Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? • Hacker News Board

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by carstenhag » Thu, May 27, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

jan_Inkepa wrote: post #160

thih9 wrote: post #129

It's extremely easy to hurt yourself with audio, it almost feels like cheating. Just regular audio work provides plenty of opportunities to do that. Here's a random note from Supercollider, a platform for audio synthesis [1]: > CAUTION: macOS system volume doesn’t effectively limit audio applications’ maximum volume. Extra care has to be put in working on this platform, especially with headphones, because programs ca…

The macOS system volume behaviour is ridiculous. I ... had a really bad time once with puredata. I...it's really unpleasant to remember. I also generally amn't entitled with open source software, but reporting this as an issue to the people at puredata (dsp software), recommending that they put in their own software cap in the pipeline was met with the response that I could always do that myself in my scripts as I'm…

Oh Apple... On the iPhone, using earphones, the volume is limited (afaik because of a EU law). On Mac, none of that is the case. I was in a teams called, tried to make it quiter with the touchbar but accidentally set the volume to 80% (insted of 10-15 where it's usually at). My ears hurt for an hour. Thanks Apple for that useless Touchbar.

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by eCa » Thu, May 27, 2021, 8:55 AM UTC

pjerem wrote: post #118

I’ve not been physically hurt but lessons were learnt : A friend of mine once gave me an old computer (I don’t remember exactly but it was some random Compaq running Windows 98 and this happened in ~2010). I installed some distro in it but tbh, it was barely usable. I decided it was a great opportunity to see with my own eyes what would happen when you intentionally « sudo rm -rf /* ». Well, no surprise, it erases ev…

Similar lesson a decade earlier: Linux seems interesting, how to install on my Windows machine? First step: Run fdisk. Done.

The most painful part was the hundreds of photos I just had finished scanning. At least I got quite good at scanning photos..

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by 12ian34 » Thu, May 27, 2021, 8:56 AM UTC

ehnto wrote: post #153

fart32 wrote: post #119

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And if you have been exposed to a very loud noise, to the point where your ears are ringing (probably not from headphones, but like starting a loud bike in a garage or gun fire), go to hospital, as soon as possible. They can give you medicaments and prevent permanent damage (tinnitus).

I have tinnitus. You don't want tinnitus. Silence is no longer a possibility for me. I got it messing about on computers and with loud cars in my teens, so unfortunately it was just a dumb kid thing that will last a lifetime. I hate to guess how many kids are giving themselves tinnitus right now. It's just not possible to communicate the seriousness of long term problems to kids, they have no context for what long te…

Sorry to hear that, but I appreciate your words of warning. I go to loud clubs / live music a lot (pre covid) and despite knowing I should probably wear earplugs, I don't. Perhaps club revival post-lockdown is the time for me to begin.

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by faceplanted » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

rohansingh wrote: post #75

its_nikita wrote: post #9

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That's a good story. Yeah I feel like there must be soo many more opportunities to physically damage/harm something from robotics than software alone.

Heh, you don't even need proper robotics. Back in 2002, I was getting a package with a brand new Pocket PC (smartphone without the phone, running Windows). And I really wanted to know when it was delivered, but the UPS guy would regularly leave packages on the porch without ringing the bell or anything. This was before you could get delivery alerts or anything like that. But I had a spare laptop with an integrated we…

This made me actually laugh out loud, it feels like some of the things I came up with as a teenager wanting to do robotics and automation but having no money or way to purchase things online, water bottles were actually a good way of powering things like opening curtains by dropping them on a string.

Also I like that even after you came up with "knock something off the table" you felt you needed a seesaw catapult thing and didn't just knock something off that could make the actual sound like a cake tin or bell or something.

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by akx » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

Reading what OP's goal was, my first thought was "can `sox` do that?". Yes, yes it can, apparently. `sox silence` cuts off silence at the start of a file (or in other places, suitably configured). http://sox.sourceforge.net/sox.html (search for `silence`)

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by cammil » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

My shame is ever present.

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by mekkkkkk » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:17 AM UTC

defen wrote: post #155

metafunctor wrote: post #126

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What kind of server room allows you to bring food?

OP said a jar of mayonnaise spilled into the server, not food.

Which makes it even more confusing. Were they preparing a sandwich on top of the server? Did they eat mayonnaise straight from the jar? The condiment plot thickens.

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by mfkp » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:19 AM UTC

arionhardison wrote: post #55

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #43

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Wow. I both respect you and think you’re absolutely nuts. Since you seem to be into experimental treatment, have you ever tried helminthic treatment? https://www.healthline.com/health/crohns-disease/hook-worms

Yes, it is one of the therapies I am currently studying as I have had success with it but it does not scale. The reason I want to do this is so that I can create a Medicare/Medicaid E2E single payer solution that provides these solutions to everyone. Even people on the lower socioeconomic rungs. The pandemic was really hard for me and I have been behaving very recklessly in terms of my own health but I have been very…

Wait, did you co-opt the term "Medicare" to use for your project? (medicare.dev) I'm not so sure the government would like that name.

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by utf_8x » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:20 AM UTC

My shitty PID controller code left me with a 2nd degree burn on my hand... Does that count?

Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

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Post by hoppla » Thu, May 27, 2021, 9:26 AM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #90

dharmab wrote: post #80

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> A cordless handheld drill is hardly a tool that most people would call 'hazardous'. You turn the trigger, the thing rotates, grab the chuck and you can likely stall it. But that much energy in something driven by code is extremely dangerous, it's waiting for any of who knows how many conditions to take off, a common one is that putting your hands in/on something that seems to be not moving can 'make' a sensor and t…

Why would a drill be engineered to put out more torque than a human holding the handle could be expected to counterbalance?

When I drill 30cm holes in fiberglass or wood, I place my leg next to the handle. That have saved my wrist many times as the tool bites to the material and send the drill in a circular motion.