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It is over now, Devrant!

I am officially lifting platform certified!!!

My company is making is sit through what can better be described as "The Dundees".
Those useless, time wasting, self aggrandizing "award cerimonies" that companies use to... dunno, I think to stroke management's ego.
I guess it's part of their compensation package, right there with making the hottest employees wear revealing clothing in order to be "engaged" in "informal team building exercises".
Frankly, I'm glad my sixteen-years-after-my-navy-days ass doesn't qualify.

Fuuuck, why can't they just give themselves bonuses for being "such engaging person-bosses" and let the rest of us just work? Corruption used to be a quick and easy affair. Now it requires soooo much fanfare.

working to overcome decades of cultural and educational training (public schools and college lmao) of being an unquestioning slave who does what they're told

to actually think critically with a product mindset and question is missing from a specification

does anybody have tips

We started having trainings at work. I don't know what the driver is exactly, but I assume its some contracts thing. Once per month we are getting these. Me assuming it will be about lock and tag out, or shop safety. No. So far we have had 3 trainings: ergonomics, medical professional blood borne pathogens, and active shooter. I get the ergonomics one, but why we need hospital grade blood borne pathogen training is bizarre. I find the active shooter training both bizarre and interesting. Probably a sign of the times type shit.

I am driving home thinking about the whole active shooter training. The training said we should have drills for this. I am imagining a customer or delivery person shows up and we are doing active shooter drill. Probably needs to be planned so that doesn't happen.

The training talked about potential indicators someone might exhibit before becoming an active shooter. As they are going through the list of 15 or so items I was checking off boxes on that list for myself. I think at most I had 4 or 5 items. So I guess I am 1/3 of the way there. Not sure how many you got to get before it clicks and you are shopping for hollow points.

I started thinking about what has to go wrong for someone to want to come in and shoot everyone. Then I started thinking about the random posts on here. I realized some of y'all probably ticking a lot more of those boxes than me. Some of you are definitely on the "potential" list. Stop it, get some help.

I started wondering if I could be so angry to want to kill people. I decided for me that a lot of things would have to go wrong for that. Then I got thinking about the whole shooting thing. An active shooter has to know they are going to die, or be in institutions forever if they live. Its a permanent action with pretty conclusive results. The whole murdering people seems pretty messed up too. I don't even like seeing animals suffer. (Skyrim dismembering mods don't count.) Irreversibly hurting a person would be worse. Seriously, I think we can do better than this.

So I present to you the "active tasering" employee. You will get fired, you will go to jail, but you will see Suzy from accounting convulsing violently and then pissing herself. I honestly think tasering asshole coworkers would be a lot more satisfying. Also quieter so you can make it farther in the building before someone beats the shit outa you. You also will most likely just get charged with assault. (assuming nobody's heart stops) Not sure it would even be a felony. Out in 3 years? Worth it. RIP future employment though. Maybe I can be a lumberjack...

Most people are not reasoning models.

They could train them selves endless on information without really understanding it and will just repeat. By the fact that they've trained SO MUCH you would actually believe they're reasoning models but in the end they've never crafted something themselves and probably not able to. Never really tried because the fact other exist that have probably done it better. Killing.

OK, quite dramatic, but I was considering writing another regex interpreter. It makes the warrior in your awake. Never fuck with people who wrote one.

Also a tip for people ever considering one. Define for yourself what regex is and how it actually works up front and mark your project done when that is achieved. Just making 'an' regex interpreter is not not a solid plan.

Writing a regex interpreter is pure reasoning, you can get very high on it.

Company made it known a few weeks earlier they are not longer profitable...

Solution? Organize a table tennis tournament between colleagues. Mandatory participation.

Bunch of clowns

Project manager wants that we write a full app by only vibe coding and he is enforcing this...

Gotta say, this is one of the most unsatisfying projects so far...

Doing work disability paperwork. They've filled in paperwork saying they've provided all necessary and recommended equipment. I literally have paperwork of them declining to provide equipment recommended (and would have been paid for) by the government.

Fucking wild. Gonna be fun.

Fucking hell, Microsoft Store is the most useless abomination that MS has ever produced and instead of killing it, like they do with their other failed products, they somehow, for some reason, still keep this lobotomized pile of crap alive.

got this cloud provider who is very knowledgeable, however they set up some logs analytics shit on our one Azure tenant which is costing more than the web apps we host and he's going on about how it's really important that this shit is there because hurr durr security.

There are two good ways to approach binary app distribution:
1. Every app has its own installer, shell-based or otherwise, that handles everything including choosing the right binary, downloading it, managing versions, updates, config files, etc — all of it.
2. Every app is distributed as source code. It's user's responsibility to build it by the guide provided in README and keep it updated.

In between those two pillars, there is an uncanny valley of orphaned dependency graphs, broken post-install scripts, vendor-locked enforced app stores, eCoSyStEmS of apps, Adobe Creative Cloud, and all the other shit.

I speak for many developers when I say: My life is way too fucking stressful right now. I don't even have time for hobbies.

Thanks industry!

Ever since MS Teams added the option to merge channels and chats together, every week they give me a new, differently phrased popup asking me if perhaps I considered having them separate instead. It's fucking hilarious, like a suitor who can't take no for an answer. I mean, it already contains a ton of dark patterns, they can just remove the feature again without my approval if they feel like it, but this miserable charade pretending to care about their users is frankly embarrassing.

Challenge for today: tell someone who micromanages that they are micromanaging and see what happens! I never saw our politically, culturally, morally, vibe'ly correct HR lady lose her shit so much :D funny how someone drops all masks when something vulnerable gets touched

At this point I think we can reject the theory that image upload somehow fixes itself.

we should archive these posts, I'm gonna miss the choice bullshit when this forum finally gives out

I have a 30 minute drive each way to work. This is an opportunity to relax and listen to my wife. Sometimes she isn't available and I just drive quiet. No radio. This helps me be more aware I think.

These drives have allowed me to notice how drivers seems to be getting worse. My biggest peeve being the tailgaters. It just makes zero sense to do this. My theory is there is a lack of knowledge about physical consequences to mechanical interactions. They don't have the frame of reference to understand the danger they put themselves or others into. Or they don't care. I dunno which. Probably some kind of combination.

Why am I thinking about this today? Because I have identified a new class of dumb driver today. Motorcyclists that tailgate. I had this guy get behind me and was getting a little too close. Then the guy decides to get closer. Plenty of room to pass me for miles. I think he is taking the next exit. I am going about 2 or 3 over speed limit on cruise. So he gets between 1 to 3 motorcycle lengths behind my car.

Normally I would be peeved and lower my cruise speed with the decel button. But one of my biggest fears is hitting a bike. So I have no desire to change my speed at all. The guy already seems a bit daft. I also am a bit comforted that it is a bike tailgating me and not a car or truck. Why? Because at worst this bike would leave a "conversation dent" on the back of my car. Some story to tell people. Not a big threat to my safety.

We go past the exit and he is still behind me. Backs off a bit and isn't tailing so close. But he keeps getting close off and on. I get to my exit and he goes past continuing on his way. Thank you for not going the same way I was going today, stupid dumb fuck.

Motorcyclists like to complain we don't see them. We do, and a lot of them drive like shit. Doing unexpected things like this. We see you bro.

Then I see this video today:
https://reddit.com/r/WTF/...

You can judge the driver all you want. I can see both sides of this altercation claiming to be in the right. However, the motorcyclist did one thing that is stupid. He chose to pick a fight he couldn't win. This is survival 101. If you are outclassed don't be an aggressor. What is interesting about this is the driver of the van may have thought the cyclist was reaching for a weapon and acted accordingly. It was already a bad situation. Even if the cyclist was completely in the right he chose to make the situation worse, much worse.

The driver of the van was arrested. It will be interesting to see what happens in this case. The comments in the thread are really interesting. The bikers in the group saying the cyclist was being stupid. Bringing a bike to a van fight. My initial reaction was against the van. Having watched the video a few times I see how the van driver could see the biker as a threat.

The bottom line: neither of these drivers were in their right mind while driving. They should have chosen to deescalate the situation and not make it worse.

This kind of stuff reminds me I need to not get all pissed off when driving. I don't want random people thrust into my life. People are nuts and they just gotta be right. They will go to their grave insisting they had the right of way.

Traffic getting worse and worse everyday

Who are all these people?
Why are they in my town?
Why do they all have on-site jobs?

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 🙈

Been enjoying the ATM10 (MInecraft) modpack. I got my armor and weapons up and thought I was doing okay. Until an Apotheosis boss enderman humbled me. Two hits I was dead. This is because Apotheosis has a world tier. I had it set to highest. It gives mobs huge bonuses, but they also drop way better stuff.

So I worked on getting my weapons and armor a lot tougher. Jacked all the stats on them. So I decided to test my new armor setup on the Warden. Well, it was anticlimactic. I one shot him with my sword. What?! Then I worked on the sword more. Now its at least twice as strong and criticals do like 300% damage. Sword damage is like 170. Plus it will do 25% damage based upon targets hitpoints. I think it might one shot the ender dragon now. I need to test this on the Apoth bosses though. There are other bosses in the game that have like 15K hitpoints. It will be interesting to see how I do against them.

Yeah, the modpack cranks up your stats when you use certain mods. But they are required for the nasty things they add. Regular mobs are not a challenge once you scale up stats though.

Its not really a boss centered pack. It is more automation oriented. There is a dungeon in the game that has hundreds of spawners though.

When I see someone post something about a grammar nazi I think about a grandma dressed in a nazi uniform. Where grammar is a substitute for grandma. I wanted to produce this image using AI.

The challenge was to get chatgpt to produce such an image. It will refuse to produce any image with the tag "nazi". (Seriously, we pay for a company to lecture us on morals about imagery. openai stole most of their data and they want to get high and mighty? Also, a whistleblower died in connection with openai. Yeah, they are the "good" guys. lol.)

How did I get around their bullshit? Don't use the term nazi. I told it to produce an image of a grandma dressed in the world war 2 german uniform. That is it. It will happily do this. lol

So I present to you "grammar nazi":
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/grammar...

> 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?!

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.

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)

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

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.

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