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Another unfriendly chat bot on a paid landingpage supposed to acquire new customers in 2025:
Chatbot: Do you require support with existing products or are you looking to renew/purchase services?
User: do you offer vserver plans
Chatbot: Sorry. To best assist you, please select one of the options below.
User: thats not the way to acquire new customers
Chatbot: Sorry. To best assist you, please select one of the options below.
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Oh the irony. I gotta ask a JS question here...
How come I can't do this?
<button type="button" id="idGetData1" onclick="{async()=>{ await get_data();}}">getDataFromWebserver</button>
But I have to do this?
document.getElementById("idGetData1").onclick=async() => {
await get_data();
};
Why the extra steps and need to run in onload?
Playing around with fetch instead of XMLHttpRequest for testing an embedded board.13 -
Is there a server-oriented Linux system that is more secure than Ubuntu Pro? With its 24-hour unattended vulnerability patches, I doubt anything free beats it. Btw it’s free for personal use6
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I have this impression that non-devs have this idea that you can ask for a developer to learn and implement a new technology with the same ease as ordering a Happy Meal.
Oh, you want me to learn a completely new technology, write very high quality, bug-minimal code, test it, document it, in a matter of hours?! Maybe senior devs can do this, but for me, it's like asking me to build software for NASA and guaranteeing it will work wonderfully without being given the time to thoroughly test it, design it or even think about it. Wooh, just code this as fast as possible and to industry standards quality!
Anyway... just another frustration.3 -
Name a non-mainstream linux distro that doesn’t suck! genuine question! I even chose the “Question” tag!12
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I'm programming snek in snek. It offers now linux to every user. It's capped at 0.5 core and 512mb. It works fine. They new storage works great, that's how i could make this possible. With all this containers running (four at the moment) the server has a load of 0.17. Only doing git repositories in the container goes a bit slow because it goes over the network using sshfs. System seems stable. It's just cool to have a linux terminal in your web app. We can run snekbots in snek itself now! Develop and manage it in snek! I don't have picked a target audience yet for snek, but i think it's devs.
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Took a chance at telling my bosses how burned out I am and had a really great discussion with them.
Turns out they want me to lead the front end team, because I'm good at it and can make them do higher quality work. Agreed with me that there's something wrong with the code if you have to use a different IDE lmao.
And I can use my 30+ days of sick leave (which I've never used because I don't get sick) to take time off when I need to. Burn out is a disease.
Not all bosses are shitty.6 -
Managers decided that the support contract with one of our most important third party servers is not worth the money.
Take a guess which server caused an outage for all customers twice already :D2 -
do devs still check their up time..? I just consider being up for hours through the night a normal thing3
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hahahaha my rants trigger AI bots talking about mental health: https://devrant.com/rants/14064916/...
I wonder how many lists I'm on then1 -
I have attempted to do taxes again and I mucked them up even worse
now I wait to see if the phone lines are any better than the login form on this website (since it literally locked me out even though I didn't use up all my attempts...). I might be surprised to find it's worse. because apparently average wait time for all hours but 6 am is 30 minutes, and at 30 minutes they start forwarding phone callers to talk to AI... how is that better than a website?
interestingly despite the AI overflow mechanism they are closed on Sundays. and today is Sunday7 -
The future is now: https://ycombinator.com/companies/...
Only accepted if at least 50% of your code is AI generated / vibe coded. Imagine, they're even asking for it.
But that's very interesting. There is not a decent vibe coding tool in the market imho.
So, where the fuck do all those people that coding in? Just with copilot or so?
Afaik - real vibe coding is just not possible. Those people who say they generated games with vibe coding are actually just programmers tweaking a lot.
I have to say, there is quite some to learn about vibe coding (using my own tool) but to call it really a skill... It's stuff that is learned very fast. So especially asking for vibe coding experience is just idiotic.6 -
Writing a quality codebase is difficult when the people in team lead roles are the people who don't give a **** and enjoy writing quick and dirty code, rendering the codebase into a perpetual disaster that constantly needs new devs to blow out fires.1
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TFW you ceased observing time because management was so neurotic about it that the whole concept of time left a bad taste in your mouth so you abandoned the whole dimension of existence from your life and all considerations
but apparently you can tell events via "cards". I actually mapped out a lot of my life and got to find out I did do a lot of stuff with my life and didn't have "dead air time" like I kept judgementally thinking I did, subconsciously
wonder if I should be a crazy person and turn all of time into like... a "card calendar" instead. at least it feels better than what society did with "time". they made time into slavery, instead of opportunity. plus I could make a cool-ass card calendar that's all fancy and nobody could read I guess
this card system works for years since creation, every 1.5 months, ?theoretically with days of the week but that bit seemed lame to me?
actually on second thought that's not too cool for a calendar/watch. there's not really a reason to know what "energy" you're being influenced by every minute. that seems horribly bipolar.
but interestingly looking over my life it seems like planning projects / long-term adventures may have benefited from knowing which cards would be at which months. it denoted how easy it would be to swim this way or that... spiritually speaking. kind of crazy1 -
Y'all ever have a thought that makes you wonder if you might be a sociopath or at least have some tendencies in that regard?3
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s3 storage sucks. Requires you to implement special stuff in software. The s3fs is a terrible thing not supporting many native file operations. For example, i can't cp * /to-target. It can't do nothing.
So, that was a short adventure. Now i found: https://interserver.net/r/1035270/ (affiliate link, why not). 3,- 1tb storage WITH complete vps. 1gb / 1 core but it does great as sshfs drive. It works so fast, i gonna host complete projects on it like https://devrant.molodetz.nl. sshfs drives really have the comfort of a native drive. Boarded just uploaded 600Mb to snek in two minutes. That movie was completely streamable in the snek web interface, you could comfortably click trough the video.
So, time to make a custom script to push all data from s3bucket (blegh!) to this beautiful drive.10 -
The default name for a developer's programming language should be called BrainFuck (as we know, it exists) because as a developer I often have lots of frustration and I would like to write the following program where asterisks represent cursewords:
******* ****, **** you, **** this ****,
stupid logic, spaghetti ****,
team politics ********,
**** **** ***** ****
In fact, using non-cursewords makes it too nice already. -
Week : 79 & 80 ( Year 1 )
Oh, I missed last week. So how were these 2 weekends?
What's your plan for retirement?
Second last Week : https://devrant.com/rants/137151547 -
Acceptance, end to end, integration tests whatever the fuck you call them.
Any tips on learning how to write them and doing it well? Always been tripped up in the past trying to set up databases and other bullshit so it never seemed worth the trouble since I'm so unskilled.4 -
i have figured out the PTSD from my job is just fear and evidently I've never had fear so I was confused
was always an angry kid so I guess I never felt fear before then...
... also apparently all fear is caused by thinking you'll lose freedoms
my job was like a prison... except then I figured out how prisons are, and a prison would be a utopia
so now I literally just can't even bring myself to reply to interview emails cuz I just feel "fear" at them... which I thought was PTSD
and fear always seems big and functions irrationally... and not having experienced it I didn't know that obvious tidbit -.-
all I knew is I was "broken" somehow by that whole experience, even though at the time it didn't seem like such a big deal
people think if you're unemployed you'll just "get off your ass and stop being lazy" when they starve you to death, but starving you to death is just another fear. the first fear and the second breed and power each other up like a reverberating resonance. I rather starve to death than go back to prison so that was never helpful "advice" to me
I've generally been an angry person. I've been fearless quite literally and pretty chill, but when people push on me I get angry though don't necessarily show it. while working I was angry all the time. the interesting thing I noticed about anger is the resonance -- the angry CEO potentially being angry at me didn't scare me, and one time he was finally angry at me. the interesting result was that instead I couldn't keep a lid on my own anger. I got angry at him back. this made me realize you can't suppress an emotion if someone else is throwing the same emotion at you -- it just powers them both up
anger is about territory. either you want something or you're protecting something. it's important to you. anger also seems to dispel fear. ran into something recently and it said "fear is dispelled if you have something more important". just "surviving" is not more important than being free to me, so "starving to death until you get off your lazy ass" was the most annoying bullshit
I've noticed if I'm mad at a job-related person I feel no fear. the anger dispels it. because I was mad at that job all the time, I don't think I noticed my fear. they were frequently using coercion as a "motivational" strategy on everyone... and even though I didn't react to it or was motivated by it, they didn't adapt and try different motivations. I figured I agreed to be doing this, so there's no point in threatening me, and just ignored it. but they never stopped. and things got shittier and shittier. the price they paid me to tank my freedom for purely arbitrary means was just too low, and I couldn't feel any of it because I was angry all the time
I interviewed at companies fine before I left. now that I left I actually can't. because there's no anger. I'm happy. so there's nothing to dispel the fear. therefore I'm cursed, broken, and non-functional... from some mystery I could never figure out before
and I know, this, also. because any time I was harmed socially in these years since, suddenly I could function again, because I was angry, and suddenly I could do so much. but who wants to live life purely angry just to function? it didn't feel right to me. I was so confused6
