One of my friends had a production machine go down bc someone apparently left vim running on a log file all night. Took up over 300gb of ram by the morning. Apparently they got rid of session timeouts because devs were sick of having to log back in

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 days ago

Using memory limited users seems like it would be a good idea. Then again, that might be easier said than done on an existing system.

[–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yet another reason why :set autoread kinda sucks and shouldn't be used.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Got a love 'watch tail'

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I once interviewed at a company that bragged about not using version control or FTP, and how everyone made their changes in production.

~I’m so very glad I didn’t get that job.~

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Dev is too expensive. Just don't make mistakes...

At least we had backup data for all the times we had to rebuild from bare metal.