So I have heard that some neuroscientists think brain function might be operating on a quantum level. I also know we are inching closer to quantum computing.

Does this mean as these two sciences converge we may develop consciousness transfer when they do?

When did "9-5" become 8-5, lunch is unpaid?

My god why are all parser combinator libraries in Rust so bad??

Is it too much to ask for to parse a normal ass programming language with error recovery???? That's like 99.99% of what people need a parsing library for and somehow error recovery is always some weird after thought bandaged on after the fact

For fucks sake, I'm finally getting over the urge to reinvent the wheel all the time, but now all the libraries suck ass so I have to. Arrghh!

All these damn features everywhere! How are you supposed to be able to focus on any task when all you hear is bells and whistles?! 👿

Outsourcing company offered me a 6 month contract....

The freelancing is pretty slow right now so I basically have to take it. Only thing is the interview was so long ago I can't remember where or who the client is

That's funny

I want a game world that has magic, tech, and rpg elements. Single player. Maybe some modern world too.

I have ideas where it starts medieval and introduces magic and tech due to parallel worlds/civilizations. I would link magic and tech at a base level so they interact. It would also be a lot of bullshit fiction to make this happen.

I thought about starting in modern world that makes contact to parallel worlds and this starts chain reactions of conflict inter-dimensionally. That would allow for anything to go at that point.

Anyway, just posting my thoughts. In the end I will rely heavily on player suspension of disbelief. They will either accept my bullshit or play something else.

Welcome to my fucked up world bitches!

$149???

Q: How do you know Xcode 16.2 is a mess?

A: The code it generates for a new project is rejected by the compiler.

You generate a framework project, and besides having to manually sign the damn thing (really, can't setup for success?), it won't compile and link due to some other obscure error IT generates.

/<pathToFramework>/<ProjectName>.framework: resource fork, Finder information, or similar detritus not allowed
Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code

Yes, boys and girls, Xcode is broken right out of the gate on building a framework template it creates!

I'll tell you what is "detritus", it's Xcode. Hint to Xcode team: "Just Say NO" - Nancy Regan

I'm the only one who loves programming and computers but hate most of the culture around it? The tropes (caffeine addiction, programming socks...), the YouTube "gurus" who makes clickbait titles and usually screams while reading other peoples blogs, the [hyperSpecificWebFramework]Conf where hours are wasted in which seems an infomercial for "yet another way to update an HTML page basing on a series of properties", the hackathons...

More I distance myself from this mountain of BS more my enthusiasm for tech grows

YOU KNOW WHAT I AM DONE WITH PR REVIEWS , LIKE WHY DO THEY EVEN EXIST THOSE mf's dont know anything aboutT how much I HAVE worked on MY CODE FOR THEM TO SAY can you make this function more descriptive bro its fucking getuserinput Wth do you want it like(GETUSERSSHITFROMTHEIR..nvm)Screw you Grammarly
AFTER their stinky a doble ss stops commenting LITERally I have made phaking changes in half of the CODE and what do I receive "LGTM" you m.. you look like you belong the african Sh..LGBTQ community YOU look LIKE YOU NEED SOME EVOLUTIONARY GLOWUP , STOP MAKING MY LIFE HELL, next PR I am merging it straight INTO his A double S , Love you grammarly

Some 20 years ago I was out on my deck and I found this all metallic green fly that was smaller than normal flies. Even the head was green. Not quite the same, but similar to the picture.

I caught this fly inside a little plastic cup with a lid. I wanted to look at it up close. Then I saw a little tiny jumping spider a little bit bigger than the fly. I lifted the lid slightly and coaxed the jumping spider inside the cup as well. So now I had this little jumper hunting this cool green fly. I set it down and did something else.

Later I came back and the spider had the fly. He was having green fly snack. I left it alone again. When I came back I was absolutely astonished by what I saw. The metallic green fly was dead on the bottom of the cup. But it was now a metallic blue color! What?! Then I realized the loss of moisture probably caused the skin/shell to contract changing the wavelength being reflected to a blue color.

This made me wonder. How many entomologists have specimens what are labeled "green fly", but the specimens are blue?

Is this an early example of web devs (spiders) making CSS changes to nature?

Sticky scroll in VS Code, who ever wanted that? It's so typical of Microsoft to litter their software with undesired features enabled by default, so one needs to spend precious time to figure out how to disable all of that crap. I read somewhere that 83% of any features developed in any software are never used, or even requested by the users. This was many years ago so I don't know if it's still true, but it definitely still applies to Microsoft, who literally bloat their products with annoying stuff, and then force them upon the users, like the fucking CoPilot. Some Windows features can't even be turned off without editing the Windows registry or installing an app, and sometimes even that doesn't help. Anyone here old enough to remember the Office Assistant? Yeah, it was a predecessor to CoPilot looking like a paper-clip and behaving like a jerk. Just like with CoPilot, you could type questions and commands to it. For some reason, it couldn't be completely disabled by any normal command like "quit" or closing the window, it would always pop up again, until I told it to fuck off and it actually vanished for good.

just picked up my new hot brunette gf from training in my brand new bmw (fuccboy batman car) and drove her home (shes not really close) we kissed again and she said her pussy is still destroyed from last night and this morning (i was the destroyer) feels good having a bitch who genuinely loves me (she cuddled and hugged me last night in bed for hours and looked me in the eyes) She also last night said she cant believe how lucky she is to have me, she said i quote that she feels like she hit the lotto by having me, she views me as God, and now as i write this rant she wrote me "thx a lot for taking me home 😘😘😘 you mean a lot to me" i love this I fking love making a better life to a female but only for a non whore female (non whore females are in 0.0000000000001% percentile) (12 zeros) and i can tell shes not a whore cz her pussy was so damn tight it was so nice as if she just lostt her virginity to me she also said im a beast🍆😈 in bed and realized the fking she had with her ex was NOTHing compared to the fucking of b2plane I also learned from AMS and fitxfearless that a bitch who kisses u after u done cumblasting her means shes not a whore cz a whore would be used to get fked and cumblasted so shes onto the next dick but this girl has kissed me after i cum so shes lowkey a good girl and i love it this is exactly all i asked for from a female PLEASE GOD dont let this girl be a whore PLEASE i just want a non whore female

good night

Ever tried opening up x15 IntelliJ IDEA's sessions with all different repos at the same time after 3 months, so all of them would trigger reindexing?

There's the first time for everything I guess...

2010 was 15 years ago.

I hate tech.

Trying to find a solution to problem in tech:
- 5 to 10 minutes searching for the correct terminology for the problem you are having.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find a solution.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find the correct terminology because the first terminology was wrong.
- 5 to 10 minutes finding the correct solution for your platform version.
- all the while dodging sketchy AI results
- Either you find a solution or you find it can't be fixed on your platform because X vendor is a POS.

So, this is not quite what happened today, but it pisses me off. I cannot imagine not being non-technical trying to use any platform this day and age.

I am trying to access data off of a backup. The data I want is in a user directory on a windows backup. I cannot get to user content because the user for the machine the backup came from is not known. I try with explorer and it says I need to elevate priv. So I do. It sits there and just spins icon doing nothing forever. The volume for viewing the backup is read only (actually a good idea, but annoying, can't change permissions).

So I remember that explorer artificially enforces permissions on folders. So I get Q-Dir which has worked in the past. So I get it installed and it fails to elevate privs. WTF! Everywhere I search I see no solution and shitty AI results. Then from the back of my mind I remember. Run Q-Dir as admin (which doesn't work on explorer due to artificial enforcement). So I do. It can access anything from the backup regardless of location.

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE BULLSHIT BARRIERS EXIST? It only causes frustration from users and locks people out of their data.

I hate technology.

Week : 75 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

What's *the best* thing happening in the world right now, in your opinion?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/13103459

So today I was trying to get a java program to run in Linux that needed a bat file to run in Windows. I was looking at the file and didn't know what it would take to do all the commands in Linux. So I said fuck it and had my chatgpt account do the conversion. It actually did it perfectly and replaced Windows specific commands with Linux equivalents. It reworked the data and set environment variables correctly. It also ran the java program.

Unfortunately I think the Java program had made assumptions about the environment and used hard coded Windows style paths. Rather than using some paths in a filesystem generic way. So it just excepted when trying to read files that were there, but had wrong slash in filename.

It was a good test though. I may have chatgpt take a whack at other scripts I don't want to take the time to look up syntax.

My role in teams meetings :
Admit someone in,
Stay quite the whole time,
Say thank you and bye louder when its finishing 😅😅

Do you recommend getting a pet scorpion?

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

Google Assistant got replaced by Gemini on my phone. What used to work before, me saying "Hey Google, set an alarm for 5 pm" doesn't work anymore.

"I am only a language model so I can't help you with that" is the default response.

Does big tech not like the idea of things working fine and smooth?

So I uninstalled Xbox App off my computer like a week ago. Today I get a notification to check out XBox Game Pass. So I find in notifications it has separate app or thing installed to notify about shit like that. So I removed that.

I also don't like the pos Game Bar. It won't let you uninstall in apps. So I searched and found this command:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

Good bye MS POS Gaming Overlay. Good bye Gayme Pass Notifs.

So I am on Pro version of Windows 11. Is this shit not able to be removed from Home version? What a garbage future we are in.

Nothing like spending 2 days solving a problem that could have been solved by 15 minutes of manual work

Hey, at least it's automated now...

"Any language is memory safe if you don't give a shit anymore"
- Tsoding

Clients be getting all clienty.

I'm sorry there's been a couple of delays here and there but we're building real software. This isn't some drag and drop WordPress nonsense with plugins for everything like the outdated site for your hair salon. I'm annoyed by the delays too. I want to get paid...

Why are civilians like this?

I'm on the 2nd week of a support rotation. One of the support reps contacted my manager about two tickets, one that is about an automated e-mail that didn't go out (which .. doesn't even seem necessary since the action has been completed?) and one because I accidentally put in the postcode on the 2nd line of an address field (which I immediately fixed when he commented on the ticket, minutes after, the same fucking day!)

We also had a super cringe all hands meeting today. I got plenty of sleep and am already exhausted.

My old roommate/landlord/co-worker sent me a text about his company needing devops people. I should probably finish updating me resume today.

Postman is shit, alternatives?

Recently discovered that Postman is now dead shit and its devs are fuckers that now made their shit a payware.

https://blog.postman.com/announcing...

The solution is to use latest normal version https://github.com/postmanlabs/...

Or get an alternative. Are there any good ones?

Hey question have you people forgot this ?