#which i'm pointing fingers about bcs one of the genAI-guys were apparently fucking around with getting it to work early on

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By the most generous estimate, I've now slept for 3+2 hours. But that 2 is suspect, bcs I didn't exactly fall asleep within the first hour I crawled back into bed.

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group-project is due tomorrow -> we have some weird glitch that means we can't send information past a certain size which i'm pointing fingers about bcs one of the genAI-guys were apparently fucking around with getting it to work early on (and now it works -> but only for limited amounts of data. suspicious) otherwise everything is mostly done? we've made a LOT of really weird decisions that i'm side-eyeing. but it works. mostly. like why do we have a ''my profile''-page AND a ''user profile''-page? instead of a user-profile page with edit-buttons? why are the images full-objects when they only exist to attach to other objects with a list of urls? (meaning that they need ids + info about what object they're attached to + the actual url) (whereas the images of all other objects are just an attached string-url -> and this works just fine literally everywhere) so yeah. weird shit. -> also one of us is probably gonna fail bcs this time we're checked on what we contributed and he's spent the first two weeks doing fuck-all and the last two weeks in spain but hey at least he managed to break everything once (with a really weird merge) before he went. thanks.

Update on this.

The guy who went to Spain technically broke everything twice, but his changes were reset, because the features he added the second time were things we already had. (So it was just easier to delete his changes wholesale, instead of trying to comb through it to see where it broke shit.)

And I finally figured out the weird "too much info"-glitch.

Turns out, when you make those images into objects, you also need to be referring to which object they're attached to, and someone had managed to attach the whole object to them. (Instead of just a reference-key, which was what I remember being attached to them.)

So, the object had an image, and the image had that object inside of itself, meaning that it was basically a (theoretical) infinity-loop.

I'm not sure why this only crashed past a certain data-size threshold, because I feel like it ought to have crashed immediately, but maybe there are built-in safeguards about this kind of stuff that helped "up to a point"?

Regardless, I got to say "I told you so" about how this data-structure was stupid as fuck, but only after we'd already turned in the assignment. I did send a message to the teacher about my problem-solving genius though, so hopefully he'll be merciful once he spots it in the code.

By the most generous estimate, I've now slept for 3+2 hours. But that 2 is suspect, bcs I didn't exactly fall asleep within the first hour I crawled back into bed.