It's current year and Microsoft teams doesn't have a full screen mode

Why

Reminder that having a high level education, or even a PhD, doesn't mean you're smart, intelligent or in any way competent.

Sector: embedded software

So I don't have to mess with front end fuckery

The online funeral live stream just broke. The 4G* connection at the place is awful, which is probably the reason for it...
*If it even has 4G now, it definitely didn't a few years ago

Germany keeps jerking itself off how amazing our economy and science is. We're a country of engineers and all that.
Yet our digital infrastructure is a fucking joke.

Rural area? Well better hope you'll get any reception, let alone 4G.
Oh and cable connections? I've seen areas that will give you a 6 Mbit/s DSL connection.

The colleagues who do testing in my department collectively call their assert function 'ass()'

After thorough considerations I came to the conclusion:

RFC3339 is better than ISO8601

Also working with time and dates in C++ is making my head hurt please help me

Overdosing on caffeine every 1-3 days

Maybe nicotine too but that's up to you

Told by boss earlier that my job description should be changed.
It should be cook or chef, as I'm making spaghetti inside my editor.

He argued it could be risotto as well

No matter how many times I use it, I still have to look up how printf formatting works every so often...

Current project has a ridiculously high amount of formal requirements

Two of them literally are
• the system shall have an “off” state
• the system shall be in the “off” state if no power is supplied

Boy do I have just the solution for you!

I hate the fact that this is a valid line of Dart code

int val = null;

Obligatory I hate C++ rant

And no, I don't care what anyone has to say, you have to be masochistic to enjoy working with this crap

Raspberry Pi recently announced their first micro controller.

Will I buy two to four of them? Yes
Will I do anything with them the next 2 years? Probably not

https://raspberrypi.org/products/...

I never knew that debug symbols, a core dump and gdb would be so powerful to debug

The command line is peak ol' reliable

Is it just me or is the C++ STL.... a chaotic mess?

Can I get by a single week without having to waste 6 hours on trying to understand the 14 absolutely unreadable C++ errors?

You ever wake up and realize it's 10 am and you wanted to be in the office at 8 and for a moment you question your entire career and every single life choice you made?

If I had some money to with I'd probably get my own little workshop and tinker with micro controllers, custom keyboards and so on.

if only...

Fuck C++ I am so done with this garbage

No I do not accept differing opinions

C#

Lately there have been a lot of new features for the language itself, and I fear that a lot of them make the language more and more convoluted.

Also AoT Compilation should be pushed more, but that might just be my opinion.

It's the kind of evening where I'll look into niche programming languages but never make anything with them.

Send language suggestions

C++ development will be my end.

The absolutely unreadable errors, the overly convoluted macros set up in the project, the cmake build system.... The absolutely unnecessary separation into cpp and header files...

help

questions I want to ask at work but I am too afriad to:

aren't we supposed to use .hpp for C++ headers instead of .h?

Microsoft Windows
Microsoft office

And the worst of all: Adobe reader

I swear I will commit a hate crime if my ISP keeps messing up the order

I expected to have a connection to 1st November to maybe the 5th

I still haven't gotten shit

Home office adventures day 1:

Coffee machine good
Productivity low

don't know if this is too good for me, we'll see

I'm not qualified to say anything here, I'm a junior as well, but something general that I picked up:

Not everything needs to be object oriented.
Writing 5 functions and calling it a day is often much better than needing 13 classes and 4 interfaces.

in the mood to spend two grand on a pc solely to say "I compile this thing like 0.4 seconds quicker :)"

super random

I never got the notion of "men don't like smart women", it's not a stereotype that I see in real life too much.
And I kinda think the opposite way, like yes honey please go on about mathematical topics I don't know a thing about <3

Random but does anyone have experienced with hosting your own git server together with a frontend?
I don't want to solely rely on GitHub.

I've tried gitlab before but was put off by the ridiculous amounts of resources it needed.
Been thinking about gogs for a while