minus-squareflowerysong@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoMy favourite was a junior dev who was like, “when I read from this input file the data is weirdly mangled and unreadable so as the first processing step I’ll just remove all null bytes, which seems to leave me with ASCII text.” (It was UTF-16.) linkfedilink
My favourite was a junior dev who was like, “when I read from this input file the data is weirdly mangled and unreadable so as the first processing step I’ll just remove all null bytes, which seems to leave me with ASCII text.”
(It was UTF-16.)