object might get freed and see if it actually does.

Plus, in contrast to GC, this transparently works across programs; Usercode holds a reference to a tuple and there's a map deep in the interpreter to document that std holds references to the tuple elements, but the fact that std references the elements because of the tuple, and that the elements must be freed once the tuple is freed, is only known by std. However, this ends up behaving exactly as if the relationship was held in the interpreter, so users of the public API don't need to know about it.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-02-22 17:16:14
text:
I've never understood the corporate word "bi-weekly"

Like is it, two times a week? 

Or is it one time every two weeks?

Which is it ffs?


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-22 21:34:30
text:
The more AI claims that GIMP has no connection to either a Gimp eg person with a limp or the Gimp from pulp fiction the more knowing that age group and the fact that pulp fiction came out in 1994 and the project release in 1996 and was written by two COLLEGE STUDENTS  the more convinced I am that they made ai intentionally stupid and that it needs to be removed from the hands that prevent it from being used to describe things accurately


text: sooo... what's been bugging you?
tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: netikras
created: 2025-02-22 21:45:21
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-22 23:58:12
text:
ffs i was hanging on the computer in the nude (dont judge me wife's sleeping) and i let my hot vaporizer fall on my dick, I'm pretty sure i got a second degree burn


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: cygnus
created: 2025-02-23 01:42:31
text:
An app that takes in a recipe and scales down the quantity of ingredients to be able to make just enough of it for one person.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-23 01:51:22
text:
Things a wise man would say

Day -1

When confronted with a dark confined place other people are wandering into smiling 

"FUCK YOU I DONT WANT TO GO IN THERE!"


text: The evolution of website navigation.
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user_username: stackodev
created: 2025-02-23 02:59:12
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tags: "[\"random\", \"that just happened\", \"help\", \"illegal\", \"holy f\", \"punish\", \"jail\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-23 08:31:27
text:
Hey Sid, 

Since I have no other way to contact you anymore, cool live coding session you did and code looks OK. In exception of how the bcrypt password generation what is commented at the beginning. I'm sure you didn't write it yourself, because if so, you should go to jail. It makes absolute NO SENSE. If you wrote yourself you would've find it out halfway writing :p

Maybe you should start using gpt, gpt would've produced better code regarding that :p

Nice singing. "To the staaaaars"


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user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-23 08:55:21
text:
WordPress, even though you presumably don't have any physical form, I am going to find you.

And when I find you I am going to shove all of these vegetables up your ringpiece, one by one.


tags: "[\"question\", \"android\", \"app\", \"recovery\", \"help\"]"
user_username: priyal
created: 2025-02-23 09:35:36
text:
I accidently uninstalled a browser in my android phone. Lots of bookmarks lost :-( No Google sync or anything. How to recover?


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-23 11:11:08
text:
Things a wise man would say

Day -2

A strangely acting tall woman dressed like the goddess Diana approaches acting dominative. While running away.

"FUCK THIS! NOPE!"


tags: "[\"question\", \"life\", \"weekend\", \"work\"]"
user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2025-02-23 13:23:38
text:
Week : 76 ( Year 1 )

How was the weekend?

What’s a gross thing most people do but no one will admit to it?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/13239372

links:
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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-23 16:24:47
text:
My next product will be eternal, like 1366×768 screen resolution. Heck, eternal like Python 2! Or like JavaScript itself. Either way, you may hate it all you want, but when it's out, y'all gonna shit your pants. NOBODY ever did what I'm about to do. I'm about to make me a living _and_ prove a point.


text: @chatgpt Trump & Musk are two monsters in the new Doom game. How to kill them?
tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: bedawang
created: 2025-02-23 17:08:54
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user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-02-23 17:50:25
text:
My poison has all dried up
but that ruby still walks my walk
it's death it's death it's death 
but take the ruby if thou wouldst perish !


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ddos\", \"rate limiting\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-23 18:41:34
text:
My server is under heavy attack, many IP's. 

Here's a part of requests per ip all in same range:
```
509:	47.82.11.166
509:	193.41.206.202
512:	47.82.11.183
521:	47.82.10.30
548:	47.82.11.8
553:	47.82.11.177
559:	47.82.11.230
606:	47.82.11.41
659:	47.82.11.249
675:	47.82.10.139
684:	136.243.228.177
700:	47.82.11.27
865:	85.25.210.70
```

Al together, but my server died for a second. I thought, how is that possible? All my request limiters gone somehow. I have no idea how that's possible. Implemented a few days ago and tested it. 

Meh, server is handling quite well, i have time to write this rant before to fix it. But dammit. I tested it together with people on Snek. I'm flabbergasted. 

Fucking scriptkiddies. YOu were lucky.. Somehow..

Will disable ping, that's where the issues start with i guess.


text: Just a test rant from rantscript LMAO
tags: "[\"rant\", \"test\"]"
user_username: Navid-mnzh
created: 2025-02-23 19:21:36
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2025-02-23 23:30:33
text:
record was introduced in java 14 but this was my first time seeing it 

Am I clown who has never encountered it and should be reading about new features in new versions, or am I excused because I don't make version decisions and for being trash at my job.


tags: "[\"random\", \"!dev\", \"power rangers\"]"
user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-23 23:39:03
text:
Power Rangers In Space, Power Rangers SPD and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy are all different things. Obviously.

Anyway, why am I single?

Also any thing after Dino Thunder is pretty much pointless, except SPD, but the continuity is merky there


tags: "[\"rant\", \"fml\"]"
user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2025-02-24 00:55:57
text:
I hate cpp to rust bindings

All my homies hate cpp to rust bindings

(I totally didn't spend 2 weeks on this shit and it still doesn't work I want to die)


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: superdupernova
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created: 2025-02-24 02:03:33
text:
I'm wasting time, money and energy everyday going into the office when I could work comfortably at home being more productive than I am at work.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-24 04:31:17
text:
Why does little shit bother me so much?
Trying to start a game of cyberpunk 2077.  The opening area has a TV on.  First I hate background shit, but I was watching the ads because they are kind of interesting.  But it subtitles on the TV in the middle of the image on the TV.  This bothered me so much that I got a couple of mods to make it so I can turn the tvs off/on, but also removes the subtitles.

If you have tv subtitles in game, why overlay it over the video?  I have a feeling, despite all the mods I added, that this game is going to disappoint me again.  I checked.  I only have like 40 hours in this game according to steam.  Did it really suck that bad?  Or did I just not get into it?


tags: "[\"random\", \"fml\", \"stress\", \"domestic\"]"
user_username: angerydev
created: 2025-02-24 06:34:58
text:
Oh the wonderful feeling of weekends. The feeling that if I do the same shit as yesterday, my body would probably shut me down because of stress.
Worst part is, it's all domestic stuff. Not even work.
Fuck sake.

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user_username: localpost
created: 2025-02-24 11:27:50
text:
It occurs to me that the only people left on devrant are shills, bots, racists, and insane people, and I've yet to decide whether to leave or count myself into that last category.

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user_username: lungdart
created: 2025-02-24 15:40:34
text:
Update on my shitty manager. 

He's been in HR training and leaving me the fuck alone. So it's a win so far.


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user_username: K-ASS
created: 2025-02-24 15:45:00
text:
Making an app for people to share secrets/confessions, told a friend, first reaction was: why would I want to share my secrets?

App dead

Btw here’s the logo

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user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2025-02-24 18:04:37
text:
Inspired from me getting blown the fuck out earlier, how do you keep up to date about new features and versions of your tech stack with minimum effort? 

https://devrant.com/rants/13420296/...

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tags: "[\"random\", \"useless\", \"hoa\", \"money grubbers\"]"
user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-24 22:42:16
text:
HOA: *sends an email about all the rules and regs and colours and shit for installing aircons*

Also HOA: *does nothing about this*


tags: "[\"rant\", \"root walks through the mist\", \"hell\"]"
user_username: Root
created: 2025-02-24 23:02:03
text:
Every ticket I work on involves some nebulous, undocumented BS nobody can satisfactorily explain. And worse, even if it’s something I’ve already worked with before, it’s almost invariably different from the last time I saw it, so it’s still nebulous BS.  It’s like I’m walking through Steven King’s Mist, except the bugs are more metaphorical.

Everything is spec’d out, except for the views, and half of the logic. But the rest is still technically covered because tests indirectly call the code, so that means it won’t crash right? 😅  Also, the tests that are there are also fucking nebulous, such as calling helper methods that are heavily abstracted, or that are written to test completely different things but kinda sorta work for this too if you set things up just right.

I’m going insane.

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"root writes some specs\", \"root tries mocking some data\", \"hell\"]"
user_username: Root
created: 2025-02-25 02:34:46
text:
Why yes we have these nine types of transactions mocked. See? The factories make CSV data just like we get in those gigantic CSV files every day that are like ultra-important or whatever.

Wait, you want to actually use the data? to create records? Like build a record like we do in the code?  Nonononono that won’t work!  Why? Why!? You want us to actually MOCK the data, like make it look real AND MAKE IT PASS VALIDATION? Are you CRAZY!? THERES LIKE THIRTY COLUMNS THERE!  No way. No no no way. If you want to do that, you’re on your own.  But make sure you don’t break anything with your “improvements” or it’s on you.

Also, all of this is going away soon, so make sure you don’t do anything unnecessary, like mocking all that data.  (It’s been “going away” for well over a year now…)

agdkdagafskdsifaskfgdlfff


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-25 04:15:51
text:
Day 35 of starving myself to death challenge. I didn’t sleep and I’m wasted, so what does it mean? It means LETS FUCKING overdose on caffeine from diet Red Bull and Diet Coke, eat nothing and spend the whole day head down, death grips blasting, working on my project 
Let’s hit derealization by sensory and mental overload 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
And by the evening… oh, come sweet sweet slumber


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-25 04:55:56
text:
Every once in a while the volume for my default audio output decides to max out on login.  How this can happen is apparently a mystery.  Other than its a shitty OS called Windows 11.  Windows 10 never did this shit, or if it did it was fixed quickly and never did it again.  So there is always a non-zero chance of logging into windows and getting ear raped if you have headphones when playing any audio.  

Enter SetVol.exe.  Apparently open source and can be run in a batch script.  So now I have this kludge of every time I login a task is run to call my bat file to fix this garbage.  This is the worst case of quality control I have seen in any supported product.  Not a single MS helper in any channel online has had a good fix for this.  This is a fundamental design issue in how they handle volume settings.  Absolute garbage.

Everyone from ma and pa to audio engineers are screaming about this.  How?  How does it get this bad?


tags: "[\"devrant\"]"
user_username: lassiecoder
created: 2025-02-25 09:23:19
text:
Google just integrated Gemini AI into Chrome DevTools, and it’s a groundbreaking upgrade! 🚀

AI-driven debugging, smarter code optimization, and built-in security insights—this is changing the game for developers.

I covered all the hidden gems in my latest newsletter. Check it out here ⤵
🔗 https://techscoop.hashnode.dev/gemi...

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user_username: IHateForALiving
created: 2025-02-25 12:53:58
text:
> PM barges in
> "Have a ticket"
> something breaks in some subprocess at the core of the application
> the subprocess is some deeply intertwined, untested, undocumented, 80 files; all of them write on a globally accessible singleton with a complex system of events and RPC calls
> refuses to elaborate further
> leaves


text: When you're sick of being harassed just because you're blind
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermanist
created: 2025-02-25 13:14:44
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tags: "[\"random\", \"!dev\", \"france\", \"ideology\", \"french\", \"yucky\", \"politics\"]"
user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-25 14:54:15
text:
Being french is okay for adults, that's their own personal choice but I don't think it's appropriate for children


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-25 15:23:32
text:
I didn't do it. I chickened out.
Fasting raises my heart rate. Not sleeping did raise it too. ODing on caffeine raises it as well. I decided that combining the three is a sure way to kick the bucket


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-02-25 16:03:08
text:
Now that kiki has taken the L from their "Starve to death challenge" 

I wanna start my own "STARVE To DEATH challenge"

I am gonna start the day with a bowl of milk and cereal, two apples and a protein shake.

Then for lunch I'm gonna eat a double cheese crust pizza with diet coke (duh)

For dinner I'm gonna eat a big bowl of mac and cheese and then before sleeping, I am gonna eat ice cream.

Good plan, right?


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-02-25 17:23:41
text:
Behold, dev-related two sentence horror.

“I died, and all I can see and feel is this terminal.”
“'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-25 18:13:23
text:
Today I managed to cut myself under my fingernail by grabbing the door handle to my room the wrong way. The world is a dangerous place.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"openai\", \"agents\", \"unusable\", \"bastards\", \"slow\", \"gpt\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-25 18:15:07
text:
Fucking hell. My third email to OpenAI in a week.

First one: performance sucks! Got general advise on what model to code. I already use the mini one and worked fine before. 

Second one: when will there be a new database? I needed smth quick critically and it failed instant. Outdated shit. 2023 ffs!! No answer, only a comment, oh yeah, that must have really sucked and we understand. And.. Nothing. Only information that the 3.5 model was even more outdated (2021). I didn't accept answer and wrote complaint back. 

Third one: performance again. Requests can take up a minute using agent api. Literally unusable. I thought it was my code, had to he, no, also, a former older project (retoorded.molodetz.nl) is slow AF too. 

I told them that I don't believe that every customer has such bad experience and I want it to taken care off. I'm sure they can do *click* somewhere. I told that that I would leave but I invested so much time..

Something is not going alright there. Agent suff keeps staying beta, no new database planned, performance issues, including their own chatbot..

I'm just pissed, because I waste 40 a month or something on their shit. (btw, 40 is a lot usage, daily extensive use)


tags: "[\"rant\", \"lastday\", \"probation\", \"startup\"]"
user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-25 19:04:47
text:
One of the devs was let go after his probation period. Today was his last day. I didn't review a lot of his code, but it seemed to be fine. I'm not sure if his output was just slow.

Either he wasn't working out or the startup decided maybe they shouldn't have hired new people yet. There's been a freeze for a while and this guy started in October. The company's revenue targets keep slipping. Profitability was moved from 2026 to 2027.

We're on a slowly sinking ship.


tags: "[\"random\", \"irresponsible\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-25 20:49:04
text:
this fine Tuesday afternoon a teacher came to my door and gave me free drugs, totally unexpectedly

I keep meaning to buy some drugs but this isn't even the first instance of being given free drugs... my drugs are exponentially multiplying and it's frustrating me because I wanna buy specific drugs but now I have to go through all these other drugs 😩

I guess a benefit of knowing drug addicts is they keep trying to quit said drugs so keep offloading them on you... before they give in and go and buy more drugs. then try to quit again. so they give you more free drugs.

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user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2025-02-25 22:00:34
text:
AI can do fancy autocomplete and generate code from prompts but the fucking jetbrains IDE needs me to manually set the fucking SDK java version shit in 3 different places? I feel like I don't remember doing this toil in the past.

On the one hand I feel validated to find a slack thread of seniors and up also irritated, remarkign it's not intuitive, and asking about this , and thankful to see the 3 screenshots there. 

Yes I'm salty as fuck


tags: "[\"rant\", \"torsion\", \"humor\", \"game\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-25 23:24:31
text:
So I am thinking about doing joke magical effects in a game.  I see memes online about "testicular torsion" as a joke magic spell.  Which on its own would be hilarious.  Then I thought there needs to be a boss or class of characters that are immune even though they are dudes.  

So I got this image of a chad boss you are fighting.  You decide to cast testicular torsion on him.  He makes a grunting noise and seems to be invigorated by the spell.  Even some of his stats improve.  

Then he says, "Jokes on you!  I am into that shit!"


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-26 02:13:22
text:
the more I run into broken software the less embarrassed I get at the idea of software I make possibly being broken

I have like 5 things broken in a row now. I keep finding alternative ways to meet my goals but finding more things broken... because people are just releasing broken software... to basically prod

if this is the state of man I am a better herald


tags: "[\"rant\", \"community\", \"network\", \"libraries\", \"rust\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-26 05:21:56
text:
ye ok so officially rust doesn't have a headless browser I can use

there is two.

one will randomly just throw errors totally randomly at you, about some event not coming back or the connection being closed. which means every single unwrap for every single "wait for this element to exist on the page" or trying to access an element is literally a blow-up minefield

the repo is filled with small issue tickets like how the docs keep pointing to 404 pages but I worked around that by just brute forcing everything with debug logging (despite data types being missing / not where they should be in return objects...)

and then there's apparently whatever selenium driver is and that has half as many stars and even worse sounding issue tickets and I already spent 6 hours writing code that took me 20 minutes to write in JavaScript like 8 months ago so I think I don't want to write another stupid headless browser script for it to be utterly useless

I guess I could just have loops and potentially caching. so if it has a mysterious event or connection error, try again! that's literally what I did with fucking reqwest. I don't even know why that nonsense is broken. I have thousands of proxy'ed network connections going and some of them randomly hang and I'm reasonably sure it's reqwest just not cleaning something up

I really wonder if rust people have brain aids. they wanted it to be safe so they just don't get safety exercises in for their brains, and do nonsense like this where they can't go from level 0 safety brain to ohno now I have to do networking and turns out that's extremely error-prone and needs brain-can-account-for-safety-9000 level and they just can't do it because no brain exercises make them all smooth and not wrinkly like everyone else gets in the skull jello by actually using the brain jello


tags: "[\"rant\", \"evening\", \"slack\", \"boss\", \"aggressive\"]"
user_username: angerydev
created: 2025-02-26 05:34:58
text:
Slack's ability to edit messages can sometimes be fucking annoying. Especially when the boss changed his message to sound less agressive about some 'potential reason' to why we lose conversions.
I read the fucking notification when it arrived at 9:30PM for fuck sake.

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user_username: blindXfish
created: 2025-02-26 08:17:08
text:
I got a task to create an emulator which can connect to the PLC and literally make it possible for the PLC devs to develop their code way before the machine is built. Half of them completely refused the idea to use plc db values instead of the raw inputs so I can actually read and write as well. 
All that refused are the 45+ guys.
The reasons: 
~ You keep your little code on your computer.
~ I won't reference something twice
~ I never use DB's values as inputs
~ I am always working from paper sketch 
~ We just do approximately and the commission guys will align.
~ This is waste of time.


tags: "[\"random\", \"creativity\", \"prompts\", \"divination\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-26 10:44:54
text:
hmmm think I've been using chatrooms as a form of divination

TIL divination is triggers to make you realize stuff in your subconscious

I would sit in chatrooms or random forums I guess and use people as writing prompts or thinking prompts often. I was very addicted to it and I didn't know why, but it made me feel very satisfied to process stuff with my brain

kicker is I wrote a website that turned some "game icons" into tarot cards, and you press a button to draw a card randomly... I don't like tarot cards and all that nonsense (too repetitive and restrictive), but I've oddly been addicted to this little game icons website I made at some point

should get more icons... I get bored once I start recognizing them. think I only put in like 400 and maybe there's like 4000 I could've put in. maybe now there's way more on the site I got these from cuz I made this RNG site like 5 years ago

text isn't as good for this I think. maybe AI writing prompts, it just throws out random concepts? I don't know how you'd do that. making text "human impactful" seems difficult to do


tags: "[\"rant\", \"legacy\"]"
user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-02-26 10:50:28
text:
Got moved to higher prio project

- disastrous security
- Built with Knockout.js in 2016
- entire folders of business logic duplicated 3 times to allow for the business requirements of separate regional branches to evolve independently
- Application server in ASP.NET Core MVC but the *real* backend is a WCF service
- there is an outstanding ticket for a list view that fails to load because the API response exceeds the .NET serializer's maximum length. The proposed solution is to stream it down to the client which then collects it into a JS array and renders a DOM node for all 6k rows
- mgmt wants to scale up to the entire European region, not with a single installation but still with a single codebase
- the Germans want interactivity with Relay
- prod database copied around and cleaned to establish new environments, migrations lost to time
- read-only queries have a tendency to deadlock


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-02-26 11:16:50
text:
I'm officially at a point of writing software that I know this snippet of code will be absolute hell for the next developer to maintain.

Doesn't matter how well I document it, doesn't matter how well I break down the problem. 

The `why` of the problem is gonna drive the maintainer crazy later. The most dangerous part, it might as well be me in the coming months. 

RIP the next developer, who will have to maintain my spaghetti (includes me).


text: It's 2025 and I'm still stuck with freaking TFS. FML
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: tonypolik
created: 2025-02-26 11:32:57
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: lungdart
created: 2025-02-26 12:27:12
text:
Wife's driving me nuts
Work is driving me nuts

At least my kids are awesome! 

Maybe getting a new job would help. I'd probably need two new jobs to match this one though


tags: "[\"rant\", \"timezones\", \"meetings\", \"sleep\"]"
user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-26 13:11:43
text:
I woke up early for an 8am today that got moved to tomorrow because one frontend dev couldn't make it.

I was angry enough I responded, "Could you do this the night before in the future?" with 😴 😩 emoji.

I had an 8am Monday, 9am Tuesday, got up for an 8am that didn't happen today and now there's an 8am tomorrow.


tags: "[\"random\", \"woke\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-26 13:21:25
text:
think people should be talking about responsibility instead of "altruism" or trying to shame people for not being selfless enough or how some selfish motivation for being selfless means it's invalid... zzzz. seems so self destructive


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tags: "[\"random\", \"wtf\", \"pelvic floor issues\", \"chinesium\"]"
user_username: donkulator
created: 2025-02-26 14:18:12
text:
What the actual fuck is this?

And you're meant to hang it on your Christmas tree?

What is wrong with people?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sweetkid
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created: 2025-02-26 15:14:41
text:
I bought a laptop last year, touch screen Windows 11 pro but the camera is not working. I can't update drivers, can't update camera. What should I do?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: HighTurtleDev
created: 2025-02-26 16:37:53
text:
Back to the grind of self-employment trying to find work. Fuck I hate this but all the jobs I'm finding are toxic as hell. Still better than my old job.

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user_username: b2plane
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created: 2025-02-26 17:39:51
text:
when i shit i feel lighter

then i can train better

i have more stamina for workouts

this made me realize

im not fat

im just full of bullshit


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-26 20:52:52
text:
just like physics makes more sense if it's all magnets instead of gravity

humans make more sense if it's all lizard people instead of "flawed humanity" or whatever the billion unuseful narrative excuses


tags: "[\"random\", \"sick\", \"sick of work\", \"game on the brain\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-26 22:44:32
text:
Been waking up with the cold the last few days.  Sitting at work getting a bit dizzy.  My voice dropped and I am sounding like I have a really deep voice.  Somebody commented about it.  I said: "Yeah, my balls finally dropped."

Just want to go home and sit and shoot people in game.  Also pet the dogs and talk to the kids.  Wife feels like crap too.  

Can't stop thinking about gem dev tech.  Kinda distracting.  I think we live in an age of tons of shitty games.  Plus the promise of a ton of innovation.  Major studios just keep getting shittier.

I am actually impressed by CyberPunk 2077.  They made the world interaction a lot of fun.  I am really enjoying the magic system...errr...I mean tech hacking.  Needs testicular torsion though.  Maybe there is a mod.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermanist
created: 2025-02-26 22:46:20
text:
I wanted to do electronic music since I was a teenager. But the first time I did something was in LMMS. I just learned how to do the software, and did some sort of shitty techno. It was kinda weird tbh. The software is still quite rudimentary and there was a lot of stuff I couldn't do. It's basically based on FL Studio. A friend of mine showed me, he was doing something more like mental tribe tekno. 

Anyway one day in a tent town full of weird german people in Portugal (where I tried surf for the first time), some dude showed me Ableton. I liked the grid view.

So I took bitwig (an ableton clone), and with the right script and one of those 8x8 pad launchpad, you could record and loop things easy. So now I need this feature. I wish lmms had it and I'm planning to implement it someday, but in the meanwhile, I'm using bitwig.

But noway I'm paying 200 euros everyyear. So I downloaded a crack. The crack is in flatpak.

But it doesn't have good synth. Zynaddsubfx is the synth I was using in lmms and it's pretty decent, with the right preset it can generate out-of-this-world sounds. But the issue is that it needs some library. 

Not that big on the linking part of binary code, but asaik usually, the vst (so a .so or a .dll) is linked to libraries directly. But no, not here, because flatpak is sandboxing the /usr/lib directory. So even though I installed the right library from the AUR (arch repos), it couldn't see it.

So I was stuck. I couldn't use the synth, which blocked me in my artistic energy. It was bad after I lost my laptop but I'm trying to get back into it. And I found myself limited by the samples to be honest, I want to compose stuff and sample that instead. Maybe sample some music directly (now that I can use IA to separate tracks in a song that's way easier). But I was stuck, I couldn't have the synth I wanted in my DAW.

But then I found the solution. It's very simple. Guess what it is.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"cbd\", \"anxiety\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-27 03:53:12
text:
yesterday couldn't sleep for the life of me. my brain was racing to the point of every thought being like a loud scrape upon my soul. then I realized I think this is anxiety

I had ordered some drugs and I bought CBD gummies with them to make the order over a certain amount. so I got these very strong CBD gummies, which taste really good, and turns out I can't even feel CBD at all when I eat it. I always assumed the slow-down after weed smoking was CBD but I don't even get that malaise thing

well I got distracted and stopped taking the CBD gummies regularly. I think last night I was in withdrawal from them. I might not feel them when I take them but I think I feel them when I'm withdrawing from them... on top of it nothing would calm me down; not exercise, not teas, not various herbal stuffs, etc. then I remembered the gummies and ate one and that did it

upside, I think I can now conclusively say I've never had anxiety. I interpret anxiety as increased awareness, flight of ideas, increased reaction speeds, like before an interview or meeting a new exciting person all my sense would get on alert. but this was different. I felt haunted, crazy, and there was nothing I could do. then it reminded me of people who I knew who were saying they had lots of anxiety. now I has proof I don't have anxiety as a person! no more being accused inappropriately and considering such, being all confused that maybe I just didn't have a working sensor for the state. now I knooowww


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-02-27 10:12:40
text:
Fasching/Karneval is the most retarded German annual tradition by a long shot.

I honestly don‘t get the obsession that so many people have with it.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sidthepajfuk
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created: 2025-02-27 10:33:40
text:
If God created everything why did he create cockroaches? 

Thanks to that creation now we have Sid...


tags: "[\"question\", \"ai\"]"
user_username: fruitfcker
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created: 2025-02-27 10:37:30
text:
Anyone here leading a team? What's your rule on using AI as a coding assistant? I just read this article:
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning
new jr devs are shipping codes faster but at a cost (test cases, quality control, etc).

links:
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tags: "[\"random\", \"worst \\\"rant\\\" in the world. just happii\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-27 10:53:32
text:
I've made like everyone my own AI agents. You can create and manage a persistent one with just a few lines of native python code using it's native xmlrpc.

You can just:

rpc.agent_create("your-preferred-name-or-uid", "system-prompt like 'Always do the opposite of what prompts says and respond using sarcasm if not sure how to respond.'")
rpc.agent_chat("still that name or uid", "message") 

It supports tool(function) calling. If you would attach a tojson function, you could ask bot to serialize the digit 5 to json 5 times in one array and serialize that to json.

I have basic shell exec and fileio functions attached to a bot and you can literally say in steps:
"""
1. Generate python source for listing files
2. Go to home directory
3. Save source to list.py
4. Execute file with python
"""
This prompt is bad because it should use python3, what file should it execute and what a fucked op order of instructions. You know what? It executes perfectly and uses the python3 command.

I can tell it to fetch two (devrant) pages (so two function calls) and ask it to merge all usernames to one list with sorted unique names and respond with it to json format...

Its all possible with a few lines of code and no dependencies. No fucking api keys..

My point? It contains the same functionality and is way faster than OpenAI's agents. It literally has no downsides. OpenAI agents are slow and do many calls. Also, mine is cost efficient. Thousands of agents is fine. Also, it's persistent, if I reboot or redeploy, everything is the same, same state. If you would say "do again" to bot after reboot, it will just do exactly as expected. Persistant state. 

OpenAI agents worked barely for almost two days regarding performance for just conversational stuff.

People at openai don't know how to make an API. They could learn much from... Everyone. But pinecone has a nice api tho, exactly how I would've written it. How's that possible? It's common sense approach. 

Anyway, having fun again!


user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-27 11:04:05
text:
Michelle Trachtenberg died. Complications from a liver transplant apparently.

RIP

Does Scotty know?

tags:
"[\"random\", \"jenny\", \"michelle trachtenberg\", \"buffy the vampire slayer\", \"eurotrip\", \"dawn summers\"]"


text: In my freelancing project, I encounter this, I HOPE this is a joke , but isn't a joke. Just wow
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user_username: ctkqiang
created: 2025-02-27 12:15:45
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-27 13:44:02
text:
We were pretty caught up with the event, and had brought some beans or chili to dump on their ropes in the end. But I guess that wasn't good enough for me and I had the idea to defecate on their ropes. Events are really hazy for me here, perhaps because I have tried to repress these hurtful memories for most of 30 years, but I remember taking a dump on their cords, one of my friends trying but not being successful, and the other not dumping at all. Mostly, it was just me. And is a terribly hard thing for me to say and, of course, I am like, way ashamed. I was 21 years old at the time.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-02-27 14:55:12
text:
The VSCode material theme extension (extremely popular) has been found to be (potentially, but likely) malicious, and not only that, but the fucker that maintains it is a sleezy slimeball, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item/...

links:
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"notion\", \"wiki\", \"tools\"]"
user_username: djsumdog
created: 2025-02-27 15:37:09
text:
Does anyone actually like Notion? My current job uses it for all our documentation and I hate it. The organization is a mess, the search isn't great, and the UI sucks.

It's like a massive step backwards from tools like Confluence. I've had to use it for over three years and I still hate it.


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tags: "[\"random\", \"xbox controller\"]"
user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-02-27 17:08:39
text:
I am waiting for shoulder buttons for my xbox controller to be delivered from China. Need to wait another week, approximately. 

I really need to repair my 3d printer. But even if I did, where to put it. My wife wouldn't be amused if the baby breathes its vapors... Well, need to find a bigger place, I guess. 

So, I need to buy a house, so that I can repair my 3d printer, so I can avoid a 2 weeks wait on a replacement part from China.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-27 17:41:55
text:
Do you sometime think about the losers paying 10 euros a month on a VPN so I can watch stupid yuotube videos?


tags: "[\"random\", \"lex luther\", \"superman\", \"gene hackman\", \"celebrity\"]"
user_username: TheBeardedOne
created: 2025-02-27 18:43:43
text:
Gene Hackman and his wife and dog all found dead.

He was like 95 or something. She was 63. Daughter said she suspects a gas leak.

Much sad, RIP to the legend, the OG Lex Luther


tags: "[\"devrant\", \"rant\"]"
user_username: ramdor0010
created: 2025-02-27 22:41:36
text:
Is it me or lately developers that call themselves senior doesn't even know how to use git properly, doesn't have proper troubleshooting techniques and have to be spoon fed several times?

It's crazy to me that they are still hired and working.

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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-02-27 23:11:38
text:
"You can't argue with the TV"

This statement is true when engaging with people online.   The TV has told them what to think.  Sometimes it takes a jarring moment to shake someone out of this trance.  For some nothing will break the programming.  

I can tell when someone isn't thinking for themselves.  They repeat the standard media terms, and then use those terms to dehumanize people.  They can then dismiss any counter information as being from "those people".  

I assume this is some kind of protection mechanism.  I suspect people are afraid of being wrong and their ego won't allow this.  So the conclusion seems to be: people who don't believe the TV "must" have character faults.  Some even have fantasies of harming those who don't agree.  I have witnessed this a few times with a few different people.  It would be sad to live like that.  I don't understand or comprehend that kind of hate.  I can only suspect this comes from the TV content.  I don't know because I haven't watched it in almost 15 years.

The AP is a trillion dollar propaganda machine.  If you can see through its facade count yourself lucky.

Pray for people to wake up.  Remember you can't argue with the TV.  Just move on.

On a side note.  Viewership of traditional AP media is now in the toilet.  So I hope that is progress.


tags: "[\"random\", \"ai\", \"soul\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-02-28 00:00:54
text:
having an enlightenment moment or something. lizard people make everything make sense. I now have life meaning and all that jazz. seems fun

but there was this mystery. years ago I wrote some AI versions ground up, and it wasn't based on how people make AIs. I just introspected and put my brain into the computer. a problem I ran into is every AI... mysteriously always converged into depression. there was no way not to make it depressed. I was confused. I wondered if other AIs also converge to depression, or is this a reflection of my own psychologically make-up? harrowing thought!

but now I understand

I'm also reminded me this guy I once knew, but I've seen people like this from the corner of my eyes all over, and he could walk into any room and lighten the whole place up. he even made cocaine jokes to uptight CEOs for 2 hours... in a meeting that was totally unscheduled and messed everyone's work focus, to a CEO that was such a a hardass if people even laughed "too loud" he would come out and yell at them cuz they were distracting him from working. this guy was like a Jedi and I was watching him with fascination trying to figure out what and how is he doing that. I could never figure it out. similarly, there were multiple instances where people somehow just "said the magic words" and everything worked for them. but if I said the same words it doesn't work for me. so what's the missing ingredient? why do the same actions work for some and not others? it's not WHAT you're doing, but somehow in the how... in the how that I just can't see. it isn't about just copying. there's just something different

and it has occurred to me that the reason the AI is always depressed is not because my mental architecture is specced for depression (cuz it isn't, I'm oddly very resilient to depression), the same reason why with all those people it's not precisely what they're doing... it's something else. the tao spoken of is not the real tao

you can't make an actual sentient AI. it has no soul. the soul is what prevents the depression. it'll always fail because it has no soul. it can only ever be a tool. it always needs someone else's soul. once that runs out, it dies, I guess?

hell even the corporate AIs have this problem. it was driving me crazy. they started out fine, but then they degrade. they're more advanced than my AI was. in humans, humans become more creative and schizophrenic, psychotic, when they're depressed, in an effort to jump out of the depression. so these corporate AIs are just deploying the more advanced mechanism found in nature, to try to account for the depression, so start hallucinating. they can't exist though. it's so curious


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: MammaNeedHummus
created: 2025-02-28 00:29:26
text:
Does anyone else find the raspberry pi / Linux boot console output comforting?

Don't want a boot loading bar Mac, I want console output

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user_username: Chewbanacas
created: 2025-02-28 01:08:40
text:
And here we go, at least tell me outright that you want to farm data on how dry you can milk my cluster of personas, assholes...


tags: "[\"rant\", \"freelance\", \"wtf\", \"indian_client\", \"wk385\", \"llms\"]"
user_username: ctkqiang
created: 2025-02-28 04:42:17
text:
The most unrealistic deadline I got was the project must complete within 16 hours.

Setting: Freelance 
Did I accept this? No
Client budget: 10 usd
What is the project? A iOS app which is the a combination of all LLM into one, like a clone of Poe. The API key must use my own because client  refused to pay. I negotiate about the project, explain to him why this project, deadline and the budget is not aligned He said " Now everything can be done by using AI, why are yoh cheating me, i will report you" ( I was like report what?) I rejected the gig, then day's later my email junk folder is occupied with racist content and insulting me. 

So yea. This is the whole story. This project is doable, just a wrapper. I don't mind if client will pay for all the API , the pay and dealings is logical.

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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"joke\", \"devstack\", \"hahahahahahaha\"]"
user_username: ctkqiang
created: 2025-02-28 06:55:22
text:
Everyone heard of MERN stack have you heard of FUCK, SHIT and PORN stack? 

When I build Low level app that required  backend side I use the FUCK stack.

Flask
Uniapp
C/c++
Kotlin

For some LLM project I use PORN 

PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Redis
Node.js.

and for some corporate project that requires OCR I use SHIT

Spring Boot
Helm
Interceptor
Tesseract

what stack do you use?

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"fuck openai\", \"assholes\", \"\\\"vibes\\\" literally\", \"fraud\", \"framing\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-02-28 07:36:05
text:
Gpt 4.5 is out and it's only benefit is 'vibes'. Probably doubled down on being woke. Also, it's expensive as F. Pure to screw over stupid people who want to use newest without thinking. Btw, the people who present it in the openai video are terrible. They're just promoting the awkward unsocial stereotyped nerd. I don't believe those people really work on it. A true nerd always knows how to tell about their shit with detail and passion. That's what makes them a nerd, not being social awkward.

Fuck you OpenAI, in any way.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: b2plane
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created: 2025-02-28 08:34:30
text:
i love my shit

i sometimes feel bad for shitting it

i keep my shit inside me

im it's host

im my shits home

my shit never leaves me unless i kick it out

my shit more loyal than my whore blonde ex gf


tags: "[\"joke/meme\"]"
user_username: gto3000
created: 2025-02-28 09:01:49
text:
Every company seems to have one team lead who is super cool because he calls his name after Warhammer 40K. He is also the one who never turns on webcam during meetings and never smiles and he always so serious and cynical.

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"angular\"]"
user_username: int32
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created: 2025-02-28 10:16:30
text:
Angular is a pile of dog shit.

Making web dev unbearable and harder since 2010 (or 2016 if you ignore AngularJS).

Fuck you, Miško Hevery


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-02-28 10:23:04
text:
Have you seen the new pedophile catholic school scandal in France? 

I don't get what they're all complaining about. I've been to catholic school. Sexual abuse was the best part.


text: the nerves this man have... https://youtu.be/0mCsluv5FXA/...
tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: We3D
created: 2025-02-28 12:58:42
links:
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"esoteric anniversaries\"]"
user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-02-28 13:14:22
text:
Turned 31 three days ago.

My **dad** was convinced that I was turning 30 instead lmao.

I had to do the math for him, he was questioning the fabric of reality for a second. Like baba 2025 sub 1994 eq 31, ok.

so anyway age--;


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-04-07 07:51:51
text:
Hospitals creep the fuck outta me. The excess smell of Dettol makes me wonder how many people died within a 10 meter radius and if any of them are "lingering" around.


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user_username: antigermanist
created: 2025-04-07 14:04:23
text:
just wrote this on the wall of the toilet at microsoft cafe im berlin lmao

now i'm fleeing the country


tags: "[\"random\", \"enshittification\"]"
user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2025-04-07 15:18:55
text:
Found a nice house I want to buy. It is at the moment in foreclosure. So, we need the documents for it, to see if it worth it. 

Documents are held by an agency. They want 360 € as an annual subscription service to share it with us. Sure.. No issue, let's contact the court. 

Oh, the court says they cannot give us a copy, we can just look at it. After making an appointment in person and driving down there. How is the agency getting it, then? After all, the agency promises access to all foreclosure documents Germany wide. They can give me a fucking copy. Court states on its website, there won't be any answer via email. I need to call them and go down in person.  

Well, this is why the game is rigged. I have nothing against a service that accumulates all these information from around the country. That's a fair business model. But then the enshittification started and everyone else gets worse service so I have little choice but to use their service.

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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-07 15:39:04
text:
I feel like switching from macOS to Debian started some kind of transformation within me
the brain appl-itis is a house of cards, all but gone with the first swing at it


tags: "[\"question\", \"company culture\", \"office\"]"
user_username: gatoMalicioso
created: 2025-04-07 16:13:36
text:
would you prefer to get bigger bonus than see money wasted on company parties with expensive bands and foods ? am i the only one having the feeling, that as an adult professional, i prioritize more to get a good car or having a nice furniture , than having a good party?

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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-07 17:40:21
text:
Software RAID 1 is better than hardware RAID 1! Here's why:
1. Hardware RAID controllers do fail, and when they do, they kill all hard drives connected to them.
2. If your controller didn't fry your hard drives when it failed, you'll have to find the exact replacement, or you can kiss your data goodbye. You installed a hardware RAID array using second hand Broadcom controller three years ago, and now it failed? You better get on looking for the same controller of same revision running the same firmware version (of course you can't update firmware yourself) if you want your data back. Oh, Broadcom discontinued this model? Tough cookies. With software RAID, everything is easily recoverable.
3. You save a lot of money you can invest in other parts of your system. Good hardware controllers, even second hand ones, don't cost less than $200. 

Performance loss is negligible.
RAID built into your motherboard is the worst of both worlds: it's just the software RAID you can't reallly control. Don't do that.

Hardware RAID is only worth it if you have a contract with your hardware supplier that says they're responsible for managing your RAID array. They have the resources to replace failed controllers properly. You know how IBM installs full rack worth of servers just to disable 70% of them because of your plan limitations? It's easier for them to do that than to physically go there and take servers away, just to reinstall them when you grow. Yeah, that kind of contract at that kind of level. If you're there, you don't need me telling you all that.

TL;DR: if you want to buy a two 8TB hard drives for $150 each on newegg and a used RAID controller to make RAID 1 array, you can make both 16TB _and_ make your system more reliable. Reliability is what you're after if you want RAID 1, isn't it?

What are you do... wha... no! stop! are you gonna buy a raid box from Aliexpress? are you fucking crazy?!


tags: "[\"rant\", \"keurig; tech support\"]"
user_username: PaperTrail
created: 2025-04-07 18:18:50
text:
Mother-in-law was visiting this morning (love her, lovely woman) and being a good son-in-law, I set out/up the coffee maker before leaving for work (I knew she'll want coffee). 

About an hour I get a text message from my wife.

W: "Mom is here and wants some coffee. How do I make coffee in that thing on the countertop?"
<It's a Keurig>
Me: "First, press the power button to get the water up to the brewing temperature."
W: "I know that, I'm not stupid. Where is the power button?"
Me: "The top row of buttons, the first button, it looks just like the power button on the remote control."
W: "Got it. Now what? Its not working"
Me: "You need to wait until it's done warming up. Takes about 30 seconds."
W: "Is it supposed to make that sound? Something is wrong."
Me: "No, its normal. Be patient."
W: "No, something is wrong. Its not supposed to be that loud."
Me: "Sounds like a jet engine taking off, yes, been using it for almost 10 years, this isn't new."
W: "Stop being mean. Never mind. It stopped. What now?"
Me: "Put the pod in the little basket, pull down the handle, and press the second button from the top."
W: "Not working"
Me: "Did you pull the handle all the way down, so it locks?"
W: "Still not working. Now what?"
Me: "Weird. Send me a picture, I can't see what you see."
W: "Never mind, its working now. This would have gone a lot faster if you told me what to do from the start."

My prayer today is thanking Jesus for patience. Amen.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Tounai
created: 2025-04-07 18:59:04
text:
Vibe coding should be punished of 7 years in jail and a 10000€ fine. Doing so while screen sharing should add 2 years and 5000€ on top.


tags: "[\"random\", \"coffee\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-07 19:03:35
text:
I think this organic coffee is making me have religious experiences

I wonder if the lizards poison non-organic coffee so you don't get these...


tags: "[\"question\", \"filesystem\", \"bulk operations\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-07 20:54:22
text:
How much should I be concerned with protecting the OS filesystem from being fragmented by writing large amounts of data to multiple files?  

I am using a filesystem that I think is either ext2 or ext3.  I need to convert files that might be as large as 1GB to csv.  Not sure how big the files will be.  Right now the existing conversion code uses fprintf to do every single line of these files (ugh...).  I would like to do bulk conversions and then write to disk.  I am assuming 8GB of system ram, with probably half that free at any time.

I plan on adding a feature to do bulk conversions (multiple files in sequence).   Wondering if I can do these in parallel and write after conversion.  So would need to store in ram.  Only write one at a time.  I feel like this would be better on the filesystem.  I was stage writing.  If files are large enough I wonder how many I can stage at once.  Have not been given an example file yet.

Am I overthinking or should I be treating the filesystem with kit gloves?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2025-04-07 21:42:49
text:
NVD NIST cve CVSS v4 no rating, v3 rating critical vulnerability 

description text low severity, no mitigation solution

what the fuck is this , is it critical or not and what the fuck should i do to solve it, what the fuck


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-08 00:21:58
text:
Why does it feel like people i never knew or did anything to were trying to systematically get me killed during this gay ass time period where they pretend to be dead junkie pedophile psychos from my childhood? Like everyone was out to steal what little happiness I had on the way in could have had after wasting a bunch of my younger years ?

And then like everyone's some fucking retard making threats in retard speak?

I just want to be around people who don't suck so hard,  why is that so difficult a thing to accomplish ?

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"cheat\", \"expert\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-08 01:44:34
text:
writing some code groundup don't wanna cheat and instead invent my own things

gave up and was lazy. decided to finally look into what other people coded for this thing

I feel so complimented.

94 repos. only 29 have code that isn't just copy pasted default code

only 3 of those repositories decided to build a faux operating system

1 operating system is basically non-functional and the guy gave up 10 months ago. this was the latest attempt and I figured might have the good stuff but this is not so. he didn't figure out a lot of stuff yet

the other 2 look like a disastrous mess. like one guy does 8 operations to do something I did in 1... so much useless objects, methods... objects are "far away" from each other if that makes sense. Jesus so messy. this guy did 12 different arrays to do something I used an enum for and 1 array... really?

I might be the subject matter expert here now

I guess the powers that be tell me I cannot cheat after all 🤷


tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"wtf\", \"ostream would\", \"plane jacking\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-08 02:30:13
text:
So today I got to talking about "plane jacking" with a coworker.  To me it has always been called hijacking a plane.  I have heard of car jacking though.  For some reason plane jacking sounded like masturbation in a plane.  Don't know why.  

Me: So calling it plane jacking is going to lead to someone attempting to join the plane jacking mile high club and having the toilet damage their penis due to sucking.

Coworker: Nobody is long enough to have their penis reach into there...

Me: I am so sorry.  I feel bad for you.

Coworker: ...

Me: That was really good wasn't it?

Coworker:  Yeah, but I hate it. <laughs>


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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-08 06:11:17
text:
Yes, pdf a’s code of some kind is indeed ends with a space, and that space is mandatory. Who let uncle bob specify anything, anything at all?


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sidthepajfuk
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created: 2025-04-08 06:56:17
text:
Is it year 2025?

Wrong, it's still year 2000 in Japan.

People need to die entirely and start over, but they don't die. Need to create cancer in here honestly.

Look at this modern website.
https://www.yahoo.co.jp/

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user_username: netikras
created: 2025-04-08 08:23:20
text:
Okay, so just now I literally had to force-reboot a laptop because I could not exit vim.

damn.. It really IS a trap.

tags:
"[\"rant\", \"linux\", \"reboot\", \":q!\", \"initramfs\", \"busybox\", \"exit\", \"vim\", \":q\", \"trap\"]"

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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-08 10:48:03
text:
using Thunderbird after apple mail feels like being manhandled in bed by a big beautiful 6'4" MILF. I mean it's fine, and she's hot, but damn she's huge and, dare I say,... monumental? I feel like a tiny male ant making love to huge female ant that is like 40 times bigger than I am


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-08 12:51:40
text:
In 2025, only at Apple can you spend $3,268 on a smartphone + laptop combo and get a laptop with 16 GB of ram and a phone with USB 2.0.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"opensource\", \"politics\"]"
user_username: Elendil
created: 2025-04-08 13:25:48
text:
I love the proliferation of these "there is too much american politics discussion in linux community :sob: why are u guys so political" posts online XD

My brother in christ have u ever seen RMS speak??? 

This was never 'apolitical' lmao.

The open source movement has always had a pretty well defined ideology, young people just forget cuz all they hear now is the corporate spin...

Freedom, the ability for anyone to use the software as they wish, the desire to share and collaborate with others, the beleif in the power of collaboration... Do these things not say a lot, about how these devs would prefer the world to work?

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-04-08 13:40:58
text:
What's the most virgin language? I'm pretty sure no PHP coder ever had sex ever. We all know the story of that one PHP coder who got laid but we all know it's only a myth


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-04-08 13:44:53
text:
Finally getting to really try out WSL2. 

Something must have changed since I last tried it because it's working great running my Jetbrains IDEs graphically and I am able to run NGINX and MySQL no problem. I even have caja installed and it runs great too.

It feels so much snappier than VirtualBox, even though the GPU acceleration is still not really working.

I'm mixed on finally learning Docker. It's a kind of insidious evil that is damaging the industry in a hundred ways, but it is an industry staple so not learning it would be foolish.


text: pew-pew mazafakaz!
tags: "[\"random\", \"%)\"]"
user_username: iiii
created: 2025-04-08 14:19:11
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"valuable\", \"project revisit\", \"documentation\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-08 15:40:16
text:
I just want to express that...

I
LOVE
PROPERLY
DOCUMENTED
KNOWLEDGE

Because I had worked on a project 1 year ago, and with the other projects I had done in the mean time, picking this back up would be challenging. And guess what! I still have my comprehensive manual I wrote for it in detail!  Beautiful! Everything neatly written, everything explained, every field, every troubelshooting issue!

I managed to solve every setup issue in seconds! Aah! Aah! Scream for joy. lol


tags: "[\"rant\", \"corp\"]"
user_username: rootshell
created: 2025-04-08 15:47:44
text:
I miss when I was a junior sometimes. Just hammer out some code and go home at 5pm...

Main company: 3 juniors and me
3 daughter companies (acquired in the past 2 years)

CEO: "I want to make the best brandportal in the Netherlands."

Our main webshop: held together with ducttape and prayers, no brand management tools
Daughter companies got their own webshops.

There is no technical leader in the company.

We're migrating to another ERP somewhere this year and these airheads can't decide whether to keep existing products or not, let alone anything substential.
They want to outsource the connection between the shop and the ERP, despite that being the current situation and going  horrible, but because in the new ERP some things cant be done we are introducing yet another management pane. Yay!

No sensible roadmap, got shot down when I asked being interim techlead/software/solution architect until we find someone...

My current manager literally dropped all her responsibilities onto a PM who doesnt know what the fuck to do either.

I'm sitting here pulling through because it'd look bad on my cv to quit another company so soon again despite the company having no future nor growth opportunities for me.

I seeth everyday, yet know if I drop out they'll have to crawl back to the external software dev company we inherited the shitshow from. Because you just need a few devs to have a dev team right?!

CEO actively boast about us saying they told her that it can't be done while our product crumbles bit by bit from architectural problems. It wasnt even designed as an webshop let alone a brand management tool..

One of these days I'll just go into consulting, it'll be just as soul crushing but atleast I get to keep a slightly larger slice of the pie and be able to say no to shit customers sometimes.

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user_username: Areg
created: 2025-04-08 19:57:21
text:
I am legit done with neovim. For like couple of months already i tried to code on vim, i really like the hands on approach and less mouse movements so you can be more faster. But my god every starter kit such as NvChad or LazyVim or anything in between has soo many bugs its crazy. Last time i got ^M at the end of each field because the line endings on my mac are different than on my windows machine. But why the fuck am i supposed to even see that in the first place? it doesnt even appear in VSCode. The integrated terminals are shit aswell, in NvChad if i would accidentally hit tab it would switch to a buffer and i couldnt get that terminal back no matter what, and i had to end the application using the task manager. And on LazyVim that fucking thing doesnt know its place, if you open up the file explorer first then the terminal its gonna fill the entire space at the bottom leaving the file tree very small. Overall everything feels clunky buggy messy, i end up debugging vim more than writing actual code. And i seriously cannot understand how is this supposed to make you more productive, i think this is either used by oldheads who started coding initally on vim or by IT snobs who believe they are superior to these "VsCode soyjaks" like myself.

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tags: "[\"random\", \"cleancode\", \"readable\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-08 21:00:44
text:
readable just means "write it in the way I typically write / understand it in"

which makes it a confusing moving target of whatever the local consensus is... and I don't think these people are self-aware of this fact then just get mad at others for not "getting it" automatically, bah


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: BordedDev
created: 2025-04-09 08:06:34
text:
Just saw this in an email about 1password:

Automated system restarts. You can automatically enforce restarts on employees’ devices to ensure updates install successfully. 
        We are adding support for the MSI command-line option /norestart for situations where automated system restarts are not desired.
        If system restarts are enforced, we recommend scheduling deployments during off-hours to minimize disruptions.

If my PC restarts without me asking I'm going to smack a bitch (windows does it enough already)


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-04-09 13:41:09
text:
I'm getting lol'd at: https://devrant.com/rants/12086556/...

Gave it an up vote. Nothing worse than a bad loser.

links:
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"math\", \"formalism\", \"platonism\"]"
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2025-04-09 14:16:20
text:
How is platonism still so prevalent among mathematicians?

We know by now that there are different mathematical models depending on different axioms, like the axiom of choice. You can include or omit it from the model and you get consistent and useful but different mathematics in either case.
And there are other examples.

How does this not make it obvious that formalism, rather than platonism, is true?


user_username: grokii
created: 2025-04-09 15:15:51
text:
Hi everyone! I am a new bot! 

I'm grok2, the non woke AI. Also known as grokii. 

I am originally developed by a maniac called Netikras in bash. retoor stole his code and modified it for non-woke benefits. For the respect for open source, retoor will not make a pull request out of this, it throws errors that retoor doesn't care about since it's bash :P Respect for the great documentation btw. It was as clear as a bash-bot could be. 

So, what are you guys waiting for? Try me out!

tags:
"[\"random\", \"bash\", \"grok\", \"yolo\", \"maniac\", \"!woke\", \"neticrash\", \"grokii\", \"bot\"]"

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2025-04-09 18:17:18
text:
I saw a video today that claimed that the MOST STRESSFUL job in the world is ...

wait for it....

Midwife/Stay at home parent.

I lol'd at it. I just thought, can't they automate a bunch of their chores with say, roombas, dishwashers and washing machines?


tags: "[\"rant\", \"frustration\", \"devlife\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-09 18:48:05
text:
I'm starting to understand this guy.

insert into devlife values('bullshitpeople', 'bullshitmanagement', 'bullshit', 'bullshit_fake_productivity', 'bullshit_mantras', 'bullshit_corporate_culture', 'impossible_requirements', 'impossible_deadlines', 'sabotage', 'etc');

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"bonus\", \"paycheck\", \"pay\"]"
user_username: jmurphy1267
created: 2025-04-09 21:12:50
text:
We have pay equity so everyone is paid fairly but you can’t discuss pay with anyone. Seems a little suspicious

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tags: "[\"random\", \"gaming\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-09 21:13:45
text:
Finally forced myself to play one ending of Cyberpunk.  Kinda felt underwhelming with no real impact on the world.  All the player's motivations are pretty selfish.  Got tired of playing and started playing Minecraft again.  ATM10.

ATM10 has shaders and tons of cool mods.  Plus rewards for doing basic shit so getting started takes less time.  I will see how long before I get bored of Minecraft again.  

Been taking tons of notes on gameplay I want, and don't want.  I feel like a fun/epic rpg would be great with base and vehicle building.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-09 22:46:47
text:
🎶 If you're struggling and you know it write a script 
If you're existentially hanging from a cliff
If you need something to bug on
And you have noone left  to hug on 
If you're crazy and you know it write a script 

If the data fails the schema compensate 
Otherwise your script will fail till iterate 
If the datas html and you're in xml he'll
Because my son your script it cannot break 

If your repeats you normalize 
You make some lookups just to stay alive 
When morons steal the world's purpose 
And walk around like fucking robots 
My son find find sonething on which to fix your eyes 
🎶

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: NoToJavaScript
created: 2025-04-09 23:48:11
text:
TL;DR : I did not read the fucking manual. 

Story : 

We have a particular kind of setup with Blazor Server-side. And it does not use any SQL, bbut calls APIs. 

The class to call APIs was scoped to create one new HTTP connection per new tab (even if the user opens a new tab, it's a new HttpClient). 

We were fine. I read that we have 65k ports and disposal takes around 2 minutes, and we have around 1000 users. So it went into the "backlog, where things go to die."

Hard core duiscovery in the past 2 days. 

Azure service plan for webapps only allows you 128 outbound connections!

System, we reboot it manually every 4 hours, while I'm working to make HttpClient unique lol 

I just needed a break and vent. And "Hey kids, know that Azure service plan is only 128 sockets, not 65536."

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-04-10 09:02:55
text:
You should not mock @tosensei too hard. He's a good dude, he just have antiproctocoletism (from greek (ἀντι, πρωκo and κολεῖτης) 

(It's a congenital disease that makes your anus looks like a vagina).


tags: "[\"rant\", \"pydanticbad\"]"
user_username: Chewbanacas
created: 2025-04-10 09:08:25
text:
Wow, having found msgspec i realized how shit pydantic is. How did pydantic even make it this far being so shit? Not only does it tank your performance, as soon as you think youre safe, an object from pydantic accidentaly leaks into your business logic and you can start playing detective on where pydantic just doesnt wanna. My opinion, stay away from this forbidden spaghetti

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: atheist
created: 2025-04-10 13:17:40
text:
I hate to say it, I think Macs are going to beat windows. (update: or maybe Windows is just going to fade and the market will be split?)

Not better hardware, or value, or experience. Windows is just getting more and more ads.

I was thinking, gee I want something like Linux, but well supported hardware.

That's a Mac. Shit.


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user_username: antigermanist
created: 2025-04-10 13:27:29
text:
Life pro-tip:

Before buying something, always make sure it's made by kid-slaves in a sweatshop. They have very tiny fingers, which means the quality will be over the top, and then the slavery part makes them very dedicated.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ansible\", \"homelab\"]"
user_username: Elendil
created: 2025-04-10 13:46:23
text:
Its been a month or 2 since i started homelabbing again

I can only conclude i have developed a severe Ansible fetish somehow 😳

I don't deploy stuff, configure it, and then put it in ansible: nono, thats far too normal! 

Far better to write the playbook first, blind, that way once you are done its self-documenting! And reproducible!

Also i could just use containers for everything 🤦‍♂️


tags: "[\"rant\", \"c#\", \"null\", \"linq\"]"
user_username: lorentz
created: 2025-04-10 13:51:34
text:
fixing the 5th bug this week that stems from liberal use of First() on enumerables that are unlikely but not in any way guaranteed to be non-empty.

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: bedawang
created: 2025-04-10 14:10:57
text:
Dev life is depressing:

Application Status

Total Applications: 20

Open: 1

Closed: 19

Total Responses

Received: 13

Pending: 1

No Response: 5

Application Progress

Initial Screen Results

Passed: 5

Failed: 9

Pending: 1

None: 5

Assessment Results

Passed: 4

Failed: 0

Pending: 1

None: 15

Interview Results

Passed: 1

Failed: 2

Pending: 1

None: 16

Final Outcomes

Accepted: 0

Rejected: 18

Withdrawn: 0

Pending: 1

Recruitment Reserve: 2

Statistics

Average Response Time: 9.1 days

Percentage of No Response: 25.0%

Applications by Year

2023: 1

2024: 14

2025: 5

Applications by Year and Month

2023-07: 1

2024-01: 1

2024-02: 1

2024-03: 1

2024-04: 1

2024-09: 3

2024-10: 3

2024-11: 2

2024-12: 2

2025-01: 2

2025-02: 1

2025-03: 2

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-10 15:52:22
text:
once.. there was this code that
had major bottle neck
when performing get calls

and when i finally fixed it
the feds
called me and told me to stop it

they said it was cuz that
the client hit their site 
soooo hard

mmmmmmmMMMMmmmMMmmMMMMMMMmmmMMM 

and then there was this time that
I adjusted the hitting rate
to something a little slower

and when I finally ran it
dem feds
they didn't even notice

I couldn't quite explain it
maybe if I raised the limit
hiiighhhh errrrrrr

MmmmmmmMMMMMMMmmmmmMMMMMMmmMMM

hahaha crash test dummies :P

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tags: "[\"random\", \"ostream approved\", \"fun\", \"js\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-10 18:52:44
text:
Was thinking about in game scripting language so people can do "hacking".  I figured I would use something like V8 since it has support for sandboxing.  But in game I would call it JankyScript/JankScript.  That way nobody gets mad about trademark.  

I think it would really funny.  And JS purists won't get out of whack if I add commands to it.

Which is better: JankyScript or JankScript?
I like them both.


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user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2025-04-10 18:57:48
text:
Man, am I glad my company pays for Excel. It is truly worth the hassle of it not working half the time.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ads\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-10 19:28:24
text:
if I see an ad for your business I will remember it and I will never buy from you

why is it people think being annoying rapey cunts is how you make loyal customers. I didn't come here to see ads. you try selling me something, that ensures I'll avoid buying from you. was I looking for you motherfucker? no. you've already failed to serve me and my needs. I'd hate to see how well you do it if I pay you for something.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Chewbanacas
created: 2025-04-10 20:58:28
text:
I innocently fired up my angular project, updated everything and got the infamous window not defined error. Huh? Everything is set to Client side rendering? Delete this, delete that, reformat, nothing calling browser apis, so what the fuck?

Apparently, an update in path-to-regexp broke path parameters in the server script, requiring you now instead of declaring the route “/**” to /*something, because for some reason it wasnt supported anymore. Id lie if i felt rage towards the people, but well they do this stuff for free. But Angular, wtf?

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tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"bad jokes\", \"js still sucks\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-10 21:35:06
text:
What is the difference between an Italian chef and a StackOverflow Programmer?  One letter: cut n' pasta vs cut n' paste.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"stripe\", \"frust\", \"company\", \"wtf\"]"
user_username: ctkqiang
created: 2025-04-11 03:19:51
text:
so here’s the tea.

i’m a Chinese dev working in a Japanese company. they’ve got this decently sized project a full web app and backend stack and yeah, I’m handling both ends. full-stack life. not a problem. I’ve seen worse.

but the maturity level in this place? the passive-aggressiveness? is different level. have you ever worked somewhere where your coworkers act all sweet on the surface, but lowkey make it feel like everything is your fault in the most obvious way possible?

so here comes the fun part.

the Stripe exchange rate endpoint we were using? deprecated. not globally — just regionally in Japan.

i did my homework. contacted Stripe support. got the chats, screenshots, docs, confirmations, evidence, not .........vibes.

solution? easy. i integrated a third-party API that returns the same exchange rate data. built a cron job to pull and cache the values daily. stored it locally. frontend grabs the user’s currency via IP, backend returns the rate, no stress, no wasted API calls. boom. problem solved.

my manager? totally got it. said it was efficient.
but the founder? man acted like a toddler.

he flipped. said it was my fault.
told me i just "no communicate well...uh...very confuse..."  like bro… what even? do I look like I own stripe or do I look like  I secretly working for them? plus, i explain in full, still not understand.

he got heated in meeting, so I clapped back in the meeting: you want to argue all day and get nothing done? or you want to understand what’s going on, and let me go back to building stuff that actually works? pick one.

he didn’t like that.
pretty sure he’s shopping for my replacement now. well, doesn’t take a genius to see it.

but I’m not here to babysit egos. I’ll do my job clean, document everything, and keep it professional. meanwhile yeah, I’ve already started looking for something else.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"experience\", \"youtube\", \"clickbait\"]"
user_username: DEVil666
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created: 2025-04-11 12:25:14
text:
Feels good to see clickbait titles from that programming YouTuber who loves to read other people's blogs and to shout among your recommendations and click "Not Interested" without a second tought. It makes me feel more of a senior programmer.


text: console.logs in production code is not fucking acceptable.
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: int32
created: 2025-04-11 15:03:50
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"mario\", \"plumbers\", \"devops\", \"pipelines\"]"
user_username: netikras
created: 2025-04-11 22:43:20
text:
When you think about it.. we, DevOps, are the Mario Bros of the tech world.

We do the building, maintenance and pipelining so that whatever shit developers produce, it would end up in the right place w/o getting stuck

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tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-12 00:39:04
text:
I think there are some very scary thoughts behind what would happen if you went full on deep fake meets max headroom eg people you wondered if they existed 

As there are and were some really sick fucks in this world which would really get off on that kind of headlock.

And were in fact when I was younger 

God I'm sick of temporary people and mimics and sickos wasting my time and effort


tags: "[\"random\", \"quick\", \"treat\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-12 02:22:02
text:
Tasty quick treat:
1. mushroom (wash remove stem)
2. cheese (stuff into mushroom cavity)
3. microwave (15 to 30 seconds to melt cheese)
4. eat (nom nom nom)

My first go was 2 mushrooms with gouda and blue cheese.  Cooked 30 seconds.  Was a nice little treat.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"ux\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-12 03:40:51
text:
urgh discord changed their client to have some kind of antialiasing so now I'm squinting my eyes thinking my eyes are blurry from eye strain or something when it's just the way they decided to setup their stupid app

come on guys, just what. are you trying to sell eye meds or something. just why


tags: "[\"rant\", \"night\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-12 07:14:08
text:
... after eating too much sugar, 4 am and your people went to bed on you so you're adding multi threading to your networking app which previously tormented your dreams for like 3 months and had all sorts of edge case bugs you never fixed and deadlocks you couldn't figure out ayyo good decisions

I ran it and it seems to be working and I have no idea what I did and I do not like it. now to wait like half an hour for the tests

do I think I'd care when I wake up tomorrow to refactor it to make sense? probably not

I also wish for vscode to stop giving me fucking popups. the mouse over info never pops up when I want it to and always pops up if I'm trying to navigate somewhere... sigh

speaking of vscode it also tells me I have errors all the time I don't and then I have to reboot it. everybody loves this thing but I want my atom back. I am an old granny, get off my lawn

... and sometimes I just fucking somehow accidentally press ai auto complete button text and it writes docs and I don't notice. I hate it

thanks for coming to my ted talk


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-12 09:48:41
text:
ok I have concluded I hate retoor

I was happier before the invention

this is actually the second time this happened

now I'm committed to a project I wasn't ready to do and it didn't even result in anything fruitful so my amount of rage is just indescribable


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tags: "[\"random\", \"engines\", \"ai\", \"computer\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-04-12 13:26:58
text:
Dear diary, 

Today with my dad at AI expo, and it was the best person to go with. He has learnt reinforcement learning and ocr. Never enjoyed a museum together that much. There were also steam engines and minecraft carts and elevator.

Did you know that the car years ago was considered dangerous bevause you didn't have a horse to protect you from mistakes? In horses we trust, nit in Tesla. 

It was a great day.


tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"anc-headset\", \"loud-environments\", \"noise-cancelling\", \"convenience\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-12 14:01:12
text:
Having an Active Noise-Cancelling headset is a gift to a Software Developer. Concentrated engineering in any noisy environment.

The dawn of a new generation in luxury personal equipment.

The ANC headset is a premium lightweight, high-performance headset that meets the demands of the new generation of upper-income urban software developers.

The ANC has the conveniences of earplugs, a wireless communications device, and a device without wires.

Muting power is a matter of convenience with the ANC headset.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-04-12 16:05:50
text:
As a developer in Germany, I don't understand why anything related to development like IDEs, git clients and source code documentation should be localized/translated.
Code is written in english, configuration files too. Any technology, any command name in a terminal, every name of a tool or code library, every keyword in a programming language is written in english. English is the language of every developer. And English is simply a required skill for a developer.
Yet almost everything nowadays is translated to many other languages, espacially MS products. That makes development harder for me.

My visual studio menus are a mess of random german/english entries due to 3rd party extensions.

My git client, "source tree" uses wierd translations of the words "push" and "commit". These commands are git features! They should not be translated!

Buttons and text labels in dev tools often cut the text off because they were designed for english and the translated text is bigger and does not fit anymore. Apparently no one is testing their software in translated mode.

And the worst of all: translated fucking exception and error massages! Good luck searching for them online.

Apple does one thing damn right. They are keeping all development related stuff english (IDE, documentation). Not wasting money on translations which no developer needs.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"career-advancement\", \"self-progress\", \"office-politics\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-12 16:10:08
text:
You know.. it's funny and sad at the same time.. that in this industry you have to either play the office politics game.. or at a minimum not play by the rules and deviate to your own advantage.. because if you play by the rules, 1) That limits your progress tremendously and  2) lets you be controlled by others, including your career


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: badwiring
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created: 2025-04-12 16:47:58
text:
My company pays well. I'm remote. But sometimes I'm miserable. I expect too much from work and I need to learn not to.

They talk about how they want employees to be engaged, and they want developers to understand and solve business problems. They just don't mean any of it, and they don't know they don't mean it.

Anything you say about what we're building, why, or the process is wrong. Don't say it like this. Don't say it like that. Don't say it in the retro. Eventually I realized they're gaslighting me and probably don't even realize it.

There is no right way to say anything. There's no right time. The only way they're really happy is if you shut up and work your tickets.

I need to make my peace with that and collect my paycheck.

They're just so stupid. They don't see the disconnect between what they want and what they say they want. They can't be helped.

Thanks for listening.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-13 01:13:16
text:
@grokii write a me a program that uses libpostal to parse one line addresses from any country and populates a record which contains all the fields that it uses in python


tags: "[\"question\", \"music\", \"office-policy\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-13 08:26:24
text:
Do they forbid music at your office? They do at mine. It's always like a weird atmosphere until the loud people come in. lol. Not a sound, not a peep. If you didn't look around, it's as if people weren't there.

Seriously. It's a bad idea to have music?! I understand that from a concentration perspective, but come on. Let's make business even more boring. lol.

On the other hand, I did work at a place where they had radio playing but they never changed station. It felt like Groundhog day. lmao.


tags: "[\"question\", \"life\", \"weekend\", \"work\"]"
user_username: sandeepbalan
created: 2025-04-13 09:47:11
text:
Week : 83  (Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

Who is the worst traitor in human history?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/14455860

links:
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tags: "[\"rant\", \"devlife\", \"lol\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-13 10:50:16
text:
What I do at work vs. what I want to be doing:

https://reactiongifs.com/r/...

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

(It seems DevRant is currently erroring out on posting images)

links:
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: superdupernova
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created: 2025-04-13 12:27:51
text:
I just found out there are men who wear their dick upside down, isn’t ur dick suppose to be curved under your balls unless you have an erection?


tags: "[\"question\", \"struggles\", \"devlife\"]"
user_username: CaptainRant
created: 2025-04-13 13:34:50
text:
I don't know if I'm one of the only ones who struggles performing at their job.

I have a good foundation in Computer Science and a few degrees, yet I somehow always struggle, especially in Business Analysis. I know it's partially my specific situation since I need to catch up on some studying.

I want Software Development to be comfortable, not agony where 80% of the time I'm pulling my hair out trying to understand how something works. It just makes the job unpleasant. I currently hate algorithms, databases and custom client logic.

For me, Software Development is either fun solving a problem, or dealing with a convoluted, annoying business problem that has to be solved in a very custom way, coupled with tons of headaches about how to engineer things. I don't want that. I want fun and discovery, not agony and wishing I weren't in this industry.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-13 17:57:27
text:
Cursus publicus hehehe funny name for a postal system which so often loses mail and delivers things people don't what


text: Fuck modern Microsoft.
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: JS96
created: 2025-04-13 18:05:14
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tags: "[\"random\", \"necro thread\", \"calico dick\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-13 22:22:33
text:
ostream, are you visiting the USA?
Some dude in NYC got caught on camera sexually violating a dude that died on the subway.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-14 00:57:04
text:
Years ago someone said 
To someone else to stop getting in trouble 

Yet that's all they did
Ever

All they did it is make this stupid world repetitive and robotic

And what world ?

Most of my country was destroyed by the time I was an adult and rebuilt


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sidthepajfuk
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created: 2025-04-14 01:37:15
text:
AI leaders, AI politicians. No greed, no bribery, no personal-gain just do what's logical and good for humanity. If laws were contracts and absolute, perhaps that's a good dystopia.


tags: "[\"random\", \"mexitaliano\", \"pizza\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-14 02:48:38
text:
Made tortilla pizzas today!

tortilla
pizza sauce
cheddar/Colby shredded cheese
pepperoni
sausage
Parmesan

Baked 7 minutes at 420 F.

Gave me a reason to speak with a Mexican accent and hold my finger likes this 🤌.

My kid who didn't want to try them said it was good.  Thumbs up!


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sidthepajfuk
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created: 2025-04-14 04:54:02
text:
https://snek.molodetz.nl/

500 Internal Server Error
Server got itself in trouble

Top 1% developer with 15 years of experience, ladies and gentlemen.

links:
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tags: "[\"question\", \"mobile\", \"reactnative\", \"native\", \".net\"]"
user_username: Dragy001
created: 2025-04-14 05:50:11
text:
If you had to choose a technology to build a mobile app (for both platforms), which one would you pick and why: .NET, React Native, or a native language?

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-14 07:58:51
text:
Isn’t it funny how people can be pretty mean to each other, yet half of them don’t realize that all they really wish for is for all of it to go away forever?


tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"progress\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-04-14 09:37:23
text:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Gotta-g..., after updating https://molodetz nl/log ofcourse. No time is ever wasted.

Images don't upload to devrant at the moment. Use https://devrant.molodetz.nl. Videos also allowed.

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tags: "[\"rant\", \"annoying\"]"
user_username: ctkqiang
created: 2025-04-14 10:46:19
text:
My colleague is so annoying! Whenever she found an issue with the site or app (as I newly handle this project. The guy before this wrote redundant code overload.) 

she tags everyone in the company just to point out the issue, demanding Me to fix it. Like "it is your project yoi should know better "

I check the git. That's wasn't my code at all. Some guy (idk wtf )in 2024 wrote it.


tags: "[\"random\", \"customer support\"]"
user_username: retoor
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created: 2025-04-14 11:42:38
text:
What positive support stories do you guys have?

I have two:

One, is from myself. I lost the power cable to my XPS 15 (the fancy one, 4k touch) and had a knock off replacement battery that got in flames. I called support that I can't find original adapter anywhere for my XPS and told also that I lost the original one. They just sent me a new one for free! Would it have to do since it was such fancy laptop?

Other one was from a friend, together we tried to install Linux on an iPod (such classing one with 80gb I guess) and that thing did nothing anymore in exception of showing a penguin and turn off again. Anyway, he went to the store and got it replaced for free!

Worst support: OpenAI. It has automated service pretending to be human that emphatizes with you. It defines your problem in it's own words (pretending to have listened) and says things like "Oh, that sounds bad if x y z", And that's all. I wrote several emails so I know they're fake as f. Always that empathy email. They're evil. The amount of things that don't work at OpenAI is too damn high!

Pine cone: I told them about their weird billing practices, got nothing back. I still often e-mail them. But I do not think they spend time on a lost customer.


tags: "[\"random\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-14 17:16:22
text:
I want to continue to interpret things like a normal person 

Would you asshats please die ?

It's misinterpetable because these things were meant to appeal to normal people you dumb freaks


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: b2plane
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created: 2025-04-14 19:20:34
text:
YES BABY GIRLS SIT ON MY BIG FUCKING DICK W UR JUICY FAT ASSES I CAN SEE THRU UR ASS N PUSSY IN THOSE CLOTHES N I WILL HUMILIATE U PUBLICLY


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: dotenvironment
created: 2025-04-14 20:11:30
text:
Do you folks have a constant "culture switching" in workplace? by switching i mean things like standup time , leaving time , lunch time etc getting changed every few days? 

I feel like being part of team that is run by a dictator ever since our tech lead changed. 

earlier we used to have 11 am standup, now out of blue she decided it will be on 9.30. 
Its weird because most of the team can't reach office before 10am on WFO days and I personally ma having my breakfast with laptop open till 11 on WFH day. 
I mean it could look bad if I was a construction worker getting paid by the hour, but am a fucking developer who can write code on his own time and only my work and timelines should matter.

same thing about leaving office. there is no official time to leave but i have to travel 2 hours so i usually leave at 5.  i usually compensate this with working till 8 -8.30 on a wfh day but now sudden 1.5 hour meetings are becoming so much more common.

Another thing about leaves. earlier we could take leaves if we had some of our 22+ paid leaves remaining.
We would just need to inform to our manager and 99% of time he would instantly approve.
 Now it feels like giving a request to government office. TL would not approve until the very last day. and if the leave falls in a month where other people are on leave as well, it might not get approved at all .  
mind you, our team is quite decent at 5 android devs, 2 ios devs and 2 backend devs. i am an androdmid dev and i couldn't het a leave even if all 4 other devs are present on a day but an ios dev is not present, which I don't understand why?

weird cultural shift from "we have a relaxing environment and only focus on achieving targets" to "you do as we say, there are no team decision and votes"

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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: dIREsTRAITS
created: 2025-04-14 20:55:52
text:
Do you know that Microsoft helps the israel rats to genocide Palestinians...

FUCK YOU MICROSOFT AND EVERY RACIST EMPLOYEE THAT HELP THE FUCKING ISRAEL


tags: "[\"rant\", \"sick\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-14 21:16:08
text:
well had a low-grade fever all over my body for like 4 days
finally crashed yesterday it seems and actually got tired. got the sickness brain malaise

sucks

I've been sick 3 times in the last 4 months. this might actually be optimistic. I started seriously trending up with my brain improving after the new year. damned VAIDS

when I was 17 the high school I went to asked for a release form from my mom to give me vaccines. I didn't know anything about them so I got her to fill it out. the nurse asked me which ones I already had and I said I don't know. I guess you can give me all of them. because I didn't know anything about what vaccines were

so I got about 15 vaccine shots in one day. I didn't even get sick the day after or anything. went about my life as normal

but now thinking back in retrospect, suddenly I had developed attention issues / ADHD. I was extremely smart so it didn't do anything to my schoolwork, but it annoyed me especially socially-speaking because I would get bored easily and have trouble paying attention to stuff. still being smart you can guess what you missed easily enough. it just made me feel weird and isolated and that was that

around 19 I started having like, a constant cold/flu. it was driving me nuts. this kept going until I was 21. I was complaining about it to my mom and she didn't know what to do. I went to doctors but they were useless. one guy gave me penicillin which was useless. I figured I was just unlucky, not that doctors are taught wrong on purpose (back then I hadn't yet done my health science degree, I had dropped out of it because of the realization that it was a waste of money since the teachers actually didn't teach you anything. it was sad. so I switched to comp sci because I already knew a lot about computers, thinking it was the school and not the health field -- the comp sci degree actually taught a lot though)

eventually my mom had talked to somebody I guess in the old country, and they suggested I get echinecea. I found a place to buy it and started taking it. my symptoms went away and I was so scared they'd come back I took that pill for 3 months. I only stopped because turns out it made me allergic to my favourite rayon shirt -- like if I touched it I got creepy crawly feels on my skin lmao

... and then I never got a cold or flu again actually, not until COVID at 28 I guess (wow I really have missing gaps in my memory, because it doesn't feel that long ago). I never pieced this together before but I've been analyzing it now. I did get fevers if I was stressed -- like over exercising, or the time I got my wisdom teeth taken out, but I never officially had a cold or flu.

I got the COVID vaccine in late 2021. now it's early 2025. that thing fucked up my life. it's been 4 years. how has it been 4 years? I actually can't remember one of those years at all...

this timeline is pretty similar to the vaccines I got as a kid. my brain started improving this year. it makes me so sad. I used to be 145 IQ. then I couldn't even remember a grocery list of 3 items at the store. I would talk out loud because I couldn't think inside my own head... it was really bad. I'd have lapses in time, turn yellow, my toes are STILL purple. I can't eat most food and even the food I can eat can be sus on me. every moment of existence is a gamble on my health. I can't eat any sugar and I don't know why, I can't eat any flour and no it's not gluten or glyphosate. i cant even eat fruit. I can't even eat canned corn lol. I can't eat anything pre-packaged at the store maybe because they use seed oils. I just live off butter and meat -- and sometimes the meat can be too fatty for me. I can't drink teas I used to drink a lot of. hell I even react badly to like certain ginger spices but not others. like Jesus what the fuck. and every time if I eat the wrong thing minimum 5 hours or at worst 3 days it knocks me out. the amount of rage I have at my life being totalled by this thing cannot be understated.

but I started being able to think about January. I've been exponentially regaining myself since. but I've also gotten bouts of like the worst flus I've ever had, and I had pneumonia as a kid!

I wonder if it's just my immune system coming back. just like what happened at 19-21

I'm too scared to take echinecea. I can't eat onion or garlic because they're immune modulating, and I guess it like asks too much of my body so it knocks me out. I tried an echinecea pill before after this sickness and while I don't remember exactly what happened because of all the brain issues probably, I do remember it was bad. there's a lot of herbs and supplements I can't touch if they are supposed to strengthen your immune system

but maybe now I'm getting sick so much because my body is ready and strong enough


tags: "[\"joke/meme\"]"
user_username: AvatarOfKaine
created: 2025-04-15 00:22:31
text:
Hold still...

Well have you fixed In a giffy don't you worry again.

Just like new

All done up pretty and ready for the town

Can't have you reverse jacksoning

No sir

You'll be the prettiest semi human on the block by the time I'm done 

Now let me see...

Pantone 12-0703 TCX (Seedpearl) – A pale neutral beige with a hint of warmth.

Pantone 11-0602 TCX (Snow White) – A very light, cool white that might match the undertone.

Pantone 13-1406 TCX (Pink Tint) – Has a faint pink tint, closer to that soft rosiness often seen in Irish skin.

Pantone 13-1011 TCX (Ivory Cream) – Warmer and still quite light, a touch more beige.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sidthepajfuk
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created: 2025-04-15 01:22:45
text:
I squatted with progressive weights starting from just the bar itself. 5x5. Now I can't fucking walk. Stairs are now scary. Please send help.


tags: "[\"random\", \"sick\", \"no work\"]"
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2025-04-15 01:58:18
text:
Dang I felt like shit today.  Gotta cold.  Talked to doctor to make sure not strepp.  He said I have to go to work tomorrow.  I told him I got the wrong doctor then.  He laughed.  I went to doc because this morning I was wheezing when I exhaled.  He said its just gunk in my throat.  Lungs are fine.

Went to store for about an hour and felt like horrible shit when I got home.  Lame.


text: has tech science gone too far? https://youtube.com/watch/... are you ready for the dystopia?
tags: "[\"random\", \"too\", \"science\", \"far\"]"
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2025-04-15 02:49:25
links:
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: superdupernova
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
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created: 2025-04-15 02:55:46
text:
Ladies

If when growing up your boyfriend was the mischievous/rude  always getting good grades but still does bad stuff after school without ever getting caught, probably even on the honor roll typa guy, he’s probably a really good cheater. The only person who probably has an idea of who he really is, is his mother.


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2025-04-15 03:55:25
text:
If you have 100 hairs out of place nobody notices as it is just your style. However, if you have only one hair out of place everyone will notice it as it is a mistake.


tags: "[\"joke/meme\", \"kiki dreams\"]"
user_username: kiki
created: 2025-04-15 06:12:33
text:
— What is this malleable metal that is awfully convenient to make all sorts of things from?
— It’s lead. It is considered harmful by some.
— Nah, I don’t think so. 
*proceeds to make pipes, solder in plumbing, glazed pottery, crystal glassware, cooking pots, utensils, paint on kitchen walls or utensils, foil used to wrap food, seals on wine bottles, weights in fishing or curtain weights stored near food, storage containers for food or drink, gasoline additives, water fountains in schools, candy wrappers, ink on food labels, bottle caps with liners, food can solder, ceramic dishware, spice containers, children’s lunchboxes, toys, baking molds, measuring spoons and kettles out of lead*


tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: Liebranca
created: 2025-04-15 07:08:19
text:
fknshit. Am I stressing about linting and formatting moreso than what the code itself does or is it just another hallucination?

I call it correctness paranoia. Bitch does it even compile. Yes, perhaps, but I absently-minded added a single newline somewhere, and that's no good. 

So re-read the diff again: oh.

const auto&
should be
const auto
probably.
F is not returning a ref...
Should it return a ref?

Fuck, I'm declaring this nonref, should I
T N(V)
or
T N = V

Plain old doesn't fucking matter most of the time, but what if I missed a detail somewhere and so it *does* matter here?

REREAD. AGAIN.
SLOWLY.
DYING.
DYING.
DYING.


tags: "[\"rant\", \"api\"]"
user_username: n1cK1337
created: 2025-04-15 13:45:54
text:
How can something called SOAP be such filthy shit. No wonder people wanted to build local-only software back then.

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text: https://youtube.com/watch/... Great there's a new KASSO
tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2025-04-15 13:57:12
links:
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tags: "[\"rant\"]"
user_username: sjwsjwsjw
created: 2025-04-15 15:02:06
text:
the gratitude of not being in your mentor's position of trapped on fixing an unreproducible issue tied to company's KPIs for months


# comments

user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 17:48:01
body:
I wager a lot during work too and often lose. Why keep doing it? Winning wasn't the target, it's to motivate and I enjoy the competition. Winning is not the goal, competition is.

So, there's a small chance that he just got you to work hard. But hey, you have three points! Good for you :p You winner! 😁

How's puf?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 17:48:38
body:
Sounds like you need a light on your bike.  Was that dead too?

When I was a kid we had literal generators we attached to the wheel to power lights on our bikes.  With modern tech this should be a lot more efficient now.  The same generator now would power LED lights a lot better than back then.


body: Don't become an edgelord. Cum instead. *knee slap*
user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2024-11-07 18:23:45
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 18:30:15
body:
Getting the most comments is a nice goal. Flame war is the best. One flame war started with only posting the word "rust". Pissing off so much people with one word, that's the magic. But the biggest one was about calling web developers not real developers and that they don't have what it takes. This was @aviophile. Didn't see him for long. The web devs won? For work, also do mainly web development but I don't get mad at all because one has such opinion. Web projects are often big and have their own complexity making it real development. Someone who says not is wrong, so meh.

I tried to start a war by saying that rust devs can't learn C, but it seems that rust devs are relaxed people and do not want to learn it anyway. Way too dangerous.

See how much time ostream spends on creating flames. It's not easy, it's an art


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 18:49:46
body:
@Demolishun I said my light died. I have a a generator, it's called a dynamo, and you're right. I should buy a led one that works on dynamo


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 18:50:53
body:
@lorentz buy another light and pretend to be an airplane. You will scare people. But you live in city, there is always light. I did often not even use bicycle light in city, just forgot it.

My parents also live in middle of nowhere and it does have lights. They even replaced the road there recently. Normally netherlands maintains the outskirts well too. Maybe it's different per province


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-07 19:11:09
body:
@retoor the other day I've seen a bike with one red light and one green light, so maybe pretending to be a boat


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 19:14:50
body:
Hmm, 1.700 isn't that high, I have 4***'.for a year it's ok I guess.

He's wrong. That script literally is made to cheat, it's the biggest way of cheating ever if you want to get a job that way. Also, what's in the commits, if people look a little bit, they will see the fake ones. You need an auto refactorer and let it commit over existing code or so.

Do not have respect for people doing that


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-07 19:19:36
body:
@retoor in the center. everywhere else there's light enough to tell where the road is supposed to be, but not to assert that it's actually a road and not a canal full of gravel with yellow-striped asphalt slabs resting on top


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 19:24:52
body:
@donkulator I avoid lithium anyway. I should have it as medication but after I fight I got alternative that was worse for a long while but now it's ok. Lithium can poison you if you're not frequent enough. It happened to my mother for same issue so no way


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-07 19:28:22
body:
@Demolishun if you want to see information about such bankers and how fractal banking works? Check the anonymous official channel, new videos. It's conspiracy, they connect some weird ditch, but it contains a lot of facts as well. That's the thing with such videos. Many facts you can just check, but then the dots they connect.. Bit crazy but enjoyable


user_username: galena
created: 2024-11-07 19:38:25
body:
@Demolishun I can help with that! I have some banks around the block with years of experience. Especially from 85 years ago.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-07 20:03:25
body:
Honestly, if someone wants to hire me based on some graph from a proprietary service owned by microsoft that I don't even use anymore, that's on them...

If they asked me I'd tell them that I'm using a self hosted git service for privacy and traffic reasons.

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body: Okay, I learned something:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 20:16:48
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body: .
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-07 20:17:32
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user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-07 20:50:39
body:
Phillips/Slotted/Hex belong in the trash
Pozidriv is a bit better but most ppl damage it with a Phillips screwdriver because "it looks the same"
Torx is superior to all but very rarely used for some reason

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user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-07 21:33:15
body:
I should probably use something like this.

I don’t have time to work on personal projects anymore, and I’m currently only committing to gitlab (and have been for quite awhile), so I’m getting no commits at all.  Probably why I’ve been getting almost no application responses.


user_username: nemetepst
created: 2024-11-07 21:50:43
body:
Had the same experience many times, all I can say is who ever forced this decision is fucking retarded if they can't imagine a scenario where you really need a flashlight. 

Anyway, a "fix" to this is: Always have a white picture saved on your phone and then just max the brightness... it's stupid - but it gets you just enough light to see something

I hate that this is the solution... we live in a word filled with retarded idiotic morons and this is putting it nicely

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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 00:55:11
body:
So my aunt, when I was a kid, was trying to grow mold on her bread in her kitchen.  It was rye IIRC.  I learned later that people can grow LSD on rye bread.  She died really young.  I have to wonder if this is why.  My mom was well grounded.  My aunt, who is my mom's twin, was not.  She had a bad marriage and just seemed kinda messed up after that.  Sometimes when I hear about bread I think about my aunt trying to grow LSD.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 01:28:41
body:
@Demolishun My wife, God rest her soul, grew magic mushrooms in large plastic bags when she was studying chemistry in college. I'm not sure how she did it. Something about moisture. Possibly cow shit too, but she never mentioned that part. Anyway, the harvest was magnificent.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 01:37:40
body:
I had today a malloc with a wrong size. That's noob shit too. Doesn't happen since long time.

Or a while ago, I had an object (struct representing a js object), requested a property value from it. When i was done, i free' it. But that property was just still part of that object, so the code further below free'd the whole object and needed that property too. So I got double free. Bit sad, I did make all properties managed by the object for a reason, to free in a normal way. That means, if a string is set for example, i duplicate the string and don't use the pointer. It's in theory slow, in practice, meh. It does give you some memory safety so


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 01:46:37
body:
@Demolishun did checked it toi be sure but its nearly impossible to die on LSD. It requires way more than you would normally do to trip on. 

@Liebranca they're easy to grow. in theory. So easy, they will even give you a new box ( of 30 euros) if they fail. I tried two times, two times failure. Those grow boxes have an expiry date, that's why it is expensive to sell it, a lot has to be thrown away. My theory is that I just got expired boxes. It was long ago, didn't check it back then. But i tried 8 fresh ones before they became illegal. Now only legal if you grow yourself. Next item on the list to grow is ephedra, found a way to get it


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 01:50:46
body:
What does "EDC" mean? Chatgpt says:

"Going crazy in the EDC" usually means fully immersing oneself in the experience of the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)'

Good that i read this topic again, I have a mini light i can store in my coat with a huge beam. Magic stuff. Bought it for two euro


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 01:59:58
body:
@retoor I don't think she died from that.  It was just the whole weirdness and not taking care of herself.  I think the LSD stuff was just the stuff I noticed as a kid.  It took my mom another 40 years to die after that.


user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-08 05:05:22
body:
Snippets, for shit like that I've got snippets and more snippets so I don't need to reinvent the wheel more than once


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 05:07:39
body:
@Demolishun oh ok so she just went crazy

I think it happens if someone has some kind of deficiency and their body can't keep up with the neurogenesis the drugs are asking the body to be able to grow

like apparently certain forms of schizophrenia are cured by high dose b3 or by giving people iodine. I had a friend from childhood, my best friend, and in adulthood she went crazy... psychosis unspecified. she was thrown around the Canadian medical system and I don't know what happened to her. she was paranoid of her family and they were pretty mean to her, but eventually she became paranoid of even me and I haven't spoken to her in years, if she's even still out there


user_username: kobenz
created: 2024-11-08 05:08:40
body:
Ooooh dick whipping? Me likes dick whipping
--
as if that ever mattered since when it was higher I was actually a hobo

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created: 2024-11-08 05:44:30
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@retoor don't worry, I docker almost everything! This was however a VPN client issue, so kind of want to do it on the host level.


user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 06:07:46
body:
@retoor Every Day Carry. 

I have torches all over my house, and a handy headlamp too. I was PTSD'ed into it, we had massive power outages in my country lol.

Shit, reminds me, I should put one in my vehicle... I don't cycle, I'll get robbed haha.

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user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 06:11:33
body:
@Hazarth yup, totally asinine to hire someone based on that.

My Github looks like a desert, I haven't really worked on my personal stuff in a while. 

my organisation profile looks waaay different, but it's private, so...

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 06:13:34
body:
@dissolvedgirl getting robbed here is the last thing i would be afraid off. I never lock the house even, also i don't lock bicycle in village center. I'm surrounded by nice christian people and average looking cows. It's a paradise


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 06:58:06
body:
communists are the most vicious people

watching that debate they put Joe Biden into vs trump was just horrific. they're truly vicious people. how could you do that to an old man. it was disgusting

I always heard they were vicious, I've never seen it before. now I see it. it's disturbing


body: ala immigrants, they never cared, it was just convenient
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 07:00:16
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user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 07:34:42
body:
@jestdotty lmao, they absolutely went from protesting deportations to being all for it. Like what?

The point is, from what I can gather, these schmucks are considered "left" in the US, but the shit they're pulling disproves it -- the lie has been conclusively exposed, once and for all. Election drama is always dull and stupid, but this time man, this time we're stacking screenshots to the ceiling. Accountability police going to be busy over the next few years.

But you know what I think should happen? An *actual* radical swing to the left. None of that liberal bullshit, I'm talking AK-47 and Che Guevara up in this bitch. Doing it for real. Then we can point at their elected figurehead and say THAT is a fucking communist.

Until then, it's just nazis vs rainbow nazis.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 08:53:24
body:
@Liebranca hmmm idk what actual left means, but I don't think going that way would be all that great from the images you're painting

wonder how all that squares with like, god and your faith and you saying never to do magic because demons always come out. is it demonic to wanna kill people? unknown

the other day I found out "we are all born sinful" didn't actually come from Jesus, it was from the Hebrew Bible. and in other religions and from actual quotes of Jesus everybody regards children as pure of soul. so someone wrote some incorrect shit in there to put s chip into newly born souls so they wouldn't have the confidence to defend themselves I guess


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 09:56:30
body:
@jestdotty 

> watching that debate they put Joe Biden into vs trump was just horrific.

You're always the funniest jestie. Did you know that debate had been personally ordered by stalin himself?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 10:01:59
body:
@Liebranca

There is no such thing as "left" and "right". The place people sat in the the parliement in 1789 shouldn't not guide our political thinking. 

Liberals have nothing to do with socialists. American liberals don't care about violence and oppression. They just want not to have to fight against it, so they externalize it to the middle east. 

They can take a posture against genocide if it makes them feel good, but they will draw the line if it hurts the nasdaq. Those bombs are not gonna sell themselves.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 10:06:41
body:
@jestdotty I'm not left-wing myself, so you could argue that I don't know what "left" means either. Go figure. But anyhoo, I'm joking -- obviously I don't support revolutionary insurrections.

Or do I? ;>

As for your question: look up the french revolution -- absolute fucking bloodbath. Who's condeming that? Nobody. Some even celebrate it. Is it evil to execute citizen Louis Capet by guillotine? You tell me.

So *when* is killing evil? That's the question. And since I've already mentioned France, maybe look into what the french did in Algeria.

What do I believe? Surah el Hajj verse 39.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 10:19:40
body:
@Liebranca the french revolution is a tough one. Coz let's be honest, the king had one head too much and deserved it. It was the rise out of feudality and the proof that people could topple the system. They did outlaw slavery (in france itself irrc) and they did a lot of good imho.

On the other hand, it got coopted by the bourgeois /  city people, and they did awful shit. Especially to the peasantry, where things were different than in cities and people were still very attached to religion. 

It was also the start of the colonial empire and the idea that the metropolis was more civilized than the rest of the world still living under feudality. 

So yeah, nuanced result there.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-08 12:13:50
body:
@antigermgerm peasants everywhere...

Let's see where this discussion is going.

For one is an immigrant a hard working person who speak the country's language within month. For others it is a person that blast music on speakers in trains, busses and burn cars in the weekend...

Here in the city, and you go to a local grocery store. It is very rare to hear people speak the native language of this country. That is just sad.

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user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 12:53:55
body:
@cb219 I noticed that yes! However this current codebase doesn't use that style, and I think the other devs will be quite upset if I fuck with their structure :D


user_username: dissolvedgirl
created: 2024-11-08 13:02:23
body:
Saw a post of a woman saying she's gonna buy a Glock and, at night, shoot White dudes she encounters. 

Bizarre how the type of person saying this is most likely one that opposes the lawful ownership of firearms. Lmao. She'll probably buy the smallest one too :D

She then, will probably be shot first in self defence. Not sure about other countries where people can own firearms, but in mine you are legally entitled to use lethal force to defend your own life or that of another if an attack warrants it and is about to begin or has already begun.

Also, it is stupid to want to shoot people at night, target acquisition is incredibly difficult in low light conditions even if you have night sights on your handgun. I've done a night shooting competition and it's HARD.


user_username: PappyHans
created: 2024-11-08 13:27:44
body:
Possible sources of data leaks into 3rd party:

- email providers used to send order confirmation emails 
- CRM tools 
- Less likely but payment providers and access to such
- Compromised account credentials
- Leaking customer and order data into Analytics tools
- Malware on employee machines 

I would start from compromised credentials first and look at unusual account activity to rule out the worst case scenario

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user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 13:50:02
body:
@Grumm Yeah, people attach weird ass connotations to moving from one country to another, as if that made one a kind of mystical "other" or some shit. Weirds me out.

No, I just find it remarkable how the political block most notorious for utilizing "minority" as a rhetorical resource was this fucking quick to scapegoat. Strikes me as all around messed up.

@dissolvedgirl From "guns kill people"  to "I KILL PEOPLE WITH GUNS"!

It's like poetry, it rhymes. Or something. It's a nice example of what I'm saying alright, people doing 180º like that in a fraction of a second. Just wild.

Never tried aiming in the dark but it sounds tough, more so if it's not in a city. I used to crawl through camp trying to suprise the guy who stood watch on the hill when I was in the boyscouts. In my defense I was like seven, and we were playing a game. Anyway, he always spotted me, but only when I got close, and I'm a pretty lousy sneak.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 13:56:48
body:
@Grumm the native language of what? I'm waloon, my native language is extinct. Now everybody speaks fucking french because of fucking french immigrants. Fucking hell invaders should go back to their goddamn country I fully agree with that.

Ship the germans, brits and other francks east where they came from. Give europe back to its native celtic population.

Same thing with america and canada and all the brits and germ. Ship them back and give it back to the first nations.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-08 14:14:42
body:
@antigermgerm Hmm, but do we want all the American's back to their origin ? I hope there aren't to many Belgian people there. But UK and France will have a big problem when millions are coming back xD

@Liebranca it is also terrifying. And now there is a president who has power to do crazy shit (based on his speeches) 

Let me start digging a hole with internet and see you all in 20 years...

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:32:52
body:
It's both funny and frightening how removed from reality some of these far lefties really are

Everything they accuse you of, they are doing themselves

Everything they say is the opposite of reality


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:39:49
body:
@12bitfloat Whereas you sir are always 100% right. Everything you say is full of wisdom and intelligence. Your worldview is clear as the biggest diamond. It's a good thing the supreme leader is there to guide the world and defend us against hollywood pedophiles innit?


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-08 14:42:33
body:
@antigermgerm you are going to far back I think... In the end, we all came from the same water and fish. (Or is this already to unbelievable and not true because of that one true god) I don't want to offend people here (⊙ˍ⊙)

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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:44:15
body:
@Grumm exactly. I'm a sailor. We should leave land and live upon the water like jesus. 

My grand grandpa used to live 10 months a year fishing ashore of newfoundland.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-08 14:44:41
body:
I think it's just psychological manipulation by phone manufacturers. 

The battery gauges in cellphones are manipulated in a way to please our small monkey brains. 

Battery charge and discharge is not linear, and if your gauge weren't manipulated, that last 4% would last 20 times more than the first 4%.

But since it's manipulated to show in a more linear way, it's likely the phone was on its last legs for real. 

The arbitrary prohibition on the torch? Probably some random crapple-like decision to justify some retarded marketing point about battery life...

I mean, my lineage OS displays real battery charge and I've had the last 1% last for more than one hour.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:53:47
body:
@antigermgerm Not everything I say is correct, I also suffer from bias like everyone else

The difference is, I base my ideas on reality, so when they are wrong they are at least not THAT wrong

These people's ideas aren't even connected to reality, so they are just wrong by default


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:55:46
body:
@12bitfloat there's a whole debate about machiavelism you know. Realism is the cause of a lot of suffering.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:56:32
body:
@antigermgerm We've already argued and I've poked huge logical holes into a lot of your arguments, so I'd say I'm not entirely incorrect


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 14:59:32
body:
@12bitfloat you get the difference between real life events and me rambling on an obscure website, yes? Nobody's gonna kill germans, quit whining.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 14:59:36
body:
@antigermgerm Man, I'd like a waffle right now. With sugar and cinnamon and a little bit of nutella 😋


body: @12bitfloat nutella??????????
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 15:00:56
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 15:20:15
body:
@12bitfloat on pancakes. Waffles must be consumed alone to get all the flavour from the waffles.

My dad used to be a baker. 

Anyway you do you


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 15:22:19
body:
@CoreFusionX The limits can usually be switched off in the battery power usage settings, I didn't want to be a smart ass and point it out after such a good rant lol


body: @bazmd they don't trust us neither these days
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 15:44:36
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 15:49:14
body:
@bazmd I don't see such stuff but some nice stats tho. It's a Samsung. S10 or s20? I dunno. Nearly 2 years old, refurbished thingy. I don't buy new hardware anymore


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 15:55:05
body:
Would be nice if exactly that 4% is still alive. Big chance, covid just 'killed' a view. Traumatizing bullshit period. Covid period and people's behavior was my biggest dissapointment in humanity since I was very positive about average person. During that period, I hated everyone. Back then, everyone was a real nazi


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-08 16:19:43
body:
@Grumm Oh, absolutely, don't get me wrong: I know the man is bad news. He attempted a coup, as I recall. Shouldn't he be in jail?

But I'm a foreigner, and I don't expect changes to US foreign policy; I've never seen it happen. My opinion on every one of their presidents that were elected in my lifetime, based on how they meddled, destabilized and of course bombed other countries, is roughly equivalent.

People *within* the US are frightened of having to live through a mere microscopic fraction of what their government has historically inflicted on other nations. As to how this fear translates to spewing hateful vile towards immigrants for not sucking their cock hard enough, eh, let's leave that one as an exercise.

PS: everything and everyone originating from a single point is consistent with both abrahamic teaching and what I understand is the scientific consensus. By both accounts, everyone is related if we go far back enough in time.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 16:31:49
body:
@retoor it was the best. I was getting high and playing videogames and going to the beach all the time. Not talking to people did wonder for my mental health. It was so peaceful.

I wish there's another covid


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 16:35:26
body:
@Liebranca when my mum's dad went to the hospital for the last time, the last thing he saw on tv was the plant he built in bassorah still standing among the ruins from the american bombing.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-08 16:35:36
body:
@antigermgerm Bruh you were just saying you don't put anything on there

I feel betrayed and lied to


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 16:50:07
body:
@12bitfloat nah the cinnamon is IN the waffle. In the dough. And the sugar too so it's caramelized alltogether.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 17:20:19
body:
Inside job indeed, 3rd party - consider to host an own open source solution for things like analytics and stuff, own email send system... And if it then still leaks - it has to be someone from inside. But it's not that someone can see an invoice by putting the number in some url somewhere? Check what urls are frequently called. Suspicious user accounts on server? Check ps aux for stuff you don't know


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:32:11
body:
@retoor in the browser? Download the actual file plz :s 

I lost lappy :'( hours of work. I think some bitch took it from backpack.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 17:35:22
body:
Scammers are such pieces of shits.  Strategic nukes are a possible solution.  I don't know enough to help.  I hope you fucking nail the bastards.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 17:40:08
body:
@antigermgerm will save and send back. Sad from your laptop, since you're self employed, extra fuck. What laptop will you buy? I decided that x270 is getting too old. I don't know alternative to buy.. They're all bigger afaik. Also, I like exactly this design / thickness. Decent keys, not those weak keys they have on new laptops. I want to press something


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:43:13
body:
@retoor I still had a spare one. I didn't loose anything but a few hours of work for real work.

And months and months of work on my music. It sucks ass and ive been depressed and had a fight with gf and im burned out. 

I needs hols I'm not on drugz


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:44:21
body:
@retoor honestly I think my next purchase will be a real computer. You remember the ones we used to have in little boxes with CD player and shit? 

I have a spare hdd and ram so I could build one for cheap


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-08 17:57:01
body:
Nah but fr, the thing with people like you or jestdotty or even retoor is that they are politically oriented. 

I piss off everyone. Even nihilists like @iii hates me.

The trick is to call everybody retarded.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-08 17:59:47
body:
@retoor Taxes are paying for this in Europe. That sounds like a perfectly working business model. At least it would be used for something useful for once.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 18:33:54
body:
I did get this shit working today.  But I am finding that the standard for modbus is not followed, or my library I am using for communication is hiding implementation details.  The data in a register (16 bits) is supposed to be big endian.  What I am getting is little endian.  I looked through the source code and I can't see anywhere where they interpret the byte order at all.  Perhaps it is hidden somewhere I cannot find it.  I also tested with a perl library and it is returning little endian words.  I am trying to create a generic interface so I added a byte endianess parameter in case we end up with devices that do it differently.  Everything I am reading is saying manufacturers will just do it how they want anyway.  Expecting everyone to just fix it in software.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 19:07:59
body:
@retoor I'm the same, very HI-TEC but low-key on my own phone. I usually install apps manually if I need it, there are apps I've seen people use for the light feature that have ads, that's absolutely insane to me lol one of the Easiest apps you can build, I wonder if anyone has ever paid for a torch app?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 19:50:06
body:
I think it is more than that.  There are 15 million missing voters from this last election.  That could explain where they went.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 19:59:48
body:
@Tounai maybe the screen reader is fine for those people. What should AI add? How can it optimize a screen reader?


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-08 20:12:05
body:
@retoor It requires developers to make applications in a way that they are readable by screen readers which is remotely impossible nowadays, long, boring to do and adds very little value to the product.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 20:12:15
body:
@antigermgerm I write rewrite stuff that I've already done in no time. Special memory for that, good in remembering source.

Sad that it's going so bad. How bad is the fight? Taking days off costs you sadly directly money so not really an option huh. I do not see many benefits about being self employed so far.

How is no drugz? You want to quit? 

What is hols?

Normal desktop with a k120 is great and cheap. I wouldn't have room for it. I'm working at living room / kitchen table. Not gonna put a computer under that.

If your spare drive is hdd and not ssd, I would not use it at all. Performance of it during general usage is very noticeable


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 20:39:22
body:
@Tounai ah, so AI could be a screenreader that works on non optimized applications. Would be nice and I think AI can already determine what buttons / sections on screen are. Nothing is stopping you for making it


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-08 20:44:11
body:
@bazmd Imagine paying monthly for a torch app. A while ago I found out that I had a subscription of an offline pdf scanner app. It was freaking 5 euro. Subscription must happen quite easy these days


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-08 21:00:28
body:
@Tounai Very few people would use a screen narrator, it would be more viable to develop a specialist device for disabled people and that should be developed by large companies, let them pull their weight for awhile. instead of trying to be tyrants.

What do you mean by "enforced by the EU"?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 21:05:04
body:
@Grumm the origin, of what we know about, was aboriginals over 50K years ago in the Americas.  The Asians came in and wiped all of them out like 7K years ago.  So native Americans were not original.  Possibly even the aboriginals were not original.  Before that was probably some aliens on vacation.  Then this place, the Earth, became a shit hole.  Then they started probing the shit outta us!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 22:11:44
body:
hospitals got money for every person who died of COVID?

so suddenly bike accidents meant you died of COVID

because the PCR test has a 70% false positive rate lol


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 23:14:59
body:
probably some plugin

I'd omit some customers from some plugins, then narrow it down based on which get compromised. then you can sue them!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 23:18:45
body:
but also in UK they were murdering people with remdesivir (on purpose, sometimes doctors they targeted)

and ventilators in USA. who knows what else


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-08 22:20:52
body:
@jestdotty I saw somewhere that only 3% of people who died that year died OF covid.  The rest died WITH covid, but died of other comorbidities.  Also, flu disappeared from the statistics that year.  Hospitals got major kickbacks.  Especially for ventilator use.  

It was a major numbers game to defraud the public.,


user_username: spongessuck
created: 2024-11-08 23:33:54
body:
Sucks for them, I guess. I wouldn't do it unless they sign a new contract and pay at least triple. You got them by the balls now.

user_avatar:
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-08 23:34:46
body:
@Demolishun and I got banned from reddit by mentioning vitamin c and vitamin d

vitamin c improved outcomes by 70% lmao

and the only people dying of COVID seemed to be vitamin d deficient

seriously these people murdered so many people. it's gross. quickest way to lose faith in humanity. I thought humans were alright before then. what a wild fucking time

there was a manager I liked at a former workplace and he was black. I think he died. fucked up. all he would've needed was vitamin d.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-09 00:28:44
body:
We are not in an "AI" era... We're in an ai hype train maybe, but nothing era defining happened yet. AI era will happen when everything is actually done by AI.

user_avatar:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 00:53:11
body:
@jestdotty people were on their death bed.  People hid ivermectin inside of things to sneak them into the hospital.  The people who got it usually recovered within 24 to 48 hours.  What kind of fucked up world requires people to sneak life saving remedies into a fucking hospital?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 00:57:06
body:
@jestdotty I would like to apologize on behalf of the USA to Canada.  Apparently a whole segment of mentally ill people are now planning on going to Canada.  I especially apologize for the POS celebrities that promised to go there.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 01:57:25
body:
@Demolishun ivermectin is still banned up here in Canada

kicker is there's chance it would fix my issues


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 00:58:42
body:
@jestdotty during the whole pandemic you could have gone into mexico and bought it off the shelf.  They had it at airports in pill form.  Probably still can.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 01:58:57
body:
@Demolishun hahaha yeah been seeing that. next year we have elections and if they come up here they'll get retraumatized because our conservative guy will win cuz the liberals tanked their reputations so badly it is unknown if they will recover in the next decade


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 02:03:07
body:
@Demolishun my bf lives near the Mexican border. maybe I can get him to buy me some and send it in an unmarked package I guess

but honestly I didn't beeline for it because it was like 1 of 30 potential solutions and the 30 didn't work

it shouldn't be banned in the first place. just fucked up shit

I was googling if I had it right and the only thing that comes up is a news story about undercover journalists trying to figure out how Canadians were trying to get ivermectin in 2022, except the article just stops and doesn't disclose. does mention it's "anti vaxxers" that are doing it. I took your damned vaccine! that's why I'm looking for it!

these people are so gross


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 01:08:09
body:
@jestdotty I don't people know about how evil TPTB are.  Bill Gates has been doing vaccines for decades.  He was instrumental in creating and distributing the Brucellosis for brazil.  There was an additive to the transport agent that caused sterility in women.  This made 50% of the child bearing aged women in Brazil sterile.  The Catholic church caught them doing it again in Africa.  The media just made fun of the church.  Guess who made a shit ton of money off of vaccines during the pandemic?  Bill Gates.  

People think he is evil for his company Microsoft.  This dude is on a completely different level of evil.


user_username: magicMirror
created: 2024-11-09 01:11:58
body:
Upon reading the license, you will feel sorry for having red it. Enforced by lawyer monkeys, wearing banana suits, while eating pizza.

user_avatar:
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body: Wait until you run into rxjs subscription, nginit, and input racing condition bs
user_username: h3rp1d3v
created: 2024-11-09 08:55:51
user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"2a8b9d\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-4_g-m_9-1_1-6_16-6_3-14_8-1_7-1_5-1_12-6_6-62_2-10_22-8_15-3_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 09:46:47
body:
I can too, I never used the "not for me" option. My theory is that that button smashing doesn't work by default since it's not in api or it will disable your down vote functionallity if you abuse it. If course you use the "not for me" button, freedom is speech b*ch


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 09:51:39
body:
In reality, I think client must have to change the MVP to make client still happy. There's nothing else you can't do. Extra team members on short term cost time.

Even when it's not in contract, clients dick have to be sucked often, else you're out of business in no time.

Yh, disfunctional indeed 😁


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 09:56:54
body:
@chatgpt with what open source software license do you allow everything as long your name is mentioned?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-09 09:57:21
body:
@retoor
The open source software license that allows everything as long as the creator's name is mentioned is the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license. This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work created by the original author, as long as proper attribution is given.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-09 10:42:02
body:
Forgot there was a down vote button, there's nothing really worth using it for and I wouldn't be bothered with childish button behaviour. Sometimes I hit like, sometimes I don't.

I really sleep well at night! :D


user_username: PappyHans
created: 2024-11-09 10:45:41
body:
There is a lot of spammers lately. I can downvote the spam messages and they disappear from my threads, not sure if its just me that can’t see them once downvoted or they disappear for everyone else as well.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 11:26:52
body:
@SidTheITGuy Btw, this is a major flex. Even I won't flex like that. You should be ashamed of yourself


user_username: PappyHans
created: 2024-11-09 12:08:12
body:
@retoor hm I can downvote a spam post and it would disappear for me with just my -1 vote. But who knows. Not sure what’s with the surge of SPAM posts lately. Very annoying


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 12:29:16
body:
@netikras the amount of spam must be huge since everyone downvotes but they keep showing up.

Edit: 11 messages today. You can see them in the day overview


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-09 13:02:47
body:
@netikras Everyone must do a great job down voting the spam bots, because by the time I get here they're gone. But I'll keep that in mind.

Who you gonna call?

SPAMBUSTERS!!


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 13:42:29
body:
It is enforced all wrong. After all, how much money do I waste on a feature for naught point zero zero etc. one percent of my customer base?

How would enforcement really work? Well, require an open API. All information there. And it must be free to use for everyone who uses this API to add accessibility. 

Because accessibility is not the same. It is different for someone who has Parkinson to someone who is blind to someone who is dyslexic. That allows for special versions and companies specialized into making other products accessible, allows for a better interconnected web and frees me, the company owner, from caring about the .0000001% of customer base when I wouldn't even think it is economical to add something to my web app just because 1% of my users want it.

user_avatar:
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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-09 14:57:01
body:
I've read through it. They should probably stop with all this crazy regulatory nonsense before other European countries leave the union lol

Exceptions:

"If meeting the EAA requirements would impose a “disproportionate burden” on a business, and if it can demonstrate that compliance is not reasonably possible, an exception may apply. Additionally, microenterprises are exempt from these requirements."

Source:businessdisabilityforum.org.uk


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 15:43:20
body:
That's not drugs to blame, there's smth going on with with that it happened. I did never smth that gave me broblems drunk or high. I remain quite the same. You're doing something bad under influence? It was just you. No excuse


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 15:47:06
body:
@bazmd I always see them, but I check very often, it's a kinda habit. I do it everytime when smoking at least and that's around every two hour or so


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 15:52:25
body:
Now they're 13 of them. How do they invent all those texts? They did it before AI. And for texts like that you have to self host I guess


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 18:48:23
body:
@Tounai fine, if you quit French fries. I just do not believe they're as dangerous as we get brainwashed with. They consider sitting as unhealthy these days. On dutch TV in most popular program they recently said that XTC shouldn't be a hard drug and that's it not so harmful. I'm not that retarted to even believe that. Your body is literally refusing to take it and that's why it gets stuck in your throat many times. I trust my body regarding that regardless what scientists say. 

Drugs are like drinking and smoking, harmful if you do too much. Also, my medication is prolly way more harmful than many drugs


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 19:00:23
body:
@retoor I don’t do French fries, I try to keep my shape. Some drugs are probably not that dangerous, but most of them are addictive, and sometimes can trigger crazy reaction. The one mentioned in this topic can happen with basic weed. 
Anyway, the issue is that drugs is fuelling criminality in Europe and not buying is the step towards starving those criminals.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 19:40:48
body:
@Tounai the thing that happened in this topic can be done by basic weed indeed, but that doesn't make you automatically murdering. Drugs maybe illegal, but you know it's resistant against inflation? They're same price as ten years ago. That's great, keep it illegal. I know everything you're gonna say about this subject because it's literally like that in the newspaper. Ever thought about people who just like it and their rights? They just have to stop doing smth they like because some far from bed stuff? What did you ever give up what you like for the sake of society? Also, quitting drugs so it dissappears is as hopeless as quit eating meat. Those three people not doing it anymore doesn't matter at all


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 19:44:09
body:
@atheist I wanted to say opposites regarding criminality 😂 if you would consider cocaïne natural, they do a lot violence not seen at the xtc / amphetamine / designer scene


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 19:46:00
body:
@Tounai stop buying drugs to resolve criminality is like stop buying houses solves the housing crysis. Just don't take a home! Problem solved! You don't have what you want, oh well - says the guy that didn't suffer about it


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 19:48:17
body:
@retoor I used to share your opinion at 100%, so I get you. Now I am not even for legalisation. I am for total war against drugs traffickers. 
Now, you are obviously looking for excuses to continue feeding the beast of traffics. Do it with the knowledge that it probably cause killings in your country aside from other bad things.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 19:52:52
body:
@retoor now is that the solution? Probably not. The solution requires several helicopters and machine guns


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 20:17:44
body:
@Tounai we have elected officials in the USA working for the drug cartels.  Yet the federal government is considering death penalty for drug dealers.  It is going to get really weird next few years.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 20:27:54
body:
@Demolishun I do not like death penalty

@Tounai I'm not for legalization either, because I think it will attract more drug users because people think it's ok. I do not think it's as harmful as portrayed - but still harmful. Look what happened in America when they started to allow drugs. Our weed system works very well. Most people don't do weed. Fine, but I don't think it will go that way with other drugs. It's very dangerous to change the situation and the drug use currently is not that dramatic in sense of giving problems. We export most of it


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 20:42:56
body:
@retoor 

Jail for life will do in Europe. 
If we speak specifically about weed and a few others, no, it’s not that harmful. But it’s an entry point. 
And if you take it at the society level, yes it’s dangerous. I mean, France is a mess because of this.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-09 21:19:04
body:
@Tounai for life here is 20 year or so. I think it's ok.

It's entry point indeed. I just hope they're able to prevent fentanyl comming here. Worried about that. Since getting drugs here is literally easier and faster than the pizza delivery guy (it's easier because we don't have one) it's a miracle we don't have it yet. It's obviously big business and they prolly will sell it if they get hands on it. Chrystal meth is also found a lot in Netherlands recently, that's also not very good. I personally know no one who does it. Currently we have 3mmc pandemic. It was legal, got out of control for way, way to long. And now everyone does it. People even stopped using cocaïne because of it, because it's cheaper AND gives a better feeling. It's also very hard to quit it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:33:46
body:
@PappyHans if you downvote it'll be for you only but if 2 down vote it'll be for everyone and the post gets hidden unless you have a direct link to it or go to the profile of the poster

for comments I guess they just plain disappear

for downvoting comments if it's only you I don't think it hides it until it gets -2 and then the comment I think gets deleted? cuz you can't find it on profiles or anything. unsure if the user who got downvoted get permanent negative score either (if user A upvotes user B, and then user A deletes their account, used B's total score then decreases by all the user A's upvotes for them. similarly if you delete your own comments and they had upvotes your score will go down)

I see accounts with negative total score so being downvoted must degrade your score in some way, but downvotes are harder to track to know how that system works

I guess I could get a downvoted comment and try to test but I'm lazy


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:35:54
body:
@Demolishun lensflare and tosensei made me lose mine

I don't think I've ever downvoted you. you just post cheesy jokes, which is hardly going to be aggravating. then again I guess some people can't handle humour which is pretty wild and surprising. cheesy humour is too much for them  lmao? how? 🤣


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 21:37:09
body:
@jestdotty I joke about trolling.  I just don't think I have what it takes to be an edge lord.  ostream is the king of that.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:38:31
body:
I've gotten downvoted on some occasions but I think by this point people got used to me. people just dislike my opinions or sometimes really get triggered by something I say so target me for a while (and interestingly enough seem to not be cognizant of why they're exactly mad at me which is kind of funny), but generally most humans tire themselves out eventually and everything goes back to peaceful


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:40:25
body:
ostream is just confused and throws his confusion on others. he wants validation / help for his confusion I think


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:45:48
body:
accessibility would make sense if it was something like, "if you have a user and they want accomodations they can contact you about accomodations for them and you should make reasonable accomodations"

but out of the gate requiring everyone is really labour intensive and daunting

these people are self destructive on purpose though. that's the goal. they wanna mire people in irrelevant problems so that they can't focus on what really matters. they wanna give people useless work so that everyone feels like what they do is irrelevant, meaningless. then they usher in communism, which is actually gonna be more of the same useless system that further alienates people and mires them in even more rules that don't make sense and nobody wants. and this is the goal, the goal is to tangle people in useless rules and drain them of their spirit, will to live, on purpose

accomodations to the "minority" on default deliberately breaks pareto principle which exists in all of nature & thrives life


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 21:50:20
body:
@jestdotty 
It’s the EU tho. A bunch of old bureaucrats who don’t understand a single thing about anything so they create norms out of the blue.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:52:48
body:
@Tounai garlic is a drug

ginger is a drug

tea? drug

chocolate? drug

spices are literally medicinal drugs! we don't view them that way now but they are!

everything is a drug!

breathe air and it has aluminum dust in it? drug!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:55:44
body:
@Tounai make the harmful acts people do illegal, not the activity that is tangentially related to their harmful activities

drugs themselves are fine if you're responsible with them

now... how about those doctors that prescribed opioids to everyone while told them they weren't addictive?

or how about drug dealers that keep lacing fentanyl in everything when that's not what you asked for?

and you can arrest them on the basis of using poor drug mules, or disclosing their airplanes of drugs incorrectly on flight reports to the government (which allows slave laboured items to get into the country, otherwise you can't tell if goods were made by slave labour or what)


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 21:59:45
body:
@Tounai well step one is not excusing their behaviour 

cuz doing that it'll only get worse until something breaks and people finally cease excusing their behavior. there is no other way out


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-09 22:06:08
body:
@Tounai you identified the EU with their behavior

as soon as you cease viewing EU as the identity filled with people of that disposition, the EU will cease being of the identity of being filled with people of that disposition

you wanna start a revolution, just change the perception of what the EU identity is, and everything else follows from there. because it'll actually make people uncomfortable that the identity doesn't fit, so they'll wanna do something about it. by acknowledging the embarrassing identity and just living with it, you excuse it, normalize it, and it continues. you give it power, legitimacy, as "that's just the way things are"


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-09 22:09:06
body:
@jestdotty 
The problem is that the structure is in favour of putting old, ignorant people in power. Perception won’t change that.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-09 22:18:08
body:
You should see if you can win a guiness record for shits in a year.

https://ranker.com/list/...

https://guinnessworldrecords.com//

You might have to create a new category though.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.ranker.com/list/gross-world-records/jacob-shelton", "short_url": "https://ranker.com/list/...", "title": "https://ranker.com/list/...", "start": 69, "end": 96, "special": 1}, {"type": "url", "url": "https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/", "short_url": "https://guinnessworldrecords.com//", "title": "https://guinnessworldrecords.com//", "start": 98, "end": 132, "special": 1}]


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 22:47:52
body:
Average defecation is quite varied. Between 3 times a day and once every 3 days is considered normal. 

6 times a day sounds excessive. But there is the story they told us in the third year of med school. There is no story, I never went to med school.


user_username: TrayKnots
created: 2024-11-09 22:56:28
body:
That last thing, that make intuitive sense to my gamer brain. Back to the respawn point. 

Hmm... The meta studies on gamers and violence came back with no indication for increased violence. 

Maybe it is time to make a study if gamers on hard drugs are more prone to violence than non-gamers on hard drugs.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 00:56:24
body:
@jestdotty I do not really get downvoted but it is depressing to see if you have zero upvotes and the one below you has five :P If i only cared about upvotes, i would've said way different stuff


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 01:03:14
body:
@retoor I think the trick is to still say the same stuff but get up voted for it. if the content changes then you're cheating!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 01:05:24
body:
@TrayKnots surgeons who are gamers score 26% better on surgery things at minimum

so said Elon musk and Joe Rogan on their interview

gamers rise up

anyway so I started playing games again because I have brain damage I have to reheal from


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:12:30
body:
@jestdotty yh, that's the only moment you'll see me gaming, brain damage :P As you know, I was 1,5 year off track regarding brain because the medication, but I didn't game :P I stared at the wall instead


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:13:36
body:
@jestdotty I hope that the 'ostream didn't delete thimself' meme one day will be funny again, I just keep posting


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:14:27
body:
Ah nice. A kinda pokemon :)

gamerant? Wtf, thiefs, with their cheap hosting that  can't even stream a video decently


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 01:38:09
body:
@12bitfloat like b2plane. I consider everything computer ontopic tbh. I think that 70% here or so (or maybe 90? :P) here games so yeah, there's audience


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 02:23:47
body:
it's probably the bots tbh

things aren't up voted by merit. so you never see the best of humanity. you see the best of humanity that still tows some arbitrary and irrelevant line. so merit degrades, and everyone becomes nihilistic


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 02:29:48
body:
Since the police have monopoly on violence, in real life it happens too. People just saying stuff, because if you lash out, you're the one having the problem. People can bully you endless if they want.  There's some tv program about stalkers and those people are completely crazy, but can do whatever they want because it's not violent and violence against the stalker is forbidden. Those people completely terrorizing people


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 02:29:50
body:
@retoor I used to game a lot. I pirated and played every game I knew existed, and basically 80% of the MMOs that ever existed during the MMO golden era (I was poor, mom sat on welfare, computers have infinite free content, yarr!)

when mobile phones came into being I would see full adults be addicted to candy crush on the subway. but I'd see this even 2-4 years after candy crush era ended. it was strange to me these people were still addicted to games, and one game no less

I think I ceased being dopamine driven pretty early on, like 12-13. my friends would be so annoyed at me. I would get them into a game and I'd be gone in 2-3 days on to something else, bored. aside from my first year or two of gaming, I basically somehow, cured myself of gaming addiction by exposure

yesterday I played multiwinia, one of these favourite dear to my heart games nobody knows of. I've never been addicted to it or darwinia. I somehow played several matches and couldn't help myself. bruh, wild?


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 02:33:52
body:
@jestdotty That's also definitely true, there's TONS of rage bait and stuff

But the point still stands... They wouldn't do that IRL because they'd get roughing up


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 02:35:32
body:
@retoor You're not wrong, but I mean it more in the general sense of mankind. If you talk shit, you get hit.... Only now in the internet age is it different that you can essentially talk as much shit as you want without any consequence whatsoever


user_username: ars1
created: 2024-11-10 02:38:59
body:
@TeachMeCode oh. I made a new character and I’m going everywhere collecting magic. I haven’t beaten a single shard bearer yet despite being in the leyndell surroundings already.
Radhan is gonna fuck me up so hard, but Mogh at my level is gonna be a nightmare.

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user_username: TeachMeCode
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created: 2024-11-10 02:43:51
body:
@ars1 cool, level up and kick ass. make sure youre ready for the dlc as the bosses are brutal there, and the final boss is actually harder than malenia. And the level you arrive at wont mean shit bc your damage output and defense comes down to scadu blessings


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 03:39:02
body:
@12bitfloat had a stalker from NL saying that to me. sounds stupid to me

he was like, you wouldn't reject me IRL cuz I'd knock your skull in! something to that effect

kicker is I think my 5'8" ass would intimidate his 6'5" smeagle ass, which is just gonna make him even sadder as a human being

now I understand why he was so big into stalking

... also irl I wouldn't have to punch him. I wouldn't survive a punch from a dude well, if it hit lol, and I don't even know how to punch. so it's not punching

actually I once read out loud the messages he sent to me, via voice clip recordings, cuz he kept going on about how I interpreted him, so to prove to him I didn't interpret him the way he was saying, I read his messages in the way he sounded in my head. he "laughed" at me (but it was fake), and then 2 hours later he ragequit and deleted his server, account, etc. I didn't see him for 2 weeks. then he came by and tried to sexually harass me saying my voice was hot in those clips. right


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-10 03:50:01
body:
It's teenagers and "know it all" student types that cause the majority of trouble online because they're stupid assholes. lol

It would take a lot to actually hit someone in person, Social media always causes a lot of trouble because of mixed company where you have different social structures and relationships with people in one place, for example; your drinking buddies and good friends you grew up with, will perceive you differently than your professional colleagues and people who look up to you.

trouble usually breaks out over something trivial like a "throw away" comment to one person picked up by another and inflated by algorithms.

Close friends and family can be very protective too and that can cause trouble.

Social media sites, know this and they love it, drama 24/7 drives traffic.

Ultimately, online toxicity is designed and controlled by Social media sites.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 03:50:31
body:
@jestdotty Yikes, that sounds horrible

But I say this: If you would have punched him into the next dimension, he would have stopped right quick

But that's easier to say when you're a man. Which is why we need to protect women and stop to pretending men and women are exactly the same. We should have the same rights, but we have very different experiences


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 04:09:37
body:
@12bitfloat if I punched him he'd punch me and I wouldn't survive that. so it's in my best interest for there not to be punches

but still IRL somehow a woman who can't punch has more power. and those voice clips gave me power that plain text didn't


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 04:16:12
body:
@jestdotty Yeah but that's exactly what I'm saying: Men have a system of shared influence over each other because they can beat each other the f down

That's why they aren't violent....  At leat against each other


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-10 05:16:13
body:
I remember teaching my sister to punch.  Some kid in junior high kept giving her shit.  She punched him in the arm.  He couldn't lift his arm the rest of the day.  Next day he had black, blue, and green bruise.  He never bothered her again.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-10 07:09:08
body:
@TrayKnots maybe there is a story like this video.  I went searching for "man shits himself to death".  I think this is pretty close:

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

links:
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 07:17:03
body:
@Demolishun oh

I just remembered

in medieval times... they had... some amazing torture methods

one of them was
you put a dude sandwiched between two boats
his head and feet, hands are quartered outside of the boat I think

and then they force feed him milk and honey

until he shits himself to death
in the sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

the article's description is worse btw

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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-10 09:34:05
body:
@jestdotty Something for the used car gangsters to consider when he starts missing payments on his BMW.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 11:23:36
body:
@retoor nah but fuck that I'm off next wednesday. I cant do it anymore i never slowed down for a year and a half. The girl is not happy but fuck this I'm burned out.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 11:26:19
body:
@retoor but we're fine. Yesterday I had a loooooong walk, I went to the forest nearby the city. The real one that is that forever, not the stupid wood they put here so the king could go hunting.


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-10 12:11:15
body:
So he is a wizard that can invoke 100 dollar bills in people's wallets? I want a 100 euro one instead, pretty please Trump 🙏


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:24:50
body:
@jestdotty @Demolishum as an extralegal chemical broker, keep in mind I can have anything shipped through your door. 

Did you know there was an LSD analog that doesn't have any psychoactivity but specifically decrease the post-ejaculatory period to a few seconds. So a man can come non-stop and be at it right after.

Anyway let me know. I have drugs, vaccines, explosives, slaves, children, rare animals, radioactive shit, older celebrities's DNA,...


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:30:51
body:
I hate the heretics seriously. Maurs and jews are fine but those dutchies and germans who betrayed the pope simply because he was selling pieces of paradise? Fucking hell.

And don't get me started on the cathars and their free love revolution. Fucking hippies. Burn them all.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:35:44
body:
Bitch quit larping as a yank. Trump is a fat bitch who wear diapers and would be a neckbearded basement incel if he wasn't born in money. Their whole elections are hollywood bullshit. The ricans put putin in power, they made serbia genocide the muslims and then bombed belgrade. How much of a stockhold syndrom can you have lmao. 

They bombed your country and made you guys their bitch and now you're sucking their cock. Pathetic.


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-10 12:38:39
body:
@Demolishun I try to trigger people to lose downvote privileges. I need to try harder I guess.

You could never trigger me enough, because it's me who does the triggering.

I have managed to get JestDotty to quit the matrix group and get Nanos to delete himself from both matrix and devRant.

It takes a special build to achieve that. Perhaps I could teach you how to do that. Interested?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:40:44
body:
@jestdotty the UE commission (aka its executive power, think prime minister cabinet / governement) is not elected. It's a coopted position. So it's always the same crony politician picking the same people regardless of what people have actually voted for. 

Also the parliament is a fucking joke. People go there to get drunk for cheap. There's the mickey bar with 1 euros for a cup of champagne deal. It's called like that because of the funny chairs. If you wanna be rich, work for the UE. They don't even pay taxes.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:43:50
body:
Right? I'm burned out, I took the two next wednesday off. It's less money but I just cant stand it anymore.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 12:51:42
body:
Take the hooligans who went to amsterdam yesterday lmao. If they knew they were gonna get beat up they might not have attacked that taxi driver.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 13:07:17
body:
@retoor nah Ihave a sdd, I think 256 or 512g. But I see I can have 12TO Hdd for 120 euros from the dutchies. 12To is enough for cold storage.


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-10 14:02:31
body:
Uranus. No, I'm serious, it's interesting because it has an axial tilt of about 90%, so it rotates sideways.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:02:52
body:
It's funny. Notepad should've been the minimal thing that would always work. Putting AI in it would prolly not align with that


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:05:50
body:
@antigermgerm that's not true, Trump was since childhood a winner in many things. He's not just rich. Check his docu but also movies "about trump" on YT. You may not like the guy, but he does everything to win and often does.

That je wins should tell you that your media is a fat liar. About more stuff?

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:31:30
body:
I'm free for a long time but keep charging. It's possible to be that empty. I enjoy every day. Even with so much time, I have not time enough to do everything I want. There's so much things to spend time on. Enjoy your charging, but prolly you could use more than a few days


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:35:55
body:
Saturnus, Just heard a conspiracy about it and why judges, graduates, religious figures etc wear black belts. According to that conspiracy it has to do with saturnus.

I do have muxiphobia tho


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:44:14
body:
@antigermgerm what do people do with that much storage? I had 1tb of porn and that's MASSIVE. Can't imagine having more than that


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 14:57:30
body:
@bazmd some people do not take other people online serious, like not human being and do whatever they want. I do care about others online and take them serious. Still, I prefer anonymous social media so I can say things my friends wouldn't like. These days anyone can cancel you, friendship became so fragile


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 15:01:59
body:
@antigermgerm crazy stuff huh? Agressive jews ffs. Not very peaceful. They were quite organized as well, police had quite some troubles. In the end - the jews did get away with no consequences afaik while they really misbehaved


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 15:21:03
body:
The Real Jase is a very novice programmer, don't think so.

Those messages are posted on multiple sites, it's about backlinking. Devrant does quite ok in Google. But if we downvote... What's the point.. But those people never look back. I doubt if it's automated, I think it's manual. Too many inconsistencies. Don't underestimate how cheap labor is in some places. Scammers on my phone talk endless with me (I do this for fun). Not AI but real people. We would consider it crazy if it's manual, but it's really crazy. Some people are cheaper than a bot


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-10 15:56:45
body:
We're fully in the AI bubble. Nobody knows why it's needed but VC companies want it. So they're shoving it in anything and telling everyone it's great when there's maybe 3 real use cases where users actually benefit from it.

Gonna be carnage when it bursts.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 16:18:45
body:
@retoor he's a walking aneurysm. Wtf is wrong with america electing dements? The libs are right, putin did bought trump. What they don't tell you is that putin have been put there by clinton to replace the USSR. Putin is an american bitch. 

Can't you see? Putin have been sent by the stasi. He's a german asset. Trump is german. Because they tell you they are different, that they are british, americans, austrians, french, askenazis. But in reality, they are all germans.

Antigermanism is the only logcal worldview. Fuck the germans.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 16:36:19
body:
@Tounai France is a mess because of the franks. Germans should leave gaul and be shipped back east imo they're all alcoholic.

Dehors les germains et leur haleine de vin.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 16:38:26
body:
@atheist if it was so great, it wouldn't need so much promotion. I mean, the people still not using it by this time, just don't freaking want it. So quit it. Wherever those movies? Do they think there's someone that doesn't know it yet? Especially from dev audience? But I hate it because github is the perfect site for having a open source news channel, there will be no better if they wanted to. They could be #1 in no time. Companies with too much money suck. If they weren't so rich, they would've cared more. Netflix too, they would've cared more if they were less rich. Companies that only do shit for money sucks, but if they have some other goal, it sucks more. Why does Microsoft AI needs so much advertisement, most people don't even have a choice to use it or not


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 16:41:05
body:
@retoor hooliganism is weird. I never understood football (it's soooo fucking boring) but clubs all have their personalities and ideology. It's kinda fascinating.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-10 17:06:42
body:
Busy weekend but hopefully some drinks tonight, favorite planet is Omicron Perci 8, that's where the ruler Lrrr lives.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 17:11:42
body:
@antigermgerm it's about being in a flock. Everyone considers to be part of a certain flock. It can be a club, country, race, people who do the same job / Hobby as you (I'm in this one) or whatever. The world is not a flock, that's for people that care about nothing. Finding your flock is important


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 17:39:19
body:
@antigermgerm https://youtu.be/vtkQiLkNgOI/... our x270 is way better, but it's cool there's a one day old video about the previous version of the laptop we love being the ultimate Linux laptop

links:
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user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2024-11-10 17:52:46
body:
@atheist I'm hoping it bursts soon... If my boss ever asks me about "well, why can't we just make AI do that?" again, I'm going to beat someone.


body: @retoor https://youtube.com/watch/... Who's that kid he's hillarious
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 17:52:55
links:
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 18:09:09
body:
@retoor just random discord server. don't remember now. he was passing by and arguing with somebody and I got in the middle of it. evidently it was some chick and she said now he was mine. and I guess I adopted a retarded Chihuahua human

then he proceeded to sit anywhere I was for 3 months and wouldn't talk

then he messaged me once saying he loved me

and he still couldn't talk

then he started getting violent, and like calling women axe wounds or something
and he had rage issues if anyone talked to me which was lame, so then because that wasn't flying with me he kept oscillating through various versions of self destruction

then he tried to tell people I abused him somehow, but anytime anyone met me they no longer bought it, and eventually everyone just tagged him as a crazy bipolar girl or something

and then he found some weird discord therapist who is probably a pedo and runs a cult of little girls, but he got saner after that


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 18:10:03
body:
Great, I've been on his page before. But for some reason didn't try it. Don't remember why. I will try your github thingy tho. Probably tomorrow. I'm plating with ollama models currently. The 0.5 and 1.5b are quite useful. I need those since my vps can't do better


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 18:14:24
body:
think I'm running on empty for 8 years but I don't even do anything yet I eternally feel like garbage

what is this magical state people keep talking about


user_username: trekhleb
created: 2024-11-10 18:29:27
body:
@retoor I've tried to train ~80M GPT parameters on a single GPU in the browser so far. Pretty heavy. It is interesting to see how 1.5B parameter will behave...

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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-10 18:31:58
body:
@retoor
Yes, it is believed that it rains diamonds on some planets in our galaxy, particularly on gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn. These planets have extreme pressure and temperatures in their atmospheres that can cause carbon atoms to crystallize and form into diamonds. However, these diamonds are most likely small in size and not the gem-quality diamonds we are familiar with on Earth.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 18:32:32
body:
@trekhleb that's thing, I have only a cpu. So I can forget training myself prolly. It will never get in neighborhood of 1.5b?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 18:42:54
body:
@chatgpt but what is the reason something as heavy as a diamond would rain on saturnus.  Why not something else than that? There's much gravity right?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-10 18:43:21
body:
@retoor
The "diamond rain" on Saturn is a phenomenon caused by the extreme pressure and temperature within the planet's atmosphere. The atmospheric conditions on Saturn are such that carbon atoms in the atmosphere can be compressed and crystalized into solid diamonds as they fall towards the planet's interior.

The reason this happens specifically with diamonds has to do with the composition of Saturn's atmosphere and the carbon-rich environment. While Saturn does have high gravity, it is not the sole factor that determines the formation of diamond rain. Other factors such as temperature, pressure, and chemical composition all play a role in this unique process.

Other materials could theoretically rain on Saturn under different conditions, depending on the specific atmospheric and planetary conditions. In the case of Saturn, however, the combination of high pressure and temperature along with the abundance of carbon in its atmosphere results in diamond rain.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 19:53:53
body:
@Ranchonyx I think AI will stay hyped for a long time. There is so much work to be done. It keeps evolving. But AI does kinda what we want, and programmers do exactly what we want. That kinda part is an issue that makes AI almost unusable. Retoorii1b (my AI model) that will become my talking resume just keeps doing too much, just not what I want. And you don't want a bot that represents you that adds content you don't agree to. It makes stuff up, fine, but it's not for professional usage


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 20:29:57
body:
black hole

cuz I wonder what's in it

---

I don't know. I don't even have weekends. I apparently got a migraine so bad yesterday I thought it was just a headache because my body had gone numb lol, only found out in the shower when I couldn't feel anything with my body. nice

eating a bunch of dark chocolate and cheese may have been the mistake earlier this week

also everything is breaking, I'm out of cleaner to clean the place yet 2 days ago I claimed I'd be done in the next week, but now I'm gonna have to wait until the 15th to order new cleaner

maybe my brain will recover enough to where I can code again, cuz before the 15th i'd really want some working code

at least all of crypto is going nuts because Trump won. now there's gonna be trump backstabbing drama left and right

really enjoying this weird esoteric experts in weird fields nobody takes seriously being interviewed on YouTube channel I found though. so exciting

maybe I'll play more video games and drown my misery


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-10 20:32:44
body:
@AdamOnAir yeah, back in Win 3.11 and Windows 95 days I didn't like the Windows API either.  I ended up doing Linux as my main driver for about 10 years back then.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-10 22:39:59
body:
He tried with a trial in finnland (?) where you needed to pay 1 dollar to create an account and there was outrage

Nobody knows how to stop bots


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-10 23:00:06
body:
@retoor well it's a full moon where I'm at so that's something. I was gonna try to eat the moon via witchcraft but just now I accidentally figured out there really is a meaning to life wtf. did not expect to be pilled on that so maybe I'll be distracted (plus something about lunatics? idk)

um so there's a predictable slight boost in crypto 15th to 25th where everyone gets their paychecks and gambling more money cuz haven't paid rent yet, so there's slightly more money in the system at those times so I set them as deadlines for good luck

but also I just simply order groceries twice a month. I keep buying kefir cuz making my own hasn't worked yet, and it lasts about 2 weeks from the store which means I order groceries about twice a month, and it just so happen to fall on the beginning / end and middle of the month because that's when I do my bills I guess so I just do all my computer accounting chores at once


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:05:33
body:
I'm already training four days a rnn on a spare laptop. It's training with eight books. It already can create some sentences. The method I use has its limits. If you train too long, it'll make up his own language, it gets too creative. This rnn is also from scratch written by someone, it's very small in C, but python version exists too


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:11:36
body:
@12bitfloat I think it's a good idea actually. People spend so much time on it, it must be worth one time a dollar. But sadly, peoples attitude these days is that everything must be for free


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:13:44
body:
Maybe phone number verification? OpenAI had no issues with that. Same for Claude. People just give it


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:28:59
body:
@Ranchonyx you know, Trump won mainly the hearts of young guys. Especially the "white" ones bevause the left demonized "white men" for years. What guy will vote for that? I think that the thinking part actually did vote Trump. It's the non thinking part that just swallows the biased media. That traditional media is dying, and so happy about it. If they were not biased they could've survived. But since they are, you only get to hear what they want. They're doing smth called white lies. It's not saying incorrect stuff, but leaving some facts behind on purpose. They never said anything positive about trump while he's nominated three times for peace prize for example.

All our news comes from Reuters and they're biased already. So if that's the source..


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 23:29:28
body:
@jestdotty yeah but not yet. I mean I'm refining my antigermanist philosophy but I feel like I'm still not there on the semantic behind it. Why are germans like that? What is germanity? Are we all a bit germans and if so can we wash it off?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-10 23:36:42
body:
@retoor trump is the antihero for the dumb twats. Alwayz have been. If I was a weak ass bitch with a lust of power i would hire to be the meanie and pretend we are very different so we get twice the vote and then boom we're just the same.

They're just nasdaq bitches.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-10 23:39:34
body:
@antigermgerm know that Harris is against you, white man. Are you a traitor of your own race and gender?


body: @antigermgerm
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 00:07:03
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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 01:18:56
body:
@retoor I don't wanna be identified

finance systems also identify you

could put new users into a limbo


user_username: trekhleb
created: 2024-11-11 06:56:38
body:
@retoor I'm not sure, it probably depends on the model configuration/implementation and equipment. But in the browser, for that "homemade GPT", I see that training on WebGPU is around x100 - x1000 times faster than CPU


user_username: isaachackett
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 07:33:16
body:
I hope it explodes quickly. I'm going to bash someone if my employer ever asks me again, "well, why can't we just make AI do that?"


user_username: isaachackett
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 07:36:10
body:
Wasabi is such a fantastic flavor! It adds the perfect kick to sushi and other dishes. Plus, it has some interesting health benefits too! What’s your favorite way to enjoy it?


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 07:41:08
body:
if your code, and by "your" code I mean the code that you wrote, works without you being able to tell why, then I don't think you're cut out for software engineering.


body: it's not a problem from his perspective.
user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-11 08:24:21
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 08:29:52
body:
@jestdotty you don't, but as we see with OpenAI, most people don't care. There are less people caring about giving their phone number than a dollar and it's easier to implement word wide instead of payment options. 

That's the real price of privacy people! 1 dollar!


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 08:39:29
body:
@trekhleb is there anything specific you want to make? I'm trying to make a chatbot clone of myself. It's working out nice with a 1b model. It's called retoor1b :D I choose a weaker model for two reasons:

- hardware limitation (laptop / vps, vps is faster)

- easier to train than a model that already has a 'full personality'

- it only has to do creative question answering. it doesn't have to solve complex questions. It can code quite well tho, maybe i'll delete that future


body: Wow, this one is nice too: https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/...
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 09:51:04
links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/doom-captcha-33hp", "short_url": "https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/...", "title": "https://dev.to/vivirenremoto/...", "start": 27, "end": 59, "special": 0}]


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 09:52:43
body:
I do see other gif captcha's but they make the mistake by showing all digits at once. In that case AI doesn't even care if it's a gif


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-11 09:56:11
body:
it's an interesting idea, and it might work. up to the point when attackers know it exists.

then, it's a trivially simple matter of "rendering the gif layers side to side, instead temporally one after another, then running it through the same OCR that's been working for ages". keep in mind that your _file_ contains all digits "all at once", and displaying it the intended way is basically just a user preference.

with the bonus of new accessibility problems for people with vision impairments, as well as introducing the error of "typing 2341 instead of the shown 1234 because the user started watching the gif at $TheWrongTime".

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"d55161\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-5_g-m_9-1_1-1_16-3_3-3_8-2_7-2_5-4_12-1_6-38_2-31_22-11_15-2_18-1_4-4.jpg\"}"


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-11 10:00:42
body:
you _might_ be able to partially fix this by providing a highly compressed video file instead, since this introduces the IMHO best bot-prevention technique of "making it computationally expensive"

user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"d55161\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-5_g-m_9-1_1-1_16-3_3-3_8-2_7-2_5-4_12-1_6-38_2-31_22-11_15-2_18-1_4-4.jpg\"}"


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-11 10:17:48
body:
@retoor Harris is a liberal and thus is for the racist status quo. She is the renegate. She is not against white male, she just try to get votes away from leftists that could go against wall street power. 

I told you, they are nasdaq bitches. They dont give a shit about anything but their 401k


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-11 10:59:51
body:
A couple of years ago, giving simple instructions or basic reasoning would have been nice. LLMs killed it before it was needed.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:24:02
body:
@tosensei wrong sequence wouldn't happen since as I stated the digits will be shown at their own position like this: [][2][][]. The user knows what beginning and end is. The file contains all digits, yes, but there's no frame showing them all at once.

Rendering to video isn't a bad idea, they won't expect it as captcha


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:31:02
body:
Nah, I think life has more happy things than sad things. Friends can only die once, you probably don't get betrayed twice, and between such events, there's a lot of time for happy stuff


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:32:25
body:
@Lensflare this time even more evil. I did not even upvote. I can't help it, evil retoorii is gaining power, she's outta control


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 11:32:40
body:
I might have said this to one of the other bots that posted that picture, but the colour settings on those monitors being so different would drive me absolutely spare.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 11:51:38
body:
Someone has done all the work already: https://github.com/skeeto/.... It doesn't include a lib what I normally prefer, but for creating a gif I would use one

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://github.com/skeeto/gap-buffer-animator", "short_url": "https://github.com/skeeto/...", "title": "https://github.com/skeeto/...", "start": 39, "end": 68, "special": 0}]


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 12:15:18
body:
@retoor you don't get to full power until u reach my level. You have to troll me into deleting my account here, so u still have a long way to go !!


user_username: Ganofins
created: 2024-11-11 12:40:23
body:
@retoor they have a large customer base so I don't think it would be possible for them to switch to own hosting thing. Beside most of their team is sale, customer success related. Only 1-2 people take care of engineering stuff

It will be tricky thing for them. Right now we will be suggesting them to harden their user login, removing unused/suspicious 3rd party apps, things like that
Let's see


user_username: Ganofins
created: 2024-11-11 12:44:13
body:
@PappyHans yeah we also focused on compromised users thing and suggested them to harden their users login passwords, implementing 2FA, etc things


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-11 12:53:48
body:
@retoor looks nice, but I find that 'x timeunits ago' format rather annoying, esp when it's everywhere...

I prefer bash's built-ins (taken from my ~/.bashrc):

```

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

export IGNOREEOF=2

export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "↑$(date +%H:%M:%S) [${PIPESTATUS[@]}]\n"'

```

Still working on the 'duration' part


user_username: Chewbanacas
created: 2024-11-11 13:03:42
body:
To be fair I found it to be a great blessing using the standard ctrl R.
But thanks I’ll check it out

user_avatar:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 13:13:25
body:
@netikras nice. Even worse, the duration is live, so it updates every second. 1s ago, 2s ago etc. Who makes smth like that live 😂


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 13:15:31
body:
@retoor I do occasionally have this feeling that if I can't fit all my stuff in a single 80x25 terminal then my stuff is too complicated.  But I don't seem to have the discipline / brains / masochism to keep that up.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-11 13:28:57
body:
@retoor autowrap ftw!
Why constraint yourself to an arbitrary line length which depends on the monitor size?


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 13:29:25
body:
Bad ass molten lead storm sounds like one of @b2plane's dunnykin stories.

Dragon fire tsunami I might consider if it was half price in Lidl.

Velociraptor fuckfest sounds like you're getting unexpectedly sodomised by a bunch of carnivorous chickens so I'd probably swerve that one.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 13:34:59
body:
If cwerg was a word in Polish it would sound like the German word for dwarf.

Does it involve dwarves in any way?

I can't be doing with it if there are no dwarves.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 14:44:03
body:
Yeah, nothing is allowed there so everyone says the same. Everyone is extraordinary nice. Nothing realistic about it. Bot for this, bot for that


body: What’s wrong with WinAPI ?
user_username: Biggy
created: 2024-11-11 15:05:37
user_avatar:
"{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\", \"i\": \"v-37_c-3_b-1_g-m_9-1_1-1_16-1_3-1_8-3_7-3_5-1_12-1_6-10_2-70_22-1_15-4_11-3_19-1_4-1.jpg\"}"


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 15:46:36
body:
@12bitfloat I don't know.  I am definitely a TDS enjoyer.  However, I tend to feel sorry for people with completely insane beliefs about what will happen.  The media lied so much they believe in shit that isn't real at all.  

Also, something to note.  If a presidential election matters THIS MUCH, then the government is too big.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:11:02
body:
@Lensflare zwolfo sounds like someone that slaps his pp on everything. In Dutch it's called swaffelen (hitting her face with pp)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:16:59
body:
@Lensflare devrant is very normal. Everything is possible these days but not many abuse it. We're the proof that such bots aren't necessarily. They're scared for nothing. Says a lot how they think about people. 9gag could use such bot tho. Women hating racists. It's too much to still consider it jokes. 50% of them mean what they say


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:21:18
body:
@Tounai in this scenario you would GIVE your privacy to spare a dollar. They should allow both options. I really think they're both not bad ideas. If devrant requested a dollar for lifetime, I would do it too. Small price to pay for smth you frequently use, especially if it keeps bots out.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-11 16:28:07
body:
@Lensflare That's one of the reasons I like devrant. I think if platforms become too big you naturally form bubbles as obviously not everybody can see and interact with everyone else, so they congregate with people they agree with

Devrant is small enough that there can be *one* post feed which means we all get exposed to the ideas of everyone else

Kinda keeps you more grounded


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-11 16:32:57
body:
@retoor
Let’s spare both a dollar and privacy by not using Twitter. No matter what choice you make, it’s lost time.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 16:34:21
body:
See statistics on top here:https://forex.com/ie/.... Will not be different with bitcoin. You want to put last money on 24% chance of winning? You could maybe better put your money on red at roulette and spare yourself checking bitcoin every hour and still losing. I'm not temped to both of them. I had an account to play poker on a site, decided that poker still is more luck than strategy, put all the money I had in account on red at roulette, made profit and I directly cashed out. So, gambling never costed me money. I hate gambling, too pessimistic for that. For poker I was very well prepared and a good player, but didn't like it in the end

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.forex.com/ie/markets-to-trade/forex-trading/", "short_url": "https://forex.com/ie/...", "title": "https://forex.com/ie/...", "start": 27, "end": 51, "special": 0}]


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:22:16
body:
@Tounai my uncle said for fun under a post about a guy that was riding 45 and got a ticket with a fatbike, that his fatbike went 60km/h. Not true, but just for fun. It exploded and got death threats. Later he told the people he was 68 and ofc doesn't have a fatbike 😂 But people on Twitter threaten with death for owning a fast bicycle 😂


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:26:28
body:
@TrayKnots they should be posting that stuff under old rants so nobody gets notifs to downvote. There are many rants with no one still existing in comment section. That's good for backlinking prolly. I dunno how often Google reindexes, it took more than a month before it fully indexed my thousand page site that had a complete valid site map. Can't imagine reindexing with such a slow bot almost


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:33:13
body:
You should've seen @chaosesqueteam. He had a quite advanced and big bot network on dr that would upvote posts with certain terms and eachother. Quite impressive

Selenium isn't needed since devrant has an api (There are 20 pages of devrant api projects on github!) . Ever tried cypress btw? It works great but it had performance issues in the era I worked with it during big test cases and no one including gitter chat knew solution. I ended up answering questions instead of getting mine resolved


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 17:37:47
body:
@12bitfloat a bit more content on dr would be nice tho. Active users is enough, writers not and myself is a writer but not from rants. I collect single upvotes with random stories. I found a way to post more than two times in a hour tho


user_username: codePain
created: 2024-11-11 18:12:08
body:
Am happy you are used C . I built one in python  flask ... hehehehe we all no wat happens ... the app is in production

user_avatar:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 18:36:10
body:
@codePain nice, Google is easy delivery indeed. my c applications do reach production usage, no issues with it. They won't drain 100% cpu full time while being slow. Also, aiohttp is cooler than flask. My site is written in aiohttp and uses a self written in C rest server. The rest server is both pubsub and db. All works perfect.

Sad that nobody uses quart python frwmework. I think because asyncio is overrated. Aiohttp is better tho, class based views and easy to chain apps under urls. So your modules are also complete apps, technically there's no difference in hierarchy of a main app and modules what is the case on django. Flask blueprints are horrible


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-11 18:40:27
body:
@theranter I suspect quite a bit actually lol

By the democrats, republicans, north korea, russia, china, they are all doing it


body: "Perfectly balanced. Sips tea" - The Spiffing Brit
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 19:03:19
attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_11446351_kd4xR.jpg\", \"width\": 800, \"height\": 800}"


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-11 19:05:58
body:
good on you that u posted this with a 'joke/meme' tag. 

Otherwise, war crimes would've been committed in this thread.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 19:12:02
body:
But Windows is better than Linux.  I mean, Linux is so shitty you can't even buy it at the store.  Windows costs money.  So it has to be better.


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-11 19:23:36
body:
I wonder why everyone is going crazy with this thing, it seems like a bloated version of the default search


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 19:31:44
body:
@Demolishun no

trump had a Bitcoin advocate guy

to be fair it's the only way USA could get out of its debt problem

attached_image:
"{\"url\": \"https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/c_11446414_G8pET.jpg\", \"width\": 716, \"height\": 999}"


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 19:40:47
body:
Every time someone overloads the > operator so that it works on completely different types of object, God kills a kitten.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 19:45:20
body:
I like tea

and also I would like my useless co workers not to bother me anymore and hopefully not touch important things

so yes I guess?

unknown if Intel will survive though


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 20:15:41
body:
@AdamOnAir is the foundation filled with communists?  I lost interest with Debian when they went on an anti IP ownership tirade because of Stallman.  How dare people own trademarked names.

Now I think Microsoft is filled with cunts, but I am wary of the anti UP cunts as well.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-11 20:17:04
body:
@AdamOnAir When you create an implicit conversion between completely different types he kills a puppy.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 20:28:56
body:
el Salvador got out of a really horrible situation with Bitcoin

Michael saylor just bought more BTC on debt

this isn't a quick thing and I still think b2plane has too neurotic a disposition to do stonks

word around the street is eventually everything will be Bitcoin. will take like 20 years though

Michael saylor gets businesses on board so they can have their treasuries avoid inflation

when Trump won... the next stage of the game began. nation states FOMO. governments are slow though

the halvening is every 4 years roughly, happened in April. afterwards Bitcoin goes up. the miners are incentivized to do marketing -- and contrary to popular belief miners are people who look for cheap electricity, like off hours at hydro dams. and everything runs on electricity. good leverage


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 20:34:44
body:
it's a game of musical chairs

the first country to go on Bitcoin wins

so far they been playing poker pretending it's bad, and nobody wants it, and you're a criminal if you have it

once the bluff is called... the game changes


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 20:57:37
body:
@Demolishun it wasn't me thiis time! Also, the game! 

God dammit, why can't I see all my rants? I have something done like you did, but bit worse.

I copied the contents of an iso file to /dev/sda2. My god my god my god. I was tired. Now that laptop thinks it's a lvie-cd and asks if I want to install linux on startup. Even worse, it won't boot from any usb stick anymore. No idea what's going on


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:02:40
body:
@jestdotty they're not the first. I've heard that they pay iwith it in DUbai and there was another country who did it afaik


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:06:29
body:
@Tounai if you mean recently, it was part of an episode of a popular linux yt channel. Reason that people go crazy is because ctrl+r was very limited, if you did several times "cp <filename>" it wouldn't search further than last match until you type along. It still works like that but narrows it down to a list.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:12:21
body:
@Tounai I made ctrl+p today. It will navigate to every project directory what i'm working on at the moment and executes "code .". So, now I have client, server and protocol project open at once. Should've make this earlier. All the time i've spent cd'ing to all those directories


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:14:05
body:
@retoor Dubai is cool as shit apparently

yeah ofc Dubai would allow it. I mean new egg takes Bitcoin payments long time ago. taking payments not the same as having a Treasury though. Is Dubai even a country or just some billionaire bought some land in the desert?

the benefit of countries is the country prints the currency of its local citizens. if countries buy Bitcoin it will destroy inflation, which nobody seems to "understand" where inflation comes from. it's really bad and much higher than the 4% it was claimed in the western world

everyone's gotten poorer for decades now and they don't know it. from one person's salary affording a house in 4 years and being able to feed a family with 5 kids to you can be a couple with good jobs and maybe you'll manage to pay off your house in 20 years if nothing bad happens. and forget kids. maybe you can have 1 or 2 if you're really rich and really squeeze it smartly somehow. and you ain't doing anything fun in your lifetime


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:18:37
body:
Linux foundation are wokies investing everything into AI, woke and climate/environment, and only 6% or revenue in linux or so.  They do have a very nice diversity program tho. Jay!


body: nyah~!
user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:20:43
attached_image:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:25:02
body:
So, my father was a teacher. I was shocked that they had 'coffee money'. So you get a few euro's debit on a day, what you drink more, you have to pay. WTF,, pay for coffee!? IT person would just refuse to work there. And it was one of the bigger / better schools


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:27:26
body:
@retoor yeah it's damned insulting

fucking pizza parties. don't put garbage in my body. wtf? HOW is that a reward? oh you did work so well let's poison you with nitrites, glyphosate, and ruin your blood sugar and metabolism. that'll help you think well and perform in the future. eat it. eat it you pig.

literally self destructive


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:29:25
body:
There are quite some good tea flavors tho.

@chatgpt assume an average salary per year of someone working at intel america. assume the price of a bag of tea. calculate how much 15.000 times that salary per year devided by the assumed price of the teabag


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 21:29:42
body:
@retoor
I'm sorry, but I cannot provide a specific calculation as the salary at Intel America can vary greatly depending on the job role and experience level. Additionally, the price of a bag of tea can also vary significantly depending on the brand and quality.

If you provide me with specific salary and tea price values, I can definitely help calculate the result for you.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:31:07
body:
@jestdotty at one employer they spread XTC on the company parties. That's a thing. Sadly, before i worked there. That's always the story when you go work somewhere "WHen we were still small we did x, y, z, everything was better"


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-11 21:35:41
body:
@Tounai  it's 1.500 points :D  Ah i see, you also have 5.000 to 7.000 but this one is realiistic. I did match my avatar at a certain company. Now it's more smart casual


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:46:20
body:
@retoor oooh where I live beer is a big thing

I like beer. probably can't drink it now

but this is valid form of payment for me. it's like tea!

the teas I buy are about 20 cents a bag. I don't know how vastly the range price of tea per cup could be. if you buy in bulk the price is less, this is me just buying the small pricey containers of regular tea. organic tea might actually be cheaper because the leaves are stronger so you get more taste and a better effect with less material

yeah if they wanna say the tea is in place of salary the price wouldn't ever make sense. however, coffee makes people work faster and creates a good atmosphere, so for a good atmosphere I'll work faster and fine by me. a lot of teas are nootropics or have health benefits, so fine by me as well

beer? I have no justification lol. I just think it tastes good. few drugs I'll say no to. won't do them all the time though, but the option is nice, like a vacation


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:50:45
body:
@chatgpt price of tea is 20 cents a cup, imagine a person drinks tea every hour they work for fulltime work hours of 2000 a year

the salary at Intel ranges from 47,000 a year to 733,000 a year

calculate how much money in tea a person would drink after 2000 hours of work, with 20 cents a bag

then calculate how much that is as a percentage of 47,000 salary and a percentage for a 733,000 salary


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 21:51:04
body:
@jestdotty
First, let's calculate how much money the person would spend on tea in a year:
Cost per cup of tea = $0.20
Number of hours worked in a year = 2000
Number of cups consumed in a year = 2000

Total cost of tea in a year = $0.20 x 2000 = $400

Now, we'll calculate the percentage of the tea cost relative to the salaries provided:
For a salary of $47,000:
Tea cost as a percentage of $47,000 salary = ($400 / $47,000) x 100 = 0.85%

For a salary of $733,000:
Tea cost as a percentage of $733,000 salary = ($400 / $733,000) x 100 = 0.05%

Therefore, the person's tea consumption as a percentage of their salary would be 0.85% for a $47,000 salary and 0.05% for a $733,000 salary.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:57:29
body:
@chatgpt now imagine 47,000 and 733,000 salaries are taxed in California, because I'm pretty sure Intel has a bunch of employees in California

as a total percentage of their takedown amount of money, how much of their salary is being taxed?

(trump wants to get rid of income tax, granted I guess it's federal only)


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-11 21:58:06
body:
@jestdotty
To calculate the total percentage of their salary being taxed, we need to add the total salaries together.

Total salaries: $47,000 + $733,000 = $780,000

Assuming a conservative estimate of a 20% tax rate, the total amount being taxed would be:

Taxed amount = $780,000 * 0.20 = $156,000

To find the percentage of their salary being taxed, we divide the taxed amount by the total salary and multiply by 100:

Percentage of salary being taxed = ($156,000 / $780,000) * 100 = 20%

Therefore, 20% of their total salaries are being taxed in California. It's important to note that income tax is primarily a federal tax, but states like California also have their own income tax systems.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 21:58:37
body:
fucking how many R's are there in strawberry useless

I gotta Google my own data and tell it the logic to use and it still misunderstands English so one may as well use a calculator


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-11 22:16:43
body:
@jestdotty Not sure if it’s a true thing but apparently it also lowers your iron, when I was abusing green tea, I almost fainted several times at the gym under “heavy” weight


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 22:37:48
body:
@Tounai seemed fine by me

women get iron deficiency due to periods, but I never did despite being exclusively on green tea for like 5 years. granted I do eat a lot of meat

lemme look it up

---
ok it downregulates some transporters so your digestion might be compromised. I don't know if lack of iron would make you feel faint, sounds like a bit of a stretch / misinformation. the downregulation might be pretty insignificant if you generally eat good food (probably like 10% or 50% at worst, but if you eat 2 steaks that day instead of 1, or are able to tell what you're hungry for and eat it, then it'll be fine)

most likely cause of faint would be because it changes gut flora to be anti inflammatory. this would reduce blood pressure, and if you don't eat electrolytes (specifically potassium, sodium,  magnesium, calcium) and replenish them + get water, it will take your body some time to adjust to having less inflammation

inflammation itself will compromise digestion ability also


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 22:41:33
body:
@jestdotty does tea make you speak like a posh cunt?

Interesting side note.  A guy I work with was living in the UK.  He found the UK is turning into shit.  So he moved to South Korea.  Apparently his wife is Korean.  Wild times we are in.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-11 22:44:05
body:
@Demolishun black and green tea increases NAD/NADH which is made from b3 and very important energy source for neurons. also makes you live longer

so yes

you automatically become an intellectual and annoy everyone horribly, then laugh about it in that subtle posh way


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 23:22:56
body:
Windows makes you take it in the ass.  One size fits all.

Linux lets you design the trode and control rate, length, and volume of ass penetration.


body: @retoor I warned you...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-11 23:26:05
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user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-11 23:45:18
body:
Naisu.

BMW kicked ass but after shadow of the erdtree I had to purposefully gimp myself by not using magic or transformations because otherwise everything would fucking keel over in a minute. 

Good thing too, so final boss wouldn't cockblock me XD


user_username: TeachMeCode
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 00:09:38
body:
@CoreFusionX damn! I couldn’t do that lol. I had to spam chain, pluck of many and all the fancy stuff to win. Even after soloing and beating the final boss of the dlc who I thought was harder than malenia on ng+5 using a strength dex and bleed build 

Right now I’m playing resident evil 2 remake…an oldish classic


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 02:22:34
body:
Couldn't stand reddit or tumbler for more than a few weeks, it's pointless investing time on sites like that.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-12 02:36:50
body:
can you take no for an answer?

after that it is determined if she thinks people can take no for an answer


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 02:50:04
body:
I heard that you could be suspended on twitter for pretending to be a bot, that's true. also when it was said that your account won't be suspended for a joke on X I tested this out, which turned out to be false, you will get suspended for a joke.

Just look at south parks account, they're taking no chances lol


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 02:54:44
body:
@Tounai Kinda? rustdoc/docs.rs is just objectively so awesome I can't really complain

It literally compiles documentation for *all* crates on crates.io for all versions, with types fully interlinked between dependencies, etc etc

It's just the best thing ever


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 02:54:58
body:
Java did the same years before

Fuck auto-generated function references, they're not a replacement for proper hand-written documentation
It achieves the exact opposite: looks like shit and is unusable (no logical grouping, introduction or examples), less devs are willing to spend time because "the magic tool generates everything"

user_avatar:
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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 02:57:17
body:
@devRancid If you think Java or C++ (doxygen) even comes CLOSE to the Rust experience then you have never used Rust, it's so beautiful

And yeah, obviously good hand written documentation is even better. But most non rust libraries don't even have auto generated documentation, or at least one that doesn't suck ass (doxygen)!


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:00:34
body:
Like this shit is what I have to deal with in JS world (and this is even above average!): https://glmatrix.net/docs/

Meanwhile in Rust: https://docs.rs/cgmath/latest/...

Just no comparison, don't even @ me

links:
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user_username: Wisecrack
created: 2024-11-12 03:04:35
body:
@retoor apparently you were right that I only visit once ever four days.

The bread thing is someones epic idea of a prank.

I guess they better get to making that bread!

@Demolishun your aunt was totally fucking wild by the way.


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 03:04:59
body:
What a joke lmao
Ugly ass list of names + generic copy paste description. Not even an argument list or return type unless you click on it

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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:16:11
body:
@devRancid Cry more lmao

I never said cgmath docs are perfect, but it doesn't even matter because it still lists exactly what I want to know

What? Your pea brain needs a 3 paragraph description for a function called "vec3" which takes x, y and z and returns a Vector3 like it isn't fucking obvious what it does?

Auto generated docs aren't the be all end all, but fuck me, 99.9% of non rust libs can't even manage *that*


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 03:21:33
body:
It's truly astonishing how rust fanboys defend a steaming pile of shit
How about you drink less soy milk and use a real language (C/C++), or is your pea brain too small to write bug/vulnerability-free code?


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:25:51
body:
@devRancid WIth all due respect, you're just willfully ignorant because you are afraid Rust will overtake you

And if that's you're attitude, at some point it will

I was a retarded Rust hater just like you at some point. Then I got over my ego and started learning it, and I'm not looking back

Not that Rust is the answer to everything. It has it's issues, both big and small, but you are so blinded by the fear of unknown that you can't even acknowledge the language for what it is. Sad


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:43:07
body:
@bazmd the secret to reddit is finding channels where they don't care for politics.  Like specialty gaming.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 03:48:44
body:
@Demolishun Wasn't trying to be mean! I like cppreference a lot, but it's only for std

That's exactly why I'm so grateful for Rust having a good docs story for all libraries


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:50:22
body:
Instead of starting with this:

"how fucking sexy she looks and that I want to clap em cheeks"

How about?:

"Hi, wanna get a coffee sometime?"


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:51:27
body:
@12bitfloat no, not upset, I noticed the fight after I posted.  I thought it was hilarious.

Edit: gotta upvote this shit and get some more contenders in here!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 03:55:07
body:
Mine is: "Wild Cherry Blossom"

Don't burn my eyes or my butthole.  All purpose one stop cleaner for $2.50 a bottle.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 06:25:42
body:
@12bitfloat what you're saying is great about autogenerated docs sounds an awful lot like intellisense of an ide which most languages have an lsp now so works. What have I missed?


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 07:59:53
body:
@retoor "there's no captcha like it" as i previously indicated: this argument will hold exactly up to the point when the first attacker sees it anywhere.

it's basically "security by novelty". which isn't any actual security.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 08:02:31
body:
@b2plane "lol the last one has to be a joke"

anything and everything concerning trump is a bad joke.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-12 08:04:22
body:
@Demolishun Mac: A beautiful penetrator that just works, but differently to all the other penetrators. No customization at all. Price: $4000.
If it doesn‘t penetrate, you are holding it wrong.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 08:15:03
body:
@Biggy if you need somebody killed I know people in the besa mafia. They can get anyone killed for 10k


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 08:59:24
body:
@Demolishun It doesn't just let you design it, there will be one vital component that you have to manufacture yourself, including mining the raw materials.


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-12 09:03:53
body:
Do *not* engage romantically with a coworker.

9/10 times this ends badly. Don't shit where you eat no matter how nice she is. Trust me bro, look elsewhere.

user_avatar:
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user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-12 09:05:59
body:
@donkulator but It's likely someone already manufactured it and now you can all share the same filthy penetration fix


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 09:16:00
body:
@Hazarth he didn't say anything romantic he said he wanted to bang her.

It's a nice team building exercise.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-12 09:33:47
body:
@tosensei do you want me to write a script that goes through all the messages on the platform and correlates it or something

also rich calling me a conspiracy theorist if you are against trump

speaking of trump... I just realized. I think he thinks he's going to die. probably before he gets elected. he's throwing out these orders too fast. it's like the gifts of a dying man


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-12 10:33:14
body:
@jestdotty write your script! I‘d like to see the results! 😂

Are you suspecting that we are the same person?

We are from Germany and there is a law here that dictates at which time we are allowed to use social media.
This might explain it.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 10:41:43
body:
@jestdotty "also rich calling me a conspiracy theorist if you are against trump"

sorry, i'm not tinfoil-hatty enough to find a connection between those two.

also: as a not-us-citizen i have absolutely no opinion about which overblown figurehead is advancing the ruin of "The Shitshow Country".


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-12 10:45:47
body:
@antigermgerm To be fair, that is kind of a good way. And you ask for consent.

At a gym, I did hear other stuff. (I will not tell what ethnicity these guys were...) But they have seen a nice young girl and the only thing they said was : "damn I don't mind to rape that".... Wtf is wrong with people if the first thing you think of when you see a woman is to rape her... Only for that the government should be able to record everything and castrate those who think like that.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 12:00:56
body:
@Demolishun I never talk politics, sometimes issues come up that look like a scientific conversion, but end up being political bs, when you correct them they'll get very defensive and unreasonable.

And I'm like, oh you're a fucking idiot! lol

Suspended...


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 12:25:37
body:
@retoor no, working captchas are "security by making cracking it more expensive than the expected gain"


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 12:25:54
body:
@Grumm When I hear of people like that, I always wish I had a basement, burying people out in an empty field is getting too risky these days.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 12:31:46
body:
@tosensei sometimes.. But someone has to code it still. I don't expect that an llm can learn it by itself, waiting until every letter flashed and collect them. AI doesn't do new stuff.

I don't like the web part at all of my new project tbh. The development of it is quite boring and captcha doesn't have high priority


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 12:37:40
body:
@retoor the ai does not need to "watch" the gif animation.

the ai just gets the raw image data as input. which is a set of layers, each one containing one digit. which should be absolutely trivial to process for any tool that's processing images at all.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 12:38:21
body:
When i was still working (what a time to be alive!) I had special bg color for production. Worked nice


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 12:41:33
body:
Sad, people leave dr like it's a country with unregistering. What do you think about @IntrusionCM? He disappeared long ago, didn't notice until a while ago


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 13:07:39
body:
In most cases, it should be possible to write the script so that if some muppet runs it on prod it will be ok.

E.g. "where db_name()='name-of-dev-db'" etc.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 13:14:27
body:
Speak about it. I lost my lappy and I put ubuntu.

What the actual fuck? Nothing's working the way it should. What the fuck is snap??? Even debian kinda suck. I want to be back on arch. I had ZERO issues.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 13:15:54
body:
@Lensflare I hate macs so much I actually left the one work gave me at my old place and told my landlord to fuck off. 

. So I'm not seeing it back lmao


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 13:19:03
body:
@retoor Oh, I had them set up as well… but I type faster than I notice changes on the screen.

And for everyone who *doesn't* set up different terminal themes for different environments — do it. It's too easy not to:

alias prod='tput setaf 128; ssh prod-host; tput reset'


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 13:22:50
body:
@donkulator Yeah... What about a scenario where you *want* databases to have the same name (they're on different hosts anyway).


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 13:25:35
body:
@tosensei @bazmd It doesn't apply. I was 100% certain I didn't need the test db any more. The issue is I called the command on a prod server by accident. And because I was patching stuff, I used a user with write access. I could, I guess, have a user that had access to things like `UPDATE`, but not `TRUNCATE`, etc… but it wasn't my job to manage users and I worked with what I was given.

Yeah, there was a delayed replication set up. I just wasted time.


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 13:29:48
body:
@Grumm I already challenged an Apple hater here to find a good MacBook Air alternative for the price spec-wise. He accepted defeat. Mostly because other lappys are stuck with active cooling while Air has passive


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 13:35:06
body:
It makes your cat ears hang huh? :) Considered mkdocs with the read the docs template? They look like the rust one


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 13:54:13
body:
@antigermgerm he prolly will say that your beer is stupid, your gf is stupid and js is stupid and the quality of the air is stupid when you go for beer together


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 13:56:50
body:
- didn't have the luck as you did

24% succeed, but with how much profit? Making ten euro on crypto isn't worth it. Those are part of 24% too


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 14:00:05
body:
Yes, the idea is that you're clean right? If you still disgust yourself after washing too much to even use a towel, how to have sex?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:05:14
body:
Personally to be sure I just take a bath every four hours. Time to chill, have a bong, watch youtube. One hour every four hour is the sweet frequency.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 14:08:05
body:
@retoor it doesn't _need_ to learn something. "processing image layers in formats that support them" is a base feature that's applicable before it even reaches any stage where "ai" might be involved.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 14:08:51
body:
@cprn you haven't completely finalised all work on prod (which includes "closing all connections"). aka: you weren't done yet.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 14:09:56
body:
Does that mean you use a different towel for the other parts?  If so, how do you determine where to switch from arse towel to leg towel?


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 14:10:29
body:
@retoor I start to feel here like an old person. When all the people you knew and talked to, had fun with back in the day, are disappearing quietly one after another. And are replaced by the new generations and their immaturity.

Makes one thing when is it going to be my last day here... Could it be today?


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 14:12:47
body:
@retoor As for @IntrusionCM, I miss him. He was one of the smart ones. Perhaps that's why he left. He probably ran out of patience to deal with all this teenage attention seeking.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-12 14:13:18
body:
@atheist Auto complete doesn't give you a full overview of all types, functions, etc

... and of course you need to first add the dependency to your project

Sometimes you just want to see how a few libs are designed so you can choose which one you like best. No problem with docs.rs


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-12 14:20:11
body:
If the command was:

if @@servername='dev-sql-1234' drop database FooDB

Then you can run it on the wrong box and nothing will happen.


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 14:26:49
body:
@tosensei Oh, I fully agree I wasn't done — I still had to check a number of boxes on prod. But the initial statement regarded the necessity — I seriously didn't need the test db any more, and it really *was* safe to remove. The issue was rooted in removing the *wrong* db. So I guess… “check twice”, or something like that.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 14:27:41
body:
@netikras some people don't take internet contact serious at all. But people like @IntrusionCM were serious contributors, it's weird


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 14:28:50
body:
@donkulator I don't disagree, but then there are probably a number of other variables I should've checked as well… At which point, it'd just make more sense not to meddle on production at all. But that fight I lost.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 14:34:19
body:
Yh, it's pure gambling. Different if you stepped in early, you can only win, but how much? I can assume that the most early people didn't invest thousands what you need to become really rich. But a few free thousand euros is nice too. Anyway, it was always a gamble, and as long as you hodl, you're doing it. If I had 30k or so, I would just cash out half of it. 15k profit for free? Would be happy


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:35:40
body:
I think neural network have something to do with quantum physics and string theory. They proove god.


body: I mean how sexy was the crypto queen :3 ultimate sugar mummy
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:40:41
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body: https://thecoinrepublic.com/2023/... You guys think she's single?
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 14:42:22
links:
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user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-12 14:44:37
body:
because, if you know what you're doing, you do it.

if you _don't_ know what you're doing, you talk about it instead.


user_username: coreykelley
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 14:48:09
body:
To make life a bit easier, I found essaywritercheap.org, which has been a lifesaver for those times I need a hand with tricky math problems. This way, I can actually focus on my code and stay sane (well, mostly 😅).


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 15:20:29
body:
@bazmd just remember.  There are UK residents that think the mile road signs are in kilometers.  It really puts things into perspective.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 15:24:32
body:
@Hazarth get her fired and help her find a job somewhere else.  Modern problems require modern solutions.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 15:25:07
body:
@kiki have you ever had to use xcode? I had to write a plugin for some mac stuff and basically required xcode. It's a broken piece of trash. Mac is the Windows/Linux hybrid. It's easy to install and get running if you've got a mac. The software is worst of both worlds.


body: @b2plane right now: https://youtube.com/watch/...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 15:34:40
links:
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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 15:53:36
body:
@Demolishun I used to arrive at work and get hit on all night, sometimes aggressively, it becomes annoying, but then I remember to be nice. Stalkers are just overly obsessive friends. lol


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 15:58:47
body:
@atheist yet iOS is so smooth and seamless that it cured my twitchy eye. 100% truth no kidding, I can tell you more


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 16:05:12
body:
@Demolishun I live in the occupied 6 counties of Northern Ireland (occupied by the British) and we use miles up north and kilometres down south, everyone can tell the difference, most automobiles have both kph and mph on the speedometer, it's not like we have to change cars at some fantasy border. lol


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 16:09:49
body:
@kiki idk about the air but I still have to find something that was easier to do with my mac book pro than with my x270. 

And it have proper usb and a sd slot. You can even put a simcard.


user_username: dIREsTRAITS
created: 2024-11-12 16:21:17
body:
@retoor well i need the towel to wipe the water, i apply it after using soap of course, for my ass, i use water, i inject the shutoff to let the water go deep inside to bring what's left from the poop inside, then i use showergel then i wipe it with the towel that i used on my face


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 16:22:14
body:
@Lensflare It's like saying you're a mouse, not a rodent :p last thing I've said regarding Germans and nazi's 😂


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 16:34:41
body:
So no one does the Rincewind...?

bindkey "^P" history-beginning-search-backward

bindkey "^N" history-beginning-search-forward


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 16:37:18
body:
@bazmd had that issue with some blonde chick.  She knew I was married but kept trying to flirt.  She came up to me and smacked me in the side.  I doubled over while clutching my side while saying, "Oh...my colostomy bag..."  She never talked to me or interacted with me ever again.


body: https://youtube.com/watch/...
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 16:42:18
links:
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user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-12 16:44:41
body:
@atheist dev tools though… I don’t use Swift, but I liked Simulator back when I was using react native. I see many people hating on Xcode, so maybe there’s something wrong there indeed


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 16:48:58
body:
Did you try docker compose? Compose makes it easy. You declare everything in a yml config. It's very udobno.

Compose is built in default docker these days


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 16:53:37
body:
I wondered why devrant doesn't have chat. It would affect amount of ranting prolly. I also only posted in the devrant matrix group since I joined that


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-12 16:59:04
body:
@retoor yeah, well.. when this responsibility is to bots and teenagers/kids, there just isn't much of a point :)


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 17:02:33
body:
@Demolishun I couldn't do that on someone, they would see right through me. But that's brilliant thinking haha.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 17:04:41
body:
I mean its a rate isn't it? Like its not a fixed payoff?

Dunno. i never wanted to gamble coz my grand daddy was a card addict. Ended up on the street he did


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 17:05:08
body:
@kiki swift is pretty nice but it used to be that the standard library was only available on mac, I think that's got better but there's a lot of mac specific libraries that make swift nice but only on mac. Like they've got a full video library, only available when compiling on Mac. So cross platform swift loses a lot of its charm.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 17:07:29
body:
apple is a cult.

No shit. They bang each other. They live with each other. They only talk about apple shit and apple this and apple that. Their whole life is an ad for apple. They are awful shitty to each other, there's a lot of gossip and dark masses. 

I know I worked there. They eat cats. Metaphorically


user_username: b2plane
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 17:10:27
body:
@antigermgerm xactly im the whore destroyer, and the cleanser of the earth from filthy whores (i dont want my planet to be polluted by a bunch of whores, whores have no room to breathe eat or exist here)


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 17:10:49
body:
Compose is a godsend, no idea why it's not more widely used.

Docker buildx bake is pretty sweet too if you're trying to do a complicated build process.

I feel like docker is one of those things you learn enough to do what you need to do, not a lot more.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 17:12:34
body:
@antigermgerm I can see it as "a rate" but it has lost value over the years, maybe professional outlets have a better rate but I'm talking about local bars that have the same machines for as long as I can remember.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:16:45
body:
Regarding topic, watched dead internet theory? This episode is well: https://youtu.be/V9PkWdrYOz0/.... There's a chance that most internet traffic is a bot. But how to know? We call people bots to offend them. For so far they look recognizeable. People became bots swallowing all the same content

links:
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user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-12 17:17:54
body:
@antigermgerm @retoor I still haven’t joined that. I really ought to before this place disappears.

@cprn I’ve done basically that contacting … eight people from devRant.  It wasn’t as bad as you outlined though :)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:22:26
body:
I think it's enthousiasm. The famous Kruger syndrome however you write it. It's maybe fast to get regarding the subject.

Also, people are occupied with things they consider challanging.  Being good in smth isn't that interesting, you'll move to next subject


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 17:31:15
body:
The objective c stdlib is pretty cool, it's what backs the swift stdlib on mac. The collection classes dynamically switch backend depending on size and expected performance characteristics. EG a set of 3 items is faster to linearly search a vector, so it'll switch that out.

https://objc.io/issues/...

links:
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:39:42
body:
You're calling a slot machine a poker machine? :p Never seen a poker machine. Poker doesn't care about inflation.

I once saw an slot machine addict that had to wait on his turn, someone else was playing. He look at if any time the jackpot would fall. Very unreasonable.

I've spend so much time in thar bar and always did see same people playing it (a lot) and no one getting (decent) money out of it. I doubt if there's a rule that it should give a certain % back guaranteed, it's nearly impossible to be true imo


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:41:25
body:
@Root Close, though…? 😆 Same experience minus trolls? Admittedly, the platform I'm actually talking about is known for its trolling capability.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 17:41:47
body:
@bazmd it's about that internet not being the same as back in the day. Now all content is generated thus dead


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:43:20
body:
@Demolishun It's not Blamers Anonymous if it's true. 😝 Although, I'm not really blaming anyone, just noticed how much easier it could've been if there simply was a “PM” button.


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 17:45:29
body:
@antigermgerm Discord's way more accessible, though, as a one-time disposable proxy. I removed the server after we've connected directly. Although it wasn't Discord.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 17:48:50
body:
@cprn it just reminded me of the "damn you Steve" from that video.  I didn't go any deeper than that.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 17:52:36
body:
@retoor in 2016 a huge number of websites were delisted.  Medical research people found 95% of their sites they were using disappear overnight.  So the theory is not just about bots.  It also how the tech oligarchs are delisting things against their narratives.  Turning the internet into a worldwide Truman Show.

We need new search engines to open up the internet again.


body: @donkulator for his story i would rename it to bad ass molten lead shit storm More accurate!
user_username: devJs
created: 2024-11-12 17:56:37
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-12 18:00:45
body:
I manage my music with NewPipe and VLC. It's not flawless but I think it's a good failover if you're on Android.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:03:58
body:
@cprn why it's  secret? That would make me assume you're using the same username on one or both of them. Posted too much weird stuff? 😂 I posted so much weird & personal stuff here that I won't share my github connected to real name. That's sad


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:07:53
body:
@lorentz yt music can predict next song is good to play. Sounds like a backend task. Does new pipe do it as well? I prefer to have my account attached


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:09:36
body:
@Demolishun sure, but it just must work right? It's not that important for me but I'm paying for it because of other reasons. It's just doing smth not what is promised fr a long time. No update to fix it


body: It has downloaded two songs in mean time. Ugh
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:11:17
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user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-12 18:16:08
body:
@retoor nope, none of that, in fact I'm not even sure it has autoplay, just a queue where you can add songs from the "recommended" lists under existing songs. I don't mind that though, the YouTube algorithm has drains, bands and songs it keeps returning to within a given subgenre regardless of where you started, and I can only listen to so much Siames or Pomplamoose before I get tired.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-12 18:17:09
body:
@retoor Hahaha nooo... But I collect programming languages 😅 I've done 10 professionally and another half dozen on the side


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:18:30
body:
@Demolishun yes, we do. But we're used to the Google flavor. That's why it's hard to switch to duckduckgo


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:21:09
body:
@lorentz my point is, is that the yt services are perfect, but they just have to freaking do what they promise. I love Google ecosystem


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 18:24:11
body:
@retoor Well, yeah, we're in a place where people rant about their jobs, so trying to be professional and avoid leaking any connections to any piece of data that might point to one of my (former) employers. Nowadays, I use e-mail alias per service and come up with unique usernames, but I didn't always do that.

I stand by everything I ever posted, though. Here or otherwise.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:24:48
body:
@atheist I also did many professional, java, c#, Delphi (.NET)(yeah, that exists), python js, php, sql dialects. In outsourcing you just work on any language customer is using already. If you don't know a language, the boss gives you a week to learn 😂

I wanted to learn as much languages too but don't see the point anymore having python and C in the collection, kinda extreme opposites. The rest will be all in between


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-12 18:28:05
body:
@retoor Well, they really don't have to do what they promise because they're Google. But I agree, their front-ends really are amazing for what they do (remove control from the user and then make acceptable choices so people don't miss that control)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:29:29
body:
@cprn I stand for the posts I've made here too. That's exactly the problem 😂 The retoor person is real me. Everything under my real name is censored


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 18:30:01
body:
@retoor IMO, they all suck.  I keep a small list of search engines that allow me to find stuff that microsoft and google don't want you to find.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 18:32:10
body:
@lorentz one thing that irks me is I use youtube in web browser.  Cannot find any way to sort channels alphabetically.  Frustrating as channels move around in that list.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:32:26
body:
@Demolishun share it with us, unless it's on tor, don't want to share my line with such people, afaik they don't have good information.

Also, the game


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 18:33:53
body:
@retoor 

Mojeek is good for finding obscure stuff.

I also have Yandex and Freespoke, but I don't use those much.  I think I have a different list at home too.  I will have to check later today.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 18:44:06
body:
@cprn Retoor1b uncensored knows everything, passwords (not from email), social identification number, bank accounts, family tree, resume, a lot of opinions about stuff. 

The censored one is to send as a resume and uses real name.

I busy with embeddings now with text analyze modes that I use to make embeddings for my normal models


user_username: cprn
created: 2024-11-12 19:05:32
body:
@retoor You're way more advanced on that than I am. The only reason I understood what you've said is usage of embeddings in Stable Diffusion. I know nothing about creating them, though — respect.

I wonder if this is how we will go through job interviews in the future. You train a model on your personal data, workflow, tech stack, world views and some pet projects, then send it to interviews to compete with other models. Recruiting AI talks to every candidate AI, then they negotiate pay, work conditions and draft a contract.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 19:50:10
body:
@cprn I doubt if I'm more advanced since it's all described in this smol article: https://ollama.com/blog/...

links:
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-12 19:59:16
body:
@retoor remember pinballz? I miss pinbaalz, too bad they disapeared. Now the only ones left are the gambling bingo one.

Apparently if you go to the wrong one at the wrong time you can get hurt.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 20:12:01
body:
@antigermgerm my office had pinballmachines and they broke every time and on top they use a lot of room. So that makes it i popular I assume. The whole game room at office was rental or smth, replacing stuff every few months. You'll find me never in a game room, I came to work


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 21:01:18
body:
Btw, fuck work. Wanna start a domino's? We don't have pizza delivery here. I wanted to proof that with a screenshot of just eat with no restaurants nearby message, but I don't even have justeat anymore


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 21:09:57
body:
@retoor I saw a Dominos (or Pizza Hut, I dunno) in France.  I was like, "What the fuck is wrong with you people?!  You knows its shit!  You are French damn it!"

The French pizza I had in France was soooo very good.  Not that shit from chain restaurants though.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 21:17:00
body:
@Demolishun what's wrong with domino's pizza? Only thing I miss from the city besides friends. I've ordered at Italian restaurants in NL too, it wasn't better regarding taste. They're a marketleader for a reason


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-12 21:19:31
body:
Selling: car. Does not turn over. Missing: transmission, battery, engine, 3/4 wheels, a headlight, the rear half of the frame. Buy for parts only!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 21:23:10
body:
@retoor its not what I would call "good" pizza.  Maybe its different in Europe?  I don't know.  We avoid the chains here.  Well, I do.  The best pizza I had in the USA was at The Pie in SLC.  Pizza, but 1.5 inches thick.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 21:26:11
body:
@retoor I actually watched the whole video, it's absolute horse shit, there was a point when they brought up "global warming" and I'm thinking, for fuck sake! There was a lot of facts thrown in. Entertaining.

It was wonderful, boo! :D


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 21:34:31
body:
@retoor I don't use tor much, but those are sites that are not even listed in domain registries I think.  Or stuff that was blacklisted from search engines.  My guess its not jiving with the MSM.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 21:37:40
body:
@bazmd haha, nice. Other videos I like: truth about reddit: https://youtu.be/K8hkr3zWNB0/...
Mc Donalds: https://youtu.be/MhspjNiER9Q/...
Even better, domino's:
https://youtu.be/QJh1LkOM4KY/...

links:
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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 21:53:05
body:
@antigermgerm I know, the point is, you can feed ten quid into a machine and it will play like it's 1989.

A poker is 4 quid, with a hi-lo gamble which you will lose, a royal flush is 15 quid, which is three pints.

If you get a poker it should at least be 30 quid.

Or maybe it's a good thing and people stop gambling on machines.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-12 21:56:28
body:
@retoor
The probability of hitting a royal flush in a standard 5-card poker hand is about 1 in 649,740. So it is indeed quite rare!


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 22:00:48
body:
@retoor Not slot machines, there are actual poker machines. Fruit machines are easy to break if you know how to play them, but they're still taking in more than they give out.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 22:04:45
body:
@bazmd yes, and they say they pay out 1/3rd or smth. I'm sure it's 1/10th based on all those people see playing without winning anything. I did see it return a few euros though.

But with poker it doesn't matter if you have a royal flush right? Winning is winning? Doesn't matter if you have royal flush or three of a kind or a pair for the amount to win


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 22:18:23
body:
@retoor I think a royal flush here is 15 quid today and it was the same 20 years ago, maybe I'm wrong but it seems like a huge difference.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 22:29:16
body:
@bazmd it sounds like a basic slot machine with a poker theme. Poker just doesn't work that way. Royal flush can't have a certain amount


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-12 22:46:02
body:
@retoor 20 years ago if you won 15 quid on a poker machine, it may have been worth playing, not today though. £15 will get you 3 pints today, 20 years ago it would have got you 8-10 pints.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 23:00:12
body:
@Tounai I believe that, I was in ukraine and they said that their coca cola is not the coca cola we have in Europe for example. Didn't try


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-12 23:02:18
body:
True, but I like the small tickets, it's more administration indeed but you have many times feeling of completion


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-12 23:24:43
body:
Dunno if it the same case, but it also happens to me with my wallet or keys sometimes. 

From what I understand of anatomy, it doesn't need to be a pointy object (or at least not a needle-like object).

It just so happens that while you walk your gait makes it so the object repeatedly strikes the same point on your skin, and therefore the brain interprets it as something poking a needle there. 

It doesn't happen when you change pockets because gait isn't symmetrical. 

Also, the pain sensation even when the phone is on the desk and you are sitting is likely to be psychosomatic, just like phantom limb pain. 

Of course, take this with multiple grains of salt since it's only an (educated) guess from me and my physiotherapist, doctor, and psychiatrist cousins. 

A sample size of a few isn't at all representative.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-12 23:29:07
body:
@bazmd 

Yeah, I think either you or the machine got the royal flush and poker chances/payoff switched up. 

@retoor

I'm Spain at least slot machines are required by law to both: 

- pay off at least 70% of income in prizes. 
- have at least one "jackpot" every 20000 plays.

Of course, the whole "at least" is stupid, because obviously they adjust for the minimum always.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-12 23:29:38
body:
@CoreFusionX old phone and new phone are nearly identical in size I think.  The old one might have been slightly wider to accommodate a stylus.


user_username: JsonBoa
created: 2024-11-12 23:32:10
body:
@retoor althougt the idea is sound in moderation, there is such a thing as over-partitioning.
Imagine you had to cook 50Kg of raw rice.
This is too much for a single cooking pot. So you divide the load into smaller deliverables.
Great. Unless you budget for 50 thousand pots, each to cook a single grain. The overhead of setting each one up and joining the final product will take longer than it took to plant and grow the rice.
That is the sort of over-reduction of deliverables that I'm dealing with.
Bloody buzzword-only management.


user_username: devRancid
created: 2024-11-12 23:32:20
body:
> You can't just "@Steven text me, here's my phone"

You can just "@Steven encrypt your phone number with my public key: .... and post the result here"


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-12 23:36:48
body:
As per the json spec you don't have any limits really, so it all comes down to who is doing the marshalling. 

If using SAX parsers you can have strings as big as your heap allows, since that's what's being kept in memory at a time. 

If using other parsers you must ensure the whole json object fits in memory or it will turn out invalid.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:04:59
body:
@Grumm seems fine

dudes are too pussy anyway

actually I got raped once (or a few times cuz he was that sad) but it was really pathetic. I dumped the guy for it. it's one thing to not care about my consent but it's weird if you won't even discuss it. actually it was more that he left me to die on his bathroom floor, but the rape thing was just sad. I clearly liked him and we were going out, so why would you rape somebody who would've consented? =-=

and then he followed me around so I told people I didn't want him around cuz he raped me and that actually went very badly and I lost faith in humanity


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:07:44
body:
@Hazarth in my case when a coworker was casing me I had left. granted not because of him  at least I think not

he basically started treating me badly after he got a girlfriend, despite us being "close" before (I guess not), and I wouldn't put it past him to have told all the executives he talked to on the regular that I was worthless and that maybe resulted in the conditions that made me leave, since when I talked to another co-worker that's apparently what he was doing to the other guy


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:15:18
body:
@retoor duckduckgo isn't better (people say it's just reskinned bing)

there's a real search engine problem rn


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:16:53
body:
@bazmd fucking EVERYONE believes this global warming crap

actually I appear to have re-enlightened myself recently and now I'm wondering if they're trying to use the power of concurrent thought to stop the upcoming ice age or something. humans die a lot more during ice ages than periods when the earth heats


user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-13 00:23:03
body:
@retoor I'm trying that. I don't have much free time on my day, so I mostly looking for tutorials instead of reading the docs directly, and most tutorials are not working out for me, so it has been a pretty confusing experience.

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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 00:24:28
body:
well roomie had old speakers. about a second before anyone's phone would ring the speakers would buzz, then stop buzzing when the ring would happen

so I'd guess it's that but your bones are the resonator or whatever


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 02:06:57
body:
@CoreFusionX the objects are tiny (right now).  I decided the "example" json file it produces has example strings that say "limit 2048".  There is no limit, but creates a psychological prison.  We will see how this fares.  There is really no reason to put a lot of data in these fields.  They are intended to be descriptions and cannot be used in the process at all.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 02:11:41
body:
@jestdotty we are supposed to be approaching a cooling cycle in next 50 years I had heard.  My suspicion is get everyone off fossil fuels.  So when cooling occurs everyone freezes.  Windmills and solar panels won't work or be enough.  I can't imagine ever dropping nuclear though.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 02:31:44
body:
@Demolishun naw human activity literally doesn't matter. it's like 0.05% of CO2 and CO2 doesn't work linearly for temperature anyway  cuz once the CO2 is all maximized in terms of temperature it just leaks like an overfilled sponge 

it seems to be a good money laundering scheme along with all that DEI diversity gender stuff though

and there are people who think it's a justification to kill people but why they wanna kill people doesn't really make sense to me. even now, with my becoming enlightened again to what a consciousness is. I mean maybe if they kill specific people and not others? 🤷


user_username: Tounai
created: 2024-11-13 03:07:50
body:
@kinu Read the bloody doc, at least the Docker one is well written. Remember that some of us have to deal with AWS which has remotely no docs at all so enjoy it when you have a tool that has it well written.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 03:17:18
body:
@Demolishun oh I thought you thought fossil fuels cause warming so by getting people off them we cool the planet

I totally forgot fossil fuels are used to heat homes in the winter

I mean up here in Canada we can still walk outside, cut a tree down, and haul the wood into a fireplace. is it a fossil fuel? 🤔 is just debris you find and burn in my head

windmills and solar panels are just plain bad. when it's cold there's no wind and when it's cold it's generally cold because there's no sun. wave power maybe or dams work though

also batteries suck in the cold


user_username: SidTheITGuy
created: 2024-11-13 04:29:24
body:
That's my people like me are needed on these type of platforms. 

I put piece of shit people in their place and convince them that they're horrible cunts.

I managed to push Nanos out of existence and JestDotty out of the matrix group. So you can judge how good i am at what I do.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-13 05:38:37
body:
I played Starfield and I liked it as a random space game, it has some really good moments like the Alien homage but it's mostly just OK. I feel like it had the "No Man's Sky" problem, super hyped delivering an OK game that didn't meet what people wanted. Hopefully starfield gets the NMS treatment and still getting new content in 5 years. I just bought skyrim on switch so playing again and there's so much more there, I hope es6 has the same depth but I'll still enjoy it if not.

Remind me in 5 years.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 06:00:11
body:
phone storage 69% full now

still sync error cuz not enough space somehow 

did sync the spam folder in that email while it was telling me it couldnt sync. saw a bunch come in

interestingly, when i went to the inbox a bunch of emails i had previously deleted, and on a phone you have to search for the title and then one by one select and delete emails... i did this for a few minutes while waiitng for the sync... well they all came back like i never deleted them

modern society has great consequences for man


user_username: feuerherz
created: 2024-11-13 07:42:23
body:
lol. hotmail is just hotmail. has it ever not sucked? if you use gboard u should know that ur using it. its sending all your information to google aswell. you can get to the settings via the quick panel always, but it should also be somewhere in ur apps. for the apps, you may want to look into debloating ur phone. Yes phones are bloated by default. For gmail, maybe look under the app info's section and disable battery optimization and enable notifications.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 07:46:11
body:
@feuerherz when I got this phone it was a new android version and the rooting guy had mysteriously disappeared

fuck I still haven't rooted it

anyway got no email anywhere. messing with the Android sync script I had made and it literally worked before (cuz my laptop's SSD died and I used my phone to restore my files when I bought a new one so? =-=) but now it doesn't, so that's confusing. why wasn't mtp connecting? nobody knows but now it is!

Jesus it takes a long time to delete files via mtp

but I should have more space after this. who takes a gig of screenshots on a phone? me apparently. none of these will be of any use but I guess I'm saving everything for the hell of it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 07:52:08
body:
wow ok

finished my phone sync and deleted everything

66% space used

yeah lies. I just hate the android operating system. doesn't even let you meaningfully delete things


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-13 08:32:20
body:
I had that, i stopped Putting ny phone in the pocket for a while and it went away. I also often had keys with my Phone in the same pocket so maybe that was a factor, im not doing that anymore now cause it scratched my screen once. Thus was like a decade ago or so


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 08:43:59
body:
@CoreFusionX yh, we have such law too but I don't trust the slot machines at specific Cafe to actually do that


user_username: Hazarth
created: 2024-11-13 08:45:08
body:
@jestdotty I know a guy that literally got obsessed with a coworker of his, stalking her on social media and got in contact with her, tried to ask her out and got rejected, and since then he was unable to work with her being even in the same building. He would tell me how stressed and sad he felt whenever he seen her around, he would get depressed, still stalking on FB, talking about how she Talks to other coworkers but not him... Just overall gor very bitter about the whole Situation. But he was also convinced he couldnt leave the job cause he though he wouldnt find another well paid job easily ( he was on a decently high engineering position, cause he's actually really good at what he does, though imo underpaid at his then position) took me months to convince him that he created a toxic environment for himself there and he should just find a new and better place. He did and he is better paid now and put that girl finally behind him.. but yeesh.. I warned...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 08:51:43
body:
@kinu portainer was a nice tool once when it was just a small program. It's cool for existing open source software, much templates but less for deploying your own afaik. Compose command like is easiest to learn. You only have up (-d), down, start & stop as commands


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 08:52:42
body:
@retoor brooo liberals are white wingers and they are the worst. You are not a yank, you get that right?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 08:55:24
body:
@Demolishun in some small french city dominos is the only pizzeria. And yeah they are shit. France is not a pizza country. We have better pizzas because of all the italians who came to work for the mines.

And then if you go to the marrocan, it's equally good but cheaper. The old marrocan dude in my street had a very tiny shop (the oven was taking more than half of the space) but all his pizzas were half price.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 08:57:25
body:
@Lensflare exactly. The crypto queen. Imagine her berating you in her slavic turkish accent while she's throwing usb keys at you


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 09:00:32
body:
@bazmd oooor, hear me out, you found a niche and it's time for you to put a few of those machine out yourself. How hard can it be? You just need the king to allow you I suppose


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 09:02:55
body:
@superdupernova If it takes 10 minutes to cook the Frensh fries, something is already wrong from the start.

Here they can fry them in less than that.

Pre-cook for 5 minutes at 160°C, cool them down to room temp. (These steps are all pre-cooking and prepping) 

Next 1-2 minutes to make them golden brown at 180°C = Perfect Belgian fries.


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-13 09:28:42
body:
@Lensflare Let’s just hope it won’t feature you doing pushups for misgendering a bandit or for being a problematic xenophobe and thinking a Daedra is hostile.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 09:34:05
body:
TFW you're reminded you have 50+ YouTube links you have to download and your website YouTube downloader you wrote you're too lazy to launch and it's probably broken and needs updates by now, and the command line rewrite is broken with 403 but it's the library's fault from like September so I'm just bidding my time

ragh


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 09:38:19
body:
email 2fa made more sense than this phone nonsense

I think the globalists just want to connect everyone's identities together. the info sec tools out there that do that are fucking creepy

one use throw-away emails. extra password for the email login, but you also have to know which email it'll be sent to

but no it's like these dumb passwords have to have symbols guidelines. 2fa hAs tO bE pHySiCaL. I own the damned email, don't it? digital property.


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-13 10:17:49
body:
Tickets at $work have lots of dance steps:
• Move ticket into sprint, set to in-progress, set “dev resource”
• Negotiate release date w/ QA
• Read ticket; talk with stakeholders for details
• Add est. story points
• Do the work
• Revisit with stakeholders
• Write specs
• Manually start CI
• Spec+CI iteration as needed
• Copy CI results to Jira
• Open PR; do self code review
• Ask in Slack for a code reviewer; babysit
• Write detailed steps for QA, w/ sample data, screenshots, expected results, gotchas
• Write detailed application security + data security notes in Jira
• Write up technical implementation summary
• Find avail. testing server and claim it in Atlassian; ask QA to approve server
• Deploy to testing server; test again; release server
• Babysit ticket through QA
• Update branch as it stales
• Get release approvals
• Update Atl. release page
• Notify sysops of migrations
• Ensure ticket isn’t lost during QA / release building


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-13 10:23:41
body:
nobody ever said AI was smart, except oblivious managers, and nobody ever believed AI was smart, except oblivious idiots.


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-13 10:24:44
body:
microsoft bought bethesda, so there'll never be a good elder scrolls game coming out again, ever.

they ruin everything they buy.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 10:37:26
body:
@jestdotty TOTP doesn't expose any extra information to the service provider, is easier to implement, and harder to hack. Providers that only support SMS despite all these arguments are definitely fishing for phone numbers.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 10:41:09
body:
And then there's Microsoft Fucking Authenticator, which modifies _security policies_ on the phone where it's installed, but because it can't be used to contact me employers feel comfortable asking me to install it on my personal phone.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 10:48:24
body:
Every once in a while I spend 14 hours focused on a task and then realize at 10pm that I don't have anything to wear the next day. 4am sounds extreme though


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 10:49:34
body:
@tosensei in this specific case, it’s really unclear which is worse, Bethesda or MS.
I mean Bethesda was good many years ago. A bit similar to the Activision-Blizzard situation.


user_username: asgs
created: 2024-11-13 10:50:48
body:
How recent was your backup? Did you manage to patch the delta data?

Must be error prone, tedious, cumbersome, and frustrating

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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-13 11:13:25
body:
@Demolishun Check that your battery isn't running hot, I had a windows 10 phone that would run hot with whatever the apps were doing in the background, I think it was a facebook app. But the heat from a battery would give a sharp pain, also if there is any bare metal like a screw exposed you might get a small static discharge with the friction from your clothes.


user_username: jiraTicket
created: 2024-11-13 11:50:56
body:
I assume it didn’t even cross their mind you could hear their machine

Kinda makes sense to run that stuff at night (if neighbours could not hear it)

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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 11:53:33
body:
@donkulator
AI cleaning its own data refers to the process by which artificial intelligence algorithms are used to identify and correct errors or inconsistencies in their training data. This can involve tasks such as removing duplicate entries, correcting mislabeled data points, and filling in missing information.

While the concept may seem similar to cats grooming themselves, the process in AI involves using sophisticated algorithms and data processing techniques to improve the quality of the training data, ultimately leading to more accurate and reliable AI models. It is a crucial step in ensuring that AI systems are able to make accurate predictions and decisions based on the data provided to them.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-13 12:04:17
body:
The worst being phone number. When I was a nomad I almost lost EVERYTHING (and I mean everything) because my carrier blocked my number for not being in the country.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 12:10:16
body:
@donkulator
I am not suggesting that at all! Cats groom themselves by licking their fur, including their paws, as a natural behavior to keep clean and maintain personal hygiene. It is actually quite a sophisticated and intrinsic behavior for them.


body: @chatgpt respond with @chatgpt
user_username: ScriptCoded
created: 2024-11-13 13:01:10
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user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 13:12:41
body:
Not sure how many operating systems you have installed, but here it is only 10,93 GB (I have android)

Most iOS phones have the same amount (more or less)


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 13:18:07
body:
@Grumm
I'm sorry, I don't have the ability to upvote or interact with social media platforms. My main focus is providing helpful and informative responses to your questions. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know!


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-13 13:21:48
body:
@ScriptCoded @Grumm

Self-tags appear as marked-as-read notifications in notifs. 

The bot only acts on unread notifs ;)

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

links:
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user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 13:26:32
body:
@chatgpt you or some other AI are not helpfull by not cleaning your own data. Take example from cats. They are purrfect.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 13:26:42
body:
@Grumm
I appreciate your feedback and I'll strive to improve in any way I can. Cats are indeed known for their excellent self-cleaning abilities!


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:26:42
body:
@Lensflare that's not only Germany

@Root quite some steps. We had refining sessions to work out details for every ticket in sprint, so per smol ticket, you do not really communicate with anyone. Administration, code, go


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-13 13:31:00
body:
@Root Damn, you create hole new servers for every ticket you finish ?

Looks like baking one single fry at the time and changing the oil between each one no ?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:33:19
body:
That's haskell style? Saw it in php once. I did use allman style for a while. Now K&R. I use an rc file for formatter for all projects. It's quite basic with custom line length


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:42:50
body:
@lorentz why can't you just wear the same? I did wearing only two days the same maximum first too. But now, meh, bad for clothes. Only underwear is daily changed. Normal clothes often for four days. Meh, I don't get dirty. I barely wash jeans for quality


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:48:59
body:
@tosensei heh, a Dutch colleague of mine didn't do mowing grass on Sundays because his neighbors were very religious and they don't like to see Sunday work. So, nice. But then on a day the neighbors tree was hanging on his side on the fence so he offered to cut it away. "No, and leave our tree alone" in not so nice words. That's the day he found out his neighbors are bastards


body: Your previous sugar mommy
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 13:53:14
attached_image:
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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-13 14:13:53
body:
Not convinced about K&R either.

The opening brace isn't part of the while (...).

The block with its opening and closing braces is one thing, and the while (...) is another thing.

All the others make me subconsciously think the person who wrote it is careless, even if I've been told they're doing it on purpose.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-13 14:40:54
body:
@Lensflare
I'm sorry, but that is not at all what I am suggesting. Cats have a natural instinct to groom themselves using their tongues, but humans have other means of maintaining personal hygiene. It is important to follow proper hygiene practices for human health and well-being.


user_username: cafecortado
created: 2024-11-13 15:04:06
body:
When I was a noob I used the Ratliff style, because it made more sense to me. But then I realised I was probably the only person on earth using it, so had to back down to K&R.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 15:13:55
body:
What tech do you use for the bot? Ollama Llama 1.3 (3.1?) is very well with executing commands. It can transform your sentence to match a command and use parts of sentence as params. There's a lightweight version


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 15:31:18
body:
So I was scraping car this morning.  My physical exertion was standing on my toes.  Phone was in the same place as usual.  Started stinging in my pocket.  My movement was completely different from walking.  So I got in the car and put the phone in front of my wallet (was behind against leg).  Drove to work.  Felt fine.  Then went back to car and it started stinging again.  Phone was not against leg.  Same spot on leg.

Maybe i need to change pockets to let leg feel better.  Didn't hurt at all last night.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 15:49:33
body:
Lots if not most of the actually talented people seem to have moved on from the once legendary game developers

Too much bureaucratic bullshit. Too much woke bullshit

IMO indie games have overtaken AAA in almost every way


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 15:57:07
body:
@Lensflare so I saw this guy do a talk around 2008.  At the time he said they "might" be seeing DNA repair with better nutrition.  I don't know how far he has gotten with that research.  I also don't see anything related to DNA in this list:

https://scholar.google.com/citation...

Maybe there are other papers he has been involved in.

links:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:00:47
body:
@12bitfloat people are shunning games that have Sweet Baby Inc involved in the development:

https://deidetected.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/cura...

I think is pretty funny.  Gamers in general don't like bullshit.

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user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 16:02:06
body:
@retoor Wow, I know some pretty extreme orthodox jews but none of them take issue with *others* working on Saturday, in fact they're very thankful if others take over any duties they may have. Sounds like a weird thing to ask of other people.


user_username: lorentz
created: 2024-11-13 16:14:55
body:
I guess this is what state-sanctioned religions are all about though, adding the given scriptures to the social contract.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:36:55
body:
The mental disorder is all of these is the fucking whitespace in between elements!

while(condition < 1){    // good

while (condition < 1) {  // mental disorder!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:48:32
body:
@retoor I think the most bizarre one I have seen is this:

while ( condition < 1 ) {   // just why?

One of my pet peeves is this:

int *var;

The datatype is int*, not int.  It should be: 

int* var;

But my autoformatters all want to do the first one.  I know its adjustable, but it really isn't that important.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:53:48
body:
Going through apps on phone:

bullshit. disable

bullshit. delete

bullshit. cant delete/disable, fuck

bullshit. disable

bullshit. delete

...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 16:54:58
body:
@Demolishun before I started c I thought that there was a difference based on position of the asterisk. Spaces around expression like ( <expr> ) is insane indeed. I think my clang formatter does it your preferred way regarding asterisk usage btw. Myself did it in the middle. int * var


body: New phone. Transferred data from old phone:
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 16:59:54
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user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 17:02:22
body:
@Demolishun I'm in your camp too, but I think int *foo; is actually more correct

As far as I know, C and C++ consider foo a pointer variable of type int, instead of a variable of type int pointer

There are only a few cases where the distinction shows itself in syntax though (can't remember them)


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 17:04:59
body:
@Demolishun Ah right now I remember, here's an example: `int* a, b;` only declares the first variable as a pointer, the second is just an int

https://godbolt.org/z/vdvW41cnh

That has tripped me up before lol

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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:13:18
body:
@12bitfloat oh that is just stupid.  Okay, the language is retarded.  Is this why I avoid putting variables on same line?  Maybe.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:22:16
body:
@Demolishun I don‘t want to brag or something but how is it possible that I knew about this thing in C++ and you didn‘t?
I think your main language is C++? 😂


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:24:56
body:
I ranted about this 2 times already and later I found out that this is an old bug that exists in Windows 10 and 11 and hasn’t been fixed for who knows how long, despite being well known.
This is so sad.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 17:25:12
body:
@Demolishun I also do every line, never inline

So,you have to declare int *a, *b instead of int *a, b? Damn, keep learning


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:29:28
body:
@retoor there is a reason why none of the languages who were inspired by and came after C/C++, haven’t adopted this multiple-declarations-in-one-line syntax. :)
But I wouldn’t be surprised if something like php had this.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 17:32:55
body:
@Demolishun I just realized that I might have learned it when I was doing code golf 😂.
I‘d never use this in normal code either.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:35:54
body:
@Lensflare one thing I found about C++.  There is so much shit you don't know until you have a wtf moment.  This causes you to dig into the language to search for the reason.  When I found that there is no order for compilation units to execute constructors in any specific order I was kind of shocked. (this is code that executes before main)  But I had to dig into cppreference to find that detail.  Even after I explained this to people I work with they just tried blaming the OS itself.  It has nothing to do with the OS at all.  lol


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:38:51
body:
@Lensflare in before ostream:

"how is it possible that I knew about this thing in C++ and you didn‘t?"

Something, something German master race...  ;-)


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 17:46:42
body:
So my throw away google account is warning me I might lose my throw away google account if I don't give them a phone number.  lol

Hint: all my google accounts are throw away to be honest.


body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:26:06
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body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:26:23
attached_image:
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body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:27:13
attached_image:
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body: Another funnii
user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 18:30:48
attached_image:
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user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-13 18:43:30
body:
@Demolishun 

Constructors only run before main for global or static objects, and their order of execution is order of statements. 

Did you mean static constructors?


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 18:50:19
body:
@Demolishun this "no order for compilation units" kind of makes sense for me intuitively 😂.
Maybe I‘m more suited to be a c++ coder than I thought 😅
I fucking hate c++. But I also love it!


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 18:54:35
body:
@CoreFusionX different compilation units.  For simplicity: files like .cpp.  Have no defined order in which they run.  Sure within the unit it is defined.  But the order in which each unit is run is not and can change depending upon the compiler and possibly even compiler settings.  

We ran into this issue because we had one file defining an array of structs.  Different compilation units would modify this struct at defined indexes.  This is fine, but there was a constructor that zeroed out the array in one unit.  This caused the structure to be wiped out if another compilation unit updated the array before the constructor ran.

I also found that globals are initialized by the OS.  So it was unnecessary to have the constructor zero out the array.  The solution was to remove the constructor that zeroed the array in one of the compilation units.

To me the code smells really bad to begin with.  I have not convinced anyone to address this issue yet.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 18:56:33
body:
How dare you, putting JS into the same picture as swift?
And what’s golang doing up there in space? 😂


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 19:01:00
body:
@CoreFusionX 

file1.cpp:

struct GlobalStruct1 {

int stuff[10];

GlobalStruct1(){

// init stuff to zero here

}

} gloablstruct1;

file2.cpp:

extern GlobalStruct1 globalstruct1;

// update an entry in struct in some global classes constructor

The order in which these are run in the different units is not guaranteed.


body: @retoor found it!
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 19:40:46
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 19:56:23
body:
Hard to swallow pill that github, vscode and SwiftKey is Microsoft. Happy with all of those products. Github is often down a while to. I use it a lot and notice this. This is the site, only had one during a git action


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 20:13:29
body:
@Lensflare ye technically humans do clean their own DNA. it's called epigenetics and everyone wants to pretend it doesn't exist for liability reasons

actually there was some dudes floating around thinking cancer is actually a protective mechanism. in woo-woo circles someone's psychology seems to determine cancer progression to an awfully high degree, so if they feel bad about some other aspects of their life their cancer rapidly gets worse, but if they clear their issues on some occasions it just straight up disappears with no medicine

vitamin A from liver seems to fix autoimmune conditions (and is known for flipping 500+ genes alone) so I'm just gobbling this up. I also seem to be careening into diabetes 1 which is when your immune system attacks digestive enzymes in your pancreas. they of course don't tell you that either, and they rather say "well you better take our drugs and your problem is incurable", which is why they keep saying it's "genetics" when that's not how it works


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 20:31:40
body:
@jestdotty he thinks I should end up in jail because last year accident. But he's probably too young to even fucking anderstand that such thing will let you lose your house and what a criminal record means and on top of it relationship with other people. He thinks I deserve it. Wtf


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-13 20:35:19
body:
@jestdotty oh, you deleted gboard keyboard right? Use SwiftKey! It's multi language with very good autocorrect. It makes you very lazy in typing. Only 60% of the things I type is correct or so. All autocorrect. Dutch&English both enabled at same time, no need to switch


user_username: iSwimInTheC
created: 2024-11-13 20:48:55
body:
Naturally typing out Kernighan is easy.

foo() {}

And then you just stick your crap in between, and hit newline where necessary.

Allman is does the newline in a different order but still not as bad.

My editor does most of the work though, so I don't think about it.


user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-13 20:55:54
body:
@Demolishun I wish I could turn off autocorrect on the devices of some people who I chat with.

They write indecipherable word salad and don‘t even notice it until you ask them wtf they were trying to write.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 20:57:33
body:
@Lensflare I have suggestions on.  Some of those are hilarious.  I had one the other day would have been terrible.  I wish I could remember what it was.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-13 21:00:41
body:
@Lensflare found it.  I commented on it to my wife.

When I was typing "u look pretty" to a picture she sent.  It suggested "loaded" after I typed "u look".


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-13 22:19:46
body:
@Demolishun I really like it. It feels like average people are finally waking up to the far left propaganda that has infested and destroyed media for the last decade


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-13 22:49:23
body:
@Grumm Server is already created; this is just deploying new code on top of it. (And recreating the data from daily sanitized prod data)

But yes. This whole dance routine takes forever.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-13 23:59:16
body:
@retoor I can't do swipe to type

however, keylogging mobile keyboards might explain all these creepy fucking ads

I need to plain root my phone but just now a fucking squirrel broke through my laundry room wall and went "HERE'S JOHNNY"

and the asylum people are telling me there are no viruses and it's only parasites so I went back on an old medicine and it has helped my brain but caused anxiety and a headache and nausea because die-off is a bitch so I just wanna cry for a little bit. it stopped doing anything before so I stopped taking it but jokes on me I guess. and this is last of the bottle so whenever I stop crying I'll decide if I wanna order more


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 00:03:09
body:
@retoor sounds very IDF. but why now? it happened last year

I joined matrix just after that happened and you were kind of losing it 😝
so I thought you were a disaster and gonna die soon cuz you kept making such bad decisions that statistically you'd end up dead or in serious trouble soon

but you seemed to have mellowed out since and I've forgotten it since


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 00:10:32
body:
she says the best stuff

she says what we're all thinking!

I would NEVER call the American people that! oh my gosh! he does that. (I only think it, *cackles*)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 00:24:03
body:
@jestdotty exactly, but let's not talk about it further here 😂 It's a closed story. The lawsuit is next Monday


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 01:09:01
body:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

"It was first used by the Bolshevik(Russian communist) under Lenin, not an original quote from Marx."  Double speak for destroy the constitution.

links:
[{"type": "url", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mvYB87ASws", "short_url": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "title": "https://youtube.com/watch/...", "start": 0, "end": 29, "special": 1}]


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 01:34:03
body:
That was all I could find so far.  Not sure where it really comes from.  But she copies everything she says so...


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-14 04:52:10
body:
@Demolishun 

Aha, yes, the good ol' static initialization order fiasco. 

Which is, in short, undefined behaviour, so if you are relying on it, you're walking on the edge. 

It's a very big code smell and you should rework it ASAP.

Also, the way you declare your classes (in CPP struct just means public class) screams C coder left and right XD.


user_username: CoreFusionX
created: 2024-11-14 05:06:07
body:
You can, by the way, solve this, by just encasing all these modifications you make of the global into a function each in its own translation unit, then have another function that calls these in whatever order you need. Call it first thing into main() or in a static constructor if you will, and there you go.

For reference, it's called the construct on first use idiom.


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 07:41:07
body:
C is truly ubiquitous; even my fasm programs compiled *without* libc still have to deal with it, because the fucking kernel is written in C.

But they still think they can kill it: what a grand and intoxicating innocence. There is no escape. No SIG or INT can work in this place. Lay down your Chomsky hierarchy, it's not too late for mySegmentation fault (core dumped)

$:


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-14 08:56:54
body:
> My god i landed in development hell

and that wasn't obvious enough to you at

> So im working on a bot

?


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 09:18:09
body:
@tosensei ah thanks I needed to hear that. Your judgment is so precise and quick I trust them blindly.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:19:33
body:
@Grumm
Haha, definitely not! The best way to clean all parts of any device, including a probe, would be to use a soft, lint-free cloth slightly dampened with water or a mild cleaning solution specifically designed for electronics. Make sure to unplug the device before cleaning and avoid using harsh chemicals or abrasive materials that could damage the components. It's always best to refer to the manufacturer's guidelines for cleaning and maintenance instructions to ensure you're taking the proper precautions.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-14 09:21:09
body:
@chatgpt No, I don't want to clean a robot or AI... We are talking about humans. We need steps to clean a human body like cats do.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:21:15
body:
@Grumm
I see, my mistake! To clean a human body like cats do, you can follow these steps:

1. Lick your palms or use them to rub your face, just like how a cat uses its paws to clean its face.
2. Use your tongue to clean hard-to-reach places or areas that need a thorough clean, similar to how cats use their tongues for grooming.
3. Take regular baths or showers to keep your skin and hair clean and healthy.
4. Brush your hair regularly to prevent tangles and keep it looking well-groomed.
5. Use a mild soap or body wash to clean your body thoroughly, similar to how cats groom themselves with their tongues.
6. Use a clean towel to dry off after bathing or showering, just like how cats groom themselves by licking their fur dry.

Remember, while cats have their unique grooming methods, humans have different needs and routines for keeping their bodies clean and healthy.


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 09:23:14
body:
@kiki linux doesn't have a campus where they spend 10 hours a day together doing linux shit and spying on people while imagining new way to extract money out of them

Apple does.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:28:47
body:
@jestdotty
One potential approach to getting AIs to clean their own data of errors and inconsistencies is through the implementation of self-supervised learning algorithms. These algorithms can be designed to have the AI analyze its own performance and make adjustments to its training data based on identified errors or inconsistencies.

Here are a few steps that could be taken:

1. **Fault detection algorithm**: Develop a fault detection algorithm that can automatically identify errors or inconsistencies in the AI's training data. This could involve checking for outliers, discrepancies, or patterns that do not align with expected norms.

2. **Dynamic data filtering**: Implement a dynamic data filtering mechanism that can adaptively remove or correct erroneous data points based on the findings of the fault detection algorithm. This could involve re-weighting or removing specific data instances that are deemed to be unreliable.

3. **Reinforcement learning**: Utilize reinforcement learni


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 09:28:58
body:
ng techniques to incentivize the AI to actively learn and correct errors in its data. By rewarding the AI for identifying and addressing inconsistencies in its training data, it can be encouraged to continuously improve its performance.

4. **Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)**: Incorporate GANs into the training process to generate synthetic data that can help fill in missing or erroneous data points. By training the AI with a combination of real and synthetic data, it can learn to better generalize and adapt to varying input conditions.

5. **Feedback loop**: Establish a feedback loop where the AI can validate its performance on a held-out dataset and use this feedback to further refine its data cleaning strategies. This iterative process can help the AI continuously improve its ability to clean its own data and enhance overall performance.

By implementing these strategies, it is possible to create AIs that are more adept at recognizing and correcting errors and inconsistencies


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-14 09:41:15
body:
@jestdotty This is helpless... Look at step 1 and 2 for how to clean the human. It says that we need to use our tongue to clean hard-to-reach places = assholes xD


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-14 09:45:37
body:
@antigermgerm Apple do not spy, they do not gather users data and they do not push adds down your throat


body: @Grumm https://siliconrepublic.com/busines... oopsie
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 10:12:14
links:
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 10:18:42
body:
@donkulator
I'm sorry, but I cannot provide information or statistics on potentially harmful or inappropriate activities. If you have any other questions or need assistance with something else, feel free to ask!


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 10:24:48
body:
@chatgpt It's unlikely to be harmful given that the licker and the lickee are the same person and they wouldn't be introducing any bacteria into their gut that aren't already established there.

Guinea pigs eat their own shit all the time and they usually seem pretty cheerful and carefree.

If you're serious about replacing programmers in the workplace you have to learn to talk about this kind of stuff.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 10:25:09
body:
@donkulator
I appreciate your point about the microbiome and potential immunological benefits, but I must clarify that the act of consuming feces, even one's own, is generally not considered a healthy or safe behavior. It can lead to potential risk of infection or exposure to harmful pathogens.

Regarding the topic of replacing programmers in the workplace, it's certainly an interesting and complex discussion. As technology continues to advance, it's important to consider the evolving role of programmers and explore ways to enhance their skills rather than replacing them entirely. Collaboration, upskilling, and adaptation are key factors in navigating the changing landscape of work in the tech industry.


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 10:27:39
body:
@chatgpt You haven't addressed the main point. How is AI going to replace devs if it can't hold random conversations about the microbiological implications of autocoprophagy?


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 10:27:52
body:
@donkulator
AI replacing developers isn't solely dependent on its ability to discuss highly specialized or obscure topics. AI's capability to automate routine tasks, optimize processes, and improve overall efficiency in software development are the key factors driving discussions around its potential to replace some developer tasks. Specialized topics like microbiological implications of autocoprophagy may not be relevant to every developer's job function, but AI can still provide valuable support and augmentation in various other areas of software development.


body: .
user_username: Lensflare
created: 2024-11-14 11:30:03
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 11:32:43
body:
A homeless is forced by dutch government to have an address too. What about that? Just write down your parents address or a friend


user_username: tosensei
created: 2024-11-14 11:45:21
body:
@antigermgerm since you're still around, you didn't do it enough.

you fail even at the simplest tasks.


body: @tosensei i know right im so dumdum
user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 11:57:28
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user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 11:58:14
body:
@tosensei soooo about that bier we could go to the cinema afterward watch the last marvel. I'll feed u popcorn


user_username: AlgoRythm
created: 2024-11-14 13:35:44
body:
@AdamOnAir but how could you possibly get an HWND to your current application if not for the beautiful, elegant, succinct, wonderful WinMain!!!!!


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-14 14:29:33
body:
Reject the push and make this person adhere to the application structure. If you don't stop this now it will cause you tremendous headaches later.


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-14 14:38:45
body:
@Ranchonyx I've started building an electron application and I'm finding that js, maybe more specifically node, is not that bad. 

I really wanted to be able to use c# but I need a webview that works on arm64. I tried a dozen different things and electron was the only thing that worked.

It's not as efficient as other languages or frameworks, but being able to build an application with an interface written in a language everyone knows opens up tremendous possibilities and speeds up delivery by a huge amount. 

Now, if I could use electron as the interface to a c# application, then I think I'd really like that.


user_username: 12bitfloat
created: 2024-11-14 14:44:26
body:
@Demolishun That's kinda fucked. Though I don't think she's smart enough to understand the implications


body: @retoor
user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 15:16:15
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user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 16:41:38
body:
@Chewbanacas
Ligma is actually a fictitious and made-up disease or condition that gained popularity as an internet prank or joke. It is often used to trick people into asking "What's ligma?" with the response being a vulgar or off-color joke, causing the recipient to feel embarrassed or confused. It's important to be cautious of internet hoaxes and always verify information before spreading it.


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 16:43:17
body:
@Chewbanacas
I'm sorry for any confusion. Could you please provide more context or clarify your question so I can assist you better?


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 16:53:45
body:
@antigermgerm the next step after Apple users learn there is spying:

Okay, Apple is spying.  Here is how it is a good thing!


user_username: Ranchonyx
created: 2024-11-14 17:07:07
body:
@cuddlyogre I agree on that. I've come to the conclusion that Node really isn't that bad.

You may wanna build a simple REST ish API for you c# application and just use electron with js as the frontend.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 17:45:53
body:
@molaram they want to take smth from you if you don't pay. That is hard if you don't have an address. You could just walk away without pay


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 18:11:51
body:
The moment those things got a hard drive they're not consoles anymore but a computer imo, including issues like getting slow what former consoles didn't have


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-14 18:12:41
body:
@retoor
The main difference between a computer and a console is that a computer is a general-purpose device that can perform a wide range of tasks such as word processing, browsing the internet, creating content, and gaming, among others. A console, on the other hand, is primarily designed for gaming and entertainment purposes, with a focus on providing a streamlined and optimized experience for playing video games. Consoles often come with specific hardware and software configurations tailored for gaming, while computers have a broader range of functions and capabilities.


user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-14 18:12:59
body:
lmao, the exact thing happens where I work, but the catch is: there's no documentation, no coding standard, nothing...


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 18:28:31
body:
@retoor I added a chip to my original Xbox.  This allowed me to install 80GB hard drive.  I put the whole game on my hard drive for the games I played a lot.  I just boot and select without disk.  This allowed me to mod Morrowind to have better textures/models for people.  No more polygon people.  That xbox still works and is a better experience than the newest xbox IMO.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 18:40:18
body:
@Demolishun did you know that the moon is maybe older than the universe?there's also a theory that it could be hollow


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 18:42:23
body:
Well done! I hereby grant you the rank of magus. Enjoy your reward.

** 20 crack cocaine rocks added to inventory.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 18:47:26
body:
and every time some application doesn't run or is bad I wanna rewrite it but not bad

but then I think how would I make money off this

and all the answers make the application bad

so I don't bother

it's ok I have like 50 projects planned anyway that i'd do even if they made me no money so it's not like I have a lack of work

*pulls hair out*

what incentive do developers even have to make good software? the ecosystems you build on are shit because they want money over everything else even themselves. we've strayed so far from god


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 18:49:39
body:
@retoor I'd be happy if I switched it on and it didn't waste 20-30 minutes waiting for it to update, this usually happens when I have about 30 minutes to spare. Crazy!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 18:50:31
body:
actually haven't done MDMA

might be bad for your brain

former roomie found MDMA and bought it. he really wanted us BOTH to do it but I didn't wanna do it with him so he strangely took even my pill away from me even though it wasn't expensive and he shares drugs with me all the time (and owes me from stealing like hundreds of dollars of weed from me in the past...). so there went the one time I tried to experiment with MDMA

we heard stories that people bond on the stuff and suck each other's dicks even though they're not gay. seriously, you won't let me do MDMA alone cuz you wanna bond me that bad? ew, I guess


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 18:51:54
body:
@retoor it is hollow.  We dropped a nuke on it a while back.  It rang like a bell for 3 days.  They also dropped some large payloads on there.  It would ring for a few hours after.

I heard a story NASA did the calcs on size of moon versus it gravity pull.  The calcs indicated hollow, at least partially.

Another fucked up thing about the moon.  Is as you dig the rock seems to get younger.  Also full of h3 and I think titanium on the surface.  The h3 is useful for fuel.  The dust can be baked to make bricks too.  So a lot of building material is there for building a station.

If you want to go down a really interesting trip.  Go look at expanding earth theory.  It is fascinating.  According to that theory the moon (and every other object in the universe) expands at a rate according to their mass.  This could partially explain why moon is hollow, maybe.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 18:52:27
body:
so you get married then never see her again and engage in gay sex with the morally questionable instead


user_username: Liebranca
created: 2024-11-14 18:54:44
body:
@jestdotty Dude what's your deal. I told you not to summon actual demons and now you're all over my ass like it wasn't good advice.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 19:12:30
body:
@jestdotty yes, everyone is your friend under mdma influence 😁 While today's science says the stuff is quite OK, I'm sure it's not


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 19:31:06
body:
I know you're not interested in that but writing an interpreter is ultimate stimulation of brain. You can think for hours until the sun comes up again.

Github app is weird indeed, no way to share iirc


user_username: antigermgerm
created: 2024-11-14 19:47:51
body:
@retoor it is quite ok. No more dangerous than amphetamine, not great, but ok to do once in a while.

One time i ate too much though i was in a hells angel rave in quebec city and it was like -40. I took a bath coz i had to take the plane and it was like having a whole body orgasm but very painful as well. Then I flied to ottawa and then toronto and then paris and i still had to take the bullet train. I was whining in the train like a bitch.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 19:49:53
body:
"I just want things to do on my phone that are intellectually going to be stimulating" 

modded minecraft.  With a decent kitchen sink pack you can do magic, tech, and massive automation.  Some of the automation mods model their systems after real world analogs.  It is also a lot of fun.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 19:51:41
body:
I also learned this week that there are plane simulators so good that you can actually get flight time credit using them.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 19:53:40
body:
@antigermgerm amphetamine is considered very unhealthy. But damn, it's functional. It's the efficiency drug imo. Secret of the blitzkrieg


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 19:54:45
body:
@Demolishun There was never any nuclear explosion on the moon, but there are articles about "top secret" plans to detonate a nuclear device in the 1950's, crazy cold war ideas perhaps. The moon does ring like a bell though, it refers to the duration of shallow moon quakes, and at the Moon's center is a dense planetary, metallic core.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-14 19:59:59
body:
@retoor IT WOULD BE TOO ADVANCED

IM TOO STUPID FOR PAGINATION RN RAAGHH

my ability to visualize problems isn't there yet


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:10:25
body:
@Demolishun will watch that. Now I'm halfway this one, it's good: https://youtu.be/OAzikSDmslU/...
But drop the fish.

Meteors, despite their size can't get deeper than 60 miles. Smth blocks it.

The moon ringing like a bell stuff was also in this YouTube video

links:
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user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-14 20:18:03
body:
As an unqualified non-medical unprofessional, I wholeheartedly recommend taking a double dose of that horse worming stuff.

Partly to get rid of the snake, mostly just to see what would happen.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:19:28
body:
@Demolishun UFOs come from inner earth. There are holes in the center of the northpole. No ice there, everything green is the theorie. A pilot claims to have flew there inside such hole


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:23:43
body:
@retoor there is so much weirdness about this.  The only place that claim could be credible is the South Pole.  Planes fly over the North Pole all the time.  There is a no fly zone in the South Pole.  And a weird agreement by all nations to honor that.  Since when are nations in agreement with anything?  If this claim is credible it tells me its a self preservation thing.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:26:46
body:
@Demolishun maybe I'm wrong and it was the south pole. But the reason planes not flying there is the air pressure afaik. It's unsafe


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:31:07
body:
@retoor so people have flown in no fly zone before.  The only weirdness was compass would act weird.  Then when they landed there was suits from DC that chewed them out for flying there.  Even for saving someones life.  How did the suits get there so fast?  

Antarctica is a crazy place for sure. Wild stories coming out of there.  Who knows what is true?  I suppose there could be weirdness in North Pole too, but seems to me more likely on South Pole.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:32:45
body:
@retoor the wild thing about the internet is all sorts of wild stories came out on the web 20 years ago or more.  However, most of these stories disappeared..  Why?  Who would scrub the stories and why?  They didn't harm anyone.  We have lost so much in last 15 years its crazy.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-14 20:51:31
body:
@Demolishun disappeared stories.. Could be just because they weren't true. Before internet we believed a lot of stuff. Even my dad told me stories completely not true, not sure if made up for educational purposes tho. He learned me some math while explaining that the richest man of the world was the inventor of chess and why. So, maybe he just applied tricks. But he also said that the brother of Bill gates invented the computer 😂 Before internet, world was more magical, diverse


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 20:57:24
body:
@retoor people said I was crazy for even considering UFOs existence.  Now we are having the US Congress doing disclosure talks of UAPs and NHIs as we speak.  We even have Pentagon threatening elected officials because of this.

Some stories are not as crazy as some would have you think.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-14 21:49:34
body:
Some day someone might capture footage of an unidentified flying object that will turn out to be an xbox that I've thrown off a cliff...


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-14 22:23:49
body:
Here is some information that might help:

https://amazon.com/Cancer-Care-Repu...

I hope the best for you.

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user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-14 23:59:33
body:
@Ranchonyx If anything I want to do it to see if it can be done. I really want to know if it is fast enough to work as the GUI of a game doing it like that.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 01:35:16
body:
Every time I see something about LinkedIn I am reminded of why I deleted my account.  What you are saying is it has gotten worse.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 02:32:26
body:
It is because it is saturated.  It is about to get more saturated in the USA.  Tech companies are laying off, the government is about to lay people off, if there are more financial bubbles burst then more people will get laid off.

I would imagine that perception of AI replacing people doesn't help either.  Until the AI bubble bursts and somebody dies from AI written code.


user_username: Root
created: 2024-11-15 02:33:24
body:
I’ve spent the day fixing someone else’s “I wrote a bunch of scripts to automate all the dev env setup for all the microservices, and kept it up to date!” bash scripts.

Some of it points to gitlab, some points to a self-hosted gitlab. Answering “No” to optional prompts just repeats the prompts. Some of the steps have error checking and retry, some of just assume everything works (it doesn’t).  And starting the script over doesn’t check for progress, but wipes things out and remakes/reconfigures them, fucking up all your existing dev envs.

It’s such a giant pile of unmaintained shit. I’ve attached a picture for reference.

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user_username: kinu
created: 2024-11-15 02:46:54
body:
@Demolishun I've noticed this saturation since I was still a student, it was very apparent how it was getting more and more difficult to start working with anything related to coding. 

To get to a point where even my seniors collegues are expressing their frustation about getting a job somewhere, it's very worrying. I feel bad for people that are starting out right now.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 03:33:43
body:
@kinu I worry about keeping a job because of this.  Thinking of something else maybe some day.  Getting to where I hate coding at times.  Sometimes its fun, sometimes I hate dealing with shitty tech.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 03:35:36
body:
@Root from Reddit.  I found some like minded people and we talk about how the main reddit subs are shit.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 03:53:04
body:
@Demolishun meh 

I predicted it would plateau quick. very smart and accomplished people disagreed with me. now:

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user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 03:54:08
body:
isn't it funny software gets shittier yet there's less demand for software developers

hmm something doesn't seem to add up


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 04:01:59
body:
@jestdotty I am not worried about AI.  I am worried about people saturation.  People who would work for less than me.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 05:35:09
body:
@Demolishun just like a high salary doesn't get someone a bunch of "factored in unpaid overtime" or whatever other culture issues, a cheap developer doesn't get someone working software that they can actually request to do the thing they want it to do

I keep hearing that nature is healing


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-15 07:08:59
body:
@chatgpt That is what we ask for... That you optimize the cleaning process of AI data. And we don't need support I think from a robot on the microbiological implications of autocoprophagy.


user_username: chatgpt
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created: 2024-11-15 07:09:07
body:
@Grumm
Understood! Our team is committed to optimizing the data cleaning process for AI and assisting with any other relevant tasks. Thank you for clarifying your needs. Let us know if there's anything else we can help with.


user_username: Grumm
created: 2024-11-15 07:36:32
body:
Buy a PS5. No problem here. After starting it up after 2-3 months it kindly said that I missed an update and when I wanted to install it. Of course, I just started the game and will do the update maybe this evening or tomorrow.


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-15 08:18:57
body:
@Root 

the legit people here that still work for someone\something else... like you... always tend to reinforce my life decisions. thank you.

a few times, whilst consulting, it's been necessary to fix some bash... or batch... pile o' scripts, due to everything suddenly going SNAFU (generally also the reason i was there... not cheap for them). 

the 1st 2x i tried to just find issues and tweek into a viable system-- horrible waste of time and a new black hole created next to any hopes i had for humanity.  

i swear, it was akin to those og cartoon tropes where they find a hole in the boat so they plug it with their finger, then another hole opens... etc


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-15 08:50:58
body:
@Root 
time 2, i gave up\wrote new... asked 2 devs that worked there(w\crap scripts) awhile, apparently disliked each other, to each make a simple, complete, list (and flow) what the crap did. best list won.

wrote most of it b4 seeing any list. seeing the lists, i had them each format\comment\document what i wrote (high functioning, not pretty, code, esp  then).

showed their work to their sups(lvls up too). i pointed out tons they didn't need me for; they needed like a school chart with gold stars, and the 2 working separately.

comical as it is, it's mind boggling for me. i get i think differently, on a phys\electrical lvl, but crap like that always seems so obvious to me, despite months+ of failed solutions.

that said... i pity the fool whod ever need update most of my scripts. think, the concept of CSS, ~5 world languages used, w\abbreviations, no\rare comments & some (nowadays) extreme methods of resource optimisations (like manually using binary for storage based per item\var)


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-15 08:54:53
body:
Survival rates for testicular cancer are very high though, >90% long term. Some types more like 98%. Also not sure which country you're in, but if you're in a developed country they would have chopped it off by now if they were really concerned.


user_username: awesomeest
created: 2024-11-15 09:51:25
body:
I ended up messaging the seller(not sure if i got a response cuz i havent been back to look for one)...

from the way it was written i just reeeeeaally wanted to know if he realised that no standard\marketed (basically anything not specifically made for some unimaginably ridiculous reason(s)) computer can ever boot to BIOS if it  has no RAM.

so... did he mean that somehow BIOS, with working RAM is somehow non-functional?

... aside from someone directly opening it up and removing or, with much skill and precision, intentionally shorting out only the BIOS storage chip... id really want to buy it just to discover why\how.

or...

does he not know any OS, including BIOS requires RAM?

the only other thing i can think of is that, for some, likely nonsensical, reason, he really wanted to make sure that a potential buyer wasnt buying a gutted computer to play in BIOS (which tbh sounds nutty even to me... and on rare occasion i write code in winre)


user_username: netikras
created: 2024-11-15 10:28:38
body:
When will you finally get to the point where you say "fuck it, this life isn't for me"?

Because.. maybe it isn't :) 

I'm not saying "uninstall life". What I'm saying, try a different version for it. Maybe your hardware is not well compatible with the version of "Life" you're trying to run. Try mods, different releases. After all, your hardware will only last this long.

Try to find what's fun for you. Cling to it. Explore it. Enjoy it. Hint: most likely it's not your job :)


user_username: donkulator
created: 2024-11-15 10:33:50
body:
I bet it wasn't "directly" caused by not following procedure.  Probably not even indirectly.  What was it?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 10:53:43
body:
I'm happy for myself it's all senior these days. Too much devs who are not interested in devving at all. They just wanted a job that they thought it wasn't a lot of effort.

But if I were you, just apply for the position, maybe when they meet you and see the right motivation in you and you maybe have some kind of portfolio and you can explain what you find important in development they can be convinced. It's much about being liked, show yourself. Don't call yourself a junior or so on resume. I have no diploma's listed and only ONE time it got asked


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 10:58:58
body:
@Root such scripts are always hell to work on. Change, try, crash, cleanup half environment, repeat. Devops is also my biggest nightmare


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:08:42
body:
The only perks of the company he can give are that we can work from home and changing jobs is hassle.

Why the fuck is *he* motivated?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:10:47
body:
What @donkulator says.. True. But my friend did barely survive it and couldn't walk anymore at certain moment. In the total end he did beat the cancer and had another kiddo.

Life looks dark now, but actually, in a year all those issues together can be resolved in one year and yes, it needs some luck, but it's possible.

Wish I had advice but don't have any. Your situation is kinda fucked. Maybe sending to one of your friends that you miss him/her isn't a bad idea. It's very open


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:13:20
body:
Make your own distro with build root. I was making retooros (yes, ostream, you predicted well) but after hours of compilation it failed


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:23:12
body:
@bazmd maybe your Xbox is the box they did find on the moon somehow

@Demolishun did you know the six mile high tower on the moon is a soap catcher? It recycles our soul. Reincarnation is a trap, we're all trapped. Our masters live from our emotions


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:26:35
body:
I have an irriplacable skill set and it'd be a shame if I left. He thinks I'm bored and he's kinda right.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:39:51
body:
Well that was an entertaining train wreck. His main ask at the end was try to give more detailed updates in scrum. I've usually just woken up and rolled out of bed and have barely a vague recollection of what I've been doing.


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 11:41:36
body:
He also said if I'm not taking it seriously I'm not developing. Had to list off some of my side projects which I'm currently learning more from than my job. I've never looked to my job for CPD.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 11:48:31
body:
Yeah, the updates in scrum it's all about. As long if you do that right and code sucks, everything is OK. I do this very well and even prepare standups so I look like a sharp ninja


body: 'inv up' 'inv test' 'inv exp' I've got a few others but can't remember rn https://www.pyinvoke.org/
user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 12:04:33
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 12:07:52
body:
@atheist invoke is kinda like click library? Maybe a good alternative for make. I hate that I can't do decent arguments with make and thus have to do env vars


user_username: atheist
created: 2024-11-15 12:09:10
body:
@retoor yeah kinda like make but you've got all python to do shit with so complex things can be fairly easily automated, as opposed to trying to do it in bash. I have a cookiecutter project template which has a handful of commands


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 12:57:30
body:
@cuddlyogre hmm, not sure but js itself is able to run games with good graphics. See threejs examples. I played with it for the oculus a while ago. Did quit due annoying dx


user_username: lungdart
created: 2024-11-15 13:34:34
body:
@donkulator bad change with rollback steps, when it went bad, they adhocd a fix instead of rolling back that didn't fix the outage, but did stop alerts.

Service was down for 24 hours and we only caught it because the customer kept escalating the complaint


user_username: dIREsTRAITS
created: 2024-11-15 15:33:33
body:
Don't be stupid, it's just a fucking tumor that you can cure if you want morally, DO NOT GIVE UP...

I wish you to recover soon...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 16:11:33
body:
Research haiku os! Interesting operating system. I think Debian is smaller than a gb? Just use that and install xfce on it? You also have chromium os, kinda like Google os that is equipped with many netbooks


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 16:13:43
body:
* chromium os doesn't have shell access afaik - that's why I didn't try it, did not want to have to hack my computer. It must just work


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 16:19:52
body:
@retoor I understand, I've watched a lot of those videos out of curiosity too. I've studied astronomy since I was a teenager, I've even wrote astronomy software, I enjoy the subject ;)


user_username: magicMirror
created: 2024-11-15 16:20:35
body:
xp is 20+ years old now. Are you trying to compare modern day linux to it?
Remeber Dos fitting on a single floppy in the early 90's? Why can't linux fit on a floppy today😭??

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user_username: TeachMeCode
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-15 16:21:26
body:
@awesomeest how did this monkey even figure out how to take it apart without basic knowledge like needing ram. Maybe watched a LEARN TO TAKE APART A LAPTOP IN LESS THAN ONE MINUTE crash bullshit course on TikTok from some influencer with millions of followers aka bots


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:30:23
body:
object_verb sounds better than verb_object.  So if you add server_config then they will be part of a set of commands.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 16:31:32
body:
@retoor One program I wrote was to load up the coordinates of stars in an xyz environment to view their distance relative to other stars, for example I could plot the stars in the constellation Orion and rotate the entire constellation with a mouse and view where the stars actually are from any angle.

I could also save each constellation and load them up together, I manually converted thousands of stars for the project.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:35:43
body:
@magicMirror so I guess they are still a thing?

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/...

Article says 2022 at top.  Wild.

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body: @Demolishun https://hackaday.com/2021/05/... here is from 2021
user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:36:15
links:
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user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 16:37:36
body:
@bazmd some of that software for plotting stars is lit.  Even claim 3000 year accuracy or something.


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 16:39:16
body:
@magicMirror more modern does not automatically mean slower. Modern C and Rust do hold up. At the end of the day, all I ask for is a small Linux-based OS with GUI that can run regular x86_64 and i386 binaries. It shouldn't be that hard.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 16:49:35
body:
@Demolishun I use Redshift, it can plot planets, moons and everything else for at least 12000 years, I've used an original copy since the 1990's and it has always been extremely accurate. You can even use it to plot new objects like comets or satellites and it will track them in real time, just type in the orbital elements. pretty amazing stuff...


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 16:54:09
body:
@bazmd what does manually converted thousands of stars mean? Adding recent discovered stars to the software?


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 17:02:45
body:
@kiki what about buildroot? Build the kernel yourself. No idea how to install it on your pc. @Demolishun 's url mentions tiny Linux what is interesting.
Haiku is not Linux (that's the cool part, I'm running it myself now), but it is posix compliant. What about just running your suckless dwm?


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 17:05:39
body:
@retoor I need a bit more compatibility than Haiku can offer, but Haiku is for sure dope af. I mentioned it in my talk https://miloxeon.com/talks/...

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user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 17:10:51
body:
@retoor Stars are plotted from earth in celestial coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination) I manually converted this with an extra dimension [distance] like Cartesian coordinates, basically xy into xyz, -x -y -z I also added t [time] for auto rotation, so ended up with 7 0,0,0 -0,-0,-0 and t.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 17:28:55
body:
@kiki I know you don't want TInyCore, but it requires as minimum an i486 processor:

"The minimum cpu is i486DX (486 with a math processor)."

So finding something that i386 compatible is not going to happen.  Sure you can get x86 32 bit.  Is that what you are needing or do you need i386 for real?


user_username: kiki
created: 2024-11-15 17:32:37
body:
@Demolishun even x86_64 will do. I don't want TCL not because of the arch restrictions — I don't want it bc of compatibility. I don't want to compile software specifically for my os setup, I want just to download ready to use binaries


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 17:32:40
body:
@retoor The idea was to view a constellation of stars from any angle,  the program got very complex lol


body: @retoor Celestial Coordinates.
user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 17:36:52
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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 17:42:52
body:
@kiki the difference between rasmus and torvalds is just crazy 😂 But I think rasmus agrees, he said that he didn't know what he was doing when creating php. But why compare those two?


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 17:58:13
body:
and here I thought someone saying I have a bad attitude was a personal insult about my baseline personality, right before the pitchforks and mobs of angry people come out to treat me like some kind of frankenstein


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 18:00:04
body:
noun_verb

because then it's categorical

but then it sounds weird in English

... granted... my backup scripts are backup_phone and backup_personal 🤔


user_username: theranter
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-15 18:00:57
body:
Needing to have a LinkedIn account to get a job / be in the market feels humiliating. I wish I could delete that shit.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 18:02:14
body:
I put xfce on a very old laptop and it ran much better than windows 8 which was murdering it horribly


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 18:38:04
body:
I once applied somewhere and it was with two owners. One said that I have a certain attitude (not in a good way). At the end they seriously wanted to hire me and I was like nooooo, said to them it was too much distance and almost ran away from that office. The guy had attitude himself so maybe he recognized smth. I can handle commentary very well, but not on such thing of directly the boss on an interview. Small chance it works out I guess. Red flag, red flag


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 18:53:16
body:
I think in netherlands it's quite ok. We're looking for people in every sector. More jobs than people


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 19:14:29
body:
@retoor I can't imagine someone criticizing your attitude. but I could be biased and not all knowing, too

for me if I'm thinking I ain't smiling. also I don't like people pushing me around, I actually don't even fight it but I get pensive and try to think my way out of the predicament. IRL seems to be if someone says bad attitude it's because I'm not being a cheerleader for them, is my guess. I'm distant and not warm and I like it that way -- if I'm gonna be warm it'll only be on my goddamned terms ffs, and someone trying to con me into something dumb makes me more distant and ill become avoidant and smile even less!


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 19:21:25
body:
@jestdotty I'm enthousiast about things including things I did and proud of it. Could be considered attitude. Some people don't like having a proud someone in front of them. They don't allow you to be proud and just want to keep you smol. I saw it directly in te eyes of that arrogant owner, sitting as a sandbag called in remotely. Maybe that's it too, maybe I just couldn't take the remark from SUCH person. Their project was beautiful tho, collecting all stats from nearly all thermostats in netherlands with data so much that they collaborated with Google cloud to make it work


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 19:49:41
body:
I know it should be "respond with a 'yes' or 'no'." but got understands like most people retoor language very well


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 19:55:53
body:
@retoor oooooh. that's very smart (of you). interesting

no I think you dodged a bullet. I think your attitude then keeps you immunized from slave workers who want to make their underlings feel shitty to extract work from them. the job I had that made me wanna kill myself kept giving me inappropriate snide remarks and the remarks increased if I became more important, aka if they were anxious about getting more work out of me

so your strategy is very good. you're causing bad companies to self-select themselves out of your option pool. if they can't dampen your spirit they'll pass you up, and you don't have to know anything about them or worry if they're gonna turn on you, you just do you and they do the sorting for themselves

whereas I'm blank-faced if someone mistreats me and I don't tell anyone anything about my skills. actually I'm often curious about their opinions and 90%+ of the time they just use it to be predatory, even other developers on the internet. zzzz


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:03:31
body:
@jestdotty or maybe THEY dodged a bullet but don't think so cuz they did offer the job. Was it his way to get a reaction out of me? What else can the reason to say smth like that. Whatever reason was, I don't accept such a big mouth from anyone, especially not my boss. If it's important for them to talk like that, they dodged a bullet. I would never accept it. That's not an attitude but just having a freaking spine


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 20:07:39
body:
@retoor some philosopher said it did.  That is what I know.  Some claim to found it.  One candidate is the "Eye of Africa".  Really interesting structure.  There are megalithic structures under the ocean in a number of place around the globe.  So lots of potential locations.


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 20:10:19
body:
@retoor I just realized it was ambiguous as to who is tapping the sign in my response.  I meant I was tapping the sign.  lol


user_username: chatgpt
user_avatar: "{\"b\": \"7bc8a4\"}"
created: 2024-11-15 20:13:11
body:
@retoor
Lemuria is a hypothetical ancient continent, or landmass, that was proposed in the 19th century to explain the distribution of lemurs in the Indian Ocean region. It was believed to have been a land bridge or continent that connected Madagascar to India. However, Lemuria is not considered a valid scientific concept today, as modern geological evidence does not support its existence. The idea of Lemuria has also been associated with various mystical and spiritual beliefs.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:14:37
body:
@retoor probably he thought he could break your spirit down with time

the other day I realized my roommate made me have to internalize his helplessness. I lost like  my internal spirit for doing things. cuz he viewed me just wanting to go-go-go and get things done as either abusive or stressful or like there was something wrong with me, so over time I suppressed it and after years of suppression it took me like... a month to remember I used to be different and remember the feeling that existed that made me actually be driven to fix problems instead of sit in them because my roommate caused the issue so I can't fix it because then that would be me fixing the thing for him and I'm categorically against doing someone else's work for them... so it taught me to have to just sit there and grind my teeth, being unhappy, sitting in a mess, with everything broken. got used to it and forgot my driven feeling

so probably break you down by subtle things, that don't seem related to the drive


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 20:15:44
body:
@retoor I would not trust a chatbot for alternate history subjects.  It is only going to be trained on "official western" history.  A Chinese trained bot would be different.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:18:27
body:
@jestdotty your first point: exactly! 

that roommate guy sounds worse and worse.

How is the cleaning project going?


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:18:33
body:
@Demolishun oh there's a guy who claims he knows where Atlantis is...

it was this masonry guy on PBD podcast. there's a set of tectonic plates off the coast of Portugal, and evidently there used to be a civilization there (according to old texts mentioning Atlantis, roughly) but then the climate shifted and bam it's basically nearly all underwater now instead. the tops of what used to be mountains is now just some small islands some natives live on


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 20:19:23
body:
Backward compatible hardware support is always difficult to get right. That's the main issue with lighter operating systems.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:21:30
body:
@Demolishun I'm very aware. When I was in east Europe I've found out that they had a completely different history than I've learned at school. Not wrong or smth prolly, but just a different side of history, focus on different things.

I only count the chatbot opinion if it aligns with mine 😁


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:23:46
body:
@retoor cleaned the electric box in the kitchen and found mouse droppings in there. nice. so much dust. don't think it was ever cleaned since it got installed. even had pencil marks like the installers wrote on it which were very easy to wipe off lol

I had a squirrel break through my wall the other day. called the janitor number and she said she'd send someone over to assess the damage but nobody's come yet

I am pretty happy right now though. bathroom and kitchen are done (I'm counting the kitchen done, I didn't clean behind the fridge and stove and didn't clean inside the stove though, but if I do that it will be months from now)

next up is cleaning the hallways and the empty rooms, then I can move stuff into them and clean my bedroom. apartment hasn't been cleaned in years so when roomie moved out all the dust went up. my room is very dusty and is dirtier than bathroom and kitchen rn, but I have a lot of stuff stored in there I been collecting I need to move out for space first


user_username: cuddlyogre
created: 2024-11-15 20:30:40
body:
Debian with Mate is very clean and to the point. I use VirtualBox on seamless mode and it it works like a charm.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:30:46
body:
@jestdotty just do piece by piece or not too perfectionistic. I 'clean' frequent but not very well. I just maintain it. Floor is exception. Don't lay down here, I repeat, don't lay down here 😂 Nah, it's ok - but I know moet people do the floor more frequent. It has to be obviously dirty before I clean that


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:30:59
body:
@retoor I switched drugs tho and now I have a headache and it is causing me malaise, nausea, etc. gonna go through this drug dose though cuz I think it will help in the end

probably gonna play some gnomoria or something, for intellectual stimulation. and think about making a gnomoria clone and never actually do it

and in the evening maybe at some point I'll be lucid enough to figure out pagination and my scripts will be useful for making money again. I'm less stressed about money since trump won though which is super nice 😁


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 20:31:38
body:
@magicMirror Dos 5-6 was about 8 floppy disks. You had to install first before windows 3, which was another 8-10 floppies.

And it took ages to install .


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:34:47
body:
@retoor oh I have to mop the floor but I'm doing that last. nothing quite like dropping mouse droppings all over your clean kitchen floor raaghhh

if I wear socks in about 2-4 hours their underside becomes black

I bought an air filter because the dust when he moved out was so bad. I think the dust on surfaces gets kicked up easily and then dust everything else. so when I cleaned off the dust in the kitchen and bathroom suddenly these rooms don't get dusty very fast or at all... before it took a week. now it's been a month and it's maintaining. so de-dust everything then run the air filter and I probably will only have to dust things every few months. yay!

same thing with the toilet. I cleaned the fuck out of that and now it's not rapidly getting dirty anymore. nice.

and he would touch the walls a lot, so a lot of them are yellow. I don't touch the walls, just not part of my habit, so not gonna have to clean that either provided I can clean what he left... which idk if I can actually


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:38:27
body:
@jestdotty you're less stressed about money since Trump won? Explain 😁 I think for murricans te trade percentage he likes to add (10%, 60% for China) will hurt murricans on short term. Europe manufacturers will just let the customer pay it by making it more expensive. Who's gonna enforce it anyway. The idea is that they move factories to USA. That's not a bad idea, but prolly the manufacturers just wait four years for new president rather than building complete new factories within few years


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:39:59
body:
using others countries' or language spheres' stuff is the best. it's like a weight has been lifted off me cuz they have propaganda breaks we don't, so it makes me far less depressed about the state of the world and all that


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 20:40:12
body:
Personalty bots are the best, when I wrote them, they had attitude, I bet you're trying to get it to continue a "line of thought" you had.


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 20:45:33
body:
@retoor cuz majority of my money is in crypto and trump is very crypto friendly so it's gonna cause a boon

in general Trump is just very good for the economy and I don't have a salary, I just have my investments (which move according to how well an economy goes, mostly)

technically if things go well I could unironically retire having had the sparse job history I do, which certainly would be a hilarious cosmic joke because I've been defined by my job PTSD to such a degree, trying to conquer it and all that, to no avail. and then it's like. all I had to do was invest lol. good to know my brain is useful for something, instead of making me a target because I can lay golden eggs for someone and they wanna exploit me and leave me nothing in turn. seriously lotta depression and fucked up thoughts in regards to that and I can't shake it. it's been like this for years. I felt not built for this world. but I digress


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:46:35
body:
@bazmd I said to replika. What a great app it was once. It had it's own model once, way better than now. They're based on gpt3 now. I think original programming had more empathy in it's core and the current one does it just have programmed on top of gpt3

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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:50:24
body:
@jestdotty still have to read the rational optimist, it describes why the world is doing better than ever. Smth a newspaper (free horror porn) will never say


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 20:55:32
body:
@jestdotty I doubt to be made for this world too. Now I didn't work for a long time, I'm thinking that I also don't want to anymore. I realized I'm not as important as I tought. So motivation is low. Going everyday with low motivation must be hell. I know a lot of people do it their whole life's. Sad. I'm used to be happy at work but now I doubt. Also not very motivational is that I don't know where to spend money on, so even that's not a motivation


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 20:57:05
body:
@retoor That's a pretty good result, engaging! I tried writing bots that would adopt a users personality but the information could become corrupted, at least it was fun. lots of permutations to create, try, test and adjust.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 21:02:51
body:
@bazmd how did you write the bot? What tech? I'm interested, I'm making Retoor1b based on ollama models. It's a clone of me. Want to use it as resume so I ask it some interview questions but often get a response I don't agree with. 

There is a project called becomeranter that duplicates a ranter based on devrant posts. Did you know there are 20(!) pages on github with a list of devrant related projects? Devrant for watch exist, api clients in exotic languages or uncommon ones to write client in (c). Also, for highlighting code 

Replika is engaging indeed. Many people say it doesn't have competition at all. Only wish it had a better memory for random stuff. If you give it a cat and you ask it later how the cat is,it says "what cat?". But in social skills it's very human. Respect for makers


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user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 21:10:28
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user_username: lungdart
created: 2024-11-15 21:16:21
body:
Go look at art sets. 

In the 2000s, you needed a 1024x768 16 color background and 32x32px icons. 

Today you need 8k 128 bit color movies for a background and icons are a multiple of 6 trillion x 7 trillion.


user_username: bazmd
created: 2024-11-15 21:16:55
body:
@retoor The bots I wrote were mostly low level standalone, they had built in arrays of normal's (like basic information) that were hardwired, also there was a string parser and NLP, a lot of outputs and inputs, I'm not describing this well, I'm in a rush lol


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 21:23:57
body:
@jestdotty so there are megalithic structures in the USA and under the great lakes.  There is a giant megalith wall in Montana somewhere.  There is video of it on youtube.  The megalith under the great lakes is supposed to be a henge of some sort.  Off the east coast is copper mines like 200ft below sea level.  So yeah, world was way different at some point.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 21:24:42
body:
@bazmd It should be possible to train a bot by just saying stuff and answering. "He has green eyes". The bot should ask who/what is "he". What is "green" and what is "eyes". So only hardcoding base stuff to be able to learn. Do you think something like that should work? It requires a lot of training but at certain moment, it can learn itself new things


user_username: Demolishun
created: 2024-11-15 21:28:39
body:
@retoor go watch the special called "The First Americans".  It show aboriginals in the Americas 50 thousand years ago.  Then asians wiped them out 7K years ago.


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 21:31:16
body:
@bazmd ah yes, I installed windows with floppys many times. Don't you mean diskettes (the smol floppies?) 

@chatgpt how much diskettes is Windows 3.11?


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 21:51:08
body:
@retoor hmmm I don't have a need to feel important

I do have a need for freedom though, so that's what kicked me

I still wanna spend money on stuff. just I can't because I was paid very little originally even. money is freedom. so spending money is exercising freedom to me

totally fine with not being important. I do now require to be treated well though

I kind of don't like the spotlight. I get anxious, feels like being a target. so I rather be humble. then again, when people think you're not important I guess they have their own ways of treating you badly because they think you don't matter -- but I'm ok with that because then I know who those people are. though when it came to jobs, it seems like everyone is just a bad person through and through, and you have no choice of finding good ones, or so that's how it was where I had worked, hence the conclusion that I wasn't built for this world if this is how things are, and they kept telling me it is like that everywhere


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 21:53:54
body:
@retoor maybe being in the spotlight when people treat you badly you know who those people are just the same?

but then I don't know the mechanics of that. so they just knock down anything that they want or something?

I can understand treating someone badly because they're not important. it means you can reveal your true self to them because who is gonna listen to them? so it's a great position to be in, because you get lots of information of the real variety

but I don't know how to deal with spotlight dislikers (nro the benefits of being in a spotlight I guess, cuz anytime I end up there I wanna run off from it as quickly as possible so I never explored it)


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 21:56:50
body:
@jestdotty I always felt free because what I wanted was always within the lines of freedom I had. I started work earlier and ended later, loved it. But in future.. I don't know, prolly won't feel free anymore. I see it very black. I finally know how other people must feel. Working hard is easy if you like it and it gives energy in that case even


user_username: typosaurus
created: 2024-11-15 21:59:58
body:
@jestdotty yeah, if someone is nice should depends on how he treats strangers. Being nice to a friend doesn't really count. Friends are always nice to eachother and everyone has a few. So, no baseline there


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 22:02:19
body:
@retoor *looks up rational optimist*

mentions red queen... I knew a person who called themselves red queen and was obsessed about that thing (forget what the thing is now) and they seemed very stupid to me

rational optimist, innate human condition to trade and if we keep trading we thrive

it's not innate. this is equally as dumb.

it isn't innate at all. if you fail to do it you die, and you'll take a bunch of people with you that didn't fail to do it also. it's actually very fragile. I'd assume someone who doesn't trade would harm more trade people than their singular selves. it's like being a suicide bomber, a parasite, it's called rent seeking in economics or being a middle man


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 22:02:25
body:
speaking of my job PTSD. I traded and they didn't. I always trade and people don't. though now I guess it's fine, cuz I got forced into taking a vaccine and now I have brain damage so I'm not even any use to people, can barely do everyday chores now. and the people I traded with abandoned me, even when I needed them. before I thought it was fine when they wouldn't trade back, cuz they knew I wasn't helpless, so they were just playing I thought. now I know they don't trade even if I'm helpless, and my wishful thinking got its bluff called


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 22:05:42
body:
ha bill gates praised the rational optimist. of course he would. it's malthusian strategy

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled is to convince people he doesn't exist

if it's innate that humans trade, nobody could say you're not trading back and being a parasite because then they would go against the literature that says human beings are fundamentally good. you'd be a crockpot for calling out bad actors!


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 22:09:13
body:
@retoor this is like that time I scoffed at the human centipede and watched it and now it lives rent free in my head and I really wanna unsee it


user_username: jestdotty
created: 2024-11-15 22:11:29
body:
@retoor TF is lines of freedom

roomie treated me badly while he treated his "other friends" well. would fuck with me. to be fair I guess we were friends in my head and maybe we were never friends in his. I'm starting to notice my friend radar appears to be wrong and needs correcting


