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halloween_spookster

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  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • I agree with the sentiment but we're dealing with a chicken and egg problem. If no TVs have DisplayPort, who would buy a console that can't be used with their TV?

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A data ingestion service that was processing ~15 billion logs each day that was duplicating each of those logs 2-4 times in memory as a part of the filtering logic. No particular reason nor need to do it. When I profiled the system it was BY FAR the largest hog of CPU and memory.

    The engineer who wrote it once argued with me about writing comparisons a == b vs b == a because one was technically more efficient ... in a language we weren't using.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • Our CFO's social security number, contact info, and just about everything you'd need to impersonate them inside a random shell script that was being passed around like drugs at a party for anyone to use. Oh and it had an API key to our payments processor hard coded into it.

    That was the tip of the iceberg of how bad the systems were at the company. All of these are from the same company:

    • A fintech based company with no billing team
    • An event system that didn't event
    • A permissions system that didn't administer permissions
    • A local cache for authentication sessions. Which means that requests would intermittently fail auth because the session was only on one replica. If you hit any of the other ones, you'd get an unauthenticated error
    • A metrics collection system that silently lost 90% of it's data
    • Constant outages due to poorly designed and implemented systems (and lack of metrics... hmmm)
    • Everything when I joined was a single gigantic monolith that was so poorly implemented they had to run at least 3 different versions of it in different modes to serve different use cases (why the fuck did you make it a monolith then?!)
    • The subscriptions system was something like 20 or 30 database tables. And they were polymorphic. No one could touch the system without it breaking or that person declaring failure, which leads me to ...
    • A database schema with over 350 tables, many of which were join tables that should have been on the original table (fuck you scala/java for the limitations to the number of fields you can have in a case class). Yes you read that right. Table A joined to table B just to fill in some extra data that was 1:1 with table A. Repeat that a few dozen times
    • History tables. Not separate from the original table, but a table that contained the entire history of a given piece of data. The worst example was with those extraneous join tables I just mentioned. If you went and changed a toggle from true to false to true to false, you'd have 4 records in the same table. One for each of those small changes. You'd have to constantly try to figure out what the 'latest' version of the data was. Now try joining 5 tables together, all of them in this pattern.
    • Scala... I could go on a tirade about how bad scala is but needless to say, how many different error handling mechanisms are there? Scala decided to mix all of them together in a blender and use them all together. Scala is just two white paper languages in a trenchcoat. Never use it in a production system
    • A dashboard for "specialists" that was so easy to overwhelm that you could do it by breathing on it due to the LACK of events that it needed
    • Passwords stored in plain text (admittedly this was in the systems of the company we acquired while I was there). Doesn't matter if they were actually

      <insert algorithm here>

      , they were visible in a dashboard accessible by employees. Might as well have been plain text
    • A payments system that leaked it's state into a huge part of the rest of the system. The system ended up being bifurcated across two systems, I was brought in to try to clean up some of the mess after only a couple of months. I desperately tried to get some help because I couldn't do it solo. They ended up giving me the worst engineer I've ever worked with in my 15 year career, and I've seen some bad engineers. Looking back, I'm reasonably confident he was shoving our codebase into an AI system (before it was approved/secured, so who knows who had access) and not capable of making changes himself. I could make several posts about this system on its own
    • I could go on but I'll cut it off there

  • Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging

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  • The circlejerk of tech bros and busidiots who haven't built a damn thing in their lives.

  • My memorial tattoo for my soul cat Rose, who passed earlier this year

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  • My artist ended up tracing the paw print for the tattoo rather than using the file directly so depending on what you want to do with it you might not even need to do that.

  • My memorial tattoo for my soul cat Rose, who passed earlier this year

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  • :( I'm sorry. I had a similar experience with my first cat that passed away. I wanted a paw print but didn't advocate for it or really check that I'd get one. It was very sudden and I didn't know how to handle things like that at the time.

  • My memorial tattoo for my soul cat Rose, who passed earlier this year

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  • It might not be. The place I used didn't cremate for a number of days to give time for me to change my decisions. If you want it, I recommend contacting them and asking. It can't hurt to find out.

  • My memorial tattoo for my soul cat Rose, who passed earlier this year

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  • Yes! I got an ink paw print and a clay impression that the artist used in the design. I highly recommend the ink paw print (or more than one for different paws!) because it gives you options later. I was able to get a digital copy of her paw print which was awesome.

  • Katie Wilson Wins Seattle Mayor’s Race After Insurgent Campaign Demanding Affordability

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  • "Insurgent"?

  • The White House thought the shutdown would be quick. Now they’re frustrated.

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  • "frustrated"?! People are literally starving because of their greed, their ego, their complete lack of empathy

  • Today I had to say goodbye to Terra, my fiercest fighter of 15 years

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  • Hugs to you and family. I lost my soul cat of 15 years earlier this year too. <3

  • Loves him more than he hates water

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  • My soulcat used to demand I sit on the edge of the tub wrapped in a towel after a shower so she could cuddle up in my lap on the towel... I miss her

  • Player 2

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  • My kitty used to do this all the time before she passed. It was so wonderful

  • Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash

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  • MBAs are mortal enemies of software engineers. Couple that with what one former CEO of mine said: "engineers have very well tuned bullshit detectors" and you arrive at the problem...

  • Judge’s $1.5m home destroyed in huge fire as her family is rushed to hospital

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  • In America, we can only seem to relate to each other by buying stuff. The monetary value of a thing is close enough

  • Pete Hegseth says Wounded Knee veterans will be allowed to keep their medals

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  • Dafuq does "historically accurate" mean? Oh right, cherry picking history to fit your narrative

  • Hegseth Flies in Every General to Hear Him Rant About Beards

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  • I don't think pissing off the entire military leadership with something that didn't need to be said (or could have been an email) is going to make them particularly keen to support you...

  • ‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence

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  • I highly doubt that Russia is just standing on the sidelines not stoking the fires via bots on social media

  • TIL a human chimpanzee hybrid was possibly created in 1967

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  • I'm far from an expert but from what I understand, it's hard to really define the generic similarities since it's not a contiguous chunk of DNA that's the same. It's piecemeal and fragmented. So it makes sense that even the experts in the field would have arguments about it. Nonetheless it does seem like the three of us are closest, but the specifics are still being researched.