Pretty sure my profession is reheating coffee. When not doing that, I fix broken iPhone backups & other irritating software problems. Cofounder, Decipher Media.
Me: hey windows can you delete this file please
Windows: you got it, j-... omg there's actually a program using it right now
Me: omg who 😳
Windows: omg I can't say 🫣
Episode 000 of The Mental Side of Programming is now published! More than a year in the making, our first practitioner discussion with Kelly Wilkerson, owner / co-founder / wearer-of-many-hats / aspiring-code-janitor, is now live.
https://t.co/Ro6aGWDAeP
The four stages of debugging: 1. That can't happen 2. That doesn't happen on my machine. 3. That shouldn't happen 4. Oh, I see why that happens. Stay tuned for the 5th stage: How did that ever work?
@starmike@NVIDIAGeForce@nvidia I've been tinkering with this crash again. Knock on wood, I've had a week of stability (versus a nearly daily crash). If you look at your Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options, are you on "balanced"? Are there "High Performance" and "Ultimate Performance" options?
The least realistic thing about Christmas isn’t Santa or elves or flying reindeer. It’s the idea that you can make a major financial decision like buying a car as a “surprise” for your partner and somehow stay happily married.