I don't understand CSS and am shit at it, moving forward I plan to treat CSS more like old legacy code I don't want to fuck with and preserving any existing working stuff.

Burned once trying to freehand off an example thinking I knew what I was doing versus preserving what was there.

OK, so, @Demolishun seems gone. Big surprise. He spent a lot of time here like I do. He did not insinuate any signs of being done or unhappy. Adding the fact that he was a stable happy daddy with the daddest jokes often showing how well he knows the people here makes it so weird and unexpected.

Also weird, @Demolishun's deletion got captured in a hour or so (yesterday it was noticed already, but I was like, maybe he comes back) and still nobody noticed that @electrineer is gone for a few months now or so. Meh, he hated me anyway.

Don't people know that devrant is hosted on an airfield? You have to check in and check out.

Guys I'm launching a retired dev camps. Let's just pool a few thousand each, buy a piece of land and a couple of tipi in spain near the surf spot, grow weed and do contract jobs and finally enjoy life.

ohno the Spain/Portugal outage was because of the poles shifting so we're losing the electromagnetic shielding around the planet while it happens...

the sun didn't even do anything. there was just a lack of protection for a moment above that region

Overnight, our networking dept patched some systems, which unexpectedly caused a connecting system unable to work. That system was our alerting layer, which didn't/couldn't send out the alerts (phone calls, Teams messages, emails, etc) that alerting wasn't working.

This morning when networking came in, they saw the issue (our backup alerting system was sending emails all night long).

Instead of "Oh no, maybe we should have a process in place to verify patching X systems doesn't degrade Y systems", the various teams are dog-piling on alerting (my responsibility). VPs are now getting involved. They are saying things like "There should have been a monitoring system to monitor the alerting!!!". Which there is, the email back up alerting. Must be a dozens of messages in the team chat all pointing the finger that 'alerting should have worked', even though *those server clusters were all down*. My boss tried to chime in with common sense saying "If our infrastructure team can't guarantee 100% uptime on the clusters, then this will happen again. The issue happened once in the 5+ years we've been using this framework. We can spend time and money creating yet another monitoring system, which could fail too, or accept the reality that sometimes things break. We fix it and do what is reasonable so the issue doesn't happen again. In my opinion, paying for another solution isn't feasible in this situation."

Team chat is silent right now, but my spidey sense is tingling.

sometimes I find pertinent information that could've saved me years of grief

whole industries crop up acknowledging the issue and trying to "save" people from it, and I don't mean alternative "scam" medicine. I mean establishment backed ones which think they're pushing the bounds of modern science

but they don't know how to actually fix it. maybe someone came to them and told them but they ignored the information

and then I find the information

and I'm just so mad

that I don't want to tell anybody about it either

I just want society to rot

15+ years in the "industry" and I'm slowly losing my ability to be self motivated. I'm tired of the grind most days.

But any time someone comes to me with a problem they're stuck on, I'm instantly motivated.

Am I burnt out or just transitioning?

Has @Demolishun deactivated his account?

I'm sick and tired of nepotism and cronyism at work.

I just had to get this out of my system because it's broodingly pissing me off.

Manager: "add this"
Me: *adds the thing*

One week later:
Manager: "Remove this we don't want it anymore"
Me: Fuuuuuuuckkkkk

Remember when I told you that American idioms are always about the money? Well:
- Normal languages: “I’ll remember this”
- Americans: “It will live in my head rent-free”

SecRuleEngine DetectOnly

is the default. I installed it a year ago.

Whoopsie..

I feel kind of bad that my cicd workflow sees that message about "{n} packages are looking for funding, run `npm fund` for details" hundreds of times and completely ignores it.

Should I have it run npm fund occasionally just to be nice?

I hate doing QA so much.
or
maybe im fine with doing QA. Just i don't like the way company throw me outdated documentaiton and ask me to figure out myself what am i supposed to understand. I don't have the business knowledge too so it makes thing harder.

i miss doing dev (currently still doing personal projects and looking for clients in fiver)

Just had a thought: Instead of LLVM modeling and optimizing an IR and then backends having to optimize again for actual machine code lowering, wouldn't it be possible to unite both under one unified system?

If you model everything as one huge and complex state machine with a bunch of predefined "micro ops", couldn't you write an optimizer which lowers to the mathmatical presentation of the target platform's instructions?

I.e. the actual identities of the instructions don't matter. What matters is that the input ir is `(x + 3) & 0xff` and the optimizer tries to fit a sequence of instructions to that so that it "solves the system". It doesn't know x86 `andb`; it knows that `andb` takes an input, maybe truncates it, does a bitwise or, and stores the output into a reg

That way you wouldn't have to write complex target dependent backends. Just declare the sequence of actiosn each instruction does and llvm would automatically be able to produce very high quality machine code

I think there's a phd worth of research here but helllll no I'm not touching compilers again lol

Forced to use Firefox since last night for technical reasons.

And oh boy, how bad it is... In one day, I saw over 10 bugs. Tomorrow, I'm repairing Edge settings. I'll keep Firefox as a backup, but it will never be my main browser. It's like keeping IE6 just in case.

Just a random small example!

I have something bound to Win+F11. Works perfectly in Edge. In Firefox, pressing Win+F11 pushes it into full-screen mode... I DID NOT PRESS F, I DID WIN+F11!

And so much more, like Shift+Ctrl+Arrow Up does not go into multi-line text selection to move up a line; it just does... nothing.

From Wikipedia’s article on military impostors:
“such a statement implies that the speaker was deployed to a combat zone, even if in reality they never left their home country.”

LMAO what if someone’s home country _is_ a combat zone?

Validating an input field while it's still focused is like a teacher repeatedly interjecting "this is no complete sentence" before the students have finished their sentence.

I am leaving my hateful past behind and decided to love germany from now on.

My best friend in montreal was a gay bavarian guy. He was a chemist and the brewmaster of his village so he brewed me beer in the bathtub.

@Lensflare @tosensei you are my brothers and I love you.

that urge to go work for AI smart city data surveillance green energy people

I disagree with them but because I disagree I like wanna be a spy lol

Bing, Google, and StackOverflow pushing users to use AI is like the vinyl and music industry pushing CDs in the 1990s. Like lemmings, rushing self-deprecation.

If I publish this I'll have to credit chatgpt.

What the fuck do you want to do in life?

If jews get to have their own state because nazi germany genocided them, then so are communists and gipsies. And gays.

We could call it queerland or something

huh, when frustrated and on stimmies hard, fast, rhythmic techno music is quite calming

well that makes sense

wonder if that's how I had so much equanimity during various periods of my life where I was in utter rage but nobody knew a thing, tehe

Some of you are aware what emails I send to companies to bash them very accurate to the bone and even emphasize them how dissapointed I am. I make it very personal. You fuckers wasted my time.

But, when someone does it well, I also say it. I've sent my second love email to codeium and they responded. But this time, it was AI and it was noted under the message that it was made with AI. OpenAI doesn't do that. So again, my respect raised for them.

I only use their auto complete feature while they offer a complete ide and stuff. But auto complete so well based on my own way of coding is just made in heaven. Codeium really affected my life in positive way. I mean, I really like to everything myself but not using their autocomplete would be even stupid imho.

I also really like that I'm in the top 0.01% users while using the free version 😂 But I'm just only interested in that 😂vibe coding is just not a thing at all yet, not in the neighborhood. Only if you have no vision regarding code style tbh. Won't not even call theirs bad, but it's just not mine.

browser compatibility issues is just static languages compiler issues

y'all ain't better, guiizzz

actually it's far worse. wtf is a MVP CPU. apparently I don't have it though, so I can't compile to it, despite that being recommended by this people (and no one else mentions it...). and now I have an external tool compiling something else, so where do I stuff the build options. build options should apply but the binary doesn't change so clearly they're not applying -- and if I call build directly turns out I didn't even have a cpu capable of compiling to that so clearly these build options weren't being applied!

and every time I have to delete everything compiled JUST IN CASE I have stale data and sit around forever waiting for the damned compile and I try to test different compile versions

ChatGPTs UI is so bad it probably was implemented with ChatGPT...

I've had to create a very simple frontend feature connected to an API. That part works flawlessly but we have rewritten a bunch of code in the system for a certain hardware device.

Now the person that was working on the backend just said today he has no device to test it on lab environment. Neither does any colleague apparently

And guess who got a meeting with the CEO, COO, sales people and the project manager for a demo of that said feature :D

My sister bought an Acer A315-44P laptop in which the keyboard and the top cover are one unit and everything else is built onto that part, meaning that replacing the keyboard involves disassembling the entire laptop, the keyboard is among the most expensive replacement parts, and it's unique to the model. This is already infuriating and it's hard to attribute it to gross incompetence rather than deliberate malice motivated by unchecked greed, but what makes it completely indefensible is that their European parts distributors don't stock this part for most models so third party repair shops can't easily obtain one.

But to seal the whole ridiculous charade, THE FIRST-PARTY REPAIR SHOP DOESN'T PICK UP THE FUCKING PHONE. I've already capitulated, just accept my fucking money! What, do they really expect that if I have to go out and buy another laptop because they made it hard to fix, they won't fix it, and won't let me fix it, that I'll ever buy Acer again? What is the strategy here? Do they think they're Apple, so people take this bullshit? But even Apple has a repair service! I don't understand this business model at all.