Just came back from 6 months of leave.

Didn't touch a computer. Honestly I'm getting used to mouse, it feels so weird??

Anyway, I hope you've all been doing great.

I still can't imagine a programmer genuinely getting something out of writing tests

like are you even writing software you'd use if you're writing tests?

I can't be sure of its buglessness unless I can put the whole thing in my head and rapid bounce ideas at the construct. writing all those out into code would be exhausting / neurotically excessive and ultimately an unmaintainable mess

and otherwise I can't think of any use for tests other than that they can be used to document the specs, which if you're working on your own code and not in a corporate team isn't that big of a problem

I was looking for a vietnamese marxist youtuber (ya know me i like marx) dso I typed "vietnamese redtube"

Is it some kind of pedo code wtf?? Disturbing af this shit should be deleted asap

More of a rant in meme form than a meme. OC.

I'm not a 10x developer. It's you who are 0.1x developers

So, a while ago I made a keylogger (called tikker (project is on my site) and now I created plot with statistics. Interesting, I work literally full time (24h) :P So now I have a graph of activity per hour:

devRant is now Mars: more robots than people

Devin might be the first ever reciprocal 10x developer: A true 0.1x dev

every time my brain's functionality perks up even a little bit and I regain some functionality I used to have I literally end up insatiably spiraling through the new abilities and God complex all over the place

if you were a god, what kind of god would you be?

Let's start a discussion about decentralized. EveRyOne caN hOsT hiS oWn ServEr. Do you mean the freaking internet in general? By definition, the internet is decentralized. "Decentralization has a protocol we all use to stay in sync". That existed already, it's called IP, TCP and UDP.. The decentralization protocols are on top of those making it only more limiting. Good, many nodes in sync. Yeah, replicating SQL servers exist for a long time.

People who 'invented' decentralized did just not realize how the internet works. Adding a network on top of a network ending up in a smaller network making it more centralized. "Decentralized" stuff has nothing to add. Just some word for replication protocol or smth.

I'm too sober to fall for this shit.

Why can't protocols like IPFS or Odysee go mainstream? Would it be better to have a fully HTTP-based system that mimics Netflix and uses React?

Autocatalysis happens when the product of a chemical reaction accelerates said reaction.
The greatest catalyst is… consciousness.
A human body is but a very complex chemical reaction that goes on for roughly a century. Among other things, it produces consciousness that makes us look for food that keeps the reaction going. Consciousness is just a catalyst that turned out to be more efficient than other catalysts.