YouTube keeps feeding me react videos. Disliking them for just showing up doesn't seem very ethical. It probably thinks "You watch them quite often so here, you have some.". Yh, because YOU PLAY THEM AUTOMATICALLY. What a dystopia.

In order to function well, you must ensure your basic needs are being met. Like sleeping well, eating well, resting well. Otherwise we derail.

Paradoxically, self love results in loving others. Because we are functioning well, we behave. I guess it's just my case. Whatever problems I have, chronically being stressed or tired just overdrives it.

I need to be really careful on how to I treat others, especially my loved ones. Strange, how I treat people I work with nicely and professionally. But in reality, these people are not even my friends.

Also a wise man on devRant said "Forgive yourself and study zen scriptures. Find solace in nature and serve others." Since I deleted the rant, I don't remember who it was. Anyway, thank you. Also, thank all of your comments of raw feedback. It really helps me think and reflect on myself and actions.

The best value I can give others is by not being there. That's how I felt at work and in society, weird times.

Recently, going to gym and sleeping early made me look way better. I'm thankful for that. And coming to work early everyday and managing work-life made me feel like I'm doing well.

gonna try working from the hospital while my youngest brother is in surgery from a car accident yay american work culture forcing productivity in difficult times

So I wrote some code to sort images in folders based on dates.
Like 2024>06>12.

I thought thats a good little script for GPT to help me out as I wanted to write it in rust.

Everything was fine and after processing all images and videos for 24 hours I was happy.

My test runs worked well.

Two days passed and I realize something.

Some images are not put in date folders. Why? Well I guess a little bug.

Starting to dive deep and checking if other images are in folders.

I see that I have images in folders since 2015 for most months and dates.

But why are some not put in exact day folders.

So another deep dive and I find out that the creation date is different to the folder the images are in.

Often its off by months.

Turns out I forgot to double check how the code generated by GPT maps the time between image creation date and unix epoch to a date folder.

It was just doing a division by an approximation of seconds that a month has, a year has, and a day has.

This caused things to be completely off the further away we go from 1970.

Lucky me that I did not mess up the creation dates :)

Looks like another 24 hours run

Ya know how the brits stole all the words from the parisians (the "french"), so that some words are false friends and are exactlty the same yet means different things because brits and french are inferior kinds of being?

How a "regime" mean a dictuture in english but it means "diet" in french so when they speak about the kim jung un regime I'm like "ahah did he lost the bacon yet??"

Happy new year.

What’s up with that placeholder’s aspect ratio?

There’s a guy at work I hate so much. He doesn’t know when a problem shouldn’t exist, he never checks to see if there is a better more maintainable and efficient way to solve a problem, lacks attention to detail, has the attention span of a goldfish, writes shitty overly complicated code, fuuuck

If you talked to this guy in person, you’d think he’s a genius who has it all figured out, but he’s just a professional bullshitter

Disclaimer: This joke will be lost in translation but I can't help but make it

In my country, you can use the phrase "it's not beans" to describe something difficult eg "that ielts exam no be beans". Given my recent woes with spring boot, I can also say "spring webflux no be beans". But it's funny to me because the framework calls objects bound to the container "beans" so it's a nerdy, don't leave me joke

The 2025 IT codeword is "flanagan".

This word can be provided to other IT support teams to let them know you are also a competent IT person.

Did I restart my router? Check DNS? NTP config? Traceroute? Yep all that. Just give the proper codeword and you can get sent straight to L3 support.

Mandatory winter break means mandatory.

Getting PR requests from a team mate during company wide holiday PTO. Asked him wtf he was doing, manager told him he had to work.

NOT the managers call! This is going to HR on the 2nd

What a journey - a psychedelic shaman in a capitalist world

Dear @Wisecrack
sorry for the 1,5 year cliffhanger... but i hope you still intrested :)

B2Plane I've found the best spot for you to take a dump:

Finally, at last I found a way to hack my parents' Xiaomi router. Now that I've got root access to it, I can now fix it, so it's able to.. you know... route traffic.

Because stock router's firmware only operates as a NAT device. Not a router.

The measures we have to take to get shit fixed.....

My boss uses chatgpt to code all the time. I watched his workflow and he will use chatgpt not for code, but to act like a search engine. He seems to be effective using it like this.

I struggle to include chatgpt in my workflow at all. I am using it to help learn C# to clarify things I cannot find in search. It doesn't always help.

So I have mixed feelings about using it in my work flow.

I can't wait for openAI to go bust.

today i was asked to encrypt a public key, because "it's sensitive info".

a PUBLIC key.

smh

it's not even hard (literally 1 line of code), but come on...

Have @dfox and @trogus abandoned devrant? The credit card that they've set for billing will expire/foreclose and one day devrant will just go down.
Does anyone have a backup of all rants and comments? Do we have any backup meeting place (bot free)?

I am experiencing deju vu:
https://reddit.com/r/csharp/...

dude: Why doesn't C# do this dynamic "like" thing?

community: How dare you like something from another language?! Don't you know C# is strongly type?! Dynamic is a curse on your children! <gets out torches and pitchforks>

random dude: Why don't you use <this method> to do this?

dude: Thanks "random dude", this does what I was looking for with a bit different syntax than I was expecting.

lol

Programmers are awesome!

Just learned that the existing US administration is going to restrict AI to a just a handful of allowed companies. They are talking about limiting AI like they did physics during WW2.

If you don't hate your government then you don't know the evil shit they are doing.

Not sure what will happen come January.

Got my dad to try Fruity Loops so that he can compose with his Tyros 3 keyboard on the computer. If he likes it, I will buy producer edition (that one can also record, that's why) for his bday soon. For Christmas I already ordered midi to USB cable for him. Finally I know what to give to someone who already has everything. He needs stuff for his stuff :p

It will be much fun experimenting together with it. My dad can go very hard on new things, he always becomes a pro in it.

I hope it will be just as nice as the time we spent together on Autocad. He later even made Autocad exams for schools.

He learned me how to install windows 3.11 as very little kiddo.

I like my dad doing computer stuff. It's the moment we really bond.

If we finish the sprint early we should be able to take rest of the days off :v

or at half days ffs

GitHub releasing the worlds most awful report trying with all their might to make copilot look good.

- percentages did not add up to 100 (one was under, one was over)
- errors not defined as functional errors, but “any code that reduced the ability for the code to be easily understood” (what in the subjective bullfuck is that?)
- apparently 200 participants but 25 represented 40% of the population????

LLMs are already decreasing the average GitHub employee IQ to functionally retarded levels :(

My husband is getting tired of the number of blankets in our house.

This one is heavily inspired by a Displate I keep getting advertised on Insta.

It baffles me that even now people still use ChatGPT to learn new things. LLMs are the antithesis of learning. They're inaccurate so you're left reasoning from flat out incorrect principles, they save you from encountering neighboring information to the answer you seek which is a central mechanic for developing a mental model, and the further away you are from common thought patterns the less their training applies which makes them fundamentally and unfixably terrible at detecting and correcting misunderstandings.

Microsoft Phi model information.

All people decided in a race and then women their own category all together. I don't know if I have to laugh or have to cry. Women who are happy with such stuff are batshit crazy. Who wants to he on the saddy list? It's a graph or all people who are weak and need help in their eyes.

I'm tired, I have nausea, my head hurts, my nose is clogged, my boss isn't happy, I'm marrying in 5 days from now, nothing is ready.

I don't know if AI makes people dumber. But it lends me to believe that people who swear by it might be dumber.

Time will tell how useful the code generators are.

I should go play with chatgpt today...

Traditional programming means spending *days or even weeks* to write instructions to make the software do what *you* want it to do.

AI modelling means spending *weeks or even months* to tweak instructions just to find that the software does whatever *it* wants to do.

Serverless.

This is where your Lambdas run