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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I've got some of that coming up, from Thursday through including the following Tuesday.
Yes, that's called bank holidays
(I know, in your case they're also giving you Thursday + Tuesday, which is indeed nice)
My employer does give us a few days this way every year, but the current one is different. The goal is officially to avoid people all taking their holidays at once when the confinement eases up, and therefore ensure some business continuity later on. I don't think it's really needed (at least now), but I can understand that management is getting nervous about it and that they want to preemptively take whatever measures they can. As long as it's just regular paid holidays that we have to take, it's honestly not a big ask (and most people usually take a few days anyway during Spring break, which is now, so it's even less of a change for them).
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
The only exception is flour which is still totally missing. I still don't know what people are doing that uses so much of it, bakeries are still open, so...?
Might be different over on the mainland, but I was reading something the other day about the flour situation in the UK. We're self sufficient in flour, but only have a couple of mills that package in the 1kg bags for consumers. The rest is sold in bulk to bakeries, fast food places etc. It's not particularly simple to retool the packaging production lines so there's a limit on how much flour can be sent for end users to purchase.
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@Jaloopa I thought about that, yes. Obviously people are no longer eating in restaurants, canteens etc. so all of those bulk uses of flour need repackaging for retail, which might be hard to do. I even overheard a couple of people saying that you could get flour by buying it at your local bakery (i.e. that they would, in effect, be doing the bulk -> retail conversion), I haven't tried. But the main use of flour (here at least) is for bread, which in normal times people only ever buy in bakery. Then again some people might even be going less to their bakeries (because they're not going out, or even because they're freaking out), and baking some home bread etc. (or just spending more time doing cakes etc.), all of which use more flour than usual.
Still, I'm surprised that it gets to such a shortage, because for me flour is an item that I buy almost every time (so it's not like a once-in-a-couple-of-months buy where demand is usually low and even the slightest uptick can cause a shortage). But then again, I'm probably actually very unusual (judging by the amount of shelf space allocated to those) in buying close to zero prepared food, so... And even so, I'm surprised that since the start of confinement, flour is the only product that is totally and entirely missing (others may be in limited supply but some is available, or were in shortage initially (TP) but things are getting better now), as if it was so much different from everything else
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
The only exception is flour which is still totally missing. I still don't know what people are doing that uses so much of it, bakeries are still open, so...?
Might be different over on the mainland, but I was reading something the other day about the flour situation in the UK. We're self sufficient in flour, but only have a couple of mills that package in the 1kg bags for consumers. The rest is sold in bulk to bakeries, fast food places etc. It's not particularly simple to retool the packaging production lines so there's a limit on how much flour can be sent for end users to purchase.
That's kinda universal. But what is the commercial packaging unit then?
I know rice is sold in 10-20kg sacks for restaurant use (and my wife buys it in those). But do bakeries receive it in sacks or dumptruck beds or what?
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Status:
"Groetus... I can sense your silhouette hovering over me. Soon we shall meet, oh lord of oblivion."
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@acrow this is the article I read. Apparently commercial amounts are usually 16 or 25 kilos
Why there's still no flour as supermarket shelves fill back up
It's down to consumers to be practical and unselfish
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
The only exception is flour which is still totally missing. I still don't know what people are doing that uses so much of it, bakeries are still open, so...?
Might be different over on the mainland, but I was reading something the other day about the flour situation in the UK. We're self sufficient in flour, but only have a couple of mills that package in the 1kg bags for consumers. The rest is sold in bulk to bakeries, fast food places etc. It's not particularly simple to retool the packaging production lines so there's a limit on how much flour can be sent for end users to purchase.
That's kinda universal. But what is the commercial packaging unit then?
I know rice is sold in 10-20kg sacks for restaurant use (and my wife buys it in those). But do bakeries receive it in sacks or dumptruck beds or what?Enclosed tank trucks, just like milk. Also realise not every shop calling themselves a bakery actually bakes locally.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
I know rice is sold in 10-20kg sacks for restaurant use
There's quite a lot of families round here that buy it in those quantities too.
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Status: Woke up way too early today. Have planned for today, played through the new story-mode trial in FFXIV 5.25, played a bunch of DFFOO...I'm bored. And still 20 minutes until work starts.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
That's kinda universal. But what is the commercial packaging unit then?
I know rice is sold in 10-20kg sacks for restaurant use (and my wife buys it in those). But do bakeries receive it in sacks or dumptruck beds or what?Very large scale industrial bakeries probably receive it by trucks, yes. In France though, most bread is baked into smaller local bakeries (even bread in supermarket is often baked there, not delivered from a factory), and they get flour in big sacks of 25 kg.
I know that because I have several such sacks at home: I regularly ask my baker for left-over bread from the day before (*) to give it to animals (**), and they give it to me (for free) in those sacks. Or if you order e.g. 15 baguettes for a family reunion, they'll usually give them to you in those as well.
(*) somehow every bakery in France apparently manages to have at least one such sack worth (in volume, not in weight!) of left-over from one day to the next, which goes to show how cheap the actual bread itself is, if they can afford to throw that much away every day... Not that it really is a surprise if you do the maths, but still, it's a nice illustration.
(**) sometimes we're lucky and there are a couple of fancy fruit breads or even pastries in the sack, which we eat ourselves (they're just from the day before, bread keeps for much longer than that!).
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently commercial amounts are usually 16 or 25 kilos
I think that's the smallest size Costco carries...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Woke up way too early today.
Must be a thing. I woke up at 4a. By 4:45 I said screw it and got up. This time, I woke the dogs up! (ok, 2 of them were up as soon as I pulled the blanket back...)
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Status: Apparently earned 42 internet pointzzzz. What’s the exchange rate to peanut butter cups?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently earned 42 internet pointzzzz. What’s the exchange rate to peanut butter cups?
Infinite. However the transaction fee is astronomical.
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status I need to be careful. I'm bringing my TDWTF snark level to Facebook.
: <talk about media> Get your info from a reliable unbiased source, <more stuff>
: "Reliable unbiased source". ROTFLOL!!!
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<rant on>
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another status When you wake up at 4a, and it's now 10:30, yes, it's lunch time!
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@dcon
The only acceptable 10:30am lunch is a pizza omelet
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon
The only acceptable 10:30am lunch is a pizza omelet1/2 onion, 3 small red potatoes - diced, garlic, sauteed in butter (in a wok)
add sliced mushrooms, ground beef, cook till done
add grated jalapeno cheddar cheese, toss, let it really melt in.yum. Though an over-easy egg on top would have been a good idea...
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Status: Went in on the first and second of April, stayed home Friday and yesterday, went back in today, now I'm basically planning on having to "work from home" until May. The only exception is that I'm planning on going in this Friday to update our source control software, but otherwise no projects for me are coming down.
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Status: TAXAPALOOZA HAS BEGUN
Stage 0: find paperwork
Stage 1: enter invoices
Stage 2: enter inventory
Stage 3: enter sales
Stage 4: figure out WTF is wrong with data from stages 1-3
Stage 5: five minutes clicking through Turbo Tax
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@Zenith
Seven whole days early. Are you trying to get your
badge revoked?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Seven whole days early.
Didn't they extend the deadline for everyone? Or am I just hearing things?
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@izzion Don't worry, there's absolutely no danger of them being done by the 15th.
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I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
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Status: Verifying my identity....
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Status: Since Windows 7 is officially EOLed, once again I'm asking you:
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status I need to be careful. I'm bringing my TDWTF snark level to Facebook.
: <talk about media> Get your info from a reliable unbiased source, <more stuff>
: "Reliable unbiased source". ROTFLOL!!!
: <rant on>At least you didn't say anything about journalistic integrity
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Verifying my identity....
@error_bot xkcd A New CAPTCHA Approach
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
The devs in my team have started generating regexes that just fail a handful of edge cases while only being 10 times longer than necessary. Progress!
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
The devs in my team have started generating regexes that just fail a handful of edge cases while only being 10 times longer than necessary. Progress!
These geniuses are trying to replace http: with https:. This is the second rejected PR for the task.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
The devs in my team have started generating regexes that just fail a handful of edge cases while only being 10 times longer than necessary. Progress!
These geniuses are trying to replace http: with https:. This is the second rejected PR for the task.
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I am having a hard time coming up with any way that this could be in any way hard with regex.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
The devs in my team have started generating regexes that just fail a handful of edge cases while only being 10 times longer than necessary. Progress!
These geniuses are trying to replace http: with https:. This is the second rejected PR for the task.
Wait, so
s/^http:/https:/doesn't work?! What are they doing?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
The devs in my team have started generating regexes that just fail a handful of edge cases while only being 10 times longer than necessary. Progress!
These geniuses are trying to replace http: with https:. This is the second rejected PR for the task.
Wait, so
s/^http:/https:/doesn't work?! What are they doing?There are a few complications. The URL can appear in a number of different contexts. It really shouldn't be this hard, which is why I mentioned it.
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@topspin The only place where RegEx seems that difficult is in htaccess. I still can't get half of my old website routed to the new structure reliably because Apache's parser is weird.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith
Seven whole days early. Are you trying to get your badge revoked?Mine are done and gone. And CA has already given me my money back. US is slower.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm watching two senior developers both struggling to get a simple regex right, and I'm wondering about the baseline competence of my new team.
I'm now staff (the next level up from senior) and I would fail at that too. (If we go for very simple, then I'm ok!)
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status I need to be careful. I'm bringing my TDWTF snark level to Facebook.
: <talk about media> Get your info from a reliable unbiased source, <more stuff>
: "Reliable unbiased source". ROTFLOL!!!
: <rant on>At least you didn't say anything about journalistic integrity
I was tempted to. But I restrained myself and came here instead.
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Status: Our vendor had decided to roll out an update for our school management software last week. Our IT contractor decided to push that update to the server on Sunday - they'd already successfully done the update at three other locations.
Of course our Nextcloud instance promptly keeled over dead - some LDAP connectivity issue for some Godforsaken reason. Please note: My own bindings to our LDAP server with Moodle and some custom Bash scripts are still working fine so I'm not sure why that would be an issue.
They have been working on it for three days now. Maybe they'll have it fixed by tomorrow.
This, of course, is a bit of a problem currently. And it's also annoying considering that one of our contractor's arguments against hosting our own Nextcloud instance (instead of using the included one) would be that we'd be out of support by doing so.
The whole point of using the included version was that it would be running without any problems after updating. Not seeing the big advantage here.
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God damn, every track by Thank You Scientist is catchy and gets stuck in my head.
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@Zenith
Stage 0: find paperwork
Stage 1: enter invoices
Stage 2: enter inventory
Stage 3: enter sales
Stage 4: figure out WTF is wrong with data from stages 1-3
Stage 5: five minutes clicking through Turbo Tax
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Well, fuck. My email account is compromised. And it had a fairly secure randomly generated password. So maybe everything is compromised.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Time to fuck around with PHP and XML!
No kink-shaming but...
XML? ewww
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Time to fuck around with PHP and XML!
No kink-shaming but...
XML? ewww
Yeah, apparently the program producing data output can only do XML or not-really-csv (really: you'd think data would be records but no, someone apparently coded it to spit a line of names and then some garbage and then the line of values. It's
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course our Nextcloud instance promptly keeled over dead - some LDAP connectivity issue for some Godforsaken reason. Please note: My own bindings to our LDAP server with Moodle and some custom Bash scripts are still working fine so I'm not sure why that would be an issue.
Could be due to some sort of screwing around with outbound firewalls. Some people absolutely love to do that because “security”
, and it works well… until it bites you utterly in the ass when a critical dependency service moves to another IP address. And because firewalls are often hard to see components of an architecture, it can take server-focused people a long time to remember that they might be a problem.The next stage might be for the vendor to offer to run your entire Active Directory for you, because that runs inside their firewall, ignoring everything else you do with it…
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@dkf The firewall as a cause would be really weird because
a) everything (save for the services I created, like Moodle) is living on the same server thus the firewall and
b) said services I created can access the LDAP just fine.
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Status: Pondering if the reason my little "Copy some stuff to the Program Files directory on every machine" group policy isn't working is that it's not running as a user with permission to do so...
Edit: After researching, I've discovered that it's apparently not guaranteed for the NETLOGON share to be available, just SYSVOL.
So, following the advice of the Internet I've adjusted my little copy script to source the files from SYSVOL instead. We'll see what happens tomorrow morning when they turn the computers on...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf The firewall as a cause would be really weird because
a) everything (save for the services I created, like Moodle) is living on the same server thus the firewall and
b) said services I created can access the LDAP just fine.But you're not hosting the problem service (you said so) so the problem I'm positing is an outbound firewall (not the usual inbound type) on whatever they're using at their end. Which might be on a different server to what they were previously running, or might be in a different provider with different defaults. There's a whole bunch of subtle places that things can go wrong and it's all because networks are much more complicated than we all prefer to usually think about.
Failing that, it could also be that they do all their LDAP access by shelling out to Perl and their parsing regexps are wrong.
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