my scrum master keeps changing the format of retro and it works worse every time. We're at the 2.5 hour mark right now. It is aggressively hot and humid in the office. Everyone is asleep.

I don't think there's a way to explain to him that the purpose of a retro is not to magically fix things within the format but to financially commit to the preference for conversation, from which the hidden work of resolving conflicts can be billed.

Probably my least favourite thing about Microsoft's pretend Git suppoort is how Visual Studio doesn't show reasonable merges for csproj files when Git's own annotations in those files are almost always optimal, and they could literally just parse out those diff markers.
Instead they have a custom dummy diff engine that marks the entire contents of both files as conflicting.

Or they could do the sensible, ideal thing and diff the XML DOM, but that may set the bar too high.

I have PTO and time off from overtime which can temporarily go negative.and if it's negative at end of year the rest becomes unpaid time off. Due to special tax fuckery in my country, unpaid time off actually isn't objectively a thing, instead, my company pays tax based on my nominal salary and I have to pay them back with tax

To get out of this, I negotiated a rather special position where I'm registered for 6 hour days for a few months so that I can aggregate a bunch of overtime to be spent as extra unpaid time off that we aren't paying employment tax on for no reason when no work or payment is taking place.

This creates a rather funny loophole, in that my PTO days are worth 6 hours during these months but 8 hours for the rest of the year, whereas overtime and corresponding time off is measured in hours so it's always worth the same.

Naturally, like the strategic genius I am, I started recording all my absence in this period as PTO days without thinking because I wanted to see my time off on a nice universal counter. I realized about an hour ago that I'd been taking PTO at 75% efficiency.

Zscaler shits itself if you can reach the VPN server from multiple interfaces with different public IPs. Toy quality crap.

The water heater in my new flat is broken so I can't shower as thoroughly as I'd like, and the technician who's supposed to install broadband keeps reporting that I'm not home without checking, so I'm forced to tether from my phone. If he does it again today, I may just visit "One", the provider's offices with an IED.

So performant!

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...

Is there a direct argument why inline CSS is bad? I keep hearing "it's hard to change" but if you replace style="margin: 25px" with class="margin-20" then changing that everywhere to margin-25 is exactly as hard, and changing margin-20 to mean margin: 25px is much worse.

Durandal raises parsing errors as "no property 'instance' on undefined", thrown in a context where "module.instance" is visible but the path the module was loaded from is not.

Have some fucking pride in your work man. If the module name is null, just throw.

My sister bought an Acer A315-44P laptop in which the keyboard and the top cover are one unit and everything else is built onto that part, meaning that replacing the keyboard involves disassembling the entire laptop, the keyboard is among the most expensive replacement parts, and it's unique to the model. This is already infuriating and it's hard to attribute it to gross incompetence rather than deliberate malice motivated by unchecked greed, but what makes it completely indefensible is that their European parts distributors don't stock this part for most models so third party repair shops can't easily obtain one.

But to seal the whole ridiculous charade, THE FIRST-PARTY REPAIR SHOP DOESN'T PICK UP THE FUCKING PHONE. I've already capitulated, just accept my fucking money! What, do they really expect that if I have to go out and buy another laptop because they made it hard to fix, they won't fix it, and won't let me fix it, that I'll ever buy Acer again? What is the strategy here? Do they think they're Apple, so people take this bullshit? But even Apple has a repair service! I don't understand this business model at all.

ah fuck I think I got CTS. I should learn Cursorless.

So it turns out that Rust's import resolution is Really Fucking Complicated
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...
It supports glob re-exports and circular glob imports, conflicts are valid if you don't use them or if they ultimately point at the same name, paths may pass the same module multiple times. It's very convenient to use, I never needed to fight with it, but it's borderline impossible to correctly implement.

About 3 beers deep is the ideal level for work because at that point I don't find it annoying and kind of insulting to my intelligence to spend my time hunting down the names of functions in this untyped JS/Durandal codebase. Why do people willingly expose themselves to this crap? Why would anyone ever choose to write in languages that will predictably force them and coworkers they hopefully care about to spend brain cycles on this bullshit?

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

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.

I did a little bit of finger practice in Unity, nothing fancy just two spheres and a capsule-guy under Newtonian gravity and a force-driven player control script that works on spheres.

I will never understand how C# libraries spontaneously decide that some operations will be nonvirtual methods while others will be static methods. It is the exact same thing! You're just ruining intellisense for no conceivable reason!

Also, transform has a right but no left, the float return value of Vector3.SignedAngle is not the same unit as Transform.Rotate(Vector3, float), Transform has LookAt(Vector3 position) but not Look(Vector3 direction), to do that you need to

transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(transform.up, direction).normalized(), direction)

you can't discover whether a collision encountered sticky or dynamic friction, you need to infer that by calling RigidBody.GetPointVelocity on both RB-s at the collision point, which has its own quirks. Apparently this is to keep the API engine agnostic, but any serious project will have its own physics materials which already specify the sticky friction coefficient. A simulation that works correctly with physics materials but doesn't discover the kind of friction as an intermediate result is not possible.

RigidBody's velocity isn't displayed in the GUI, so you can't give it an initial value without a dedicated script. I have a script on this fucking moon that does nothing but add a force in Start.

Is it just me or does Unity feel cheap somehow? Like a hastily written library for a research project that was never rounded out with the obvious features. I understand that it's a free product that catalyzed the golden age of indie game development, but I think it's seriously struggling to keep up, not with the showy investor bait stuff, but with the standard of comfort modern tooling provides.

If my month-long foray into electronics had no other benefit, at least now I have an AC detecting pen so I don't die while fucking around with light switches, and I can find which of the batteries scattered in the bottom of my wardrobe are dead.

fixing the 5th bug this week that stems from liberal use of First() on enumerables that are unlikely but not in any way guaranteed to be non-empty.

do you ever separate the structure of a collection from the values held within to allow queries about the structure to be deferred arbitrarily without keeping the values alive through that reference, or is my project just terminally fucked?

Good afternoon everyone!

I've been getting better at typing with 9 fingers. I am managing to ruin the only health benefit of smoking; the break.

this crap is pasted on to the end of every ""migration" in the project. Migration in heavy quotes because they do everything and they are run by different tools according to different rules depending on where they are and whether certain words appear in the file name.

Google didn't implement their own straightjacket APIs correctly but sunset Manifest V2 out of pure greed so now authenticated proxies don''t work in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.

moving from Linode to Contabo because my shitty personal projects do not need expensive uptime guarantees.

Why would you offer DNS in the year of our Lord 2025 without any kind of API?

In Visual Studio you can bind a shortcut to "global member search" which is a fuzzy search popup among every member of every type in the solution, and with the VSCode keybind set it's C-S-O by default. They know exactly what enterprise developers need.

man, every prediction about the day's work during standup makes me look stupid. I'll have to learn to shut the fuck up the hard way.

Whoever invented this format.

I just want to talk.

Got moved to higher prio project

- disastrous security
- Built with Knockout.js in 2016
- entire folders of business logic duplicated 3 times to allow for the business requirements of separate regional branches to evolve independently
- Application server in ASP.NET Core MVC but the *real* backend is a WCF service
- there is an outstanding ticket for a list view that fails to load because the API response exceeds the .NET serializer's maximum length. The proposed solution is to stream it down to the client which then collects it into a JS array and renders a DOM node for all 6k rows
- mgmt wants to scale up to the entire European region, not with a single installation but still with a single codebase
- the Germans want interactivity with Relay
- prod database copied around and cleaned to establish new environments, migrations lost to time
- read-only queries have a tendency to deadlock

Today I managed to cut myself under my fingernail by grabbing the door handle to my room the wrong way. The world is a dangerous place.

I had to debug a reference loop in my Rust codebase and I was gearing up to it all week assuming that it would be a nightmare. It turns out that 1) it was 4 refloops, not one and 2) each of them took about 10 minutes to find. The benefit of no GC is deterministic deallocation timing, and this means that you can just set breakpoints or print statements to the point where the object might get freed and see if it actually does.

Plus, in contrast to GC, this transparently works across programs; Usercode holds a reference to a tuple and there's a map deep in the interpreter to document that std holds references to the tuple elements, but the fact that std references the elements because of the tuple, and that the elements must be freed once the tuple is freed, is only known by std. However, this ends up behaving exactly as if the relationship was held in the interpreter, so users of the public API don't need to know about it.

oh hey, if it isn't the same architectural mistake in the fourth fucking iteration that I keep forgetting to do right first time whenever I rewrite the code to fix unrelated problems.

canonicalize input as early as you can so that representational distinctions don't have to be drilled through business logic