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AboutMy name is Felix, I genuinely hated my life and programming was my coping mechanism. Now I've stopped hating my life and programming has become my job. Things are going uphill. Least insane person in the company I work at. (Probably a lie)
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SkillsJavaScript/Node, Typescript, C, C#, T-SQL. I like snakes, but fuck python. Digital Logic as well, kind of... My other skills are writing shitty steam reviews and skillfully hiding the hentai games on my desktop. No risk no fun.
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LocationNear Minden, Germany
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Joined devRant on 11/11/2019
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I hate Vim and trying to install plugins or just do anything in general beyond basic usage so I’ve instead installed the vim plugin for vscode.
Actually FUCK managing dotfiles and dotfolders the size of programs themselves just to get a language server connected.
Vim stans can suck my dick2 -
In my EOY performance review/summary, I told I would only receive (along with everyone else) the standard cost-of-living increase of 3%. I'm OK with that, with my tenure/seniority, 3% is a good bump, but I had to make a comment.
Me: "With Biden's inflation between 7% and 10%, its actually a pay cut, right?"
Boss: "Yea, I know."
Me: "Our insurance went up around 5% and they cut some of the benefits, so that's a little more of a pay cut, right?"
Boss: "I know that too. With the economy and cuts to margins, there won't be any profit sharing this year. We have a hiring freeze for the foreseeable future."
Me: "Recruiters have been offering sweet work-from-home compensation packages, what's the likelihood that these young guys will move to greener pastures?"
Boss: "Hard to say. I think the ones that wanted to quit already have. Company already gave a generous industry level-up pay adjustment back in November. Those guys are all single and the 3% is icing on the cake. I don't think 3% will look very good next year."
Me: "Agreed. Looking forward to a wonderful year"
Boss: "Yea, sure.. smart ass."1 -
I have a new UNTRAINED bot on my site. It's based on openai now. And that's why it's blazing fast and blazing usless.
I can tell you why bots are so boring and will sure cause the dead internet theory. My datasets for example never contain real disturbing stuff ACCORDING TO NORMAL PEOPLE. EVERY TIME:
"The job failed due to an invalid training file. This training file was blocked by our moderation system because it contains too many examples that violate OpenAI's usage policies, or because it attempts to create model outputs that violate OpenAI's usage policies."
Now i'm really done. I gonna email them about their unusable training system.
In theory, i could test the message one by one if it is bad first. Don't want to do or pay for that. There should be an option to skip the data it considers disturbing instead of cancelling a whole data set for 0.1%. You also don't want to know how long it takes BEFORE he is finished validating you set. I think someone is doing it manually and clicks 'Uh uh..'-button..
Also, for the people who think they have gpt4o by having the API, you're lied to. The 'own gpt'-option on the paid openai is way more advanced than the ones you make locally.
They don't give us the real good stuff!
Oh, btw! The input data for my training is based on FORMER conversations with the bot. I automated a script to repeat a conversation I had and selected those messages and clicked 'train'. So it even complained about its OWN data! That data was already saying stuff like 'I can't help you with that' IN my training data. So, you 'corrected' and corrupted my data and now its still nog good enough for round 2?
I would really love to go back to local LLM's, but I can't imagine having ever a machine that generates as fast as the real GPT does. I also prefer to do it myself, but it's David vs. Goliath, even with a 5k computer. I'm sure.
Low quality rant, I know. I'm typing while still frustrated. For people who think censorship is needed often, this is the result! According to someone else, YOU are the one who has to be censored. Don't forget that.10 -
I inherited a nextjs project from an unknown guy and am fangirling the codebase
But the deeper I familiarise myself with it, the more the cracks begin to appear:
1) The dude Is incapable of grasping the basics of DRY concept. He actually setup a ton of stuff I may have done poorly if I'd started working straight out of the docs, so I feel like I owe him a shower of praise. I guess being new to nextjs makes it look more impressive than it actually is. He was paid off, yet getting the credit seems unearned to me. I'm just afraid reaching out to him might turn around to bite me in the ass
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I had the above in my drafts, contemplating sending him a token to show some appreciation for unknowingly showing me the ropes. I was going to find him on LinkedIn using his commit names. But after doing everything I've done, undergoing the anxiety and severe pressure I faced at the hands of the project owners, I'm not sharing a farthing with anybody
Yes, I may not have known about zustand and persist middleware. Yes, he did all the ui. Yes, he created the base components and fancy wrappers around form and button html elements. For those, I'm grateful
But the amount of refactoring I had to do to, for an opportunity to implement my own target features, I'd say I can lay as much claim to the project as he does.
Side note #1: I have some newfound respect for front end devs. We used to discriminate against them for doing just css but that was only relevant in the jquery days. Now, they have to use cryptic css frameworks (sass, less, tailwind), they have to learn esoteric syntax of some js framework and write controllers/components as the case may be. They have to (the worst part), bind this data to an API, which would never make sense to me coming from a php ssr-natural world
Back rewarding the guy, some of the challenges I came back from were:
1) Next server outages: I still don't know the workaround this. The app terminates, browser giving an error about using up memory. I have to wait for about 10 minutes before I can access the app again
2) spring Webflux authentication not hydrating: I was unexpectedly asked to work on the back end too, where I got tortured with this horrifying condition. The most poorly documented framework for the Web has no upto date guide on how to implement jwt security measures. I opened a question on stackoverflow. A day later, both my question and the helpful answer got downvoted
3) Zustand not retrieving any data from localstorage once page reloads, until I miraculously stumbled on a hack: there's a config callback for reading state after rehydration or thereabout. So I interact with the state there. That's the only way content clearly in localstorage can get transmuted into dynamic format accessible by the code
4) Mongo database suddenly disconnecting: for no apparent reason, this bailed. Accessible on compass. This was even when I realised it was responsible for front end requests not going through. Eventually created a new database and requests surprisingly began connecting again. Thankfully, my laravel background taught me about seeders so I had them on standby from the onset. Wasn't difficult to just port to a fresh database after confirming the first one was inaccessible to the app
After this painful odyssey and the time constraints, threats of moving forward with someone else, I deserve every dime they deem me worthy of and more3 -
Oh man, you guys get two rants for the price of one tonight.
DEVRANT IS RUNNING REALLY FUCKING SLOW. I know the platform has been 5.999999 feet under for about 4 years now, but it's starting to get reallllly grim.
Also: single wick candles always fucking tunnel. My girlfriend is trying to say I use them wrong. I do not. I burn them for long periods of time and they still have a huge fucking coating of wax on the outside. My triple wick candle is perfect. Burns to a nice puddle of liquid wax on the top every single time. Can we get SOMEONE working on fixing this?????3 -
Week : 69 ( Year 1 )
How is the weekend going?
As we approach the final weekend of the year, let's make it count! How do you plan to spend it?
Resolutions for next week maybe?
Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11708341
Previous Year - last weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/100651086 -
The Copilot logo is ugly as sin and the Copilot key glyph on new computer keyboards gives me cancer.3
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Mandatory winter break means mandatory.
Getting PR requests from a team mate during company wide holiday PTO. Asked him wtf he was doing, manager told him he had to work.
NOT the managers call! This is going to HR on the 2nd13 -
There’s a guy at work I hate so much. He doesn’t know when a problem shouldn’t exist, he never checks to see if there is a better more maintainable and efficient way to solve a problem, lacks attention to detail, has the attention span of a goldfish, writes shitty overly complicated code, fuuuck
If you talked to this guy in person, you’d think he’s a genius who has it all figured out, but he’s just a professional bullshitter14 -
Hey all, not sure what the mod rules are around this but.. I'd love some feedback on my project..
This project, I call it Thingtime, is my life's work..
It's a GUI for web development with a direct connection to HTML, CSS and JavaScript using React and Chakra UI..
It's like writing code and adding it to a runtime while being in that runtime, and that runtime is powering itself..
So, it aims to fully elliminate the gap between code editors and the end result.. I jokingly refer to it as code-no-code.
Anyway, it's a long 13 minute video which goes over the basics to a pretty cool demo..
I'm trying to work out what direction to take with the platform and idea.. private investment, shares, crowdfunding.. etc..
So I was hoping for some input from some fellow 9000 IQ devrant degenerates..
Here's the vid !!! 🥰
https://youtube.com/watch/...
Lopu 🌈💖✨♾️✨💖🦄19 -
Tons of Rust crate documentation assumes you already know in-depth how the crate works. I don't want to read the source code and understand the entire crate... that's why I'm reading the damn documentation.54
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Been nearly 3 years since I last posted on DevRant, a lot has changed, but users are still usering….2
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To all of you… PLEASE get into the DIY electronics hobby. Learn how to solder. Learn how to 3D-print. Learn basic circuit design.
The monopoly on electronics production know-how can and will be used as a mechanism of oppression. We the people should be able to rebuild the modern world from scratch out of salvaged components if need be, independent of centralized institutions.3 -
*Reading a bug report's summary*
'Object x is displayed incorrectly when playing on PC in resolution 1024x768 or Android tablets w/ 4:3 Aspect Ratio'
*facepalms*
You, sir, are failing at basic math && basic logic, among other things.
1024x768 _has_ an Aspect Ratio of 4:3.
If only you had bothered checking, you would've know that the issue is purely related to the Aspect Ratio && !just that one resolution.7 -
Low voltage: I flow in conductors and don't flow in isolators.
High voltage: ᴡ̢͕̲͋̀͝ʜ̺̪͍̲̒͌͝ᴇ̫͕̼̲̓͑́ʀ͍̝͎̲͛̐͝ᴇ̳͉̪̲͑͠ ɪ̟̠̼̲͑͆̚s͓̼͉̲͊͋̐ ᴛ͔̟̲̔͊͘ʜ̠͎̲͛͑̓ᴇ͕̞͖̲̈́̀̕ ғ̡͓̝̲͐͘ᴜ̺͍͉̲̐̈́ᴄ͖̞̺̲̓̕̕ᴋ̢͓̘̲͋̚ɪ̟͚̲͑͒̾͜ɴ̳̺̠̲̓͐͘ɢ̠͎̝̲̈́͊̕ ᴡ͔̦͔̲͆͐͘ɪ̟̪̟̲̽͝͝ʀ̝̪̻̲̈́͊̐ᴇ̺̳̲͊̈́̕͜5 -
Is devRant Losing Its Spark?
Hey ranters,
Anyone else notice how quiet devRant has become? Back in 2016-2017, this place was buzzing with energy, but now it’s down to just 10-12 rants a week. What happened? Did competition from platforms like Reddit or Discord take over, or did devRant stop evolving?
I still believe this platform has huge potential—developers will always need a space to vent and connect. But without fresh ideas or a clear roadmap, it feels like devRant is fading.
To the creators: what’s the plan? To the community: do you feel the same? Let’s discuss!
A concerned dev.58 -
Now's the last minute at current company. Very mixed feelings about leaving. Working with the people there was such an amazing experience and the working conditions there were amazing. But I decided to move on because the pay was absolutely shit and the work itself was like making me feel burnt out. Its not like that I'm overworked. Its like no challange and my own expertise is not valued at all. Everything I work on is constantly held back by every minute thing so that I finish it months later than actually planned. I feel kinda bittersweet. And finishing off with a blast kinda makes it even worse to leave. As for the last day before christmas there is a big happy hour with a lot of free food and alcohol. Talking to all the ppl I've worked with over the years makes me wish it would not be like this. I already miss them. Its like having to say goodbye to a good friend. I guess I'll stop. It will only make it worse.1
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This is lead acetate. It looks like sugar and tastes like sugar, yet it’s as toxic as lead.
Have a good day!17 -
Have @dfox and @trogus abandoned devrant? The credit card that they've set for billing will expire/foreclose and one day devrant will just go down.
Does anyone have a backup of all rants and comments? Do we have any backup meeting place (bot free)?30