I don't know what's wrong with me.

Whenever I interview, it takes me almost 3/4 of the allotted time to grasp the problem. I don't know if it's because I am truly dyslexic, or if I'm really bad under stress / time constraint.

After the interview I was able to finish the problem within 10 minutes, but by then it's just too late.

Can't help but feel like a bad about it.

An app/website that I co-created had a devastating launch and was rolled back before me and another coworker went on vacation.
To my surprise it was force-relaunched by upper management and bug-fixed on the go by another coworker, who was also involved. Props to him for dealing with the errors, as I wasn't contacted once.

Welp, I've got a Nigerian client now, and I'm afraid that I'll start catching their accent, the more I speak to them on calls, and soon enough it will reflect in my speech, going from Indian accent to Nigerian accent.

Would it be considered offensive if that really happened?

How normal is it for someone working in test automation for 4+ years to ask how to install an intellij plugin via screenshare and accuse me for being impatient and rude for suggesting them to google?

this isn't really a DEVrant because i don't vibe code (or even use AI tools that much), it's more of a "please don't make your app like this"

chatgpt is so fricking pathetic. the company behind it is so fricking paralyzed with fear of liability that they have made the chatbot unable to respond to any question with the slightest undertone of potential unsafety. i asked it a homework problem involving the acceleration of a 20x102mm AA cartridge. i asked it whether a wooden or Steel handle would be better for a splitting axe. i asked it if my homemade lye was safe to dump down a clogged drain. on all three occasions it said that it couldn't "help with anything that would meaningfully facilitate harm", and proceeded to just suggest consumerism or some other nonsense as a "safe alternative". like what the actual heck? life on Earth inherently has risk, that's part of human existence. nobody would enjoy being put in a bubble-wrapped room designed for maximum safety (i know from experience), a bit of risk is what keeps us happy and motivated. i'm not even mad at whatever megacorp made chatgpt, i'm just disappointed. it's like watching a freshly-lobotomized fish flop around on the ground. if anyone makes an AI or something else. please don't do this. just slap on a limitation of liability and indemnity clause into your TOS, please don't lobotomize your chatbot in the name of "safety".

Whenever your manager comes to you with a new request, I think you should reply with Ocean 13's Roman's line:

"“Oh, with 18 months, nothing else on my plate, no other jobs, no distractions… maybe.”

Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.

I just can't. lol

My PC suddenly shut off, i repressed on the button, nothing. Unplugged from it everything included my Pi server, keyboard...
Nothing.
I take the computer and its power cord to another room, maybe the multiplug isnt working anymore...
Nothing.
I sit and text someone about it, and suddenly, in my hands, it explodes. Extreme light and sound into my eyes and ears.
The sound in my eyes, the light in my ears.
Now I am amputated from my right arm, "The Great Holy Arch Computer".
My god why!

Podman or Docker, and why?

Non-Cooperative Threading With Lock-free, Wait-free Read AND Write
(without compare-And-Swap (CAS))

Premise is straight-forward:

You spawn multiple threads. Each is given a prime number assigned and a counter updated each full execution of the thread.

Any time a thread wants to read or write to a shared resource, it checks its counter modulo its prime number against all others. Wherever counter modulo prime == 0 and > 0 for all other prime keys in a given set, it is safe to read/write the shared resource.

Some limit is set on the counter so it periodically resets.

You may also assign these to say, numbered priority enums or somesuch.

So for example a "priority 0" thread would use prime=2, because this is going to match the most frequently against the counter.

And this is how you get non-cooperative threading with lock-free read and write.

Additionally, by carefully tuning the size of the set of primes, relative to the maximum of the counter before reset, you can minimize latency.

Finally with careful thread management, you could, say, have a framework such that if some threads counter mod its key == 0 while the mod of other keys == 1, those threads may be strictly reading a resource rather than writing it, decreasing read/write latency further, if I haven't misunderstood how reading a shared resource works.

Is this novel? Idk, but maybe it'll help someone eventually.

In a world where any shareholder can have your job cut away without warning, the freedom fighter is the man brave enough to place a dead man switch.

Back from my holiday and we still don't have any code pushed for the backend lmao

We were on this vacation island where we all got to eat those black, peanut sized, jelly candy - a speciality of that island. This candy was lying around everywhere: In our huts, next to our beds, on the edges of the streets, and also floating on the water of the river.

Then a species of humanoid amphibians appeared on that island. They told us that this black jelly candy is actually their eggs.
I asked their leader if they are pissed about us for eating them.
The leader faked a smile and after a short delay he slowly said that it doesn’t bother them.

We were told to gather in one place, behind a sacred black pool, that we had to swim across.
That pool looked like oil and was half full with that "candy". The candy was sticky and got everywhere, eyes, mouth, ears, nose. It was disgusting and hard to swim in.

Mentions are working at my.devplace.net I notice. Must be nice. Innovative.

This will make ur pc crash by allocating a lot of ram and cpu :

https://gist.github.com/3dgoose/...
compile with gcc SDLdie.c -lSDL2

For some people it wasn't clear how it worked, so I added a short tutorial at the beginning and an objective thingy: https://retoortycoon.app.molodetz.nl/......

Do a HARD refresh, else you maybe can't login if you were there before.

Give it another change :) But yeah, you can't build on existing streets and buildings, scroll down to a green area. You can only build on ground and before that you need to build road.

It's such a mess, I honestly don't even know where to begin, what's lacking the most and what's got higher priority...

I am so tired of people during interviews expecting me to be totally excited about AI.

Don’t get me wrong, I use it… Just when I need. Which means not that often.

And then I get the usual cliché sentences.

“You’d be faster if you were using AI more”

Alright then. Outpace me with your AI.

“AI won’t replace you but a developer using it will”

Can’t wait to see that. For now, I just loose time on reviews of vibecoded crap.

Really, it was fun at the beginning, we all had hopes with those tools, but right now, it’s annoying and they didn’t deliver. So I’ll keep using it when I need it and ONLY when I need it.

Omg I hate github. Fuck microsoft I swear those leeches are ruining everything they touch. They're like reverse midas.

Mentions aren't coming up in my notifications. Sorry if I'm missing crap. devRant broke.

It's been a day of CI fixing for bindings

Someone wants to play retoortycoon?

https://retoortycoon.app.molodetz.nl/...

Week: 112 (Year 3)

How is the weekend going, lads?

Question: What’s something you think 90% of people are secretly bad at?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19376600

Hey guys, should I bake gun/weapon Rendering in my graphics engine or not? If I do so, it will be an engine limited to FPS games...
Anyways if anyone got time please give me feedback about my engine, https://GitHub.com/3dgoose/wipe

My C code is so unsafe even bindgen will suffer
Also screw you sfml

Can anyone make a good case for the dereference-property operator being "->"

What the fuck, those keys are nowhere near where I rest my fingers while typing.

Not only that, but it's a sequence of two characters. For what reason!?!?!?

In fact, can anyone tell me what the reason is that we have a specific operator for this operation?! Why not just use the period for everything? If the left hand side is a pointer, the period can dereference and THEN resolve the scope. Otherwise, just resolve the scope to the property. Since resolving the scope on a pointer directly does nothing (IE, if you were to write "pointer.property" in current c/c++/etc), this means the operation is unambiguous and doesn't need to be two operators.

FUCK.

https://lightningchart.com/net-char...

Generate one trillion datapoints. Interesting. lol. I need 128 GB RAM for that, though...

Because Windows doesn't provide glext.h. If anyone knows how to install it.

There is always something, innit? Some "data scientist" in waaaaaay over his head complained to my teammate that the piece of code she wrote was faulty in some overly weird edge case that only occurred to him, but was never actually seen in practice. But the jerk complained in a very, very annoying and entitled and pushy way.
He brought my girl almost to tears.
Now, im not exactly the most delicate in my manners, but One. Doesn't. Mess. With. My. Team.
I just sent an email to his manager that from this day forward, every single piece of code anyone on his entire team requests will be tested to the entirety of the possible inputs. They had asked for some delay measurement tool. I've locked my cluster for... nineteen hours now, just computing the complete list of test parameters. 3.1Gb of parquet files with possible input combinations. Or about 1200 USD coming out of their budget *just to _test_ this one fucking function*. And about a week delays for the tests to complete.
And a chip on my shoulder.

P.S. the data science team manager is actually nice and all, and he is also at the end of his patience with his jerk of a teammate. Someone is getting a bloody poor quarterly review.

One really good compilers is TCC/TinyCC, but SDL2 just won't work with it because it uses immintrin