Back from my holiday and we still don't have any code pushed for the backend lmao

In a world where any shareholder can have your job cut away without warning, the freedom fighter is the man brave enough to place a dead man switch.

Podman or Docker, and why?

this isn't really a DEVrant because i don't vibe code (or even use AI tools that much), it's more of a "please don't make your app like this"

chatgpt is so fricking pathetic. the company behind it is so fricking paralyzed with fear of liability that they have made the chatbot unable to respond to any question with the slightest undertone of potential unsafety. i asked it a homework problem involving the acceleration of a 20x102mm AA cartridge. i asked it whether a wooden or Steel handle would be better for a splitting axe. i asked it if my homemade lye was safe to dump down a clogged drain. on all three occasions it said that it couldn't "help with anything that would meaningfully facilitate harm", and proceeded to just suggest consumerism or some other nonsense as a "safe alternative". like what the actual heck? life on Earth inherently has risk, that's part of human existence. nobody would enjoy being put in a bubble-wrapped room designed for maximum safety (i know from experience), a bit of risk is what keeps us happy and motivated. i'm not even mad at whatever megacorp made chatgpt, i'm just disappointed. it's like watching a freshly-lobotomized fish flop around on the ground. if anyone makes an AI or something else. please don't do this. just slap on a limitation of liability and indemnity clause into your TOS, please don't lobotomize your chatbot in the name of "safety".

Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.

I just can't. lol

Non-Cooperative Threading With Lock-free, Wait-free Read AND Write
(without compare-And-Swap (CAS))

Premise is straight-forward:

You spawn multiple threads. Each is given a prime number assigned and a counter updated each full execution of the thread.

Any time a thread wants to read or write to a shared resource, it checks its counter modulo its prime number against all others. Wherever counter modulo prime == 0 and > 0 for all other prime keys in a given set, it is safe to read/write the shared resource.

Some limit is set on the counter so it periodically resets.

You may also assign these to say, numbered priority enums or somesuch.

So for example a "priority 0" thread would use prime=2, because this is going to match the most frequently against the counter.

And this is how you get non-cooperative threading with lock-free read and write.

Additionally, by carefully tuning the size of the set of primes, relative to the maximum of the counter before reset, you can minimize latency.

Finally with careful thread management, you could, say, have a framework such that if some threads counter mod its key == 0 while the mod of other keys == 1, those threads may be strictly reading a resource rather than writing it, decreasing read/write latency further, if I haven't misunderstood how reading a shared resource works.

Is this novel? Idk, but maybe it'll help someone eventually.

I am really heartbroken. Caught my girl with another guy. Told her to end things with him only for her to change the password on her phone. How can I unlock her phone password to know if she's still cheating? She is using Samsung S20

I am so tired of people during interviews expecting me to be totally excited about AI.

Don’t get me wrong, I use it… Just when I need. Which means not that often.

And then I get the usual cliché sentences.

“You’d be faster if you were using AI more”

Alright then. Outpace me with your AI.

“AI won’t replace you but a developer using it will”

Can’t wait to see that. For now, I just loose time on reviews of vibecoded crap.

Really, it was fun at the beginning, we all had hopes with those tools, but right now, it’s annoying and they didn’t deliver. So I’ll keep using it when I need it and ONLY when I need it.

Omg I hate github. Fuck microsoft I swear those leeches are ruining everything they touch. They're like reverse midas.

Everyone knows nVidia is a bubble. Even fucking Bloomberg is reporting on the circular flow of money between nVidia/OpenAI/Intel/AMD/Anthropic/CoreWeave/Oracle (remember, Oracle's first customer for its first 3 years was the CIA).

Even the US Government has put money into this scam by propping up 10% of Intel for .. national security or something?

So everyone can see this bubble clearly. Can anything be done about it? How do you keep a bubble from destroying everything when it's in plain sight?

Whoever is able to hold their shorts for nVidia is going to make a shit-ton (*not financial advice)

Fuck auto translations. YouTube, Reddit (that has TWO layers of auto translation), Google, Chrome (that for some fucking reason doesn't understand "NEVER translate...")...
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a11y, but LET ME OPT OUT.

there's only one sure way to quit smoking and it's called lifeand by life I mean coughing up some blood a second time

"But why is the scar on the left if the appendix is on the right?"

"You're absolutely right! Let me try that one more time"

One really good compilers is TCC/TinyCC, but SDL2 just won't work with it because it uses immintrin

I told my therapist about my code. Now we both need therapy.

There is always something, innit? Some "data scientist" in waaaaaay over his head complained to my teammate that the piece of code she wrote was faulty in some overly weird edge case that only occurred to him, but was never actually seen in practice. But the jerk complained in a very, very annoying and entitled and pushy way.
He brought my girl almost to tears.
Now, im not exactly the most delicate in my manners, but One. Doesn't. Mess. With. My. Team.
I just sent an email to his manager that from this day forward, every single piece of code anyone on his entire team requests will be tested to the entirety of the possible inputs. They had asked for some delay measurement tool. I've locked my cluster for... nineteen hours now, just computing the complete list of test parameters. 3.1Gb of parquet files with possible input combinations. Or about 1200 USD coming out of their budget *just to _test_ this one fucking function*. And about a week delays for the tests to complete.
And a chip on my shoulder.

P.S. the data science team manager is actually nice and all, and he is also at the end of his patience with his jerk of a teammate. Someone is getting a bloody poor quarterly review.

the most important thing of all is STABILITY! IF ITS NOT STABLE DO NOT USE IT

https://lightningchart.com/net-char...

Generate one trillion datapoints. Interesting. lol. I need 128 GB RAM for that, though...

What the fuck is happening in 2025 where half the websites can't keep the session open?

How is it "good security practice" to require me to login every few hours?

Shit like this makes me think software has plateaued. If devs can't make a fucking session work in the big 2025, then there's no hope.

ChatGPT Go is free for India for a full year.

Lord help the LLMs learning off of Indians.

So today I was reading a paper on different languages and I saw how good Zig is on the paper:
- same performance as C
- memory safety (underlined behavior, not trump's one)and rust
Basically the same with concurrency

Maybe I will need to switch languages;
Any arguments for C except the ecosystem, it's age/maturity and easy syntax?

Wow Been a while since I opened this app. Hi devRant

I had to explain git merge to a senior level dev. It is 2025

My wife asked me if I could take a look at her keyboard because some of the keys suddenly had stopped working.
I checked the keyboard and saw that crumbs were literally blocking the keys. I gave it a shake, the crumbs fell out, and the keyboard started working again.

I want to make one of my projects cross platform,
I pull up my thinkpad,
I clone my repo,
I cd into it,
I make
There's no make
I write a CMakeLists
It works after 10 copilot attempts
I open VS,
and it doesnt work

It's the year when I did not renew domain I bought for my project.

Feels weird to stop bleeding money for a project I haven't finished

Paying for youtube premium and then almost every author these days has his own freaking ads in their videos. What the fuck is this for shit. Fuck off. Greedy fuckers. Degenerates.

It's also always for products that they don't use for sure while many times claiming they do. Talking about sophisticated shit and then "Here's incogni". Wraaaahh. You know it won't help fucker. You know it you know it you know it.

For the people who run a small server at home, what are you using it for?

Fuck, its 2025 and we still cant shake away the "you work with technology, you must know how to fix my microwave" stereotype.
Seriously, I have fewer apps in my phone and access fewer websites and even spend less time on my devices than the HR old hags, and yet im the one who has to come and "explain to them how to print a PDF".
Holly fucking crap. I haven't used a printer in MONTHS. With the cost of the time I will take to figure out how to communicate with those mummies that is 'just click the print button', they could hire ChatGPT to do it for a decade.
Fuuuuuck, that is the reason those stupid AI chat bots exist! To endlessly toil at the repetitive and predictable task of saying 'hi there! Have you clicked "print"?'
Imma gonna leave work early and get pissed. Luckily, I've already done a couple hours of OT for the day, so it won't seem so out of the ordinary.

Called the doctor this morning.
Hi. I'm running low on my sleeping pills and would like more.
Ok. I see that you haven't visited us for a while and would like a meeting before we can prescribe new ones. The next available slot is in three weeks.

Guess I stay awake until then.