Found this ancient, forgotten task that was basically a QOL improvement.
Given that the feature would shorten the time of testing from some 10-15 minutes to 2, I left a comment mentioning that it would be immensely helpful.

!too long after, the report started seeing some traffic && the feature got actually implemented.
Checked the implementation as soon as I could.
- Speedup worked well regardless of platform.
- Slowdown /* which was never actually mentioned in the task as it wasn't crucial */ was also implemented, but the mobile phones were omitted, since the implementation would be too complex for the time allowed for the feature implementation. I was perfectly fine w/ it, as this wasn't actually necessary for those.

I left a proper comment, thanking for the feature implementation.

...then the lead tester chimes in, bitching about the lack of implementation of the slowdown on mobiles.

Got the same explanation as I mentioned earlier - too complex for the time allowed. Plus, the feature had other platforms in mind. Having it working on mobiles was just gravy.

Good call, lead, now - ask for another favor.
I'm sure it'll go well, since you can't be satisfied w/ getting what you need. You need that special pampering, too.
/s

In my company I now have 3 browsers.

Chrome for company stuff that only works in Chrome.

Safari for company stuff that only works in Edge or Safari.

And Firefox for actual work.

🤡

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So while on vacation there was this party boat doing roundtrips on the lake. Apparantly someone ordered pizza to it. Like, damn! How did they manage to time it right and get the pizza place to actually understand what they wanted with the music on blast.

Everything development related I see recently are related to LLMs and I’m starting to get sick of it :(

If anyone needs a casual game that's not long, and that you can play after you put the kids to bed, I recommend Neva. It's a fun, indie, left-to-right platformer.

My full review: https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

I collect my fingernails to glue them together with transparent epoxy into very cursed micarta and use it on my diy kinfe's handle.

You don't want to know what the blade was quenched in.

My wife went to do some work for a charity. They "got her the best computer available". It was a poor mangled MacBook whose better days were somewhere in the dawn of the last decade.
She tries to type anything... and only gibberish appears on screen.

She comes to me, absolutely me puzzled. I try to type anything... gibberish. I boot up in safe mode, everything is OK.

I look around for system configs... there is a custom keyboard mapping enabled by default.
We check the weird stains on the keyboard... they are regular and in all keys. Like if there used to be adhesive stickers on the keys, and those stickers were later removed.

I boot up again... and type "q". It becomes "a". I type "w". It becomes "b". I dread typing "e". Sure as bug, it becomes "c".
By the love of byte, someone asked for a custom keyboard layout... IN FUCKING ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

It was easy enough to change the layout after that, but the weirdness continues: my wife asked around, and apparently the laptop used to belong to some old dude... who was convinced there were characters missing from his keyboard. Apparently he could never find them in a regular QWERTY layout.

I wish I could give some encouraging words for the kid who came up with the solution. Working around technophobes is a drying art, that needs to be rewarded.

Anyone ever tried Embedded Swift?

I should have posted this as a joke but, guess what Apple does NOT use when developing Embedded Swift stuff for their Secure Enclave firmware...

Yep, they don't use Xcode! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

(ok, I know, not surprising, but love the irony!)

What I’d give for a modern version of gladiator fights. And no, not to watch people die. The belief that they massacred themselves in the arenas is hollywood propaganda. Many fighters werent even slaves. And had pretty high status

Food for thought, if rust-analyzer can infer the type, why the FUCK can't rustc?

Asbestos-reinforced 3D printing filament

> When you fix a bug at 3AM and forget how you did it 💻🤯
Spent 9 hours debugging a production issue.

At 3:17 AM: Changed one random line. It worked. 😵‍💫💀

Next morning:
Boss: “What fixed it?”
Me: “Yes.”

#debugging #programming #devlife #accidentalgenius #plswork #relatable

Drug addiction is better than gambling addiction in every way:
- some of the world's greatest artists/musicians were drug addicts, so you can claim to be like them
- there are a lot of different drugs to try
- your drug spending is regulated by your body. There is a set amount of drugs your body can absorb, and if you try to stuff it more, you die. In gambling, you can lose $10,000 just as easy as you can lose $10. So, when you die, you'll leave less debt to whoever's gonna be responsible for repaying it.
- drug addiction is primarily viewed as a medical problem, and in the western world, addicts often get compassion. Gamblers are universally mocked and laughed at, not just in the west, but pretty much everywhere.
- there are good things that were created under the unfluence of drugs. nothing good was created because of gambling
- quitting vast majority non-opioid (and even some opioid) drugs is ststistically easier than quitting gambling.
- If you decide to quit, there is vast support network of volunteers and organizations. there is huge body of scientific work about how to cure drug addiction. there is a dedicated field of medicine called addiction management. there is harm reduction. there are special meds like narcan that can do the impossible --- make a heroin addict with burnt out receptors a functional member of society. but there is almost zero support for gamblers.
- there is precedent of people getting rich by doing drugs. there is zero precedent of people getting rich by gambling.

Has anyone you know used A.I. at work to write an e-mail for them? It's ridiculous.

let the game begin

is it just me, or is reading LLM-generated text really annoying?

It feels like I'm reading the same thing over and over again, in different contexts about different things.

My anxiety runs on an event loop:
while(alive) { overthink(); }
What’s your callback function to escape the void?
(Mine’s () => { orderDumplings(); })

So like eating healthy and sleeping early and working out/running did not improve my mood.

I'm just more angrier and wants to fight/kill everyone I see.

Murder I can understand and sometimes even empathize with. Yes, it wasn’t up to you to decide who lives and who doesn’t, but here is something poetic, albeit grim, in having revenge against those who made (the best time of) your life miserable. Yes, you should appear before the court of law, but at the very least you’re still a human being.

But if you’re a school shooter who kills indiscriminately, you don’t deserve the air you breathe. You’re lower than the dirtiest pedophile. I don’t consider you a human at all. I’m against the death penalty, but you should be put down like a rabid animal.