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What shall it be today?
- AoK returning
- retoor shilling python
- kiki posting about her diet
- Me shitposting about devrants people once more
- All of the above17 -
Nothing like spending 2 days solving a problem that could have been solved by 15 minutes of manual work
Hey, at least it's automated now...6 -
Google Assistant got replaced by Gemini on my phone. What used to work before, me saying "Hey Google, set an alarm for 5 pm" doesn't work anymore.
"I am only a language model so I can't help you with that" is the default response.
Does big tech not like the idea of things working fine and smooth?37 -
I hate tech.
Trying to find a solution to problem in tech:
- 5 to 10 minutes searching for the correct terminology for the problem you are having.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find a solution.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find the correct terminology because the first terminology was wrong.
- 5 to 10 minutes finding the correct solution for your platform version.
- all the while dodging sketchy AI results
- Either you find a solution or you find it can't be fixed on your platform because X vendor is a POS.
So, this is not quite what happened today, but it pisses me off. I cannot imagine not being non-technical trying to use any platform this day and age.
I am trying to access data off of a backup. The data I want is in a user directory on a windows backup. I cannot get to user content because the user for the machine the backup came from is not known. I try with explorer and it says I need to elevate priv. So I do. It sits there and just spins icon doing nothing forever. The volume for viewing the backup is read only (actually a good idea, but annoying, can't change permissions).
So I remember that explorer artificially enforces permissions on folders. So I get Q-Dir which has worked in the past. So I get it installed and it fails to elevate privs. WTF! Everywhere I search I see no solution and shitty AI results. Then from the back of my mind I remember. Run Q-Dir as admin (which doesn't work on explorer due to artificial enforcement). So I do. It can access anything from the backup regardless of location.
WHY THE FUCK DO THESE BULLSHIT BARRIERS EXIST? It only causes frustration from users and locks people out of their data.
I hate technology.5 -
Well, my boss is officially unhinged.
He threatened me in a call. He thinks I ratted him out to HR for living over seas. Funny thing is I don't give a rats ass, he's got the wrong guy.
Going to HR now though, see if I can move teams to minimize the damage he can afflict on me.11 -
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Been having stomach pains since I read my boss's email, giving me new tasks.
This is becoming regular btw. It happens even when I run into him.
Any advice for how to manage?27 -
Ever tried opening up x15 IntelliJ IDEA's sessions with all different repos at the same time after 3 months, so all of them would trigger reindexing?
There's the first time for everything I guess...18 -
Client: We're already behind schedule and over estimate
Also client: *keeps asking for more changes*
Why are civilians like this11 -
Postman is shit, alternatives?
Recently discovered that Postman is now dead shit and its devs are fuckers that now made their shit a payware.
https://blog.postman.com/announcing...
The solution is to use latest normal version https://github.com/postmanlabs/...
Or get an alternative. Are there any good ones?24 -
I just had the most confusing error ever where clang ast randomly replaced classes with just int in type signatures
...wat? I guess the class only has one int field so maybe there's a cpp rule that requires replacing classes with their only field or something?
But when I add other fields it doesn't change. Even if the class has no int fields, it's still replaced by int in the ast
....
Yeah turns out I had the definitions in the wrong order and clang just uses int for unknown types instead of... you know maybe raising a fucking error
Thanks clang...18 -
As a product manager, acting like engineering is the only lever to speed up the delivery date on a project when we had the kick off meeting *last week* is slightly insulting.
Your job is to pull all the levers at your disposal to deliver your feature. Instead, you take up half the quarter figuring out what you want. Them give design and stakeholders an entire month to debate the UX before handing it off to be built.
It's simple math, and each part of the process delays the other.
But don't worry, eng will cut all the corners to get it there 🫠👍1 -
I'm in Germany.
While being the same race, they're obviously from a different world. I wonder if @Lensflare has more style than his fellow citizens.
Most Germans are Dutch without support for CSS. The country of times new Roman I guess.
They buy apple products to compensate for theur own style. That's how much money is needed to make a German hip.26 -
I'm on the 2nd week of a support rotation. One of the support reps contacted my manager about two tickets, one that is about an automated e-mail that didn't go out (which .. doesn't even seem necessary since the action has been completed?) and one because I accidentally put in the postcode on the 2nd line of an address field (which I immediately fixed when he commented on the ticket, minutes after, the same fucking day!)
We also had a super cringe all hands meeting today. I got plenty of sleep and am already exhausted.
My old roommate/landlord/co-worker sent me a text about his company needing devops people. I should probably finish updating me resume today.1 -
So I uninstalled Xbox App off my computer like a week ago. Today I get a notification to check out XBox Game Pass. So I find in notifications it has separate app or thing installed to notify about shit like that. So I removed that.
I also don't like the pos Game Bar. It won't let you uninstall in apps. So I searched and found this command:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage
Good bye MS POS Gaming Overlay. Good bye Gayme Pass Notifs.
So I am on Pro version of Windows 11. Is this shit not able to be removed from Home version? What a garbage future we are in.4 -
I have seen many debates on how children are taught but rarely about what they are taught. This reminds me of my mother who used to tell Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the door that ‘we’re Church of England’. We weren’t and our family never saw the inside of a church except for weddings and funerals (thank you God). But my mother had sorted out our official spirituality with the holding position of ‘we’re Church of England.’ In the same way, most people don’t question what is taught in schools any more than my mother thought about religion. It was like just ‘there’. We lived in England and it had a Church so ‘we’re Church of England’ was enough without delving into detail, thank you. Most people treat education just the same. It’s a school and that’s enough delving into detail, thanks very much. What goes on there? They have lessons and stuff. What lessons and stuff? Well, they’re taught what they need to know. And what’s that? Well, lessons and stuff. Phantom Self has an image of how things are, an image supplied by the program, but for the most part knows or seeks precious little detail about anything7
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