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Sometimes, it's backwards (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by 0x4E4F to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] 0x4E4F 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep, unrealistic expectations.

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 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.

[–] fibojoly 6 points 8 months 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 8 months ago

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