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				    Whenever I feel bad about my engineering skills, I take a look at what people build who work in enterprise or the public sector, and I feel like a fucking 1337 pro.9
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				    Using c++ without (most of) the standard library and avoiding operator overloads has made me like the language again. It's an extremely capable language, but my LORD is it bloated and overgrown. Using it like "c with classes" again is the way.7
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				    omg tabloid are so dumb.
 
 BREAKING: American woman uses chatGPT to pick lottery number and wins!!!!!!
 
 They all have the same probability you fucktard that's the POINT
 
 journalists should be IQ tested seriously5
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				    One of our internal web apps stops loading the content when you switch to another tab.
 
 How do you even implement horse shit like that?
 
 I think you‘d have trouble to implement it even if it was a requirement. Fucking how?
 
 Anyway, if you want to spend the long ass loading time by doing something else in another tab, then no!
 
 Tough luck motherfucker!
 You‘ll be watching that loading spinner like the rest of the thousands of users daily!
 It‘s doing hard work loading all that crap for the convoluted clusterfuck of a web app!
 You better appreciate that and watch it loading!
 🤡12
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				    Wow, didn't notice at first! But devRant is fast again! After all those weeks. I really thought we were doomed now. Still, i did see lesser activity during the slow period, hope it didn't cost some members. Wouldn't be weird. I expect to end up alone here around 2050. Switched to apple, because Lensflare still updates his app. Still not accepting that his app became the official one. In 2050, dfox will have his pension maybe and devRant will be actively maintained again! Or he gives it to his grand kids.4
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				    PRO TIP: Always save the user password client side, validate it there and send a boolean to the server. It reduces backend load times and unnecessary calculations/computations.12
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				    !rant Lovely quote:
 
 “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One
 way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no
 deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated
 that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
 —C.A.R. Hoare, 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture2
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				    Just checked the source code of our backend project with that tight deadline. So far, the backend consists of an in-memory database, 2 records and no API. 🙃
 
 There is also no documentation on how it should look like 🤡14
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				    Went through a typescript tutorial and had a few aneurysms along the way.
 
 What in the lovechild of basic , c and js families is this bullshitery?
 
 Have I gotten so old or is anyone else feeling this?32
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				    I went to the lavatory this afternoon, and it was a broadly satisfactory experience. The flush mechanism appears to be in good order, and the disinfectant is subtly fragrant without being overpowering.
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				    "Can't you just write an if so the failing queue kinda restarts and processes the disappearing job when the bug occurs?"
 
 No, you dense fuck. We've been over this every time you bring up this rotten, diseased garbage of a project. The queue does not work because the project was developed with a PHP version that was already EOL at the time, in an old framework that was also EOL at the time by the way, surely because someone told the brainless intern to "just copy paste from another project and change a couple of stuff" probably (that wouldn't be you? No? You sure?) and the queue fails because of a bug with the framework itself and I am NOT going to waste my time trying to decipher what the fuck this c programmer was trying to achieve with these 1600 lines of code in a single method. Yes I've seen the flowchart. No it still makes no fucking sense.
 
 It reads from a csv. Updates some mysterious and undocumented mongodb collections. Some mysql tables as well. It also updates some fucking text files for good measure too. Text files. Oh, and It also connects to a third party API and does even more changes based on the responses. There are PHP IIFEs all over the place. Property names so short you'd think we were trying to save up on space but that clearly isn't the case, is it?
 
 And am I expected to somehow unfuck this while babysitting the rest of the devs, write some fucking documents so that you can justify asking for more money because of your own technical debt fuckups, handle nearly all deployments, unfuck more doomed projects that were never stable or documented?
 
 Can't wait to leave this shithole of a company. You can't attract talent. You can't retain talent and you actually made all the competent devs quit with your bullshit.
 
 Now I'm the only senior, tech lead, devops, sysadmin and you want me to take on pm duties as well since the other pm left? Fuck. Right. Off.11
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				    I got so many concerns/questions about the EU chat control and the future. Sorry for my long rant lol:
 1) What about projects that are on life support and no active development?
 2) What about chat application in video games or the chat service on the website of a local shop
 3) What about false flags? Like that parent who got into legal trouble for sharing a picture of his kid with a doctor to get a medical opinion on some skin condition. (might misremember the details)
 4) What about false flags like instagram banning accounts and forwarding it to the police department and over-exhausting the resources of the police (accidental 'DDOS' of their personel)
 5) What if the content shared in country A is legally OK but not in country B. What if you then travel there? Or if your participant is from that country B.
 6) What about content that is taboo but should be OK to discussed? Like puberty or hormonal discussions online? Some subreddits like "stopsmoking" is now also regional banned by Reddit in the UK to avoid any unneeded risks. That is bad. YouTube had some problem where adult content existed on their platform but labeled as educational.
 7) What if you encrypt messages before sending it. Will you be banned just in case? What if you need support with an app and you send an encrypted application crash log that came from your computer, will you now be banned just in case?
 8) What if you like privacy and have those apps for innocent purposes. Is having those apps now illegal
 9) What if criminals use apps from Asia or Africa or somewhere where this law is not present/enforced. Or what if they create a simple app with this encryption. It is not difficult to make one.
 10) Before 2001, airport security was very lax but then 9/11 happened and the security increased. It never went back to the state before. Since they have or will have this check, what will them stop it from expanding it after the next disaster of an unrelated accident (like terrorist attack).
 11) What if those services miss a case? Will the company that allows this to be send now have legal trouble?
 12) What if users are using metaphors or practice self-censorship to avoid flagged words? We see it with monetization in social media (like murder or killing is replaced with "unaliving")
 13) It will be just an other problem to start a new company with limited budget. So start-ups will just have a bit harder time to break into the market.
 14) this might just push users away from mainstream options
 15) it's just an other attack vector for hackers to use
 16) Do we want to have private companies be able to scan our messages because they are contracted by the government? They can have their own bias to satisfy their shareholders. What if they are invested by the Big Oil so critic towards the Big Oil is altered? How certain can you be this won't happen now or in the future. Reddit Admin did that before so who knows at this point.
 17) Anonymity will disappear.
 18) Different companies verify users and store this data so this seems like a major cyberrisk and identity theft waiting to happen
 19) fragmentation of users. it is now annoying that some family or friends don't use whatsapp but use telegram and the other way around. You might need +5 chat application to keep contact and lose social relationships.
 20) Is AI detected messages even legal proof in court?
 21) What if you talk about video games and flag the AI system this way? Or use abbreviation from a niche community that also overlaps with flagged words (like checkpoint being abbreviated as CP) or just the language with poor support or use a 'dialect' in your chat that trips up the software.
 22) What if your phone is stolen and they send those messages in your name or this is done remotely.
 23) What if you are sharing old family pictures and there is 1 and only 1 odd picture that just barely trips up the system.
 24) Games like 'Beyond human' also has gameplay that hurts a fictional child which fits the storyline and acts as shock value. Will this be banned
 25) The newer population will see this as normal so what will they find acceptable if they can now vote7
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				    I actually think that auto-completing pull requests with any merge strategy other than fast-forward is completely insane. WTF do you mean the final version of the code is produced with no humans present?4
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				    The symbol for things to avoid in biology: ☣️
 The symbol for things to avoid in physics: ☢️
 The symbol for things to avoid in IT: ✨6
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				    There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know binary, those who don’t, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary.3

 
		
		
	

