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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

the english syntax of this article gave me an aneurysm. was this ai?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah I got two or three sentences in and just closed the window.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I took a look at the "coder" and said no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Unabashed plug for GnuCash. It's FOSS, double-entry, and capable enough for oddball personal finances or business finance, with all the spreadsheet exporting one might need.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

I'm struggling to understand this story.

I get the idea. But the way it was written has a "I heard from a guy who did a thing that looked like this..."

Maybe it's written that way to protect the privacy/trade secrets. But it also makes it hard to have any takeaways beyond why a dev team approved of pushing code like this to prod with minimal testing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Someone wanted the Milton life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's like Superman III

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

That's a process error, not an individual's fault. Sounds like not a single person reviewed the code, they just said, "sounds good, deploy!" on a major production system.

You can be certain that there are tons of other bugs in the system that just have more subtle effects.