We do all look at code, get immediately annoyed that it doesn’t just make sense. most of us at least have the wherewithal to stick with it and work on the engine as it sits :)

We went out for drinks one night after work. Upon stumbling back to the office, I remembered I had forgotten that I signed up to make a tool page to mange some data ingest. It was due first AM. I was three sheets to the wind. Fired up LAMP stack, took the samples and made an ingest function. Wired up a textbox, tested it and went home.

Next AM, I turned it in, there was a minor bug. No problem, I’ll just find the issue and they’ll be good to go.

cracked the scripts open…

I could read it. I could see what a lot of it did. I could NOT figure out what some of it was there for. I spent 30m trying to figure out what I was doing. it was only a couple hundred lines. It wasn’t even a copy/paste job. Eventually I ran out of time and just leaned into phpdump, and breakpoints to find the exact error. One function hit a bonefied php bug that caused the debug to go silent. large swaths of the code were unreachable due to essentially a couple of typos. The only reason it worked as well as it did was because their sample data was as simple as imaginable. I put on some Nine Inch Nails and just remade it in about 30 minutes (10m before it was absolutely needed)

I watched a team invent a new language to get around updating some eccentric code.

They could have sat down and commented it and made their changes

They could have refactored what was there.

They could have scrapped it and wrote fresh

Instead, they designed an entire natural language system so that non-programmers who were writing in XML could just write in English.

They ended up making so many required keywords as helpers that the non-programmers kept using the old system because the XML was easier for them work with.

Note: wasn’t my code, wasn’t my dept, when I heard the plan I went to check it out, the old system was functional but like C- work at best. At some point, they wrote a compiler for the new system.

looks like they had a couple for for you

While skin tones can vary, and in sun drenched parts of Africa, tones can get so dark brown that they look charcoal in appearance, It was just the book being written by a white man, for white kids, in an country where 99% were white that caused them to make the unwarranted comparison.

Need? Probably not unless they’re nearly full. Get some benefit from? at least a little. NTFS and 11 try to keep fragmentation at bay without killing your disk. New writes that won’t fit in a hole are pushed ahead of the platter until they will.

Go run optimize drives, it’ll tell you what the state is

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/optimize-and-defragment-drives-in-windows-11.3212/

Troll, PR company or just Sycophant , either way you’re BLOCKED BABY byes

If you’re running NVME or SSD, you don’t have to worry about fragmentation at all and neither will NTFS or Windows.

On rotational media, recent versions of windows do it when it needs it. NTFS itself has become better about not splitting up files when there’s contiguous space available.

no

https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-you-dont-need-to-defrag-hard-drives-anymore/

better than me, they just blocked my IP outright.

technically better than having to deal with hamster babies…

My grandparents developed health issues and needed some assistance. They lived 3 hours away.

We bought a large, ancient camper, we hauled it 3 hours up to a rural campground some 30 miles away from my grandparents house. and I spent 2 summers up there. My father would leave in the am, go to visit my grandparents then come back to the camper around dinner.

I could hike and bike, there were quarries and fossils. No amenities per se but power and water. Before internet, and cell phones. We had a black and white 7 inch TV that could pick up 1.5 channels (the one was clear)

After running out of places to hike/bike within reason, I decided to fish. I hate fishing but GOD I was bored.

Work on the hook, eww eww eww squirm squirm, piereced my thumb in the corner.

ow fuck

ok try to get it back through wiggle wiggle

pierce through my other thumb. push down on my pant leg to try to get the hook on through

barb stuck in my pant leg.

hobbled back to the camper, both thumbs stuck together, to my right leg, every walk sheer pain.

so much laughter at me

i finally just ripped the thumbs apart.

never fished again

i’m now thinking I should infest one of the drainage areas a bit away from my house with blackberries, wild strawberries and mint and just go farm it over there.

We could gold plate every contact on every cable, we could use it on every electrical contact. forget ‘rarity’ it’s a damn useful metal

Thanks for that, flirc might be worth my time to look.

I need some of those codecs to perform better, but I can probably stand up a more agile box than a Pi.

side question

Have you had candied bacon?

I tried candied and chocolate covered candied, usually cooked to about 6.

I liked it, but after I ate it, I had no desire to have it again. It’s the strangest thing.

high five

Crispy through, no chewy but not carbonized.

Trichinosis is a bad time.

The other one doesn’t eat bacon.

damn that’s tough…

Seriously though, my wife got a vegan BLT at an artisanal brewery, they had tempeh bacon where they make their own. She stopped eating it because she was worried it was real bacon (she’s just pro pig). I tried it and although the texture was only 80% it was by far the best vegan product i’ve ever had.

Exactly what I was going to post.

I worked at a fast-food chain years ago and we had to cook bacon in the morning. The rule was to cook it to around #2 and I always cooked it to 6.

Customer: “make sure the bacon’s crispy”

Me: “You have the right cook today, I only make it crispy”

How? What is hard to navigate in Plex?

That last ui update was a open abomination and every plex forum out there was all over it, you can’t hide that by saying nuhhahhhh

Since you’re so enamored with plex and I’m quite versed on it, Let’s talk about the horrors of plex

They are collecting data on your and your friends, what you’re watching and what media you have. If the country or state you live and ever decide to go after pirates, they will absolutely hand that data over to whatever state wants it for a song.

Using plex is selling your self and your family out.

They have consistently removed features that people loved and used to focus on delivering you ad content and enshittifying the average experience until they pay. And how much are you paying to watch your own content? What other services could you be spending that on?

I assume you don’t know you can customize your home screen and menus? You can only have your own content showing if you want.

I assume you’re either shill for the company or an outright PR plant, that last ui change was pushed to put their content first. that’s BS. I had my stuff customized, I disabled their crap, they undid it again. My family had to have me go and dig through those tiny top menus on roku to find my own shares. The average person watching my stuff complained to me that i put ads in my stuff. that’s not by fucking accident, it’s a business decision to give me and mine worse content so they can make an extra buck off me. Every change they make is company first, every requrest we make is forums for user helpful change is years old.

The whole company is absolutely horrible and selfish.

I absolutely can. It has only improved since I’ve been using it, which is from the very start.

How about give me examples instead of just shilling. The people here are owed the truth, not your company first attitude.