@djsumdog yup DLL hell in Windows can be rare, but real. I’ve had it just a single time but that was largely the projects fault.

@TeachMeCode eventually you're just gonna get a PDF document for each line of code.

It's just more junior-level thinking, as juniors tend to absolutely love comments (they haven't realized that they LIE yet)

I ran into a pretty interesting issue recently.

If it's a system that is well-documented, but has not much example code available (in my case, some Oracle database package that is well documented but seldom used) it hallucinates like a motherfucker!

The reason? It has nothing to copy, and instead must think. Which, of course, it's poor at doing and always will be.

@SidTheITGuy or better yet, an address so we can conduct wellness checks!

@Lensflare well then I'd suppose it's a tough life being a potato lover.

@sjwsjwsjw GraphQL? Disappearing logs? What a fuckin headache.

I love to teach juniors! Explaining the magic of computers to them can be so satisfying, as long as they themselves aren't lame (happens).

I hate to teach my peers (only in reference to things they should already know)

@Lensflare unfortunately both (potato lovers are very upset about it)

Been working with dependencies in linux and windows for a good number of years now. The GAC certainly makes Windows more complicated, but the ecosystem fragmentation in linux makes it just as complicated over there.

Frankly, you just pick your poison and hope you don't need to support both!

Instead of slopping the market with my GoochGPT, I just let my account die (I purchased the developer license for $20 when I was like 14 years old, centuries ago now)

Much like the actual cold fusion, which is synonymous with "scam" in the field of physics.

Have you tried pre-workout yet? It seriously upped my performance.

Nice I've been going to the gym at least 4x a week for three years or so now and I feel fantastic. Myself, financially, I have close to 4 years worth of savings and am very seriously dabbling in the stock market.

AI is so smart it doesn't want to do JavaScript and thus gave you a poor answer so you'd read the docs yourself.

GG OpenAI

@retoor You were coding python in 2004?

Benchmarks are the programmer's most valuable vessels for lies.

You get used to this sort of thinking in languages like c++ where you need to explicitly capture variables from the scope containing a lambda.

JS does this automatically, and evidently the rules can be confusing and/or unpredictable.

@AlgoRythm sorry I'm high I meant to say "list" not "fileName"

Since the function is async and calls out to async code, it's probably getting it's own copy, not using a reference, then once the coroutine exits, the previous reference is updated to the new copy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, JSVM/ V8 experts!

You must be overthinking it. JS is single-threaded, even if it calls out to other threads to perform work. All of your actual JS code is executed in just the main thread and coroutines are implemented in an event loop.

I more suspect this has to do with how the variable "fileName" is captured in the lambda.

Only the weak will be culled

I hate 200-always APIs. Fuck that.

However, some encodings are just better than JSON. For example, JSON excels in tree-like structures, but is inefficient in tabular data. CSV is one of the best human-readable formats for 80% of data out there, which still fits into a flat, tabular model.

It doesn’t! I installed Win11 on a laptop without a TPM by opening the console during install, changing a flag, and continuing. Look it up if it will help you.

Suspiciously close to the release of the AI slop-ified Google Finance, which includes a beta switch (that I have switched to “classic” because new version is dogass

@D-4got10-01 spoke too soon oopsie!

@Lensflare a cry into the wind

Oh my sweet summer child. Welcome to the world of binary compatibility.

@Lensflare at the time, I had android, so the extent of the crashing was only exposed to me through other people talking about it. Now I have iOS, but the app hasn’t been updated in then centuries so it’s not a fair comparison.

Memeposting has always been an issue, so eventually the “categories” of rant were introduced (rant, meme, devRant, etc.) because the memes were pissing off some of the OGs (I was like 17 at the time so I don’t mind them)

Posting a meme in the rant category became blasphemy. If your rant was positive in tone, it usually was marked with “!rant”. For the most part, people actually stayed on topic and ranted about tech.

There were in-person meetups (generally in Europe). Rarely, organized by the devRant team in NY but mostly organized by the community around Germany. There was at least two giant threads where we posted face reveals. I guess mine is gone now. People used to upvote spam as a gesture. Alex actually stopped ranting because it made him too angry. This platform was made for him lmao.

Linuxxx eventually disappeared and that was the end of old devRant. I think Alice was still active for a little bit after Linuxxx left but I don’t think it was a long tenure.

In the VERY beginning, we had a guy named Alex, who wrote the angriest and most profane rants you would ever read. He was most popular for a while before being overtaken by a infosec guy named linuxxx, who was the first and only ranter to reach 100k upvotes and get a custom face tattoo in the avatar editor.

People used to beg for upvotes to get free swag. People posted their rubber duckies. April fools had pranks, like pixelated avatars and binary score counters. There was a rant topic each week.

Then Alice showed up and became the pink-loving queen of devRant. She was very skilled at design and front-end work, but also ran a stats database that used the devRant API.

At some point, there was a rush where a handful of people were making devRant clients for every platform. JS96, who is still around, made the most popular one for Windows.

dfox and, to a lesser degree, trogus were both active.

The app was regularly updated, speedy, and stable. 99+ notifications per day was possible.

@Hazarth Good point. A fish can make a disturbance in a puddle, but not a sea.

A good idea can propagate through devRant, but not Reddit.