Eve was great as a community… Sucked as a game. That’s coming from someone with over a thousand hours.

No, misfortune for the people who depend on their products

That’s not the scary part, it’s a fortune 500 international company whose customers could die if the product didn’t work…

That’s not even code grief…

Two examples that were far worse:

1. My last company wanted software developers. They offered to send me to code boot camp and give me a promotion. The boot camp was primarily python. I complete and get the promotion. New manager tells me the code base I’ll work on is actually c… Umm ok. New manager retires a week later. I spend a few weeks basically teaching myself c. New manager is assigned. He tells me I should basically assist the senior Dev, ok no problem. Find out the code base is actually c#… Should be doable it’s c based atleast. It’s c# framework 4.8 based on winforns… No one in the building had heard of a unit test…the code was released to production on December of '23. Oh and yeah the senior Dev then announced he was retiring. There are no other c# programmers on the team.

2. I told this story before recently. On a separate c# code base the “login” function had hard coded credentials in the source, which checked if they existed in a local sql database table with one entry(the hard coded values) and then verified the returned value for “password” was >= than 5. It then logged you in. Didn’t check if the password was correct or even the correct length just that the return of the select statement was greater than or equal to 5 characters… Just for fun remember that false is 5 characters 😂

Honestly it works. The act of vocalizing your thoughts sometimes gives you answers. Doesn’t need to be a toddler, the classic is a rubber duck I knew someone who had an action figure of iron man. He would tell people he struggled with a problem he would just ask Tony stark.

I don’t know, the number of problems I figured out quickly by describing the logic to a toddler…

To me the best use of cli is troubleshooting remotely. I don’t mean like ssh I mean like talking over the phone. It’s easier to say “type in this command” then say "at the top of the window there should be a menu bar, near the right, no not all the way to right, no don’t click the red x, it should say tools, move your mouse over tools, God damn it I said DON’T click the red x, now we have to start over, click the icon on the desktop, no I don’t know why it’s called icon, it doesn’t mean anything religious, please just open the application… I don’t care if you are Christian and find the term icon offesive… Hurry up I am late for the AA meeting I need after dealing with people like you. " wait the problem may just be coworkers…

Why are all the th letters in your message replaced with another character?

I hope not. I hope it’s just for pure chaos.

Like imagine going to the store, everything is normal and you pay like normal. Then you leave and stop to get gas and grab your wallet and somehow there is a blueberry in your pocket. I’d start questioning reality…

Look up Jimmy Carr’s laugh it’s Umm… Unique.

Since the op is talking about python, I recommend pythontutor.com it is a visual debugger and not only shows the values of variables but shows the scope which each variable exists in.

Funny story of the at one about 10 years ago I rented a room in a house with these two old(60+) alcoholics. We split the cable/internet bill, normally it was $270 a month ($90 per person). At the time I was about to move across the country and was doing business trips back and and forth. This month I was there for about 1 week. The cable bill came in and it was close to a grand.

They wanted me to pay $350 and I said no! I called the cable company and asked why it was so high. They said it was from like 14 porn movies being purchased all from one cable box(I never even unboxed mine) over a week end. They gave me the serial of the box and I checked all the boxes. I found out who it was, I payed my $90 dollars and told them to figure out the rest. I moved out the end of the next month, never did learn what happened to the bill(wasn’t in my name thankfully).

Yes but for example for seizures I want a simple form, not having to type in entries. Especially for siezures, it’s normally a busy event of caring for him, having to add a seizure taking more than a minute means it probably won’t be used.

Both good suggestions, thanks for the ideas

I didn’t know they had free tiers… I’ll look into it

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

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.

Atleast on America that is by law if publicly traded. Let’s say a company discovers something that amazing, say cure for cancer and decides they are going to give it out for free for the benefit of mankind. They can be sued and will likely lose. Only real defense would be they thought the goodwill from giving away for free would earn the shareholders more money through goodwill towards the company. A smaller scale version of this would be like a farm raising animals in non-optimal conditions (for profit but nicer to the animals like free-range instead of cages). They could argue the customers will be willing to pay a premium for that.

If not publicly traded they can do whatever they want. If governmental they should have a goal or mission statement that states what their intent is(usually it’s not profit) but if it’s publically traded legally their only motive is profit to the shareholders.

At one point in my past I was the “stinky coworker”. I wore deodorant, I showered daily, I washed my clothes after every wearing. My boss did have THAT conversation with me, and started using cologne to cover it. Don’t think it fixed it but it covered it enough that I kept the job for a bit.

Eventually my mother, who I was living with, bought a new washer / dryer. My stinkiness factor went to effectively nothing. I’m pretty sure there was some mold/bacteria/whatever in the old washer that was causing the stink.

It may not be the stinky persons fault, and they may not even know what’s causing it.

It’s a great time as space age aka 2.0 just released. If you’re the type to get absorbed into min/maxing stuff, remember to say goodbye and I love you to your family before launching factorio.