Bought a brand new Asus Laptop for my studies, because according to my asshat teacher "nobody is using a MacBook these days"...

After 2 minutes I wanted to punch a hole through the screen and my teacher's face.

Everything I fucking opened stopped responding

I hate windows

Back from Alpine to Debian as my daily driver. Here are the reasons:
1. Alpine doesn't support a very niche fan control utility made by one guy for my specific laptop, and HP left me with no alternative
2. Alpine doesn't have OpenSnitch, period
3. My laptop is quire powerful, so the speed difference is insignificant.

If it wasn't for this two super specific edge cases, I would've stayed on Alpine --- such a marvellous OS it was.

IIS, aka Apache But Worse, with the world's shittiest plugin manager, a graphical XML config editor that only shows the attributes of one node at a time, invalid configuration errors that don't tell you anything about which part of the configuration is invalid, and a custom GC config optimized for hosted .NET apps that's somehow even less suitable for hosting than the default desktop GC config.

I had to enable 3 categories of Windows features and 20 additional features that weren't included in the default set for those categories just to host a WCF service.

Management has reviewed DevOps which is already being shown to customers and wants to introduce a code coverage metric to show customers how good the code is. Code coverage now has to be 80% or higher across the board, it's been decided by management, and there is no discussion on this topic. The front-end presentation layer has minimal business logic and most of the code that exists is generated objects to shift data to the backend (which in turn mostly shifts it to a 3rd party API that does a lot of the business logic). I now have to write thousands of pointless tests while also being 85% billable to the client.
I think code coverage can be used as a tool, but should not be used as a metric to promote the product.
I suggested an automated e2e test might be better placed to prove that things are working, but have been told we're not going in that direction.
I'm close to writing a code coverage test that uses reflection to touch all of the code, catch all exceptions, and return a positive result.

I got a WordPress site's lighthouse score from 45 to 99. Feels good man.

Good lord, fail2ban is not easy to get right.

My favourite passtime is asking awkward questions I already know the answer to and seeing how long it takes the person to work out that they fucked up, that I know they fucked up and how monumentally they fucked up.

We "engineered a prompt" (in other words, crapped a very poorly written paragraph using only short sentences) that gathers many arguments pro and against the usage of AI to code our production data pipelines.
Most of the "pro" arguments are variations of "we'll get fired if we don't use this crap in something".

Prompted with the whole argument, even Gemini thinks we should not use AI to write our code. Nowadays, we use Gemini mostly to justify why we shouldn't use Gemini.

Seriously. We made the whole setup so that any PO who demands AI has to convince the AI it is a good idea. I'll admit, the AI is doing a good job to deter people who want to use it. It hasn't cracked even once. Not that it matters, anyway. POs just ignore what the AI says and organically write orders telling us to use it anyway.

So this recruiter reached to me. They supposedly like my profile and have a role in mind but need more info than what's currently on my CV

They want 15 bullets points for duties per role.

As in 15 for each job... My CV is already two pages long.

What the fuck do recruiters actually do

Well, dR just disappeared for a bit but glad it's back, but I can see that recent rants are gone (because I was trying to catch up on missing rants)

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screens...

What I’d give for a modern version of gladiator fights. And no, not to watch people die. The belief that they massacred themselves in the arenas is hollywood propaganda. Many fighters werent even slaves. And had pretty high status

Food for thought, if rust-analyzer can infer the type, why the FUCK can't rustc?

This is the nth software company where you have some asshole who for some reason (probably because they hate you) plays blame-games when it comes to code reviews, when they themselves screwed up in the first place (I know there's git blame, but..).

The guy writes shitty code quickly because the manager asked, then I take my time and patience to make it better, and in the code review they shit on me for things THEY wrote badly? Wtf man. What kind of logic is that? Fucked up people. And then putting shit in bold and exclamation marks (wtf?).

Is it just me or have you also seen this behavior with your colleagues?

If you are using fcgiwrap and nginx, if you don't set the root directive, DOCUMENT_ROOT will default to /usr/share/nginx/html/.

In hindsight, it's obvious to me now that there was no way the script could have known the root I wanted without it, but it just didn't occur to me at the time.

Even when I do well in a technical interview I don't get a job offer, I don't know wtf I am doing wrong..

I guess I should start flooding my gitlab with a whole lot of demos, I am pretty desperate so I already bought linkedin premium lmao

Well if shit hits the fan I guess imma have to go with plan B and apply for a master's degree in Europe, I already completed my IELTS with an overall score of 7.5 so I'm fine in that regard

I want to buy a 4TB external drive, with the sole motivation to "preserve" as many games as I possibly can. I know it's not enough, but I want to save my fav games before they're completely gone from the internet.

I could do that, but then what if the Operating Systems go to shit? What if Windows rolls out an update, where you can't run .exe files anymore? Everything has to be installed and run from the Microsoft Store? What if an "online-only" version of Windows gets released and all previous versions get removed?

I know duh, get the Windows 10 cracked iso file as well. But it just depresses me, looking at the hoops I have to jump if all I want to do is enjoy older games.

ever meet a person and he's very interesting but then his retarded girlfriend gets in the way

I hate

I'm not even interested in him this way. now their relationship broke up and he's disappeared and I'm so mad. I wanted to nerd out about occultism not get sucked into some fucking insecure kink whore's sexual drama oh my God. she made him feel bad and self destruct and I don't wanna date him so now I have to wait for him to get over it so I can talk to him and nerd out about shit again. I hate

The average meeting: "I think that's a really great idea. Let's circle back on this and take a 60k view, leveraging the low-hanging fruit so we can identify you championed this technology".

Seriously? Championed? As if the other bs language weren't enough. And this is language that they use to convince clients. "My consultant championed A.I.". Are you fucking kidding me? It sounds ridiculous. Needless to say, we lost that client.

fail to comprehend code

dig through debugger

make change expecting only to fix one of two test cases

it fixes both test cases, not just one,

pain ensues, code makes less sense to me

There was this one time when I was asked to create screenshots of our game for marketing purposes.

The game supported solely the 480i mode.

Once I delivered the screenshots, PM bitched about them being !good, because of the visible interlace.

...the fun times of the Wii era.