A small win:

I got my first onsite next week! A lot I need to brush up on between now and then, but I'm excited about the company and they seem to be excited about me.

Windows you fucking clown OS, leave my desktop icons the fuck alone! I put them where they are for a reason, not for you to go and vomit on my preference settings and mess everything up again!
Is there a single human dev left at Microsoft or is it completely taken over by AI slop now?

THE FRENCH WERE RIGHT IN CUTTING THE KING HEAD AND WE SHOULD ALL DO THE SAME TO YOUR PRIME MINISTER / PRESIDENT / KING / EMPEROR OR WHATEVER ITS CALLED

GENERAL HEADCUTTING DAY.

SPREAD THE WORD

What kind of operating system takes 11 minutes to start and then requires yet another reboot in order to work properly?

Sticky scroll, worst shit I've ever seen.

How long do you think it would take for YOU PERSONALLY (you cannot be told or informed by any other person) that light has begun to move at the speed of sound (So, everything else remains the same, but things farther away will be delayed visually. You also see things at the same rate that you hear them, so a firework 10 miles in the distance would have the visual explosion and the sound at the exact same time)

Oh, and, this is ONLY a visual effect. The internet slowing to a crawl because suddenly light is lagging would make it too obvious.

Is it just me or is typeorm broken as fuck. I am trying to save an object that is nested a few layers deep. It has all the options. Delete on cascade. Orphan. But it is just not working. It doesn't add new items.

Fuck, I am in no fucking mood today. I am feeling like punching a hole through my wall. And I already spend hours on a fucking piece of shit software that does not do what it promises.

It's always like this.. I read the documentation. It is supposed to do it. Now what? Work around it? Write tons of logic? Dive into the library code? That's fucking bullshit... In the end, if a library doesn't work, you're fucked. You just signed up for days of work if you have to fix it.

Fine... I'll take a fucking look. Who needs sleep anyway

I'm building a WAF and I'm trying to gather most vulnerable exploits, based on your experience what are the protocols that are forgotten by web admins to catch...

update: oh boy, spent the whole day in the hospital - bronchopathy. They did some exams and you know that propylene glycol thingy vape liquids use to produce all that vapor? It seems that while that shit's safe to eat, your lungs can't digest it, obviously. Therefore I am now stuck puking that shit out the next couple of weeks. Don't touch ANY sort of vape, friends

"Our site works better in the app," they claim. But I can't magnify text in their app, can't zoom into images and can't select and copy text?

Your site only works better in the app, because you make your developers restrict the web app on purpose to deceive and effectively force your users to use a native app for no other reason than to collect more data and push unsolicited spam notifications into their face more easily.

society seems to just keep telling me I don't deserve to live

sigh

I've vented to a few friends about the bad interviews I've had. They've been bad mostly because I'm not amazing at Leetcode style questions and the pressure of an interview. I saw some of these friends last night and they all said the same thing:

"You have to have the 'f*** you, if you're going to ask me these type of questions I don't want to work for you anyways' mentality."

I haven't even thought of it that way, but I think that's because in the Bay Area that's just the name of the game. Every random company and their mom is asking you these brain twisters, and to cut out all companies that do it would mean cutting out like 95% of the market.

I have been pretty lucky that the last few companies I have worked at have been very chill / light on the Leetcode style questions, but I don't think I'll get that lucky again.

Anyways, I wish I could just not care about a bad interview and just do the whole "yeah f you guys" mentality, but that's just not who I am. I wish I could turn that on, but I know I do care about some of these companies and want it to work out.

I have completely dismantled and readembled my.devplace, basically revamped for game development, refactored so I don't need an anti vomit pill to work on it. So it can be a desert of another purpose, I might transform it to a Movie watching site next week who knows

Test now your devRant knowledge! it's a game about who said what to who or said what in general. It's way better than the previous quiz.

https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.quiz2...

This quiz is very realistic and doable. You don't have to do it at once, the progress is remembered.

I tried to keep especially controversional stuff in it. It must be a bit funny of course.

No matter religion, skin color, feet size, hair color, genre, what united us all is taking a good shit after 3 cups of tea and holding it through the day.

I give up on giving dr-mentions Windows support.
The code itself works with no modification needed, but I just couldn't find a way to make it automatically run in the background at login.

Wasted multiple hours on figuring out how the Task Scheduler works and what's the XML format for making an importable task that can be put in the installer, almost works, but couldn't find a way to make it run under an arbitrary user WITHOUT admin permissions(for example, if I want to put it on a work computer on which you wouldn't have an administrator account), fine, gave up on it, only admin user it is.

Another(more serious problem) is that it opens up a fucking empty CMD window while the task is running instead of running in the background, and if you close the window it also stops the script. Wasted another multiple hours trying to figure out how to make the thing run without having an annoying CMD window being constantly open on your desktop, gave up.

If you wanna use it on Windows, just run it through Python directly, or put a shortcut for it in your user's 'Startup\' folder.

I just had a really great conversation with a Co-CEO of a startup, and I've never seen someone's eyes light up like this before. As soon as I asked:

"How did you see the need for (company name)?"

They spent a good 20 minutes talking about it and how they got there. Sometimes people force a square peg into a circle hole, but this person really sees and feels the need for the product. Very refreshing.

GUYS THE WOKE DID IT AGAIN

https://phoronix.com/news/...

Help me out, am I right wing or left wing?

- I am okay with closed borders and throwing people out who are here illegally.
- I am even okay with open borders and letting everyone in who wants to come.
- I am not okay with dozens over dozens of ways of staying in a country and becoming a citizen after arriving illegally which are just a backdoors, so that we can still claim that we don't have open borders while they are defacto open.

What is this preemptive "You're not a good fit for our team" bullshit replies from employers upon simply applying to a job on a webform?

You haven't even met me, not spoken to me, just saw my CV. Tf is this weird shit.

Was frantically trying to figure out where an unwanted full stop was coming from, next to a dropdown in my UI. It was some dust on my screen.

It’s amazing how many software engineers were infected by the Covid mind virus – they should be smarter than that.

That said, synthetic mRNA has great potential outside of pointless vaccines.

- Elon Musk

Any engineers here who have come to the conclusion the rushed "vaccines" are a deliberate eugenics program to reduce the world population to make way for AI, CBDC, and Globalism?

DARPA unleashed the deadliest bioweapon and psyop since the bubonic plague.
COVID-19 and the vaccines that destroy healthy immune systems.
The majority of people don't notice?

What happened after the 2020 vaccine rollout:
- The RCMP and goverment lie about a trucker protest against the vaccine being dangerous and carrying weapons in their trucks. CSIS testified in court that there was no evidence. RCMP had no evidence.
- The CDC and media backpedal and says "We never said the vaccine was safe and effective" as people die in their sleep, or hiking from heart attacks.
- Prices soared and the majority of people cannot afford quality meat and food
- Bovaer: a super toxic chemical they put in cow feed that causes infertility of breathed in by humans
- Apeel: Apeel is an edible, plant-based coating developed by ‘Apeel Sciences’, a California-based company founded in 2012. It’s made from monoglycerides and diglycerides—fatty acids derived from plant sources like grapeseed oil, soy, or other seeds.
- Health Canada has approved the sale of animal-free milk protein, which is produced using a genetically modified yeast strain, marking a significant step in alternative protein options in Canada. This approval allows for the development of various products like cheese and yogurt that mimic traditional dairy without using animals.

A guy selling apricot seeds to cure cancer gets sent to maximum security prison for 5 years
https://x.com/DanielGilr44222/...

Ivermectin a nobel prize winning drug is demonized for being the cheapest anti-parasitic drug that rapidly reduces cancer/tumor growth in 2 weeks to a month.
https://x.com/MakisMedicine/status/...

The canadian governement is killing all of the ostriches that were recently used in research for medicine that is used to completely eliminate covid-19 https://x.com/PizzaPepe/status/...

What else am I missing? How many CIA/DARPA bots on this site will instantly respond to discredit my view? The same thing that happens on reddit?

Cloudflare went down because of their in Rust written system had an memory error. Haha.

— Why did the developer stop drinking coffee in the mornings?
— Because he realized his addiction to Java was getting way too obvious. ☕💻

HaHa

I know u guys don't care but I chose to go with TOML for lights and entities eg triggers, enemies, player spawn, etc.. and IQM. Plus it'll be a FPS engine, just like Quake (no)!

Gamers should boycott Nvidia.

They abandoned us for making crypto mining machines, leaving gamers with expensive and hard to get cards.

They abandoned us for making AI bubble machines, leaving gamers with expensive and hard to get cards AND crashing our economy.

No more Nvidia cards!

I got my severance check today, and although it is a decent chunk of change, I still don't feel secure. Numbers wise, with this money + savings + my wife's consistent income, we can last quite a while. In my head though I am still on high alert.

When will I find a new job? Will I find a job new? If I get an interview, am I going to fumble hard?

Interviewing is perseverance and a healthy dosage of luck. I really need the luck.

Reddit is so very dead... Today, I read a post in /r/webdev or /r/rust, not sure which one, but both are full with AI bull, that was clearly written by AI. Then most answers were also clearly written by AI. And some of them had answers written by AI.

I wish that was the dead internet theory. But that requires bots to answer to bots. I believe those are people who answer other people, by putting a few bullet points into AI and have it generate their comment.

And yes, I think so little of my fellow humans that I do strongly believe that most of them are unaware that they answering AI with AI.

Another coding test that takes 2 hours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.