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Ouch... and what are the odds!
What are the odds of being laid off if your boss asks you to write something called a layoff database?
"Why me?"
"You're more than qualified for this task."
Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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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.
A recent Ask HN on favorite purchases had a reasonable subthread on earbuds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27219759
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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LMAO, this was really funny. I did not really think of it as blind I just wanted to remove confirmation bias. I saw so much of that at goop. I have no formal training and I just learn on the fly and try to execute. I have no doubt there are better and smarter ways, I would love critical feedback here or via email.
I'm not sure I have any useful advice; I get the impression you're doing incredibly well for someone with no formal training. On the one hand you might benefit from someone with a more rigorous background helping you avoid known non-obvious risks, but on the other hand almost all such people are going to run screaming because your risk tolerance is way higher than theirs. Having a chronic condition for which the exis…
Maybe a buddy who knows what you are taking (but doesn't tell it to you) and provides a sanity check?
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#194About seven years ago I got a bright idea to build a quadcopter. I had experience with little $25-50 drones that bumped around the house with their fragile one-inch propellers, which obviously qualified me to build and pilot something significantly bigger. Off to Aliexpress and Banggood I went. I ordered a carbon-fiber chassis, big strong motors, ESCs, 3-inch propellers, a FrSky receiver, a Devention transmitter, an…
I feel obligated to add my silly mistake here. I was playing with SDR and was soldering together a small antenna for receiving ADS-B signals. I soon realised my electric soldering iron wasn't powerful enough so I nipped out and bought a miniature blow torch. The kind which are basically a big cigarette lighter. Having got it home I tried igniting it a few times and nothing happened. I held it up to my ear to try to h…
Hey, accident twins! I once had a Zippo lighter that was playing up - you could strike it and you could see the spark fly, but it didn't light. I sniffed the wick, yeah, definitely fuel evaporating off it. I struck the striker, yup, spark. Sniff, fuel, strike, spark. Sniff, strike and OF COURSE the thing lights up immediately, sending a cigarette lighter flame right up my right nostril. I'm told by bystanders that half my face lit up in an "electrocuted film character" way for a fraction of a second before I jerked it away, and I was smelling nothing but burnt nose hair every time I inhaled for about a week.
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#195About seven years ago I got a bright idea to build a quadcopter. I had experience with little $25-50 drones that bumped around the house with their fragile one-inch propellers, which obviously qualified me to build and pilot something significantly bigger. Off to Aliexpress and Banggood I went. I ordered a carbon-fiber chassis, big strong motors, ESCs, 3-inch propellers, a FrSky receiver, a Devention transmitter, an…
I feel obligated to add my silly mistake here. I was playing with SDR and was soldering together a small antenna for receiving ADS-B signals. I soon realised my electric soldering iron wasn't powerful enough so I nipped out and bought a miniature blow torch. The kind which are basically a big cigarette lighter. Having got it home I tried igniting it a few times and nothing happened. I held it up to my ear to try to h…
WHAT?
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#196I’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…
> Including the network share of my other computer’s /home.
TIL network shares also get deleted in recursive deletions.
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#197Yes, I setup a DDP to figure out how I can make my own TNF blockers using nutrient intake optimization.... yada yada yada. Immunomodulators and the immune system are really complex and now I have 2 detached retinas.
What is a DDP? I tried searching but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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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?
An electrician I know broke his wrist with a high torque electric drill - be careful!
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#199There was this time where I wrote shitty code for a imminent super urgent release and I did not think about all implications.
I had to work all the week after 10 hours per day just by fixing a lot of data I messed up on several clients.
Yeah, I feel I've been there.
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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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.
And more mystery: Where I'm from, mayonnaise is viscous enough that it doesn't _spill_ out of anything...
Oh, I have to introduce you to some of our finest subway sandwiches prepared by students that have no clue how to make sandwiches that don't spill all their innards as soon as they leave their hands.