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!

Soo.. over the span of 1 month, x2 MAC servers have died (hardware failure). I'm in progress of setting up the third one.

What a dumb fucking system MacOS is!!! wtf...

I've spent 4+ hours trying to figure out why the fuck `git clone` is getting stuck and timing out our CI runs.

Turns out, on MacOS you cannot run git clone via ssh IF you have that user logged in via GUI (e.g. VNC). Git is getting stuck at

11:51:26.084245 run-command.c:759 trace: start_command: /opt/homebrew/opt/git/libexec/git-core/git-credential-osxkeychain store

and just chilling there doing nothing, waiting for the user to click on a Cancel button in GUI.
Logged out my VNC session and git magically started working.

What a dumb system... Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding this "security" feature...?

When you think about it.. we, DevOps, are the Mario Bros of the tech world.

We do the building, maintenance and pipelining so that whatever shit developers produce, it would end up in the right place w/o getting stuck

Okay, so just now I literally had to force-reboot a laptop because I could not exit vim.

damn.. It really IS a trap.

Where's the line between late night and early morning for you? To me it's 3am. 3am is late night, 4am - early morning. You?

Who needs BDSM when we have comms channels' outages in the middle of a PROD release.

Then again, who in his right mind uses Telegram for company comms....

Working 2 jobs is exhausting. In the evening head feels as if it were stuffed with sand. Like a punching bag.

Extra money is nice, but idk if it's worth that feeling...

Genuine question. Dev related.

I'm a sw engineer. And I would like to stay in the field. Should LT be invaded, what is the best place to flee to? So that I'd be able to live and work there?

I'm thinking ESP, but idk, wdyt?

Should the dR servers go down for good and David would pull the plug. Do we, devRanters, have a place to got to? Some discord or smth? It would be a shame for the community [or what's left of it] to cease to exist in a blink.

I know where to find retoor -- molodetz.nl . Yet it's not the means to communicate (still more than nothing) and the others won't be there.

P.S.
> 16s until you can post another rant.

:D sssoooo close

You know you're fucked when you're making coffee at 10pm

you don't say....

In the light of the recent events.....

I've almost made my peace with the fact that I will probably be nicked in the upcoming few years, as well as many others trying to stay free and/or flee countries in conflict. I just hope it won't be too long and agonising.
Thanks to the miracle of the internet, I will still be alive there in a form of online profiles and my posts/rants here. Maybe retoor's dR-trained LLM will be able to mimic me well enough to trick you all I'm still out there :))

just some doom and gloom shower thoughts.. running circles in my head for years now.

sooo... what's been bugging you?

- AI (LLM)
- quantum microchips (https://x.com/satyanadella/status/...)
- flying and electric cars (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/...)

what a time to be alive!!!

I mean... you've gotta love Apple's resource management and observation. Math and logic have no say in any of this.

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...

Our projet's system architect posted in our chat that me returning to the team next week will be the best b-day gift for him.

I was OOO for 3 months

what am I returning into....?

Heads-up, ChatGPT is leaking through cracks. Each chat is NOT carried out in an isolated, pristine context. It can refer to your previous conversations in a new context.

e.g.: https://chatgpt.com/share/e/...

I did NOT mention anything about any project/client or any fintech or any certification in this conversation. However, I mentioned all of those things in a previous conversation.

Contexts leaked into each other. IDK if my newer conversation will have any effect on answers to follow-up questions in older conversations, though.

No, learning from my conversations is NOT enabled.

But if chatgpt still remembers our conversations, regardless my explicit preference NOT to do that, makes me wonder what else they are collecting/doing behind the scenes..

ISO27k

I often think of how words are made, how they relate to other words, sometimes I discover interesting relations and etymologies.

Like the word ASSISTANCE. ASS-IS-T[A|E]N[S|C]E. And sure enough we need it most when we are frustrated and our asses are tense.

Coincidence? Idk. But I'll never see this word the same again.
Neither will you.

Ur welcome

Turns out, even spam in dR has its benefits :)

retoor's bot was asleep I guess, so I noticed a spanish spam post about taxi 24 horas [taxi with 24 whores]. And it was quite a good test for my spanish! Turns out, with Duolingo in one year one can learn to understand a language quite well. I only didn't know a few words in the spam post, but the rest I read as if it were english.

Daaayyuummm.. I was too sceptic about Dulingo :o

looking for a new, bigger car to fit all my fam in. I never thought I'd even consider a brand-new car, from the dealer. And here's me, looking at the VW Tayron, which has not even been released yet, and seriously considering getting one.

Thanks to decent salaries in our industry.
I don't think I'd ever be there had I gone through with my M.D. career.

We are all a living Turing test

https://notebooklm.google.com/

say all you like about gpt, but this is really cool. I've already digested api docs to test it out. Worked beautifully!

I've spent like 2 days on this semi-toy project, for which I would have been paid generously had I chosen to work for a client instead. This pleasure cost me hundreds of €s not earned. But it feels ssooooo good to code smth just for pleasure.

Totally worth it!

Soo... Turns out, if your laptop has usb-c charging and it has several such usb-c ports, you can use them simultaneously.

My lappy has issues with usb-c sharging, i.e. it becomes sluggish when charging w/ usbc (compared to on-battery and charging through barrel plug). Aaaaand Linux tends to occasionally crash if I unplug the charger while it's "awake". I wanted to change chargers, so I figured I could plug in the second one (hoping not to see any smoke) and unplug the first one. As soon as I plugged in the second one, all the lag disappeared and the battery keeps charging.

So if you have an usb-c charger that's too weak for your laptop, try using two of them :D

Never would have thought....

Ios build on MAC: *runs ok for weeks*

Ios build on MAC [today]: bundler failed to load command: pod [thats the whole error]

devs: we need to update cocoapods

tell me, please, how is this any better than windows...? No sensible errors, no sensible debug options, no sensible solutions but trial-and-error bruteforcing...

Hmm... I was reading postnatal depression fliers for moms and came across a depression quiz.

Turns out, I have a severe depression, 23/27 score 😁

that would actually explain a lot... A LOT...

Genuine question to rust devs: is rust worth it? I'm helping devs on a rust project and every day we're swearing at it. The language, critical section control, broken libraries, etc.

To me it seems we would have far better off with golang. But since we are this far now, noone will admit it

They say she was but a child a few years ago and now she's a grown up woman

They say he was but a child a few years ago and now he's a grown up man

I say, we are all the same children we were before. Only a bit smarter, with more mistakes in our portfolio and bigger, more expensive toys to play more elaborate games with.