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Sometimes, it's backwards (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

More like:
"IT people when software people talk about their requirements"

No, we won't whitelist your entire program folder in Endpoint Protection.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yep, unrealistic expectations.

Or "you need a 12th gen i7 to run this thing"... the thing is a glorified Avidemux.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Christ, if you could see the abysmal efficiency of business tier SQL code being churned out in the Lowest Bidder mines overseas...

Using a few terrabytes of memory and a stack of processors as high as my knee so they can recreate Excel in a badly rendered .aspx page built in 2003.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have a table with literally three columns. One is an id, another a filename and a third a path. Guess which one was picked as the primary key?

Never seen something so stupid in 28 years of computing. Including my studies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well, you don't want to waste space by adding the same file path twice

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