Something something blockchain something thermodynamics something heat transfer.

Good thing is that while doing so, the toaster makes enough heat to toast bread. It's a win-win situation!

@Root when I try to explain things, I like to give some context first. But after a while I look in their faces and realize it's like I've begun with "around 14 billion years ago..."

Next time try with "do you like the long story or the short story?"

Updates: I went for a pee, the laptop went in standby, it disabled Ethernet, download dropped. No possibility of resume.

Just wasted 1h30m.

Inspired by https://devrant.com/rants/1754584/...

I don't know you, but I am proud of you.

Beware that JS's round is different than Java round: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US...

So it's basically like a single copy of MS Office for offline use?

@electrineer indeendeendeed.

OP, here's a recipe for spaghetti code:
wait:
if(water.temperature()<100) goto wait
salt.pour_into(water)
self.pour_into(water)
start=now()
wait2:
if(now()<start+cooking_time) goto wait2
filter_water_out()
add_toppings()
enjoy()
goto wait

@electrineer (parentheseseses)

Devs in A-Life Software LLC don't know devRant. Otherwise they would let their anger out here, let it all out, then politely reply to the guy.

@rEaL-jAsE also known as prostitution.

Just don't ignore exceptions. Rethrow the exception, log something, anything. That's all I ask.

@BadFox if I wanna have my own coffee I prefer do it the Italian way, with a moka 😆

I might consider BYOM, Bring Your Own Moka.

s/boss/shitty client/
s/coffee/software/

@electrineer isn't the situation awkward enough?

So much for computer science!!
How they say in the Netherlands: the plumber's house is full of leaks (or something like that!)

Pretty sure it was inspired by XKCD https://xkcd.com/1897/

Dude, that's a BIG safety hazard! The exposed power supply gives lots of opportunities for the 240V to go through the other circuits, causing a fire, or through your body if you touch it by mistake. Would be better if you kept the plastic enclosure.

Turn off your home breaker and get rid of that thing before that thing gets rid of you. Next time, use only power supplies that come with an enclosure (there are plenty of choices online)

I don't think I feel mad about this. But I might have that patronizing feeling like "here's how a real coder does", which is not good at all if it ever comes out.

@beegC0de a null, an Optional, whatever. I still wouldn't know what the fuck the actual issue is.

@NeatNerdPrime better to sift thru a long stack trace than get literally nothing.

Buy a bunch of items from the other site, then re-sell them on eBay at less-than-double the price.

That's a slow train.

This is ingenious and unsettling at the same time 😂

Just think about how would emojis be encoded in a FAT directory structure.

An IT journalist, Paolo Attivissimo, suggested to simply answer their emails by faking a real person. Waste their time. Multiply by one hundred, and they won't be able to cope with that many users and it won't be economically viable to keep the system. Basically a human DDoS.

I also wrote that shit.
It's the only way that doesn't force you to write a fucking try-catch block because you may have misspelled the address. Or that doesn't desperately try to resolve the string to the nearest DNS server while you just wanted to have a fucking localhost address.
Oh, and because the only-fucktard factory method accepts a byte array, you cannot just put decimal numbers because they would be treated as signed integers, forcing you to add a cast on each number. Hex literals are fine.
That's Java, folks🤷‍♂️