Sticky scroll in VS Code, who ever wanted that? It's so typical of Microsoft to litter their software with undesired features enabled by default, so one needs to spend precious time to figure out how to disable all of that crap. I read somewhere that 83% of any features developed in any software are never used, or even requested by the users. This was many years ago so I don't know if it's still true, but it definitely still applies to Microsoft, who literally bloat their products with annoying stuff, and then force them upon the users, like the fucking CoPilot. Some Windows features can't even be turned off without editing the Windows registry or installing an app, and sometimes even that doesn't help. Anyone here old enough to remember the Office Assistant? Yeah, it was a predecessor to CoPilot looking like a paper-clip and behaving like a jerk. Just like with CoPilot, you could type questions and commands to it. For some reason, it couldn't be completely disabled by any normal command like "quit" or closing the window, it would always pop up again, until I told it to fuck off and it actually vanished for good.

just picked up my new hot brunette gf from training in my brand new bmw (fuccboy batman car) and drove her home (shes not really close) we kissed again and she said her pussy is still destroyed from last night and this morning (i was the destroyer) feels good having a bitch who genuinely loves me (she cuddled and hugged me last night in bed for hours and looked me in the eyes) She also last night said she cant believe how lucky she is to have me, she said i quote that she feels like she hit the lotto by having me, she views me as God, and now as i write this rant she wrote me "thx a lot for taking me home 😘😘😘 you mean a lot to me" i love this I fking love making a better life to a female but only for a non whore female (non whore females are in 0.0000000000001% percentile) (12 zeros) and i can tell shes not a whore cz her pussy was so damn tight it was so nice as if she just lostt her virginity to me she also said im a beast🍆😈 in bed and realized the fking she had with her ex was NOTHing compared to the fucking of b2plane I also learned from AMS and fitxfearless that a bitch who kisses u after u done cumblasting her means shes not a whore cz a whore would be used to get fked and cumblasted so shes onto the next dick but this girl has kissed me after i cum so shes lowkey a good girl and i love it this is exactly all i asked for from a female PLEASE GOD dont let this girl be a whore PLEASE i just want a non whore female

good night

Ever tried opening up x15 IntelliJ IDEA's sessions with all different repos at the same time after 3 months, so all of them would trigger reindexing?

There's the first time for everything I guess...

2010 was 15 years ago.

I hate tech.

Trying to find a solution to problem in tech:
- 5 to 10 minutes searching for the correct terminology for the problem you are having.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find a solution.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find the correct terminology because the first terminology was wrong.
- 5 to 10 minutes finding the correct solution for your platform version.
- all the while dodging sketchy AI results
- Either you find a solution or you find it can't be fixed on your platform because X vendor is a POS.

So, this is not quite what happened today, but it pisses me off. I cannot imagine not being non-technical trying to use any platform this day and age.

I am trying to access data off of a backup. The data I want is in a user directory on a windows backup. I cannot get to user content because the user for the machine the backup came from is not known. I try with explorer and it says I need to elevate priv. So I do. It sits there and just spins icon doing nothing forever. The volume for viewing the backup is read only (actually a good idea, but annoying, can't change permissions).

So I remember that explorer artificially enforces permissions on folders. So I get Q-Dir which has worked in the past. So I get it installed and it fails to elevate privs. WTF! Everywhere I search I see no solution and shitty AI results. Then from the back of my mind I remember. Run Q-Dir as admin (which doesn't work on explorer due to artificial enforcement). So I do. It can access anything from the backup regardless of location.

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE BULLSHIT BARRIERS EXIST? It only causes frustration from users and locks people out of their data.

I hate technology.

Week : 75 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

What's *the best* thing happening in the world right now, in your opinion?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/13103459

So today I was trying to get a java program to run in Linux that needed a bat file to run in Windows. I was looking at the file and didn't know what it would take to do all the commands in Linux. So I said fuck it and had my chatgpt account do the conversion. It actually did it perfectly and replaced Windows specific commands with Linux equivalents. It reworked the data and set environment variables correctly. It also ran the java program.

Unfortunately I think the Java program had made assumptions about the environment and used hard coded Windows style paths. Rather than using some paths in a filesystem generic way. So it just excepted when trying to read files that were there, but had wrong slash in filename.

It was a good test though. I may have chatgpt take a whack at other scripts I don't want to take the time to look up syntax.

My role in teams meetings :
Admit someone in,
Stay quite the whole time,
Say thank you and bye louder when its finishing 😅😅

Do you recommend getting a pet scorpion?

oh hey, if it isn't the same architectural mistake in the fourth fucking iteration that I keep forgetting to do right first time whenever I rewrite the code to fix unrelated problems.

canonicalize input as early as you can so that representational distinctions don't have to be drilled through business logic

Google Assistant got replaced by Gemini on my phone. What used to work before, me saying "Hey Google, set an alarm for 5 pm" doesn't work anymore.

"I am only a language model so I can't help you with that" is the default response.

Does big tech not like the idea of things working fine and smooth?

So I uninstalled Xbox App off my computer like a week ago. Today I get a notification to check out XBox Game Pass. So I find in notifications it has separate app or thing installed to notify about shit like that. So I removed that.

I also don't like the pos Game Bar. It won't let you uninstall in apps. So I searched and found this command:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

Good bye MS POS Gaming Overlay. Good bye Gayme Pass Notifs.

So I am on Pro version of Windows 11. Is this shit not able to be removed from Home version? What a garbage future we are in.

Nothing like spending 2 days solving a problem that could have been solved by 15 minutes of manual work

Hey, at least it's automated now...

"Any language is memory safe if you don't give a shit anymore"
- Tsoding

Clients be getting all clienty.

I'm sorry there's been a couple of delays here and there but we're building real software. This isn't some drag and drop WordPress nonsense with plugins for everything like the outdated site for your hair salon. I'm annoyed by the delays too. I want to get paid...

Why are civilians like this?

I'm on the 2nd week of a support rotation. One of the support reps contacted my manager about two tickets, one that is about an automated e-mail that didn't go out (which .. doesn't even seem necessary since the action has been completed?) and one because I accidentally put in the postcode on the 2nd line of an address field (which I immediately fixed when he commented on the ticket, minutes after, the same fucking day!)

We also had a super cringe all hands meeting today. I got plenty of sleep and am already exhausted.

My old roommate/landlord/co-worker sent me a text about his company needing devops people. I should probably finish updating me resume today.

Postman is shit, alternatives?

Recently discovered that Postman is now dead shit and its devs are fuckers that now made their shit a payware.

https://blog.postman.com/announcing...

The solution is to use latest normal version https://github.com/postmanlabs/...

Or get an alternative. Are there any good ones?

Hey question have you people forgot this ?

Just had a dream: a python but the head is a puppy and covered in puppy fur. I don't know what that means. You guys had weird dreams lately?

I am so naive about LLMs. I wanted to know if I can just make one trained on text I produce. I don't even know what that means. But I read that it can take a huge effort to train one.

The more I read about this subject the less I understand. I assume some are available commercially:
https://github.com/eugeneyan/...

But I don't even know what that means. If I wanted to make an LLM to handle text interactions with NPCs what are we talking about here? Is it a multi-gigabyte file? Do I have to worry about what it was trained on? I don't want one that has infinite knowledge. I don't want it to have any frankly. I want to provide its reality as the sole creator.

The problem is I don't even know what the question is to ask it properly. I assume I need something that teaches it english, but then what comes after that?

Jackson JSON parser can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
Like, bro, I don't want you to pollute my JSON when saving into Redis. Because now the frontend clients suddenly don't understand the schema because it's riddled with @class and type definitions everywhere.
You have to perform dark magic to get this thing to work automatically with Spring Boot caching.
I've had to implement my own custom serializer and deserializer after wasting who knows how many hours on this.
Shit like this is why I tend to roll my own implementation for many things at the slightest hint that a library isn't flexible.

Me (code review): this isn't good, sometimes it duplicates stuff. If you move it over here it won't be duplicated.

Dev: it's useful, it's not quite the same as that other thing, sometimes it's different

Me: If you move it over here it won't be duplicated.

Apparently instructions were unclear the first time...

TeamLeader2: Mister IHateForALiving, client is reporting a bug, we need you to check out what is happening
IHateForALiving: I'm on it, anything I should know before I start?
TeamLeader2: just check the logs, they should tell you pretty much everything you need to know

The logs:

https://wikihow.com/Relax-Your-Sphi...

@Lensflare

I love waiting 30 minutes for phsyx to finally fucking be done compiling my god can you just speed uuuuuup

I can't receive packages, nothing to do about it. If I want a package, I have to choose a drop off location in city center. Totally fine.

But now, I ordered new internet and ofcourse, they assume that your address is the place where it should be delivered and there was no place to change it. Fine, I will contact them after order.

But then, how to contact? You get a chatbot with only freaking predefined choices. "Questions about status of your order?". Etc. No fuckers, I'm sure it's doing fine. Gave up. Went to calling them.

You choose all wrong unrelated options until the automatic phone bot get stuck before you get an employee on the line. Thank God - that went fairly quick.

But it's bizar right, that you kinda have to crash an automatic phone bot by providing weird unrelated answers before you can ask your question?

Result: they can't change my address and thus it will go to delivery point end of the day if they can't deliver so I can pick it up one day later (tomorrow). Smol grr. But while said being unable to to deliver, they'll try it anyway 😁 Efficiëntcy 😁

My colleagues excel at envisaging shit extracurricular activities. It may not be so godawful irritating if they weren't hypocritical scum, all of them but ESPECIALLY, the girls. When you're sick, nobody checks on you. When you text them, they don't reply. They only initiate conversations to get something. They are never friendly except they need a favor and have run out of options. You can't borrow more than one 1k naira from any during an emergency. Then they force you against your will to oblige them

Last year, they came up with this crappy cook fest assigning dishes each staff is to cook and present like some science expo project. I declined but participation was enforced. Things went sour with the caterer I recruited. Work that day was a living hell for me, I eventually had to leave

Next, they devised an end of year dinner, instead of converting all that money to a much needed 13th month salary or even bonuses. Thankfully, attendance was not compulsory so I and one other girl could exempt. Why would I buy/borrow dress code costumes at such short notice, to assemble with a bunch of people who think I'm crap?

This year again, they roped me into this dumb "love feast" program for valentine. I was livid and incensed. I stormed the inbox of one of the male instigators and gave him a piece of my mind. This scoundrel literally shakes my hand irl like it's covered in poop. Nowadays, he waltzes into my office without the courtesy to greet me. I'm so inconsequential and insignificant. He ordered me to delete the messages, implying he might leak them like the ex hr once did. Of course, I refused

The girl they paired me to buy gifts for doesn't reply my chats. I literally sent some that morning but she had the audacity to walk up to me and tell me what she wants me to buy her. It's our bosses fancy mug and my next seat buddy immediately tells me how crazy expensive it is

They've all got read notifications turned off. It's not even creepy messages or require deep thinking or lengthy replies. It's just not being regarded worthy to be communicated with. These are the people I'm going to spend a dime on. They don't even TRY to pretend I'm a human being. Literally don't talk to me but everyone else plays with each other. Personally, I'm not a gift person. I NEVER buy myself anything unless it's an absolute necessity. So why would I rack my brain, go out of my way to get you some shit you aren't even going to appreciate? It's a waste of money and intentions. They claim it helps with team bonding. I'm sore and bitter cuz that is a lie. Those interested in each other go home together, outings, sleep together, reply each other's messages. They don't need some formal carnival to do any of that

Messages are the most basic things. It's utterly insulting cause everyone always has their devices holstered. They respond to the boss instantly when tagged on the group. Any act of not communicating directly, is both deliberate and a passive declaration of war. So why drag me into your annoying shows? Do your clique thing however you want. Leave me the hell out of it

Arrays should be indexable by a float!!!!!

Week : 74 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

What something do 99% of people do wrong but have no idea?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/12949770

The more I read these LinkedIn bullshit posts the more I believe StackOverflow was a perfect heaven and right all along regardlesss of all of its toxicity - this was neccessary.

There are just *too many* morons that are getting by and polluting industry and individuals with their so called "professional and expert" oppinions.

What's even worse is that almost nobody will call their bullshit as we're all here under some unwritten "act welcoming and professional" agreement.

This platform is such a fucking cancer of digital world, makes me want to create fake accounts just to troll them all the time.