True that…
Happens too fucking often as well

I’m currently hunting a bug that happens like every 1000 iteration of the thing happening.
Like, I’m telling the hardware to do something and it works pretty much all the time, but over the day, the errors add up
I have no clue why it happens, but can’t really turn up the debug logs that much, because with so many things happening, I’d produce like a shitload of data.
But I can’t really narrow it down otherwise

And it seems we’re in the same kind of shit business ;⁠-⁠)
Real time processes and automation, with customers having problems at night shift, because the maintenance guys during that shift are usually not as good - or it’s just bad luck

At one of my last business trips I was already at the airport on my happily way home, when I’ve got call.
Needed to get my luggage back, new rental car and get a place at the hotel.
Just to discover, that after 15 years the hardware acted up in a way it never did before.
At least I could now include a warning message, if this weird situation ever happens again, but that was a tough one to swallow…

Best things are, when you throw in some debug output and that changes the timings just as much to not make the bug happen anymore

I’ve lost more hair to that, than my age…

We seemingly have a different opinion, what we regard as ‘fun’ ;⁠-⁠)

Stuff that can’t be reproduced and “only” comes up because of some timing issue/race condition is often the most shit to hunt for

I’m currently in such an adventure - and I thought I had it…but the statistics show, that it only got better, but didn’t catch all of the occurrences…

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all are abrahemitic religions and share the same roots, so pretty much, yes

Although I’m not that versed with the story of Mohammed

Edit: basically Islam and Christianity developed out of Judaism, but they differ in who they see as the promised Messiah

I still have a bunch of DVDs here for planned backups, I’ve never used

Ok, not a CDROM, and yeah, I can’t remember what my last one was…
Probably some Linux ISO

That’s what I’m actually afraid of
Hopefully Linux can soon step up and fill the gap.

On a site note:
I’ve pre-ordered the new jolla phone in hopes to have pretty much a Linux phone with Android app compatibility layer.
But since my pre-order I haven’t heard anything about it anymore and I can’t find a blog/news page providing any information about progress or something.
Maybe people in this thread are similarly inclined to Linux phones and have a link for me…?
I’ve already sent a mail to Jolla about that - but just today…

I don’t think so either, but at the current level off stupidity all around, I would like to have something at face value

I pre ordered the new jolla phone, but since then I haven’t heard anything.
Hopefully this will give me a phone with Linux and Android app compatibility layer, until there is more competition in this sector

Do you have to go through this procedure for every APK or just once?
If it’s for every side loaded app, does this include updates of already installed APKs?
That would make the system actual more insecure

The whole idea of ID/age verification on OS level is complete bullshit anyway

Just another (big) step to mass surveillance

About… Fuck… Over a decade ago, I was working on a Windows CE handheld and as we were coming all from Linux, we decided for the newly released QML Qt port

It was an absolute nightmare…

I found 3-4 people worldwide having the same problem with the port.

2 russian, 1 Chinese and I sadly don’t remember the last one

We were all in the same forum trying to exchange with translations tools available.
Until we found out, that the original contributor made its folder structure part of the Qt build system and you needed to build a path of nearly 20 fucking folders to cross compile this shit

I’m still emotionally connected to my fellow coders, who were just as confused as I was, and I never found this situation again

But it brought me back to the early days of the internet and I really enjoyed it

Edit: as I’m getting old, it could have been more than a decade…

Lifespan of the USB?
Do you mean the USB drive or the actual bus?

I’m just having problems switching contexts.

When I’m working on some code or whatever this Syntax comes naturally in vim, but I was thinking in non-sw-dev context and thought those are a list of substitutes and got majorly confused until I saw the next comments

Sometimes the mind is just in another place

Not sure what’s so hard to believe about that

I use that syntax during work and still needed a hint to mentally parse the comment this way

Even worse: AI generated slop

I don’t get it
Care to give me a hint?

Well, the investments are not only about the massive power consumption of AI needed for all the users, but mostly needed for the research and training

If you just take the trained model and run it on some capable hardware of course it will produce results

I don’t even know how this can be a comparison

Can just confirm the other comment

GrapheneOS is serving me very well
No problems (currently) with banking apps either

I’m very happy with it - although a real Linux phone would be really cool

Yeah, gin is probably a personally preference
For me it tastes like perfumed alcohol

I like my alcohol more… honest

Same for me

Was working at a fast food stand at night in my youth (well, for nearly 10 years) and Jägermeister was the only shot we had
So I drank that with the customer

Don’t even want to look at it anymore…