An interesting paradox

"When your computer overheats, why does it freeze..."

The type of NaN looks like a paradox

Bedtime paradox 😁

I'm getting tired of these "500++ for a stressball rants".... You have my sympathies BUT FOR FUCKS SAKE, if you really want a stressball JUST BUY ONE.....

You know you're money goes to a good cause... unlike our taxes...

Here's a paradox I guess: why are you stressing over a stressball?

Makes sense.

That's a mean sounding threat...

Courtesy - Science page @fb

Be like Diego...

Dev paradox: When you test your new test framework to see if it can test.

Just to continue on the last meme I shared...

This rant is False.

The ultimate paradox

Hope this is less controversial...

Computer paradox: cut a folder and paste it inside it :P

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like paradoxes, I created one with multiple choice questions.

"Some stupid question" ?

A) answer 1
B) answer 2
C) None of the above
D) All of the above (paradox)

#killingtime

Liar's Paradox, Google Assistant version

The day I discovered Schrödinger's lesser known paradox of simultaneously being fired and not fired.

This isn't really much of a dev story, but I figured I'd share it anyway.

About two minutes into signing into all my stuff, I suddenly was kicked out of everything. I tried logging in a few more times, and then suddenly started getting the error, "Your account has been disabled for security reasons." I couldn't sign into chat, and co-workers confirmed that I was missing from the company directory. My manager didn't come in for another two hours, and we couldn't get anyone else to answer what the hell was going on. So I was kinda panicking.

Eventually, we found out from one of our coordinators that someone else with the same name as me was leaving the company, and they had deactivated the wrong person.

It ended up getting a lot better. They told me that it could take up to 48 hours to restore my access (it took longer), so I found stuff to do so I could maintain my paycheck. One of those things was assisting someone with data collection and processing, where I eventually said, "Dude, I could totally automate this," and now that's what I'm getting paid to do.

any key? why any?

The paradox of not having a college degree, having programming skills, but not being able to get a job.

Bedtime Paradox

My worst "legacy code" experience was when the company I work at couldn't get their heads out of their asses and stubbornly continued to write legacy code. As of this day they are still doing everything according to what was hip around 2004. And they even force me to write new legacy code.

New legacy code: it sounds like a paradox, but this company makes it happen.

Hmmm... the GNOME paradox: make a desktop that is total shit without extensions and themes. Provide no stable API for them. Break them upon every release.

Top it off claiming that themes are bad anyway because if not all Gnome installations look alike, that hurts your "brand recognition". WTF?!

People:
- human brain is imperfect, makes too many mistakes
- let's make a computer that could perform perfect precise calculations
- computers are imperfect, require a set of clearly predefined rules [by human] to operate
- let's create a computer that behaves like human brain - an AI
- ...

Guess what's gonna be the next entry :)

The devRant paradox: the less time you spend on devRant, the more time you have to do your daily work, the more freetime you have to spend on devRant!

My favorite paradox:

What came first, the compiler or the source code?

Am I the only one who found Satya Nadella picture really out of context and funny.. its like the numbers represent real estate value of his heads surface....

Is this real? 😳

Figures... ;)

Vim is a paradox

Am I the only one who does not like wordpress, but who uses it anyway?..

If I was independently rich I'd pay to work on software I use to fix bugs that it has.

Hello, Paradox Interactive, let me fix some of these roads for you.

Hello, Spotify, let me allow power users to make playlists be subsets of other playlists.

Hello, Github, let me create a tagging system to sort starred repositories.

Taken partly from an article I just read.

Russels paradox is a problem discovered by Bertrand Russel in 1901 when studying set theory.

He describes a set that contains all sets which do not contain themselves. The set of all pornstars does not contain itself for example, so it can be include in Russel's set, as well as many others.

But what about Russel's set itself? It doesnt contain itself so shouldnt it be included as well? But that would mean it DOES include itself which means it DOESNT belong to the set. And it would keep switching like this, monotonically, forever. Hence the paradox.

If it is monotonic then where we begin in the sequence doesnt matter. So lets do away with that bugbear.

Now if russels set IS the set of all sets that dont contain themselves then we get a paradox.

However if russels set merely *has* as a single subset, all sets that dont contain themselves, then shouldnt russel's set with one level of indirection, contain itself?

Let's get real serious for a second here guys... How do you unit test a unit testing framework?

Going through some terrible shit in life atm.. Didn't open devRant for a while and sure as the sun the stream made me smile.. Thanks..

Loool...

I hate to hate. Wow that’s a paradox. But Windows—why? Why must you have he volume be 2-3x louder every time I unpause a YouTube video. Then I have to adjust the volume to have it reset to what it was before.

I try to give every operating system an equal chance, but EVERY TIME I PAUSE A VIDEO? Not to mention you also updated *some* driver, in which I am very unaware of, while I was watching a video. Then Firefox crapped itself for no reason.

Please, stop it.

Thanks,
User.

Cool. I've installed a time paradox! All that's left is to figure out how to leverage it to my benefit...

!dev
I got so wasted yesterday and met person from Italy who was traveling from Bologna to Milan with stop in Warsaw because it was cheaper.
I checked today and it’s actually cheaper to travel inside Italy when switching plane in other countries.

There should be one day a year when random spam emails become true when you click on them.

It should be random for everyone so you never know what day it is and also happen instantly when you click on message.

World would be full of millionaires, guys with enormous penises. Everyone will eat food all the time cause you can lose all of your unnecessary weight with single click and whole internet will flood with spam emails.

Instead of scrolling trough news and social networks people would click on spam emails waiting for the day their spam will be fulfilled.

Economy would eventually collapse and most of us would be no different than monkey in some crazy experiment waiting for it’s banana.

It can be called fulfilled spam message paradox.

It would be funny alternative reality.

A stressful day trying to untangle some speghetti code I wrote a while back.

On train home. Time to relax

By programming some C code.

Microsoft Windows: this application has stopped working: Microsoft Windows

omg it's a fucking ERROR PARADOX

GitHub appears to be operating in some sort of time paradox at the moment as none of my recent commits are showing up.

Knowing things is amazing! But it's also a pain.

What paradoxes taught me.

Perhaps each time a paradox is encountered in mathematics, there is a useful distinction or mathematical tool hiding in plain sight, one that hasn't be discovered or utilized. For cursory evidence I give you: division by zero, the speed of an arrow at any point in flight, and calculus.

Maybe this isn't true for some paradoxes, or even most, but as time goes on I suspect people will discover it is more true than they might have thought.

Undefined behavior and results aren't nonsense: They look to me like golden seams to be explored for possible utility when approached from uncommon angles with uncommon problems.

Yesterday I bought a book. I did not know about it. So I read the first few pages before purchasing it. I did not look for the review online. I paid by card - not through my phone or contactless, just plain old card going into a chip and pin device.

This morning I got an advert in Facebook that I should buy the second part of the book. I know they snoop my online activity. In a weird way I kind of accepted it. I guess my question is how'd they know so much of my personal life.

I'd probably will leave Facebook today. I am sure they are watching this status as well. I hope the jackass behind this learns in my own small way I tried to stand up against their jackassery. Like everyone else here I from IT. I hope some one (or many) from this extraordinary community who is a lot more capable than I am, stands up to this invasion and make an end to this snooping.

Perks of being a tech person....

Amazon return label breaks and going in to another page... hit F12 ... delete the worthless text on the page and print... :D

When is your birthday?

Comment down,let's see if the birthday paradox is true!!!

Mine is 18 April🙄🙄😀😁

The paradox: U need a Job to get Experience but u need Experience to get a Job…

!rant;
Alice has two children. If you meet her together with one Child which is a boy, the probability that she has two boys is 0.5. If she tells you that the child is her first born, the probability of two boys drops to 1/3. Could someone please explain?

Sometimes completing a software project is like experiencing Zeno's paradox.

So tired that I can't even think about writing code this weekend .... Despite really wanting to. 1000 things going through my head that I could code right now.

The Missing Button Paradox: The time it takes for a presenter to find a button on their screen increases based on the amount of participants who can see the button and try to help the presenter find it.

High performance Java.

So I was having problem logging in to slack. It seemed like their two-factor authentication was not working. So I kept on pondering and pondering. Then suddenly a light bulb was lit in my brain. I said to myself, "what would an ordinary muggle do? They surely will click on this contact us button and raise a ticket with them." So that's exactly what I did.

so after a while slack did sent me 16 text messages together as a sweet reward of my trials. I was happily working in Slack and then I realised they in fact did answer my ticket. The only thing is I just needed to log in to get the answer I need. I am happily reminded I wasnt the only fuckwit left into existence...

If a minor unimportant thing comes to our time from a very far future, is it able to cause a time paradox?

Like a single grain of sand. Not carrying a deadly pathogen that will wipe out the entire humanity, just a regular grain of sand.

Will it cause a time paradox? Is anything that comes to our time from the future guaranteed to cause a time paradox? If so, why?

!rant

Paradoxon: if an AI gets good enough to pass the touring test, it would also be good enough to _not_ pass it 🤔

I just realized i created a paradox: no one codes on a daily basis more than i do and yet everyone earns more money than i do

This is a paradox question, because it describes a devs retirement

Did anyone notice azure seems to be down now.. Sometimes I do wonder should I create a twitter account just to swear at MS...

Elon Musk wanted to win the dick of the week title by forcing his employees work from office. In that post almost all the c-suit guys "I wanna be a dick too. At least once in my life before death"

Whenever someone praises a language or framework to be the holy grail of programming, I like to think of epicurus' problem:

1. If an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent programming language exists, then all the hundreds of other PLs would not.

2. There are a fuckton of PLs in the world.

3. Therefore, an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent programming language does not exist.

There is paradox in my mind
I wanna be special person and i hate do simple thing that every one can do it (such as creating website with django or do things my classmates do)
And
I afraid
And I can't believe in myself
I think I'm not enough to rich my goal
So i get lost and confused:/
I can't choose my major

Trying to understand how i hate work but still in love with computer science

Does anyone have a good 'getting started documentation' for react redux with typescript. youtube videos and official documentation are mostly ES5.

Sometimes I really don't understand what is really bad.

My fucked life

or

The flash fucking the fucking complex timeline.

This moment when you pressed your "Auto-Indent" Hotkey and the whole software doesn't run anymore. Later you realize that it's because of your Auto-Indent and even worse - you realize you have to code on top of the spaghetti code...

Pbly just me but whenever I see some post in LinkedIn saying "I am hiring" instead of "WE are hiring" - it irks me to the bone. It shows how pathetically hierarchical org structure the guys may have. I tend to stay off them however lucrative the role sounds...

Of all the bullish moves by businesses this is probably the worst..shows how companies like Amazon and Google got us by the balls..

I have been invited to github codespaces.. How good is it? Is there any resource one how you can create and debug muli container applications?

Can anyone give me a good free resource for react for an intermediate level developer? I trying the react getting started documentation. its too early to formulate an opinion but it seems like very entry level.

Does being dictate consciousness or does consciousness dictate being?

In this layman form, the answer is undefined. But let's dig deeper.

The layman form doesn't account for the difference between discrete and continuous. Without that difference, the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise can't be solved. Yes, it took from ancient Greeks up until 17th century to solve it, introducing that distinction.

Both being and consciousness are discrete entities. This way, technically being was the first, because you were born to it. But when you became self-aware, your consciousness started to dictate being, and not the other way around.

If being truly fully dictate consciousness, then consciousness can be cut away by Occam's razor. In the same way, your parents are technically the reason you exist at all, but if that fact fully dictated who you are, then _you_ could be cut away in similar fashion.

Contrary to that, if consciousness fully dictated being all the time, being could be cut away too.

So, yes, being created your consciousness. But later, when your consciousness was created, it started to dictate being. This is the only way they're both can't be cut and are aligned with the timeline.

When your not sure if you switched in to a different universe because of some paradox or your actually just wrong about somthing

I'm trying to improve my code and I found a place where you can find problems and you can upload the answer and it says if it works or if it doesn't.

The funny thing is that it asks for handling the exceptions but it says it's wrong if u handle them.

Sometimes the world does not make sense to me.. It's like my matrix got restarted and while restarting due to some short circuit all the human beings around my clusters has turned into absolute fuckwits...

Hello folks,

Need an advice for getting some freelance jobs on upwork (looks like the most promising). The thing is that I have revised my profile many times, I get jobs to reply to my invoice and discuss a bit and they seem satisfied but at the end they reject my invoice generally because of a lack of experience on upwork.. I mean it's a paradox God damnit! I have projects I want to offer a descent living for my lady and I with all my will I can't get more job..

What's the easiest way of downloading my own health data from samsung health programmatically?

I just had a thought about apex predators and climate change and that led me to Fermi's paradox.

The easiest way to tackle climate change is strongly reducing the amount of humans on the planet. That's just a fact. What's hard is to find a humane way of doing it. And like probably most of you, I don't want to be reduced personally. Neither do I want to see my friends or family culled, so let's keep this at the level of a thought experiment.

I was then wondering if we are too peaceful. Shocking thought, isn't it? But we stopped using nuclear weapons after two usages for decades. We do not constantly kill each other as effectively as possible.

Then I was wondering if there is a evolutionary benefit of killing each other constantly. And yes, giving the premise of kin selection (not group selection), killing each other could be a beneficial trait. Here's a scenario:

We have an apex predator. What is his biggest threat? His own species. If it grows too big, there is no prey left for it. It would therefore be advantageous for it to kill of its own species. But in a way to ignore its own kin. For instance, give one of those predators a number. Like 200. And assume every offspring has the same number, but randomly added or subtracted 1. And assume that when the number has at least a distance of greater five, the killing starts. No overpopulation, but kin selection is still upheld. Just implement this system with pheromones.

This behaviour would avoid a climate catastrophe. Not enough of the apex predator around to create climate change, no matter how much they'll drive their cars. And as such might end up spacefaring. But still killing each other on sight, because it is in their nature and culture.

And as such, they would not experience geometric growth and thus the Fermi paradox is resolved. And we have another potential and very scary hypothesis about why there aren't any aliens. Only species that cull themselves will enter the space age and they would cull us if the found us. So better we don't meet them.

Does anyone have any clue as to how can I call samsung health api directly from c# - not by using android sdk..

if you don't want to give root to a process how do you write a test that requires root ? :P its a paradox.

If a lie detector outputs true was the input a lie or the truth?

I should be happy that I am bored, but I am bored, not happy. Paradox of understanding at the university.

Sql 101

Dilemma of a new react developer... to eject or not to eject.. lol...