It’s literally the same playbook as all the other shitty tech companies.
Uber had very generous offers and was totally worth it at first, until they choked out the existing cab market. Then they started exploiting drivers and customers.
AirBnb was a great option at first, until they choked out the existing vacation rental/hostel/hotel market. Then they started exploiting hosts and guests.
Hell, even here in Germany we had this pretty neat new Grocery service called Flink. It started somewhere around Covid and at first it was absolutely great. Super fast delivery and generous “20€ off on orders over 30€” coupons. As soon as they got a solid grip on the market and people got used to it they raised prices, cut all good promotions and their drivers honestly look super miserable nowadays.

What I’m saying is, you really have to be a sucker to fall for this scheme over and over again with every new tech company that comes along.

It really isn’t hard to get out of a docker container. Especially when its config is vibecoded.

whaat, yall adapted that word at some point and just dropped it again?! Freaking shame, native english speakers have a very funny way of pronouncing the “sch” sound.

Nah, the real tragedy is turning 27, that’s when you no longer get discounted rates on the speed train here in Germany 🥺 Gotta ride around as much as I can before it’s over for me in October.

Shit he’s gonna get root rot. Stupid ass Monsteras are way too fragile

I built a PC last November. Got two 8GB sticks of second hand DDR5 SODIMM for 50 bucks. The SODIMM to DIMM adapters were like 30€ for 4 iirc. It runs perfectly fine (Minecraft VR, Cyberpunk, RDR2) and I’m sure I can wait out the current memory prices before I need to upgrade.

I moved recently and am procrastinating on finding a new vet for my girl Reverse Reverse Oreo (Revy for short)

Not too long ago, I was assigned Review on a clearly vibecoded PR. It was for a feature that parsed hourly values from a csv file and put them into the Database. Easy enough at first glance, just loop through the hours of the day and grab the value for each hour, with an error if your file doesn’t contain all the hours of the day. But for some reason my coworker not only decided to introduce a whole new “hour of the day” type to loop over instead of looping over numbers, but that type explicitly contained 25 values. It was the numbers 0 to 24. There was even a comment next to it saying that it had 25 values. All test cases were green too, because the test data was generated specifically to satisfy the tests. I had to explain to a grown ass adult that the day only has 24 hours and it wouldn’t work because there will never be a value for “24:00” in the real data. That specific coworker already made really stupid mistakes before AI was a thing, but at least those mistakes were easy enough to spot and didn’t secretly propagate themselves through thousands of lines of code.

Yeah, for many people they do that! But if your brain is in absolute overdrive by nature it’s actually a performance boost to slow it down to a point where you have proper control over it.

I spent like an hour yesterday bullying Claude out of using a ResizeObserver, Refs and a useEffect construct just to fix the height of a container (there was a bug where the container didn’t properly scale down in height because some weird hard-coded properties in an external component inside of it). I knew that it had to be solvable with just the right css selector, but I was lazy and didn’t want to manually go through the html and figure out which selector on which component would be the right one. And on paper “Go through this massive block of html and check which property is out of place” should be the kind of use case where LLMs actually work. The stupid thing introduced two new different catastrophic failure modes where the entire browser crashed due to excessive rerenders before it found something that even remotely worked. And then I had to spend another hour stripping out unnecessary style properties it glued on while looking for a working solution. In the end, I probably would have been much faster doing it by hand.

I’m currently dual-booting. Partition 1 is Bazzite, Partition 2 is CachyOS. I’d nuke the Bazzite partition since I’m sure now that I’m perfectly fine on Cachy, but honestly any time I have to manually do storage stuff I mess it up 🥹 I’ll probably just have to pull a proper backup of all my important data and do a full wipe/reinstall.

based and capitalism-pilled

I don’t work in the food industry, but I do have the flavor of ADHD that would absolutely LOVE the work environment. There really is a special kind of zen you achieve when everything is on fire and you have to think on your feet all day. Plus the working times are fucked up and your diet consists of cigarettes, energy drinks and coke. That might not sound like an upside but if your life already is like that it really must be quite nice to have a job that conforms to it.

nothing of value lost

I only recently played Portal 2 & 1 (in that order lol). Really enjoyed them, I totally see why they’re considered a classic!

Nothing, I have the day (and all other Wednesdays until October) off so I’m just hanging out on my couch at 8am instead of working. It’s nice. Might go play some games later

I’m really proud of how cool the world that I built exclusively in Vivecraft is. I wouldn’t let anyone play it in not-VR haha

That looks cool, but I’m not sure if using USB-C for the charging is a great idea. That charging port will get nasty and gunked up in no time. I’ve had my current Garmin watch since like 2022 and I don’t baby it at all. I keep it on while showering, going to the sauna and swimming in the ocean. A USB-C port wouldn’t survive even a month of that kind of treatment.

Guess that’s the only point we agree on. My husband poisoned himself by eating a package of raw Runner Beans once. Kinda fucked that beans can just … do that

shit man, I wish my adderall worked that well. Mine isn’t even strong enough to make me read more than the first paragraph of that.