I got my tubes tied. (It was a LONG hunt before I found a doc that would do it.) I'm fortunate periods don't bother me a whole lot, so the risk of vaginal prolapse doesn't seem worth it at this time. But I may in the future.
Mine was trying to expel itself and it was so painful I was apparently "ashy colored" according to colleagues and sweating due to aforementioned pain. The cramping was about as bad as labor pain.
The string was wrapped around the device and wasn't accessible from outside of the cervix, so the doctor had to dig it out with forceps (?)
At least after it was out, certain symptoms I had for years disappeared... So yay for that!
It turns out that level of pain is not normal. Oops.
My friends told me I should try the arm implant. After the rotten luck I've had with hormonal birth control, no thanks!
I was told about a bug in a specific tool. It was being used in production. Apparently we've gotten a lot of complaints about it over the years, and they would complain if the site was actively used it always failed.
I couldn't find it in the development branch in source control.
I asked if this tool was purchased from a third party. My boss, who was not a developer, said no. And he was very sure of that. But he didn't know where the code was.
I was the developer with the most seniority, and I was there for less than a year at this point.
I looked again. I finally found it... In an unapproved pull request from a few years prior.
The meat of this tool basically took information to make an order and create an order in the system.
Any time we needed to insert a record, it would find the highest Id in the table, increment 1, and insert the new record, id and all. It did this for every entity that needed to be inserted. Address, customer... Everything.
Worse, very little validation was done. Want to order something but it's out of stock? No problem, this tool just pushed it right through.
Want to ship something using a shipping method that doesn't exist? You got it.
Want to ship something to an address that doesn't exist? Sounds like the warehouse's problem.
Knowing about the level of knowledge here, you know that there were no transactions. All sorts of unused records were left in the database when there was an error. The users would get a generic error and try again several times, too.
The worst part was, we have an already existing function that would take order information and try to make an order. And it would give you actionable errors!
It's a problem when people just generate the code, see if it runs, maybe test it once or twice, and... That's it.
Same issue with people blindly copying Stack Overflow and other code snippets on the web.
Like you say, the value we bring is in our review and understanding of the code, as well as our ability to make judgements on things like architecture.
My area was full of trick or treaters. I saw more homemade costumes. Had some teens in the spirit, lots of adults, too. My kid got to hang out with some friends and trick or treat.
However, I didn't dress up this year. Too much to do. My daughter's costume was all stuff we already had. Didn't decorate because, again, too much to do.
Sure, but the original issue was a comment and a personal choice in choosing media. Making an official retraction and appearing to try to educate people is an appropriate response to this.
If this was penance for a larger transgression, like funding an anti-LGBTQ cause, yeah this wouldn't be enough.
Chances are, we will never know his intentions. If you ask me, I really don't care about Snoop Dogg. However, I know a lot of people look up to celebrities like Snoop Dogg and would take his example to heart. In a sea of poor examples of behavior, I really like this.
I mean, I like that he very publicly walked back his homophobic remarks and tried to make amends. A lot of people look up to celebrities, so when they show people a good example, I am for it.
Especially since he worked with a queer organization to show that homosexuals are just regular people for an audience of children, this feels more than just an empty apology.
I got my tubes tied. (It was a LONG hunt before I found a doc that would do it.) I'm fortunate periods don't bother me a whole lot, so the risk of vaginal prolapse doesn't seem worth it at this time. But I may in the future.