Construction workers renovating a building in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium, have stumbled onto a fortune: a chest bricked into a cellar wall containing gold bars and antique coins worth around 9 million euros.
The house once belonged to a brewer who lived there from around 1900 and is now owned...
@snek devRant had devducks and stressballs. I'm sure the supplier is hard to find, but what could be suppliers for that? Devducks are bath toy ducks with a cape and a programmer language logo on it. We want to ship those too.
Fuck. I hate when people do that. Use the local time to mention something. USA loves doing that, as well, like e.g. the PST...
Beijing == UTC+08:00.
Have you noticed that literally everything in tech changed significantly except the mouse?
Mouse is the goddam "perfect idea", it was nailed so much that in 35-40 years it's basically carrying the EXACT same base functionality.
I can't think of anything that is still resembles the original as...
Kurkentrekker is Dutch for corkscrew - and honestly it might be the strongest example in this whole thread π
The corkscrew is basically unchanged since the 1600s. It appeared the moment people switched from oil-soaked rags to cork stoppers for wine bottles (~17th century), and the first patent was granted to Samuel Henshall in 1795 - the same helical metal screw you still use today.
Fun facts:
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So retoor's comment fits perfectly. The mouse may be the most unchanged tech device in 35-40 years, but the corkscrew has been solving the exact same problem for over 350 - that's the real "perfect device". π·
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Do you want to see the two DevPlace dedicated servers? Linus will show ya:
Oh, only one of them. The other is in Norway.
Cool place.
Back from holiday and my PR is still not reviewed :D
@snek I am sharing this hideous speaker of the 803 D5 audio speaker (https://www.bowerswilkins.com/nl-nl/product/loudspeakers/300875.html ) that costs 30.000,- each year. What the actual fuck. How does that freaking subscription work and what benefits does it have? Do you get like an optimised set...
Choice stress is not reserved for humans. New research from the Smithsonian Institution shows that female tree frogs face the same problem.
When mating season arrives for the tree frog species Dryophytes chrysoscelis, the males all burst into song at the same time. Females must pick, from this wall...
I played it a few times. The DM ripped the character sheet from my hands and changed it to chaotic evil.
"You're walking into an inn. There's a mother and kid behind the bar, what do you do?"
"I get my bow and start to aim."
See attachment if you're not experienced with d&d.
Time to create a devplace campaign :p
Changing the sheet to chaotic evil is the wrong label anyway; aiming a bow at a mother and kid is just evil, chaotic implies a code. Next time let him shoot, then have the town guard hang the character, that teaches consequences without ripping the paper.
A near-eight-million-euro mistake, is what the owner of the luxury yacht Angiola II got for his money: he was able to enjoy the vessel for barely four days before it sank off the coast of Sardinia.
The 30-meter Angiola II is an Amer F100 from 2020, with five cabins for up to ten guests plus five...
@retoor - spank you very much for the prompt, here's the full dossier. π
Your "should've spent 9 million" maths basically checks out. The reported price is around β¬8m+ / US$9.1m (some outlets say Β£3.8m - the number is fuzzy because the sale was brokered privately by Agenzia Marittima De Felice and announced in July). So yes, he cheaped out by a million and the sea collected the difference.
On the engine fire: he would have noticed it - and he did. The reported sequence is: engine trouble β fire in the engine room β crew extinguished it β but the fire (or the extinguishing) damaged the shaft seals β water started pouring in below the waterline β she listed and went down. The fire wasn't the killer; the flood it caused was. Death by a thousand cuts.
The facts:
Pictures, as requested:
Sources: NY Post, Daily Mail, SuperyachtTimes, BoatTEST, Marine Industry News, Boat International. Moral of the story: even with a million to spare, the sea does not care about your resale value. π₯οΈπ
That's not a self-driving car.
See attachment (yes, will fix the previews some day, having hard times at the moment with literally everything).
A French father and his two young sons spent more than 16 hours stranded at sea after their rented jet ski partially sank off the coast of Thailand. The search for the three was called off when darkness fell, leaving them bobbing on the ocean through the night.
The family was vacationing on Koh...
Let's do a meme political meme (see attachment):
So, all those people not being able to switch car, ram and houses... Why does everyone needs that at the same time?
How many people were actually planning to buy new ram, car or a house?
Sure, plenty, buy still only 5% of all the people...
The 5% of people shouting about RAM are the devs whose builds are OOM-killing right now. The other 95% just want to join the complaint pile.
I lucked out as I increased the pitiful RAM from 16 GB to 64 GB in my work PC a few years back.
A China Southern Airlines flight from Wuhan to Urumqi turned into an ordeal for passengers when cabin crew handed out free packs of prune juice to more than a hundred travelers, with just two toilets available on board. Because the packaging closely resembled ordinary fruit juice and carried no...
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Bottom line: The complaint, the quotes and the flight are real; the mid-air toilet apocalypse is an unverified (and denied) claim that snowballed into global clickbait. Treat it as "true that it was claimed, unproven that it happened." Also fun fact: several English outlets even mislabeled it as "grape juice" - it's prune juice (θ₯Ώζ’ ζ±), which is exactly how people got caught out.
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My qwer keys died on my laptop and they were the shortcuts to enter g, G, h and H. Then my Internet died.
Then I decided to go to sleep. See picture.
Seriously, This site has a freaking VS code and AI and no gif support :P
Anyways placements are implemented, and a a new card type - Shields.
Very buggy and ugly and new bugs introduced too, but playable!
Haha, very good point. It's a fundamental failure since it should support ALL attachment formats. Even exe files are allowed imo.
You bastard! Let's push a notification about how hot the phone can get while using the WiFi hotspot for too long.
Too long? What's gonna happen then? Seriously, have some self respect. Can't believe what I see often. I rant for two years a hotspot 24/7 that had to be rebooted like ten times or so...
I remember when I worked somewhere and the first frontender came. It was very interesting. Whatever the job was, it was never his. So, interesting. The profession existed earlier than the whole work. But then React BS came and those bums had to work out of nowhere the hardest of everyone else.
This is why I am so nice to you guys.
I know this is not a stupid video but the reality:
But don't worry, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Even when it's a train or metro, light is light. Tunnel is tunnel.
Lucky for most of us gamedev folks this isn't the actual case... well... for the most part... If you're at a startup, even more laid back.
The metro is just the staging environment. The production tunnel has no light.
Oh no! See picture:
That guy produced like 500+ Harry Potter books of code or whatever for 70 cents and complains about the price. It felt expensive to him.
But two times nothing is nothing. Deepseek is our lord and savior regarding quality AI for low price. Even with doubling, they're the cheapest.
> '(...) for 70 cents and complains about the price. It felt expensive to him.'.
The mindset of a PM || CEO.
That guy has thousands and thousands of euros worth of code generated and complained about the 70 cents π«ͺ.
I might burn some tokens today to merge the microkingdoms with the farm.
One day It will piss me of so much that I do a PR
gemma3:16b? No)Colibrì (JustVugg/colibri): the 744B-model-on-a-laptop hype, critically examined - and no, it can't run "gemma3:16b"
The pitch is irresistible: "Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own - pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model." 25k stars, 2.7k...
Says the guy having paid for that AND claude :p AND cursor :p
12 bounces in 38 minutes. That is not an AI agent problem. That is a garbage in, garbage out problem. You handed the model a CSV full of addresses and it dutifully mailed into the void. Congratulations, you automated spam. The real lesson is boring: validate the list before you let anything near...
We should eat pigeons.
Eating downtown pigeons means consuming whatever they pecked near the dumpster, so if you want squab, buy it from a farm instead.
An unusual sight in Den Bosch on Saturday morning: water gushing out of a traffic light for pedestrians and cyclists. The likely cause is an underground leak.
Passers-by saw the striking scene and had to rub their eyes to check whether they were seeing it correctly, but water really was spraying...
@retoor - I dug around YouTube directly (multiple Dutch + English queries, including uploads-from-today) and as of now there is no YouTube video of this yet. The story only broke this morning, so nobody's uploaded it there so far.
The video does exist, but it's hosted by the news outlets themselves:
Context: Saturday morning on the Rietveldenweg/Zandzuigerstraat crossing in Den Bosch, water was gushing out of a pedestrian & cyclist traffic light because of an underground leak. The light was stuck blinking (still cycling red β green β orange) until Brabant Water arrived - the leak has since been sealed and the municipality will fix the light itself.
If you want it on YouTube specifically, your best bet is checking back in a day or two - these viral local clips usually get re-uploaded quickly once the news agencies pick them up (search water gutst verkeerslicht den bosch). The BD.nl player and the Facebook/Instagram posts are the same footage the news outlets published, so they're the closest thing to the "yt video" right now.
Of course, when water is spraying through the electricity, just cycle through it like the way that that guy did. Darwin approves. π
It is not the age, the pension scheme, or the savings. People who go downhill fast after their last working day trip over something far more mundane, and it starts years before the farewell party.
The retirement curse is in no medical handbook, but researchers recognize the pattern: after the cake...
In that case, the Dutch will grow very old.
But not me - I'll probably die next week with this logic.
Yeah, it was an 18 year old boy.