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crimsoncobalt ,

I was once driving on some back roads I was unfamiliar with. I turned a corner and didn’t realize there was a stop sign until too late and went right through the intersection. As I went through it, I turned my head to the left and noticed that a car was heading right for me. It missed me by inches.

Today ,

I had two similar ones-

  1. driving across a bridge and just in front of me, at the end of the bridge, a volswagon eos flew threw the air over the street and landed on the grass on the other side.
  2. Driving on a street that’s parallel to railroad tracks and then jogs to cross them. As i crossed the tracks i glanced right and saw the front of the train. I had been driving beside and just on front of it and didn’t realize it.
  3. One extra - i was going down a hill in a really dark neighborhood. It was so dark in front of me that i stopped. i was sitting on a boat ramp into the gulf of Mexico.
KittenBiscuits ,

I have had the train thing happen to me. There were no warning lights where the road crossed over. Fortunately it was a coal train going very slowly. Scared the living daylights out of me. It’s been 30 years since that happened and I’m still neurotic about railroad crossings with poor visibility.

isolatedscotch ,

headlights?

Today ,

Yeah. On, i think - I’ve wondered about that over the years. I was 17 and it was an old 1978 Plymouth Fury. Scared the shit out of me! Still does.

linearchaos ,
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Used to work for a gaming company that had a really big Facebook presence.

When most companies launched a new game they would just launch the game connect to Facebook and call it a day.

But when we launched a new game we would turn on cross-promotion and send millions of users to the new game day one.

The problem is that Facebooks load balancers don’t scale quickly. And if you start sending millions of people to a game that just errors, it’s pretty bad for marketing.

So we had a script that you would run for an hour before you went to launch a game that would start making hundreds then thousands than tens of thousands of connections to Facebook giving their load balancers time to scale.

Well, I didn’t write the tool I was just given it and the documentation on it was kind of sparse at the time. I started with the value of 30,000. Weeeellll, turns out a sane value would have been 3-5 as it multiplied whatever input you gave it by 10K.

My cluster made sweet love with their cluster, and Facebook went down for about 3 hours.

Within a week they had some pretty decent changes to their new API limit subsystem.

Aatube ,

Were you able to scale the thing after the changes? Did Facebook send an email to your company?

linearchaos , (edited )
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t hide it. I said hey, I oopsed that!

We could still scale at a reasonable pace but they more or less made it unnecessary in about a month.

No_Support_8363 OP ,

Oof

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Just one?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

A short, medium, or long story

So, a story?

Squid1501 ,

I don’t want to hear your extremely long or very short stories. Get that “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” stuff out of here.

felbane ,

www.natethesnake.com

Angry_Autist ,

You fucking owe me 45 minutes of my life back, bitch

stink ,

I pooped my pants 🤯

GuyFi , (edited )

I predict this will be quite tame compared to the rest of this thread but here you go anyway:

Our scene opens on a person with a bass guitar, practicing some sick slap bass perched upon an IKEA office chair. The player is lost in the zone, all mental facilities put to work making every strike with the thumb is accurate and powerful, and every pop of the fingers sends the strings into the fretboard with a gorgeous thwack! The sound is heavenly, a deep, rich, cutting tone- full of appropriate levels of CLANK and SNAP. The short riff being performed to a concert of no-one reaches its magnificent height, a slammingly heavy riff sounding like a funky machine gun, the bassists hands become a blur, the strings vibrate with precision and power, a glorious cacophony of ma-

kkrrmp.

Oh crap, I broke a string

Shadow , (edited )
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

Two big ones in my younger days:

Alt tabbed one too many times, clicked drop database, clicked ok, realized I’d just deleted the live user database for America’s Army. Thankfully it was the east coast site and west coast was the primary, and it was only one way replication. We shut down east coast auth and rebuilt the secondary.

Someone distracted me while typing in a vlan command on a switch, I hit enter without double checking, took out our fiber between two datacenters in the middle of a move. Took me 15 minutes to run to the DC, plug in a console cable and fix it. Took all of our customers out.

Chozo ,

America's Army is such a bizarre game, at a conceptual level. Do you have any other fun stories from that? I have to imagine a lot of weird things went down behind the scenes.

Shadow ,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

Nothing else that immediately comes to mind, it was like 20 years ago.

No_Support_8363 OP ,

Uh oh

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