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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rainy start, after overnight rain heavy enough to wake me a couple of times. But I felt like I didn’t sleep so well anyway, being beset by vivid but inconsequential dreams; I ended up ignoring the first alarm and having to drag myself out of bed when the second went off. It’s mild, being 16°C, which is where it was overnight; the rain’s expected to finish soon, though it’ll remain cloudy, with the day’s high being 21°. The barometers are up a little at 1003/1010mB

Two of the young magpies were just round the back, pulling up moss on the corrugated roof of one of the garage blocks. I’m a bit worried about the third, as I don’t think I’ve seen it for a couple of days. I noticed from the start that one of them seemed a bit more clingy, so maybe it’s just staying closer to home while the two bold ones go off adventuring. But it’s also possible they’ve lost one, which would be a shame

[WTFH]

Morning all
Very murky earlier but it has lifted slightly. There's been some overnight rain, but it was dry on the walk.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of new Police Interceptors

And in Future Noir, they’ve finally found all the original negatives and so on and been able, after a few years of legal holdups, to make The Final Cut. Also some stuff about the flying cars ending up in museums and so on

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

^^ celery?

It’s the most widely used Python task manager - basically a thing that allows you to say “run this code, but not yet” or “as and when” so you can kick off long-running processes without having to wait for them to finish. In this case, users upload a spreadsheet and get sent to a page that shows a list of uploads and whether they’ve been processed, any errors found, and so on. But actually processing the data takes six or seven minutes, and you can’t expect them to wait that long for a response to come back when they’ve submitted the form; so that’s spun off as a background task, and Celery manages the business of starting it up when there’s spare processing capacity, maybe retrying it if there’s a problem, ensuring it’s shut down properly once it’s finished, and all that kind of thing

[NickFitz]

It also looks like there may be a new series of 24 Hours in A&E. I haven't double checked it's not a repeat yet.

I saw that - a whole series too, rather than letting it out in dribs and drabs. Looks like a brand new one too, as it’s showing yesterday as the “first broadcast” date

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken thighs roasted with a bit of Jamaican jerk seasoning and a lemon and herb jus, and chips

Bit of an experiment but it turned out quite well, that. And it used up a lemon before they shrivel up

[ladymuck]

It also looks like there may be a new series of 24 Hours in A&E. I haven't double checked it's not a repeat yet.

[ladymuck]

^^ celery?

The space for doing was not optimally used this morning.

About 10 mins before the afternoon run of back to back meetings started, I put a wash on but obviously didn't have time to hang it out when it finished. It finally got draped about the airer about 3 hours after the beep.

[NickFitz]

Another day done, and as soon as I was finished I got a wholemeal loaf going in the bread maker. It takes five hours, so it always feels too late to start if I leave it much past 17:00

The people who are in charge of the data reckon there’s no need for my cunning plan to fix it, on the grounds that the people who work with it have been advised to fix their own bits manually and if they don’t, it can’t be that important. Fair enough

So that left me in peace to work on my solution to the problem. In fact, I ended up spending more time working out how to test it, as testing Celery tasks turns out not to be as straightforward as testing normal things. I might ditch that for now in favour of just getting the fix deployed, as I know it works from manual testing and they also want to do that, so they aren’t worrying about it at the end of the month

[sadkingbilly]

hello again

sun's just come out here
another tough morning at the office.

just installed a local AI to check what all the fuss is about.
none of the models knows much about Zsystems though *

ah, well, I won't be joining the sad sacks in SotM thread anytime soon.

*wrote me a win11 jukebox app in 5 goes <> 30 mins though, and it works

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

It’s turned quite Simpsonesque out now, rather then the unremitting cloudiness that the forecast seemed to be predicting earlier

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wispy bits here and there. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:21 BST

Lots of meetings this afternoon across all three gigs. This morning I have space for doing time.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Drizzly.

Misty.

19.7 in here, 20.25 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 LM, xogg, and I popped in, and Brillo popped in a lot.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. 2 conversations & a greeting.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about meja bans.

Blaze: Outback Wreckers. Stone me some of those cars were rusty. .

Mix: Oz customs thing S17: fines seem to have increased a bit: 3700AuD for bringing in undeclared meats. The usual Chinese obsession with stuffing suitcases with inedible crap thusly leading to the $3700 fines. The most mysterious was the two who flew from Norway with the contents of their fridge in a suitcase. Another $3700 fine: salami. They're not taking prisoners on this these days. Also the "tea" from Thailand which turned out to be $6M of H. The "clock" from Switzerland which turned out to have a "clockface" made from MDMA: all $600k of it. Haven't watched one of these for years, this one was quite good apart from the lack of frog fat & the inexplicable transport of the defrosted contents of a fridge all the way to Oz. . Including mouldy stuff and half eaten pizza. WTAF?

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click> Book.

Digging up Britain: well it was on, muted, whilst I read a book.

5 minutes of Simon Schama: Winston Churchill and George Orwell's Winston Smith.

BBC Alba: Cold War Stories. E1/3.

10 minutes of Simon Schama.

Book.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Looked like we were going to have a storm at 5:30, but none of the weather apps said there was any rain out there, so I went out without a jacket.
A very pleasant walk was had in the dry, the sky is looking less ominous now.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day and likely to remain so, with a bit of a breeze expected too. But it’s starting to warm up: already at 15°C, it’s expected to reach 23° this afternoon, with temperatures reaching the mid-20s for the rest of this week and potentially hitting the 30s towards the end of the next. The barometers aren’t keen though, being down to 1001/1009mB, which may be why we have a 40% chance of rain that is otherwise unexplained