General advice: If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

When you walk in the room for your interview and you see a whiteboard on the wall

Pro tip:
Decorate your room like a lecture hall so you fall asleep faster

Finally sharing my desk! The team is allowed to work in a dark room, the proper environment for developers.

Alexa (in another room): ***ALARM***
Me: Hey Google, broadcast "Alexa, stop"
Alexa: ***stops***
Me:

Interviewer: Are you familiar with SVN?

Me: Nope.

*trying to GIT out of the room*

In the server room, no one can hear you scream.

Just signed a contract for a new room!

This means I'll be going from 500kbs to a general 30-50mbs 😍

I need one of these for my server room

Found this gem on Twitter

Soon... my new server room...

Similarities between this spider and me:
- We both are web developers
- We both live in same room
- We both try to find bugs everyday

I had to install a program whose setup file size was 3GB and I already had that setup in my pendrive, but my pendrive was in the other room so instead of going there and bringing that pendrive, I re-downloaded the setup.

My other room is hardly 5m away

"I have a terminal illness"
*room goes silent*
"so I stopped using the terminal"
*bob throws his keyboard at me*

My first child's name will be Sudo, then I can say:
"sudo clean you room"

* Me entering the interview room:
Me: Hello
Interviewer: Hi, You are XYZ right?
Me: Yes, that is me
Interviewer: You know we offer {low_number} as a salary right?

*Me going out of the room

When the hotel offers "free wi-fi" in your room.

[Reception] : "Good evening, how may I assit you?"

[Guest] : "Hi... Yes, I can't seem to find my room."

[Reception] : "What room number do you have?"

[Guest] : "I'm in room 404..."

*Awkward silents*

[Reception] : "How did you access the room phone?"

*Hangs up*

"Don't be the smartest person in the room. If you are, you're in the wrong room."

This piece of advice really holds true and continues to push me into fulfilling and challenging positions in my career.

Image of the day

When you finish a HTML + CSS assignment that's due in one week in 5 minutes.

GUESS WHAT? HE WANTS ANOTHER FUCKING FEATURE!

AND WHEN I SAID I DIDN’T HAVE TIME BECAUSE CODE-COMPLETE IS TOMORROW, HE SAID HE’LL PUNT IT TO NEXT YEAR INSTEAD OF RELEASING IT THIS WEEK SO I CAN “BUILD IT RIGHT.” MAN, FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENDLESS CHANGES!

THIS WAS GOING TO BE A TWO WEEK TICKET UNTIL HE STARTED ADDING ENDLESS FEATURES AND CHANGES AND SURPRISES. IT’S BEEN FUCKING MONTHS! I AM SICK OF THIS SHIT!

ANSDFKAWHOALIKWEGJFADIO;UGJT;

There goes my Q4 performance review.
> “Accomplishments? Oh, there’s lots of room here. Accomplished: Basically nothing. How embarrassing.”

Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate

PC stopped working, I found someone who lives in my room , he's is saying that I'm his brother.

Cleaning my room 😂😂😂😂

Room Number Not Found

I modeled layout of my living room in VR. Now I can take a seat on my couch without taking off my headset :D

A recruiter called me today. I had to barracade myself in the laundry room to hear him, and still needed to ask him to repeat himself 7-8 times. he spoke at what must have been 15% volume with a super thick Indian accent. He also couldn't pronounce a full third of the terms.

Here's how it went.

recruiter: you full-stack dev? what experience?
me: yes, about 8 years, maybe 10.
recruiter: you know C#?
me: no.
recruiter: you know java? tomcat? spring?
me: no, I don't know Java.
recruiter: you know react? angular? apache? node?xml? json? html?
me: yes. yes, angular 1. yes, yes, ...
recruiter: ok, i email you java job posting
me: I don't know java.
recruiter: ok, i email you.

Recruiter used "email java job posting." It wasn't very effective.
Recruiter moves quickly! Recruiter used "did you get my email? email" immediately after. It was super effective! @Root becomes angered!

Recruiter calls.
Recruiter calls.
@Root becomes enraged!

Recruiter calls.
recruiter: what [???] [?] [???] [??] java [???] [??] [???] okay
recruiter: You know C#?
me: No, I still don't know C#.
recruiter: ok thank you for time. 😡 *click*

What just happened?
I really don't understand their species.

So Windows 10 Mobile seems like it wants to become true Windows and updates at night without any warning, illuminating my entire room

There is only one true relaxing room for the lunch break.

This awkward moment when you go:
- Who the fuck wrote that shit?
And the other side of room whispers:
- You did...

That awkward moment when you don’t want to come out of your room because there are strangers in your house.

I hate it when people think programming is for geeks with black hoodies in a dark room... #codingforeveryone

I never liked cleaning my room.... usually the conversation goes like this

Dad: clean ur room
Me: meh... I'll do it later

$200 robot vacuum: clean ur room otherwise the crap on the floor will jam me
Me: ok ok... Give me a few mins

When you have this view outside your room😍😇

Living in a tiny house and having a remote-only job (and no lappy) means I get the wonderful, lovely privilege of working in my bedroom... with my 18mo (who will not leave me alone), and my girlfriend (who won't fucking leave). It's positively great!

Blasting music is often not enough to drown out the sound, and certainly does nothing for getting hit with toys or screamed at to get picked up, so I get basically nothing done during the day. And that's presupposing I'm not begged to run errands/go to lunch with her, both of which take precious hours. (She won't take the baby out alone, so she's always here unless we find a babysitter)

At least it's quiet after 9pm, so I stay up coding for as long as I can. But 18mo's wake up super early, and the girlfriend prefers to stay in the room until I'm up... so even with earplugs I don't get enough sleep. A monster a day and a bottle of Tito's vodka a month is all that keeps me sane.

Why can't I just be fucking left alone to fucking work? I'm our only goddamn source of income.

It's no wonder we're fucking broke.

And to make matters worse, I'm being downsized... and considering the above, I doubt I'll be able to land a new job. 😡

My little cellar room 🤗
(Usually much more messy than that, just cleaned up a bit for the photo)

The door to my room at work

When you have no gift wrap in your dorm room

Never be the smartest person in the room.

Archlinux, i3, termite, vim, vimium.
Once after 2 hours working I realised I left the mouse in the other room.

The strangest place I've ever coded... I woudn't say it was the strangest, but definitely the least expected?

The hospital's recovery room after my second child.

I was working at/in Hell at the time (see previous rants concerning API Guy and the asshole salesman CEO). Said salesman douchebag ceo bossman had no recollection of me being expecting, going to the hospital, or even why I was there (and if he did, he wouldn't have cared at all). He still insisted I work on his shit features because they were so important for his ever-so-important client and their new signups that they were going to do anyway. I loathe him so fucking much.

Anyway, the feature in question was pretty tiny: during the new client onboarding process, if the client came from a specific affiliate link, the frontpage should change to reflect that affiliate's branding -- different background, a custom header, etc. It was pretty easy to do, though I made certain he didn't know that. During an hour while everyone else was asleep (and while I wasn't passing out from exhaustion), I pulled out my macbook air and built his stupid feature next to my hours-hold newborn.

Did I get any appreciation for that? Sure! He showed appreciation by not yelling at me for a few days. But only because he thought the feature was difficult and that I got it done quickly, not because anything else was difficult. Asshole.

Yes, I told him several times before and several times more afterward. I don't know what goes though his head or how it even works, but it didn't seem like a big deal to him, and he kept forgetting, or maybe he just pretended to listen like he always did. Fucking asshole apparently never heard of maternity leave. I could rant and swear and curse and fume and rage about him for years 🤬 I can't believe I was so excited when I netted that job.

But anyway, building the feature was actually kind of relaxing. I organized and wrote the entire project myself, so working with it was a pleasure, and it was an easy change that I could abstract nicely and cleanly. I totally didn't mind doing it, and actually kind of enjoyed it. I just hated who I was doing it for, and that he didn't fucking care. Used and abused? absolutely. I hope he dies in the most painful, gruesome way possible. Spaghettification might not even be awful enough

I can't find my hotel room...

When your floor names a room Galileo and you have @bachmanity as a co-worker...

Man I love being in a server room, its so cold

Simple things that makes us Happy:

A laptop,
a LAN cable,
and an empty room..!

Last meeting of the day was actually good. Managed to get to the point! Booking this room over and over again!

Abstract CPU cooler art. Found this in my school tech room. No idea how it happened

Parent: Your room is a mess
Me: You should see my code

*Flying slipper received*

Debugging C++ be like:
2 Errors Found!
*debugs 1 error*
96 Errors Found!
*throws laptop across room*

Got a new colleaque. System Engineer with coding skills.

First step is to become adjusted to hearing high heels in our nerd room.

:)

My living room

I remember the day when my room was messed up and my desktop icons were organized.
But now, my desktop icons are messed up and also my room is.

shit

sudo apt-get remove --purge idiot-in-the-room

Spending my 23rd birthday in a server room 700 km away from home, discussing the requirements for app deployment. Yep. Every dev's dream.

When everyone in the room has android devices and someone says "ok Google"...

the new fanboy corner on my room wall :)

Going down to the new office tomorrow to choose my new nap ro... Err, I mean, our server room.

Currently written on the conference room whiteboard:

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I couldn't agree more.

"If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room", I seek to be in presence of people who know more than me, from whom I can learn from

devRant frustrated my all life. checking devRant at operating room while waiting patient for surgery

Perfect room name dosen't exist.

conference room
name changed
to
"execution room"

when we try to keep our room as clean as our desktop! lol!

!rant

Few days ago I’ve had a room in a very '80s looking hotel in Poznań. Room number 11 on 10th floor. What a coincidence in their numbering...

programmed a three page website at 2 am in my room, on my phone, because i was too lazy to walk to the next room and get my laptop

Developers who writes something similar

if (count >= 0) { return true; }

else { return false; }

deserves a special room in hell.

!dev

So the ceiling in our (upstairs) laundry room started leaking. After some troubleshooting, we determined it was the A/C, and not the water pipes. (The house is cheap as hell and fucking stupid.) We did some troubleshooting and research, and tried fixing it ourselves; no luck. Cleaning the pipes from outside: no joy. Cleaning the pipes from inside: no access. The attic is ... small. Maybe half a small closet? and doesn’t give access to fucking anything. The builders must have installed everything before putting up the walls and ceilings, sealing everything off, because there is no access. It’s fucking stupid. Also, the usual maintenance openings aren’t even there either because why the fuck would they be?

But fucking whatever.

We called an a/c repair guy, who never showed. We assumed he was busy (it’s fucking hot), so we called him again the next day; two days later he showed.

Busy. Whatever.

Guy didn’t bring a ladder. Whatever, we have one right there in the hallway because we’ve been trying in vain to fix it.

Guy didn’t bring a wrench of any kind. Guy didn’t bring a screwdriver. Guy didn’t bring a bucket. Guy didn’t bring any pipe. Or any pipe sealant. Or fucking anything but his sagging fucking pants, fat belly, and fat stench. We had to supply everything, which fortunately we had on hand as we were already trying to fix it. Hoorah for being proactive.

Guy said he drained both primary and secondary pans. Somehow. Without access. I’m not even convinced it HAS a secondary pan. Guy said he cleaned out the pipes, too. From inside the house. Without access. Somehow. Maybe he did that from outside, without tools, while I was chasing the brats and someone else was watching the fat bastard. Who knows; I wasn’t with him most of the time.

When he was done, the guy said “pay whatever you think it’s worth” (or whatever). Fine, if he actually cleaned the pipes out and it isn’t leaking anymore, that’s great.

Guy leaves.

We go up to check. AND THE FUCKING A/C IS STILL LEAKING. BUT NOW IT’S FROM BEFORE THE PIPES, TOO. AND HALF AN HOUR LATER, THE LAUDRY ROOM CEILING IS ALSO LEAKING, WHICH MEANS THE PIPES ARE STILL LEAKING.

It turns out the asshole broke the pan.

We call him back, he goes blah blah blah, we send him a video. Drip, drip, drip.

His response?
“The pan must be rusted.” IT’S FUCKING PLASTIC.

“Oh, in that case, it’s probably a rusted coil that’s leaking.”

a) HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW IT WAS FUCKING PLASTIC IF YOU DRAINED IT?

b) THE COILS CARRY FREON, NOT WATER, AND THE A/C IS STILL WORKING. IF THERE WAS A LEAK, SHIT WOULD BE HOT. AND RANK. FREON SMELLS NASTY AND DOESN’T CAUSE IT TO RAIN IN THE FUCKING HOUSE.

REPLACING A COIL IS ALSO A $2000 FUCKING REPAIR.

THE FAT BASTARD PROBABLY BROKE THE PAN INTENTIONALLY JUST TO UPSELL. I WANT TO FUCKING MURDER HIS LYING FUCKING FACE OFF.

It’s possible he didn’t break the pan intentionally, so I’ll tentatively remove that from his charges. BUT TO FUCKING LIE?

LIE AND DIE, FUCKER.

Girlfriend's parents are talking about an issue with their printer in the next room. How long before I'm asked to fix it?

!rant

I just help my partner have our first baby.

In a pool in our living room:)

Me: Welcome everyone to my introduction to Drupal.
*watches an empty room.

Launch that project as is... There is always room for improvement.

1970..................................................2020

I love the reactions I get when I shout across the room, "Will, you need to Pull!"

Never update the firmware of your delta-fan driven server when your girlfriend is sleeping. Got thrown out of my own room!
Fml

Rant #1:
Why everyone and their toy cars gotta be jumping on the bed when I’m trying to sleep?

Rant #2:
For months now, I get bleary eyed and tired every time I look at work. Focusing and being productive is almost impossible. I’m cheery and alert, then sit down, open my editor, and find I can’t focus. Moments later I feel like I need a nap.

Rant #3:
I get interrupted an average of every 3-5 minutes, basically every day, all day long. The more this happens, the more tired and angry I become. I often have to resort to yelling, throwing toys that appear on my desk/keyboard, and blasting loud music I don’t want to hear through noise canceling headphones.

—————

Is it any wonder I can’t focus or think or do anything but feel like I’m falling asleep? Is it any wonder I’m perpetually angry and frustrated?

I can sort of fix the interruptions by locking myself away in my monster’s room. But I’m still so tired and bleary and can’t focus. I don’t know what to do, or even what I can do. Vacation didn’t help. Another would doubtlessly be just as effective, and certainly wouldn’t improve my boss’s view of my performance.

Ugh.

Server room goals....

If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

My home desk, hidden in the corner of my living room.

Even when I close my eyes in a dark room, it's still too bright.

The type of company that should go to the same room in hell with Facebook.

Our nurse at the hospital, along with the most annoying people I've ever known, says, "knock knock" out loud when she enters the room.

[Hears a commotion about a Java vs C# debate in the computer room]

Me: "Boys, you can't fight in here, this is the war room"

[eerie glare from the crowd]

Me: "uhhh... nya?"

[Everyone leaves the room]

oh, guess I'm gonna be doing the project by myself then

I'm attacking all the guys who run arch and think they are heroes. Just a load of noobs following online guides who want a cookie for their cv or water cooler street cred. Just fo.

Ive got three rooms I might work in, currently my desktop is in my VR dev room where the lights are broken.

I found some rum!

Specifically kahlua.
Kahlua, milk, Tito’s. Mmm. And so strong.

I tried adding creme de cacao, but I wasn’t strong enough to open the bottle. 🙁

Anyway, we played a family game that amounts to throwing a ball or other toy into a bucket from increasing distances / more difficult areas of the room. With my drunken coordination it was a great time. 😁

No work today.
Just packing and fun.
☺️

!dev

>goes to karaoke room
>hears familiar voice
>peaks in an opened door
>sees green glass bottle
>sees classmate
>laughs

I was about to go home and say I couldn't find the room where our test is but then the teacher showed up

Your girlfriend laughing with colleagues in the other room.

Pink is not always a good idea

For example, pink themed IDE, pink keyboards, pink lights...

:/

I have lizard phobia and I just removed the lizard from my room. This is my heartbeat.

Welcome to my room!

watching my Raspberry Pi blink away in a dark room is the best sight I have seen in a while.

Manager decides to hold our stand-up call on Skype when whole team is in the same room.

When I tried to watch tv in my hotel room.

Hello Google, I know you're watching.
There's still room for improvements in your search algorithm.
Sincerely, you know who I am.

I didn't have room for all of them on my laptop but!

Manager: You want a promotion? To senior? Ha. Well, build this web app from scratch, quickly, while still doing all your other duties, and maybe someone will notice and maybe they’ll think about giving you a promotion! It’ll give you great visibility within the company.

Your first project is adding SSO using this third party. It should take you a week.

Third party implementation details: extremely verbose, and assumes that you know how it works already and have most of it set up. 👌🏻

Alternative: missing half the details, and vastly different implementation from the above

Alternative: missing 80%; a patch for an unknown version of some other implementation, also vastly different.

FFS.
Okay, I roll my own auth, but need creds and a remote account added with the redirects and such, and ask security. “I’m building a new rails app and need to set up an SSO integration to allow employees to log in. I need <details> from <service>.” etc. easy request; what could go wrong?

Security: what’s a SSO integration do you need to log in maybe you don’t remember your email I can help you with that but what’s an integration what’s a client do you mean a merchant why do merchants need this

Security: oh are you talking about an integration I got confused because you said not SSO earlier let me do that for you I’ve never done it before hang on is this a web app

Security: okay I made the SSO app here you go let me share it hang on <sends …SSL certificate authority?>

Boss: so what’s taking so long? You should be about done now that you’ve had a day and a half to work on this.

Abajdgakshdg.

Fucking room temperature IQ “enterprise security admin.”
Fucking overworked.
Fucking overstressed.

I threw my work laptop across the room and stepped on it on my way out the door.
Fuck this shit.

Silicon Valley last episode, what a climax in the end. The best was, "we need to address the elephant in the room" 😂😂

More room now :))

Was just recalling one of the worst calls I ever got in IT...

Many years ago we had a single rack for all of our servers, network and storage (pre virtualization too!).

We had a new security system installed in the building and the facilities manager let the guy into the server room to run all the sensor cables in because that is where they wanted their panel... the guy was too lazy to get up on the roof and in the attic repeatedly so after he checked it out he went around every where and drilled a hole straight up where he wanted the sensor wire to go... well the server room was not under an attic space... when he found he had drilled through to the out side... HE FILLED IT WITH EXPANDING FOAM.... the membrane on the roof was damaged... that night it rained... I got a call at 4 am that systems were acting funky and I went in... when I opened the door it was literally raining through the corners of the drop ceiling onto the rack... An excellent DR plan saved our asses but the situation cost the vendor's insurance company $30k in dead equipment and another $10k in emergency labor. Good thing for him we had so little equipment in that room back in.

Moral of the story... always have a good DR plan... you never know when it will rain in the server room.... :)

When you've walked into a room and forget why you're there.

That's me when I've opened a new file in Atom.

Feel cold inside server room?!
Walmart overpower server!
Take this!

I need a prop laptop made from rubber to throw around the room in rage.

I thought my laptop was going crazy, but it was just my CAT laying on my wireless keyboard that was in another room!

My small home office, lots of shit laying around in this room.

Fear and Loathing in Server Room

Rubber Duck with anything in the room it, I recommend something punchable.

This is a followup to my earlier RealTek networking rant.

After reviewing and researching all of the wlan adapter suggestions on that rant, as well as a few more, I settled on an Alfa AWUS036ACH usb3 wireless-ac adapter. Every Alfa I've ever owned has been amazing, so I happily bought it.

It arrived today, and I excitedly threw my existing RealTek garbage across the room, hooked up my fancy new toy, and... nothing.

Fearing it was doa, I ran `lsusb` to see if it was even showing up... and it was! but identifying itself as a RealTek device...?

All of my research showed it uses the Atheros9k chipset. It's advertised and praised as using the "famous Atheros AR9271 chipset" and the Ath9k drivers. Except this particular unit appears to use the RTL8821AU chipset, therefore requiring RealTek drivers. askfja;sldf.

I unhappily fetched the garbage from the dirty laundry where it landed, installed it, and began my research anew.

I found, among all of the wonderful promises of Ath9k bliss, a thread on the Kali forums corroborating the RealTek driver nonsense, and it explained how to get the RTL8821 drivers working with it. which is pretty much the very last thing I want to do.

If you've read any of my networking rants, well, they've all been about how totally awful RealTek linux drivers are, and that's pretty much common knowledge anyway. So I'm like extremely pissed off.

ARGH WHY IS NETWORKING WITH LINUX ALWAYS SO FREAKING DIFFICULT? haslkfjasgdskg

!dev
I'M SO GONNA GET MY OWN LOCKPICKING SET AND LEARN HOW TO FUCKING PICK LOCKS. I'M SICK OF GETTING LOCKED OUT OF MY OWN FUCKING ROOM. "WHY DON'T YOU USE A KEY?" YOU ASK? GOOD QUESTION. MY JERKBAG ARSEHOLE PARENTS DECIDED TO NOT GIVE ME A FUCKING KEY FOR MY OWN FUCKING ROOM *FOR 6 GODDAM YEARS* SINCE WE'VE MOVED IN. "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO THE LOCKSMITH OR SOME SHIT-" DO YOU I THINK I CAN JUST FUCKING WALTZ IN, ASK FOR THE KEY AND BRING IT TO THE FUCKING LOCKSMITH TO GET A DUPLICATE? AS IF THEY WOULD!!! AND NOW I'M GONNA GET EITHER AN F OR GO FULL SUICIDAL BECAUSE COFFEE THROUGH THE NIGHT IS NOT A FUCKING OPTION FOR ME. BECAUSE ALL THE FUCKING MATERIAL I HAVE FOR MY GODDAM ASSIGNMENT, ALONG WITH MY LAPTOP IS IN MY FUCKING ROOM. THANKS DAD! YOU SURE ARE HELPFUL AS FUCK! FUCK YOU!

A necessity for my non AC hostel room in the sweltering heat of Delhi, India.

that moment when you finish your project literally a minute before deadline, just before entering the presentation room

I am cleaning my room and I found this in a very dark and dusty corner

It's a Xbox 360 wireless controller adapter

Running Java programs to heat up my room instead of room heater. Java FTW.

Got up middle of night , why’s there light in the living room, went out to this , it was scary

I just calmly got up from my desk and walked into a meeting room to scream.
I hate this fucking job

We have a quiet room
WHAT THA FUCK DO I NEED A QUIET ROOM FOR, I NEED A ROOM TO FUCKING RAGE BREAK SHIT AND FUCKING KILL SOME FUCKING CATS AND 9DFEHYPIUFHVBQHEWFOQ0EFVQOEIIIIUCFQOYWREIUXBNMFYKJDTYNSBGVBF

It's normal to sit up until 6:00 AM cleaning your room, taking down Christmas decorations, and organizing your clothes, right?

!rant

++swag;

Now to find room or apply for a new computer at work..

Thanks!

i need this option for my room

God commands:
0. Sudo
1. Shift + z + z

when you attend too many talks and conferences and run out of room.

On our international trip to Greece we just had our room upgraded!
They have tables here!!

I mean if this counts..

The smartest person in the room is usually the person who knows how to tap in to the intelligence of every person in the room.

Me: "why are you doing this with PowerPoint?"
colleague: "because i'm going to print it"
I left the room

Found my baby while i was cleaning my room.

PHB wanted access to our team chat room where we do standup, among other things. Access granted. Immediately a new chat room was created.

Using dark theme in a lit room.

Leave developers in a room long enough and they'll drop verbal communication in favour of irc/slack/discord

I wrote a program to check if there are empty rooms and email me when the room I want is empty.

So I ran it, and I got the email, But by the time I went to the info desk, that room was taken.

I don’t know why I wrote that program wasting except to waste my time.

I see your cable hell and raise you my cable hell

(This is my PS4 + PSVR setup + some other stuff in my living room)

just another day in the Git pull room

The "stochastic parrot" explanation really grinds my gears because it seems to me just to be a lazy rephrasing of the chinese room argument.

The man in the machine doesn't need to understand chinese. His understanding or lack thereof is completely immaterial to whether the program he is *executing* understands chinese.

It's a way of intellectually laundering, or hiding, the ambiguity underlying a person's inability to distinguish the process of understanding from the mechanism that does the understanding.

The recent arguments that some elements of relativity actually explain our inability to prove or dissect consciousness in a phenomenological context, especially with regards to outside observers (hence the reference to relativity), but I'm glossing over it horribly and probably wildly misunderstanding some aspects. I digress.

It is to say, we are not our brains. We are the *processes* running on the *wetware of our brains*.

This view is consistent with the understanding that there are two types of relations in language, words as they relate to real world objects, and words as they relate to each other. ChatGPT et al, have a model of the world only inasmuch as words-as-they-relate-to-eachother carry some information about the world as a model.

It is to say while we may find some correlates of the mind in the hardware of the brain, more substrate than direct mechanism, it is possible language itself, executed on this medium, acts a scaffold for a broader rich internal representation.

Anyone arguing that these LLMs can't have a mind because they are one-off input-output functions, doesn't stop to think through the implications of their argument: do people with dementia have agency, and sentience?
This is almost certain, even if they forgot what they were doing or thinking about five seconds ago. So agency and sentience, while enhanced by memory, are not reliant on memory as a requirement.

It turns out there is much more information about the world, contained in our written text, than just the surface level relationships. There is a rich dynamic level of entropy buried deep in it, and the training of these models is what is apparently allowing them to tap into this representation in order to do what many of us accurately see as forming internal simulations, even if the ultimate output of that is one character or token at a time, laundering the ultimate series of calculations necessary for said internal simulations across the statistical generation of just one output token or character at a time.

And much as we won't find consciousness by examining a single picture of a brain in action, even if we track it down to single neurons firing, neither will we find consciousness anywhere we look, not even in the single weighted values of a LLMs individual network nodes.

I suspect this will remain true, long past the day a language model or other model merges that can do talk and do everything a human do intelligence-wise.

Error 404. Room not found.

Our UX guys have all congregated in a conference room and are practicing their joker laughs.

I'm slightly worried.

After arguing about which framework to use....

Senior dev: we could just write it ourselves
Room: yeah, yeah, yeah...
Me: (quiet) noooooooo....

* get a good job *
* my room==my computer lab *
* iphone + vespa + sexy jacket *
* not died in terrorism *

Finally cleaned my hw work desk. I'm so proud of myself! 😂😂

While being stuck in the experiment room yesterday, I was thinking that it's the perfect place for a quickie, but then realized I got nobody to share the spot with. 😐

Fml.

Reserve a meeting room for 30 minutes. Sit in there for 2 hours straight and don't give a shit if someone else who reserved the room wants to have it.
Learn to plan your fucking meetings!

This is how our local district administration cools its servers. Serious shit.

Have you ever wondered how these fuCKING FLIES GOT INTO MY ROOM??!

As soon as you see this wallpaper of a DEV, you know he is DA BOSS in the room!!

Visiting the server room be like

Obligatory stress ball picture, thanks for all your ++ on my underwater server room rant! ❤

Late update to the party, but I’m temporarily occupying the newly decorated living room while my room / office is being prepared for a swish new look.

Obligatory code included.

and the wires emerged like tentacles from their sockets and you don't know what goes where.

fml

late at night..

should I keep coding

or.. you know, me alone with dark room, internet and laptop..

Due to a very unfortunate rectangle packing solution, my bed is currently at a 30° angle to the grid of the room. It's unexpectedly hard to fall asleep when every object in my vision adheres to a single shared grid except for my bed.

Makeshift hotel room morning coding setup 😬

I wonder if lock picking is part of the pentest or not ? XD

when you notice everyone in the room stopped programming because your silent fart 5min ago wasnt so innocent.

Answering several emails per day from annoying customers.

Estimating expenditures of possible future projects for offers.

Calls from the management. Calls in general.

People coming into my room in the office (where I sit with 2 other programmers) just to have a call, because it's quieter in this room than in the rest of the office.

I think I need to get out of room and do some sports. I am growing up tits. is that programming 😰

sister comes in my room saying: "hey i cant get on my facebook wall. can you like restart the internet?"

Taking over the living room to code.... Yes Xmas decorations still up

My classmate and friend next to me in the programming room likes to use color 0a in his cmd. My eyes

The air conditioning unit for our data room failed at 4AM this morning. Everyone got to work this morning with and all of the servers and network equipment was shut down. the room was over 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

This should be in every tech team's room

How many computers do you have in your room (currently in use or old ones)?
Mine are,
2 Desktops
3 Laptops
And one RaspPi

Fixing a bug which was open for a few weeks - in front of the exam room - while waiting to be let into the room

Best feeling ever, plus the irritated looks of people while they try to study till the last second

Sometimes the toughest integration challenge is figuring out how to fit my lunch into the break room fridge.

404 ... Room not found :D

When I am on Computer. I like the room to be dark minimum to no sunlight's and cool. That's why I hate my work environment. The room is so fucken bright. Damn those eye strain.

ughh just get a room already

I deleted over a petabyte worth of snapshots from AWS today.

As a data hoarder this feels like genocide.

I don’t know what’s the point of returning the office is we just all sit in the same room on Zoom

Always try to be in a room in which you will be the dumbest person

"Well you’re in your little room
and you’re working on something good
but if it’s really good
you’re gonna need a bigger room
and when you’re in the bigger room
you might not know what to do
you might have to think of
how you got started sitting in your little room" - Jack White

Walking into the home office room outside working hours gives me shivers

tfw you're the only female dev in the room surrounded by men in brotanks, their protein powders, soylent, and gym bags 🙃

To the people who keep overwriting our meeting room bookings in Outlook, fuck you and I hope you all die in a fire.

I am on a mission to go thru all the of bibliographies of all the books I have, and create a checklist of the books I have and don’t have, and continue to buy all the books in that list, add to the list for each new book I buy that references another book. UNTIL! The day I have a closed loop reference. to essentially “in this room all the books that each book references may also be found in this room, if the book isn’t in this room no other book references it.”

Got my first ever fully working non-derver Linux distro running - yay! Living room streaming rig - here we go!

If you're the most intelligent person in the room, you're in the wrong room

Sometimes devs are missing social skills. I felt that today.
I did not know the social code of conduct when leaving the hospital masurbitary room and meeting a colleage about to use the same room I just used.

Best part of being a developer?

Having an excuse to sit in a dark room all day (and night!)

If you don't have room to grow, you don't have room to succeed.

My room in my apartment: Gaming desktop PC, big monitor, privacy... cuz uhh.... I sometimes code NSFW apps like these past few days.

Does spectrum count?!🤔
Jumping jack, loads of tapes & other silly games, my radio & kidnapped tv in the living room 😍😍 yay!

So called UX/UI designers don't belong in the same room as a developer.

I've implemented my own version of IoT all over my room and home.

Hope the protocol I've designed has proper security...

Whenever I need to make any changes related to React-Router, I just curl up in the corner of my room and cry :(

I was talking about the mobile game The Room around another student yesterday and mentioned how it's like a escape room type of game.

Today I got 3 different types of escape room commercials on Instagram/Facebook. Never gotten anything close to this regarding ads.

I've never felt so afraid, or spied on.

Not joining the weekly rant.
But had a haunted dream last night and it was definitely weird.

Dreamed that I was at my childhood house and opened the door of my room. Found literally nothing. Just empty room. Got scared (for whatever reason) and run to my mom. Came back to the room with her. Opened the door. Everything was in it's place; bed, chair, table etc.

I didn't watch any scary movie for the past few months. There was one scary dream few months/weeks ago and I wrote about it. And now this. 🤔

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal

Was working on a system we planned on to deliver to a hospital
basically it was meant for controlling and monitoring pactions coming in and attendance time from the staff

Got it off the ground well and got to where the system was supposed to update room status
occupied/free then horror started
the db was not setting the room free after clearing a client off the list... room remained occupied and this kept on happening for 6 months and I was so focused on fixing the db models thinking thats where the problem was....

1 day after leaving the project for several months i just revisited the project randomly and started going through the whole code base trying to make sense of what was happening as there where no errors generated..
I had to verify the whole system logic... and that day i figured out what was happening...
upon adding a client to a room the system was also creating a duplicate room so when the function for setting the room free executes it would set the duplicate room free and not the actual room and the system would pick the room with occupied state causing the user not being able to assign new pactions to the room

Solving this brought so much relief coz it required so much work just to solve what seemed to be a minor issue

Anyone ever been in the situation where the"Agile Project Manager" is the last agile person in the room

@localhost long weekend are for feature development...1 week from launch...in your in laws bonus room.

Q: How do you stay warm in an empty room?\

A: Go stand in the corner—it’s always 90 degrees.

"If you think you're the smartest person in the room, you're probably not*."

*You probably are a fucking idiot though.

!Rant

All Devs in the room!! Have a happy, healthy, prosperous, safe new year filled with joy.
Happy coding!!

Third official day back in the office today... And I'm alone in the devOps room

That lasted long \o/

2 months ago, I turned guest room in my home office. Earlier, the family used to call it guest room. Now they say, "That thing must be in his office".

Random ideas about how I will fight and kill the terrorists who'll enter my room or rappel through the window

Dark room, heavy metal music, a big teapot to feed my mate (south american drink), underwear only