I was about to say "Yeah, but electricians are pissed off because if they fuck up, fire happens."
But then I remembered THERAC-25.
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THERAC-25 strikes me as a case of when programmers fuck up people get radiation poisoning
That also 100 percent applies to cybersecurity
My dad was a carpenter who did some electrician work. Can confirm. Living in any house not built by him was worth two years of complaining and a year of fixing it. Other than that, it was hard to frustrate him with anything else. Cool as a cucumber. Did beautiful work, too.
I am to mention. I’m sorry.
This right here is the proof that programmers are engineers.
What’s fun is criticizing someone’s code and lack of proper comments/documentation, and then realizing you wrote it 3+ years ago.
At first I get embarrassed when that happens. But then I take a little pride in knowing that means I've grown in knowledge in my field... Then I get mad at how past me was so dumb and now I have to fix HIS stuff! Screw that guy
Some days ago, I was complaining about some asinine decision on one of the systems I have to take care of with a programmer. The programmer then remembered that the thing I was complaining about was something that I asked to be added in the first place. He also reminded me of the why, but that knowledge simply made me wonder what the fucking fuck I was thinking back then.
The electrician equivalent is adding a 20A dedicated circuit along the wall and just snaking it all over the place through laziness (efficiency), and many moons later deciding to mount some tracks for a closet organizer but the voltage tester is freaking out like the wall is a game of Minesweeper
My main project is in a private repo with me as the sole dev but I swear there is some dumbass pushing shitty code.
I worked on one project that was essentially one main app and then a plugin architecture where other companies could write modules that would be run inside the main app. My explicit instructions were to make it very difficult to actually write one of these modules (so that our competitors could not actually be competitive) and boy did I deliver! If my company had really wanted to deliver something like this that actually worked (in the sense of other companies being able to make real contributions) it would have been trivial to make everything HTML-based web apps.
I had to endure a roasting session where some junior developers laid into "grampa" for his absurdly bad design decisions. I suppose I deserved it, though, for my poor ethical choices.
I work in municipal development. I was driving by and saw a hellscape development starting up and blocking traffic in the middle of Rush hour. So I pulled over, put on my City reflective vest, and went out to see who the hell authorized them for this bullshit.
They pulled out a permit with my signature on it.
Lol, my current house's wiring is a bunch of DIY bullshit that even an ex-electrician spent an hour trying to figure out before telling me to pay for someone to take the time to get it fixed
They turned one of the light switches by the "front" door into a dummy plate, wired it and the fan to 2 switches in what used to be a spot for a plug, and managed to tie that whole system to the kitchen light and the outside porch light
Cannot find a consistent path with a multimeter to save our fucking lives, I gave up and we just don't have our kitchen light working for like 1.5 years
Do you have an attic where the kitchen light box is accessible?
My 5'x4' bathroom has 3 seperate circuits feeding it. There is one circuit for the lights, one for the fan, and one for the single outlet in there. Those are the only things on those 3 circuits.
My basement has fully wired electrical outlets in the walls that were just sheetrocked over when the previous owner "finished the basement".
My basement has an electrical outlet on every other stud throughout the whole thing; they are all on the same 15A breaker.
The the upstairs bedrooms are on seperate circuits except for one outlet on the north wall of each bedroom which both share the same seperate circuit.
I think my house was wired by M.C. Escher.
I bought a house last year and I was somewhat mystified by why the two light switches next to the door were horizontal instead of the normal vertical arrangement. Turns out they had tried to turn a single box into a double by basically just gouging a bigger hole in the cinderblock wall and filling it with a softball-sized lump of caulk into which they stuffed the two switches; somehow they could only get this whole mess to stay in place by putting the switches horizontally. For bonus points, one of the switches did nothing except producing a distant humming noise and then tripping one of the breakers after a few seconds.
Oh, hey, this guy lived at the same house as me!
The plug-turned-switch at my place is also 2 switches sideways where they don't really fit!
Distant humming and tripping the breaker sounds like arcing in the walls, beautiful and safe <3
arcing in the walls
Yeah, when I rebuilt the kitchen/living room wall, I found the stud that had held one of the original outlets and it was scorched black where the box had been. Kind of amazing the house was still standing.
I did reuse the scorched stud. 2x4s are fucking expensive and these ones from the 1940s were perfectly straight and completely knot-free.
So you’re a software dev with no idea of affinity groups?
I am one.
Wait am I supposed to get a affinity group assigned? Like pokemon elements?
This is how weird it is for you to give two shits about your problem space…
Well then… Okay. You don’t have to care about anything. After all your only value is to write code! You are hands on keyboard… while that function is slowly being replaced with AI…
Never look up and do not under any circumstance consider how your work matters! Or how it figures into your team, the larger org, or the company. DO NOT CONSIDER WORTH. You aren’t worth it, you write code so don’t think, we are inventing machines to do that instead of people like you…
Other folks think so you don’t have to. We’ll pay them. You’re not worth it. Just keep your mouth shut and wait to execute. We know your worth and will tell you what that is…
Too late, I looked it up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_group
"Affinity groups engaged in political activism date to 19th century Spain. It was a favourite way of organization by Spanish anarchists (grupos de afinidad), and had their base in the tertulias or in the local groups."
It's not the best wikipedia page I have skimmed.
Too late you missed the boat! The meaning isn’t based on millennial bullshit. But kudos for demonstrating to everyone how you can miss the boat by thousands of years!
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