The Official Status Thread
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writing it down on a post-it…
My solution: memorize the password base, and write down the post-fix on a post-it note.
http://i.imgur.com/dfa89cs.png
Filed under: Fuck you password reset policies.
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what did you have in mind for the project?
Stalking @fbmac for archival purposes looks like a nice project if I can find the time.
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This post is deleted!
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I saw that post! Something about topics that disappear after a few days.
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I know you can see them clicking on the red pencil, don't you?
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I know you can see them clicking on the red pencil, don't you?
You want them deleted so I respect that and don't look.*edit also lazy
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Stalking @fbmac for archival purposes looks like a nice project if I can find the time.
hmm... interesting.
stalking a topic with sockbot is easy.... stalking a user.... harder, especially if you do it via their profile. that route's liable to bring down the whole site!
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I respect
/me squints at this highly suspicious phrase
Hmmm...*edit also lazy
Ahah, I knew it.
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that route's liable to bring down the whole site!
You say that like the very act of accessing the site at all isn't or something.
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The difference being that certain profiles have been positively identified as a source of cooties. Having a bot polling those profiles would be a Very Bad Idea.
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I'm sure I can find a way to make my profile lighter
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@DogsB said:
One of the worries I had so it would probably mean setting up a local instance of discourse to play with. Something I don't have the inclination to do.Stalking @fbmac for archival purposes looks like a nice project if I can find the time.
hmm... interesting.
stalking a topic with sockbot is easy.... stalking a user.... harder, especially if you do it via their profile. that route's liable to bring down the whole site!
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The difference being that certain profiles have been positively identified as a source of cooties. Having a bot polling those profiles would be a Very Bad Idea.
Well, yes, but I would be hesitant to say that anything involving Discourse isn't a Very Bad Idea.
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One of the worries I had so it would probably mean setting up a local instance of discourse to play with. Something I don't have the inclination to do.
@yamikuronue whipped this one up for testing Sockbot.
should do the trick for you too.
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I seem to recall seeing a discourse in a box intended for development somewhere. It may even have been on the Sock Drawer Github...
Ninja'd by @accalia
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local instance of discourse
If Discourse used Docker correctly, it'd be easy.
To download that image, the command is
docker pull benlubar/dwarffortress
. To download Discourse's image, you have to compile it locally on the production machine.
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The English language needs a gender-neutral pronoun that does not make it seem like you are referring to a person as an object.
So, you either play the pronoun game or you objectify.
The only way to win is not to play.
Vow of silence for the win.
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https://github.com/SockDrawer/DiscoBox
@yamikuronue whipped this one up for testing Sockbot.
Aww, it uses the Discourse launcher. I was hoping it was self-contained.
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Aww, it uses the Discourse launcher. I was hoping it was self-contained.
Pull requests accepted.
:-P
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Nah, is kind of fitting for a Discourse box.
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After installing it a few times, I find installing Discourse quite easy. Also, some of @sam's arguments for their launcher script were convincing enough for me:
I disagree with "Dockerfile did not support the rich transformations we needed and generated lots and lots of layers" because you can have something like this in your dockerfile:
ADD rich-transformations-script.sh /tmp/
RUN sh /tmp/rich-transformations-script.sh
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To download that image, the command is docker pull benlubar/dwarffortress. To download Discourse's image, you have to compile it locally on the production machine.
I would like this, but it mentions DF.
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@ben_lubar said:
To download that image, the command is docker pull benlubar/dwarffortress. To download Discourse's image, you have to compile it locally on the production machine.
I would like this, but it mentions DF.
In XenForo, you can easily define custom "like" attributes. Stock ones include "Like", "Funny", "Disagree", and more. I suggest we migrate to XenForo so we can actually have a "I would like this but it mentions Dwarf Fortress" button.
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"Dwarf Fortress" should be a type of flag, so the posts get hidden.
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Wondering why it is so hard to keep production, 'test' and development databases in some resemblance of sync?
How do you track DB change deployments?
This company does it a shitty way (we have a quick and dirty console app that just runs through a bunch of .SQL files), but it does guarantee the schemas match. There's literally no way to make a SQL schema change on production without running the console app.
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Are you just now watching the Prequels?
That little cameo was a pretty big deal when the movie first came out in, what, 1997?
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How do you track DB change deployments?
Yeah, the key is to have a process to promote changes. My dev schema is often fairly different, due to whatever I'm working on. But we have a review and deployment process for DB changes and even have a table to keep a log for each update script that's been run on a particular schema.
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That little cameo was a pretty big deal when the movie first came out in, what, 1997?
'99, I think, and yeah, even though I was a kid at the time I still heard all about it.
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track DB change deployments
What is the meaning of this term?
Seriously, at this place there is no change control on databases. Storage of SQL scripts in TFS is considered optional by most of the developers. To the extent that I was met with blank looks and confusion when I started and asked how DB changes were managed in source control.
Most of our stored procedures have previous versions commented out as a way of maintaining a record of what they used to do. Those that don't have that can be pretty much guaranteed to have no change history.
Changes are made direct to production all the goddamn time and depending on who makes the change there is a varying possibility of it making it back to dev, and next to no chance of it making to 'test'. The worst culprit for changing production and nothing else is the one person who has the authority to enforce any kind of change management, so there is next to no chance of anything changing anytime soon...
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Seriously, at this place there is no change control on databases.
So I assume your question:
Wondering why it is so hard to keep production, 'test' and development databases in some resemblance of sync?
Was rhetorical. Because the answer is, "you haven't even tried."
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Was rhetorical. Because the answer is, "you haven't even tried."
Yes it was. I assumed people might understand that from the context...
I have barely been there 3 months. I'm just at the end of my probation period, so am still stepping a little carefully. I have begun pushing for them to use some kind of change control for DB stuff, but getting people to change takes time. Especially when the changes look like it might stop them working how they always have (i.e. can't just jump on a production machine and make changes). I'm just hoping like fuck I can drive some change in this place somehow.
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There's literally no way to make a SQL schema change on production without running the console app.
Progress databases generate a schema description file in a specific format, somewhat like SQL alter table statements, but of course not actually those. My company's installer can read those, calculate a change delta, update the schema, and then recompile the entire application, although we do that sparingly because in spite of the warnings customers will do something dumb like not kick all the users out while processing. Fortunately this has never caused permanent damage--the worse was when 3 indexes on one table had their names mangled, and I had to go in and manually rename the indexes and then kick off a compile.
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FrostCat:Progress::BenL:Dwarf Fortress
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Unless the lag gets to you
The real reason is that Dwarf Fortress is moving at a relativistic velocity.
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moving at a relativistic velocity.
If every entity in DF jumped at the same time, would it be the entities that are moving, or the world that just got pushed away?
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@ben_lubar said:
moving at a relativistic velocity.
If every
entityunit in DF jumped at the same time, would it be theentitiesunits that are moving, or the world that just got pushed away?FTFY
Entities in Dwarf Fortress are abstract organizations of people, like governments and performance troupes.
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Entities in Dwarf Fortress are abstract organizations of people, like governments and performance troupes.
TIL.
My head has been stuck in Entity Framework long enough it's oozing into other aspects of my daily life. Normally I would have said something like,If (From objects As Object In theWorld.Objects Where TypeOf objects Is PhysicalObject and objects.LastAction = "Jump" Select objects.Velocity Aggregate Sum(objects.Velocity) as TotalMovement) > theWorld.velocity Then Assert("The objects Moved!") Else Assert("The world Moved!") End If
Filed under: Fake VB Master Race!
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FrostCat:Progress::BenL:Dwarf Fortress
I'm sure the average forumgoer sees those two things as about as interesting as hearing you blather on about LINQ or whatever.
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You need to learn to laugh at yourself.
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You need to learn to laugh at yourself.
And to love yourself. (I mean masturbate).
And then learn to laugh at yourself masturbating.
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It gets especially fun when talking about things that are called units in real life, because we named them all urists:
- Γ is urists, also known as kilograms
- °U is urists, also known as fahrenheit plus 9968
- ☼ is urists, any currency of any civilization in Dwarf Fortress
- Urist is a gender-agnostic first name used in examples, usually with a last name starting with Mc
- urist means "dagger" in dwarf
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You need to learn to laugh at yourself.
I don't know why you think I wasn't as I wrote that.
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I don't know why you think I wasn't as I wrote that.
I do; because laughing while typing at a computer seems like the sort of crazy shit reserved for @boomzilla, not you.
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Status: Wishing I could strangle the
moronidiotwonderful person who set up our Hyper-V Failover Cluster.On a related note, if anyone here is comfortable enough with S2012R2 Failover Clustering and Hyper-V that they would be willing to rubber duck & advise me on how to get from where I am to an actual "best practices" configured cluster that has a working SCVMM instance, I would greatly appreciate a PM.
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Status: Secretly discovering the intricacies of the Secret PM Club, despite not being in it.
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Ooooooooh who's in it?