Tin whiskers grow on solder joints and make shorts. They’re real, and they kill a lot of electronics.
The only known cure is adding lead to the solder, but modern standards only allow lead-free solder prone to tin whiskers. Leaded solder is the reason that early computers are still operational today.

Petition to allow medical equipment manufacturers to use leaded solder! Life support shorting out and burning in the middle of the night will kill the patient.

Today, I was successful in shouting AGENT into an automated call menu today to get to an actual agent.

if I figured it out before how could I delete it?!

what if I don't figure it out again?!

Honey, load my shotgun

Is devRant Losing Its Spark?

Hey ranters,
Anyone else notice how quiet devRant has become? Back in 2016-2017, this place was buzzing with energy, but now it’s down to just 10-12 rants a week. What happened? Did competition from platforms like Reddit or Discord take over, or did devRant stop evolving?

I still believe this platform has huge potential—developers will always need a space to vent and connect. But without fresh ideas or a clear roadmap, it feels like devRant is fading.

To the creators: what’s the plan? To the community: do you feel the same? Let’s discuss!

A concerned dev.

Low voltage: I flow in conductors and don't flow in isolators.
High voltage: ᴡ̢͕̲͋̀͝ʜ̺̪͍̲̒͌͝ᴇ̫͕̼̲̓͑́ʀ͍̝͎̲͛̐͝ᴇ̳͉̪̲͑͠ ɪ̟̠̼̲͑͆̚s͓̼͉̲͊͋̐ ᴛ͔̟̲̔͊͘ʜ̠͎̲͛͑̓ᴇ͕̞͖̲̈́̀̕ ғ̡͓̝̲͐͘ᴜ̺͍͉̲̐̈́ᴄ͖̞̺̲̓̕̕ᴋ̢͓̘̲͋̚ɪ̟͚̲͑͒̾͜ɴ̳̺̠̲̓͐͘ɢ̠͎̝̲̈́͊̕ ᴡ͔̦͔̲͆͐͘ɪ̟̪̟̲̽͝͝ʀ̝̪̻̲̈́͊̐ᴇ̺̳̲͊̈́̕͜

Where y'all working at today?

Behold, the most American sentence ever uttered:
“Never sue a freedom-loving n*gga with a big-ass gun.”

Gotta make it a bumper sticker for my Ford F-350!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I would send you all Hawk Tuah coin, but I just spent my bonus shopping for ungrateful people. Okay, they aren't ungrateful, just unappreciative.

Anyway, gonna try and avoid devrant for probably a week.

And for you other assholes: Happy Festivus!

My boss uses chatgpt to code all the time. I watched his workflow and he will use chatgpt not for code, but to act like a search engine. He seems to be effective using it like this.

I struggle to include chatgpt in my workflow at all. I am using it to help learn C# to clarify things I cannot find in search. It doesn't always help.

So I have mixed feelings about using it in my work flow.

If I hear ONE MORE time "ChatGPT is like Google but better/smarter" I WILL choke a motherfucker to DEATH

This is lead acetate. It looks like sugar and tastes like sugar, yet it’s as toxic as lead.
Have a good day!

Still struggling with the whole webpack project. We agreed on just doing style for now. (Which also need to be updated but that a whole other drama)

Fucking hate my life right now. Its 16:00 so time for beer and games. And holidays. Have a good holidays here everyone. I cant wait to come back to this shit in 2025.

I've been suffering from frequent and random crashes with my Jetbrains products, as well as awful performance.

As it turns out, even with 16GB of RAM, it still needs the swapfile to function properly. After creating an 8BG swapfile, it starts almost instantly and my crashes seem to be resolved.

I made it

You use English because it’s the only language you know
I use English because it’s the only language YOU know
We are not the same

Demolishun is a hottie:

New baby girl 🥰

Worryingly, at 4:04pm.

everybody has poop inside them at all times.

Fuck, two power outages in three hours.

Good thing bars are open now, so might just go there so I can get something done.

I was feeling down so I put nutella in my coffee...it was average at best.

what I want is for AI to spot logical inconsistencies in my code and debug it

specifically a complex multi threaded form...

raaghhh

stupid tokio having no damned mutex debug tools

Who knew I'd be saved by a wiki/doc written by myself a year ago.

whoops figured out how to make noises in rust

and also what the hell I forgot all the music theory I taught myself and making music is hard

yeah my brain can't do math yet. just counting the frequencies for the notes is exhausting. or timing things. EXHAUSTING. I haven't even got them right I was just doing proof of theory. and I'm exhausted

*goes to die somewhere*

Am I the only person on earth not having a LinkedIn account?
Please tell me I am not alone.

I'm not a 10x developer. It's you who are 0.1x developers

Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered has been released.

It contains a lot of bonus material, including a few areas that have been scrapped before release.

Exploration of one of those areas may end up _crashing_ the game...

...Imagine that...

Let's start a discussion about decentralized. EveRyOne caN hOsT hiS oWn ServEr. Do you mean the freaking internet in general? By definition, the internet is decentralized. "Decentralization has a protocol we all use to stay in sync". That existed already, it's called IP, TCP and UDP.. The decentralization protocols are on top of those making it only more limiting. Good, many nodes in sync. Yeah, replicating SQL servers exist for a long time.

People who 'invented' decentralized did just not realize how the internet works. Adding a network on top of a network ending up in a smaller network making it more centralized. "Decentralized" stuff has nothing to add. Just some word for replication protocol or smth.

I'm too sober to fall for this shit.

Why can't protocols like IPFS or Odysee go mainstream? Would it be better to have a fully HTTP-based system that mimics Netflix and uses React?

Got my dad to try Fruity Loops so that he can compose with his Tyros 3 keyboard on the computer. If he likes it, I will buy producer edition (that one can also record, that's why) for his bday soon. For Christmas I already ordered midi to USB cable for him. Finally I know what to give to someone who already has everything. He needs stuff for his stuff :p

It will be much fun experimenting together with it. My dad can go very hard on new things, he always becomes a pro in it.

I hope it will be just as nice as the time we spent together on Autocad. He later even made Autocad exams for schools.

He learned me how to install windows 3.11 as very little kiddo.

I like my dad doing computer stuff. It's the moment we really bond.