this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Well you see one client demanded some absolutely stupid very obscure feature that was so absolutely stupid that it could only reasonably be achieved by hacking some bullshit together on their on-premise bare-metal installation that they insisted on not giving you proper access that you needed. Then something went wrong with that hacked-together one-off bullshit, and the digital equivalent of this was the only way to figure out what the hell was happening.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Later in the development of aviation they would mount the engines on the wings and make passageways in them so engines could be serviced in flight.

I've built things like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

At that point it might be better to imagine a boat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Naah, he’s spitting some fuel into the engine to win the race… or something.