vrek
@vrek@programming.dev
- Comment on Research shows research is the leading cause of research 1 day ago:
I went onto the Google and searched for it…
I didn’t get the answer I wanted so…
I researched it…
- Comment on Flight cuts from government shutdown strain a supply chain that's already stretched thin 1 day ago:
Or you are home and they just leave a note on your door saying unable to contact recipient
- Comment on My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse 2 days ago:
You are right but I would love to see that court case. “yes your honor it said the character was copywrited at the beginning of launching the game and the full legal text was available in the options menu but if you pressed square, triangle, then square when the match was 3-2 and the opponent was at 172% stock the copywrite symbol didn’t appear so I thought that instance was fair game” and the judge just responds “no”
- Comment on Portland Launches Antifa Operation in New York With Special Agent 'Breakfast' Leading OINKTELPRO Command 3 days ago:
Why does the headline have nothing to do with content?
- Comment on You just had to ask that question 4 days ago:
To make it worse it was in a medical field…in production for atleast 7 years… To my knowledge still isn’t fixed…
- Comment on You just had to ask that question 4 days ago:
I had this happen to me. The program was only used internally but it was possibly the worst code that would compile. My personal favorite was the “login”. When launching the program it accessed a local sql server. On that server was a table named “login” which you would assume had a list of all users and their passwords right?
Now that would be bad because you could launch ssms directly and just look at the table but when you did that there was 1 entry user “admin” password “admin”.
But that’s not all… When you look at the code these values are hard coded in. There is a linq query to check the login table for an entry with username “admin” and password “admin” and return the values in password. Now you might be thinking what the hell but here’s the kicker…when it got the response back it checked len(password) => 5
Yup… Didn’t check if password was correct just that the length of the password was equal to or greater than 5.
The actual username entry box? Yeah it didn’t validate anything. You could just bang your hand on the keyboard and log in… Really you didn’t even have to do that. You had to click or tab into the field and then click login. It didn’t require you to enter anything just that the username field was active at some point.
- Comment on Remember to do your update 1 week ago:
17/f/California u?
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 week ago:
It’s also about several us states. Plus why make it harder to access porn? It doesn’t harm anybody. It may make children ask some questions you don’t want to answer but overall… So??
I’m for regulating porn, actors and actresses should be paid, should be protected from sti, should not be forced or coerced. But access? Who cares?
- Comment on CNC 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s not something you program repeatedly though. You basically program once and hit a button and walk away and it will make hundreds to thousands of whatever.
My understanding was you basically programmed it in steps. So like on step 1 operation on one bit, on other bit at same time run this operation and on third bit run this operation at same time. Now when all of those operations are complete move to step 2 and repeat.
To make it more difficult there was also an automatic bar loader and a automatic bucket changer(it dumped the parts into buckets).
Also to make it run fast you tried to balance each axis operations in a each step so no axis was ever stopped waiting for the other operations but you also had to stop them periodically to control heat and not break the bits since due to the products we were not allowed to use coolant.
It took 3 senior engineers and 2 junior engineers 2 years to set it up to make 3 different products reliably. It was awesome when it eventually ran properly though.
- Comment on CNC 2 weeks ago:
Well it had 3 bits from different directions that each moved in 4 axis(in/out, up/down, left right, spin) which could be used simultaneously and controlled independently.
- Comment on CNC 2 weeks ago:
Ironically a few years back I was starting a project at work and was told one of the machines was a “miyano” I didn’t know what that was so I googled it… Entire first page of images was anime.
Turns out it was a 12 axis lathe…
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 3 weeks ago:
I was also told it’s about the calibration of the radar guns. They are calibrated to -7/+0 meaning if you are going 47 mph there is a chance you are picked up as going 40. That said if you are going 41 or 42 there is a good chance the cop picks you up as going less than 40.
- Comment on LINCOLN! LIIINCOOOLNNN!!!!! 3 weeks ago:
They weren’t pilots… Killing people is wrong regardless of religion or profession but you should know the people who did 9/11 were passengers who basically broke into the cockpit and took it over.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
So make a new business of selling empty tiny mics… No wires, no circuits… But 20% cheaper
It may work out…
- Comment on Y'all hungry?! 5 weeks ago:
This has a similar feel… youtu.be/SZ2L-R8NgrA
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 5 months ago:
To verify your stud detector works you must point it to your self, make a beeping sound, turn to your significant other and tell them “I’m a stud”
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 5 months ago:
Yeah, it wouldn’t be bad if it was done correctly (a little slack and a service loop) but they did everything super tight. What makes it worse is a bad cable is often an intermittent issue and we are a low volume high profit company who can not retest so every time a cable goes bad it’s typically several thousand in lost product.
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 5 months ago:
See cable management is great when done correctly. At my job we had a audit complaint that there were too many wires on the ground which would make it difficult to clean under them. Management told all the techs to do cable management so the wires were not dangling. The techs did as told so now we keep getting wires failing because they are super tight and strained. No one mentioned a service loop or anything of the sort. In addition now it takes like 2 hours to replace the bad wire because you have to undo all the wire management, replace the wire and redo all 400 Ip ties.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 7 months ago:
I agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.
- Comment on The chair 7 months ago:
Never read that thread on r/askalawyer… Or did I?
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 8 months ago:
I didn’t know they had free tiers… I’ll look into it
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 8 months ago:
Hmm…i do have a raspberry pi that isn’t being used… Since it’s asp.net should be Linux compatible… Not a bad idea
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 8 months ago:
Well it’s also a learning project as through a series of events I am technically a software developer in job title who got thrown into a c# code base with databases after doing a python boot camp for 9 weeks and have no mentor to tell me what I’m doing wrong on professional projects.
- Submitted 8 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code 8 months ago:
I say you’re wrong. If in dacade we are stilling complaining about the same dev, then we have failed to teach. In a decade that junior dev should be a senior and probably better than me. If they are still junior either they don’t have the ability to progress or I failed them. Most likely I failed them…m