I'm the only one who loves programming and computers but hate most of the culture around it? The tropes (caffeine addiction, programming socks...), the YouTube "gurus" who makes clickbait titles and usually screams while reading other peoples blogs, the [hyperSpecificWebFramework]Conf where hours are wasted in which seems an infomercial for "yet another way to update an HTML page basing on a series of properties", the hackathons...

More I distance myself from this mountain of BS more my enthusiasm for tech grows

The year is 2025.

WSL2 still makes it a major, excruciating pain in the ass to expose a port over the network without having to look up the fucking command and think about the stupid cancerous networking model every time.

All I wanted to do was run some experiments with AI models on my gaming laptop using its GPU, and expose an API to my other laptop, having the latter as a client.

Guess I have to get fucking rid of Windows forever if I want a fucking usable computer.

It did the first character wrong to call a different bot and see my prompting skills to fix the issue. It takes a lot of experience to prompt like that. Blood sweat and tears people. /s

It works 14/15 times correctly and then fucks you over out of nowhere, no idea where the < even can come from.

Small companies raising their prices after being made VC bitches is a whole separate genre of cringe.

LOVE how these companies are keep publishing their "AI models" without verifying or explaining their architecture, their data collection process, and any validation scores.

Like, I am to just take your word for it working "better" because of a study done by the school of PSYCHED(🤪)?

Are we at the f*ck holes off corporate life?

Have you all been busting your guts for corporate f*cks?

I'm so bored of corporate life. What else is there?

Nuking the crappy hacks of “seniors” and rewriting something clean has really become my passion.

Massive ego battles are about to happen in the PR comments 🔥🔥🔥

Today's debugging session ended with 75 breakpoints set. Personal best!

For three days now I've been trying to fix a multi thousand line binder script which generates a json ast for c++ code using clang and then consumes type defs and creates rust bindings and I want to die

(it still doesn't work right)

I have noticed that most of the mentally ill posts on here are from Javascript devs.

ISO27k

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

!rant O'Reilly has awesome content. EOF

Everybody keeps trying to get me to use cursor or GitHub copilot or some other LLM co-programmer that will shit all over my code

okay, it's time.

a friend of mine left Microsoft a while ago. he said that the reason he left was The Microsoft Way Of Doing Things that, upon accepting and embracing it, will make you unhirable to everyone else. Doing so was a requirement — you won't make it long without becoming One Of Them.

he may or may not have used Visual C++, C# and F#, and he may or may not have touched Windows.

Procastinator's tricks to be productive: Schedule messages

I hate to write people. They could answer. My whole plan might be thrown off. But when is the best time to answer them? The day after tomorrow? Too late. Tomorrow. Around 10? Thank you to all messengers that allow me to schedule a message. Instead of procrastinating, I answer, I schedule, and if I am in a bad mood, I later come back and abort and rewrite the message nicer.

Went perfectly swimmingly with my happy new year messages. Everyone got them at 00:00. Yes my friend, you're obviously the most important thing in my life, first thing I did was writing you!

I'm not a 10x developer. It's you who are 0.1x developers

How bad are you at English? A LLM (dolphin-phi) just've said this to me when I asked for a joke:

"I apologize, but the given text seems to lack context and proper grammar structure for generating humorous content."

I must have broken some record.

Any Microsoft employees who work on SharePoint here? DROP AND GIMME 20!

OMG, you need some blood to run into that walnut sized brain you have on top of your head.

This thing is such a piece of shit. While I subscribe to Chaos Theory, you are not suppose to implement it in a god damn user interface!

This fucking thing sometimes shows controls, sometimes does not. Sometimes some features are available on a section when you access it one way, and then accessing it a different way removes some capabilities from the menus and adds others.

While I subscribe to the theory that there is no such thing as "random" in the universe, this piece of 🐒💩 makes me start to doubt reality. It is not software, it is cochroach infested gaslightware.

God damn you microsoft fuckers piss me off with your ShitPot web hackware.

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!

We're living in a time where retoor and Buffon are fighting each other with bots.

Truly one of the moments of all time.

Instead of arguing about whether the table should be called Users or User, just call it UserTable. Problem solved

Is there anything more demoralizing and cringe than the All Hands Meeting?

Our beloved SPAM bots lost their ability to downvote.

The spam filter bot lost it's downvote privileges, already.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Sigh.

Realtek fucking sucks on Linux. I wasted two days trying to get their shitty USB WiFi dongle to work, only to find out it doesn't support AP mode with the Linux driver. It works fine on Windows, but not on Linux. Realtek doesn't support their modern USB WiFi chipsets with in-kernel drivers. This is true even though we saw in-kernel support for some Realtek WiFi 5 chipsets in 2023—however, that support was added by a Linux community developer, not Realtek.

Realtek does make non-compliant Linux drivers for many USB chipsets, but they don't publicly release them or accept problem reports. A few vendors post Realtek USB WiFi drivers at irregular intervals, but they’re only available in source code format and must be compiled. These drivers don't keep up with changes in new kernels, so it falls on people like me in the community to maintain them.

Am I a fan of how Realtek supports Linux? Absolutely not.

Users of Realtek’s out-of-kernel drivers often ask why these drivers aren't included in the Linux kernel. The answer is simple: the drivers are not Linux standards-compliant, Realtek doesn’t provide documentation, and creating new drivers would be easier, though it’s a huge task.

While there are Realtek out-of-kernel drivers available, they are not recommended for general Linux users. These drivers are meant for skilled programmers working on embedded systems, not for casual users. Those using desktop distros like Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Raspberry Pi OS, or others will find adapters with in-kernel drivers to be more stable, reliable, and feature-rich.

My testing over the past couple of years has shown good results for WPA3 with in-kernel drivers. I’ve tested USB WiFi adapters ranging from N150 to AXE3000, and adapters using Mediatek/Ralink and Atheros chipsets with in-kernel drivers work well with WPA3. Keep in mind that your Linux distro must support WPA3 for it to function properly. As of mid-2022, all distros I use, including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later, work well with WPA3.

Most modern out-of-kernel drivers (like Realtek) now support WPA3-SAE, but not all. Realtek has stopped working on most of its WiFi 5 out-of-kernel drivers as of mid-2023, so be careful when purchasing, or you could end up with a dead-end product.

We literally gave ChatGPT their next idea by making fun of them.

They probably saw the posts on the internet where a real person would have a lengthy back and forth conversation with 4o about how many R's are in strawberry and were like "wait, what if we could make the chat bot do that with itself before it answers"

10 quadrillion GPU cycles and $100 in electricity later, we have a "new" GPT model!

Oh and considering their new $200 per month paid plan, it seems like I might not be far off concerning the price to run this parlor trick of a chatbot.

NYC:
- Constant construction work that never ends
- You can buy ad place on scaffolding
- Potholes are “repaired” with literal trash left outside by shop owners that is compacted by passing cars
- It's okay to bump other cars to make room for parking yours

I've never been there. NYC dwellers, are those rumors true?

Is there any game engine with actually good support for SVG? I want to do some 2D animations but I don't want to do it with goddamn png sprites like some caveman.

an actually valid critique of AI: https://stacker.news/items/788287

aka, woke era will end and the software companies don't matter