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I was arguing on Twitter (obvious mistake) with an idiot who insisted nobody says "assembly" because the language is called "assembler". I told him assembler is used to refer to the program that converts assembly instructions to ELF, and that referring to the language as assembly is common, and it's even used in the gcc documentation.
His response below. I gotta say this sums up 90% of my interactions as a female engineer and researcher....24 -
My company just installed app-operated locks in all doors. Let's say that I have a hard time taking security policies now.6
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MS Teams sending an email to inform me about people which "are trying to reach me", one hour after I already talked with those people via Teams chat.
🤦♂️11 -
Feel free to make fun of me on this one.
> be me.
> Write a function that calls a second function to get a returned value and continue work.
> That second function always returns null no matter what changes are made.
> Spend half hour scratching head.
> That second function has this written at the end
return null;
//return $returnVal;
> fml.13 -
I was graced by my boss to attend a training for key users of a CRM system we resell, as a technical advisor.
The training is scheduled from 0915 - 1700
Can somebody come and kill me please?4 -
Four freaking crypto recovery ads on this platform today. They do spend effort in it, still it's full of typos. So retards that work hard? What would the scam be? I'm very interested if those guys actually make money5
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For everyone out there battling with any severe addiction, I hope you bounce back and never fall again.5
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Me yesterday:
* Installs a social media blocker so I can focus on work
Me today:
* Pause the social media blocker for 5 minutes every 6 minutes.3 -
Hey, @dfox
Is there anything we can do to help?
We miss you, and we want to keep devRant alive too.4 -
Here's how I describe my workplace:
- a mid dev that will stay mid forever
- a senior but with junior skill
- a mid but actually a junior
- a verbose dev, people having rough time trying to understand her because her explanation is always blown up
- a PM without enough technical skill
- a dev with personality like a moody teenager
- a contractor but acting like a customer
Did I miss anything? 🤔4 -
garbage collectors' lifestyle matters!
Ever eyeballed the abyss of your memory leaks? Shit, garbage collectors deserve a raise.
Unsung heroes, janitorialing thru that VM like a dung beetle, silently fucking up your perf so you can do that delicious spaghetti. Indiana-jonesing the fuck out of that memory trash can and euthanizing all that disgusting heap of pointers hanging, dangling, like... well, like garbage.
At the very least they're deterministic, unlike that Markov chain we all had the displeasure of fucking up. Amen? Amen! 🙌🏻
You gotta wonder, though, what goes through their nuggin. Do they reminisce about the potential of that half-ass-written class? Do they weep for the elegance of a forgotten function bottlenecking their job? Nah, probably just counting down the nanoseconds till their next full GC cycle. Aaah, like cold beer in Saturday barbecue.
So next time your program miraculously avoids a memory error, take a moment, put your hands up in the air and say a prayer to your garbage collector.
Silently covering for your fuckups2 -
I hate complex boolean logic.
(true||false) && true || false || (true && false) ... etc (continue for at least ten clauses four times as long)10 -
Had a SIM card for a week. Wasn't able to log into their service portal. Internet service was shitty as well. I recalled the contract.
Now they have sent me an email informing me of a bill which is stored in the online portal, and i have no idea for what this is, or how to find out.
I miss letters :-(
What is it that service providers wont send this stuff out as PDF?
*boomer-rage2 -