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[NickFitz]

Another week done!

We spent the last hour in a meeting about setting up SLOs. The SLO guys were initially talking about tradeoffs between new features and reliability, until we pointed out that this thing is going into maintenance mode at the end of the month and is definitely not getting any new features before then. So it all just devolved into setting up some monitoring so somebody gets alerted if it starts running really slowly

It did make me realise, though, that we haven’t got anything set up to notify us if it just dies. Up to now, we've relied on the fact that the users would send us a message on Teams saying “Why is it dead?”

But strictly speaking, it’s other people’s responsibility to notice that level of infrastructure failure and sort it out. They get paid to be hassled by PagerDuty; I don't

It did remind me of the fact that the BBC iPlayer people have, or had a few years ago, a thing that alerted them if iPlayer mentions on Twitter suddenly increased, as that usually meant it had fallen over

[sadkingbilly]

lunch was TTD prawns with sundried tomatos and basil pesto.
accompanied by little feat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHcGkGdiEHc

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover chicken in red wine sauce

I spent most of the morning updating the documentation on getting PyCharm working with the new remote development environments, because somebody else has apparently been struggling with it and the people who are running the transition don’t know how to do it as most people use VS Code. I don’t often make detailed notes of this kind of thing but I had this time, as I figured this situation might arise. So I got it all written up and even included screenshots of every step, adorned with bright pink arrows pointing at the various bits one has to click and so on

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^ dementia is SH1TE!!
had to watch <helplessly, it felt> my partner's mother deteriorate.
you have all my sympathy.
my worst nightmare, and one reason i haven't retired completely.
pottered in the garden today. topped up lily pond with 2.5 barrels <about 1/2 tonne> of stored rainwater and generally tidied up here and there.
now for lunch.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another sunny start to the day with occasional wisps here and there. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Once again, cloud cover set to increase later in the day. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:30; Sunset 19:28 BST

It sounds mean but I am very much looking forward to going home tomorrow. My Mum's behaviour is much more challenging than my last stay just a couple of months ago. It's hard to tell if she's just being wilful or if she genuinely has no memory of how to do some simple tasks.

[WTFH]

Morning all
8C at 5:40 this morning, but I still went out in short sleeves. All was good until we walked along a path where the temperature dropped. Tomorrow may be the start of long sleeves for walks.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There are layers of high, thin cloud, so enough sunshine is getting through to make it “sunny” but in a rather washed-out kind of way. It might get a bit clearer later though. It’s a mere 11°C but will soar to 19° later, with the barometers up a whisker at 1005/1013mB

Thursday!

Due to the delays to Viz, I have to go to Big Sainsbury’s again. I’m not sure I’ll have time for that at lunchtime so might have to put it off until tomorrow. Then again, maybe I can squeeze it in if I’m not too busy

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 18.9 deg, 19.4 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 13 out the back.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (down from 1011.5 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 11:45 and 13:15, AndyGarbs, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and I popped in, with NF giving us the Leicester death count. .

Mediocre night's sleep, being rather overtired after yesterday's exertions.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: old tools: thing for boring bung holes in barrels, Broom maker's thing for cutting thorns off blackthorne sticks, poacher's net weight for salmon, weight for spinning thread. Hogged mane on a Viking Horse aka Norwegian Fjord horse : very striking. Using a stick to stop rams going through hedges when the fancy takes them. Carding wool. Spinniing wool with a spinning wheel. Worsted thread: uncarded. Spinning flax. Spinning silk slub.

Bab5 S4 E1: the bit I missed yesterday despite having the dvds on the shelf to my right. .

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom, during which it decided to rain a little, sunny by the time I returned home.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: This cultural life: Ray Winstone.

Dashcam bollox.

Next door's lawn duly mown: much easier than mine was yesterday. .

Would have been even better if the drizzle hadn't started halfway through.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Dawn, in which she’s still not very happy about being stuck with a bunch of aliens that are planning to genetically modify all surviving humans

Thursday tomorrow!

And it’s Tech Debt day too, so shouldn’t be stressful

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Grab the 17 pro max, I got one from Cashconverters for £910 about a month ago..

But I’d only be getting a new one for the camera with variable aperture, and the 17 doesn’t have that! For everything other than the camera, the 12 is still fine

[eek]

I’m tempted by the iPhone 18 Pro Max. My current 12 Pro Max is perfectly fine for stuff like calls, messages, email, and so on. But the camera leaves a lot to be desired compared to the new one - it can’t even do macro shots! And the new variable aperture sounds cool, though they slipped in something about it only having four settings when they thought we weren’t listening…

But pricewise, the old one was a bit over £1,600 with the maximum-in-2021 512GB, whereas the new one maxed out at 2TB would be nearer £2,600

The folding one seems pretty cool too, but that would be over three grand with 2TB. So I might hold off on that until the National Lottery have got their act together and picked the correct numbers for once

Grab the 17 pro max, I got one from Cashconverters for £910 about a month ago..

[NickFitz]

I intentionally updated a few weeks ago - because I suspect phone prices are going to be heading up a bit..

I’m tempted by the iPhone 18 Pro Max. My current 12 Pro Max is perfectly fine for stuff like calls, messages, email, and so on. But the camera leaves a lot to be desired compared to the new one - it can’t even do macro shots! And the new variable aperture sounds cool, though they slipped in something about it only having four settings when they thought we weren’t listening…

But pricewise, the old one was a bit over £1,600 with the maximum-in-2021 512GB, whereas the new one maxed out at 2TB would be nearer £2,600

The folding one seems pretty cool too, but that would be over three grand with 2TB. So I might hold off on that until the National Lottery have got their act together and picked the correct numbers for once

[NickFitz]

Spag bol for tea

Accompanied by the rest of part one of the latest 24 Hours in Police Custody

[ladymuck]

Er, no. There's a bit missing in your address thingy:

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/...mputer/5295046

Oops. I must have over enthusiastically removed all the tracking junk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

is that you, DrS?

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/...-supercomputer

Er, no. There's a bit missing in your address thingy:

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/...mputer/5295046