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  • vrek@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlCode Quality
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    25 days ago

    Oh yeah… I once had a project to change a 0 to a 1 in a file on a machine used to manufacture devices. Basically operator had to align crosshairs over a certain point before starting. At 4 of the systems the operator could just touch the screen at the point and go. At one they had to push x+ or x- or y+ or y- repeatedly to line it up because the configuration had a 0 in the option “Click To Align”… It took 8 months to validate changing that to be 1








  • Dylan bettle talks about this in one of his presentation. He made a website that did actor and actress recommendations, I believe for like extras to be hired. They kept getting alerts around 7-715am and then around 12.30pm to 1245pm.

    Eventually they figured out that casting agents typically woke up, checked email, and submitted the requests on the website. The actors and actresses typically had other jobs and had to wait till lunch to check and apply.

    They had to redesign the system and buy more bandwidth to handle these spikes.

    He’s a great presenter and I highly recommend watching all of them, even if you’re not a programmer. And I probably got most of the details wrong… But it was a talk at one of NDC conventions.


  • vrek@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.mlBeginning with Linux
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    4 months ago

    One additional reason for this, if you mess something up you want sine working method to look up a resolution. If you change both and do something wrong so both systems are broke you don’t have a way to access resources that tell you what you dud wrong and how to fix.




  • Yeah I’m thinking my SD card is failing… I know it’s slow but I tried to do a fresh install in recovery 7 hours ago and it’s still initialing the “noob” installer.

    Supposedly I was thinking to small, I was thinking like trying to use nmap to discover all ip addresses on my lan or load vim to practice vim motions (I get the idea but I’m still too slow put in alot of commands cause I’m like ok… Up 10 lines, ok, up is… Look on cheat sheet… I… then number of lines… That was 10…look on cheat sheet… Oh just enter 10…it didn’t work… Figure out because it’s not ingrained in my head the time looking at a cheat sheet is making commands time out).


  • Yeah, I tried virtual box on my main system and kept running into odd problems with every distro. For example Debian had a full second of input lag, with 2 cores of a 13th Gen i5 and 16 gb of ram dedicated to it. Kali would install and I ejected the “installation medium” aka the iso and reboot and the virtual box couldn’t see any bootable drive. I tried fedora and it kept freezing on installing(sat at like 35% for over 3 hours)