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iOS is rotting my soul.
I've been a user of iPhone for 6 years now. For the first couple years, I wasnt really mindful of software I use, or I guess I didnt really care. As long as it did the bare minimum, I.e. bank app, call, text, browse, watch youtube vids, I didnt really care. However, in the last couple years, ive become very interested in tech and have worked on small developer projects, spent a lot of time coding in my free time, found really inspiring software and apps on my regular computer that just blow my mind on how advanced they are, and how I, some dumb guy with internet access, can just download it on my PC and use it.
This led me into a kind of software honeymoon phase, where I created a shiny new Github account and started exploring what other cool tools are just out there, available to me for free. My software honeymoon was spent on the beaches and resorts of the open-source software ecosystem. Exploring the gem-bearing caves and beautiful forests of anything from free open-source OCR programs(I needed it to convert my dads manuscript from scanned PDF .jpeg's to actual UTF8 text) to open-source RGB lighting/keymapping software to escape the memory-and-CPU-hungry(and most likely advertising-ID-interested) proprietary software that comes with the brand of mouse/keyboard/controller/etc.
It was like I was a kid exploring Disneyland for the first time or something. But then... then... I got off my computer. Picked up my phone to check notifications. Ew, tinder is blowing up notification center with marketing shit. I go to settings. Notification settings. Tinder's at the bottom so I just want to use a search bar instead of scrolling. There's no search bar. Minor inconvenience. Dark mode isnt dark enough for me. I guess thats just too damn bad, because for the next two hours, I'll have to figure it out by messing with accessibility settings. Time for bed, and I'm just getting plum tired of having to turn on my alarms every night for work the next morning. So I used the 'Automations' app to do it for me. For the next two weeks, at the time specified, 'There was an error running your automation' until I just delete the automation. Browsing through the FaceID settings, I see 'Attention Aware Features'. Cool, maybe now my phone won't automatically dim the screen when im in the middle of reading notifications on my lock screen. Haha, nope still does it. After turning on my alarms, I go to sleep. I wake up an hour late for work because those handy 'Attention Aware Features' silenced my alarm immediately because I fell asleep watching a youtube video.
I could go on and on. Its actually making me feel depressed typing this on my phone, fighting with Apple's primitive autocorrect and annoying implementation of Swype to type.4 -
Got an error trying to [Leave] a meeting in Teams
*sigh....*
Just Teams being Teams...
Now I'm probably stuck in that meeting somewhere deep in MS's servers forever.3 -
Basic concepts, patterns, and pitfalls of software, code, and programming logic become MORE important, not LESS with the rise of LLMs...
An LLM can more or less spit out what you need -if you are specific enough! "Specific enough" being the key phrase here. I always have to laugh at the term "prompt engineering"... it's literally called "communication skills". Also gotta laugh when I see so many haters always raging about the "poor code" produced by AI, because they are probably like "write me a for loop!", specify absolutely no requirements or specifics, and scratch their heads on why they don't get the exact output they expect... news flash, there's like a million ways to do anything you want to accomplish with code... sigh
Code is just a by product of thousands of architecture decisions, designs and options...
but, well... rubes gon' rube1 -
Praying to every deity, I begged to spare me, to never kill my inner child. To never make me grow up into materialistic mindset that punishes curiosity and denies miracles.
It seems like my wish was granted. Am I naive? Sure. Do I have kid ego? Sometimes.
But I never wanted to be someone else.4 -
*euro-based rant incoming*
"left or right? left or right?!"
DUDE! I'M RIDING A SMALL MOUNTAIN BIKE WITH A FUCKING HEAVY TRAILER OF GROCERIES AND YOU ARE IN A FUCKING E-BIKE!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO AROUND ME PUSSY!!!! I'M NOT GOING TO GRIND UP AGAINST THE SIDEWALK WITH MY TRAILER.... BECAUSE ITS A FUCKING TRAILER, AND ITS FULL OF FUCKING GROCERIES!!!!!!
god, fucking boomers... i swear to god if i get one more rube talking to me while i'm biking and saying i should "stay to the right" when EVERY time i'm CLEARLY right of the middle of the road, i'm going to start yelling back rude comments and put the fucking low IQ assholes in their place... (probably what I should have done from the first place. why are we to take shit from them, when they own 75% of the wealth but are 25% of the population.) absolute fuck sticks get the fuck off my road, go ride off a cliff6 -
nice, 10k reached before sidtheitclown! (that’s all that actually matters, heh)
so, yes, as promised it’s me… chris from chris’ full stack blog.
I think kiki knew this, as I used to be called fullstackchris… though very briefly... don't know why i was ever worried about the old clowns i used to work for knowing my identity here
i’m a host of react round up, and also an ex-futures trader (that life is / was hidden on Twitter), I’ve recently quit because I’m ALSO still building 4ish SaaS products including The Wheel Screener (wheelscreener.com) and CodeVideo (codevideo.io), over my LLC, Full Stack Craft (fullstackcraft.com)
oh yeah, and on top of that i have a full time job in Switzerland (read: not poor boi 38 or 40 hour work week, 42 minimum)
so yeah, its a fucking lot of shit to do and sometimes it’s too much! glad i have this place to vent
so, don’t be too harsh on me… really, 99% of my bitterness comes from the approximate 5 years of my working life (2018-2023) were taken from me by lying business folk type who actually didn’t know what the FUCK they were doing or talking about, even after promising me they did (at two different companies). Listen, I’m all for people telling me iTs a RiSkY VeNTuRe; i get it. But if you say everything is rock solid (like funding, my future employment, etc.) and it is not, then fuck you; you’re just lying to my face, it has nothing to with management vs employee, engineer vs. non-technical - you’re literally just a *bad person* (sorry, mechanical engineering genes and honesty to the core - sue me) To be sure, I was partially at fault - too optimistic, and too gullible, and I’ve have since learned my lesson. but still working on it. (obviously)
but things are look up - my company is running better than ever, the current job is great with insanely smart people
In the end, it’s always the hardcore engineers who are the most honest, hardworking, respectful, and the best to work with - you people know who you are…
Until then… see you in the next rant!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Dutifully signed,
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The ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code
- Robert C. Martin3 -
The internet says "containers are the holy grail, it's cross-platform and you can run your images and get the same result everywhere"
The practice says: nope... it doesn't do thatrant containers architecture os myth cross-platform theory ordering practise filesystem devops platforms9 -
The final verdict is out. After almost 3.5 years im getting fired. Im relieved because i’ve been expecting this already since december. No matter how hard i try my mistakes aren’t excepted anymore.
Good thing there are three other companies i have interviews with.
Let’s hope for a new offer and smooth transition soon!11 -
I want to teach you two peacekeeping methods that can help you diffuse difficult situations.
Method 1: before engaging in a heated internet argument, ask yourself: “What is my absolutely best case scenario endgame here?” To me, it’s often something like “Yes, you’re right, my entire life up to this point was a lie, I will read everything you wrote as a prayer every night to strive to be like you in every way.” Yes, this will definitely make my day, but in the grand scheme of things I won’t care. So why settle for less? The grand prize of this special olympics isn’t worth the effort.
Method 2: reading the intent. When you feel uncomfortable talking to someone, ask yourself: “What is their intent? Why are they saying me this?”
If the intent is to tear you down, see method 1. Anyone can be fooled, no exceptions. You losing an argument doesn’t diminish who you are, at all. If you fear it will, then work with your fear directly. It probably has nothing to do with this one argument.
If the intent is to help you, but they don’t know how to explain it without sounding hostile, then discard their tone. Read the message, accept it and tell them “Yes, you’re right, I get what you’re saying.”
Saying “I was wrong” immediately makes people perceive you as brave. It’s the virtue of strong people to be able to admit defeat.6 -
Fun fact: in macOS Safari, you can copy text from images. It works on videos as well when you press pause and wait five seconds. This is the next-level web browsing UX — now I can copy text from an image on the internet and paste it anywhere I want.7
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Online logo generator, but it automatically buys an .io domain of your company name and ask you to buy it for 100 times the price.6
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Things I wish I knew when I was younger:
- no matter how clean your teeth are, bad breath won't go away until you clean your tongue. Buy a tongue cleaner and use it after you brush your teeth
- whitening toothpastes don't work, while desensitizing ones work well.
- after you brush your teeth, spit but do NOT rinse!
- when brushing your teeth, keep the toothbrush angled 45 degrees. The bristle ends should touch the area where your gums meet your teeth.
- use sunscreen every morning.
- don't waste money on acne-treating products unless they contain salicylic acid, benzoyl peroxide, tretinoin or adapalene.
- if you want to lose weight, you have to eat MORE, not less. But, that “more” should be protein.
- showering every morning feels like “humanity restored” thing from Dark Souls. Also, clean your damn room and wash your damn windows.
- APS-C DSLR cameras make no sense. For their weight, you can get a full-frame camera, and for their price you can get an APS-C mirrorless cam that will be way lighter.
- If you want a damn thing, save up and buy that damn thing. Don't buy the alternative thing you don't want. You'll be asking “what if” till you either die or buy the original damn thing.
- people aren't replaceable, but many people can fit their designated role. Not being able to replace your ex-boyfriend with his exact copy doesn't mean no one else can be your boyfriend.
- try a MacBook & iPhone as soon as you can to check whether it's your thing or not, because if it is, oh boy are you in for a treat.
- added sugar is evil, but it's beneficial for the economy. It makes you fat, so you need a car, so you buy fuel. Also, you feel guilty because you're fat, so you buy diet products & things to compensate because you hate your reflection in the mirror. You also pay medical fees to treat your newly developed health problems, and you die a day before retirement. Everyone makes a buck on you eating added sugar but you.
- you can use the freshly removed sticker to remove the sticky residue left by that same sticker.
- static typing doesn't solve jack shit.3 -
If you:
- believe unit tests are necessary
- believe in static typing
- preach common sense gun control
- are an antivaxxer
- use android (without getting paid to do so)
- smoke weed like there's nothing wrong with it
- are christian
…leave a comment here, so I know to ignore you.5 -
in your opinion, what is the most important feature of a programming language? For me it’s getting paid for using it.13
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Holy smokes, an LLM thats a competent wit.
(it gets good toward the end)
https://pastebin.com/MpGzZRqK
courtesy of https://worldsim.nousresearch.com
edit: I was particularly fond of "Schrodinger's cat mocks causality, simultaneously alive and droll"1 -
When I go to bed, I power off my laptop instead of just closing the lid. I don't bring my phone with me. I don't have a smartwatch. I sleep with no electronic devices with me.
Anyone can solve a lot of their problems by conversing with themselves one on one. Instead, they prefer a feed algorithm taking away their pain. But the nature of pain-relieving addictions is that they always intensify the pain in the long run.
Listen to yourself. Speak to yourself quietly, one on one, without mark zuckerberg in your room listening to your every word. The overwhelming pain will be no more after mere minutes. Only then can you be free.4 -
const ifs = i => {
if (i === 1) return '2'
// (a lot more ifs)
}
const switches = i => {
switch (i) {
case 1: return '2'
// (a lot more cases)
}
}
console.time('time')
for (let i = 0; i < 1_000_000_000; i++) ifs(i)
console.timeEnd('time')
// time: 637ms
console.time('time')
for (let i = 0; i < 1_000_000_000; i++) switches(i)
console.timeEnd('time')
// time: 949.524ms25 -
The only person responsible for the server maintenance has put in his resignation period in.
The other person that has access to the servers does not know the difference between production & lab.
Fun times ahead14 -
Probably pure coincidence but if you look at the deconstruction of the dedekinds like so:
>>> decon(6)
offset: 1, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('1')], [Decimal('3'), Decimal('1')]]
>>> decon(20)
offset: 2, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('1')]]
offset: 1, exp: []
>>> decon(168)
offset: 3, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('2')]]
offset: 2, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('3'), Decimal('1')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('1')]]
offset: 1, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('3')]]
>>> decon(7581)
offset: 4, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('3')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('3')], [Decimal('7'), Decimal('1')]]
offset: 3, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('3')]]
offset: 2, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('4')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('1')]]
offset: 1, exp: []
>>> decon(7828354)
offset: 7, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('6')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('6')], [Decimal('7'), Decimal('1')]]
offset: 6, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('8')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('5')]]
offset: 5, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('5')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('4')]]
offset: 4, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('6')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('3')]]
offset: 3, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('3'), Decimal('1')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('2')]]
offset: 2, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('1')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('2')]]
offset: 1, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')]]
>>> decon(d('2414682040998'))
offset: 13, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('13')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('12')]]
offset: 12, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('13')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('11')]]
offset: 11, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('10')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('10')]]
offset: 10, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('11')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('9')]]
offset: 9, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('9')], [Decimal('3'), Decimal('1')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('8')]]
offset: 8, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('10')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('7')]]
offset: 7, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('7')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('6')]]
offset: 6, exp: []
offset: 5, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('6')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('4')]]
offset: 4, exp: []
offset: 3, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('3'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('2')]]
offset: 2, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('1')], [Decimal('3'), Decimal('2')], [Decimal('5'), Decimal('1')]]
offset: 1, exp: [[Decimal('2'), Decimal('3')]]
the powers in the 2's column go:
1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 6
which are predicted by:
https://oeis.org/search/...
Again, probably only a coincidence, but kinda beautiful.2 -
kikis probably right
i'm a pathetic addict
the problem is i never drink *quite* enough to do something *really* stupid
at my level any other rere would probably be doing something very destructive
but i'm not afforded such luxury
instead just 10+ drinks in on a saturday :/ (now sunday)5