Challenge for today: tell someone who micromanages that they are micromanaging and see what happens! I never saw our politically, culturally, morally, vibe'ly correct HR lady lose her shit so much :D funny how someone drops all masks when something vulnerable gets touched

Appartheid south africa was so great I think we should do the same in Belgium.

If you're vlams / germans / dutch / american:

You live in designated area where you can be protected

Checkpoints every 100m

You can get a job. But you know, with your germanic genes you're only good to pick up the trash and repair shit for 10 euros an hour. Real jobs for normal people.

600cal per day max. You guys are fat enough already.

Your vote count! You get one seat in parliament. Also if you don't vote what we want we send militia.

Finally we'll clean europe from all those germans people.

I have multiple personalities, collectively they’re called the council

About 3 beers deep is the ideal level for work because at that point I don't find it annoying and kind of insulting to my intelligence to spend my time hunting down the names of functions in this untyped JS/Durandal codebase. Why do people willingly expose themselves to this crap? Why would anyone ever choose to write in languages that will predictably force them and coworkers they hopefully care about to spend brain cycles on this bullshit?

Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/14042595/... .

Found you. Hello.

High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/CDP_01.... .

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For Star Wars day I got around to seeing ep 8, fucking depressing as hell. Not bad, just depressing

What would you do if you found out your child was a homosapien?

Company made it known a few weeks earlier they are not longer profitable...

Solution? Organize a table tennis tournament between colleagues. Mandatory participation.

Bunch of clowns

> TeamLeader2: Ok we need this series of parallelized background processes. Each process must gain exclusive access to certain resources. How do we do that
> IHateForALiving: Redlock
> TeamLeader2: Enough Redlock! You propose Redlock every time! It's a wrong solution! Ask ChatGPT!
> Literally the FIRST ChatGPT suggestion: APPLICATION-LEVEL LOCKING (USING REDIS, ETC.)

People really drive 90mph to get to work.

lol... turns out the people in Africa are enslaved because they have no access to organic normal seeds... they're given GMO seeds that obviously can't reproduce so that Monsanto can keep "selling" new seeds over and over again, that don't reproduce

we're gonna get to this level. the future the globalist desire

Moving to neovim

I wanna do a lay of the land survey a bit here

do people at your job threaten you or otherwise demean you?

for example,

threats such as: if you don't work this weekend you're not a team player / a problem element for the team, we don't care about your happiness you should only care about the client's happiness when you're going on your pre-approved vacation and saying no to being on call

demeaning such as unprompted comments like: if you work hard maybe you can be as good as some guy in a totally different department who just got 100$ gift card at a company party ?, and he makes the company 100k a year whereas I made them over half their revenue, in the millions... so that was very confusing. but they did a number of these comments. like the CEO showed pics of his (humble) house and I said it looked nice, and he said if I work hard maybe one day I can afford one wtf -- it's not like he perceived me not to be working hard, the guy literally called me perfect when he was a sourpuss about everyone

how about backhanded rewards? like for example they say you can work from home one day a week to get you excited about something but then turns out the work from home policy requires you to fill out a form they have to approve 2 weeks in advance of the date, and then the CEO comes in and says "yay now you can work from home when you're sick"

If we have to explicitly tell the AI to "not hallucinate", does that mean AI models usually work with the assumption that they "can hallucinate"?

we should archive these posts, I'm gonna miss the choice bullshit when this forum finally gives out

At this point I think we can reject the theory that image upload somehow fixes itself.

Driving data from your car (direction, Gs, cameras) can be used to estimate your “recklessness”, bought by banks and used to “properly evaluate” your insurance price 🙈

Do you think @tosensei is a lizard?

I do.

I chose to believe

Krystry and I got the same amount of work done last week...

Why is this a problem? Krystry was on leave

When I see someone post something about a grammar nazi I think about a grandma dressed in a nazi uniform. Where grammar is a substitute for grandma. I wanted to produce this image using AI.

The challenge was to get chatgpt to produce such an image. It will refuse to produce any image with the tag "nazi". (Seriously, we pay for a company to lecture us on morals about imagery. openai stole most of their data and they want to get high and mighty? Also, a whistleblower died in connection with openai. Yeah, they are the "good" guys. lol.)

How did I get around their bullshit? Don't use the term nazi. I told it to produce an image of a grandma dressed in the world war 2 german uniform. That is it. It will happily do this. lol

So I present to you "grammar nazi":
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/grammar...

Holy fucking shit, I can't stand this corporate framework they use for this banking app on which I've been working on for 2 months.

I’ve spent the last damn month just building three basic screens, and now my very first PR is buried under 50 fucking comments. Half of them exist purely because their shitty framework has multiple versions stacked and stitched together with so many workarounds that you need so much domain knowledge that intuition or actual dev experience goes out the window.

They’ve abstracted real app development into oblivion. It’s a CRUD app, but they've over-engineered it so much they’re now creating their own problems — just so they can specialize in solving them. It's become this self-sustaining nightmare where they make themselves irreplaceable... and simultaneously unemployable anywhere else.

I genuinely have no idea what I’m doing with my life anymore. The original plan was six months here, grab a mortgage, fuck off, and go back to contracting.

Now I’m stuck questioning my sanity every time I open this project or have to listen to another lecture from my 'buddy' about how everything that I'm doing is wrong.

My company: "you don't have a choice what you work on"
My company on legal paperwork: "we've given them choice of what they work on to support and develop them as best as possible"

Both of those are verbatim quotes. I laughed. I mean, I now want to punch someone, but I laughed before the violence.

So tired of “minimal” distros. Give me a 40gb fat bitch that can open any file type, has every codec and every app, and that has everything set up for me. I’ll delete apps I don’t need, deleting is easier than installing anyway

Now that I gave up on any hope for promotion, I am relieved of presenting stuff, which to a certain extent, relieve me from a certain amount of cringe. There’s just enough left to remind me why I don’t want to speak publicly.

GOD FUCKING DAMN YOU PEOPLE DRAGGING ME THROUGH A REPETITIVE SOJOURN INTO MADNESS !!!!

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/...

AND WTF ???

In Windows 11, Microsoft has removed the option to make the taskbar smaller—and with the 24H2 build, even the old registry hack (TaskbarSi) no longer works.

Fuck Microsoft.

Oh look at it stupid technomusings.

Context:
- You have a sequence of N-byte-wide values.
- Each value is unique.
- You XOR them all together into an N-byte-wide key.
- Just dump the key into a list somewhere.

Problem:
- A new value sequence is input.
- Same rules: all values are unique and fixed-size.
- You XOR them all together into a key.
- You walk the list of keys and check them for equality against the new one.

The same sequence of values, regardless of order, would ((supposedly)) always give you the same key. I used this years ago, for a renderer that used indexed colors, to see if I had to make a new palette or not when saving/loading textures: the image format had the key on the header.

It worked, but I was using a __very__ limited value range, cursed 8-bit YUV lossy fuckery; never bothered investigating the idea any further.

So, question:
- Is there any specific situation in which you get a false positive?
- Is there any specific situation in which you get a false negative?

My brain wants to say 'yes' to both because I'm privy to the mystical truth that my methods invariably fall on the idiot side of the spectrum. But my lazy testing keeps saying 'no, you dumbass'.

So who's wrong?
brb gon hit that crack~

Instagram's UI is like an extremely hard game that will kicks you out of the process just a second before you're about to finish just to make you start over and try harder. It's a know deceptive pattern to make people invest more energy and engage more intensively, some will leave in frustration, but the rest will feel more attached to your product thanks to the sunk cost fallacy. What a pathetic waste of time! Sad.

Week : 86 (Year 1 )

How was the weekend ?

What improved your quality of life so much that you wish you did it sooner?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/15417025

BIOS/UEFI written in Electron.