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So, I'm doing some freelance work for a company...
Holy shit their chatgpt chats.
I swear, they go to the level of import {isOdd} from 'is-odd';
Somehow I feel that I just can't lose any job because I'd be one of the very few able to function whenever openai is down...3 -
I don't know what's wrong with me.
Whenever I interview, it takes me almost 3/4 of the allotted time to grasp the problem. I don't know if it's because I am truly dyslexic, or if I'm really bad under stress / time constraint.
After the interview I was able to finish the problem within 10 minutes, but by then it's just too late.
Can't help but feel like a bad about it.1 -
An app/website that I co-created had a devastating launch and was rolled back before me and another coworker went on vacation.
To my surprise it was force-relaunched by upper management and bug-fixed on the go by another coworker, who was also involved. Props to him for dealing with the errors, as I wasn't contacted once.2 -
Welp, I've got a Nigerian client now, and I'm afraid that I'll start catching their accent, the more I speak to them on calls, and soon enough it will reflect in my speech, going from Indian accent to Nigerian accent.
Would it be considered offensive if that really happened?10 -
An HR manager was knocked down (tragically) by a bus and was killed. Her soul arrived at the Pearly Gates, where St.Peter welcomed her. “Before you get settled in” he said, “We have a little problem…you see, we’ve never had a HR manager make it this far before and we’re not really sure what to do with you.”
“Oh, I see,” said the woman, “can’t you just let me in?”
“Well, I’d like to,” said St Peter, “But I have higher orders. We’re instructed to let you have a day in hell and a day in heaven, and then you are to choose where you’d like to go for all eternity.”
“Actually, I think I’d prefer heaven”, said the woman. “Sorry, we have rules…” at which St. Peter put the HR manager into the downward bound elevator.
As the doors opened in Hell she stepped out onto a beautiful golf course. In the distance was a country club; around her were many friends, past fellow executives, all smartly dressed, happy, and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks, and they talked about old times.
They played a perfect round of golf and afterwards went to the country club where she enjoyed a superb steak and lobster dinner. She met the Devil (who was actually rather nice) and she had a wonderful night telling jokes and dancing.
Before she knew it, it was time to leave. Everyone shook her hand and waved goodbye as she stepped into the elevator. The elevator went back up to heaven where St. Peter was waiting for her. “Now it’s time to spend a day in heaven,” he said.
So she spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds, playing the harp and singing; which was almost as enjoyable as her day in Hell. At the day’s end St. Peter returned. “So,” he said, “You’ve spent a day in hell and you’ve spent a day in heaven”. “You must choose between the two.”
The woman thought for a second and replied: “Well, heaven is certainly lovely, but I actually had a better time in hell. I choose Hell.”
Accordingly, St. Peter took her to the elevator again and she went back down to hell. When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth. She saw her friends dressed in rags, picking up rubbish and putting it in old sacks. The Devil approached and put his arm around her.
“I don’t understand,” stuttered the HR manager, “The other day I was here, and there was a golf course, and a country club. We ate lobster, and we danced and had a wonderful happy time. Now all there is, is just dirty wasteland of garbage and all my friends look miserable.”
The Devil simply looked at her and smiled, “Yesterday we were recruiting you, today you’re staff.”7 -
How normal is it for someone working in test automation for 4+ years to ask how to install an intellij plugin via screenshare and accuse me for being impatient and rude for suggesting them to google?7
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Whenever your manager comes to you with a new request, I think you should reply with Ocean 13's Roman's line:
"“Oh, with 18 months, nothing else on my plate, no other jobs, no distractions… maybe.”3 -
this isn't really a DEVrant because i don't vibe code (or even use AI tools that much), it's more of a "please don't make your app like this"
chatgpt is so fricking pathetic. the company behind it is so fricking paralyzed with fear of liability that they have made the chatbot unable to respond to any question with the slightest undertone of potential unsafety. i asked it a homework problem involving the acceleration of a 20x102mm AA cartridge. i asked it whether a wooden or Steel handle would be better for a splitting axe. i asked it if my homemade lye was safe to dump down a clogged drain. on all three occasions it said that it couldn't "help with anything that would meaningfully facilitate harm", and proceeded to just suggest consumerism or some other nonsense as a "safe alternative". like what the actual heck? life on Earth inherently has risk, that's part of human existence. nobody would enjoy being put in a bubble-wrapped room designed for maximum safety (i know from experience), a bit of risk is what keeps us happy and motivated. i'm not even mad at whatever megacorp made chatgpt, i'm just disappointed. it's like watching a freshly-lobotomized fish flop around on the ground. if anyone makes an AI or something else. please don't do this. just slap on a limitation of liability and indemnity clause into your TOS, please don't lobotomize your chatbot in the name of "safety".17 -
Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.
I just can't. lol10 -
My PC suddenly shut off, i repressed on the button, nothing. Unplugged from it everything included my Pi server, keyboard...
Nothing.
I take the computer and its power cord to another room, maybe the multiplug isnt working anymore...
Nothing.
I sit and text someone about it, and suddenly, in my hands, it explodes. Extreme light and sound into my eyes and ears.
The sound in my eyes, the light in my ears.
Now I am amputated from my right arm, "The Great Holy Arch Computer".
My god why!12 -
The only solution is to disolve the Kingdom of Belgium and the french 5th republic.
We must establish the federal popular republic of Francobelgium.
Germany can have luxemburg.
Death to the king7 -
Non-Cooperative Threading With Lock-free, Wait-free Read AND Write
(without compare-And-Swap (CAS))
Premise is straight-forward:
You spawn multiple threads. Each is given a prime number assigned and a counter updated each full execution of the thread.
Any time a thread wants to read or write to a shared resource, it checks its counter modulo its prime number against all others. Wherever counter modulo prime == 0 and > 0 for all other prime keys in a given set, it is safe to read/write the shared resource.
Some limit is set on the counter so it periodically resets.
You may also assign these to say, numbered priority enums or somesuch.
So for example a "priority 0" thread would use prime=2, because this is going to match the most frequently against the counter.
And this is how you get non-cooperative threading with lock-free read and write.
Additionally, by carefully tuning the size of the set of primes, relative to the maximum of the counter before reset, you can minimize latency.
Finally with careful thread management, you could, say, have a framework such that if some threads counter mod its key == 0 while the mod of other keys == 1, those threads may be strictly reading a resource rather than writing it, decreasing read/write latency further, if I haven't misunderstood how reading a shared resource works.
Is this novel? Idk, but maybe it'll help someone eventually.22 -
In a world where any shareholder can have your job cut away without warning, the freedom fighter is the man brave enough to place a dead man switch.13
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I am really heartbroken. Caught my girl with another guy. Told her to end things with him only for her to change the password on her phone. How can I unlock her phone password to know if she's still cheating? She is using Samsung S2020
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