nimbix

I worked at a company that had to deal with EY as a part of a tech certification. Tha auditors barely knew why they were being sent over. Out managers and techs had to explain the process to them and assure them the numbers in the report were correct. The auditors happily accepted that, and then charged around 100k. Top job.

The scenario I was referring to is one of many gems found in app we outsourced.

The piece of code in question had a very straightforward task: look at some bytes in the input and produce a string label to be stored alongside the whole input value. There are 5 different labels tied to equal number of fixed byte sequences.

I would like to think that most people would solve this problem using an if/else or a switch statement inside a function. Instead, what we got is a group of matcher classes, a mapping of matchers to enum values representing the labels, another mapping of enum values to actual strings, and a class that actually calls those matchers and does the mapping.

I really hope this is not the DDD way and instead we just managed to find a team that's prone to massively overcomplicate solutions to simple problems.

I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instead)

I gave a UX person a snippet of debugging code to paste into the console, but didn't notice that the chat app ate the quotes around a string. GPT was able to fix the snippet for him. SO far this is the only case where someone I know managed to use it for something useful in practice.

I asked it to write a trivial c#/dotnet example of two actors where one sends a ping message and the other responds with pong. It couldn't get the setup stage right, called several methods that don't exist, and and had a cyclic dependency between actors that would probably take some work to resolve.

Event after several iterations of giving it error messages and writing explanations of what's not working, it didn't even get past the first issue. Sometimes it would agree that it needs to fix something, but would then print back code with exactly the same problem.

Does a device even know that it's connected to a ded cable? I'd imagine that it's only after you plug in the second device that they both suddenly see they're being connected to something.

Butt where would you hide a chess engine? /s

They made a suite of replacement tools under the name of "Adobe Edge", then they killed those as well.

Isn't XD pretty much dead? The last release that wasn't just bugfixes happened a year ago, while before that they were pushing out something new every month or two.

Domestic or international? I flew with United transatlantic around 10 times and after hearing nothing but bad things about them online for years, I was quite pleasantly surprised by how much better they were compared to companies like Lufthansa, for example. But maybe it's just me... I also loved Air France, another massively hated airline.

There was a point years ago when I was surprised to find out that you can throw things other than strings...

Yep, the "magic ingredient" is definitely insulation (along with triple pane windows).

If you pair a heat pump with good insulation, the effect can be quite staggering. My parents moved into a new house 6 years ago and their annual heating bill (for space and water) dropped from ~2500EUR down to around 300EUR.

This is in an area where night-time winter temperatures hover in the -5°C range, occasionally dropping to -10.

The old house was around 30 years old, with fairly thin insulation (5 or 7cm was pretty standard back when it was built), and had an oil burning furnace for heating.

IMHO 4k was the worst thing to ever happen to monitors. Now we have screens ranging from 24" to 43+" all using the same physical resoluton. This means that at all the most popular screen sizes you need to use some weird 1.5 or 1.25 scaling factor which results in all sorts of weird rendering quirks, like 1px gaps when rendering engines try to fit elements to pixel boundaries. Plus SVGs often rasterize to a blurry mess since there is no rendering magic that could make a 1px line rasterize nicely over one and a half pixel.