I am planning to quit my job next year, so I have 1 year to figure my shit out.

Just finished setting up immich on my server. Using the prepared docker compose file. But I renamed the docker image of the database. It was called postgres. I renamed it to immich_postgres. After all, I want to know that this container belongs to immich.

Half an hour troubleshooting later, I figured out why I get a login failed error message. Login did not fail, connection did. Why? Because, they rely on the postgres name as an alias. They could have put an explicit alias for dns, they could have used the configuration name, after all they used it in the depends_on section. But they decided to refer to it via the automatically assigned name. Really? Container name? That one thing in the configuration that is supposed to be unique?

Did you really think that was the only postgres database on the server? Maybe I should centralize it into a single database, but I like when my applications can run without outside dependencies. Proper documentation would have been nice. I am sure they mention it somewhere.

I cannot express how much I don't want businesses who have my phone number to randomly pick an instant messaging account registered with that phone number for their correspondence. I can pick an SMS app, I own my messages as data and so I am fundamentally free to backup, sync, and view them as and when I want. The same is not true for Viber which I only registered because my mom's tenants literally don't use anything else.

Please clean your MacBooks. All you need is 70% alcohol and microfiber. I beg 🙏🏾😭

Apparently Peogeot is gonna launch a wheel-less car.

That's so smart. If you don't need to turn or stir the car you're gonna go in a straight line, thus faster.

The french did it again

Thought I would be clever to batch insert a bunch of data into the db with sql, with the catch that the data of a specific column should have a zero-padded number as prefix, counting up from 0. Ask AI for suggestion. Generates some SQL beyond my basic understanding. No way I'm gonna run that! Can't be bothered for an explanation, don't have the time. I realize my assumption to SQL my way through failed right from the start. Instead I let AI generate a python script to create a CSV with the desired data. A few iterations of testing, I take the result file and import it into the db. Done.

We spent WEEKS getting the permission system right for this project.

This monday 11.30 they tell me we need to change it, preferably by this morning

Now I have 4 branches to merge, I can't remember where the features are, we have regressions all around, the client aren't happy, people can't work, everything explode.

We started this projects 6 months ago, you had all the time to think about it.

fckin many bitches

Okay, maybe I'm unlucky, but I find macOS to be extremely buggy and inconsistent across the board compared to Windows.
The "it just works" slogan hasn't been true in my case.
Like, there's always some dumb issue hindering me.
For example, I can't seem to resize a window by its edge on my second screen in macOS. It just doesn't work.
Of course, Windows isn't perfect, but it works without a hitch in my case.
Finally, the memory swapping issues that lead to lag.
On a typical day, I have two instances of IntelliJ running, Android Studio or XCode, and two Edge + Mozilla, and Docker. 32GB should be able to handle this smoothly. This works fine on my 32GB Windows workstation.
On my 32GB M2 MacBook Pro however, I have to constantly close some programs because of lag.
Not to mention, memory fills up really quickly. I essentially turn on the MacBook and 18 GB are in use. WTF!

At my work we still deploy web files the old-fashioned way, copying newer versions over from dev to test and test to prod. For comparing and copying changed files we use WinMerge. Although our workflow sucks, WinMerge itself is actually a nifty little tool for comparing any sort of text files. But today it pissed me off in a way it never has before. I copied a diff from left to right and then meant to save it with Ctrl + S, but accidentally pressed Ctrl + D. Guess what happened? To my horror, both sides went completely blank! It looked as if the file contents had been deleted, and undo had no effect. To my relief, the files were intact when opening them in VS Code. Thinking this was a glitch in WinMerge, I restarted it but still, all files were blank. No contents displayed! Then I thought, perhaps pressing Ctrl + D again would bring the file contents back into view. And it did! So the bottom line is: Pressing Ctrl + D makes the compared files appear as empty. Now, who would want that to happen? What a nice feature, you've got here WinMerge! (I'm being sarcastic in case you missed that)

There are sites that list different datasets, this makes them dataset of datasets.
As there are multiple of these sites, and they are listed on Google, that made Google dataset of dataset datasets.

how do I make my actively hostile body behave and do what I want it to do?

AI is more than just a model.

It's also tooling. Tooling can help to interpret data or solve a puzzle like Sudoku or parse a JSON file perfectly. Results of those tooling will be wrapped in AI response. That quality of tooling responses is high because it's made by classical code that works with literal data and outputs literal data. As long the competition of OpenAI doesn't have tooling like that, it won't be the same.

I do assume for now that DeepSeek doesn't have that. I tried it, it answers things well, but for bigger questions that would require tooling it just crashes and says it's too busy. So I can't verify 100%.

Will try again later and update under this Rant, but assume the DeepSeek stuff is very over hyped. To know what DeepSeek really is about without watching all the fake fan video's, take this quite objective response of the maker of Perplexity AI. Someone that knows where he's talking about: (40 minutes) https://youtube.com/watch/....

So when it comes to investments of a model, what does the stuff investment is incuded in? I mean, OpenAI was way more expensive than DeepSeek but DeepSeek borrowed all OpenAI's research that was made by very expensive processes. So DeepSeek didn't pay research costs like OpenAI did. Also it (I still assume) didn't spend money on tooling.

Also, i'm sure a less woke API would be way cheaper because it doesn't have to lie to himself causing it to keep reasoning until his given woke fact makes sense! Wokism destroys models, i'm sure.

I didn't check DeepSeek on wokism yet, but it's based op GPT4o so, probably it is.

But competition is always great, I can't imagine the price would even drop further for AI requests but if it does, it would be amazing. Maybe it also becomes free and we will be forced to pay to use it without adverts.

Turns out, even spam in dR has its benefits :)

retoor's bot was asleep I guess, so I noticed a spanish spam post about taxi 24 horas [taxi with 24 whores]. And it was quite a good test for my spanish! Turns out, with Duolingo in one year one can learn to understand a language quite well. I only didn't know a few words in the spam post, but the rest I read as if it were english.

Daaayyuummm.. I was too sceptic about Dulingo :o

So I onboard this guy on the project. One week in we worked on a task. There was a socket hang-up error. After a lot of debugging, I realized the issue was the value being sent over RPC to the API. Resolved in a huddle with the guy to show him how I debugged and found out.

2 weeks later, the client uses the API elsewhere, and runs into the same error, opens ticket. The new guy picks it up. After spending a day, says he can't find the issue, let alone reproduce it.

I have to jump in.

My guy, we just went through this recently. How much did he accumulate in 2 weeks since we did that, that he can't recall the fix

There is only one terrorist in this world and it likes to call everyone terrorists and treats as such. It's name is United States of America.

Everybody's losing their mind on deepseek. But it's the same trash as ChatGPT.

DeepSeek r1 shows clear reasoning instead of hardcoded answers on topics like 9/11.

Never thought the day I would say this but well done China.

Big power countries are shitty, but at least we have handful of them keeping each other in check. Imagine if USA was the ONLY power. Fucking dystopia.

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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.