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.

What is the percentage of people in your team that are doing nothing but still giving their opinion and still manage to sloe things down? Personally, 40%.

Seems there is a blackout in the entire country. This is fine!

*Logging in my Google accout*
"Please set your phone number"
"Please set your home address"

Wow. Do you want my blood type too?

A colleague used AI to transcript our latest sprint retrospective and now they have in writing the very long list of insults I addressed towards the management. I'm cooked

Is it me or is impossible to upload images in the rants?
I got a server error.

@dfox

why must everything be a cult =-=

I've seen this recurring theme: a company says: "We don't have time to educate you".

Why do they say that? I argue it would be beneficial to them that they get someone who is progressively developed in their skillset over time. But no, they always think short-term. It's their loss.

The sad thing is that I notice this with a lot of companies. Short-term thinking is not insightful.

"Sir, your card got declined"

"First of all, lower your voice"

uergfhh I just feel irrationally miserable, wttffff

I had burnout and savings and live alone and decided to take some rest, not even 2 months have passed and my family is telling me to get a job soon since week 2.

Last rant I commented on was deleted and I cant find it anymore.
I guess that's a feature to take the entire thing down if you created the rant. Also I cannot see @retoor comments on my own previos rant. What is going on with this platform?

I mean the truth about that eating bugs thingy is that right wingers have zero tastebud after eating too much chemicals in mc donalds and shit.

Have you even tasted grilled cicadas? It's fucking delicious. Very crispy

Is just me or being a developer has become a complete nightmare?
I mean, I never expected when I got into it to have a simple life in the first place, it's a fucking problems solving job.
But heck, I'm in the field from more than 12 years and something has definitely changed for the worse. Believe me I am just seeking for a general consensus not approval or anything, but it doesn't feel anything like 10 years ago.

I have worked with .NET mostly in all his sauces from aspx, wpf, up to today .NET 10 and C#13 and in the meanwhile it happened that I needed to do tech assistance, code in exoteric shit, use arduinos and raspberries, use perl, java, turn into full stack with databases, devops and shit.

Each year it's worse, the "developer" word gets more and more blurred word to say "the one who must know everything".
I'm asked to know docker, kubernetes, kafka, CI/CD and devop shit, web dev, to get ertifications, to learn how AI works to the level of learning again matht to do matrix interpolations, to get on data science, python, numpy, pandas, pytorch and shit, to know every OS, to know about networking because APIs now have to use rest, a single verb for every action, because if routers and new communication protocols break you have to know and figure out why.

Not to mention that marketing and sales guy shove up the big customers ass every new tecnology to make our work look like bling-a-ling top notch 1% developer stuff that always use latest bleeding edge technology and you're forced to learn new immature frameworks every 2 months or so (latest being various javascript/typescript diagramming libraries).

Every idiot feels entitled to puke out a new framework or supersets of existing languages. I lost count how many supersets css has that I had to peek and learn lol.

Every fucking simple software I did from scratch and designed by myself, web portals for big pharma were much simple than whatever PM i get assigned to are and guess what, I published it and fixed ofc some bugs, but most bugs are related to customer unstable datasets and well, I never had bugs after the first few weeks, except once every few months and nothing serious.

The fucking things they let me do now are hypercomplicated and I spend days fixing other people bugs and we get some hair pulling structural problems becuase they shove in all they can (mediator patterns are a must): kafka, docker, messagebus, whatever javascript clusterfuck they can, patchworks of html and css blurred out in layers of hierarchical scss or sass, slapped into angular (the most immature and crappy shit in js) that has all of his hidden ways to bury and hide DOM (ng-deep: anyone? :host anyone?).

And it's all like this. Whenever I put hands everyone wants to do his little frankeinstein experiment cooking togheter in a cauldron a shit ton of different stuff, overcomplicated patterns.

it's a challenge at shooting flies with bazookas.

I'm really tired of technology at all, not only for my jobs. This fucking trend is a plague spread everywhere and now, since everyone has to deal with it, everything is unstable.

In my daily usage of a smartphone app crashes a lot or have weird troubles, slowness, websites are pretending to be full blown app with this shitty SPA trend and are filled with bugs and incompatibilites.

Basically every tech tool we use is 100% more prone to bugs than 10 years ago.I'm really thinking to find a simple job like baker or shit and get an old phone that just can call and send SMS.
I need to get out of tech for a few years to get back my sanity.

This is not a problem-solving job anymore.
10 years ago I needed to study too but once I got the tools in my hands the job was fun, you got a magic wrench and sky was the limit.

Now you got to fucking learn a ton of bullshit everyday and it's not like you see a end on it, everyday people push out new unstable and bugged shit waiting for devs to be guinea pigs for them. You gotta learn a ton of stuff of which 3/4 will be useless/obsolete/broken and considered inefficient the next month.

jeeeeeez

As a wokoid leftist, I have an easier time than most to debug my code.

You know, coz I like eating bugs.

I've been gone a hot minute.

I'm just sharpening sticks to fight in the robo-apocalypse.

John Connors got nothing on pointy sticks.

I've been always thinking that all the web frameworks sucks, and a person should always use vanilla/pure php coding, the reason to say this is that overtime you will have to re-update your framework, watch out for fatal error due to compatibility, issues shows up when a function is deprecated due to the framework forcing you to re-code your stuff, isn't this a waste of time? Isn't this a pain in the ass? Finally isn't a framework a result of a pure coded php?

I was wondering, let say a court forces google to be separated from Chrome, shouldn't become it's own independent entity?
Do we really want OpenAI, Yahoo, Meta, or any of those big corporate to acquire it?
Because who else can buy it? And I don't think any of them want to acquire it "for the greater good" either.
Weakening the tight of Google on the modern web is probably a good thing, but if it's just about giving it to someone else to abuse it, we might just slow the problem a bit instead of resolving it?

I had the weirdest job interview in the world. A job that wasn't even considering due to lower compensation than what I am making.

Throughout my career I saw three types of interviews (some times I have 1 & 2, 1&3 or just 2 or just 3 or fail early in 1):

1. HR textbook style: your 3 biggest weaknesses, what would your coworkers describe (I fail most of the time here)

2. People coming to prove a point to you (what happened to me today): Somebody with a clear intention to prove you are stupid and/or lying.. You are guilty until proven innocent style of interaction. They will find one little thing that you read about 15 years ago and zoom in it enough (it takes a 1min read to go over that again) and to them you are stupid and that's it. Generally insecure people do that

3. Tech oriented hiring people: it always goes well even if I don't get hired. Where they focus on the skills that take years to master rather than zooming on something you studied 15 years ago and totally forgot.

The hiring person was in tech presumably for 20 years but I saw 0 important stuff in his github. (I can name and shame if it's allowed here)

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!

Isn't it weird how you have never tasted some food but you know exactly how it tastes?

Somebody brought up shrimp cocktail. I've never had it and I've barely ever had shrimp. But in my mind I know the *exact* taste it has

This is a really inspiring recap of Minecraft history. I was disappointed it didn't cover the modding scene. Which is huge and I believe a big part of the success of Minecraft. This narrator is really naive to think Notch is racist. I was really disappointed by that take. Notch refused to go along with the woke crowd (which is cancer). What is funny is the guy claims he had racist tweets. None of the tweets were nonfactual. People want to label hard truths as racist. They are not.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

Fun to watch to see where it came from. My big take away was the CEO of a company he worked for encouraged him to pursue his game. So a non dick CEO helped him go after his project. This in turn made this CEO close to, if not a billionaire himself.

Notch spend 10 years go after something. Which changed gaming forever.

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance; Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history; Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level; Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.

https://archive.org/details/...

informational asymmetry means you lose

Do not fucking start annoying me today, bugs, I'm not in the fucking mood.

I think it's time to delete my second facebook account

I dont like to keep an account too much, people start to know who you are.

Anonymity is freedom of speech

How certain can we be, that AI Code Assistants or the companies behind them are "stealing" our proprietary code?

Never skip leg day.

does the world run on passive aggression

so miserable

FUCK!!! I have the Minecraft bug right now! I got tired of Cyberpunk and want to automate shit in ATM10! If Minecraft ever gets a really good RPG mod(s) with immersive world gen it will be a killer game. I like open sandbox, but that gets tiring after a while.

One mod I like a lot right now is Modular Routers. Its a fake player on steroids. That combined with resource gen mods is a lot of fun to automate.

I also found a magic mod that lets you build islands in the sky that gets filled with villagers. Seems like a fun thing to play with.

Then there is Apotheosis that helps you build super OP gear. Like a pick axe with fortune 25 on it.

White font. Now red, my bloody code slipping, you're on your tippy toes trip-ping, a-round like no one's code, think you're, sub-li-mi-nal.

I'm the bad Type, make your Java mad Type, might seduce your C Type. I'm the bad Type...

What? Yes, being long enough in the industry makes you deranged. Aaa-hahaa! My invisiliiine!