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fknshit. Am I stressing about linting and formatting moreso than what the code itself does or is it just another hallucination?
I call it correctness paranoia. Bitch does it even compile. Yes, perhaps, but I absently-minded added a single newline somewhere, and that's no good.
So re-read the diff again: oh.
const auto&
should be
const auto
probably.
F is not returning a ref...
Should it return a ref?
Fuck, I'm declaring this nonref, should I
T N(V)
or
T N = V
Plain old doesn't fucking matter most of the time, but what if I missed a detail somewhere and so it *does* matter here?
REREAD. AGAIN.
SLOWLY.
DYING.
DYING.
DYING.8 -
well had a low-grade fever all over my body for like 4 days
finally crashed yesterday it seems and actually got tired. got the sickness brain malaise
sucks
I've been sick 3 times in the last 4 months. this might actually be optimistic. I started seriously trending up with my brain improving after the new year. damned VAIDS
when I was 17 the high school I went to asked for a release form from my mom to give me vaccines. I didn't know anything about them so I got her to fill it out. the nurse asked me which ones I already had and I said I don't know. I guess you can give me all of them. because I didn't know anything about what vaccines were
so I got about 15 vaccine shots in one day. I didn't even get sick the day after or anything. went about my life as normal
but now thinking back in retrospect, suddenly I had developed attention issues / ADHD. I was extremely smart so it didn't do anything to my schoolwork, but it annoyed me especially socially-speaking because I would get bored easily and have trouble paying attention to stuff. still being smart you can guess what you missed easily enough. it just made me feel weird and isolated and that was that
around 19 I started having like, a constant cold/flu. it was driving me nuts. this kept going until I was 21. I was complaining about it to my mom and she didn't know what to do. I went to doctors but they were useless. one guy gave me penicillin which was useless. I figured I was just unlucky, not that doctors are taught wrong on purpose (back then I hadn't yet done my health science degree, I had dropped out of it because of the realization that it was a waste of money since the teachers actually didn't teach you anything. it was sad. so I switched to comp sci because I already knew a lot about computers, thinking it was the school and not the health field -- the comp sci degree actually taught a lot though)
eventually my mom had talked to somebody I guess in the old country, and they suggested I get echinecea. I found a place to buy it and started taking it. my symptoms went away and I was so scared they'd come back I took that pill for 3 months. I only stopped because turns out it made me allergic to my favourite rayon shirt -- like if I touched it I got creepy crawly feels on my skin lmao
... and then I never got a cold or flu again actually, not until COVID at 28 I guess (wow I really have missing gaps in my memory, because it doesn't feel that long ago). I never pieced this together before but I've been analyzing it now. I did get fevers if I was stressed -- like over exercising, or the time I got my wisdom teeth taken out, but I never officially had a cold or flu.
I got the COVID vaccine in late 2021. now it's early 2025. that thing fucked up my life. it's been 4 years. how has it been 4 years? I actually can't remember one of those years at all...
this timeline is pretty similar to the vaccines I got as a kid. my brain started improving this year. it makes me so sad. I used to be 145 IQ. then I couldn't even remember a grocery list of 3 items at the store. I would talk out loud because I couldn't think inside my own head... it was really bad. I'd have lapses in time, turn yellow, my toes are STILL purple. I can't eat most food and even the food I can eat can be sus on me. every moment of existence is a gamble on my health. I can't eat any sugar and I don't know why, I can't eat any flour and no it's not gluten or glyphosate. i cant even eat fruit. I can't even eat canned corn lol. I can't eat anything pre-packaged at the store maybe because they use seed oils. I just live off butter and meat -- and sometimes the meat can be too fatty for me. I can't drink teas I used to drink a lot of. hell I even react badly to like certain ginger spices but not others. like Jesus what the fuck. and every time if I eat the wrong thing minimum 5 hours or at worst 3 days it knocks me out. the amount of rage I have at my life being totalled by this thing cannot be understated.
but I started being able to think about January. I've been exponentially regaining myself since. but I've also gotten bouts of like the worst flus I've ever had, and I had pneumonia as a kid!
I wonder if it's just my immune system coming back. just like what happened at 19-21
I'm too scared to take echinecea. I can't eat onion or garlic because they're immune modulating, and I guess it like asks too much of my body so it knocks me out. I tried an echinecea pill before after this sickness and while I don't remember exactly what happened because of all the brain issues probably, I do remember it was bad. there's a lot of herbs and supplements I can't touch if they are supposed to strengthen your immune system
but maybe now I'm getting sick so much because my body is ready and strong enough4 -
Do you folks have a constant "culture switching" in workplace? by switching i mean things like standup time , leaving time , lunch time etc getting changed every few days?
I feel like being part of team that is run by a dictator ever since our tech lead changed.
earlier we used to have 11 am standup, now out of blue she decided it will be on 9.30.
Its weird because most of the team can't reach office before 10am on WFO days and I personally ma having my breakfast with laptop open till 11 on WFH day.
I mean it could look bad if I was a construction worker getting paid by the hour, but am a fucking developer who can write code on his own time and only my work and timelines should matter.
same thing about leaving office. there is no official time to leave but i have to travel 2 hours so i usually leave at 5. i usually compensate this with working till 8 -8.30 on a wfh day but now sudden 1.5 hour meetings are becoming so much more common.
Another thing about leaves. earlier we could take leaves if we had some of our 22+ paid leaves remaining.
We would just need to inform to our manager and 99% of time he would instantly approve.
Now it feels like giving a request to government office. TL would not approve until the very last day. and if the leave falls in a month where other people are on leave as well, it might not get approved at all .
mind you, our team is quite decent at 5 android devs, 2 ios devs and 2 backend devs. i am an androdmid dev and i couldn't het a leave even if all 4 other devs are present on a day but an ios dev is not present, which I don't understand why?
weird cultural shift from "we have a relaxing environment and only focus on achieving targets" to "you do as we say, there are no team decision and votes"5 -
What positive support stories do you guys have?
I have two:
One, is from myself. I lost the power cable to my XPS 15 (the fancy one, 4k touch) and had a knock off replacement battery that got in flames. I called support that I can't find original adapter anywhere for my XPS and told also that I lost the original one. They just sent me a new one for free! Would it have to do since it was such fancy laptop?
Other one was from a friend, together we tried to install Linux on an iPod (such classing one with 80gb I guess) and that thing did nothing anymore in exception of showing a penguin and turn off again. Anyway, he went to the store and got it replaced for free!
Worst support: OpenAI. It has automated service pretending to be human that emphatizes with you. It defines your problem in it's own words (pretending to have listened) and says things like "Oh, that sounds bad if x y z", And that's all. I wrote several emails so I know they're fake as f. Always that empathy email. They're evil. The amount of things that don't work at OpenAI is too damn high!
Pine cone: I told them about their weird billing practices, got nothing back. I still often e-mail them. But I do not think they spend time on a lost customer.5 -
My colleague is so annoying! Whenever she found an issue with the site or app (as I newly handle this project. The guy before this wrote redundant code overload.)
she tags everyone in the company just to point out the issue, demanding Me to fix it. Like "it is your project yoi should know better "
I check the git. That's wasn't my code at all. Some guy (idk wtf )in 2024 wrote it.9 -
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Gotta-g..., after updating https://molodetz nl/log ofcourse. No time is ever wasted.
Images don't upload to devrant at the moment. Use https://devrant.molodetz.nl. Videos also allowed.2 -
Isn’t it funny how people can be pretty mean to each other, yet half of them don’t realize that all they really wish for is for all of it to go away forever?11
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If you had to choose a technology to build a mobile app (for both platforms), which one would you pick and why: .NET, React Native, or a native language?14
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Made tortilla pizzas today!
tortilla
pizza sauce
cheddar/Colby shredded cheese
pepperoni
sausage
Parmesan
Baked 7 minutes at 420 F.
Gave me a reason to speak with a Mexican accent and hold my finger likes this 🤌.
My kid who didn't want to try them said it was good. Thumbs up!18 -
Years ago someone said
To someone else to stop getting in trouble
Yet that's all they did
Ever
All they did it is make this stupid world repetitive and robotic
And what world ?
Most of my country was destroyed by the time I was an adult and rebuilt -
ostream, are you visiting the USA?
Some dude in NYC got caught on camera sexually violating a dude that died on the subway.22 -
I don't know if I'm one of the only ones who struggles performing at their job.
I have a good foundation in Computer Science and a few degrees, yet I somehow always struggle, especially in Business Analysis. I know it's partially my specific situation since I need to catch up on some studying.
I want Software Development to be comfortable, not agony where 80% of the time I'm pulling my hair out trying to understand how something works. It just makes the job unpleasant. I currently hate algorithms, databases and custom client logic.
For me, Software Development is either fun solving a problem, or dealing with a convoluted, annoying business problem that has to be solved in a very custom way, coupled with tons of headaches about how to engineer things. I don't want that. I want fun and discovery, not agony and wishing I weren't in this industry.17 -
I just found out there are men who wear their dick upside down, isn’t ur dick suppose to be curved under your balls unless you have an erection?5
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What I do at work vs. what I want to be doing:
https://reactiongifs.com/r/...
https://youtube.com/watch/...
(It seems DevRant is currently erroring out on posting images)4 -
Do they forbid music at your office? They do at mine. It's always like a weird atmosphere until the loud people come in. lol. Not a sound, not a peep. If you didn't look around, it's as if people weren't there.
Seriously. It's a bad idea to have music?! I understand that from a concentration perspective, but come on. Let's make business even more boring. lol.
On the other hand, I did work at a place where they had radio playing but they never changed station. It felt like Groundhog day. lmao.12 -
My company pays well. I'm remote. But sometimes I'm miserable. I expect too much from work and I need to learn not to.
They talk about how they want employees to be engaged, and they want developers to understand and solve business problems. They just don't mean any of it, and they don't know they don't mean it.
Anything you say about what we're building, why, or the process is wrong. Don't say it like this. Don't say it like that. Don't say it in the retro. Eventually I realized they're gaslighting me and probably don't even realize it.
There is no right way to say anything. There's no right time. The only way they're really happy is if you shut up and work your tickets.
I need to make my peace with that and collect my paycheck.
They're just so stupid. They don't see the disconnect between what they want and what they say they want. They can't be helped.
Thanks for listening.4 -
As a developer in Germany, I don't understand why anything related to development like IDEs, git clients and source code documentation should be localized/translated.
Code is written in english, configuration files too. Any technology, any command name in a terminal, every name of a tool or code library, every keyword in a programming language is written in english. English is the language of every developer. And English is simply a required skill for a developer.
Yet almost everything nowadays is translated to many other languages, espacially MS products. That makes development harder for me.
My visual studio menus are a mess of random german/english entries due to 3rd party extensions.
My git client, "source tree" uses wierd translations of the words "push" and "commit". These commands are git features! They should not be translated!
Buttons and text labels in dev tools often cut the text off because they were designed for english and the translated text is bigger and does not fit anymore. Apparently no one is testing their software in translated mode.
And the worst of all: translated fucking exception and error massages! Good luck searching for them online.
Apple does one thing damn right. They are keeping all development related stuff english (IDE, documentation). Not wasting money on translations which no developer needs.4 -
Having an Active Noise-Cancelling headset is a gift to a Software Developer. Concentrated engineering in any noisy environment.
The dawn of a new generation in luxury personal equipment.
The ANC headset is a premium lightweight, high-performance headset that meets the demands of the new generation of upper-income urban software developers.
The ANC has the conveniences of earplugs, a wireless communications device, and a device without wires.
Muting power is a matter of convenience with the ANC headset.17 -
Dear diary,
Today with my dad at AI expo, and it was the best person to go with. He has learnt reinforcement learning and ocr. Never enjoyed a museum together that much. There were also steam engines and minecraft carts and elevator.
Did you know that the car years ago was considered dangerous bevause you didn't have a horse to protect you from mistakes? In horses we trust, nit in Tesla.
It was a great day.
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