I hate to say it, I think Macs are going to beat windows. (update: or maybe Windows is just going to fade and the market will be split?)

Not better hardware, or value, or experience. Windows is just getting more and more ads.

I was thinking, gee I want something like Linux, but well supported hardware.

That's a Mac. Shit.

Happy "doubt every news story and reddit post" day

Dear HR,

You're so incompetent, had I followed your instructions I'd have broken the law and endangered my life.

Get fucked.

A.

I had a suggestion a week ago. I was told to do a different (simpler) approach. The current approach doesn't work and I'm about to point out the problem basically means I've got to go do what I originally said.

The same bit of shitty configure I wrote to make ansible work with MFA has been duplicated across a dozen repos and projects and someone has broken it because it doesn't work with their setup. Their setup doesn't follow company policy and that's why it's not compatible. But apparently we need to have a "discussion" to decide what to do...

Apparently one of the data scientists doesn't have write permission to main branch. I've got to review and merge. This is a stupid policy that's going to waste my time...

My manager decided to skip today's meeting because he micromanaged me enough last week.

Genuinely I don't know if that's growth...

My manager is complaining I'm committing broken, incomplete stuff.

Before my manager was complaining I didn't commit enough.

My manager is an asshole.

Someone's asking how we should do things and I want to say fuck it we ball, but apparently I'm senior or something so gotta instead say "whatever you think is sensible" then get told I should give my own professional opinion but I also just don't care.

Sad day for avoiding responsibility.

Anything with the phrase "Here are some examples:" on its own line reeks of AI. And bolded paragraph starts.

No further comments.

I'm half assing my job and my manager thinks micromanaging me is a good solution.

"Any junior engineer could try those things"

Yes. And then need help to make it actually work.

I'm slow because he's an asshole. I'm still better than anyone else.

Fuck him.

Trying to do math. It's been 15 years since I've done something this hard. Dusting out the cobwebs.

Bursts of inspiration then the next day fumbling like a moron that can't count all of my own fingers.

Me (code review): this isn't good, sometimes it duplicates stuff. If you move it over here it won't be duplicated.

Dev: it's useful, it's not quite the same as that other thing, sometimes it's different

Me: If you move it over here it won't be duplicated.

Apparently instructions were unclear the first time...

ChatGPT thinks I'm clever. I don't know how I feel about that.

Some data scientists are like fucking first year baby devs and I've just got to try to be nice and hold their hand and not scream....

Our company HR person is really fucking incompetent. Like, their whole job is to prevent the company from being sued. I've come close to suing because of their actions once. A few other things are badly handled. they'll be fired only when we get sued...

I did a thing they're not happy with and they've genuinely sent a letter saying "there are several things you could have done instead" LIKE FUCKING WHAT?

It's nice when devs are
happy you find bugs in their code, like I don't want to bother them with issues so saying thanks is positive

Never trust code that describes itself as "rigorously tested".

My new favourite consensus algorithm:

Get several devs to implement the same standard. Compare the results for lots of different test data. The consensus "correct" result is the one that is most common from all Implementations. Where consensus can't be found, the devs are shown each others code and it's a race to find bugs to invalidate an implementation that disagrees with yours. Implementations that don't follow "correct" behaviour must be updated accordingly, even if it means copying bugs from other code.

The insane thing is this is legit how it works, like python's typing standard is based on mypy and other type checkers have to match its behaviour. Unicode isn't really a standard, it just started to describe how text works in different places instead of the fights to the death battle royale we used before that.

Testing 4 different implementations of a standard and getting 4 different answers...

Education isn't meant to prepare you for a job, if it was they'd let you use AI.

I just named a class GString and it makes sense. I laughed. Happy new year fuckers.

I miss being a real C++ programmer. Gonna have to make something over Christmas.

I still have like, 4 working days left but my manager is on holiday from today so as far as I'm concerned, so am I.

I can't wait for openAI to go bust.

Today is 6/12/24 and the doubling tickles my brain.

So now the spam bots are mostly gone, do we start weekly rants up again?

Anyone doing advent of code?

Must not be sassy.
Must be polite and grateful to open source devs.
Must be diplomatic when pointing out they're fundamentally wrong about the spec they're implementing. Even if they helped write it.
Must not be sassy when showing receipts (what the spec says).
Must not be sassy.

I think I've solved my problem. It's a 6 line change. It's taken the last 4 weekends...