I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

Same! But the ones I cause don’t count.

It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.

I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.

but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than stupid in the new LLM enhanced computer way.

I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.

So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.

“Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…

Edit: I’m already wrong. It sounds like it was computers being stupid is old tried and true ways; not computers being stupid in new trendy ways.

It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding

It is. Sometimes the big secret turns out to just be what we all thought was happening.

Dang. I had to look it up, but CrowdStike taking down a huge percentage of Windows PCs was so last year, I guess.

How did they squander being the name in autonomous vacuum devices…?

Letting a picture of a customer using the bathroom leak onto Facebook cannot have helped.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/

Monologue through a stone of farspeech or a ward-tripped illusion spell.

I’m convinced this was the primary reason D&D3E had so many ways to speak through an animal companion or construct.

When I DM-ed, I used them to (attempt to) deliver foolishly informative villainous monologues.

Mostly I just lost villain companions to fireball, of course.

Hell, a big ol’ balcony above the party.

My DM understood this. As a bonus, by the end of the battle, everyone had taken so much fall damage.

Fate’s solution to this is so good. It’s so nice not to leave to chance the important binding glue of the party, while still making it part of gameplay.

I use Fate’s character/ party rules as house rules for every game system I GM.

If FOSS counts, there’s going to be a ton of Paladins in this party.

I love how the party gravitated and dragged “Wheel Well” along, in Dimension 20: Skyward Ho.

DM Brennan is rarely caught off guard, but Maxwell’s younger brother being named “wheel well” felt like an improv moment.

The way the party made sure to drag “wheel well” with them as long as possible - forcing Brennan to keep saying “wheel well” - is just adorable.

This is a great write-up. And a bit generous to the “developer” in question.

I’m not entirely sure I’ve written 250,000 lines of code yet, in my entire decades as a professional developer. If I have, it’s a near thing.

Not to brag, but I can reuse existing libraries and get many things done with 5 or 10 lines of code.

It’s hard to crack 250,000 when 5-10 lines solves each of my employer’s problems.

And this young developer supposedly solved one problem with 250,000 lines of code.

After giving it some thought, I’m like 90% 40% (edit: okay, 40% after hearing some anecdotes, haha.) sure this is just a parody post. Even AI can’t be that bad at this, right?

I believe that our combined “lines of code” “productivity” will soon reach an all time high.

I wonder if I can make some money off the demand for cleanup that will follow…

It turns out that an orphan can inherit a critical trait from their parents: “habit of standing in the way of an important player character’s ongoing battle.”

I’m a fan of the Game master’s Book of Astonishing Random Items.

I do not have any RAM to share, sorry.

An economics simulation in Python needing 200+GB of RAM sounds preventable.

In your friend’s shoes, I might start asking for pointers over on the programming.dev Lemmy.

As others have said, a rewrite in a faster language like C or goLang could help - but my guess is there’s also ways to cut that memory need way down, while still using Python.

I was just thinking about this: more evidence of the Minecraft to Linux self hosting pipeline.

Congrats on your wedding!

Dragon OSHA is on their way, now.