RIP my sunday...

Assignment for uni:
Code a decompression routine in cortex m0 assembly for the compression function your teacher provided....

It can't get much worse than that!

First time doing smb soldering....

Jeez this is harder than I thought...

Previously: https://devrant.com/rants/1418829/...

So, I've successfully finished my final project, but at some point I was having massive troubles.

For some fucking reason, the chip select line was not going high after turning low...

Apparently the led was pulling it down permanently...

Another weekend wasted...

Emailed the dutch and French MEP's about article 13 (eu stuff) and I got an answer from a French one, however, it landed in my spam folder and I deleted it before I finished processing what it said...

Thanks Japan...

Guess there's another exception for my project...

Have 4 GB micro SD card for my filesystem project.
Every search I do on the hex dump takes 5 minutes (literally)

Exported hex dump to text
Now have 2 9GB text files

Gonna try to import it into mysql for faster querying, wish me luck

After 3 weekends of headaches I finally managed to get the SD card reader to work.

Now, to understand fat...

A whole different story.

! Dev

I seriously need to stop getting crushes on friends/people who are taken.

Its becoming incredibly frustrating.

Thanks for hearing me out.

Hey guys,

I'm wondering if anyone here has experience with Outlook clients with close to 30 exchange mailboxes.

The software is incredibly unstable and keeps freezing.

I've tried setting the cache period to 1 week to no avail and it's starting to piss off my coworkers...

If anyone has any tips on improving the performance please share them.

Currently running SSD's (850 Evo)
I5-6600 and 8GB of ram.

The bottleneck seems to be the CPU spiking to 80%...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Jesus fucking christ.
I posted two rants today, both about trying to get my SD card reader to work on my arduino due...

After spending my whole day debugging, rewriting my code multiple times, cutting off anything that wasn't strictly necessary, writing my code procedurally, I finally decided to go and see what the library I HAVE to use is doing under the hood.

APPARENTLY...

uint_fast8_t is NOT 8 bits wide on my due...

The bitshifts were "overflowing" (not really, just taking more space, which it had access to) meaning that my data was getting corrupt.

FUCK YOU FOR TAKING A DAY OFF MY LIFE

Debugging SPI using LEDs...

This is just the worst

Trying to get my SPI SD card reader to work with hwlib...

I can't get the fucking library to do what I want...

(I have to use it, it's a requirement for the project)

There goes my fucking weekend...

So, while I personally like targeted ads, I get that some people don't.

I just found out you can check the "profile" Google builds on you for ads, it's just your interests. But some are laughably wrong...

https://adssettings.google.com/auth...

For my final project as a first year computer engineer, I have to implement a FAT32 file system using a bare metal c++ compiler that will need to work on arduino uno/due....

I've only been in the computer engineering space for 2 months.
Not sure I can do it, but I'm going to try my best!
Wish me luck

Guy needs to read some excel data...

Decides to write his function like this:

function readCell(){
fopen('filename.csv');
//some more code
fclose();
return cellValue;
}

This function was called multiple times per row of data...

Multiple hundreds of rows...

WHY

Maybe someone can help me out here...

I'm doing a small robotics project, where I'm building a line following robot.

That in itself is fine, and it works, however, the robot also needs to navigate through a maze.

The thing is, I only have access to two sensors, 1 light sensor, and 1 color sensor, meaning that I can't detect junctions.

Does anyone have any advice or ideas on how I could approach this with my restricted sensor count?

Started out as an intern at my current employer, after a few months they made me create an invoicing system...

I should have said no.

I've had a lot of bugs with it in the past, but the data-loss one has been because I send a SOAP call to our (third party) accounting system and only if I get an ERROR do I log it....

Apparently, when you put line 1 before line 0, you get a warning, but no data is processed...

Had to write a script that updated 4 months of invoice data in one go, without errors, took me a fucking week...

Lesson learnt boys and girls, never let an intern make the fucking invoicing system!

Pretty sure my laptop's battery is dead...

Works fine when plugged in but dies without power cord...

Rip 70€....

So much beer wasted

At least I'm getting a higher capacity one, and the previous one lasted 3,5 years, so that's not too bad...

This is bullshit.

We've got a project where we need to build a robot that can:
A. Follow a line.
B. Avoid obstacles
C. Go through a maze.

This, in itself, is fine. I can manage.

The problem is, the teacher that is supposed to support the course, is never where he's supposed to be.
Ie: he was supposed to be in the classroom to answer questions and give feedback yesterday from 09:00 to 13:00. The fucker didn't fuckin show up.

OK, so today, he's supposed to be here too, I've been sat in his classroom without him waiting for over an hour...

Also, no way I can do the maze part without knowing what defines a fucking blocked path, is it going to be a physical object or is the line going to be a different cor if you're not allowed to pass there?

I'm getting tired of this bs.

For the privacy freaks of devRant, have a host file that blocks all Facebook owned domains:

Blocklist Facebook domains (2016) - https://github.com/jmdugan/...

(not mine, found on HN)

Stolen from somewhere

Just found out some of our smaller sites (wp) have been hit with a shell...
In fucking January.

My colleagues didn't think to tell me this.

They figured someone must have had the pass or something and started posting about Viagra...

No. It's the fucking ico vuln...

I hate work right now.

Learning about logic gates and how memory works, had to make a "D-latch" which is a flip-flop where the leds can never be on simultaneously.

Pretty cool stuff imo
https://imgur.com/a/MlfLy

(gif too big, sorry for the external source)

When you complain to a teacher about the lack of challenge in another class and he tells you he's gonna make you build a sudoku solver.

I'm getting quite bored from doing the mini c++ assignments and was talking about it to another teacher when he explained he'd got a background in AI and algos so he told me he'd teach me some more interesting stuff :D

Replace the teachers with no real world experience with part-time workers that are still active in IT.

I had this last year in my final year of vocational education and it was amazing, I had two teachers running their business two days a week and teaching us everything on the three remaining days.

I learnt about oop without dogs and cats, I learnt to extract information from invoices to be able to create an invoicing system without being misled by customers, and much more.

Second thing would also be something we did in my previous education. It was called "learning productively".

Basically, companies would give a project to the school and students could pick one to do for a few months. You had to have meetings with the customer, you had to give presentations and it wasn't another fucking calculator.

I've had the pleasure of working with a big corporation like this and learnt a ton in my first year.

These were extremely valuable, I think I'd still be a piece of shit developer without any knowledge on how to actually develop a full system and how to manage a project as a dev.

Peace

Started university of applied sciences to become a computer engineer instead of a web developer.

Met a lot of kids that are in the "computer studies = games + YouTube".

They struggle hard, but don't do anything to learn...

Then there's this classmate, the guy is 10 years older than me, is trying really hard, and struggles a lot.

I've been helping him out with assigns by asking questions, and he asks me how to solve a problem in general, not the assignments which is super refreshing to see someone that wants to learn.

Currently trying to help him "translate" the simple stuff into c++:

So, if you want the char at a certain position in a string, how would you tell me to do it?

"well, take the list, look at position x and bam its done"

Try writing it like that!

And instead of "[i]" he writes "stringvar[i]"

He really appreciates the help and I hope he'll get the mindset soon :)

Would hate to lose a motivated guy when there's so many idiots copy pasting everything from tutorials...

Previously: https://devrant.com/rants/1207077/...

Talked the bossman, he just asked that I finish the project before being put back on my usual ERP maintainer role.

I agreed to it and the faster this fucking plugin is done, the faster I can go back to my optimization and maintenance project :D

Remember how my course paper used a de duck image?

Asked the writer about it, apparently he wasn't aware of devRant and that devducks were a thing (he did know about rubber duck debugging).

He just took the image from Google and after I explained they were real he ordered a couple :D

Decided I'm going to tell my boss I'm no longer going to do wordpress.

It all started innocently, like helping someone find an option or something, but now I have to write plugins...
Not part of the deal.

I've also got 0 motivation to go to work since starting this shitty project. I used to want to go to work and looked forward to helping out, but this is just soul numbing.

Let's see how that goes (either tomorrow or Wednesday).

I'll let you guys know if I get fired :p

First (procedural) c++ lectures:

Prof: K guys, go ahead and attempt the homework
Students: sir, how can we have 1 file per exercise?
P: oh, you can't, just make one huge file with multiple functions and rename them to "main" whenever you wanna run them

Me: WHY DO I EVEN PAY FOR THIS BULLSHIT

Ps: not allowed to use classes as that's too hard...