Shampoo for women:
1. Nourishing papaya
2. Ipanema sunrise
3. Flourishing silk

Shampoo for men:
1. Auschwitz-Birkenau
2. 2001 Honda Accord
3. Gun

All of you, take note of this date: 12/10/2024.

You get upvoted by green dots, be suspicious.
You see the same date on their profiles, be suspicious.
You see their profiles boosting spam messages, well, you better be fucking suspicious.

There's a bit shy of two hundred of them already, and the numbers will continue to grow. We are getting fucked in the ass, I repeat, we are getting fucked in the ass.

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what do I do with 100% dark chocolate

turns out it's entirely inedible. I can't stomach it

now what

"2>/dev/null" is the command-line equivalent of "shut up, bitch".

RIP Thomas Eugene Kurtz, the creator of BASIC.

I still have like, 4 working days left but my manager is on holiday from today so as far as I'm concerned, so am I.

I've been suffering from frequent and random crashes with my Jetbrains products, as well as awful performance.

As it turns out, even with 16GB of RAM, it still needs the swapfile to function properly. After creating an 8BG swapfile, it starts almost instantly and my crashes seem to be resolved.

We need to update the slang "script kiddie" to "prompt enginot" or something.

So my boss's boss or someone even higher up drank the generative AI kool-aid and hired a 40-something kid to generate images for the marketing teams (or something like it).
Naturally, things soon went to shit.
The bloke already left, having staid less than six months on the job.
Guess who got to handle all the shit-is-currently-on-fire the kiddie left behind?

First impression: apparently, muggles tried to slak him some very broad descriptions of what they needed, and at first he actually tried to summarize those bark-speech pseudo-words into an actual prompt.
It does not seem to have gone for too long, though.
After users requested changes to the AI outputs, he would update the prompts, all right. And the process seemed to go fast enough... until reaching near-to-completion status.
Then users would request the tiniest changes to the AI output...
And the bloke couldn't do it.
Seriously. Some things were as simple as "we need this slider to go all the way up to 180% instead of 100%" on a lame dashboard and *kid. could. not. do. it.*.

In many cases he literally just gave up and copied the slak history into the AI prompt. No dice.

Bloke couldn't code a print('hello world') into a jupyter notebook cell, that's what i'm saying.
Apparently, he was "self taught", too. And was hired to "speed up the process of generating visual aids for usage in meetings and presentations". But then "the budget for this position was considered excessive" (meaning: shit results from a raw idea some executive crapped some day) and "the position was expanded to include the development of Business Inteligence Dashboards and Data Apps".

So now it is up to me (and my CRIMINALLY UNDERPAID team) to clean up his mess and maintain/fix/deprecate DOZENS of SHODDILY DESIGNED and MOSTLY USELESS but QUITE ACTIVE "data vis" PIECES OF SHIT.

Fuck "AI prompters", fucking snake oil script kiddies.

My new favourite error message:
error: "Callable[...]" not callable

Python type system...

Must not be sassy.
Must be polite and grateful to open source devs.
Must be diplomatic when pointing out they're fundamentally wrong about the spec they're implementing. Even if they helped write it.
Must not be sassy when showing receipts (what the spec says).
Must not be sassy.

Some people deserve a high five.

On the face.

With a chair.

I‘ve not seen a single ad spam post today, so far.
Thank you @retoor!

I fucking swear. AI this, new frameworks that, but every fucking company I get hired by has a deluge of files that are thousands of lines long.

It's not a new concept to split up files. It's not difficult to progressively split up files as you work on them. And yet so many programmers apparently can't fucking stop for quarter a second to think "hmmm maybe adding another function to this thing that is already 20 km long might not be the best idea".

Despite having programmed for quite a few years now, for some reason I keep thinking the filter function's predicate needs to be true for things you want to exclude, not things you want to include...

catalogue.filter(i -> i.quantity < 1)

was what I just tried to do when I wanted to fetch all the items still in stock... Why am I like this?

Why the fuck is everything getting round "corners" everywhere these days?

Most places it's such a waste of space.
Some go farther and it's more stretched circles like rectangles.

Damn it, monitors are rectangular, windows are rectangular, stay with it ffs

Also, it looks fckn ugly

Our biggest competitor has just been hacked. All their sensitive data, including passwords and client data, has been compromised.

It is not yet in the news, but someone forwarded their internal communication to us. :D

(fixed mistranslation)

Turns out we have a Grinch. Someone just stole all my decorations in the communal staircase.

This really fucked my mood

We literally gave ChatGPT their next idea by making fun of them.

They probably saw the posts on the internet where a real person would have a lengthy back and forth conversation with 4o about how many R's are in strawberry and were like "wait, what if we could make the chat bot do that with itself before it answers"

10 quadrillion GPU cycles and $100 in electricity later, we have a "new" GPT model!

Oh and considering their new $200 per month paid plan, it seems like I might not be far off concerning the price to run this parlor trick of a chatbot.

I plainly told the manager responsible for programming that we all use web extensions and there's just no way to effectively prevent programmers from running whatever software they deem necessary, so I'm suggesting to allow them in Windows group policy purely as a matter of efficiency.

It has only just occurred me how much I'm relying on his better judgment not to try and crack down on this.

Wish me and my team luck.

People of Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Libya and Afghanistan should have American voting rights because of how much of US government's decisions affect their lives.