The minor rants thread.
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I'm trying to do $thing in very expensive software tool. (I know $thing is possible in competitors' tools, and it should be possible in this tool.) Is there documentation that says, to do $thing, follow $steps? No, there's a ^(#^)@# 12-minute YouTube video. For something that could be explained as something like
- Step 1
- Step 2
- If $condition, do step 3; otherwise, skip to step 4
- Step 4
Why the (%&*@) does that require a 12-minute video?
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@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
Why the (%&*@) does
thatanything require a 12-minute video?So that you can like and subscribe, duh.
Now get back in the pod and eat your daily allowance of bugs. With a genuine smile. The cameras are watching.
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@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm trying to do $thing in very expensive software tool. (I know $thing is possible in competitors' tools, and it should be possible in this tool.) Is there documentation that says, to do $thing, follow $steps? No, there's a ^(#^)@# 12-minute YouTube video. For something that could be explained as something like
- Step 1
- Step 2
- If $condition, do step 3; otherwise, skip to step 4
- Step 4
Why the (%&*@) does that require a 12-minute video?
This is what happens when the Minecraft generation grows up and gets programming jobs.
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@dcon when we started this project...ummm...about 15 years ago I said that there was enough stuff here for me to work until I retire. I think that was probably an accurate assessment. The customer really likes us and they contractually require stuff like, "No more than 40 hours worked per week, except in extraordinary circumstances, and then you have to get approval." The few times that's happened they've actually paid us for the hours over 40.
Jesus Christ, they had two whole weeks worth of requirements?
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@Gribnit said in The minor rants thread.:
@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@dcon when we started this project...ummm...about 15 years ago I said that there was enough stuff here for me to work until I retire. I think that was probably an accurate assessment. The customer really likes us and they contractually require stuff like, "No more than 40 hours worked per week, except in extraordinary circumstances, and then you have to get approval." The few times that's happened they've actually paid us for the hours over 40.
Jesus Christ, they had two whole weeks worth of requirements?
Heh. The funny thing about that is the first thing we did was go there for two weeks and have nonstop requirement gathering meetings. Often with more than one going on at once. Now that was draining.
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@Gribnit said in The minor rants thread.:
@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@dcon when we started this project...ummm...about 15 years ago I said that there was enough stuff here for me to work until I retire. I think that was probably an accurate assessment. The customer really likes us and they contractually require stuff like, "No more than 40 hours worked per week, except in extraordinary circumstances, and then you have to get approval." The few times that's happened they've actually paid us for the hours over 40.
Jesus Christ, they had two whole weeks worth of requirements?
Heh. The funny thing about that is the first thing we did was go there for two weeks and have nonstop requirement gathering meetings. Often with more than one going on at once. Now that was draining.
The first job I had coding, I skipped those out of hand, until I managed to get to one and take early notes. Then I skipped them on purpose.
Hopefully the client wasn't scheduling those - such a series would almost certainly cost months as the self-delusion is unpicked.
In a similar series at [redacted-nd] 5 years ago, I was wondering why the Chief Engineer looked so sleepy, as in, would fall asleep standing up sometimes.
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@Gribnit said in The minor rants thread.:
@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@Gribnit said in The minor rants thread.:
@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@dcon when we started this project...ummm...about 15 years ago I said that there was enough stuff here for me to work until I retire. I think that was probably an accurate assessment. The customer really likes us and they contractually require stuff like, "No more than 40 hours worked per week, except in extraordinary circumstances, and then you have to get approval." The few times that's happened they've actually paid us for the hours over 40.
Jesus Christ, they had two whole weeks worth of requirements?
Heh. The funny thing about that is the first thing we did was go there for two weeks and have nonstop requirement gathering meetings. Often with more than one going on at once. Now that was draining.
The first job I had coding, I skipped those out of hand, until I managed to get to one and take early notes. Then I skipped them on purpose.
I was the guy standing in the front of the room leading the meeting.
Hopefully the client wasn't scheduling those - such a series would almost certainly cost months as the self-delusion is unpicked.
Not really. We were replacing a legacy system (plus automating a ton of manual stuff, like rooms with walls entirely covered in post-it notes) and they already had a pretty detailed statements of objectives, though there was definitely plenty of delusion in there, to be sure.
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@izzion said in The minor rants thread.:
@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm trying to do $thing in very expensive software tool. (I know $thing is possible in competitors' tools, and it should be possible in this tool.) Is there documentation that says, to do $thing, follow $steps? No, there's a ^(#^)@# 12-minute YouTube video. For something that could be explained as something like
- Step 1
- Step 2
- If $condition, do step 3; otherwise, skip to step 4
- Step 4
Why the (%&*@) does that require a 12-minute video?
This is what happens when the Minecraft generation grows up and gets programming jobs.
I've got the boy spending significant of his Minecraft time coding in command block script. Bahahaha!
Technomancy
, what a maroon.
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@izzion said in The minor rants thread.:
@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm trying to do $thing in very expensive software tool. (I know $thing is possible in competitors' tools, and it should be possible in this tool.) Is there documentation that says, to do $thing, follow $steps? No, there's a ^(#^)@# 12-minute YouTube video. For something that could be explained as something like
- Step 1
- Step 2
- If $condition, do step 3; otherwise, skip to step 4
- Step 4
Why the (%&*@) does that require a 12-minute video?
This is what happens when the Minecraft generation grows up and gets programming jobs.
My 20-something son got extremely offended by this. (Note: He hasn't yet grown up and gotten a real job.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
@izzion said in The minor rants thread.:
@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm trying to do $thing in very expensive software tool. (I know $thing is possible in competitors' tools, and it should be possible in this tool.) Is there documentation that says, to do $thing, follow $steps? No, there's a ^(#^)@# 12-minute YouTube video. For something that could be explained as something like
- Step 1
- Step 2
- If $condition, do step 3; otherwise, skip to step 4
- Step 4
Why the (%&*@) does that require a 12-minute video?
This is what happens when the Minecraft generation grows up and gets programming jobs.
My 20-something son got extremely offended by this. (Note: He hasn't yet grown up and gotten a real job.)
Apologize to him that I don't have the time or YouTube wherewithal to turn that post into a 12 minute rant video. I'm too busy trying to figure out how to build what I want in Minecraft because nobody will just give me a simple instruction sheet :man_yelling_at_clouds:
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@izzion , boomer
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From the Department of Wankers comes the stunning revelation that 75% of people are “below 110 IQ.” This “explains a lot,” apparently.
Wow! Did you also hear that 80% of a population is in the 80th percentile?? It gets worse, another 75% of people score above 90 in IQ testing! What a sorry state the world is in indeed.
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@kazitor well, is that the intended standard deviation? Otherwise we gotta retune tests.
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@Tsaukpaetra Kinda late, but have you heard of NSSM?
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@SirTwist said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra Kinda late, but have you heard of NSSM?
I do now, but that would not help in my situation as it's not my program that's fucking up.
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@Tsaukpaetra Er? It's a program running on your computer, NSSM runs any not-a-service program as a service. It's not a library. The program might still not work if it can't find a desktop, but it might be worth a try.
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@SirTwist said in The minor rants thread.:
@Tsaukpaetra Er? It's a program running on your computer, NSSM runs any not-a-service program as a service. It's not a library. The program might still not work if it can't find a desktop, but it might be worth a try.
The problem wasn't with it running. In was with it not actually doing anything before deciding it needed to not run or because the task Scheduler was not trying to run it in the first place.
Getting something else to try and run it is only yet another only blood-soaked bandage on a tortured desktop app that was disfigured to try being something else.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
only yet another only blood-soaked bandage on a tortured desktop app that was disfigured to try being something else.
Stop. I can only become so aroused before the shock is triggered.
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You're a fitness influencer in your early 20s?
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
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@Zerosquare said in The minor rants thread.:
You're a fitness influencer in your early 20s?
I was a personal training in my twenties, too early to be an influencer. Now that I am much older, I am less skinny and less hot.
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@Karla said in The minor rants thread.:
I am less skinny and less hot.
A good woolen jumper can help a lot with that.
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@Carnage said in The minor rants thread.:
Why, yes, there is a chance. A chance I'll finally go off and install an ad blocker.
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
@Karla said in The minor rants thread.:
I am less skinny and less hot.
A good woolen jumper can help a lot with that.
IDGI
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@Karla Jumper is Brit-speak for sweater. It can make you hotter.
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@jaming Ok in google and in 2021 i don't get your link...
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Why do we always end using buggy database replication things to avoid slowing down the main sql server?
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I: watches [coding channel]'s vid
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Feel free to correct this.
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
@Carnage said in The minor rants thread.:
Why, yes, there is a chance. A chance I'll finally go off and install an ad blocker.
i this the guy from a movie where a daughter wishes that her dad can't lie as the Christmas gift and it comes true and this guy is her dad?
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No, I don't want to narrow the search. Just show me the fucking results already.
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Visual Studio Code is idiotically named steaming pile of shit.
Also, Electron is cancer and needs to die in a fire.That's all, thank you.
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@MrL said in The minor rants thread.:
That's all
That's not even the start of it.
Have you ever seen a terminal lagging? A LOCAL TERMINAL SESSION LAGGING FOR ALMOST A SECOND ON EACH KEY? In VSCode I'm getting that everyday.
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@Gąska said in The minor rants thread.:
lagging
Seriously. It's two-thousand-and-twenty-fucking-one, the average microwave has more computing power than super computers did twenty years ago, and somehow you can't manage to actually show that damn letter I just pressed within a reasonable time frame?
and inb4 "it has to do <whatever>", I don't care about your shiny shit, just add those fucking letters, you can to whatever super-fancy AI-Powered Intelligent Auto-Complete Distributed Cloud-Based Suggestion Lookup in the background once you've managed to catch up with my writing.
ETA: And the worst of the worst are those pieces of crap that aren't even capable of queuing the events they are too busy to take care of, so you'll have to patiently wait for each letter to appear or they'll forever be lost in oblivion. Bonus points if it's a password fields where you can't even see which characters just got dropped.
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@ixvedeusi said in The minor rants thread.:
and inb4 "it has to do <whatever>"
"Whatever" in this case is that they implemented the terminal as a DOM tree. Yes, really. Everything is a web page!
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@Gąska at least in the Discord app, they’re very up front about this to the point you can legit open the inspector to interact with the DOM as a feature.
But Electron otherwise needs to FOADIAF.
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@Gąska said in The minor rants thread.:
@MrL said in The minor rants thread.:
That's all
That's not even the start of it.
Have you ever seen a terminal lagging? A LOCAL TERMINAL SESSION LAGGING FOR ALMOST A SECOND ON EACH KEY? In VSCode I'm getting that everyday.
Huh. I use it all the time, too, but I never experience this. My version is running inside of VMWare (Ubuntu 20.04 guest on a Win10 host). The vm has about 24G RAM and it's a decent laptop processor but nothing special (8 cores, 2.6GHz).
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Dear eBay, if I didn't buy or bid on something I looked at, it probably means it wasn't quite what I was looking for. Please don't ask if I'm still interested or tell me irrelevant info, like the seller offers free returns. That's not going to make me buy something I don't want.
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@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
That's not going to make me buy something I don't want.
Unfortunately, it's not true for everyone.
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@Zerosquare these must be the same people who reply to Amazon's product question notifications with "I don't know but thanks for asking".
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@Zerosquare said in The minor rants thread.:
it's not true for everyone.
Also not true for everyone: "I have more than one functioning brain cell."
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@Zerosquare is that the same thinking that means you buy a product once - for which you have a reasonable expectation of several years lifetime, especially for a big ticket item - and for which you will see ads for more of them for weeks afterward?
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@Arantor Yes, just in case you want to fill out your collection of fridge-freezers.
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@dkf I don't have a problem, I can quit whenever I want to.
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Apparently "Save as" is too complicated to implement for Teams developers.
What a piece of trash.
Filed under: still better than Slack
Filed under: not every turds stinks the same
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@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
Dear eBay, if I didn't buy or bid on something I looked at, it probably means it wasn't quite what I was looking for. Please don't ask if I'm still interested or tell me irrelevant info, like the seller offers free returns. That's not going to make me buy something I don't want.
Eh...you could have been thinking about whether you really wanted to spend the money. I often look at stuff and then go away for a bit to think about it before buying (or maybe I don't).
I've never bought anything over eBay though.