I was looking into various Computer Science study offerings and I discovered the topic of Discrete mathematics: proof by contradiction.

After seeing an introduction about this, I thought this could prove very useful to modern-day projects, for example: a project where millions of pdf's per minute have to be processed using an extraction algorithm. Seeing this would take long as it traverses through the data (depending on the algorithm), I can see the usefulness of proof by contradiction as a speedy algorithm here: the algorithm would just have to prove the negation and be done instead of having to traverse through the tree many more times.

I fucking hate how ugly Angular is

https://youtube.com/shorts/...

There’s a Cloud Code plugin called Ralph Wiggum that’s going viral, and for good reason.

Instead of running an AI prompt once and failing, it keeps retrying until a success condition is met.

Want to convert Python to TypeScript?
It won’t stop until all unit tests pass.

Every failed attempt adds more context, so the AI learns from its own mistakes.

This isn’t smarter AI.
It’s persistent AI, and it changes everything.

#AI #AIDevelopment #LLM #ClaudeCode #DevTools #Coding #Programming #TypeScript #Python #AIAgents #BuildInPublic #TechShorts #youtubeshorts #ralphwiggum

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?