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I worked at a company that had to deal with EY as a part of a tech certification. Tha auditors barely knew why they were being sent over. Out managers and techs had to explain the …

The scenario I was referring to is one of many gems found in app we outsourced. The piece of code in question had a very straightforward task: look at some bytes in the input and p…

I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instea…

I gave a UX person a snippet of debugging code to paste into the console, but didn't notice that the chat app ate the quotes around a string. GPT was able to fix the snippet for hi…

I asked it to write a trivial c#/dotnet example of two actors where one sends a ping message and the other responds with pong. It couldn't get the setup stage right, called several…

I'm on a team implementing a design tool, and while researching potential problematic software patents, we came across this: https://patents.justia.com/patent/11481083 Is it just m…

Does a device even know that it's connected to a ded cable? I'd imagine that it's only after you plug in the second device that they both suddenly see they're being connected to so…

Butt where would you hide a chess engine? /s

They made a suite of replacement tools under the name of "Adobe Edge", then they killed those as well.

Isn't XD pretty much dead? The last release that wasn't just bugfixes happened a year ago, while before that they were pushing out something new every month or two.

Domestic or international? I flew with United transatlantic around 10 times and after hearing nothing but bad things about them online for years, I was quite pleasantly surprised b…

There was a point years ago when I was surprised to find out that you can throw things other than strings...

Yep, the "magic ingredient" is definitely insulation (along with triple pane windows).

If you pair a heat pump with good insulation, the effect can be quite staggering. My parents moved into a new house 6 years ago and their annual heating bill (for space and water) …

IMHO 4k was the worst thing to ever happen to monitors. Now we have screens ranging from 24" to 43+" all using the same physical resoluton. This means that at all the most popular …

There was another somewhat similar incident in Europe today: an autonomous plane - presumably coming from Ukraine - crashed into a park in the capital of Croatia. https://www.bbc.c…

Many years ago I watched a documentary where it was said that pale mint green was often chosen for control panels because it was deemed it had a calming effect on the operators.

Cypress was such a pain that I simply wasn't writing or running tests just to avoid it. It was incredibly slow, had major bugs that are till open after multiple years, and worst of…

I've been using jEdit for probably around 18 years until around a year ago when I fianlly switched to VSCode because, unfortunately, it just couldn't keep up with all the modern de…

Isn't AutoLayout in Figma just a partial implementation of flexbox, an therefore already exist on the web in a more complete form?

I remember building those on my grandma's farm ~30 years ago. The adults woud throw hay to the top and us children would pack it down by walking on it in circles around the pole. A…

The company I worked for had a pretty much identical experience with Unilever: they aggressively reduced the scope of the contract, but expected all the extras anyway; then at the …

Some people think TPB is a comedy. Others know it's a documentary.

I definitely ran into some serialization issues when trying Piscina a while ago. Returning generated images from the workers would keep getting slower and slower until the overhead…

I watched a youtuber go through the whole flow of producing a video using Descript and it doesn't do anything in terms of real video editing. It's useful for removing bad takes out…