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these pills are literally giving me suffering all over my body
it isn't aches or pain. it's always suffering. I can deal with aches and pain. but this is just pure suffering. all the fucking time. jesus fuck I feel so violent. if I get mad and explode I feel better for about 5 minutes but then I exhaust myself doing it, and then next time it gets harder to do. how do I escape this cage
can't sit down still much less fucking concentrate on anything. both these cause suffering to mount. what the fuuuuck
before magic would get me out of it but now I'm demoralized and exhausted. I keep eating people's energy and it only helps for a couple hours. I wonder if turning into a crying vegetable would help. or maybe I'll just scream like a crazy person for a few hours. surely you must get used to it but it's been over a week now
kicker is, suffering isn't one of the symptoms of the pill. "restlessness" is as if they don't know why a person would feel fucking restless. joke.
... you know one dude said you gotta feel it to heal it so maybe I repressed my sickness so much for the 3 years I stored it all in my body as fibromyalgia (which I did have inflammation of) and now I just get to feel echoes of what happened that didn't previously go through my nerves because I was doing my damn best to block them out but maybe that's too crazy a thought. better explanation than these doctors just being oblivious though4 -
It's hilarious how employers disguise the concept of 'big pile of horseshit and stress' as 'challenge'/'opportunity'.
Give. Me. A. Break.5 -
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know binary, those who don’t, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary.3
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I had a booth at a small event to represent my business. I had prepared a web-based game for people to play to win a prize. I had it running on a PC mirrored on a TV so I could do my work on my Mac separately between visitors.
During a speaker’s presentation, someone bored with it came up to my booth and I introduced her to the game. She started playing it but the sound was up too loud and drew attention to her. I quickly used volume key on the top row, but nothing happened. So I thought the fn key needed to be pressed and held to change the volume. Nope. Then I thought I’ll just use the volume control in the dock. But the browser was full screen, and when I tried to quickly change that, some other unknown thing happened and some other stupid MS configuration screen filled the screen. She gave up trying to play at that point and I felt super stupid.
When did it become so hard to use Windows machines and software? I’ve been on a Mac for about 8 years now and using this Windows laptop just feels ridiculous to me. Like some broken toy that came from a bargain bin at a dollar store. The whole thing feels cheap and like it’ll break in half if I twist it accidentally. Other Windows laptops I look at in the stores occasionally just don’t measure up in build quality. Like the companies know you’ll get max 2 years useful life and throw it away.6 -
I raised AI integration to a new level: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screenc...
It knows what i have on screen using OCR, it knows what windows I have open using X11 API, it knows my current environment information so it knows that it can execute and stuff.
Also, check the picture, what a genius. But I hate their babysitting so much, let the AI's just do what we ask. If we want to share an API key, we share an API key and use it in a script! It's MY responsibility. I'm an adult y'know.4 -
When someone writes a Flutter app like it's 1998 and blames Flutter for being "too hard" and "DIfficult"
First of all… WTF?
This guy wrote an entire Flutter app like it's HTML + CSS cosplay. No use of Flutter’s built-in Drawer, AppBar, or BottomNavigationBar. Instead? He manually built his own versions of all of them using Container, Row, and Column, all dumped inside the body. Literal pixel pushing. He made a fake AppBar inside the body. A fake Drawer inside the body. A fake BottomNav inside the body. It's like UI inception. Then he turns around and says “Flutter is hard.”
Bro… you made it hard. Flutter gave you prebuilt widgets. You chose pain.
Zero data structures. No architecture. No MVC.
The only MVC I found was: Multiple Voids in Class.
And the documentation? It's literally been around since 2018. Not even buried, just a Google search away.
Then came the excuses:
“Oh he’s from a Delphi / ASP.NET background, so Flutter is difficult for him.”
No. I’ve coded in Erlang and COBOL. You don’t see me turning Flutter into Erlang’s syntax disaster or WRITING DART IN ALL CAPS like COBOL.
Choose a paradigm. Functional? Procedural? OOP? Fine. Just don’t mix all three into some cursed hybrid mess.
What did I see in the code?
Recursion inside recursion for no reason
Functional programming patterns mixed with anti-OOP logic
500+ functions declared, zero referenced
Authentication by writing to file.txt. Like… bro, why?
And then there’s navigation. He stored route info in both SQLite AND SharedPreferences before pushing a new route. Why both? Why at all?
Honestly, Flutter has been one of the cleanest and most developer-friendly frameworks I’ve used. Dart is readable, fast, and predictable. But somehow this guy managed to turn a simple Flutter app into a twisted assembly simulator from hell.
Flutter didn’t fail him. He failed Flutter.
And yeah — the project folder was named Flutter_UI_Test_FINAL_v2_Rebuild_2023_OK and full of main_old.dart, main_old(copy).dart, main.dart.bak. I should’ve known from the start.
Really.......Some dev are idk what to describe
refer: https://devrant.com/rants/18897167/...12 -
technically secret societies violate the separation of church and state
since they function as belief structures, as a religion and spirituality5 -
In the middle of dumbing down my smartphone. This whole ecosystem thing got out of control privacy-wise. Thus, I’m deleting pretty much everything but the browser and the chat app my friends and I use. No photos sync, no cloud, no passwords sync, no sync period. If you seize or otherwise compromise my phone, you ain’t getting very far into my defenses.6
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You shortcut junkies so smart with your little keyboards, guess what? I don't give a shit that you don't use mouse for an app which I use once a month and I have way more important things to remember so don't brag and preach all the time you use them and you spend more time bragging and explaining what shortcut you just used instead of doing the actual function11
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A post with many thumb up reactions with different skin tones, of course counted separately.
👍6 👍🏻3 👍🏼4 …
Because apparently it matters who is agreeing as a white person and how many agree as persons with a slightly darker skin tone. 🤦♂️
This is so fucking dumb.66 -
I bought a Baseus EnerGeek Laptop Powerbank, 145 W, 20800 mAh able to charge laptops and phone at same time. Never have been this relaxed working on something remote. It charges the phone so fast!
It was just around 50,-. Can recommend this device to anyone. Bang for the buck.
Before I had a cheap powerbank having almost the same Mah (20.000) but it was really not comparable, it took ages to charge the phone and laptop did not work on it.
The difference between this powerbank that you can use for everything and the default ones was like 20 euros.
I advise to invest good when buying one. While the good one is like the size of the cheaper one (different form mostly). It' still quite the device with a half kg weight. So you can use it also in a bar fight.
The charger to charge the powerbank itself is not included but your laptop charger will suffice. I did buy the VOOMY USB C Adapter 65W, Oplader USB C with GaN Technologie that supplies three ports (two usb-c and one default usb). From that device i was amazed how small it was being a full laptop charger. That one was around 27,-.
For charging your device on such powers, special cables are required. The powerbank got you regarding usb-cable, it comes with one included. The VOOMY does not include any cables.
But with buying these two products i just mentioned will suffice you to work remotely for several hours very comfortably.
devRant reviews, something new.4 -
One of the most / only satisfying things about frontend web dev is that, whether you're doing:
top
left
right
bottom
or
top
left
width
height
You get one more letter with each word. I am suspicious of anyone who orders these differently.6 -
There was this question I came up with that was very good at inducing hallucinations on what at the time I thought was a *lobotomized* LLM.
I can't recall the exact wording right now, but in essence you asked it to perform OpenGL batched draw calls in straight x86_64 assembly. It would begin writing seemingly correct code, quickly run out of registers, and then immediately start making up register names instead of moving data to memory.
You may say: big deal, it has nowhere to pull from to answer such an arcane fucking riddle, so of course it's going to bullshit you. That's not the point. The point is it cannot realize that it's running out of registers, and more importantly, that it makes up a multitude of register names which _will_ degrade the context due to the introduction of absolute fabrications, leading to the error propagating further even if you clearly point out the obvious mistake.
Basically, my thought process went as follows: if it breaks at something fundamental, then it __will__ most certainly break in every other situation, in either subtle or overt ways.
Which begged the question: is it a trait of _this_ model in particular, or is it applicable to LLMs in general?
I felt I was on to something, but I couldn't be sure because, again, I was under the impression that the model on which I tested this was too old and stupid so as to consider these results significant proof of anything; AI is certainly not my field, so I had to entertain the idea that I could be wrong, albeit I did so begrudgingly -- for obvious reasons, I want at least "plausible based on my observations" rather than just "I can feel it in my balls".
So, as time went on, I made similar tests on other models whenever I got a chance to do so, and full disclosure, I spent no money on this so you may utilize that fact in your doomed attempt to disprove me lmao. Anyway, it's been a long enough while, I think, and I have a feeling you folks can guess the final answer already:
(**SLIGHTLY OMINOUS DRUM ROLL**)
The "lobotomy" in question was merely a low cap on context tokens (~4000), which I never went over in the first place; newer/"more advanced" models don't fare any better, and I have been _very_ lenient in what I consider a passable answer.
So that's that, is what I'm starting to think: I was right all along, and went through the burdensome hurdle of sincerely questioning the immaculate intuition of my balls entirely for naught -- learn from this mistake and never question your own mystical seniority. Just kidding, but not really.
The problem with the force of belief is it can work both ways, by which I mean, belief that I could be wrong is the reason I bothered looking further into it, whereas belief to the contrary very much compels me to dismiss doubt entirely. I don't need that, I need certainty, dammit. And though I cannot in good faith say that I am _certain_, "sufficiently convinced" will have to do for the time being.
TL;DR I don't know but the more I see it just seems shittier.11 -
I was replaced by AI.
Because I couldn’t be replaced directly, e.g. by using AI to do my job, the job description itself was changed as the business pivoted.
We used to be a software development company. Now, we’re an online AI school. The thing about AI schools is that you can monetize unfinished prototypes — the only thing AI is good at — and the process of making them.
I wasn’t strictly “replaced” — they just found a small-scale way to not need engineers at all.
Well, it’s time to make my own startup!9 -
One thing I like to do online is obscure references to old movies. If someone says or does something in a forum that reminds me of a character from a movie I will say: "Hello <character's name>" If the name is recognized people will say so because it is a fun thing. Or they will respond with quotes from that character. Other people will join in on this too. An example of this is calling someone Raymond who estimates the exact number of things in a picture. This is a reference to the character Raymond from the movie Rain Man. This character was autistic and could could numbers of things instantly accurately.
However there is a chance the name is so obscure that it just sounds weird. Nobody gets it. Maybe they recognize it is a reference maybe not. This goes unnoticed and unheeded.
There is an even more remote chance that this is in fact the person's actual IRL name. However, if they are on a semi anonymous platform then they cannot confront the person calling them by that name because that would out them. Also, if they PM me about it they are outed again. So if this occurs this person will now wonder how the fuck someone knows their real name. Silent torture and wondering about it for a couple of days.7 -
Internet freedom is decapitated.
I miss the old internet so much, it was anarchy and today is a corporate globalist blob of control and censorship.
I feel it's lost and there's no alternative anymore, at least not yet.20 -
I’m ok with a “bad” person. Everyone should have some bit of asshole in them. If you’re too nice it’s gonna creep me out8
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As a sovereign citizen, I hereby declare war on the Federal Republic of Germany.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.5 -
2 margaritas, 1 litre of beer and two rejection letters later. Tuesdays are great.
fucking code tests are retarded. if you just want a programmer, hire a fucking gpt instead. stop wasting my time. hr people send the most retarded emails ever.3 -
Guys let's talk about the discriminatory language some people uses in here. For example an user called "Lensflare" just called me a waffle.
The use of racial slurs against my people will not be tolerated.21