Talking to ChatGPT 4o.
— Is Jimmy Page a pedo?
— Well, he is, but it was okay back then, so he kinda isn't.
— What? Are you…
— Sorry, bye.

My workplace remains so retarded.

Half our colleagues are from abroad and do not speak our native language. All our customers are from our country and we are trying to implement transcription and summaries for them. The big AI models struggles with our language.

The devs who are assigned to this project do not speak our language. So they cannot verify if the results are correct.

My project manager fails to see a problem for this :D

Welp, I made a chatGPT bot, which talks to Amazon support instead of me lol .

So far there is 48 hours of discussions and my bot insist on pick up on my location to return and thier is you need to print label and bring it to postal service.

I'll let the 2 bots figure it out

No more CRUD

!dev
Guess who burnt their ENTIRE face today while skiing? Thats right I'm a tomato now!

Saw someone complaining not enough dev rants.

I have a coworker who's a good friend. Got him this job. He has good output, smart kid, but our coding styles clash.

I believe in DevEx (since we write internal tools). He sees it as premature optimization.

Example:
He won't validate data from input we don't control because "it shouldn't change that much".

Results:
He codes fast, but delivers shit that breaks in production and others (me) have to fix.

It's frustrating.

— There is a bug in prod!
— Omg, why aren't you fixing it yet?
— No, I'm just raising awareness!

Still haven't watched the matrix but I'm pretty sure the story is just this:

If any of you play counterstrike or have friends that play counterstrike, watch out for a scam where a friend might ask you to vote for their logo/team on some bs "varsity clash whatever" site.

The thing pops up a fake steam login window and tries to phish you as far as I can tell. It's even styled as a Window window (which is fun when you're on linux like me)

I made a throw away account just to test it and I got some fun logins from Russia, though I revoked the access fast enough so that I retained control.

as far as I can tell the site only exists for a couple of days according to WHOIS and all the steam login assets are hosted on some unrelated non valve server...

This PSA is not really for the more skilled and careful people here, but I thought I'd stick it here for the possibly lurkers and less experienced users just in case.

In Software Development, if you have a problem to solve, you break it down into smaller, easier-to-solve problems.

Does this always hold true? I imagine there are situations where you can't do this. I would need to see different perspectives.

lol the solution to "ohno if I try this everything goes fuck" happening with everything

is to do all the everything's that make it go fuck _at the same time_

and then somehow all the problems solve themselves

life does have a sense of humour

First, the motherfucker CRLF. I wrote some test cases, split the string into lines. It worked fine until I pulled it from Git. Spent 30 minutes fixing it until I looked down at the VSCode statusbar and saw... "CRLF"!

@ostream / @antigermgerm I see there is a fight going on between the Dutch speaking and the French speaking in (s)Waffelstan (Belgium). Just send us the decent speaking (Dutch) people, we love immigrants doing cheap labor. It will be still a better life than with you French. Especially on the road. Fix your roads! 😃

Low hanging fruit.

😃 😃 😃

I have noticed that most of the mentally ill posts on here are from Javascript devs.

Thinking about asking a colleague if they remember how they tested some code they wrote over 10 years ago according to source control.

So I'm watching the OG Affleck Daredevil and it's giving me a craving for M&Ms

I found my favorite LLM I guess, it says whatever you ask it. But that first sentence, wtf :P

Questions in job applications have become a fucking joke.

I'm done with them, from now on to stupid questions I'm only answering in same fashion.

Past hour five spam messages came in and last 24h around 20. Many of them seem unique, I'm so interested, how is this even possible. Many of them even have a phone number attached to it. All that domains, emailadresses and phone numbers. Omg. Why all these small brands instead of a big one when all sites kinda have the same formula? It's such a mystery.

LinkedIn is mostly cringe but not always...

TV show logic:

lying is bad, makes you a conmam, fraudster, charlatan, bad mother that's in and out of jail

unless you're the manager. then nobody questions it, and instead praises you for how well you "manage" people, makes you a good mother because you can tell child or grown up children exactly what they want to hear to get them to do the activity you want them to do... but now it's a virtue for no reason whatsoever

😒

Visual Studio in the recent releases got some updates where it "accelerates build time" by caching DLLs or something
Good in theory? sure.
In practice? So very often, a "hot reload" now doesn't trigger a DLL swap. VS says that changes have been updated but you see stale code and you've to turn off the program and re-run it

I'm sure there's a way to turn this acceleration off and will do that after this rant, but I don't get how such retarded features get green-lit and make it to production :v

I understand that for biiiig solutions with minutes of build-time, this would be god-sent, but if it's this unreliable in my 8-Project Solution, I wonder how unreliable it'd be in bigger Solutions

at least turn it off by default if you know it's shit ffs.

Week : 72 ( Year 1 )

How was the weekend?

What’s something a guy/girl has done (intentional or not) that instantly made you think, “Wow, he/she is different in a good way?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/12627389

Android studio gradle nightmares, cli not picking active jdk, intellij maven horrorshow, vscode being the nexus of perdition itself. When I'm dead and gone, scatter my ashes over sublime text. NEVER encountered a headache, ever. The setting for autosave is one forum visit away. 1000s of utilities at my fingertips, with shortcuts, not silly plugins. Neither hangs nor fusses irrespective of how many windows, projects, tabs I've got open. Gargantuan code real estate despite having a file panel and file preview. The only guys who got monokai right. Can open random editors and fill them with notes without first saving. A more intuitive vcs gui than even github desktop. More lightweight to download than an beep.ogg. Never lags cuz it wants to be powered by a wind turbine. It's free. Literally all the sorrows that terrorise my dev in its peers, all gone

Yes, it's not "integrated" to my de, in the sense that its intellisense is a glorified autocomplete for existing tokens. I guess, tradeoffs must be made. If you know the language well enough not to grope handheld by the ide, or in dynamic typed languages where red, squiggly lines will not bring your software down to its knees, it should be head and shoulders above those conartistes

Enterprise edition una

Has anyone else started a new job with the promise of interesting work, just to end up spending all their time writing e2e tests for crap code written 5 years ago by a contractor who clearly couldn't give 2 shits?

what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

A fancy position opened up in a good spot, which I should be applying for. I want to. But this soul sucking place I currently work for has crushed me and I really don't see it in me anymore. The robots have more soul in this corridor than people.

I'll keep on going about my vacation.

Went down the piste from where I took the picture, usually takes half an hour on average, I took less than 15 minutes.

I'm a tiny bit proud of myself :)

Been awhile on this space.
Happy new year everyone, how's the January treating you?

Genuine question to rust devs: is rust worth it? I'm helping devs on a rust project and every day we're swearing at it. The language, critical section control, broken libraries, etc.

To me it seems we would have far better off with golang. But since we are this far now, noone will admit it