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About🏳️⚧️ Bipolar type I. Autistic. Probably dead in a year. There are other receivers
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One day you'll go hiking and find a house built by no one. It will be then that you'll realize you can't go back home.2
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Polish military has the official "8 wounds" chevron that is given to those who sustained 8 battle wounds. Do you know why Americans don't have those? Because you have to be Polish to get wounded eight times in battle and still be alive enough to wear this thing on your uniform. Poles are built different.15
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Enter BIOS menu
See the option called something like “ionic capacitor discombobulation”
Click “help” near the option to learn what the hell that is
“Enables or disables ionic capacitor discombobulation”
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So tired of “minimal” distros. Give me a 40gb fat bitch that can open any file type, has every codec and every app, and that has everything set up for me. I’ll delete apps I don’t need, deleting is easier than installing anyway9
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Intel Management Engine is half-hoax. Yes, it exists, but rumors about its true capabilities are fabricated and artificially amplified to make "what about intel ME" a very effective though-terminating cliche in the privacy community.
Let me remind you that to this day there was not a single takedown or leak that resulted from some power exploiting ME. All kingpin takedowns, all whistleblower deanons, all deanons period, all doxxes — all due to software shortcomings and other exploits.
Yet, "what about intel ME" reigns supreme and instills doom into the minds of the questioning. I can totally see someone who is new to this whole privacy thing doing their research, finding this ME craziness and thinking that real, actionable privacy is impossible, and going back to using amazon alexa and giving tiktok full camera and microphone access.
Just forget about Intel ME. It might as well not exist at all, because it was never used successfully. Instead, do this:
- Keep your threat models updated
- Learn to distinguish state-level actors from surveillance capitalists7 -
What we were promised:
- The world as seen in Frutiger Aero
- Solving chess by running minimax on quantum computers
- Fully automated luxury communism powered by blockchain
What we were delivered:
- The phone selling machine in Walmart values your $700 phone at "$59 Today", but when you hit "Cancel", it bumps the price to "$79 Today" while stealing your data via USB. You can sell the phone for $400 on Ebay.
- Microsoft will try to bruteforce your zip archive's password if you upload it to OneDrive
- Butthole logos8 -
we don't really need data types. By default, everything should be string. When you do addition, when the string has nothing but digits, commas and periods, they should be parsed added as numbers. Else, they should be concatenated. If that string-number formatting doesn't match any conventional formatting of any locale, it's a string. Same number-inferring behavior should be implemented when comparing things. There should be no type casting because there is just one type, so every comparison is type-exact. "true" and "false" are special strings that won't throw an error during comparison. Comparing two strings using less, more, less than or equal and more than or equal always throw an error.
Dates are ISO strings. Every other thing is not a date.
We basically sieve the data starting with the strictest conditions down to more forgiving conditions, then down to no conditions at all where it will be interpreted as just string. ISO date requires a very specific formatting, so we should check that first. Then, let's check for a formatted number. Then, a boolean. If nothing clicked, it's a string.
Oh, and every string is automatically trimmed, so it can't start or end with any kind of space.
No classes, no procedures, no constants, no switch operator. Also, no methods, just a lot of helper functions.
Performance will be lacking compared to languages with static types, but performance is not a priority here — this is the language for code monkeys and their AI counterparts. It should only be used for making trivial client-server prototype apps that could've been replaced by Excel if only people knew how to use it, at passable quality, that work reasonably fast on modern hardware.
Those apps will be deprecated because the company went out of business/because the project was proven to not be financially viable in several months anyway.
UI should be rendered not using a webview, but using a lightweight cross-platform UI engine written in a proper language like C++. There should be no semantic tags — every UI element acts like a div would. Everything is measured in pixels and milliseconds. All colors are #rrggbbaa. All vector graphics are SVG, all raster graphics are AVIF. All sounds are Opus. All videos are AV1. All UIs are reactive, Vue style, e.g. you change a variable and the UI updates itself in the right way every time.
Add some junior devs paired with GPT-4.5 or any super-expensive LLM, sprinkle with some Extreme Go-Horse management style (https://hackernoon.com/you-might-be...), and boom, we recreated Zergs but in the tech space. Let's solve software by brute force.13 -
imagine "dumb" tech still having mics, recording everything and scanning wifi for unprotected networks to gain internet access and upload it3
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open source this, open source that… do you realize that you have no way of verifying whether the “cloud” version of a self-hostable tool is identical to what’s on github? they might as well have a special version of their app running on their servers, filled with spyware.
They don’t need it though, because you never read the code in the first place. Spyware might as well be there, in plain sight, never to be discovered by you because they know people don’t read source code.
Also, when are you going to get it hosted? Because cloud is just someone else’s computer, remember that. If someone else has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. Your hoster can see everything that happens on your VPS.
Unless you’ve read the code and hosting it from your own home from your own physical server, it’s not your data. Check with your data provider — they often do offer fixed IP service for a small fee.
I host my own tools on my computer and let my phone sync with them through my home wifi. Yes, I can’t sync shit when I’m out there with my phone, but who needs that, I’ll just do that when I come home.
I’m about to vibe-audit the source code of Notesnook with AI!16 -
Isn't it neat how Plato gave us Five Platonic Solids, but his kids were born because of One Platonic Liquid?8
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European hares and regular bunnies have nothing in common in terms of how they behave.
Hares will scream at you and attack you if you get too close. They're very fast and very agile, they even look like mini kangaroos. Sometimes they will open their mouth and jump at you full force, essentially using their body as a spear and their incisors as a spear tip. Their teeth are VERY sharp. Unlike carnivores' canines which are pointy, hare's incisors are flat like a razor's edge. They can totally bite your finger off.
They're big, strong and fierce enough to scare away foxes.
Just imagine dying of anaphylaxis all alone in the forest with no one to help you after getting bit by a not-even-rabid not-even-predator.14 -
BUZZ CUT GIRL REAL INFO:
Her name is Laurel. She's schizophrenic and severely autistic, so conversing with her is a challenge. She's the president of the Kiki Fan Club: an unofficial organization that is not what it seems. She constantly speaks in references to Kiki that Kiki herself doesn't understand, she quotes what Kiki never said, and she has pics of Kiki that don't show Kiki.
Kiki fan club is situated in a small room on the sixth floor of The Museum Block — an abandoned university wing.
She's good with tech. She makes devices no one can understand, but they do work. If you try to take a pic inside the kiki fan club office, your camera app will be replaced by DOOM 2.
Sometimes she tries to explain how her devices work, but no one can understand what she says.
Her hobby is injuring herself with acupuncture needles that give all the pain and none the damage. She likes to insert needles from the back between her ribs so they touch lungs, and then jump down landing on her chest.1 -
I never understood the programming language discussion thing. In modern programming, all you do is gluing APIs together, no matter if they're third party or built-in. My JS code is literally 95% fetch() followed by querySelector.
All built-in APIs that do something useful are just linking C++ modules. If you're not doing stupid shit, Python is exactly as fast as C++ or Rust.
The only scenario where speed matters is algos. Guess what? You should write your algos in C and link them to your Node/Python/Go/whatever code. And don't even get me started on reinventing algos. Do you really think you can write an algo in one evening that will be more efficient than what the guy whose PhD thesis it was a part of?
Just because some engine parts require the precision only a million-dollar CNC machine can provide, doesn't matter you have to cut the whole car out of a solid block of high-performance engine block alloy.
Remember kids, sorting array in Python is always faster than sorting array in C, because Python's sort was written by someone else who's smarter than you, went through years of scrutiny and iteration, and doesn't have stupid novice algo complexity errors.
Grow up.30 -
I grew up in Russia. We don't use imperial units in any way, shape or form: we're fully metric. Every single person who taught me at school and whatnot was born and raised in Soviet Union that was also fully metric, and science was worshiped. We used to laugh at imperial units.
Given all that, I... don't hate imperial system. Inches, feet, miles, Fahrenheit degrees, gallons, all units based on human proportion. Just think where the word for "feet" came from.
Zero C is meh, nothing in particular. A hunge boils your blood kills you instantly. It's useless: it's a "shit ton of heat" in human scale.
Zero F is chilly, a hunge F is toasty. It's based around human perception. To me, there is no difference between 100 and 90 C, but the difference between 100 and 90 F is more perceptible, and thus more useful to a human being.
Same with every other unit. What's a gallon? A gallon is enough for an average Joe to get drunk, that's what a gallon is.
Where it all falls apart is when you're trying to create something. When you're trying to get some calculation going. When you're making — not consuming — you need your units to add up, e.g. to have the SYSTEM in place. Imperial system is not a system.
Imperial units are perfect for _consuming_ stuff: a gallon of milk, a pint of beer, a (real) footlong sandwich, a pound of meat. Six foot high dude with seven inch dick.
Metric units are indispensable when you're _making_ stuff, at any scale. That's the difference. Imperial units are the tool of consumption, metric system is the tool of creation.
Only the time units seem to be the same for everyone on earth right now. Time itself in its mercilessness gives the same treatment to all entities, doesn't matter if you're a human or a grain of sand.26 -
— What is this malleable metal that is awfully convenient to make all sorts of things from?
— It’s lead. It is considered harmful by some.
— Nah, I don’t think so.
*proceeds to make pipes, solder in plumbing, glazed pottery, crystal glassware, cooking pots, utensils, paint on kitchen walls or utensils, foil used to wrap food, seals on wine bottles, weights in fishing or curtain weights stored near food, storage containers for food or drink, gasoline additives, water fountains in schools, candy wrappers, ink on food labels, bottle caps with liners, food can solder, ceramic dishware, spice containers, children’s lunchboxes, toys, baking molds, measuring spoons and kettles out of lead*16 -
Isn’t it funny how people can be pretty mean to each other, yet half of them don’t realize that all they really wish for is for all of it to go away forever?16
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In 2025, only at Apple can you spend $3,268 on a smartphone + laptop combo and get a laptop with 16 GB of ram and a phone with USB 2.0.5
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using Thunderbird after apple mail feels like being manhandled in bed by a big beautiful 6'4" MILF. I mean it's fine, and she's hot, but damn she's huge and, dare I say,... monumental? I feel like a tiny male ant making love to huge female ant that is like 40 times bigger than I am2
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Yes, pdf a’s code of some kind is indeed ends with a space, and that space is mandatory. Who let uncle bob specify anything, anything at all?5
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Software RAID 1 is better than hardware RAID 1! Here's why:
1. Hardware RAID controllers do fail, and when they do, they kill all hard drives connected to them.
2. If your controller didn't fry your hard drives when it failed, you'll have to find the exact replacement, or you can kiss your data goodbye. You installed a hardware RAID array using second hand Broadcom controller three years ago, and now it failed? You better get on looking for the same controller of same revision running the same firmware version (of course you can't update firmware yourself) if you want your data back. Oh, Broadcom discontinued this model? Tough cookies. With software RAID, everything is easily recoverable.
3. You save a lot of money you can invest in other parts of your system. Good hardware controllers, even second hand ones, don't cost less than $200.
Performance loss is negligible.
RAID built into your motherboard is the worst of both worlds: it's just the software RAID you can't reallly control. Don't do that.
Hardware RAID is only worth it if you have a contract with your hardware supplier that says they're responsible for managing your RAID array. They have the resources to replace failed controllers properly. You know how IBM installs full rack worth of servers just to disable 70% of them because of your plan limitations? It's easier for them to do that than to physically go there and take servers away, just to reinstall them when you grow. Yeah, that kind of contract at that kind of level. If you're there, you don't need me telling you all that.
TL;DR: if you want to buy a two 8TB hard drives for $150 each on newegg and a used RAID controller to make RAID 1 array, you can make both 16TB _and_ make your system more reliable. Reliability is what you're after if you want RAID 1, isn't it?
What are you do... wha... no! stop! are you gonna buy a raid box from Aliexpress? are you fucking crazy?!8