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AboutProfessional Programmer
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SkillsC++, Python I program other languages on occasion. Well versed in process control and realtime systems. Experience with electronics/electrical design. I am interested in game programming and design. Making things move is fun.
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AI safety legislation is just to make it illegal for regular people to have it themselves and work for themselves instead of somebody else4
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reminding myself to calm the fuck down and just get this damn huge-ass feature implemented in this messy as fuck code base which is triggering me so badly.5
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Holy fuck guys, OpenWebUI generates previews of the pages it designs using HTML / CSS.
I vibed this whole Lumia (Nokia) WIndows Phone web component, just in the interface (shows after generating in video): https://devrant.molodetz.nl/vibe_de...
Guys, the designers can go HOME! Never liked them anyway. Potheads.
On top of it, it produces way better HTML / CSS than I do myself. WIth javascript some preference differences but that's it. In the end, i've refactored the code always like 80% or something.
The new snek update will be ratched! But will take a week I guess.
I'm so happy.5 -
Wait, am I actually meant to read the code in your review? I just skimmed it and hoped it works. I also think you're an idiot so I accept these are conflicting positions to hold.3
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Started reading during meetings. The description of `elegance` vs `marketable` in "Hacking: The art of exploitation" hits home. Probably also why I hate the client work I need to do so much right now as well, there is nothing elegant about react
Thanks for the recommendation @retoor7 -
Before covid: everyone could become a friend!
After covid: most of people not.
That's what covid period did to me and thuw still affects me. Wish I could go back to the time that I was much more positive about general population.
But I know who to blame. The news and their polarisation. Never forget.
What they did was batshit crazy. I want to see people jailed.
They were not critical so they should not pretend to protect democracy. They were exactly when needed not doing their job and did spread propoganda.
I really pray, go bankrupt traditional media. Please.
I have to work with many people together today and I don't want to meet them. I don't want to leave more than 5km from my chalet unless skis are involved.11 -
I spent hours fixing bugs, only to realize I was editing the wrong file the whole time.
Turns out main_final_final_v2.cpp wasn’t the one running. It was main_old.cpp.
I feel like the compiler and my brain teamed up to prank me.1 -
pls stop putting talking into music mixes. you're ruining my jive. I don't wanna hear your opinions. just play the math noises11
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It's that time again because it needs to be remembered
https://devrant.com/rants/13347344/...
AI IS FUCKING RETARDED.
I would literally be ashamed to be one of those multibillionaire companies giving out trash or be ashamed to be recognized as someone which invested in it.
Jesus.
I tried out every model, local and online.
It's fucking trash for anything more than a preschool special kid could do.
I literally had it to code and it can't do anything beyond basic code without the need for me to supervise everything and patch this disaster everywhere. It feels like having that dumbass junior just arrived doing code and having to review every line because it could contain a death trap.
I tried to make it do a dieting plan.
I literally gave it everything.
Macros, kcal, a restricted list of 15 foods and asked to do some bulk cooking list to make the diet later.
It can't do basic math to figure out macros and not only, it fucking halluicinates like a crazy LSD druggie even doing a few lines of that shit.
It literally invents calories counts, macros and shit out of his stupid ass.
I tried literally to bring it by the hand in doing the tasks and it still fails.
You might say: Hey it's a "Language" model.
No, it doesn't matter. Amy discussion besides hi dumb fuck how are you soon turns into an AI mind trip where it churns and repeats stupid stuff.
No, it won't replace anyone anytime soon.
It's just a fucking joke13 -
This really resonated with me. The last job I had before doing my work as a full-time independent freelancer had all sorts of infantilization strategies. Parties, nerf gun wars, big lunch once a week, etc. I'm introverted and all of that stuff sapped my mental energy for the day, so my productivity suffered. It's daycare for adults.
https://nmn.gl/blog/...5 -
European hares and regular bunnies have nothing in common in terms of how they behave.
Hares will scream at you and attack you if you get too close. They're very fast and very agile, they even look like mini kangaroos. Sometimes they will open their mouth and jump at you full force, essentially using their body as a spear and their incisors as a spear tip. Their teeth are VERY sharp. Unlike carnivores' canines which are pointy, hare's incisors are flat like a razor's edge. They can totally bite your finger off.
They're big, strong and fierce enough to scare away foxes.
Just imagine dying of anaphylaxis all alone in the forest with no one to help you after getting bit by a not-even-rabid not-even-predator.10 -
https://crystal-lang.org/
Experimented. Made a websocket app. Compiled to nice single binary. Package management bit meh. Some std issues but it's soon I guess?
Am I late of early to this party?
Thoughts / experiences regarding this language anyone?12 -
Just spent 5h figuring out why sending a serial command wont trigger in U-Boot. Was literally soldering wires to the boad, decoded the entire line with a scope, used several adapters, downloaded the firmware again and again over serial and USB-dfu and a looking for alternative boards online just to find out cutecom was set to send no LF after a command so U-Boot thought i was still typing something. This is literally the semicolon joke you see splattered over normie coding memes.6
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Video editing is hard af. I shifted from VSDC Free editor to Davinci Resolve now, and its kicking my ass.
That's all.8 -
I grew up in Russia. We don't use imperial units in any way, shape or form: we're fully metric. Every single person who taught me at school and whatnot was born and raised in Soviet Union that was also fully metric, and science was worshiped. We used to laugh at imperial units.
Given all that, I... don't hate imperial system. Inches, feet, miles, Fahrenheit degrees, gallons, all units based on human proportion. Just think where the word for "feet" came from.
Zero C is meh, nothing in particular. A hunge boils your blood kills you instantly. It's useless: it's a "shit ton of heat" in human scale.
Zero F is chilly, a hunge F is toasty. It's based around human perception. To me, there is no difference between 100 and 90 C, but the difference between 100 and 90 F is more perceptible, and thus more useful to a human being.
Same with every other unit. What's a gallon? A gallon is enough for an average Joe to get drunk, that's what a gallon is.
Where it all falls apart is when you're trying to create something. When you're trying to get some calculation going. When you're making — not consuming — you need your units to add up, e.g. to have the SYSTEM in place. Imperial system is not a system.
Imperial units are perfect for _consuming_ stuff: a gallon of milk, a pint of beer, a (real) footlong sandwich, a pound of meat. Six foot high dude with seven inch dick.
Metric units are indispensable when you're _making_ stuff, at any scale. That's the difference. Imperial units are the tool of consumption, metric system is the tool of creation.
Only the time units seem to be the same for everyone on earth right now. Time itself in its mercilessness gives the same treatment to all entities, doesn't matter if you're a human or a grain of sand.26 -
Asian fried red onions that are dry and crispy potato chip-like snack, organic Italian tomato juice, sardines
I am the olive garden now1 -
Something like 50 of my sweet, sweet plusplus just went poof, gone. Vanished, gone with the wind.
Could be a bunch of salty downvotes, no doubt a limpdick way to try and protest my immaculate logic? That is indeed a possibility. But the most likely explanation is someone nuked himself.
And you know what? Shit, man.
This is giving me flashbacks to when rutee left devRant and I hate it.
btw rutee, Mr Johnny Sins, your location literally inside me: in case you ever read this, I just want to say, you is the kewlest; no contest. Everyone else get fucked. I'm sorry, but you're not rutee. Nothing compares2u or some forbidden bromance shit sang by a bald woman, all night up the ass.
Anyway, where was I?
Ah, yeah. People-check.
So who deleted himself? I'm not seeing anyone missing. The whole gang is here. I think. I mean even ostream's shadowclones are still around.
Hmm. Maybe I did get downvoted?
Or maybe it was just a bunch of rants getting deleted, rather than a full-on nuke?
Huh. Indubitably, this is a case for Willy Tanner.
*REACHES FOR THE CRACKPIPE.*10 -
Not an ad, I swear
AI Pro is now part of the Jetbrains All Products Pack I've been subscribed to since I started my current job 11 years ago.
Although I haven't found tremendous value in AI for coding, it gets a B or B+ for serving the right documentation without having to trudge through Google to find it. And to ignore it would be foolish, so I'm at least going to be acquainted with it.7 -
My work fired their marketing department half a year ago and the new marketing guy still has yet to start.
But we released one week ago their first AI-generated ad, there are multiple things wrong:
- The logo of our company is wrong
- Our company colours are wrong
- Mixing of English and our (different) language
- Has "screenshots" of our application but our application does not look like that
- AI generated faces that look like PS1 graphics
- Multiple typos
- The font for our company name is wrong
And yet, they decided to publish it. That is maybe 1 hour of time to fix all mistakes if you are experienced in Photoshop but they can't be bothered lol.17 -
Just read up about the issue with AI interviewers and interviewees.
Schools and companies were using AI to interview potential students and employees.
Those reasoned that if AI is a good enough judge of character and intellect, then it must be good enough at expressing both of those things, so then they deep-faked themselves into the perfect applicants.
Assuming that learning institutions act rationally, those must believe that an automated selection process will be a net positive.
Now, learning institutions might want to use AI as a tool to select applicants because it is objectively better than humans at selecting the best humans... or because it is cheaper enough so that the savings more than make up for the lemons that get through the gauntlet. Occam's razor rejects the former in favor of the latter.
The highest ranking learning institutions would hardly lower standards without putting up a fight. If those were just cash-strapped and struggling to cut costs, it would make little sense to cut corners on their most lucrative line of business (application fees).
Thus, the institutions must believe that the interview is just a technicality in their admissions process. So much so that they can literally automate this step and be no worse off.
That's it. Learning institutions either believe that interviews in their admissions processes are so formulaic that those can be automated with no loss; or that their human interviewers are so plastic that machines can do their job just as well.
In both cases pledges could just let chatgpt be interviewed in their place. It would be a net positive for both sides.6 -
Jesus and I just freaked myself out real real bad due to allergies and unfortunate drug cocktail holy shit that was an extremely unpleasant 45 minutes of my life
so apparently coffee inhibits the enzyme that recycles histamines (and you make histamines when you have allergies)
I woke up today, did gardening, turns out my allergies are back. was making a kettle of hot water for tea and coffee while gardening. aired out the apartment also (aka aired the allergies in)
drank the coffee. then my head felt like it was gonna explode. the inflammation was just squeezing my damned brain. did a bunch of airplane ear pressure maneuvers and it basically cleared up the worst of it. 5 hours later I STILL have porcupine prick feels on my face from the pollen. that's kind of weird generally it takes 1-2 hours for my allergies to subside
made food, had dinner. the EXACT same meal as yesterday with the exact same supplements as yesterday
20 minutes after I eat and put everything away... my nose suddenly clears, my ears are clear. crazy! these have been fucked for like 7 days for me now.
30 minutes. yeah my inflammation went down so much I started cold sweating... adrenaline is pumping. my blood pressure is too low. my stomach is in knots (I only figured out what it was called after lol)
and then was the longest 15 minutes of my recent history. was freaking out, exercising, pacing, trying to keep my blood pressure up.
hahahahaha whoops
allergies > make histamines that cause inflammation
coffee > prevents recycling of histamines, so you get histamine backup all over your body which makes the inflammation even worse
cysteine with dinner > gets converted into glutathione in your body which is a strong anti oxidant. which will reduce inflammation and all the good stuff (though if you OD you'll bleed to death. it's ok tho it's like x10 the normal dose and I take 1/2 the normal dose. I took this yesterday and didn't even feel it!)
well the coffee caused so much inflammation I peed out like 2 litres of water
coffee also apparently makes you make more glutathione than normal!
... so when I ate that cysteine pill... all my inflammation from my cold/flu I've had for 7 days, AND the new discovered allergies, all dropped entirely... and my dehydrated ass' blood pressure dropped... holy fuck that was such a fucking unpleasant experience
I've never been a risk-averse person. one of the things that really attracted me to software is that you can try as many dumb ideas as you want and the only thing it will cost you is time. I grew up poor so that was important. in real life though, being risky is kinda risky. my fast and loose habits suck.
I say this but let's be fair... there is no way for you to predict this. just gotta hope you're strong enough to survive your every day living attempts I guess1 -
There we go, openai created exactly my vibe coding tool `R`. You'll see this will be booming. The cli is convincing as F. But nobody was interested in a CLI tool. Mine also manages files and updates existing projects as well by filtering on any source type. It has 20 functions to communicate with your system. Mine also supports Claude and it's blazing openai away, but Claude has some token limits if you do it a lot. Also Grok and Ollama (so a bunch).
Anyway, I was first fuckers.28 -
Burnout 3... my third burnout. No, not the game.
In other news: reading commits of the BASIC programming language is like watching a tennis match.
15 LOVE 30 LOVE
GAME
SET MATCH16 -
I just realized that charities being scammy and pocketing most of the money for themselves isn't actually a shocking thing
If you're a scammer, convincing people to give you their money by parading people in need around is like the easiest thing ever
Of course all charities are scams, that's literally the easiest and most legal way to scam people!10