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>be me
>working at local county government as software dev about a decade ago
>we have a jeet working on the team as well for unknown reasons
>the jeet leaves and I'm assigned with modernizing an application he wrote, and converting it from PHP to C#
>app is for tracking how the county commissioners vote on approving/rejecting contracts, should only need to track if they're approved, denied, or still pending a decision
>instead of just counting if two of the three county commissioners have voted to appprove, he created the most convoluted calculation system I have ever seen
>a vote to approve is 1, a vote to reject is 4, abstaining from a vote is 13, being absent for a vote is 40
>if you were paying attention, each number is the previous number times 3 plus 1
>jeet does this because he can uniquely identify what each vote is even after turning them into numbers
>almost brilliant in a retard savant way, he found a way to not have to learn what an enum is
>the PHP code then has the most complicated spider web of ifs and else ifs I've ever seen, calculating if the contract is approved or not
>I turn his 1000+ line of nonsense into 12 lines of C#
>mfw

Share your horror stories, bonus points if they involve jeets shitting out unmaintainable spaghetti code
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>>107795067
i want to post stories but im a pussy about being recognizeda so i fear it would be vagueposting

>>107800025
the only story of note of my time in school was when one of the teachers didn't know how to open an readme.md file i sent to him. seeing that level of incompetence from a teacher kinda wrecked my worldview, since i had known nothing but really smart teachers in other places of learning. but in a way it was helpful since i realized that my degree was going to be worthless, and that pushed me to study on my own and ignore the teachers for the most part
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>>107832461
cute
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>>107818329
>One of my professors publicly announced his retirement during the lecture talking about how students don't care anymore.

To be fair, most professors don't really care either. College education is mostly a scam anyway.
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lol
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>>107843529
The best teacher I ever had at uni (like 5 years ago) literally did not know what git was.
He would teach graphics by explaining a scene graph, (loosely) what and how matrix math works and how it applies to vertex and vector transformations in rendering, the works. He also taught soft computing, which is the reason I know about natural and artificial neural nets, and genetic algorithms instead of just thinking "AI is a python script".
The man was sharp as a tack and seriously experienced, one of those sage types with a long white beard where the length of it is proportional to programming wisdom, but somehow had no idea what git was. One must assume he was just keeping multiple copies of his data over his multi decade tenure.
He also loved the Dreamcast. Said it was the first console that had spare polygons in its per frame budget. I miss that guy.

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Uncensored alternatives to this shit?
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>>107837622
Depends what you need. If you just need source control, issues, and documentation publishing, run a Fossil instance. It'll let you keep all that under your direct control.
It's up to you what you put in it. If it's stuff which governments want to censor, you'll have to deal with the consequences eventually, ngl.
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>>107837622
Host your own git server. That's what I do. Just set up a VPS on some cloud provider.
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>>107837622
sourceforge
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>>107847283
>>107837930
I told you I was stealing your quote, what more did you want from me?

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How do you respond without getting mad?
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>>107844625
I use none of them.
I just turn off as much google garbage on my phone as I can, use Arch, and librewolf/ungoogle chromium.
Anything more would be too much effort for me.
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>>107844625
>There's no compromat or actional information available to be collected about him.
>Therefore he's cypher/ghost in the system AKA nobody.
I agree with him, except for the implication that being a nobody is maybe bad.
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>>107844625
You're insane owning hardware and not encrypting the drives
Same goes for veracrypt, simple way to share encrypted volumes
gnupg is utter garbage but for IT work it's hard to avoid using eventually
The others are random or nice to have if you want a secure posture, matrix is far superior to the closed source alternatives, shame it never took off with normies
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>>107844625
lets keep it that way

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C++ eternally BTFO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc
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>>107846451
>create_vec(1000, sizeof(TheTypeYouWant));
1000 would be the initial capacity, which by default is 0 for my implementation. I didn't copy or follow any stupid text books, a vec is a vec it's pretty simple overall. I don't care if my implementation is slightly slower or whatever, haven't benchmarked it.
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>>107849251
>I prefer C99. I have my own small std lib which implements all the useful standard data structures. Contiguous vector..
i didn't mean the c++ implementation, i meant one in c which is only slightly possible with preprocessor abuse. you have to call the macro to create the function and you can use ## to "inject" like this.

>>107849573
this is not what i mean at all. i mean how do u go about making it generic like the stl, which is only possible because of templates.

#define MAKE_ADD_FUNC(type)          \
type add_##type(type a, type b) { \
return a + b; \
}

MAKE_ADD_FUNC(int)
MAKE_ADD_FUNC(double)
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>>107849671
>how do u go about making it generic like the stl
It's just memory, the implementation only needs to know the size of each element. Here is the insert method of my array. As you can see, it just copies bytes around, the array assumes it owns the memory you throw at it. You can initialize a struct on the stack and throw a pointer to it to the array_insert or array_push or whatever function and it just works because there is nothing special about memory.
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>>107849707
thats a fine solution, but it looks like it would be cumbersome to use. the data's type is not known by the "vector". things like accessing elements would be annoying because you will have to do pointer casts manually, as i would assume it returns a void*.
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>>107849876
>but it looks like it would be cumbersome to use
Yes, for that I have a simple macro or two, just to make it bearable.

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You guys are getting one right?
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>>107837784
She so cute
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>>107849407
He married a plushie, not a hologram.
Gatebox was just a gadget he got years later and it never meant that much to him as the article implies.
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>>107837784
how long before someone attempts to fill one with cum?
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>>107849589
yeah, alright
would
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Soon...

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Has AI produced anything good other than AlphaFold?
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>>107847162
No, but I haven't bilked the US taxpayers out of almost 1 Trillion dollars now, have I? And what about yourself, xir?
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>>107846134
Check out this shit dude
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>>107846134
AI has niche uses where image recognition is valuable but even there second sight of specialist is needed. Things like medicine, reading maps, archeology, quality control in factories etc.
Sadly, that's kind of boring for your typical normie faggots and investors, so Altman and other scam artists are instead focusing on schizo babble about AGI and other bullshit.
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>>107848287
Dear Anon,

nature com/articles/s41587-023-01773-0
nature com/articles/s41586-024-07899-8
Deep phylogenetics is entirely revolutionized, and FoldSeek is our generation's BLAST. If you can't understand the importance of this, you can't be helped.
Sincerely, a computational biologist with a CNS paper heavily using AF2

>>107848437
Evo is a LLM version of AlphaFold. Slightly worse for fold-tasks but much richer for other tasks.
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in the spy, medical, and military sector, yes
in the consumer sector, no

Elon says his plan is to have humanity exploring space and meet alien civilizations

is this technologically achievable?
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>>107847329
>exploring space and meet alien civilizations
<with rockets
The richest man in the world being mentally retarded says it all about humanity really.
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>>107847329
>NASA plans to use starship for Artemis III
>a manned mission to mars is actually within our grasp now
the future is in our hands
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>>107847384
It's either traveling on a beam of light or nothing
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>>107847329
over 80% of oceans depths isn't explored in 21st century. what makes you think as if we are technologically developed enough to explore space?

that guy is greatest con artist of our time.
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>>107849540
Orange rock bad. Do not go

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for what purpose?
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>>107843062
are you afraid and shitting ur pants, Tim Crapple? are you afraid that zoomies want dumb phones now? are you afraid of the upcoming phone culture shift, Craig FEDerniggi?
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>>107845482
I miss my titan pocket fuckin shit
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>>107843062
I feel like this one is clearly a scam meant to capitalize on the Clicks Communicator hype. This product does not actually exist and never will.
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>>107843062
I use this brand! I am on their Jelly Star. Outdated android version (13) but I'm always behind because I don't live on my fucking phone. Well worth the $200 I spent on this pebble of a phone. I might check out this titan 2 just for a termux device

Are bone-conductive headphones any good? Being able to listen to stuff while having full hearing sounds pretty appealing
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>>107848202
Dumbass, its pretty obvious when people are wearing earbuds and are on the phone. Especially if the buds are white and ESPECIALLY if you have bone conduction earbuds that wrap around your head
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>>107849257
>earbuds that wrap around your head
Ahh yes. Natures way of identifying the douche bag. Mother Earth based like that.
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>>107849029
>you've never used any, why are you talking about them?
I literally went to school and got a degree about this very subject lmao
>if you use ear plugs or just shove your fingers over your ears the volume and bass increase significantly
this does not work.
>>107849040
I'm not that anon but he's asking what the point of using bone conduction headphones is if you're just gonna plug stuff into your ears anyway, which is a rather valid question. even if the 'plug your ears' method did work (it doesn't), why not just use traditional iems at that point?
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>>107839058
>Are bone-conductive headphones any good?

You mean these?
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military side yes
consumer side no

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>>107680640
Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™
>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)

Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet + the TrackPoint
>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop
>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain
>Excellent Linux & *BSD support

ThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specs
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

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>>107761341
My T430 is running low on storage
should I:
>get an mSATA drive but it would probably be some weird chinese brand like Fanxiang because nobody else makes them anymore
>get a new SSD and install it next to the old one using an ultrabay adapter
>get a new SSD and just swap it in and try to clone everything over and then extend partitions
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I have a budget of less than $300, what's the best laptop I can get?
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>>107848762
T14G2 AMD 32GB or T14G3 Intel
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Bruh Lenovo delayed my order from mid January to mid April wtf is going on
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>>107848762
x220 or x200

I genuinely do not know what to think about AI. There are so many things about it that are cool. There are so many things about it that are shit. It clogs up my grandma’s feed with fake shit, it’s making the cost of electronics go up, it’s consuming resources at an unsustainable rate and so on. It’s given me some useful tools when it comes to writing, and gives me quick answers to questions among other things, but to me, all the negatives outweigh the positives. I’m not sure if it will even be able to advance much further beyond this point given the extreme consumption of resources it demands.
What are some reasons why you support AI development? Give me some insight on why AI is a positive thing and why development should continue
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>>107848080
You'd be gut like a fish before you even got close enough. I've never met a single AI enthusiast who actually was capable of violence in any form.
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>>107848072
Yeah in September 2025 quantum information scientist Scott Aaronson was given a function by an AI that worked.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183
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>>107848084
Terrence Tao is getting sent multiple Erdos problems being entirely solved by them. They will never replace humans like people are saying. We could witness a Jevons Paradox though!
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>>107844719
if we were actively working towards the singularity then i’d have no qualms with these nuclear-level hardware prices but the tech’s still comparatively raw yet still shoved into damn near anything that could hold a charge. having said that i’ve been using chatgpt rather frequently since last year and its ability to automate and summarize a shit ton of data is not to be underestimated, i feel. let’s see how far it can go by 2030
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>>107847635
>favstian

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kde devs can't even make a calculator right
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>>107840949
qalculate, the qt version.
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>>107846982
I see, thank you!
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>>107837183
>casio
>overpriced
now that's a poorfag post if I've ever seen one, holy shit
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>>107832196
dismal.
reminds me off those tapemeasures from china with different scaling.
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Just code your own calculator if you want it to be 100% correct, jesus, this is /g/ after all.

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Let me guess it's just Linux with some tweaks
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saar distro
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>>107849633
>Custom kernel
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>>107849675
>spat out of an AI
so Linux
maybe MIPS
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>>107849842
no
https://github.com/kaansenol5/VibeOS/tree/main/kernel

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Linux is starting to "just werk" more than windows. The OOB experience of windows is awful these days.
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I installed Windows 10 IoT LTSC on a laptop that previously had Linux Mint (because I installed Mint on a new laptop) and it feels like such a downgrade. Might bite the bullet and install Windows 11, did they really patch the method of signing in with a local account by evoking command prompt?
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>>107847578
KDE plasma looked familiar enough to me as a former windows user to be able to quickly find my way around. The switch wasn't painful at all. In fact the UI is vastly more comfortable to use than the constantly crashing slow ad riddled AI slop garbage that is the modern windows UI. Even despite the occasional krash.
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>>107847633
Normalfags don't want to or know how to rice their krash machine to look like that.
Also normalfags don't even know that's a possibility, they think linux is just a terminal screen and are scared of white letters of a black background. You can't convince them otherwise.
>>107847756
Office software is the bottleneck.
You're gonna need word and excel for most anything you work with and everyone uses MS word. MS is actively going out of their way to break compatibility as much as they can, sure most any fork of OpenOffice can open their files but it will break formatting, fonts, images, formulas... Anything MS can make break.
So even if you're interested in fully switching, you're still fucked because normalfags have sold their soul to the MS jeet and will happily use their 365 copilot app till the heat death of the universe. Ask me how I know.
>>107848987
You can still get around it but now they'll break updates for you. Which may or may not be an added benefit.
>>107849079
>we live in a timeline where jeetdows crashes more than KrashDE
Every day we stray further from god.
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>>107847486
doesn't matter, no one will switch to troonix
don't kid yourself tranny
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>>107847624
GEG if you only knew how bad it is
At work I was literally put on duty of going through every optiplex and setting up windows for typical joe office worker. Due to security, local account was insisted on.
90% of time was wasted on trying to trick OOB to fuck off with the cmd tricks. We didn't have ms-cxh:localonly at the time (either was not there or just uknown,I don't remember) so had to use the older command that is now removed from latest releases. I did try to bypass OOTB with the sysprep mode and registry tricks, but then seemingly this would prevent some software from being updated (keep in mind, for both techniques I had my internet cable pulled)
Due to the boomers that ran the place, I was not allowed to use MS server WDS or anything like that, in fact they expected me to not even use scripts caues muh viruses and muh warranty, though scripts were allowed after I showed them to the higherup (he admitted he didnt understand it anyways)
After I was at least able to get in local account, I had to run a debloat script and set up a bunch of stuff like pcname, update, etc
I got through 70 units in 4 days, 8h a day, about 4 stations at the time, largely wasted on waiting for OS to debloat itself. Last time the higherups that did this apparently didn't use scripts, and therefore it would take them 2 weeks+ of manual work.
Keep in mind that I am an autist who is willing to read into random user guides on how to foce windows to do what I want. If not people who maintain altas, id not know about a decent amount of best practices. Everything is obtuse and shittly documented
The sysprep mode would allow me to cut down on time by solid 5 min per machie, but because of it refusing to install some things like the default suite of modern apps, I could not use it. I bet its possible, but do you think I got the time to research why and how this happens? LMAO

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Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.
1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Useful links
>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/
>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/
>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General

>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?
>>>/g/iemg
>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?
>>>/g/spg/
>I want to buy some sort of emulation device
>>>/vr/hhg/


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>>107849197
you could probably get by if you made a guide for adding a custom logo rather than advertising it as removing the flag
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>>107849208
Probably not because the build process is literally like 100 different steps.
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So I ordered a 4K monitor a month ago. It finally showed up in my country last week, but has since not had any updates. AliExpress allowed me to request a refund and the seller did not respond so they just gave me my money back. I have a feeling the monitor will show up eventually, so I will get a free 4K monitor.
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>>107831486
I remember when I was a kid I had a blanket with a picture of thomas the tank on it. Underneath it were printed the letters "UEALLY RSEFUL GENINE".
I think chinks just cant spell lol
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>>107849790
Lol


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