You know you're fucked when you're making coffee at 10pm

Apparently, caffeine is now considered harmful.

Thanks, EU

(I know it mostly for pesticides/non-food right now)

Oracle sucks. Try to do something quickly. 1000 restrictions.

@dfox @trogus please update the native android apk on playstore to android 15/16 . it isn't showing in playstore anymore and downloading from unsafe sources feels like a security risk

!tech (just unhappy thoughts , read on your own risk)

Just wanted to share life update that it's still sucking and getting worse.

5 months ago i shared an update regarding my testicle swelling up which i thought was caused by something that I did wrong. Well I didn't got to know what was the reason, but I got to know something: that it was indeed a cancer of stage 3.

And Yes, It went as shitty as it could:

- They took away my testicle, left me one balled.

- The they asked for a sperm test, turns out my remaining ball is no longer producing any healthy sperms and I am childless for life

- then they took some blood test and analysed my ball. turns out that not only I had cancer but rather a spreading cancer which has spread to my lungs and stomach. I would need one of the strongest chemo out there.

- then the chemo started and it also gave its gifts : i , an already short built , fat ass ugly looking guy now had its head/beard bald as a rotten egg . (this could take months to years to recover)

- I also now have a scarred lungs that feel pain when doing anything more than a speed walk (which could be permanent)

- I also have a tingling sensation in ears (which if permanent would require me to wear a machine for life)

- All my nerves in hand are super dark and looks like burn marks ( would probably recover in weeks) and feel painful

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All this was bearable in the hopes that after chemo , atleast the cancer will die. well the cancer ain't dead and blood tests are still concerning. they have given another 1 month to get a retest in case the chemo meds are still working internally but after 1 month ,if things don't go right then further treatment will be needed.

And only those folks know what would be the treatment. are they going to give me more chemo gifts , or are they going to take away more of my parts, choose your own dark shit, yay!

My 2024 already started on am awesome shitty note : i fractured my left arm and got a plate inside of me. All i was hoping for 2025 was to get that plate removed and hit the gym again. But nope, god had even more awesome shit for me .

at the age where some of my friends are getting married, some are having kids and some are travelling the world, I am here sitting in my room, being worse than a paper weight, being a burden to the family and living a useless life.

Thanks life, awesome workthere with the luck on this one. now do the final steps and KILL ME

I wish css was the standard for styling everywhere

Looking into getting into freelancing on Fiverr.
Anyone else here doing that? I have a question on how do you design a gig, as in how you define the scope of what you do, and the pricing, and delivery time...

I have many development skills, including full stack webdev, but I can't communicate to a customer what specific kinds of "deliverables" I can provide, and, as mentioned, for how much and in how much time, in the terms that the gig creation menu asks you.

I wish there was an option like "I have these and these skills, I can help with your general software needs".

Should the dR servers go down for good and David would pull the plug. Do we, devRanters, have a place to got to? Some discord or smth? It would be a shame for the community [or what's left of it] to cease to exist in a blink.

I know where to find retoor -- molodetz.nl . Yet it's not the means to communicate (still more than nothing) and the others won't be there.

P.S.
> 16s until you can post another rant.

:D sssoooo close

competition and competitiveness as an invigorating or a diminishing force =-=

what makes it one or the other? spiritually perhaps. such a mystery

why is it a wonderful drive for some, but a totalitarian dictatorship for others? are they interpreting the essence of the thing differently? what's the difference?

My manager is complaining I'm committing broken, incomplete stuff.

Before my manager was complaining I didn't commit enough.

My manager is an asshole.

New guy gets a task: "Add a thing to the thing". One liner. Simple enough.

Commits code written by chatGPT to an unrelated branch, proudly screenshots the resulting screen and posts to work chat - "My first task!! What is next?"

I don't think I want to work in this field anymore.

Funny, the president of the European commission, the old ministry of defense of Germany, is indicted for a corruption affair, she received below-the-table payment from the weapons industry.

She's also the one saying we should go to war with Russia.

How can you be that dumb

Snitches and dirty cops are the worst people on earth. Just pick a side bitch

I realized that I am old enough now that the first answer to "name a toy adults use in the bedroom" that comes to mind is: Kindle

Nobody loves me enough to show me more concrete examples of places there is nothing to be apprehensive of

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@12bitfloat Serious debate on Rust vs C here are my arguments; C has :

1. Better Syntax
2. Betetr Performance (Compile and runtime)
3. Direct Hardware Access (No strict rules)
4. Lots of codebases use `unsafe` in rs
5. No Borrow Checker Frustrations
6. Established Ecosystem
7. More Control Over Memory
8. Easier to Port & Embed
9. No Heavy Standard Library
10. EASY Manual memory management (that's a pro)
11. Optimal inline assembly
12. Memory-mapped I/O (simpler pointer math)
13. No fat pointers ( slices)
14. Better control over ABI
15. Lighter executables
16. Simple linking (no cargo)
17. Cargo forces u to use GitHub
18. More compiler choices (GCC, Clang, TinyCC, MSVC, ICC, etc)
19. More debugging tools (GDB, Valgrind)
20. Cross-compilation is easier (and there's Zig support)
21. Easier to distribute AND RUN ON WINDOWS
22. Better for baremetal (Rust needs a custom runtime for truly bare-metal execution)
23. Compatible with legacy systems (Rust is too heavy to support some old architectures)
24. Better for microcontroller (no_std/std)
25. Supports every OS(sunOS, solaris, obscure BSDs)
26. No forced updates (cargo updates takes a year and installs I36579+E package)
27. Less strict versioning (new standard broke my old code)
28. Less restrictive aliasing
29. Flexible pointer types (ever heard of Box<T>)
30. No unwarranted type safety (Sometimes you just need a void*)
31. C99 flexible arrays
32. Anonymous structs/unions (less boilerplate than enums)
33. C macros are simpler (please help me rusts' require a mini language at this point)
34. No strict mutability rules
35. Better for hacking/debugging (poke around memory)
36. Better C++ interop (C++ sucks)
37. More lib-friendly (almosts every lib has C bindings)
38. Can use void pointers (void*)
39. Better for writing shared libraries (Rust’s dynamic linking is more complex)
40. No automatic drop semantics (Rust’s Drop trait can introduce performance issues)
41. No forced monomorphization that causes binary bloat
42. Better for real-time applications (No automatic memory management surprises)

MENTION : I'm not clashing or anything, not against the person I'd like to debate with, @12bitfloat, but against the argument (RUST>C)
It's not a war

I've never encountered a programmer with a broken phone screen

Retoor's recent bot army fiasco is why we don't put AI in charge of anything. It wasn't a bug in her code, it was her AI misinterpreting her prompts while having access to the data bots act upon. Essentially, retoor's AI added a lot of legitimate users to the list of spammers, and the issue was in prompting, not in code.