A PCIe gen 7 1x slot has roughly the same data rate as a gen 3 16x slot.
Let me guess what that much bandwidth can ever be used for? AI 😑

Sold my first ever license. :) Months of work paid out.

typeof NaN
'number'

Yes... in JavaScript, the type of NaN is Number. Go figure...

Is this so different from tech startup presentation?

Our revolutionary platform leverages next-gen AI, decentralized blockchain orchestration, and hyper-scalable cloud-native microservices to synergize collective intelligence and unlock a paradigm shift in human potential. By gamifying sustainability through tokenized social impact layers and deploying frictionless API integrations across Web3 ecosystems, we’re not just disrupting legacy infrastructures—we’re architecting a regenerative future. Our mission-driven, community-centric, and data-sovereign approach empowers Gen Z digital natives to co-create resilient value networks that transcend borders, democratize innovation, and ultimately save humanity from systemic collapse.

Turns out it wasn't the RAM nor the graphics card but the barely used NVME (that I recently started using with linux as boot) that was causing random crashes.

Very tempted to still just replace the whole thing...

Nothing too important on there other than my bash history and LLM models

How did devRant find it's initial users, in other words, solve the network cold-start problem?

For my startup, my concern is that users join only when other users / content creators / friends are on a platform, and content creators join platforms that have users... Any tips on solving this?

JoyRant build 45:

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looking at jobs I don't have the brains for this anymore I think

that's so sad

I wonder if I do obsessive cardio could I outdo all the "multiple sclerosis" lesions -.-

can't code my way out of a fucking paper bag

had some dude add me on LinkedIn that looks impressive and he's connected to some people I worked with who were impressed with my code before... so years later they must've been still talking about me. but I'm a shadow of my former self if I could even qualify as a fucking shadow. I'm so embarrassed to even be existing that's my level of depression on the matter

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

God help us all.

JoyRant build 43

You can now see who upvoted your comment.
This works by getting the info from the notifications list so it will not work for old upvotes which aren’t in the notif list anymore.

Forgot to also add this for rants. Will add later.

Complete list of changes:

* notifications from all tabs load at once
* info button about who upvoted my comment
* comments counter for own rants
* no reply button for own comments
* ignore users locally (added in build 42)

I was an intern when I joined here 10 years ago... now looking to start-up (related to gaming) - wondering if you guys would love to provide some feedback!
Currently, we're less than a month away from launching closed beta - the survey responses showed 78% positive response.

Would appreciate a look here
https://tally.so/r/wAgvLN

tmux I love you

This is AMOLED display at 250x zoom.

Wait. Is devRant no longer on the store?

Yup, no longer on the store. Shutdown in progress I guess. Time to backup all the memories and work on the replacement. It's been fun y'all 🫶

Woah! Has DevRant been removed from the play store?

People who conduct technical interview, how common it is for you to see people bombed the interview??

I did it.

Had my final exam today.
Presentation and technical project defense both A-!

I'm officially now a certified IT specialist for application development.
(Rough translation from German "Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung"

Signing the contract tomorrow and genuinely looking forward to the future for once.

Swift: Have you ever noticed...

How many times the word "Safe" is used when describing Swift, yet there is no way to programmatically determine if a memory allocation failed?

How many ways this "Safe" system has a way of crashing:
1. Unwrapping a Nil Optional
2. Disconnected Outlets
3. Out-of-Range Array Access
4. Accessing Uninitialized Variables
5. EXC_BAD_ACCESS (Memory Access Errors)
6. Threading and Actor Isolation Issues
7. Type Casting Errors
8. Uncaught Language Exceptions
9. (fill in the blank?)

What frustrates me is that Swift lacks a language-level way to check if heap memory allocation succeeded. When you create an object like MyClass(), Swift assumes success—if allocation fails, the process dies instead of allowing your code to gracefully handle the failure.

And to avoid having pointers, it creates this horrendously random undocumenting syntax salad that is worse than ADA.

Swift, when you wanted a liter-bike and you get something else

If you were a code antipattern, what would it be?

I'm definitely NIH -- "Not Invented Here".

I write everything from scratch. When I don't, more often than not, I don't install code deps -- I copy their code and modify it. I port it to my set of utils, my syntax preferences, optimize it, strip parts and modes I don't need, and at the end there's no clear line between what was my code and what wasn't. My code doesn't import, it absorbs.

My colleague thought process became the average of all possible existing LLMs. He has perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor open on different tabs every time I go check on him. He is literally performing majority vote on all possible LLMs -> he basically stopped thinking.

Systemd has telemetry now!

Proud owner of a brand new Volkswagen, baked less than a month ago :)))

Lots of touch and tech inside, lots of assisting technologies -- quite a jump from a 2005 Audi a6. You can even track your car in your phone now OOTB :) cool!

Running a special today. My performance at work will be 40% off

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.

That moment in the morning you realise today is going to be a shit day

People of
"<in the first 5 minutes>
Sorry if I pronounced your name wrong
<continues on hours long obvious power trip>"
..

What is your home address?

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?

Missing a meeting because I was reading devRant. Worth it.

Imagine, AI is improved, robots are there for you, they cook they do all the households, and there is literally nothing that is there to do for humans, in such case is there a chance Humans go backwards becoming Neanderthals, go hunting in jungles and live like that.. and then so many years later they rebel against AI and Robots and surprisingly come to know they are the one who created them so many centuries ago.. lol