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Did something happened to skyRant?
A weird toast notification appeared, and now nothing loads and the message no network appears (I do have network, in case you were wondering).9 -
Had bad depression on Friday and Saturday. Really really really bad. Like planning stupid shit bad. Stupid shit in my life. Whatever...
So my friend says he doesn't feel well unless he uses St. Johns Wort. I used to use it 10 years ago, but kind of forgot about it. It did help. Well now I use risperidone to manage depression with bipolar. I got some wort and took it sunday. Huge difference in 3 hours. Way TOO high response. I already posted about this before.
Today I go see Dr to check if this is okay. I told him I don't want to stop. It seems to have leveled out. He said risperidone with wort can produce mania. However, he said reduce amount of wort to 1 every other day. So it won't have as high of peaks. Cool cool. A solution that doesn't cost an arm and leg. Also a doctor who listens. We had a lot to talk about. I would golf with him if I knew how to golf. Yes, he is that cool.
He told me a funny thing last time I was there. He said you are old enough to need a prostate check, but they do them chemically now. Then he says, but for $20 we can work something else out. Anyway, I like him.
I also noticed before this that caffeine wasn't doing shit for me anymore. But today I had a low kick espresso coffee (1 cup). Wort + risperidone + caffeine is different world now. So I gotta be careful of caffeine now too.
For a long time I was so depressed and didn't realize it. I was hoping I wouldn't wake up in the morning. I don't know how I got to this point. I have great things going for me. So I am making lists of warning signs I experienced when I was very low. Probably going to get some counseling too.
I knew I needed to improve things on some level, but no motivation to do so before this week. I bought a treadmill intending to connect it to my computer and control it. Treadmill has been sitting in a room at my house since january untouched. I keep buying electronics and never setting them up. I don't even know if they work. Just stupid shit like that.
If you are in the shit, then talk to someone. If you don't know you are in the shit then ask someone. If you have to shit all the time you are probably @b2plane.
Seriously people. You are worth the trouble of finding out how to fix your shit.
Anyway ManicOne out.9 -
How do I make money through humor?
I am getting better at amusing myself.
For instance. I get take and bake pizza from Papa Murphys. The pizza says to cook at 425 or 450. I always cook it at 420 at what I have determined to be "perfect" times. So a Papa Murphys pepperoni is to be cooked for 11 minutes at 420 F. Literal perfection with not too dark crust, and not too light. All my homies says it great.7 -
Recruiter finally got back to me, and guess what now they can't do tomorrow, the one day I don't (normally) have client work, but instead they want to do friday. It's not even the office I'd be working at, this one is 3 hours away by train. Sigh what a week, PC is half on the fritz as well. Head honcho is gone so Mr Small PP is being whiny. Ugh.
https://youtube.com/watch/...1 -
looking at jobs I don't have the brains for this anymore I think
that's so sad
I wonder if I do obsessive cardio could I outdo all the "multiple sclerosis" lesions -.-
can't code my way out of a fucking paper bag
had some dude add me on LinkedIn that looks impressive and he's connected to some people I worked with who were impressed with my code before... so years later they must've been still talking about me. but I'm a shadow of my former self if I could even qualify as a fucking shadow. I'm so embarrassed to even be existing that's my level of depression on the matter4 -
Why cellphone is like a Tamagotchi nowadays?
*BlimBlom* please notice me!
At one random time a lady voice said in my pocket: "GPS signal lost."
What is going on, my dear Tamagotchi?10 -
!rant && coolThing
Today, I fully parallelized my evolution algorithm.
That means that since Thursday of last week, even though I took yesterday off, I was able to learn about metaheuristics, implement three of them (one being my own awful invention that did not perform) and successfully parallelize them.
Feeling good, man.2 -
Been looking into my health issues. Seems I might have liver toxicity or some shit caused by a medication I take. Was looking at what liver toxicity would appear as in symptoms. I think I have a few of those. So I will be getting with my doctor about this. On one page it said acetaminophen could cause liver toxicity as well. I don't take that, but the: "When to see a doctor" had interesting criteria:
- Loss of appetite.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Pain in the upper stomach area.
- Coma.
The first 3 seem reasonable, but the "Coma" symptom is sketchy AF. Like who is going to see their doctor about a coma? lol /s (in case it isn't obvious, for the autists)25 -
Just finished the code tests. I swear all of them could have just been regex. The first 2 I know can be because I did.
The last one was pattern matching in an array of strings (think battleships)
I actually fucked up the second test because I decided that they probably want code instead of regex...8 -
JoyRant build 43
You can now see who upvoted your comment.
This works by getting the info from the notifications list so it will not work for old upvotes which aren’t in the notif list anymore.
Forgot to also add this for rants. Will add later.
Complete list of changes:
* notifications from all tabs load at once
* info button about who upvoted my comment
* comments counter for own rants
* no reply button for own comments
* ignore users locally (added in build 42)7 -
I waited so long to brag about this fact: I finish whatever project I start. No matter how bored I get, I never abandon it midway or get sidetracked into some shiny new gig. I was gloating and jubilating this evening cos I can beat my hands against my chest after months and months at a stretch. Held a little party on my WhatsApp status haha7
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Been practising for the codility test, thinking maybe only the first couple training tests are shitty non-programming math/compsi problems written in code. Haven't even done the test yet, and I'm already tempted to message the recruiter back that I'm no longer interested, since if this is how they test their devs I doubt they're getting the best. I'll still do it since it's the weekend, but I guarantee I can get AI to generate the most "efficient" aka the exact and only solution they want.
The first orange flag was the fact that the HR lady didn't know much about recent tech...
https://devrant.com/rants/19112918/...6 -
Holy fucking crap, think I actually got some productive, positive output from this whole generative AI debacle.
Rather because I skipped the whole Prompt step and used FOMO blabber against itself.
Some context: at my last gig we had a whole "humanware procurement department" (A.K.A. "hiring managers", those fucks who think that javascript and java are the same thing). It was during the pandemic tech hiring boom. At this new joint I'm at, a MUCH smaller company, I gotta do it myself. Boring as fuck but at least I can get some good karma by not making an ass of myself for candidates, and trying to make this whole process a tad less abusive.
I got my reading up to date, and surprisingly enough, "yankee dandy" (HBR) has actually been saying one or two things that are not complete hogwash. For a start, they say that companies have been making their hiring processes overly complex and even after hours of interviews they hardly measure half the skills they actually need, and spend too long talking about many skills that are not actually required for the positions.
"Huh. That sounds like the inneficiencies that the stupid 'AI will make meetings more efficient' industry is overpromising to overturn"
So I tried a new thing. Instead of your off-the-shelf "solve this NP-Hard problem in O(1) then draw this bird using only your nose then invert a binary tree in COBOL then tell me what type of sitcom character are you" crap, I tried grasping how it would be like to work with the candidates. One at a time. Not too long, but not too short talks. I'm not trying to check if a kid really knows how to implement a solution for the TSP in apache spark, or if they know every cipher in TLS 1.3. I just want to know if they can understand a technical request and come to me with a plan on how to solve it without handholding or "just use a really big VM, like, 32Tb of RAM!"
Thus, if I can work with them. That's all. The rest are specific skills that can be trained in time, if the person is willing to learn new stuff.
But that is not good enough for HR, ooooh, no. You "need" an "objective way of measuring their skills", otherwise its "just biased opinions."
But that gave me an idea.
See, our HR VP is someone deep in the whole AI pyramid scheme, who drank the kool-aid and swallowed up even the cup. FOMO is their name. Hype is their business.
I posh'd up my bullshit'ish jargon and went whole "In the advent of new disruptive technologies, strategic skills can be acquired with grit and proper AI prompting. Thus, leveraging our collaborative intelligence capabilities we can hack our challenges and optimize our resources to offer more innovative opportunities and bolster our employer branding" - translation: "shut up and lemme hire someone good and reasonably priced instead of a sleazy smooth talker who wants 100M just to show up and play with chatgpt all day". The whole point is to make it sound like "we're using AI, so it's good" instead of "im doing the work I'm being paid for, so it's old-fashioned"
It seems like the HR troll swallowed it, bait and hook. Maybe all we really needed this whole time is to say the magic word "AI," especially if it makes absolutely no sense in the context. Now I want to get them to sign off on a "AI mindfulness bolstering platform" (a massage chair). Fingers crossed.4 -
I was an intern when I joined here 10 years ago... now looking to start-up (related to gaming) - wondering if you guys would love to provide some feedback!
Currently, we're less than a month away from launching closed beta - the survey responses showed 78% positive response.
Would appreciate a look here
https://tally.so/r/wAgvLN10 -
TL;DR: I'm reading papers and doing computer science like I could never afford to in college.
I am beginning my scientific arc.
Over the past few days, I have been working on implementing my own Evolutionary Algorithms
I've been doing a combination of "experimentation" and (probably less than I should,) actual research.
My Mark 1 was just a proof of concept that set up the data structures correctly, Mark 2 generalized the data structures and actually implemented some natural selection, but this was really just made up by me so I'm only getting mediocre results.
Next step: I have two papers lined up to read on EAs. Mark 3 might not implement them exactly, but I hope to beat the performance of Mark 2.
I'm encouraged by the fact that these research papers have TONS of different things they tried, and I'm really only on my first prototype (since Mark 1 didn't have any selection implementation, only randomness)
Follow along if interested:
https://github.com/AlgoRythm-Dylan/...13 -
Thank you, appstore, for showing me an ad for the app that I was searching for, right above the search result for this app! 🤦♂️6
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I have nobody to share this so I will inflict myself on you guys.
I genuinelly laughted out loud from reading the Hot Potato Licence
https://github.com/ErikMcClure/...6 -
I really hate working on work that require constant reporting and decision making: I don't understand how people are olay with work like that. let me present 2 cases : for context we are working on a complete ui revamp of our app.
case 1 Screen A ui revamp.
task : change screen A ui as per new figma
me : evaluates, give estimates, make new screen by changing ui wherever applicable , adding logics for new screen wherever applicable , and removing old logics whichever not mentioned in figma. finishes a task in standard timelines
Engg lead : NO!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! WHY DIDN'T YOU ADDED THE OLD CHANGES/MENTIONED THEM TO ME! YOU ARE THE WORST DEV IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
case 2 : Screen B ui revamp
new eng trainee
- starts on screen
- ask doubts on how to make new ui box 1 on day 1
- ask doubts on how to make new ui box 2 on day 2
...
- ask doubt on whether to keep feature 1 form old ui on day 11
- aks the logic for showing box 3 on day 15
...
Engg Lead : UwU MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD. YOU ARE THE POWERHOUSE OF NEXT GEN. HERE TAKE THIS QUARTERLY AWARD AND THE KEY TO MY ****
wtf? i mean yeah i should ask questions if 9/10 changes are covered in the ticket and 1 festure is missed, but if you are asking for 2 changes and not putting 10 changes, why would i bother asking about the other 8? Its like asking for an apple from a farmer and then scolding him for not coming up with "5 sacks of green diced and cutted and packed in platic containers ready to be shipped" when he comes back with a single apple in hand. ASK FOR THE CORRECT THING!!2 -
Spent 36 caffeine-fueled hours birthing “Ella Effortless Learning & Lookup Assistant,” an AI know-it-all that trawls old Slack threads, spits out instant answers, and even pings #faq when it’s not sure so the humans can bail it out. In theory she keeps learning and someday replaces the intern we never hired.
Reality check: the judges were not impressed, my team walked away trophy-less, and my ego’s on life-support. So here’s the repo (brace yourself for last-minute Canva slide-vomit, and more buzzwords than a VC pitch):
https://github.com/ishank-dev/...4 -
Microsoft just announced that screenshots will become one of "Pro" "AI features" (why does it need ai?) as Windows transitions to a subscription model.16
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Happy Monday fellas. I'm gonna be pretty grumpy tomorrow morning because:
- Tonight's TO-DO list is writing unit tests and getting past a blocker to my project which I have been avoiding. Unit tests cause depression.
- After a recent bout of depression, I started smoking more weed than I was comfortable with and tonight starts my temporary sobriety. Withdrawal from THC causes more depression.
Wish me some God damned luck bros.13 -
I fully expect to be roasted here, but I, for one, welcome our new vibe coding AI overlords.
I've never been good at coding for one major reason: I cannot commit to memory or manage to effectively use enormous sets of commands, principles, techniques, frameworks, etc., that are often required for this work. I've always been a huge source of frustration for team members who have that innate ability, in that I slow them down, make lots of mistakes, and generally don't know what I'm doing in the context of everything available to me to use. Especially in comparison to them. The only good ability I seem to have is picking through code others wrote, updating it, debugging it, and generally comparing it to best practices to either ask them to fix it or figure out a way to get it done myself. But it takes me a long time, and it's super frustrating.
"Vibe coding" has been world-changing for me in that regard. I know. It's not "pure coding". I know. It's "stealing our jobs". I know. "It's making us all dumb and dependent".
I don't care. I'm trading that for FINALLY being able to realize the vision of all the projects my right brain WANTED to do for so long, but that I never tried because I knew my limited left brain couldn't manage it. I knew the UI and the requirements, but I just couldn't get started. Or, if I got started, I couldn't figure out what to do next. I knew how to explain it, but it would take me many more hours than necessary to write the first working class and functions.
I'm in this to make money. I'll leave the "coding poetry" to the purists. I need an MVP, then a v1, then a v10+ as soon as I can possibly get them done, so then I can get the software to market before some other competitor.
If that makes me some kind of terrible person or shit coder who's "ruining everything" (really?), so be it. I'm due to retire in the next 5-7 years. If I can make that happen earlier with more sold software, all the better.52 -
Today’s kiki dream was so pleasant that it still lingers inside my rib cage and heals my heart with its warmth
Maybe this is what you get when you quit your job3 -
Week: 100 (Year 2 )
100th week. 200th rant
I am so happy. This is a special week for me. Not only did my company lose the client I have been working on, but also the company is pushing me to do the night shift without any benefits for a new project.
How is your weekend going?
Question: How do you politely tell HR that you don't want to be a slave and work the night shift without saying it directly?
last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/1896785612