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AboutProfessional Programmer
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SkillsC++, Python I program other languages on occasion. Well versed in process control and realtime systems. Experience with electronics/electrical design. I am interested in game programming and design. Making things move is fun.
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LocationEarth (most of the time)
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Joined devRant on 7/29/2019
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So apparantly Cyberpunk 2077 runs on the Switch 2. What fuckery did Nvidia do to make that happen?!??!4
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No no, this is too funny to be downvoted out of "the public eye" I think everybody should see this xD xD xD
(Content Warning tho)
https://devrant.com/rants/14394461/...24 -
We got a new marketing guy... Number 5 in 4 years. My colleague and I are betting if he will last half a year or not :D3
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Some people are the reasons that some company banned "remote-working", I am here thinking that "bro, don't abuse it, the last thing I expect is we all work onsite"3
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I'm slowly but surely make my KDE Debian's UX better than what I was familiar with on macOS. It's already _way_ faster.
When I'll get UX done, I'll get to UI -- all kinds of beautification
pro tip: AI is VERY good at configuring linux for you4 -
knew it.
https://vxtwitter.com/Anc_Aesthetic...
can't Google anything now. like even tech stuff is crap. the AIs are a better Google search now2 -
So im a frontend developer. Yet i get an issue on my plate regarding a 504 error. Maybe i should ask whst css file this is part of. My god im looking into this for over an hour now…9
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Is Mobile Application development still trending? Why are you not using cloud based platforms Why do you have to download the APKs and keep bursting your storage ?, by using it, you get an instant preview of your app in the browser.I wanna know the reality! But instead you go for cheaposss like diawi, Like whyyy ? ?????9
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Thought experiment (and I promise there are no plot twists and no metaphors -- it won't turn out that I was talking about tiktok/apple/censorship):
Imagine there is a cosmic horror entity that can annihilate us in an instant. It lives at the bottom of a pit. We as a species are being constantly sucked into that pit -- in this fictional universe, it's the natural order of life. The pit devoured many before us, and we're next. The pit is not conscious -- it's just a force that exists, and like a black hole, it can do nothing but attract things around it just to devour them. It has no choice -- it destroys things passively. It never changes the way it destroys things.
We know we should've been already done for long ago, yet we are still alive. We know that at this scale, it wasn't because of something WE did or didn't do.
It can only mean one thing: a very powerful entity consciously keeps us alive.
Can this entity be called "god"? If yes, why? If no, why?
Choosing either way tells nothing about you and your religious beliefs -- the universe is pure fiction, and known gods/religions don't work there. All I need from you is raw thought process.12 -
Why do people who put camera's on always insist others must do so as well? I don't mind when it's a special meeting like a retro or some form of team building thing, but I cannot be assed during standup - that MFer is meant to be over after 10 minutes. You guys go on an hour-long tangent, while I'm busy writing code, chatting to people and getting shit done, do you really need to see me not paying attention to the issues with the PHP project that are there because client X did something stupid. I'm already rolling my eyes while listening right now. Also, I don't want to put a "good" shirt on for 20 minutes to an hour meeting.19
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Stack Overflow has the best April fools prank!
They are doing an 8+ hour database migration on a business day during business hours!
The prank is the fact that it’s not a joke! They really decided this for some reason!4 -
I have to go through so much bullshit with the architecture invented by people with no technical skills… It went from invented problems to real problems very quickly.3
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if you make a PR, do you sometimes just fix the minor error yourself and push it and then approve it?
for example: like a typo in a variable or a wrong translation11 -
Yesterday I left an open bag of fried chicken flavourd chips in the office. This morning the entire office smelled like Colonel Sanders had paid a visit.13
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> A world government dictatorship is due to sit atop a massive global structure of control and 24/7 enslavement and most of its major pillars are included in something called Agenda 21 (since updated to Agenda 2030) which is interweaved with themes of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘biodiversity’ and justified by ‘climate change’.
even the cheesy bond villains are late on their projects, don't you see!5 -
Cars 1 was NOT released 19 years ago. No, it just wasn't. Fuck you, it wasnt. I dont care about your facts. It's all fake. You're litearlly just lying. No it cannot have come out 19 years ago. It just couldn't have, thats way to long ago. You're just weird. Calenders are just wrong11
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You know what sucks? When AI appears smart but its explaination is so over your head you don't even fully grasp if it is bullshitting or not.
For reference, what the following does is decomposes several runs of a network, takes them as samples, then generates a distribution with those samples. It then applies a fourier transform on the samples, to get the frequency components of the networks derivatives (first and second order), in order to find winning subnetworks to tune, and enforces a gaussian distribution in the process.
I sort of understand that, but the rest is basically rocket science to me.
Starts with an explanation of basic neural nets and goes from there. Most of the meat of the discussion is at the bottom.
https://pastebin.com/DLqe70uD3 -
Usually I come here to share rants/negativity but this time I wanna share an happy moment I had yesterday as a programmer.
In lots of instances I struggled to work on personal projects: I feel the desire to code cool stuff but I've often self-sabotaged myself by doing stuff like:
- self-enforcing "one man agile methodologies" with tasks, issue boards and lately time tracking
- forcing myself to do long study/research periods about the language/technologies I wanna use before writing the first line of code (and when I was able to actually end my research and get to code most of the stuff I researched was forgotten since cramming information is not effective on the long run)
- forcing myself to stick with all the "best practices" under the sun and to setup countless tools (linters, CI, unit testing...) before even getting a working POC
Usually all these stupid self imposed rules ended up in me procrastinating or pushing trough stuff struggling with headache after headache when coding actually used to feel a mostly fun pursuit to me.
Took lots of time to recognize this monster I created into my head but finally yesterday I did and I gave myself permission to:
- Start programming with just the very basics of the language (while reading a book on said language on the side at a relaxed pace, I can always come back later to improve my code as I learn more)
- Add stuff (unit testing, complex frameworks, CI/CD...) only when I need it
- Do a very basic planning (like a text files listing "must have" features and "nice to have features") and avoid issue boards and stuff, I'm working on a hobby project not on a company or a big OSS projects
It's been so long since the last time I had a programming session where I spent most time actually writing code and not researching and overthinking stuff and it felt great. -
Got this message from my CEO: "When are we going to have a perfect working version? 100% sure without bugs? "
How do I even respond to this? "We are wondering the same"?
(for context, he requested an early alpha build of a certain feature)10