The third most significant world altering scenario after ww3 and climate catastrophe is deglobalization, with countries closing their borders and moving production inland. I analyzed everything, and France seems to be the best place to live if it happens. Here’s why:
- It’s a democracy with strong culture of political opposition
- Strong economy
- It produces its own military equipment: Leclerc tanks, Dassault Rafale/Mirage 2000 fighter jets (and others), Mistral battle ships
- It has a very strong army, including the infamous foreign legion
- It can make its own passenger jets
- It produces a lot of food — enough to sustain itself many times over
- Great climate diversity
- Sea
- Nuclear energy. When gas/oil-exporting states like russia and middle eastern countries stop exporting, nuclear energy will make all the difference in the world.

Every other country that can compete in those categories fail miserably in one of them:
- Germany is a good all-rounder as well, but is too dependent on importing fossil fuels
- USA has the strongest economy and military, but it’s very divided
- China has a lot of resources, including production and nuclear energy, but it’s a dictatorship
- Russia is a dictatorship too, and a disfunctional one. It’s bad at food production too
- Nordic states are way too cold, and they get too few sunny days — keeping your body healthy might be a challenge. Also, no growing food there

Am I missing something?

My manager is complaining I'm committing broken, incomplete stuff.

Before my manager was complaining I didn't commit enough.

My manager is an asshole.

Interviewing with a company that brands itself as "AI-powered software development company".

Get sent code test and rules are no AI to help with code test.

I get it, but it's just so ironic...

I'm not allowed to post something in Reddit because not high enough reputation. So first, i have to say something that others LIKE?

Fine, first i'll sell my soul and then i'll keep posting stuff OTHERS like because else i can't post stuff anymore.

Oh my god, reddit, you really hate unqiue opinions, don't you.

Back to the grind of self-employment trying to find work. Fuck I hate this but all the jobs I'm finding are toxic as hell. Still better than my old job.

— There is a bug in prod!
— Omg, why aren't you fixing it yet?
— No, I'm just raising awareness!

Saw someone complaining not enough dev rants.

I have a coworker who's a good friend. Got him this job. He has good output, smart kid, but our coding styles clash.

I believe in DevEx (since we write internal tools). He sees it as premature optimization.

Example:
He won't validate data from input we don't control because "it shouldn't change that much".

Results:
He codes fast, but delivers shit that breaks in production and others (me) have to fix.

It's frustrating.

Old employer sends you a message on WhatsApp 4 weeks after you left asking for your help because they cannot figure out a NEW issue with one of the application servers.

What do you reply? Do you even reply?

(I’m now freelance and charge £70/hr)

The biggest challenge of building a free energy device is figuring out where to hide the battery.
The biggest challenge of building an AI product is figuring out where to hide API calls to ChatGPT.

Have a problem? Put it in docker. Now you have two problems.

I don't want to see pop ups for software updates once per week for every frigging application I use.

Just leave me alone with my work.

Have you ever typed up an interesting rant, only to accidentally click outside of the rant editor and have the whole damn thing disappear?

Ok DevRant, you get my "your number one" today

🖕🏼

In my freelancing project, I encounter this, I HOPE this is a joke , but isn't a joke. Just wow

I really want this whole industry to die. I want it to happen from the bottom of my soul!

Their whole job ad was about web technologies where they were asking for a 7-10 years Symfony developer.

One would think being a programmer for 10 years should superseed your shitty LLM prompt crafting requirements.

Truly, there never was a better time for global EMP to happen..

Why does the girl in the Google Meet permission dialog have anal beads for hair?

Update on my shitty manager.

He's been in HR training and leaving me the fuck alone. So it's a win so far.

greetings, fellow humans! I am so enjoying being a human today.
So, anyway… Breathing, am I right?

Working on graphing points in a Cartesian space (4 quadrants). I am wondering why the software I am mimicking has the x axis going the wrong direction. I am absolutely certain the x axis went the other way. So I talk to my boss about it. He is like it went this way when he learned math. I am like wtf? This generation learned all new math? I look it up and realize it always went positive to the right. I slowly remember the things I graphed in the past. This shit didn't change.

I have been away from doing any real math so long I am starting to hallucinate axis the wrong way. WTF is this shit!? For like 2 to 3 minutes I was gaslighting my boss with my ignorance. He was gracious enough to let grandpa figure it out for himself. Thank you kind boss.

I can whirl beautiful interfaces and make efficient memory contraptions, but I can't remember how equations dance in the moonlight...

To all female devRanters out there, have a happy Women's Day.

Sincerely, from UTC+01:00.

How did they manage to make OneDrive such a steaming, heaving, suppurating pile of pigshit?