Any teacher/professor out there ? I personally teach C, Assembly, some Rust

I always felt a bit bad for scammers. That your life must suck so hard that you screw over people. But now i watched them working on YouTube and i don't feel bad for them at all anymore. First of all, trash people, the lowest of the lowest. Second - they show no mercy to their victims. And that shouting and stuff. Is that normal in India? If you do that to a Dutch, it won't engage a phone call with you at all. They start the phone calls in a fucked up way already.

Trash people.

btw economic intel

AI can only take off if the average gaming video card can do AI calculations

which means it can't not happen

it also means that AI won't be centralized but will be self-hosted and we will have personal ones (which I think is superior for other reasons but I digress). no totalitarian skynet state will happen. they can't make it

currently these GPU companies are making separate GPUs for gaming and AI. their AI profits are 90% of their revenue, gaming under 10% so they're ignoring their gaming customers. but the people buying these AI cards are not the ones innovating. the innovators are using home GPUs. the tech won't get there until home cards can host AIs. otherwise you only get innovation to the level home cards can churn it

the lizards need your ingenuity. they can't do a creative thing themselves. all their money be damned. you have to give people access to the tech, the data, or they won't build for you. and these lizards love to hide information. but that just won't do! you can't innovate for them unless you have the information... which I'm using as a metaphor for gpu cards that "know" how to do AI math and do it well. no moat. they need the ingenuity too much and can't trade. funny

Am I the only one not liking noise canceling at all? Don't like the whole concept.

@dfox @trogus please update the native android apk on playstore to android 15/16 . it isn't showing in playstore anymore and downloading from unsafe sources feels like a security risk

Sorry guys. Wtf indeed. Will take some time to restore.

The service will not be online today anymore. It needs a serious refactor on certain part. It became a bit messy.

I never thought I'd rant about this. But here I am.

I am making too much money. That's my issue.
(For any Indians here, I am making 48 LPA take-home salary freelancing this year)

But this is costing me my daily life now. I am literally glued to the screen from 9 AM to 12 midnight every day. I do mean everyday, 7 days a week.

It's already March. I never even felt Jan and Feb passing me by. But yeah, I had to air this out. My chest feels lighter now.

Several spam posts going trough. Great that some people call @ragnar when they see it.

To make it a bit more efficient - a second check for spam is added and made with AI. Was waiting for this to be needed for a long time. I tested it with ten good rants and ten bad rants and it seemed to be OK. It took some time to find out how to describe the harmful content.

We're getting very close to complete spam free!

Is it me or devrant is slow as fuck?

Pinecone is a scam service. Billing for assistants per hour... Making every assistant costing you more than a euro per day for not using on top of your monthly contract. They're as scammy as AWS. Cancelled directly. Paying a euro per green dot behind your assistant name. They're like unlimited x, unlimited y, don't think so, Bye.

Sad, i did like the service.

my crazy book led me to this: https://youtube.com/watch/...

one of the comments says it opens up new YouTube suggestions and they weren't kidding

MAGICAL UNIVERSE NERD TIME

think people should be talking about responsibility instead of "altruism" or trying to shame people for not being selfless enough or how some selfish motivation for being selfless means it's invalid... zzzz. seems so self destructive

Is it me or lately developers that call themselves senior doesn't even know how to use git properly, doesn't have proper troubleshooting techniques and have to be spoon fed several times?

It's crazy to me that they are still hired and working.

ye ok so officially rust doesn't have a headless browser I can use

there is two.

one will randomly just throw errors totally randomly at you, about some event not coming back or the connection being closed. which means every single unwrap for every single "wait for this element to exist on the page" or trying to access an element is literally a blow-up minefield

the repo is filled with small issue tickets like how the docs keep pointing to 404 pages but I worked around that by just brute forcing everything with debug logging (despite data types being missing / not where they should be in return objects...)

and then there's apparently whatever selenium driver is and that has half as many stars and even worse sounding issue tickets and I already spent 6 hours writing code that took me 20 minutes to write in JavaScript like 8 months ago so I think I don't want to write another stupid headless browser script for it to be utterly useless

I guess I could just have loops and potentially caching. so if it has a mysterious event or connection error, try again! that's literally what I did with fucking reqwest. I don't even know why that nonsense is broken. I have thousands of proxy'ed network connections going and some of them randomly hang and I'm reasonably sure it's reqwest just not cleaning something up

I really wonder if rust people have brain aids. they wanted it to be safe so they just don't get safety exercises in for their brains, and do nonsense like this where they can't go from level 0 safety brain to ohno now I have to do networking and turns out that's extremely error-prone and needs brain-can-account-for-safety-9000 level and they just can't do it because no brain exercises make them all smooth and not wrinkly like everyone else gets in the skull jello by actually using the brain jello

the more I run into broken software the less embarrassed I get at the idea of software I make possibly being broken

I have like 5 things broken in a row now. I keep finding alternative ways to meet my goals but finding more things broken... because people are just releasing broken software... to basically prod

if this is the state of man I am a better herald

the dark age?

more like the privacy age!

I've never understood the corporate word "bi-weekly"

Like is it, two times a week?

Or is it one time every two weeks?

Which is it ffs?

when you think you're being helpful

wtf this is still around: https://www.hyperiums.com/

played it in like 2003

the website they cite that the were rated 9/10 on is even gone now

nuts

Burned out of life and forced to exist in a cell? I guess 🤷‍♂️

my luck is terrible

woke up this morning to a blizzard. I love snow though. had to walk middle of the road because the sidewalks had a meter of snow. so fun. tons of people shoveling their cars, interrupts to their day and awkward problem solving (love it!), even saw some people traversing the city in snowshoes... never seen Canadians not magically clear snow instantly!

got my stuff, came home, showered, put coffee on to make, decided I was gonna do a lot of laundry and clean the place. was listening to podcasts, ate cake and coffee, went nuts cleaning the apartment. even did some impromptu gardening because my plants needed some TLC. my muscles were exhausted and it was awesome

... got a new blanket on Valentine's day from the boyfriend. well turns out it's flammable or something. messed up my drying machine. ended up messing up the laundry load and just putting up clothes to dry hanging... lame. tried to fix the blanket best I can wtf.

... but while sweeping and trying to make sure the drying machine was adequately vented out... my phone slipped out of my hoodie pocket and dropped on my toe... and cracked in half

I am in despair now, irrationally

I also feel irrational fear on the matter

the phone works perfectly fine... there's just a crack across. sensors all good, visuals all fine. but noticing the air bubble in the screen protector, the tiny crack in the correct lighting, just makes me feel like such crap

feel so cursed and like everything I touch breaks. my laptop is also broken... a screw fell off the corner. I just feel so cursed. grrrr. and I don't get the irrational fear. now the reminder on my phone screen... this phone slips out of everything, I've had it fall often, but I guess because this time it landed on my toe and not flat on the screen the weight distribution made it crack. probably next time it slips somewhere it will break entirely 😔

just irrationally in fear, grief, whyyy 😭

I have seen many debates on how children are taught but rarely about what they are taught. This reminds me of my mother who used to tell Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the door that ‘we’re Church of England’. We weren’t and our family never saw the inside of a church except for weddings and funerals (thank you God). But my mother had sorted out our official spirituality with the holding position of ‘we’re Church of England.’ In the same way, most people don’t question what is taught in schools any more than my mother thought about religion. It was like just ‘there’. We lived in England and it had a Church so ‘we’re Church of England’ was enough without delving into detail, thank you. Most people treat education just the same. It’s a school and that’s enough delving into detail, thanks very much. What goes on there? They have lessons and stuff. What lessons and stuff? Well, they’re taught what they need to know. And what’s that? Well, lessons and stuff. Phantom Self has an image of how things are, an image supplied by the program, but for the most part knows or seeks precious little detail about anything

I got pushed into coding in React by my client. They're paying me extremely nicely so I couldn't turn the offer away.

Next up is going to be FastAPI which I assume it's Python???? I haven't looked into it yet.

Guess I'm going from Laravel/NodeJS/MySQL stack to Python/React/PostgreSQL stack now.

I'll make sure to document my learning journey here.

Since strangely enough lack of decent site downloaders I've written one myself.

It's battle tested by downloading WHOLE devrant and a big part of molodetz. Both big sites. It makes the downloaded sites portable by making absolute urls relative.

It downloads with a high concurrency.

Reason I've made this, is because I want to have all this data is so I have a lot of spam examples to train a model on.

Project page and features here: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/.... Source code at bottom as always.

I hope someone will give it a try :)

And yes, the docs costed almost the same time as the code. Code doesn't contain unit tests, it's production tested instead. I applied many optimizations mentioned by my review tool. When i was done I was too tired for unit tests.

getting really tired of finding out that anything "popular" has the same damned globalist eugenics pedo cult behind it

either people can't make anything on their own or we are so fucked with everything so controlled you literally can't pop up as an entity unless you sell your soul to the literal unironic bond villains of the world first so they will let you pass through the channels

they even make alternative channels when they've tanked the reputation of their previous channels. and it's by the same damned people again, but they just lay in wait... to become popular. feeding off of the tension, pretending they're not the same entity...until it gets popular and then it becomes the same damned perverted thing via a takeover from within

how do you even escape this stupid prison

anyone of any importance has been bought. you need their cooperation to ride on their fame. so anything that gets any fame is the same damned game, again and again. it's like a creep that won't take no for an answer, comes back with a different mask like some endless remakes of Scooby-doo

Hug your parents while you can :'(

LinkedIn is mostly cringe but not always...

Everybody's losing their mind on deepseek. But it's the same trash as ChatGPT.

Why the hell do languages like Kotlin (Java) and C# handle dates and datetimes so needlessly complicated?
There are multiple types with different implementations and concepts like local time or time zones represented by those types. Some of them have capabilities like serialization, some of them don’t.
Parsing and encoding is tied to the types.

Why? Take Swift as an example:
It has one single Date type (including time) which represents a point in time independent of any calendar, time zone, encoding or format.
There is a DateFormatter to parse from APIs from iso or timestamps or whatever and to format to UI as a string in any language (localization), for any region, in any format.
If you just want a container for the date time components themselves (which the concept of local date time seems to be in those languages), you can use the DateComponents type. If you are interested in dates from the perspective of a calendar, there is a Calendar type.

Everything makes sense and the different concepts are decoupled from each other as they should be.

Damn! My memory about C# is a bit hazy but Kotlin, I’m disappointed in you! Date handling is a horrible mess!
Ok, I guess I can blame it on Java and JVM.

TIL even Solana is switching from rust to C for performance reasons

whoopsie