Hey, kudos for finding multiple anti-patterns all in one place like that. I didn’t even think about “underpowered desktop as company server” as another pattern, but here we are.
Sorry you didn’t get the contract, but that sounds like a blessing in disguise to be honest.
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The amount of work I have completed with Tampermonkey in situations like this should have made that same IT department quite anxious.
I mean, it’s a pretty good illustration of a deadlock. Most traffic intersections, especially 4-way stops are basically mutexes anyway.
Jamming a circle though… that’s like deadlocking a ring buffer message queue with threaded consumers. Or something. It’s just a spectacular way to break stuff any way you slice it.
That environment was wild though. At the time, you basically needed to be an electrical engineer and/or a licensed HAM operator, just to have your head wrapped around how it all worked. Familiarity with the very electronics of the thing, even modifying the hardware directly when needed, was crucial to operating that old tech.
Fellow tech-trash-disposal-engineer here. I’ve made a killing on replacing corporate anti-patterns. My career features such hits and old-time classics like:
In all of these cases, there were always better answers that maybe just cost a little bit more. AI will absolutely cause some players to train-wreck their business, all to save a buck, and we’ll all be there to help clean up. Count on it.
Since many of you already hear this in your head, here is the Soundtrack for this comment.
Wait 3 to 5 business weeks while the 16-bit ARM microcontroller they put in these things serves a web page like old people fuck.
This also goes for some NAS appliances and the in-dash console of newer cars. Underpowered ARM implementations are the scourge of this decade.
In my head, this is a deleted scene from their shore leave in Yosemite (Star Trek V). They’re struggling to share a single tent, and this is the inevitable outcome.
every bug in linux can be fixed with sudo rm -rf /*
To be fair, that does remove the bugs from the system. It just so happens to also remove the system from the system.
Exactly.
To put it another way, trusting AI this completely (even with so-called “agentic” solutions) is like blindly following life advice on Quora. You might get a few wins, but it’s eventually going to screw everything up.
This sentence has made me violently ill. Please take it back.
This has to be one of the worst ways to reinvent a filesystem that I’ve ever heard. At the very least, storing static data in an relational database at this scale should be a slappable offense.
Yup. I’m guessing that seasonal affective disorder and social isolation are a very dangerous combo.
I mean, there’s no actual dogs there, so nothing’s stopping that from happening. They’ll get there eventually, assuming this isn’t the real point.
make no mistakes
LOL. I know it’s for a laugh, but you may as well add “pretty please” to that prompt.
Edit: I wonder if it just hallucinates more convincingly, instead?
Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty.
Indeed! That’s how it was done in the 80’s.
The trend was built around keeping the cost down. That and a screen (TV) could cost as much as the whole unit and you probably already had one of those. Nowadays we don’t think twice about our laptops coming with a screen, but if I could somehow keep the screen but replace the rest, I’d welcome the price cut that comes with it.
Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated ‘app’. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.