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That’s still a 4xx situation.

Doesn’t matter, the client ignores the error anyways.

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This is often an exercise for beginning programmers, it’s a very simple task that’s easy to understand, but leaves enough room in the implementation to make it a good exercise.

Sometimes it’s used as a test on job applications, which is total bullshit, it isn’t a good test of someones actual skills as a software developer. Because of this it’s become a bit of a joke on the internet.

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Also programmers: Hmmm do I really need this $1500 Herman Miller chair? Yes I absolutely do!

Typescript on the other hand: Exwuse me sir, you seem to have a little oopsie right here. Oh right! Let me just fix that right up.

HERE ARE TWO THOUSAND ERRORS! YOUR PUNY LITTLE BUFFER CAN’T EVEN SCROLL BACK TO READ THEM ALL! AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A PROGRAMMER?

Many providers have specific clauses for this. Ever since crypto mining became a thing providers have included in general terms you can’t over use the service. And often specifically against using it for crypto mining.

Providers will normally warn users and only kick them off when no explanation is forthcoming.

Usually this applies to shared services, like a VPS. You pay a lower price because you share hardware. But that only works if the hardware is shared fairly. If another user hogs all the resources, the service is no good for anyone. But it can also apply to seemingly dedicated services, like your own server for example. In that case the server is free to be used for whatever, but things like cooling and power are still shared. A regular dedicated server service will be based on typical use and can kick users out who require too much cooling or power. In cases where the resources are legitimately required, they will offer contracts that allow you to use all of the resources all of the time. But in turn you will have to pay a premium for something like that.

On the surface it may seem like a bit of bullshit, but that’s often what allows prices to be as low as they are. So I’m fine with it, as long as it’s made clear beforehand (which in my experience it is)

So you’re saying Relational DataBase Management Systems do really well as soon as Relations are involved?

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I’ve seen this often. The app is marketed as being “api” first as if that’s some benefit to the user of a SaaS application. However in reality much of the team is constantly busy patching the old legacy V1 api to keep it running. And management won’t authorize the budget to create a new api version that replaces the old one, because it still works right?

Public facing web apis have always been a pet peeve of mine. So often the team uses the api their own frontend uses as the public facing api customers should use for integrations. Which on the surface seems smart, why implement and manage two apis that’s just overhead. But in reality the apis suitable for a frontend (or often that specific frontend) isn’t suitable for integrations at all. They both have a completely different target user and completely different requirements.

But hey we’ll just market it as “headless”, because one could totally put in the years of work and money we put in to create our front-end, if they really wanted to. Totally realistic thing that happens.

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It’s really amazing how much power you can get for cheap in a small package these days. But yeah putting a battery on that wouldn’t be practical, it’s still a very efficient chip, but in absolute terms eats a bunch of power. So you’d need to be tethered. You could easily wear one of those mini pcs, but need a power cable. One of those could be dropped down from the ceiling, but still not as good as a mobile solution.

I’m not sure what a Steam deck costs? $450 - $550?

A Minisforum UM870 with 32GB of memory and 1TB SSD is around $500. That has an AMD Ryzen 7 8745H CPU. 8 cores 16 thread 4.9ghz boost Zen4. Gpu builtin Radeon 780M with 12 RDNA3 2.7ghz cores. That could give the Steam Deck a round for it’s money I think.

Is it not much easier and cheaper to buy a mini pc and run Steam with an OS of choice? (You can chose between any number of Linux distros, I use Arch btw). Steam can just launch on boot into big picture mode, it’s pretty much a console at that point.

I assume the 2700 is SRP? Don’t use SRP ever, it’s total nonsense. It has in fact become such nonsense use of SRP in marketing/sales is actually illegal in the EU. Instead of it being an actual price point manufacturers intended for the product to be sold at, it’s always always a factor of that. So shops could advertise with a 50% discount on SRP, to get at what is just the regular price and not even a good one at that. That was considered so misleading, SRP use is banned. Instead the marketing can only be based on actual lowest prices the product was for sale at.

The technical term is Heisenbug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

Obviously, there is True, False and FILE_NOT_FOUND

Humans are pretty complex so what may seem like a self contradiction actually isn’t in fact.

But I can hit you with another one for me personally: I fucking love a big juicy burger, especially with cheese, pineapple, lettuce and spicy sauce. However I am normally a vegetarian and try to restrict my meat consumption as much as reasonably possible. I’m not a full vegan, because that just seems like self torture without a lot of extra gains, but maybe I’ll become one in the future.

And I can write you essays upon essays about how much I hate Windows and other Microsoft software. Even though it has a special place in my heart, because when I got my first computer in 1984, it ran Microsoft BASIC as its primary “OS”.