Got refused from another job.

The reason was that even do my test had "some features" (no more nor less than the ones they asked for), I didn't bring up some stuff that they like to hear or I didn't show the right kind of enthousiasm.

Aka it's based on vibe man there was a mismatch on the astroplane or something

The more I go the more hate is consuming me. I can take criticism, not arbitrary decision

I'm finetuning llama 3.1 8b locally on a 32gb 5090. It took weeks to learn enough to know where to start, hours to get my environment sane, and it's going to take 5.5 hours to finish training.

I started on my own model but the lack of data and acres of server farms led me down the finetuning path.

I honestly don't have any idea if any of it's going to be worth the time or CONSIDERABLE financial investment I made building my computer, but I refuse to stay ignorant.

guess who's back?!

soooo... long story short... i got super ill... like so ill i dont wanna give many details cuz
1. rather not bum you entertaining weirdos out... that'd make this bittersweet.
2. i dont wanna get a bunch of emo comments of best wishes etc

it's fixed, enough, now.

just to be clear, "ill" is not some paraphrasing for mentally ill/unstable/depressed/whatever else may pop into your heads... nor is it code for something like substance abuse/rehab or incarceration, etc... there was definitely entropy at play so it doesnt need more =P

@retoor please share the new snek link

Do you know why Gen X people have better immune systems than all yall whipper snappers?

Because we chewed the gum we found on the bottom of our school desks.

We didn't care if we drank from the same soda can.

It was common to play in parasite infested waters. (Actually a kid I knew in high school that got amoebas in his brain from that shit. He lost of a year of high school he had to repeat.)

Truth be told we probably don't have better immune systems. The younger gens are fucking each other and think condoms stop disease. So yall probably got Syphilis.

What is the absolute minimum for a merge request? Is it that the code compiles? Because that's a super low bar. A bar still missed by some...

I cannot put into words how much I hate JavaScript.

My latest frustration with it is, there's a datasource.initialize() function that gets called when the local dev server boots. For just 25 model files, the fucker takes 1 minute 40 seconds to connect to my local postgres.

One code change, and it repeats the entire process. Anyone else face this before?

Idc I'm gonna buy 30 chocolates bar and bring it to the midwives of my local hospital for they're on strike and they're gonna picket all night

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.

"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.

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

If there's one thing that is universal truth, it's that Tailwind CSS is doodoo.

Our German friends made us lunch:
Spaetzle, Jagershnitzle, Gechmorter Kohl, Tiramisu

I felt like we should have been playing German marching music during lunch. They also confirmed that Germans don't have a sense of humor. They did tell some good jokes. Mixed signals.

They served pork, I could have told concentration camp jokes and been mostly safe.

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.

Christa McAuliffe said to her husband before the launch: "You feed the dog, I will feed the fish."

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?

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...

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?

Week: 115 (Year 3)

How is the weekend going?

Question: What's the best and worst thing that happened to you this year so far?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19384618

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

Man... oldschool gaming is hardcore. I have been playing SNES games and they use a password system where you only get the password if you get enough points, which are one-shot only and if you miss your chance, no password for you. lol. And then you have to play another 4 levels to get your next password... upon which the difficulty to get it is progressively more difficult.

As you may know, SNES cartridges used a button cell for saving state between sessions. Now I also understand why I had spent entire afternoons on a game in my childhood... because you couldn't save. LOL. It was just passwords.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

"The burnt pen-is mightier than the sword."
- Vaporator User ostream

"Mind if I smoke?"
- Concentration Camp Inmate 107984

"C++ is made for segfaults."
- Flaming Rust User @sucksemballz

"LSD is a key component to vibe coding."
- @retoorii

"If you are not offended then I will try harder next time."
- some asshole on devrant