herrvogel @ herrvogel @lemmy.world

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So that the toddler can enter the workforce and start pulling itself up by the bootstraps as soon as possible. The lithium mines need more bodies.

Grind it down to a fine powder and snort it through a rolled 500 euro bill.

I once worked on a project where the main function would run the entire code in a try-catch block. The catch block did nothing. Just returned 200 OK. Didn't even log the error anywhere. Never seen anything so incredibly frustrating to work on.

Mostly the latter. We don't do any optimizations on our product whatsoever. Most important thing is to say yes to all the customers and add every single feature they want. Every sprint is spent adding and adding and adding to the code as much as we can and as quickly as we can. Not a single second is allotted to any discussion about performance or efficiency. Maybe when something breaks, but otherwise we keep piling on more crap at full speed non-stop. I have repeatedly been told "the fast way is the right way" followed by laughter. I was told to "merge this now" on multiple occasions even when I knew that the code was shit, and told the team as much. I am expected to write code now and think about it later.

As you can expect, the codebase is a bloated nightmare. Slow as shit, bugs galore, ugly inconsistent UI, ENORMOUS memory use, waaaaaay too frequent DB access with a shit ton of duplicate requests that are each rather inefficient themselves. It is a rather complex piece of lab management software, but not so complex that it should be struggling to run on dedicated servers with 8 gigs of RAM. Yet it does.

The why is easy. As others said, the vast majority of error messages are entirely useless for you, the user, because there's not a single thing you can possibly do to address it. What are you gonna do about a database connection issue, or bad cache, or broken Javascript? Nothing. So don't worry about it. Besides people are less panicky when they see an oops rather than a stack trace or a cryptic error message.

And don't worry, people who know how to write up useful support tickets and bug reports know how to do it even when all they can see is an "oops". Builtin browser dev tools will have information they can use to help the devs.

There are esp32 variants that can do ZigBee. It's very surprising to me that there's no esphome for those. I'd think that the community would be all over that, but all I have found so far are abandoned GitHub repos. Maybe there's something I don't know about the chip or the protocol that makes it difficult?

Could be fun.

Long ago, the 118 nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Ytterbium Nation attacked.

Until the next update reenables it.

Really the only OS that where hibernation and suspension works smooth enough for me has been MacOS so far. Windows wakes up the whole PC to do things. On Linux you get GPU related power state issues that cause weird things. On MacOS it has always "just worked" for me. Still not buying one though. Rather shut down my machine.

No. You either go full Stallman and inject Gentoo directly into your aorta, or you might as well be deep throating Satya Nutella while bouncing on Tim Apple's lap. Filthy casual.

I have node named pve too. Small world.

Well I drive a heavily touch-screenified car, and I hate it. Have had the damn thing for almost a year but I still get nervous when I have to adjust the A/C.

They won't stop until even the pedals are touch buttons, are they?

What kind of motor oil would you recommend to pair with liver and fava beans?

That is woke. Banned.

You can have devices on your wifi network without giving them access to the internet. You set your firewall (which, for most people, is the router that comes with the internet subscription) to block all internet traffic to and from those devices while still allowing them to communicate with the other devices on the same local network. Fairly straightforward on most routers with a little bit of time spent looking up the basics.

I think Blendo is the greatest, but my dad says it doesn't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, it doesn't even run down the arena.

They could be, but that wasn't standard behavior. When laptops started to become a thing it was realized that having hot swappable peripherals made too much sense to ignore, so some devices had improved ps/2 ports and controllers that could do that.

I genuinely don't see the problem with those. Amber lights on the left side of the car light up, that can only mean one thing. There is no ambiguity there whether they're playing snake or just flashing. I have never, on no occasion, found myself confused by those.

The only part of physx in that game that I remember is that it used to cause massive performance and stability issues.

Twice, because usually it's two sticks.

In any case, RAM failure is rare enough that quadrupling its chances is not gonna make any meaningful difference. Even if it does, RAM is the easiest thing to replace in a PC. Don't even need to go offline while waiting for a new stick. Someone who's got the cash to build that thing in the first place won't be too upset by the cost of another 32gb stick either, I don't think.