We had that in our DOS C code base. We didn’t have a debugger so we had a function that output debug messages to console if the debug flag was set.

There were more than a few instances where a crash would stop happening if we added debug messages.

We put it down to the linker rearranging modules to fit in memory as our exe was more than a megabyte in size.

I sometimes suspect that I am actually an AI. I’ve always struggled with captchas and I comment my code exactly as you’ve just described.

My tree brings bloody rabbits back which the dog eats when he can.

I imagine that this is actually what happened.

The AI Fix podcast regularly has reports on the testing of AI models and the testers perform many tests of a situation and report what percentage of times they saw a specific outcome.

It’s amazing how many times they exhibit human behaviour such as lying, hiding their mistakes, and resorting to blackmail. They were even shown to behave like gambling addicts as reported in this article.

You don’t for the one time codes because there is a standard that is supported by many authenticator apps.

App based 2FA is better. Either the app generates a time based code that you enter into the site or the site sends a push notification to the app asking you to verify the login attempt.

Passkeys are good too as they replace the password completely and leave the 2FA part to the device.

It’s better than nothing and some people would really struggle to do other types of 2FA.

I find this very odd because Azure DevOps is hardly ever down in our experience.

Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright _wrong_:

There used to be a spot on joke about Microsoft documentation taking the piss out of the fact that it was always 100% accurate but at the same time pretty useless. That joke hasn’t been relevant for a while.

It’s so frustrating trying to find out how to do something in one of the admin centres for M365 and you find a Microsoft document with exactly what you need in it only to find out that the UI has changed and the steps don’t work now. Did they move it? Did they remove it? Who knows?

Except we’ve been eliminating manual labour jobs for much longer than we’ve had AI.

The AI Fix podcast had a piece about how someone let an AI agent do the coding for them but had a disaster because he gave it access to the production database.

Very funny.

https://theaifix.show/61-replit-panics-deletes-1m-project-ai-gets-gold-at-math-olympiad/

Right? It’s only funny if he voted for the people who put this policy in place.

There wasn’t really a viable alternative. The Conservatives were also intending to put something like this in place.

I use em dash all the time instead of parentheses or semicolons. I also really struggle with captchas.

I’m beginning to doubt myself.

This is why I liked Ghost of Tsushima so much. The stealth and non-stealth combat were equally fun (in different ways) so it wasn’t a bad thing to get caught.

I’m pretty sure that 5 is a feature because the button that moved is usually replaced with a clickable ad.

Sounds like SAP.

I think that there is always an implied design requirement of the program shouldn’t crash.

There’s a setting on the phone app to block notifications when you’re active on the desktop. It works well for me.

I don’t think that I get meeting notifications on my teams on desktop either so they just come up in outlook.

There are people in my org that always start with a “Hi” and then send each sentence as a new message. Very irritating.

The idea is that you can have more data online than you can fit on your computer.

It makes sense for SharePoint when there can easily be enough data to cause space problems on employee computers.

It doesn’t really make sense for it to be the default for personal OneDrives though.