Had a 3 year old one this week. A loop that builds a list of messages to send to a queue for another service to consume then it calls BatchPublish.

Only Batch Publish was inside the loop so instead of sending n messages, it sends 1+2+3… +n

We never noticed before because n was never more then 100 and the consuming service is idempotent so the duplicate messages don’t cause issues. I think it’s (n(n-1))/2. So n=100 is 4950. That’s only 4 minutes work. Also that code only runs at 1am.

Recently n has been hitting 1000 which produces 499500 messages and it takes a few hours to clear and triggers an alarm for delayed processing.

Was wondering about this, I’m in UK, I could just make my own instance, I’m the only user so I verify my own age, federate with everyone. All good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, people trying to downplay it are as “just a tweet” are also pieces of shit. The way she said it is irrelevant.

What is relevant is that as she was calling for hotels full of people to set on fire, there were people trying to set hotels on fire.

She called for people to be murdered, then others attempted it, she got off lightly.

At work people think I’m some kind of wizard with git.

I tell them I’ve been using it every day for 15 years and I read the freely available book on the website, link them to it, and mention the first 3 chapters probably covers 90% of their normal usage so they should just read that.

They won’t do it. I don’t get it. Something about written words is scary to them.

Now apply this to literally everything else. There’s a tech company inserting itself into every industry that worked fine without them, extracting money from both sides.

My local pizza place is 40% more expensive on takeaway apps, or i can just phone them directly.

Not in the US, our water infrastructure was sold off in 90s but that makes sense. Was probably something similar They held us to it though so they overpaid for hardware beyond their needs and we forced the software to run slower

That would make sense, i hadn’t put that together but they had a lot of embedded control systems. This was water treatment but entirely separate from the control systems but i can see them having that a standard requirement

Did a project several years where the customrr required that the server we delivered specifically for the project never use more than 50% CPU or RAM. No requirements about how fast it actually performs its intended function, just that it can only utilise half the available resources while doing it.

This is my experience. It saves a bit of typing sometimes but that’s probably cancelled out by the time spent correcting it, rewriting nonsense it produced, and reviewing my corworkers PRs that didn’t notice the nonsense.

My university would keep past exam papers in the library. This was apparently a little known fact, but somehow we discovered it, went and got them and use them as the basis for revision.

Turns out our professors were lazy and used the same exam every year. Does that count as cheating?

I did the same but with milk. My job at the time supplied coffee but not milk, the fridge was full of 1 pint bottles with names written on. There was never enough space. People got territorial over their 5sq inches of fridge. There was a milk club where they pooled together to buy milk for their group.

I couldn’t face dealing with that so opted out and drank it black. That was 15 years ago.

Some time later that employer realised they could solve a great many staff disputes for the low price of 20 pints of milk a week and started supplying it. No idea why it took so long.

My first job was about 200 people but there was a satellite office with 3 people. Similar story, someone left and they tried to replace him for the same salary. The job ad was for project manager/lead dev/office manager/customer support and user training.

They actually hired someone who latest 6 weeks

Yeah, humans regularly deliver stuff wrong on our street. There is no way robots will manage. I get packages for both by neighbours and they get mine more often than correct deliveries and one of my neighbours is a business.

Set push.autoSetupRemote in your gitconfig and it’ll do it first time

A great example of this is TSA luggage locks. Mandated backdoor, master keys leaked by company that makes them, now anyone can open any TSA approved lock.

I like to think this whole thing will collapse and there’ll be a massive demand for real programmers to clean up/rewrite all the AI slop.

But your thing seems more likely.

I meant running windows on them, its enormous and its all linux servers. I know you can run windows but it’ll be a tiny fraction.

This is my thought, they’ve all but lost the battle for cloud servers and they’d rather the developers computers were Windows. WSL allows that.

How long until someone asks an LLM how to customize the property names of JSON and it tells them to use github copilot to that 😂

I did this once, it was legitimate but he refused to tell me even what department he called from. I said i wasn’t going to give personal into to an incoming call and i wasn’t calling back unless i knew why. He ended up mailing me a letter instead.

I almost got scammed a few years ago by being called about fraudulent activity the day after i reported fraudulent activities, in hindsight I think they just got lucky with timing, but I take no chances now.

Ever noticed how decades ago if someone defeated a bank’s security we called it bank robbery, but now it’s called identity theft and we get blamed for it.