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Skillsbash, python, whining
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How do you motivate yourselves to work on side projects? like I just wanna sit on my ass play video games
I wish I knew how I can convert my motivation to game to study better or work on side projects but I don't have the secret recipe.23 -
It's a new year. so everything stops working because tables don't exist for year 2025 in the database.10
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Could the all of the Tencent cloud kindly please fuck off back to China?
Those assholes don't even publish their IP ranges so one could easily block their ass.
Had to rely on external tools and hunt down all of their different ASNs to finally block them from overloading a client's webapp...
Ugh, I need a beer.6 -
Never put an optimist in charge of the money.
Ideally they shouldn't be in charge of anything, but especially not the money.2 -
Procastinator's tricks to be productive: Schedule messages
I hate to write people. They could answer. My whole plan might be thrown off. But when is the best time to answer them? The day after tomorrow? Too late. Tomorrow. Around 10? Thank you to all messengers that allow me to schedule a message. Instead of procrastinating, I answer, I schedule, and if I am in a bad mood, I later come back and abort and rewrite the message nicer.
Went perfectly swimmingly with my happy new year messages. Everyone got them at 00:00. Yes my friend, you're obviously the most important thing in my life, first thing I did was writing you!3 -
The downsides of coding drunk: Implementing the same thing you've already implemented but forget you did13
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Got my dad to try Fruity Loops so that he can compose with his Tyros 3 keyboard on the computer. If he likes it, I will buy producer edition (that one can also record, that's why) for his bday soon. For Christmas I already ordered midi to USB cable for him. Finally I know what to give to someone who already has everything. He needs stuff for his stuff :p
It will be much fun experimenting together with it. My dad can go very hard on new things, he always becomes a pro in it.
I hope it will be just as nice as the time we spent together on Autocad. He later even made Autocad exams for schools.
He learned me how to install windows 3.11 as very little kiddo.
I like my dad doing computer stuff. It's the moment we really bond.3 -
So, my wife's family has a "no shoes inside the house" rule, what is fine... until you realize that they mean "*no shoes inside the house*" - regardless if you are actually wearing the shoes or if those are in your luggage or something.
So you're supposed to leave all footwear on a shelf on this bench outside their door.
That proved to be tricky when my 10yo twin girls started freaking out that someone was going to steal their prized shoes if we left those outside the house during the night.
It would actually be a risk in our own neighborhood, infested with amazon-package kleptomaniacs, but here we are deep in the country.
Now, I've been to my in-laws place many times, and they absolutely cannot be reasoned with. I wish I could use their stubbornness to train a LLM into relentless compliance with company policy.
So, in order to spare my girls from some of my in-laws paranoia, I've spent some time before we came here rigging up a wifi cam to a facial detection service. (I know I've just exchanged their covid-style paranoia with my own surveillance-state-style paranoia. Those are the times we live in. But i can see the irony)
The server monitors the camera feed and stores the first few seconds before, during and after some face is detected.
I trained a facial rekognition model with our family's faces and had it notify me every time some unknown face appears on camera.
Finally, I've printed a "smile, you are on camera!" sign, taped it over the laces of my tracking boots, and hid the camera (and a powerbank) inside one of the boots.
My daughters were pacified with that solution, my wife laughed out loud with a devilish smile, and my in-laws completely ignored me when I tried to explain it all. Perfect.
The system has been up and running since before christmas. It notified us when some relatives arrived for celebrations and one package delivery - no shoe-related shenanigans. Until this morning.
My daughters have been playing with some neighbor kids, and a couple of those decided to fill their shoes with mud on this new-year morning, as a stupid childish prank.
I know because they kneeled in front of the camera earlier today.
Right when I was finishing up my stretches for the morning... less than 2m away from the door.
The wicked kids looked straight at the camera, and you can actually pinpoint the moment that they realize they have been caught. Then you can see when they hear me unlock the door...
I opened the door to find a bucket full of mud and no soul on sight.
I'm not posting the video, they are minors, after all. But my family is sure to laugh at it every year... and my in-laws will keep on bringing it up with the kids' grandparents forever :)12 -
I'm not one of those people who can just buy a phone and use it. I have to unlock it, flash it, de-google it and customize it before first use. I don't changes phones often, but my 2019 phone is slowly dying.
Here's my whole new setup with a Sony Xperia 1 V:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...9 -
Some two years ago I purchased a license for AV solution on Amazon UK which is my default place for shopping.
When attempting to activate the license, I kept getting this annoying error somewhere along the lines of:
'License from another region.'
I contact the support, they did their magic && the license got applied.
Fast forward some two years - the license is about to expire.
The software is actually good, so I make the choice to renew it.
Thing is, I keep getting redirected to the local site w/o an option of choosing the English language.
I edit the site's address to reach an English version of the site.
On UK's site I am unable to choose my country of residence so I can't complete the purchase form.
I try a few other things && finally reach the Global site where I am able to input the correct data for the purchase, but all attempts to finish the payment fail.
Fine... I'll purchase from the local site.
I purchased the license, activated it w/o problems, but when attempting to download the installer it keeps downloading the localized version which doesn't allow me to change the language.
I contact Support.
S: 'The license you've purchased can be used solely w/ localized version of the software. If you want to use the English version, you'll have to get a refund && purchase from our Global site here [link w/o redirection].'
_Fuck_ this trend of automatic redirection to localized sites && forced localized software.
One shouldn't have to go through all these hoops to get the software in the language of their choice, instead of having the localized version shoved down their throat.17 -
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 2nd11 -
If I hear ONE MORE time "ChatGPT is like Google but better/smarter" I WILL choke a motherfucker to DEATH47
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today i was asked to encrypt a public key, because "it's sensitive info".
a PUBLIC key.
smh
it's not even hard (literally 1 line of code), but come on...6 -
Shampoo for women:
1. Nourishing papaya
2. Ipanema sunrise
3. Flourishing silk
Shampoo for men:
1. Auschwitz-Birkenau
2. 2001 Honda Accord
3. Gun5 -
Why the fuck is everything getting round "corners" everywhere these days?
Most places it's such a waste of space.
Some go farther and it's more stretched circles like rectangles.
Damn it, monitors are rectangular, windows are rectangular, stay with it ffs
Also, it looks fckn ugly17 -
Me: Hey, guys, this stuff is seriously flammable. Like, I’m surprised it hasn’t caught fire yet. I really want to clean it up. Here’s how I’d make it better.
Management: No. It’s fine, it works. Don’t touch it. It’s getting replaced anyway. Just add the things on top like we asked you to, and call it a day.
Me: Are you sure? This is seriously going to be a problem.
Management: We just said it’s getting replaced. Don’t. touch. anything. OK?
Me: alright.
… Eight weeks later …
Management: so this thing caught fire over the weekend, and the fire spread to other areas. We’re doing some emergency cleanup. The new guy looked at it and figured out why, and has some great ideas on fixing it, so give him some well-deserved praise!
Me: Hey! I told you about this months ago!
Management: Yes. I tuned out during today’s firefighting meetings. But it’s important to strike a balance in everyone’s style. Do you have any other concerns?10 -
Don't call is ECMAScript 6 — call it JS 2015.
Don't call it iPhone 16 — call it iPhone 2024. Or Apple Phone 2024.
Don't call it Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole — call it Ubuntu 2024.
Don't call it WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac/ax — call it WiFi 1 gb/s.
Don't call it SDXC II 3 10 — call it SD 300 mb/s.
Don't call it USB 3.2 gen 2x2 — call it USB 20 gb/s.
Don't call it Google Pixel 6A — call it Google Phone 2022 Lite.
STOP. Giving. Bullshit. Names! Make it SIMPLER for once.28 -
Open letter to any website that is trying to implement "smooth scrolling" on their website using JavaScript: stop, consider how awful it is 100% of the time, and kill yourself please.2
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Managers gettin horny when they realize that AI doesn't even need a free pizza party once a year to stay motivated6
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Microsoft, why the fucking fucking bastardising arse knobbing fuck would ANYONE want to open a directory on the LOCAL C DRIVE in the PISSING BROWSER?2
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Got scammed on devrant by sketchy cryptocoin recovery services? Like a total dumb ass you clicked a sketchy link? Did you suffer temporary retardation and believed a scammer?
You may be entitled to public humiliation! Contact our services (totally not sketchy AF) and get doxxed, reposted, and made to look like a complete fool! (Javascript devs excluded, they suffer enough just existing.)
1-800-dumb-fuk wtfuthinking@dumbass.git
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I can't focus during the day, I don't have enough energy to do chores in the evening, I can't sleep during the night, and I can't wake up on time in the morning.
It seems like a curse that keeps getting worse.16
