Not sure if this counts, but as a software engineer, pretty much all major software you use is hacks on top of hacks on top of something someone built as a ‘temporary’ solution or as a proof-of-concept that’s still in use years later. It’s amazing that anything works properly at all. Stable software is basically just software with 10+ years of bug fixes layered on top of it.
Part of the reason that Windows backwards compatibility is so good (plenty of Windows 95/98 apps still work fine on Windows 11!) is because Windows automatically applies compatibility fixes, including simulating bugs that were in older versions of Windows, because old apps could be relying on those bugs.
My wife gets very frustrated when she encounters bugs, whereas I’m usually like “well, it’s not nearly as bad as it could be” lol
There is nothing so permanent as a temporary solution.
Accurate. At work I’m finally getting around to paying down tech debt from a temporary hack that was supposed to only be in the code for a month or so, but now it’s been in our production code for around five years.
It would have been maybe a week or so to do it the right way initially, but we had hard deadlines and were pressed for time and just couldn’t get around to doing it. Now it’s over a month of work for one senior engineer (me) to clean up, because there’s so many interdependencies between the hacky code and other parts of the system that depend on side effects of the hacky code, or the order of updates performed in the hacky code. What a mess.
At least AI can help a bit. Even the newest models aren’t so great at system architecture in brownfield projects though (projects building into existing systems).
Outside of software, I can say that most major companies operate like this too. In advertising, companies like to project that they’re all polished and sophisticated, but behind closed doors, everything is held together with duct tape and prayers.
The amount of salt and butter needed to get certain foods to taste like restaurant food. My mother in law nearly fainted when I started cooking for her, but she loves the way it comes out so she let’s it be.
Also the reason bar cocktails taste so good? Boatload of sugar
What the Lindsey Graham ladybugs thing means. Once known it can never be dis-known.
The ladybugs are buried six feet under now. They can’t hurt you anymore.
You’re saying it isn’t slang for an obviously gay man who parades around like a straight republican?
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Whoa.
I just learned that people who are allergic to shrimp are also allergic to cockroaches.
also cicada. i learned this after a local pizza place made the news for having a pizza topped with them during the last brood x emergence.
Fun way to discover there are cockroach remnants in an unrelated food
How to play Scrabble competitively.
Once you know, you can’t play against normal people anymore, they’ll hate it and, if it happens often enough, you. You can only play against other Scrabble bastards, and you’ll hate that and, very quickly, them.
This is why Scrabble is not a good game.
Lies
Similar to monopoly
I learned how to play a perfect game of Monopoly just so I could beat my family and friends so that they stopped asking me to play Monopoly. Even before learning the trick I hated that game
If you play by only the official rules it’s not supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to teach how much monopolies under capatalism are horrible for everyone else.
This was my thought reading the description of “how to play it right so people won’t hate the game for taking too long.” They’ll just hate it for what it is instead.
In Practice: “Actually, the rules state the property goes to auction if you don’t buy it. Also, money doesn’t go in the middle for Free Parking. And if there aren’t enough houses then no one can build more.”
In Reality: “Well we’ve never played like that before, so we’re not going to change it. Stop being mean to your brother and just use something else for the extra houses.”
A single tick bite can lead to you becoming allergic to meat for the rest of your life.
One of my mentors in a trade got a tick bite in 82’, and for years couldn’t stand or walk, or fully close his hands. Never again could he fully close his hands, having to hold hammers and chisels with his thumbs only, making them extremely exhausting to use.
The nerve damage is still getting worse, and now his only goal is to wrap up all his final projects before he physically can’t use his hands at all anymore.
They scare the shit outta me
I have several friends with this syndrome. Has led to them introducing me to some fine vegan cheeses!
Several?
Are you in a naked backcountry hiking club, or something?
I guess I’m near an epicenter. The people I know who have it are actually related, but don’t live in the same house: my friend, his sister and her husband and two kids.
Hmm. I wonder if they all got it on the same trip, or at least in the same spot.
No I don’t think so. It’s legitimately spreading fast in some areas, including mine (VA).
What a human body looks like after being dead for 5 days in the July heat in an apartment with no air conditioning. The smell is also something I wouldn’t wish on anyone either. Even worse, actually knowing and liking the deceased.
My brother works at a funeral home and I hear stories about stuff like that all the time. Not much specific about the appearance (because we make him shut up, but even just the general bits are usually gruesome enough.
Mercaptan (the chemical used to give natural gas an easily detectable smell) is not regulated.
Should it be?
That is a good question: should anyone be able to buy and use the ‘natural gas’ smell or should it be tracked and controlled to make sure it isn’t abused?
The main risk seems like it would be pranks. You can definitely buy other unpleasant odours for pranks, and if the point is to make people thing there’s an emergency, smoke would also work.
So about this basilisk…
I’ve legitimately had people use Pascal’s wager and then say that the basilisk is nonsense. So I guess you could include Christianity in this too.
Technically you shouldn’t know my password!
Is it hunter2?
Why is your guess just *******?
Really!? Let me try it with my social security number! 815-53-5274
Did it work!?
Although my favorite ssn is 078-05-1120
Its literally the most misused ssn in history!
Lemmy hasn’t implemented that yet, only passwords sorry
Kinks are hereditary.
Interesting. Do you have a source?
Your mum, apparently.
The code for the nuclear weapon is 3144
We would tell you, but you really shouldn’t know…
Why people allergic to cockroaches can’t have coffee
According to @wicked@programming.dev people who are allergic to shrimp are also allergic to cockroaches
So if you’re allergic to shrimp you can’t have coffee I guess
What the murmurs in the void are saying.
Don’t try to figure it out. Just. Leave. It. Alone.
(moo.)
