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halloween_spookster

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  • US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash

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  • Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview

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  • That certainly would weed out disabled candidates...

  • Murphy is 22 this week, so we got him a cushion of his grumpy little old man face.

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  • My old kitty is turning 20 next week. She's got a myriad of medical problems and really bad arthritis. I don't think I have much time left with her, but I've also thought that off and on the past few years...

  • Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey

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  • There's probably a pretty significant sample bias at play here too. Do hobbyists find and answer these surveys?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    halloween_spookster @lemmy.world

    Why does Mint not auto update major versions?

  • Tear duct surgery? Opinions needed.

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  • I can't speak to this specific issue but I'd recommend contacting your vet to clarify your questions. Also remember you can get a second opinion from another vet.

  • Tonight I lost my big boy due to a sudden pneumonia :(

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  • I am so sorry :(

  • My desktop just shut down, and I'm not sure where to look for logs to figure out why

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  • Does it happen at a consistent time or frequency? Like at 8pm or after 2 hours of being turned on?

  • AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

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  • I have an old blade server that I got from work many years ago. I never set it up but just opened it up to see what's in it and discovered it had DDR2 memory. Interested?

  • Is gamedev a good hobby? or should i try something else?

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  • A hobby is "good" if you enjoy it. That's all that matters with hobbies. Don't look down on yourself for wanting to do something for fun. It doesn't have to be "efficient" or turn into an income or anything else. Just try it and learn. Learn the skills, learn if you like it

  • [Meta] Ban unsubstantiated rumours?

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  • I agree with this in principle. I think a tag like "rumor" might be useful as a first step? Escalate if it becomes more of a problem.

    It may also be worth differentiating between a rumor and a rumor. A rumor of AMD coming out with XYZ at CES is different from "some random website is claiming that HL3 is days away from being announced"

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  • LLMs don't "understand" anything. They are predicting what text matches your prompt. If you don't understand what an AI is saying, it's not saying anything

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    halloween_spookster @lemmy.world

    How do you manage your home server configuration?

  • this is some sad shit

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  • Partner thinks baby is fat, body shaming?!?

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  • Weigh him and consult with a veterinarian. Don't rely on random Internet strangers to determine healthy weight range for your cats.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • If I'm a TV manufacturer, I have less incentive to have both connector types because it increases cost and complexity while only appealing to a very small subset of users. It will take leadership at those companies to take a bit of a leap of faith that the effort is valuable as a long term plan because it will take other manufacturers to make the ecosystem. Couple that with the fact that leadership at companies tend to not be enthusiasts or technically inclined and it makes it difficult, but not impossible. I really hope we can move electronics towards DisplayPort just so it's an open standard instead of the HDMI for-profit model.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • I agree with the sentiment but we're dealing with a chicken and egg problem. If no TVs have DisplayPort, who would buy a console that can't be used with their TV?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Fun/interesting things to self host?

  • Giant sunspot on par with the one that birthed the Carrington Event has appeared on the sun — and it's pointed right at Earth

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  • What's the relationship between sunspots and geomagnetic storms that can affect the earth? Is this just panic bait or is there actually something potential here?

  • A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law

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  • ... one that had been submitted by an anonymous member of the public, known only by their initials, “DD”.

    The decision stunned “DD” – an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Alabama named Daniel DiDonato ...

    "Anonymous"?

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A data ingestion service that was processing ~15 billion logs each day that was duplicating each of those logs 2-4 times in memory as a part of the filtering logic. No particular reason nor need to do it. When I profiled the system it was BY FAR the largest hog of CPU and memory.

    The engineer who wrote it once argued with me about writing comparisons a == b vs b == a because one was technically more efficient ... in a language we weren't using.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • Our CFO's social security number, contact info, and just about everything you'd need to impersonate them inside a random shell script that was being passed around like drugs at a party for anyone to use. Oh and it had an API key to our payments processor hard coded into it.

    That was the tip of the iceberg of how bad the systems were at the company. All of these are from the same company:

    • A fintech based company with no billing team
    • An event system that didn't event
    • A permissions system that didn't administer permissions
    • A local cache for authentication sessions. Which means that requests would intermittently fail auth because the session was only on one replica. If you hit any of the other ones, you'd get an unauthenticated error
    • A metrics collection system that silently lost 90% of it's data
    • Constant outages due to poorly designed and implemented systems (and lack of metrics... hmmm)
    • Everything when I joined was a single gigantic monolith that was so poorly implemented they had to run at least 3 different versions of it in different modes to serve different use cases (why the fuck did you make it a monolith then?!)
    • The subscriptions system was something like 20 or 30 database tables. And they were polymorphic. No one could touch the system without it breaking or that person declaring failure, which leads me to ...
    • A database schema with over 350 tables, many of which were join tables that should have been on the original table (fuck you scala/java for the limitations to the number of fields you can have in a case class). Yes you read that right. Table A joined to table B just to fill in some extra data that was 1:1 with table A. Repeat that a few dozen times
    • History tables. Not separate from the original table, but a table that contained the entire history of a given piece of data. The worst example was with those extraneous join tables I just mentioned. If you went and changed a toggle from true to false to true to false, you'd have 4 records in the same table. One for each of those small changes. You'd have to constantly try to figure out what the 'latest' version of the data was. Now try joining 5 tables together, all of them in this pattern.
    • Scala... I could go on a tirade about how bad scala is but needless to say, how many different error handling mechanisms are there? Scala decided to mix all of them together in a blender and use them all together. Scala is just two white paper languages in a trenchcoat. Never use it in a production system
    • A dashboard for "specialists" that was so easy to overwhelm that you could do it by breathing on it due to the LACK of events that it needed
    • Passwords stored in plain text (admittedly this was in the systems of the company we acquired while I was there). Doesn't matter if they were actually

      <insert algorithm here>

      , they were visible in a dashboard accessible by employees. Might as well have been plain text
    • A payments system that leaked it's state into a huge part of the rest of the system. The system ended up being bifurcated across two systems, I was brought in to try to clean up some of the mess after only a couple of months. I desperately tried to get some help because I couldn't do it solo. They ended up giving me the worst engineer I've ever worked with in my 15 year career, and I've seen some bad engineers. Looking back, I'm reasonably confident he was shoving our codebase into an AI system (before it was approved/secured, so who knows who had access) and not capable of making changes himself. I could make several posts about this system on its own
    • I could go on but I'll cut it off there
  • cats @lemmy.world
    halloween_spookster @lemmy.world

    My memorial tattoo for my soul cat Rose, who passed earlier this year

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    halloween_spookster @lemmy.world

    Error when loading Ubuntu live USB