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[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!

[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

[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...

[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.

[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! :

[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.

[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!

[WTFH]

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

[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

[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]

For tea, I had some lamb mince that Needed to be Eaten™ but I couldn’t be bothered dealing with anything too complicated. So I fried it up with some onions and garlic, mixed together various spices, and made a quick curry. A few dollops of that with chips; sorted

I didn’t quite get the balance right in the spice mix so the flavour wasn’t perfect, but it was perfectly adequate for a Wednesday evening

Turned nice again here, after a gloomy and often rainy day with occasional rumblings of thunder

[ladymuck]

My weather app kept telling me it was drizzling but all I saw was lovely sunshine and fluffy blobs. A nice walk at lunchtime was had.

However, as the train home reached London Bridge, the skies were far less friendly and then it rained. It must have also been raining in Farringdon where I changed to the Lizzy Line as there were soggy people about.

By the time I got to my stop, it was glorious sunshine again. Although there were signs of earlier precipitation.

Perfectly dodged me thinks.

Much gossip at clientCo, which was the main reason for going in. Went to the pub post work for a swift drink to bitch about various people in safety.

I drew Argentina in the office world cup sweepstake.

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^^^^^^^ the joys of forensic fault analysis.
finding it's the first BIG step to fixing it

afternoon all
greetings from the rabbit warren of Z/systems.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold sausage bap (wholemeal) with red sauce

It’s turned gloomy here and been raining quite a bit

Down on the lawn, the bossy crow was wandering around just now, with the male magpie shadowing it a few yards away. The crow tried to assert its dominance by turning and walking a couple of feet towards it, whereat the magpie nonchalantly moved away, maintaining the distance between them but clearly not backing down. So the crow turned round again and decided to act as if the magpie wasn’t there, while the magpie continued to shadow it while acting as if it was just coincidence that they happened to be in the same area of the lawn

At ClientGov, this morning was Show & Tell, and I initially thought there wasn’t much of either I could do. But then I suggested I could talk a bit about the upload bug hunt of the last couple of days, though I knew I couldn’t get too technical as this was mainly people on the management side, most of the devs being at the AwayDay. So I opened various tabs showing the S3 bucket and CloudWatch logs, and filtered the views down to the relevant stuff, and when my turn came I told them how various figures had been corrupted, then took them through the trail I’d followed: here’s the three files uploaded in eight seconds, here’s the background tasks executing, and so on. And they loved it! High praise from all sides, both for my telling of the story and for my persistence in tracking down all these different clues and putting them together. I guess people love a detective story

But with that done, I’ve now got to go and work out how to fix the damn bug. Ho hum

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Blue sky in parts.

Wanly sunny.

18.3 deg in here, 19.5 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.9 Torr, 14.656 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, LM, NF, vetran, xogg, and WTFH popped in.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Spotting with rain for the final half mile or so. Nice chat with a chap I meet now & again: he's an ex marine.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y <click> The butterfly thing. Pearl bordered fritillary. We don't appear to have those around here.

Gardening. Strimmed some weeds. Hacked some of the ash trees and the inevitable brambles. The rose I warned about not giving me any flowers duly pruned a bit. Maybe that will gee it up a bit. Reducing the thickness of the front garden privet hedge..

Managed to sharpen my grandfather's shears a bit using his sharpening stone. A less than professional job but they are cutting stuff a bit better.

Entertainment: a thing about PR. Hunter Biden on some MAGA nutjob's podcast where she apologised to him. .

Currently some bollox about Association Football coverage in Canada, Mexico, and SepticLand, this being of less than zero innerest to me.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

The Jack Hargreaves thing Out of Town. Will he kill anything this time? Yes. Two Grayling. Neither of which was named Chris. Rather inneresting ep: showed how they used to make [beehives out of straw sewn together with cunningly processed strips of rose briar. Then onto the fishing in a chalk stream that was in flood, hence the grayling. The beehive was in two parts: a lower part and an upper part with a piece of perforated zinc to keep the queen out of where she shouldn't go.

Hannah Fry investigating augments for the disabled. 5 minutes of Hannah Fry on polyurethane fridge insulation foam invented by Dr. Bayer at I.G. Farben in 1938.

Bollox on Blaze with wotshisface. Last one last week. Alternative bollox of insufficient innerest to bother with.

In other news a strange noise earlier turned out to be yet another double glazed window light departing this life. Looks like they are all going to do it. Six so far.