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Aboutcs student starting (or started) uni in September 2020
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SkillsMainly Java and Node
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I corrupted a raspberry pi, and while debugging the issue, plugged it in and placed it on my metal desk by mistake, which caused it to short circuit and stop working completely.1
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*making payment online*
Website: Your bank wants to verify something. Redirecting to their page
Me: fair enough
Bank: we are increasing security by sending you a security code via text...
*bank redirects me before I can finish reading*
Website: payment successful
Tf kinda security is that???1 -
I don't even remember why the teacher asked us this as it was a first aid class, but it pops into my head every now and then.
Teacher: "What's the first three letters in any website address?"
Me:"htt?"
Everyone else: "www"10 -
58 of 64 tests failed
Me: "what the actual fuck."
*spends 10 mins looking through logs wondering why these valid tests were marked as failed*
Me: "Oh shit I just configured the test case wrong"1 -
Just spent 20 mins trying to figure out why new lines weren't printing and why random '0's were in the text.
Turns out I was replacing with +"\n" which JavaScript converts to a 0.
Fuck this8 -
They were updating 2 sets of the self checkouts at Tesco today.
They are now running Windows 10...5 -
I mashed my keyboard to test a search box and thought it was broken because a post with the same keyspam in it somehow already existed
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I just realised that working 6 days a week still leaves me more freetime than going to college and working part time1
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Not really screensharing but kinda
Was in secondary school, I found out the computers had a team viewer client on them. Decided to download the full version to my usb and connect to my friends computer. We drew a bunch of stuff on the screens and eventually the teacher noticed a popup for team viewer in the corner of the screen and we got in trouble.1 -
So in my experience, coding while I'm not sober actually helps out sometimes. I always end up documenting my code way more so that I can keep track of what I am doing, and the code I write is actually decent.
Ofcourse, I always re-test it once sober again2 -
M: Type "cd path/to/files" where path/to/files is the path of the files I just sent you to download and send me a screenshot
C: Done!
*sends screenshot of them typing "cd path/to/files" and an error message because the path doesnt exist*2 -
You know what would be cool for testing web pages?
A chrome window that would mirror my mouse movements, clicks and key presses into a firefox/opra/ie browser so I could test a bunch of browsers at once in the same way8 -
Why can I not find a way to keep a window on top in Windows? Am I being dumb? I feel like this used to be a thing you could do in task manager7