@AvatarOfKaine Do you think the app uses a different API?

Hate unpaid lunches. Even worse, lunches are still mandatory here. Don't get me wrong, I live in Germany. We have so many worker's rights, it is already a double-edged sword. But still, that's some bullshit. Mandatory lunches, unpaid... Far worse than unpaid lunches.

@retoor

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@retoor

Yea, I think like a comment or two ago, I wrote that the big misconception is that democracy is about the vote. It really is not.

@AvatarOfKaine in your network tab?

ever seen the error codes?

@BordedDev

That's an interesting thought. I see the logic in it.

Hah... I will dwell on this though. Quite a bit.

On the one hand, that's actually great.

On the other hand... Does it reduce the importance of speaking your political mind if it is just entertainment?

But, good point. Really good point. I have to think on that.

@BordedDev

She is perfectly allowed to not care if she

a) has no influence on her politics and will not talk to people who do

b) the politics are completely independent of things affecting her.

For the above statement, someone with the right to vote is a person with influence.

Since politics does swap over to other countries or affect common good e.g. the climate, currency values, trade, etc, she is obligated.

Obligation grows out of the wish to live in a democracy. I'd immediately forgive someone who actually wants to infantilize themselves. I also do not take that person serious anymore and will ignore them. Or more likely, not believe them.

And the big misconception: Democracy does not require you to vote, it requires you to talk.

Anyway, party or policy? What kind of question is that? Whatever you encounter a thought about or have a thought about is fair game.

@retoor

I couldn't believe you're more wrong. I believe that you and this opinion is exactly what's wrong with democracy. Politics are not fun, they are an obligation. The price for freedom is eternal vigilance and all that shit? Yea, being political and speaking to as many people as possible about your opinion is how the vigilance works. Not being a silent sentry in the dark.

Reference my earlier rant about it: https://devrant.com/rants/12873301/...

@retoor

"What's it like in the mind of a genius?"

I am always amazed that they buy the genius stick. Isn't it obvious how incoherent he is?

Good examples of DL and DR. Thanks retoor

Writing from Fedora right now.

@kiki

If there was an easy answer, you would have found it. You are intelligent. Intelligent people always have good replies. Not helpful, good. Meaning, you will argue why everything is shit. You'd be wrong, but that's a nuance thing. And nuance is hard. Nuance is percentages and confidence intervals, nuance requires calculation and studies. In broad strokes, you will always be correct.

Anyway, slight change of topic. From one person dealing with depression to another, do you sometimes also imagine an isekai or litRPG protagonist taking over your life? Like, let's say: "I was reborn in another world as a loser in his 30ies." I usually end up figuring out that improving is technically simple. I just fail to muster the will or am already failing at finding a goal.

I got into the habit of using a reMarkable. My handwriting went up. But it was never good and still isn't.

@kiki

Well, actually, you most likely cost the employer more. Blue cards are mostly required for that kind of foreign work and those have a minimum salary far above minimum wage to be handed out. Work too cheap and you won't get it.

You ran into the fundamental human problem. Everything is compound interest. Meaning, at the beginning, almost nothing pays off. At the end, you hardly work and you get huge pay offs. The trick, you keep improving.

If you have enough friends, making new friends is easy. Making that first friend, though. Takes ages.

Same for work.

Same for almost everything. Compound interest.

I have to deal with depression as well, but that doesn't change the fundamental nature of reality. And that is not simply inertia, it is compound interest.

@kiki How what? How to come here? No idea, bad political climate at the moment.

But here in Berlin are lots of Russian communities. And quite a few Saint Petersburg natives. My wife is one of them. You'd find a community here.

Politics hopefully won't remain shit forever.

Bullshit. Just come to Europe. You can have your philosophical musings here as well.. They are as helpful as solipsism or nihilism. But hey, just find a few people you like hanging out with. That's all there is, for any of us.

I like sticky scroll.

Had to google what it is. Realized I used and enjoyed it for a while.

@SoldierOfCode

95% has any of them any version or 95% do you find like this the latest version? Because, in my experience, outdated code is very often there.

@kiki

Try this for a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Many, many explanations. One of them is:

It is often easier to get rid of a person by promoting him. Until they reach a level that cannot be promoted anymore. Then, they give them a bullshit job title and hire someone else for the actual job.

It also has to do that a manager does not want efficiency. If he ever looks for a new job, it sounds better to have led a department with 30 people than one with 3, even though there is only the work there for 3 people.

But hey, there is a book full of explanations.

@kiki

Well, guess I jumped to conclusions. Well, I have known people so dumb that every story about them sounds unbelievable. I guess you know at least one of those people as well.

Here's some bullshit anyway.

There should never be a four hour introduction to anything. That should be a document. The meeting should go over the table of contents and that's it.

I mean, honestly, students sit in lectures, take notes, and ten minutes after the lecture swear that something said at the beginning was never said. Why would employees be better?

Not your fault, kiki, I have seen that everywhere. Meetings scheduled for 2 hours in which people have jumped through the code, shown functions, too quick for anyone to read or understand what's going on.

Or alternatively, I am a moron. Maybe all of you understand all of those things. From the perspective of the only moron around, you guys are suprisingly bad at everything, for being so much smarter ;)

@Hazarth

True. But I now have to find the original website.

And that often enough has a custom archive for apt or dnf. Those can only be as save as the website from which I get the key hash.

And without that, you often get outdated versions. That includes snap and flatpak.

Just saying, website/github roundtrips are now required.

I recall a glorious past in which I just did an apt-cache search.

@retoor

Not a rant about the formats, but the sources.

I just realized that one of my oldest arguments pro Linux is not really true anymore. Repositories.

In the past, you wanted vlc on Windows. So you go to vlc.com and download it. Except, that page was a fake. Then vlc.org. Also a fake. Oh, the right page is videolan.org.

Linux, I proclaimed 20 years ago, is better. It has a repository. I do not need to find ways to avoid being duped by fake website. Back when I was working for Apple Care, I adviced customers that asked me how to avoid fake website for the application to go to Wikipedia and follow the original website link.

And now I realized, with all the stores, which some are quite outdated or have unofficial builds... If some flatpak, nix, aur package, whatever... I need to go to the original website/github to figure out what they build it for. What they support.

And we went full circle. Wasn't true for a while. Noticed it now.

People will call themselves fullstack nowadays, but all they can do it javascript... ugh... I mean clowns.

Somewhere around 15 years ago, the question was thrown around loud enough, if the church of England really should still hold seats in the house of lords, for them to make a pole and ask how many are Anglican.

They got an impressive number, claiming they represent all of those people.

The Richard Dawkins foundation then called a big sample of those self-identified Anglicans to figure out if they believed in a God as the Anglicans do. The vast majority denied that and when pressed why they identify as Anglicans, they explained, they try to be good people.

Oldest trick in politics and religion. Let your followers decide how to interpret your position individually.

Still very often the same in more modern languages.

Just write
let x =

And leave the rest open. It is of course caught, but the LSP already spits out a guess. Mostly strings for some reason

@kiki

Let me link my rant to explain to you why you're the reason democracy fails:

https://devrant.com/rants/12873301/...

@jestdotty

Customer didn't pay for tests... That sounds familiar.

@ilechuks73

I guess if an LLM can do it, I can do it better.

But honestly, that doesn't sound like the hardest ever task. First step, figure out the use case diagram for this page. At least mentally.