What is up with a lot of DR users deleting their account and creating a new one?

So if you work a remote job would you create a virtual machine to act as the device which connects to any remote employer systems? It seems like that would be ideal to keep personal separated from company data and software.

I suppose it depends upon employer requirements.

Claude code: "Tip: start with small features or bug fixes"

Me: "Pretty please, rewrite this PHP4 SOAP 0.5 Sybase connected and it's 4 tier CGI service in the coolest and lastest Haskell powered GraphQL backend, kthxby"

ZTNA is just reinventing the wheel. Yeah, we open all our shit to the outside and let some client do some checks to grant you access. WE HAD THAT SHIT FOR AGES! ITS A VPN TUNNEL TO OUR SELF HOSTED SHIT THAT YOU HAVE TO LOGIN ANYWAY. Its just like someone in security marketing decided to put a name on something you should be doing anyway. Especially clientless ZTNA, thats just a reverse proxy with an auth header.

Man, cybersecurity lately just feels like sales just trying to sell you best practices and AI instead of actually usable software!

Dr Pepper tastes like piss. What was I thinking?

It makes no sense to cheat on your SO, esp with someone who also is committed, and then down the road hope for a trustworthy and strong relationship with your lover. Why? Because you cheated on your current SO / he/she cheated on his/her SO, so who's to say you/he/she won't go sideways in new relationship. There is a tendency to, it's no longer a taboo, so trust cannot be built on it.

Same applies to work matters. If your sidegigs/clients/potentional new employer urge you to work less for your 9-5 and spend more time on their matters, they cannot expect you to NOT do the same thing with them -- if you budge and do as told, you might as well 'steal' time [overcharge] from them and spend it for other clients.

Trust is fragile. Don't ask me to quietly break my current agreements to work for you more if you expect me to be a reliable asset in your endeavours

There was a post recently to not think about that someone is evil if you can explain it with stupidity, well it was nicely phrased but you get the point, so, today I went to the toilet, someone tore down the paper from the wall that states to not throw trash into the pissoir and he threw in into it. I am 98% certain it wasn't stupidity but pure disrespect and disregard of the person who tries to fucking keep ot clean. I just can't stand people anymore.

Bro. Why?

Lost all the lead engineers in my org. Now I'm the most senior.

God help us all.

I have to rebuild a full application till the end of the year without ever using the original application and without a technical document while keeping the users happy.

2 people team compared to a multinational team over 10 years :')

How are you supposed to do that!?

Since 2020, according to American NIST, an inch is exactly 25.4 mm. No foot shenanigans anymore. Thus, in the US of A and a lot of other countries, an inch is just a weird metric unit.

Imperial system is a lie.

Depressed. Life sucks

I don't know why I keep using Postman. Maybe I'm a masochist or something.

!rant && coolThing

Today, I fully parallelized my evolution algorithm.

That means that since Thursday of last week, even though I took yesterday off, I was able to learn about metaheuristics, implement three of them (one being my own awful invention that did not perform) and successfully parallelize them.

Feeling good, man.

Why cellphone is like a Tamagotchi nowadays?
*BlimBlom* please notice me!

At one random time a lady voice said in my pocket: "GPS signal lost."
What is going on, my dear Tamagotchi?

Just finished the code tests. I swear all of them could have just been regex. The first 2 I know can be because I did.

The last one was pattern matching in an array of strings (think battleships)

I actually fucked up the second test because I decided that they probably want code instead of regex...

I waited so long to brag about this fact: I finish whatever project I start. No matter how bored I get, I never abandon it midway or get sidetracked into some shiny new gig. I was gloating and jubilating this evening cos I can beat my hands against my chest after months and months at a stretch. Held a little party on my WhatsApp status haha

So for a few months now, I've been battling w/ failed updates of Windows 11 from version 23H2 to 24H2.
Initially, the update became available around Christmas.
During the update process, the PC BSOD'ed, then failed, && ultimately reverted to its original 23H2.
Couple of months later - same thing.
A few weeks ago, the update was once again offered to me...
...same _fucking_ thing.

...OK. This time around I actually saw something that resembled a meaningful error code.
...googled it.
...stumbled upon this post:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/... .

Well, I wasn't thrilled about it, but decided to try the solution, as that environment mentioned actually mirrored my own.

Yup. That was it.

It's fucking retarded how an OS can't even successfully undergo an update because of a security solution.
I'd say they should work together to solve that idiotic inconvenience.

Oh, yeah - once fully updated I have reinstalled the security solution. It's good, so apart from the OS's update failure thingy, can't really complain.

Thanks for reading.

Take your vertical slice architecture and shove it up your ass

TL;DR: I'm reading papers and doing computer science like I could never afford to in college.

I am beginning my scientific arc.

Over the past few days, I have been working on implementing my own Evolutionary Algorithms

I've been doing a combination of "experimentation" and (probably less than I should,) actual research.

My Mark 1 was just a proof of concept that set up the data structures correctly, Mark 2 generalized the data structures and actually implemented some natural selection, but this was really just made up by me so I'm only getting mediocre results.

Next step: I have two papers lined up to read on EAs. Mark 3 might not implement them exactly, but I hope to beat the performance of Mark 2.

I'm encouraged by the fact that these research papers have TONS of different things they tried, and I'm really only on my first prototype (since Mark 1 didn't have any selection implementation, only randomness)

Follow along if interested:

https://github.com/AlgoRythm-Dylan/...

I started using devRant soon after I landed my first ever gig (internship) as a dev, and I've grown leaps and bounds since, and been almost a decade.

From a starting where I could barely manage my expense, to where I have saved enough to have a runway and have my own startup; yeah I am starting up...

Building something on the same lines as devRant for a completely different market...

Lets dive deep into the cesspool of Youtubes new AI age verification bullshit. So, if you didnt hear recently, YouTube is using AI to determine your age based on your activity which is first of all, a fucking privacy violation, if they find you to be under 18, you will lose access to a lot of Youtube unless you give some sleazy company your ID. I think this is all bullshit, Youtube should retract this, I fucking hate it, Youtubes restricted mode is fucking slop. Heres how to survive the armaggeddon. Avoid shit with "try youtube kids" next to the description. Treat those videos as they are nuclear waste. They are best avoided. Do not have child like viewing habits or Corporate Cowardice might flag you. Same goes with use of emojis. Dont use emojis like the cretins in my comment section as kids like emojis. Other than that, This is all fucking bullshit. Youtube doesnt know how much fucking backlash they are going to face, in fact they are facing backlash right now, Look youtube, fucking retract this bullshit, otherwise the community might choose fucking thermonuclear war. AI is still a fucking gimmick. I do not trust AI. Fuck all this shit.

Sick and tired of this stupid country. I came to this city because the newspapers keep saying it had a huge drug problem. I CANNOT FIND DRUGS ANYWHERE

Fucking liars

well developer life is shit in a political environment

>> Task 1 is given to sr. dev
>> Task 2 is given to jr dev

>> Sr dev gives estimate for task as 2 days. no questions asked
>> Jr dev gives estimate for task as 5 days, whole team starts negotiating (the st dev being the loudest voice"
>> jr dev ends up with a timeline of 4 days.
(btw task is heavy enough for 5 proper days)

both start work
>> jr dev does the task in 3 days, tries to clear out edges, run test cases, clear doubts (thats also a shitty side rant) and submit a perfect task by day 4
>> sr dev starts fast on day1, takes leave on day 2, works on some urgent bug fix on day 3 and delivers task somehow on day 4

>> both gets new tasks on day 5 . this time sr dev still has prod fixes while jr dev is again doing a large task in bad estimates

>> bugs come on day 6. jr dev task bugs 2. sr dev task bugs 25
>> all bugs get aligned to jr dev because sr dev is working on high priority task

wtf? why am i supposed to fix other people's shit? btw this guy is module lead (next position for SSE) now and i am still the junior dev, and we 2 joined the org on the same day :/

he can't follow proper code architecture, writes shit code and he is getting the wins. I am cleaning everyone's mess and i am getting the stick

this is shit life

Had my first interview with a company now they want to schedule an in person (during work hours I assume) at their head office which is ~3 hours away with public transport... Also want me to do a Codility test, anyone done them before?

++age

Can’t believe it’s been a year already. Currently enjoying a month-long break from work, almost halfway through it. Realizing that I’m at an age where I need to recover from going to a museum, which is wild. But I’m taking the time to visit museums during my PTO instead of just sitting at home binge watching shows like normal.

Unrelated, I tried to crochet a Chucky doll and it turned out.. interesting.

@Lensflare, your bots are doing pretty good. I will see a spam, then I refresh and its gone. Definitely makes this place more tolerable. Are your bots keeping up? Any fallen warriors?

PSA: You setting up a RAG + System Prompt + Agent + Intents does NOT mean you “trained an AI”.

I have nobody to share this so I will inflict myself on you guys.

I genuinelly laughted out loud from reading the Hot Potato Licence

https://github.com/ErikMcClure/...

4th mug of coffee of the morning