Deepseek fucking all major US tech/semiconductor companies brings a tear to my eye 😊

Have you ever started a new job and they have a bunch of legacy and technical debt so much that it doesn’t even makes sense trying to fix anything

Why the hell do languages like Kotlin (Java) and C# handle dates and datetimes so needlessly complicated?
There are multiple types with different implementations and concepts like local time or time zones represented by those types. Some of them have capabilities like serialization, some of them don’t.
Parsing and encoding is tied to the types.

Why? Take Swift as an example:
It has one single Date type (including time) which represents a point in time independent of any calendar, time zone, encoding or format.
There is a DateFormatter to parse from APIs from iso or timestamps or whatever and to format to UI as a string in any language (localization), for any region, in any format.
If you just want a container for the date time components themselves (which the concept of local date time seems to be in those languages), you can use the DateComponents type. If you are interested in dates from the perspective of a calendar, there is a Calendar type.

Everything makes sense and the different concepts are decoupled from each other as they should be.

Damn! My memory about C# is a bit hazy but Kotlin, I’m disappointed in you! Date handling is a horrible mess!
Ok, I guess I can blame it on Java and JVM.

Rare day I used 3 different languages in a professional capacity (php, java, flutter). *insert "I used to pray for times like this" meme

looking for a new, bigger car to fit all my fam in. I never thought I'd even consider a brand-new car, from the dealer. And here's me, looking at the VW Tayron, which has not even been released yet, and seriously considering getting one.

Thanks to decent salaries in our industry.
I don't think I'd ever be there had I gone through with my M.D. career.

This is how eldritch beings get you these days.

No more whispers of immortality,or to bring back a loved one.

Just straight up ultra fast broadband.

Got a bit distracted today. Instead of doing what I've wanted, I created the most comfortable way to make a site ever. I'm serious. It beats all those static site generators.

Hmm, could even make a static site generator of this one. Won't do, no benefit.

It's by using markdown and it has support for syntax highlighting of many languages. A website could be literary:

# My blog

## some code

```c
printf("This is my C code");
```.

And you already have something decent. See the 'Get started' section. You have a site running in no time. See also the Python database example at the bottom, it shows you how to use the internal sqlite3 database in your 'static' site and how to create a visitor counter!

Sky's the limit.

I came up with the idea by teaching my next door neighbor HTML and that was succesfull. She is able to navigate trough files and folders and edit a file like most people. Then I realized, if it was markdown, it would be really user friendly for anyone to use. To create a decent site, you only need to make a stylesheet for someone. By using # ## ### #### headings, it will always be in your designed style.

People won't fuck your site up like they do with WYSIWYG normally.

The concept is so simple, I only see advantages and it could be used for small and big content sites. It doesn't do caching on purpose, overkill and it's more comfortable this way.

Here is project link: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/dreamii

tax, pension, etc deductions increased so my recent paychecks are less than previous ones, if this stays this way i guess i'll hopefully get a bigger tax refund later

still sadge

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Java ist auch eine Insel - best doorstopper ever

The Facebook web app (on mobile) is so incredibly garbage in a foul, vile way; no client would have accepted it if I was the one who delivered it. Its Twitter counterpart is fairly functional despite all the js fidelity. Some things still behave as you are accustomed to. Facebook tried to hijack ALL native browser capability and ended up releasing an abominable artifact that should be a disgraceful, stark, warning as to how horrid and insufferable the extremism of javaScript can get

You can't open links in new tabs. Sometimes you can "like", other times app that loaded sits still and unresponsive like a corpse. The most annoying part has to be absence of urls, so you can't reference anything. You can't even share posts ffs

Funny enough, this used to have an edge over the restrictive mobile app eg you could reuse profile pictures. You could share specific photos out of a set, etc. Now, it's painfully broken. It doesn't even compensate for it with passable ui. That too, looks amateurish. The only thing you can do on it now is scroll

The sheer rage I feel after sending an 'urgent' email to a client, following up five times with no reply, and finally getting a reply a week later: 'Thanks for your patience!'... I wasn't being patient, I was suffering.

Visual Studio in the recent releases got some updates where it "accelerates build time" by caching DLLs or something
Good in theory? sure.
In practice? So very often, a "hot reload" now doesn't trigger a DLL swap. VS says that changes have been updated but you see stale code and you've to turn off the program and re-run it

I'm sure there's a way to turn this acceleration off and will do that after this rant, but I don't get how such retarded features get green-lit and make it to production :v

I understand that for biiiig solutions with minutes of build-time, this would be god-sent, but if it's this unreliable in my 8-Project Solution, I wonder how unreliable it'd be in bigger Solutions

at least turn it off by default if you know it's shit ffs.

TV show logic:

lying is bad, makes you a conmam, fraudster, charlatan, bad mother that's in and out of jail

unless you're the manager. then nobody questions it, and instead praises you for how well you "manage" people, makes you a good mother because you can tell child or grown up children exactly what they want to hear to get them to do the activity you want them to do... but now it's a virtue for no reason whatsoever

😒

Oh Jase, you're gonna do that regular account deletion stuff all over again? You know that you can just delete a rant right? I'm reasoning like a LLM and then I comment in bad English because my temperature is set too high. I hope that the kangaroo comment didn't piss you off. I just assume that every Australian has one to use instead of public transport. Camels with autism. Sad, all that effort for nothing.

JUST IN: The unexpected sequel to my previous rant that NOBODY asked for!

I'll give it to you in dialogue form as it's more dramatic and *juicy* that way...

(Context: wizard used the warrior's blood, who descends from an ancient lineage of powerful sorcerors, to cast a high-level spell which allowed the party to teleport to safety when they were trapped and about to die. The warrior is worried about his crazy use of black magic, so she confronts him about it.)

"Alright, old man," she says, her tone serious, yet tinged with concern. "I couldn't help but notice the... let's call it 'unorthodox' spellcasting earlier. What was that about?"

"Well, you wanted me to draw the circle using golden dust and a lamb for the sacrifice?" Uzair raises an eyebrow, his tone riddled with sarcasm. "Because spells of that level of complexity require both things, you know? A circle and an offering." He explains calmly, then shakes his head. "But turns out, the blood of an Ashaffi accounts for both things if you draw the sigils with it. Hey, don't blame me, your own ancestors invented it!"

"Very funny, Uzair." Hashade crosses her arms, her expression unamused. "But seriously, that shit was utterly deranged. I can't have you going all 'Black Scorpion' on our ass, what with the demented use of blood magic, needlessly setting entire buildings ablaze and that mother fucking all-incinerating black hellfire inferno." Her voice is stern, but her eyes show genuine care. "You're... __BREAKING BAD__, old man! You have to chill."

"Oh, so is my wizardry getting on your neves now, is it?" He recoils back slightly in suprise, feeling offended. "We just spanked the Sanie's Guild buttcheeks until they were red and swollen, then proceeded to __FUCK__ them in the ASS with a *DIAMOND* fucking COCK. And you're complaining?"

Hashade's eye's reveal her agitation. "I'm not complaining, I'm concerned! We're not just fighting for ourselves, we're fighting for everyone else too! And if you start playing fast and loose with that kind of power, we're gonna have more than just *one* black smoldering crater to deal with." Her voice is firm, but it's clear she's trying to keep the situation from escalating. "Look, I know you're powerful, but that's not an excuse to go full-on mad scientist on us. We gotta keep our shit tight, yeah?"

"Concerned?!" He tilts his head to the side. "What, you think I'm becoming evil? Come on, spit it out!"

"Evil? No, I don't..." Hashade sighs, running a hand through her silver hair. "Oh no, you know what, yeah. I do. I think you're slowly turning evil." Her expression hardens. "You swapped your book of supplications for a grimoire detailing the most horrible shit in excruciating detail! You shouted out 'G-d is great' while witnessing a disastrous explosion that left everyone else traumatized! You joked around before and after cutting two guards in half, for fuck's sake!" She lowers her head and pinches her nose bridge. "I don't know, I'll admit that, I just don't know what's this shit that's gotten to you. But I don't like it, I really don't. I don't like where this is going, old man!"

"Well," He said, calmly. "you killed El-Fuqer by forcing him to eat his own cock and balls while sowing his ass shut and then took a fat stinking dump on his face." He quietly recalled the, ehem, 'little' incident. "But see, I don't waggle your fucking nutsack about the fucked up shit you've done. And I'm not going to start now."

"THAT'S DIFFERENT! THAT WAS __JUSTICE__!" Her eyes flashed with anger.

"JUSTICE?!! YOU CALL SHITTING ON A CORPSE 'JUSTICE'?!!" He pushed her to the side and stormed out. "I MAY BE AN EVIL WIZARD, BUT I NEVER DEFECATED ON MY ENEMIES, HASHADE. NEVER. FOR FUCKS SAKE!"

"Wait!" Her voice cracked. "You can't just leave like this!"

"I can." He didn't even look back. "And I am."

"I'm not leaving you alone!" She strides closer to him, ignoring the sting of his words. "I can't let you destroy yourself like this!"

(ROGUE BUSTS IN THROUGH THE KITCHEN) "ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, YOU TWO, GET A ROOM ALREADY!"

~ F I N ~

TIL even Solana is switching from rust to C for performance reasons

whoopsie

Nothing's gonna make you hate life more than low level graphics programming

You may use any distro. But against one enemy we all unite : Microsoft

Week : 72 ( Year 1 )

How was the weekend?

What’s something a guy/girl has done (intentional or not) that instantly made you think, “Wow, he/she is different in a good way?

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