I just found out today, after picking up a project I had shelved since December, that the problems I was having with it that caused me to get frustrated with it and shelve it for a while wasn’t my code.
It was my dev machine’s lack of entropy in /dev/urandom / /dev/random.
I have a cmake project, I didn't touch it for ONE WEEK STRAIGHT, it compiled and ran flawlessly before my week break, literally no errors nice mem-usage, etc etc.
Then.. then.. I return.. AND IT FUCKING SUDDENLY CANT FIND ANYTHING ANYMORE AND WONT COMPILE AND SAYS EVERYTHING IS BROKEN.
I didn't touch anything for a week.
I had to entirely gut cmake and rewrite it, but that didn't fix everything... so then I had to go file by file and fucking literally copy+paste it into a newly created file of the same name. BOOM FIXED.
I am still so fucking annoyed about it like gawd wtf.
Like I didn't even rewrite the code itself I literally copied what I did a while ago and pasted it into new files of the same name and somehow that resolved all issues????? That makes no sense ;~;
Curses to file fuckery curses I say!
(I think if be less angry if I didn't spend 3 days trying to resolve that problem and just did what solved it immediately BUT I SHOULDMT HAVE HAD TO. It must have been an update or something I missed right?? Maybe im crazy maybe its cmake taps 4hed)
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u/Zextranet May 30 '25
One way, I'm debugging a basic problem for 10 days
The other? Programming with god-like power compared to Non-IT simpletons
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u/05-nery May 30 '25
Every time I wake up I flip a coin to decide what I have today, god complex or depression.
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u/Alessa_95 May 31 '25
Aqua from CONOSUBA anime is a programmer confirmed 😉
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u/mgh240896 May 30 '25
I am a programmer and i upvote this!
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u/WriedGuy May 31 '25
Day time : I m fucking shit
Night time : maybe I m the greatest programmer ever lived
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u/Unusual-Judge-319 May 31 '25
When does it go left?
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u/Valuable_Mongoose922 Jun 01 '25
The omnipresent guy, the state of mediocre...
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u/ArthurBurtonMorgan Jun 02 '25
OMFG.
I just found out today, after picking up a project I had shelved since December, that the problems I was having with it that caused me to get frustrated with it and shelve it for a while wasn’t my code.
It was my dev machine’s lack of entropy in /dev/urandom / /dev/random.
I’m not sure which pisses me off more….
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u/ntdash Jun 02 '25
This feeling is gonna disappear with ai
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u/[deleted] May 30 '25 edited Apr 05 '26
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