I suppose the modern equivalent to waiting around code compiling is building the bloody Docker images. Vastly exacerbated by the requirement of an X86 image on ARM hardware.

FML 🙃

More of a rant but it's technically a meme and I thought it belonged here; https://gizmodo.com/programming-suc...

So, any idea how many users on devRant after the spike and drop of yesteryears?

How would one go about pulling the entire post history? ...and the weekly questions? Is that even okay, and if so, do you perhaps share archival data somewhere? I mean devRant, of course.

!dev

People are a fucking disappointment. That's it. End of rant.

Ya'll know what... If humans weren't such annoying vulnerability-searching little shits then we wouldn't have had to implement any protection against them and think of all the performance that would be saved on that. Take branch prediction vulnerability mitigation in the Linux kernel for example, that's got to make a performance hit of least 10% on basically everything.

Alas, I do get why security is important and why we keep such vulnerability mitigation running despite the performance hit. I get why safe code is necessary but still... if these people weren't such annoying little bastards.

Yeah, I was just kind of set off by the above. So much would be faster and easier if only the programmers wouldn't have to plan for people exploiting their software. Software would be written much faster and humans would progress to stuff that actually matters like innovation.

So PHP PDOs... nothing fucking works. It's that or the lovely MariaDB implementation, I know that the query is correct and I've tried a stored procedure as well. The query itself ran once to add one user and never again while anything I try now doesn't return any result. I'm going to install Percona and see if it's the implementation or me.

Hello. I suppose I didn't really see anyone ask @dfox or @trogus how it's going without mentioning devRant itself. So, I'm going to do it... How is it going?

What do you think of using a laptop as a server?

I am an idiot.

Apparently, I was running 2 year old drivers for my APU. I didn't notice until today but now that I did, I get those sweet performance improvements.

I'm glad someone is having fun.

Well, a combination of DXVK, wine and dxvk-cache-pool was used to try and play Path of Exile. The problem seems to be that I can't have any pre-built caches due to them not existing. Seems like a GTX 660 isn't really used anymore and if I want to play a game I will have to have DXVK build its own cache.

Until then, I'm stuck with a stuttery mess of a game due to Path of Exile having a rather many levels. A full playthrough will be necessary until it starts working smoothly.

What do you think of personality types and which do you think is the most prevalent in the developer community?

Yaaay no internet, at least I have a large drive of material to use offline. It's ebooks and M4As only for me I suppose.

What are the challenges of using standard Linux on phones, perhaps with a phone-optimized desktop environment?

So, I rather like data, what do you think I should collect to have my own little offline library?

@linuxxx, your VPN service any closer to completion? 😁

Is there an option to disable animations on devRantron?

Any interest VSCode tips and tricks I should know about?

Python specific.

I just learnt that creatine can apparently serve as a nootropic. I thought this to be odd but apparently it's true.

I'm reinventing the wheel by making yet another neural network library. It's not any good yet but I learn as I go along.

The only documentation that exists now is the admittedly quite comprehensive code comments. I'm it because Keras (using TensorFlow) requires a 3.5 compute ability rating for CUDA acceleration (which I don't have) and it doesn't support OpenCL. Eventually, I will make my implementation support both with varying levels of acceleration for different compute capabilities with the oldest supported being my hardware. If I ever get around to it.

I'd say wish me luck but determination would be infinitely more useful.

Does gradient descent in artificial neural networks apply the most changes closest to the input layer?

At times I actually feel like making a group to conquer earth. I think it would probably be better ran than it is now anyway.

Well, I just learned how much of a pain it is to learn the math for learning neural networks. I really should have paid more attention in high school.

I will learn, the hard way I guess...

Hello, does anyone know of a way to prevent constant long-term brain fatigue?

So, I know that RIP (Routing Information Protocol) timers used to synchronise although they were supposed to be started at a random time. My question, why and how did this happen?

How the actual fuck am I still functioning with 2 hours sleep per day for 3 days?

Anyone got any kitten or puppy pics?

So, I noticed that each unique tag gets stored and cross referenced. Just wondering, how many tags were used up to now?

So, what are your thoughts on Python?