RAID iS nOt bAcKuP 🤡
Yes, RAID 1 is. What you wanted to say is “RAID is not an off-site backup”.

Krystry and I got the same amount of work done last week...

Why is this a problem? Krystry was on leave

User Signals are unhelpful incentives:
Google's so-called User signals value scroll depth and time spent on a website as positive indicators of valuable content.
However, websites with bad UX easily outplay good ones when people spend more time scrolling pages over and over desperately trying to find a registration or contact form to achieve something they'd have more quickly achieved with good UX.

Do you think @tosensei is a lizard?

I do.

I chose to believe

Just finished Expedition 33. GOTY material for sure. It's easily on my top 5 of all time.

Driving data from your car (direction, Gs, cameras) can be used to estimate your “recklessness”, bought by banks and used to “properly evaluate” your insurance price 🙈

COLLATE in SQL and “collateral damage” are related words

> This is indeed a well-known architectural challenge—the "tying together" of heterogeneously typed objects with their matching data—often referred to as a variant of the Expression Problem

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> The expression problem is a challenging problem in programming languages that concerns the extensibility and modularity of statically typed data abstractions. The goal is to define a data abstraction that is extensible both in its representations and its behaviors, where one can add new representations and new behaviors to the data abstraction, without recompiling existing code, and while retaining static type safety (e.g., no casts). The statement of the problem exposes deficiencies in programming paradigms and programming languages, and as of 2023 is still considered unsolved,[citation needed] although there are many proposed solutions

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why do I always

also this is easy as pie in javascript. No wonder it was my favourite language. you're just so free to express yourself. DUNCHU SEE?!

Instagram's UI is like an extremely hard game that will kicks you out of the process just a second before you're about to finish just to make you start over and try harder. It's a know deceptive pattern to make people invest more energy and engage more intensively, some will leave in frustration, but the rest will feel more attached to your product thanks to the sunk cost fallacy. What a pathetic waste of time! Sad.

BIOS/UEFI written in Electron.

Oh look at it stupid technomusings.

Context:
- You have a sequence of N-byte-wide values.
- Each value is unique.
- You XOR them all together into an N-byte-wide key.
- Just dump the key into a list somewhere.

Problem:
- A new value sequence is input.
- Same rules: all values are unique and fixed-size.
- You XOR them all together into a key.
- You walk the list of keys and check them for equality against the new one.

The same sequence of values, regardless of order, would ((supposedly)) always give you the same key. I used this years ago, for a renderer that used indexed colors, to see if I had to make a new palette or not when saving/loading textures: the image format had the key on the header.

It worked, but I was using a __very__ limited value range, cursed 8-bit YUV lossy fuckery; never bothered investigating the idea any further.

So, question:
- Is there any specific situation in which you get a false positive?
- Is there any specific situation in which you get a false negative?

My brain wants to say 'yes' to both because I'm privy to the mystical truth that my methods invariably fall on the idiot side of the spectrum. But my lazy testing keeps saying 'no, you dumbass'.

So who's wrong?
brb gon hit that crack~

Week : 86 (Year 1 )

How was the weekend ?

What improved your quality of life so much that you wish you did it sooner?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/15417025

In Windows 11, Microsoft has removed the option to make the taskbar smaller—and with the 24H2 build, even the old registry hack (TaskbarSi) no longer works.

Fuck Microsoft.

Watching someone at a conference trying to play a video in their presentation on Windows PowerPoint. It’s painful to see. No audio. They then ripped the video from YouTube. It still wouldn’t play even in Windows Media Player. They’re still fiddling with it while the speaker and audience trade dad jokes. If I hooked up my Mac it would immediately work. How do Windows users live like this?

One day you'll go hiking and find a house built by no one. It will be then that you'll realize you can't go back home.

Polish military has the official "8 wounds" chevron that is given to those who sustained 8 battle wounds. Do you know why Americans don't have those? Because you have to be Polish to get wounded eight times in battle and still be alive enough to wear this thing on your uniform. Poles are built different.

open source food wehn

apparently they put wheat and corn in things all the time... and seed oils like to fortify milk with vitamin d and vitamin a

and they don't have to notify you of that ingredient

so they don't

but people obviously have allergies to these things

which would sure explain a lot of shit. I noticed I couldn't eat anything that had corn in its ingredient list after I got sick, but there is also a bunch of stuff I can't eat that seems to mess me up the same way that doesn't have corn in their ingredients list, so it was purely fucking like Russian roulette gambling and trying new food would stress me out so bad -.-

companies might not like revealing how they're "creating the taste" or texture of their product to such a degree though. then it's revealing their "trade secret" like a company revealing their intellectual property

poison in your food is like a backdoor in your library though. I don't want to gamble. I want to know. fuck your shit. open source only or you're not getting on my wetware 😠

> Virtually all marketed drugs contain excipients, and final drug formulations commonly contain more excipient than active ingredient. Pharmaceutical regulations and standards mandate the identification and safety assessment of all ingredients in drugs, including their chemical decomposition products. Novel excipients can sometimes be patented, or the specific formulation can be kept as a trade secret to prevent competitors from duplicating it through reverse engineering

just feeding you this garbage. fuck you, that's why

in studies when testing these they also omit them =], so suddenly testing harmful product vs harmful excipients... oh it's less harmful than things we approved before!

if anyone wants to become an anti vaxxer: https://rumble.com/v6ss2zl-the-274t...
since sometimes people seem to claim that somehow is a crazy thing instead of a very sensible thing...
(though maybe don't watch that if it's gonna horrify you and you don't want that sensation)

The more I think about the more it makes sense. If you're running a tracing jit compiler for a language with TCO does that means tail recursive functions are like asking to get traced?

you have 6 problems

you introduce rust, now you have 30 problems

you worked on it for about a month and maybe this is the 6th rewrite, and you now have 300 problems and also you have less functionality than every one of the previous versions

why and how

this pattern seems to be consistent no less

apparently there's a sect of monks/philosophers that believe if you drink yourself silly on epiphanies you gain enlightenment

so cool

Enter BIOS menu
See the option called something like “ionic capacitor discombobulation”
Click “help” near the option to learn what the hell that is
“Enables or disables ionic capacitor discombobulation”
ffs

I got deadlines to meet at work so I cancelled all unnecessary meetings to focus on my development work. Some high manager pushes for last minute work because reasons.

I log onto my laptop this morning and see IT did an emergency patch. I expect some minor inconvenience because every time they patch something they fuck something up too.

Well they managed to lock me out of most software installed on my laptop and PC, I cannot even connect any device to it. Even debuggers get denied. They even managed to wipe all my networking configs in my lab.

I guess I will be doing jackshit today until the IT networking department wakes up from their offshore slumber, because it usually takes them forever to do anything whatsoever.

Fucking worthless fucks. I am so tired of all this.

Today I finally felt the need for one of those mini fridges next to my computer. I told myself I will never be one of those guys.

I see more and more tech books with AI generated cover, and every time I feel like the whole book is probably generated and is worthless 🤔

Now that I gave up on any hope for promotion, I am relieved of presenting stuff, which to a certain extent, relieve me from a certain amount of cringe. There’s just enough left to remind me why I don’t want to speak publicly.

So tired of “minimal” distros. Give me a 40gb fat bitch that can open any file type, has every codec and every app, and that has everything set up for me. I’ll delete apps I don’t need, deleting is easier than installing anyway

My company: "you don't have a choice what you work on"
My company on legal paperwork: "we've given them choice of what they work on to support and develop them as best as possible"

Both of those are verbatim quotes. I laughed. I mean, I now want to punch someone, but I laughed before the violence.

IS THERE ANY GODDAMN LOGIC IN RUSSIAN ALPHABETS OMFG I HATE EM.
a pain in the ass to learn :v

It's impressive how slow the archive compression/decompression in Windows 11 is slow...

Your health is the ultimate flex