test please delete

[xoggoth]

Went to old neighbour's for Scrabble, she beat me, just, both times. Hope I'm as with it as she is when I get to her age.

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir, I’m into the very long chapter where he goes through the whole film scene-by-scene, filling in details about actors, props, general stuff that happened, and so on. It’s actually quite interesting

There’s been more showers. Still, after the recent heatwave, I reckon I wouldn’t mind too much if it carries on like this till autumn

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
A bit rainy out, but not too bad.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy and spitting here. From what the forecast says, it seems we can expect a whole day of drizzle punctuated with rain, without even the saving grace of a brighter, sunnier evening that we’ve had for the past few days. 11°C at present but it “feels like” 7°, and the high will be 16°, though not until after teatime when the rain stops. The barometers are up a bit though, at 1006/1014mB

But: Thursday!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Wet. Otter's pocket wet with that fine rain.

Grey.

Misty.

Sunless.

Can't see Drummau.

17.9 in here, 18.6 in the kitchen (found a more accurate Hg thermometer), 16 in the leanto (Wilko garden thermometer).

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 NF, quackhandle, xogg, and I popped in, whilst on the 30th Churchill and BR14 graced the page.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the butterfly thing and the thing about Kiefer Sutherland.

Book: The Horror, The Horror. With bells & fecking whistles on. Glad to finish that one, not that I'll remember much of it.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>

Book.

Nothing to watch on the Idiot Lantern, so: book.

Still nothing to watch on the Idiot Lantern: book.

Finished book.

I see the rats are deserting the sinking ship. Again. .

Is there anyone even mildly competent left in the country or are we on the way to the Farage Reich? Askin' for a friend like. .

[sadkingbilly]

morning

bloody biblical thunderstorms yesterday.
garden was flowering well, until the 30 min hailstorm.
It now looks shattered. blooms battered and bedraggled.
still, got 400 litres* off the garage roof into the pond topup tank, which won't be needed for a wee while.

* 1 tonne in three days! :

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Raining. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Rain set to ease up and stop by mid afternoon. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:18 BST

Meetings, meetings.

[ladymuck]

In a turnip for the books, gig1 have extended me to the end of the year! It's only max 2 days a week and could be binned at any time once the status of a programme that's winding down is known.

Gig2 is in a death spiral. Today's fun was someone saying that a process map should have the swim lanes denoting the task outcome rather than the roles...

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Today I learned more than I wanted to know about threading in Python. But it was worth it because I ended up with a script that allowed me to reproduce the concurrent updates problem reliably, which meant that I could finally get in there with the debugger and confirm exactly what was going wrong

In fact, I’m going to fix it by preventing concurrent updates! I’ll chuck a queue in at the point where the updates are triggered, and make sure each runs to completion before another can start. It won’t make any difference to the users as under normal circumstances they only upload stuff once a day at most; it’s easy to do; and it avoids the risk of trying to fix the mishmash of code that people have been hammering oddly-shaped bits into since 2019

[NickFitz]

In a turnip for the books, gig1 have extended me to the end of the year! It's only max 2 days a week and could be binned at any time once the status of a programme that's winding down is known.

Gig2 is in a death spiral. Today's fun was someone saying that a process map should have the swim lanes denoting the task outcome rather than the roles...

Boomed!