She once balanced a phaser between two random shuttle components to rig up an ad-hoc force field that saved her and the shuttle crew from being blown out into space. And she managed to save the shuttle, a shuttle she had just finished to help design and build in a matter of weeks. The best chief engineer in starfleet.
I’m deep into a long overdue Voyager rewatch, and forgot how awesome she was.
This meme was written by a novice that does not yet know true pain. An error that takes fifteen minutes to find! In your own code! Ha, you young whipper snapper… just wait until you have to debug an unforeseen edge case in a library… especially if it’s compiled. And once you’ve seen that, once you’ve known that horror, come and talk to me about DLL hell.
Unless you’re working with installers and, probably, in C++ it’s unlikely you’ll ever meet this Cthonic horror. Zalgo? Tony the Pony comes? You have met that friendly demon of development? They are but the apprentice… DLL hell is a span of time measured in days.
… Alternatively talk to me about trying to track down an extra newline at the end of a PHP file, that (against all advice) has a closing tag, that causes some output to be sent preventing you from sending headers to the client. There’s no error detection for that and PHP is an interpreted language… you just need to check files manually!
I spent 7 hours to debug why doubles in Java classes brick my class file parser only to discover the following small print in the specification after I read the corresponding OpenJDK source code: In retrospect, making 8-byte constants take two constant pool entries was a poor choice. Yeah no shit. I chose to write a custom user stylesheet for Oracle specifications to enlarge notes since they’re obviously critical to the implementation of JVMs. I guess the technical writers at Oracle didn’t want to offend the developers who wrote the JVM originally at the expense of developers who write JVMs today.
Well, what most of us do… manage to reproduce it by chance one out of twenty attempts and then remove any evidence that you managed to trigger it and mark the ticket “unable to reproduce”. Bury the ticket by removing any good tags or keywords and hope it’s at least three months until anyone else reports the error so you can repeat the dance.
Doing it faster doesn’t take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.
Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you’re ready.
Wasn’t there an episode where they said it would take like 24 hours and they were told you have 12 so the tech replied with “that’s now how it works sir it will take 24 hours”
LaForge is the kind of guy that always ends up putting his team on crunch time, because he fails both to manage up, and to create buffers for estimation errors or unpredicted issues.
Every worker needs some time for themselves. Nobody is capable of doing a single job for multiple hours without at least some slacking off. It is human nature.
Tbh I don’t get these kind of memes, as far as I remember picard never really gives a deadline, just asks for it as quick as possible, with geordi busting his ass every time to try to get it done, regardless of whether or not it’s actually possible.
And, in those situations, I really don’t think picard is being unreasonable. When your options are “do the tech thing” or “have long odds at pulling something else off”, asking for the tech thing as quickly as possible sounds pretty reasonable to me
That’s nerve wracking. But you know what’s worse? Finding code that shouldn’t work, not being able to figure out why it works, and having to leave it in production because of you “fix” it, the whole damned thing will come fluttering down like a house of cards in a slight breeze.
There is actually an approach for this. Leave the cursed code in, but implement it again in the same file, from scratch, without looking at the cursed code. You’ll either unthinkingly fix the combination of conditions that led to bad code being correct, or you’ll realize why that was what you needed the whole time.
When the Opioid crisis was just starting to become mainstream about ten years ago (I know it’s been going on for longer than that) … I had a couple of friends in their 20s die of overdoses from medications prescribed by doctors and many friends got addicted to this shit from doctor prescriptions … I had to warn a few friends not to follow through with their doctors advice … I had one friend with minor back pain prescribed powerful opioids … another with a toothache … and another with recovery from a broken bone. I know I’m no doctor but these were healthy people with minor aches and pains that were manageable, not debilitating pain they had to survive. Doctors back then were just handing them out like aspirins because everyone said they weren’t addictive.
One terrible story is of an old friend in his 60s who had cancer treatment … they successfully treated his cancer but they hooked him on opioids that drove him insane and his family had to deal with the fallout of his addiction for years after having dealt with cancer.
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