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goatsestretchgoals posted:that exchange is dumb as hell but 'we ran out of room on the backup drives, can we delete some of your poo poo?' is a solid 2nd dumbest Pekinduck posted:Yeah its the equivalent of having employees sign a sheet to take a sugar packet by the coffee machine. The space shortage was due to a storage solution our ITC people installed having 1/4 of the space that was advertised (the followup on this is going to be a war in itself) but which somehow managed to display as if the max space was the advertised space right up until error messages presented upon write attempts, and we can't just delete multimillion-cell datasets (some of which are delta-load only and which potentially can't be reconstructed from source due to the programs that created them no longer operating) as we please without confirming whether they're redundant or not. We simply can't have local working knowledge of which of the tens of thousands of files are still in use in a team of 5 when we support hundreds of users. The main files relating to the backups are on a virtual machine so if there's an outage and the backups are gone, then that's it and everyone eats poo poo for it. It's a far from ideal situation.
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Breetai posted:The space shortage was due to a storage solution our ITC people installed having 1/4 of the space that was advertised (the followup on this is going to be a war in itself) but which somehow managed to display as if the max space was the advertised space right up until error messages presented upon write attempts, and we can't just delete multimillion-cell datasets (some of which are delta-load only and which potentially can't be reconstructed from source due to the programs that created them no longer operating) as we please without confirming whether they're redundant or not. We simply can't have local working knowledge of which of the tens of thousands of files are still in use in a team of 5 when we support hundreds of users. The main files relating to the backups are on a virtual machine so if there's an outage and the backups are gone, then that's it and everyone eats poo poo for it. Yikes that's not, Ah well, you could, have you considered, uh yeah you can, I think... Perhaps become a monk at a remote monastery?
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Breetai posted:The space shortage was due to a storage solution our ITC people installed having 1/4 of the space that was advertised (the followup on this is going to be a war in itself) but which somehow managed to display as if the max space was the advertised space right up until error messages presented upon write attempts, and we can't just delete multimillion-cell datasets (some of which are delta-load only and which potentially can't be reconstructed from source due to the programs that created them no longer operating) as we please without confirming whether they're redundant or not. We simply can't have local working knowledge of which of the tens of thousands of files are still in use in a team of 5 when we support hundreds of users. The main files relating to the backups are on a virtual machine so if there's an outage and the backups are gone, then that's it and everyone eats poo poo for it. Lmao, that reminds me of those tech videos where the person buys a "1tb" Micro SD card but it's really a 64gb one that's been flashed to say it's 1tb or some poo poo.
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Breetai posted:The space shortage was due to a storage solution our ITC people installed having 1/4 of the space that was advertised i re-read, sorry that i implied you weren't doing your job, lovely at-bar-on-phone phrasing also, Pekinduck posted:Perhaps become a monk at a remote monastery? goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Appreciate the apology. Thankfully we've got the situation under control now, but that's mainly down to the fact that we've freed up a few hundred GB of data which should possibly tide us over until we change our mainframe later this year, at which point we won't need to rely on the VM/backup model that we're currently using. The original user was very lucky that the way they presented the info was ambiguous enough that followup clarification was needed, otherwise everything would have been deleted as advised and we'd be either screwed the next time the VM went offline, or would need to spend lots of time running manual backups from the VM if we were lucky enough to identify that the deletions were done to otherwise unrecoverable files.
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my boss doesn't know computers or her point of sales software that well and I while I'm not a computer person, I certainly know a lot more but she says I click too fast
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Mar 21, 2021 14:18
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"You click too fast" "What, its a computer? There's no such thing" *Therac-25 software engineer breaks out into a cold sweat somewhere*
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Breetai posted:The space shortage was due to a storage solution our ITC people installed having 1/4 of the space that was advertised (the followup on this is going to be a war in itself) but which somehow managed to display as if the max space was the advertised space right up until error messages presented upon write attempts, and we can't just delete multimillion-cell datasets (some of which are delta-load only and which potentially can't be reconstructed from source due to the programs that created them no longer operating) as we please without confirming whether they're redundant or not. We simply can't have local working knowledge of which of the tens of thousands of files are still in use in a team of 5 when we support hundreds of users. The main files relating to the backups are on a virtual machine so if there's an outage and the backups are gone, then that's it and everyone eats poo poo for it. 
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zedprime posted:"You click too fast" can't say I click too fast because it doesn't even support mouse input, but there is a lockstep function implemented in in all the scripts set up for our database software I've been talking about, because we're able to type by hand faster than the system processes input. The system designed for use with a 2MHz 8080. Now running on 2018ish modern laptops and desktops. And the bloody thing still won't run full speed.
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I can't get into too much detail but my team has been fighting a long protracted war with a team in another division who has decided that: 1. Their division is exempt from our corporate mandate 2. Their job is to do what we do as a corporate function exclusively for our division As an analogy, imagine if a department in your company setup a parallel HR Department because "they can't take the risk of you hiring unqualified people" but then they keep hiring highschoolers. Testikles fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Plant MONSTER. posted:my boss doesn't know computers or her point of sales software that well and I while I'm not a computer person, I certainly know a lot more but she says I click too fast You should have listed your pro APM on your CV.
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Mar 21, 2021 16:44
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Testikles posted:I can't get into too much detail but my team has been fighting a long protracted war with a team in another division who has decided that: There's somebody's ego making all this a problem where there shouldn't be isn't there?
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Testikles posted:I can't get into too much detail but my team has been fighting a long protracted war with a team in another division who has decided that:
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Breetai posted:Appreciate the apology. I apologize as well, I should have known there was more to the story.
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Our line of business software changed their naming convention from master and slave accounts to parent and child accounts. One of the Directors was really annoyed about this for some reason and phoned me up to tell me he was writing a strongly worded email to the Managing Director of the software company.  Why did they change it? I hate it!  ...Because "Master/Slave" comes across as pretty racist... Who told them to use "Parent/Child"? Why didn't they ask what we wanted to use? ...Because it is already a well-established term in programming and it would be an absolute nightmare if each company used their own terms...I swear he was hoping I would say I chose those terms so he could get lovely with me.
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Whipstickagostop posted:Our line of business software changed their naming convention from master and slave accounts to parent and child accounts. Let me guess, this Director also doesn't care for BLM, vegans, cyclists or LGBT+ people.
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Hey, there’s nothing wrong with hating cyclists
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Yes there is.
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Anyone who willingly wants to ride in the street *closer* to cars on a bike instead of on the sidewalk where they won't be squished like Grape Escape doesn't deserve respect, so find the people at your work who are riding 15 mph on an avenue and put thumb tacks in their tires imho
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Mar 21, 2021 22:31
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its illegal to use a bicycle on the sidewalk where i live
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Have you ever seen or heard of a cop stopping and ticketing someone for that
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AHH F/UGH posted:Anyone who willingly wants to ride in the street *closer* to cars on a bike instead of on the sidewalk where they won't be squished like Grape Escape doesn't deserve respect, so find the people at your work who are riding 15 mph on an avenue and put thumb tacks in their tires imho Ah yes the best hot take, where you condone destroying people's property, just because those people chose to legally ride a bicycle on the road, as both a form of exercise, and a budget-friendly way to travel to work. AHH F/UGH posted:Have you ever seen or heard of a cop stopping and ticketing someone for that It depends on whether the cyclist is black.
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lmao the dude lumping cyclists in with BLM and marginalized groups has some spicy tepid takes
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Rockman Reserve posted:lmao the dude lumping cyclists in with BLM and marginalized groups has some spicy tepid takes The venn diagram of racists and whether they hate things such as rights for ethnic minorities, vegetarianism, LGBT+, cycling and environmentalism is a perfect circle.
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Trying to ride on the sidewalks around here is a mistake, because they're more hosed up than the roads and in some cases just missing. In the newer sections there are specifically no sidewalks on purpose.
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guy who barges into a discussion about workplaces and instantly starts a derail about cyclists out of nowhere: gee why does every one hate cyclists
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AHH F/UGH posted:Anyone who willingly wants to ride in the street *closer* to cars on a bike instead of on the sidewalk where they won't be squished like Grape Escape doesn't deserve respect, so find the people at your work who are riding 15 mph on an avenue and put thumb tacks in their tires imho Do u know anything about biking lol
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Rockman Reserve posted:guy who barges into a discussion about workplaces and instantly starts a derail about cyclists out of nowhere: gee why does every one hate cyclists Learn to read. I mentioned it in passing, poisonpill started the derail. Further, I've posted in this thread before multiple times.
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titty_baby_ posted:Do u know anything about biking lol Yeah I ride from my home to work (before the corona) and gently caress cops and their poo poo rules, I’m staying as far away from car drivers any chance I can Also I’m not serious about thumb tacking their tires, chill other guy That’s another poo poo thing about working from home is that I don’t get to do exercise and work at the same time, I have to specifically set aside time for that now
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Fair enough mate.
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AHH F/UGH posted:Yeah I ride from my home to work (before the corona) and gently caress cops and their poo poo rules, I’m staying as far away from car drivers any chance I can Just lol if you're not cardio-jerking it to porn on one of your two WFH monitors 8 hours a day. Actually, if you combined that with some light stretching would that satisfy the basic 30 minutes of exercise a day?
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i mean, if i rode a bike, i think i would prefer the sidewalk cause holy poo poo i don't trust cars and the people who commandeer them. the only time i've heard of a pedestrian being hit with a bike was me when i was a toddler and the cyclist was my brother and i got scraped to poo poo it was badass!
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AHH F/UGH posted:Anyone who willingly wants to ride in the street *closer* to cars on a bike instead of on the sidewalk where they won't be squished like Grape Escape doesn't deserve respect, so find the people at your work who are riding 15 mph on an avenue and put thumb tacks in their tires imho equal respect to those who oppose bike lanes. or, yknow, reducing auto traffic in general. turns out there are ways to make bikes work great in urban environments, you just have to start by not treating the car as equally holy to the cross. and of course America is bad at treating either one as part of a whole and not as the sole solution. wild. Workplace stuff: hiring a temp. Despite needing full time people. And having the budget for full time people. Please tell me this is a "temp work, contract at end of temp period" or something before we waste a week
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Considering how many drivers I see browsing instagram and poo poo on their phones while driving around and poo poo, yeah there’s no loving way I’m willingly going to choose riding a bike closer to cars if it’s possible to ride somewhere else edit: to tie this back into workplace, I forgot to mention the cool mailroom guy at my work ate poo poo riding on one of those single fat wheel electric skateboard things to the office, so the guy who was replacing him on Friday in the mailroom hosed up my shipping order and sent something to Hawaii accidentally AHH F/UGH fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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lol did i seriously get two reports for "anti cyclist bullshit" what is going on here edit- lol come on guys im not probing anyone can you try to get along and find some kind of common ground here for instance, work, it sucks HugeGrossBurrito fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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spin class gone awry
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:lol did i seriously get two reports for "anti cyclist bullshit" what is going on here lmao no way
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lmao The detail was absolutely justified now hahaha, namaste
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I'm feeling a little anxious cause i can't stop picturing this scenario
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AHH F/UGH posted:Have you ever seen or heard of a cop stopping and ticketing someone for that I actually did get yelled at by a cop on foot once for it, but it was 20 years ago and I don't think they would have chased me or anything. 
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