3 ms·
> It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets I honestly think that there's a hidden potentia
by bentcorner 3y ago
> It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets
I honestly think that there's a hidden potential with instrumenting programs with different noises, and being able to listen to them could give you a broad understanding of program behavior without needing to profile or watch logs.
- lucb1e 3y agoI always took out my earphones or turned down/off speakers while doing computer modifications. I want to hear things like that fans are spinning, how busy the hard drive is if the screen is not yet working... in a computer repair shop I noticed others didn't do the same and that's when I realized that I was subconsciously doing this in the first place. Nowadays I do less of that messing around, but also there's SSDs and quiet laptops. Either way, yeah I totally get you. Relevant / you might enjoy: ping -a
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoI used to write code for a certain machine that ran long, complex sets of instructions. We could tell what sequence it was running by listening to the "tune" the motors played as it ran. Was also easy to tell when there was a bug or some other problem: the sound would be "off" and sure enough, a few seconds later there'd be an error message on the display.