It's been a while since I was here last time.

What's new?

... you know the thing that kicks me most about the epstein emails

they talk way more to the point, more honestly even in their day-to-day plannings (ei being allowed to bitch that someone changes their mind a lot without getting fired), than all the corpo-speak emails and co-workers I had. that's so depressing

even pedos get better rights to expression than programmers

Fun fact: 0xCAFEBABE is the actual magic number of Java .class files :D

lol AI worms hahahaha

Claude, when sending you the code to login: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

I receive nothing for several days. That's not funny for a service costing 100,-.

I don't understand this security shit anyway. Why it's needed in the first place.

Next time fuckers, just disable the check instead of this. This is not an option.

Does the company you work(ed) at allow you to (comfortably) study for your certificates on company time, or do they play it slightly illegally and ask you to do it on your personal time?

I have seen the case where it was the latter.. and I was wondering whether this was common.

Wow, apparently when you're authorizing a Github App with your account there's always a "[This app can] Act on your Behalf" permission that you have to agree too

Bro what??? I just want to add https://utteranc.es/ as a comment system on my blog ;_;

Fortunately it doesn't actually mean what it says. It just means that the app can do all the *other* listed permissions *in your name*. I think?

This wording has been criticized by multiple people but apparently GitHub will not fix it for some fucking reason. Great way to scare off literally every single person who want to comment on some random blog. Because there's so many of those in the first place..........

I spent the last 5 hours running and re-running a script on a database, and trying to figure out why it doesn't seem to affect a different database. I was ready to get into the bushes with encodings and investigating how the LIKE statement interacts with them. FML.

Hello there!

From my 5 min lurking procedure, good to see this place didn't die.

So. I guess AI took my job... But not in the way people preach.

I survived the first layoff wave, but not the second. Cutting off on game driver development. Everything goes towards AI now.

Well, I get nice severance, and I already have another job, and I learned good shit, and can always pull the old FAANG style "worked at V".

Life goes on.

List of pictures of setups of other ranters: https://devrant.com/search/...

Some are quite impressive. I personally do not like multiple monitors. For me it's just a laptop on a living room table with a normal living room chair.

week 4 of meditating now

emotional control is nice but turns out you get so good at being sensitive to yourself and noticing things in your own nervous system that you get phantom itches everywhere that you cannot scratch and they drive you crazy, both while meditating and outside meditating... AI says it's some kind of error-predicting neuroplasticity going on in the somatosensory cortex, misfiring "for now"... sigh. release me from this hell. apparently this is gonna get worse before it gets better at my stage, too

I just wanna be a jedi, come on now...

After all this job searching, I start to wonder: "What the FUCK do companies even want?!".

I followed some c# course the past few days. .Net really has a name for everything, every code convention, every code syntax. There is no way, I'll remember half of the names. I still don't struggle with the names of my department and we are only 11 people after 6 months :')

If you value: security; loose coupling; explicitness; disk space; separation of concerns and being able to focus on the business domain of your software: stay the f*** away from Nuxt and Next

Test rant

https://justice.gov/epstein/files/...

@12bitfloat, we're having a new compatitor in the game:
***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.41911959648132324
Time Rust: 0.4686765670776367
Time CPP: 1.7605431079864502
Time Borded CPP: 1.140819787979126
Time Jest Rust: 1.7274057865142822
Time Swift: 0.4625704288482666

It's swift: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

How does it run locally at your PC?

What happened to ostream? I miss his stupid shit rants.

~2020
Us: "We should switch from user-defined table types to JSON for stored procedure parameters. Its too much hassle to make database changes when we need to add or remove fields."
DBAs: "JSON is just a varchar and not structured. We can just keep adding number suffixes to the type name. See, Invoice15 works just fine."

~2022
Us: "Specifications changed, here are the fields we'll need to update .."
<4 hours later>
DBAs: "You developers need to make up your mind on what fields you need updated. My team doesn't have time to keep creating new user-defined table types and updating all the corresponding stored procedures."
Us: "Why not use JSON? That way the schema binding really falls on us to keep everything in sync. New fields or removing them would be easier, faster, and safer on a case-by-case basis."
DBAs: "NO! JSON is just a varchar and too slow for mass updates!"
Us: "We haven't needed mass updating since moving the data notification pushes to Service Bus almost 10 years ago."
DBAs: "JSON in SQL Server is still too slow, unsecure, and hard-coding field names in string is not best practice!"

~2024
DBAs: "We're only using JSON for this one stored procedure. Its going to be up to you guys to keep the your schemas up to date and be prepared to constantly make changes. We may not support JSON if this doesn't work."

2026: <more than 80% of the stored procs use JSON to pass in parameters>
Us: "Specifications changed, here are the fields we'll need to update .."
<30 seconds later>
DBAs: "Done. Fields ready to go in the JSON schema. If you need to add or remove fields, just let us know. Dealing with JSON is sooo much easier now."

Just doing some math about AI financials and its pretty crazy:

A one-gigawatt data center allegedly costs $50 billion to build.
Lets say its written off totally over 5 years. The building, cooling and power infra won't be,
but the GPUs and CPUs -- which are really expensive -- will be much quicker than 5 years,
so I think this is a fair assumption, not to mention personell and power costs

$50 billion over 5 years is $833 million per month, divided by $20 is 41 million

OpenAI needs 41 MILLION (!!) customers that pay $20 a month just to pay for
this ONE data center, and obviously they require a lot more than that