The contractor that should not be
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@Yamikuronue well, I see it as Debian package maintainers knowing what the fuck they are doing, you see it as a mode.
Potato-tomato, it's easier to use than if it weren't there, so it gets from me whatever you call it :P
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@Yamikuronue said in The contractor that should not be:
batteries don't last forever
That's why rechargeable is preferred.
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@Luhmann Just be sure to know which end plugs in where
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@Onyx
USB-C is gone save us all!
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@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
...round is best of all: zero corners--and infinitely fewer bumps!
yes, but infinity is impossible to achieve outside mathematics,
what about using a regular megagon?
the error in perimeter for a regular megagon the size of earth's equator is on the order of 1/16mm and the maximum deviation from the true radius of a circle would be about a meter, scale that down to human size and it should be subjectively indistinguishable from a true circle, yet it's an object we can actually make .
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@Jaloopa said in The contractor that should not be:
@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
megagon
Was that one of the Decepticons?
he temps for them part time, yeah. but in his day job he's a million sided polygon.
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@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon?
Is that what those RPGs with stupidly high health and damage amounts use as hit dice?
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@Onyx said in The contractor that should not be:
@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon?
Is that what those RPGs with stupidly high health and damage amounts use as hit dice?
yeah. their hit dice are: 8d1000000
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@Jaloopa said in The contractor that should not be:
Has that module been ported?
no, it hasn't.
@Yamikuronue started work on a version for sockbot3 but i don't think it has ever been released.
also i havent brought back my bots to the forums yet. wanted to make sure they were stableish first.... and we're still getting too many cooties to call the forums stable.
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@accalia oh yeah...
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@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon?
Supersize me.
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@Yamikuronue said in The contractor that should not be:
Apache can work in two modes, one with the sites-available virtualhost thing, but I've seen installs that just put the site definition in the apache.conf for "simplicity".
TIL. When I set up my personal server, the only documentation I found was for the apache.conf method, but that was 10+ years ago, and as I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before, I'm not currently maintaining my sites. In fact, the "server" (an old desktop) hasn't even had a power cord plugged into it for almost 6 years.
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@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon? ... it's an object we can actually make .
Really? Making sure it's actually a megegon, not an henmegagon or an ennahectoennacontaennachiliaennahectoennacontaennagon and that it is actually regular sounds expensive.
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@Onyx said in The contractor that should not be:
@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon?
Is that what those RPGs with stupidly high health and damage amounts use as hit dice?
Those would be megahedrons, not megegons.
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@Yamikuronue said in The contractor that should not be:
eh? I mean, I primarily use Debian-based distros, but does Apache not create "sites-available" and "sites-enabled" when installed on non-Debian distros?
Doesn't on Red Hat, from what I've seen.
EDIT:
[root@ httpd]# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 86 Aug 11 17:57 .
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Aug 11 17:57 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 35 Aug 11 17:57 conf
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 78 Aug 11 17:57 conf.d
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 17:57 conf.modules.d
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Aug 11 17:57 logs -> /var/log/httpd24
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 44 Aug 11 17:57 modules -> /opt/rh/httpd24/root/usr/lib64/httpd/modules
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Aug 11 17:57 run -> /opt/rh/httpd24/root/var/run/httpd
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So, last Friday the CEO had promised to terminate this guy's contract by Monday...
Late Sunday evening, the contractor sends us an email acknowledging that he had misunderstood the code but is already working on fixing it. Boss decides to give him another chance.
Monday morning, he's in our office, because it's easier to ask us for help that way. After lunch, a coworker suggests using Scotch Box, which is a virtual machine image already preconfigured with the LAMP stack and all the related goodies. Boss decides to give the guy a new, smaller and non-critical, task, and reassigns the previous task to my coworker. Coworker completes it in a few hours.
Tuesday evening, the contractor finally gets his virtual machine going. Along the way I hear gems like "the virtual machine refused to start because my ssh key is too long".
On Wednesday, he fixes the issue he was given. My coworker has to walk him through how to make a new git branch and commit/push his code, and his code is okay. The contracting agency expects our final decision about him the next day.
Unsurprisingly, on Thursday our boss terminates his contract. The agency is apologetic about the situation, and promises us better rates for future contractors. He asks me if I would prefer to answer his future questions via email or phone. He's welcome to write me an email, but I make sure to block his number on my phone. He also wants to know what areas he should improve in, which is a good sign, and I give him recommendations.
Then he asks me to downplay our negative feedback when he uses us as a reference. I'm honestly not sure if that's to be expected, or if he's got brass cojones...The end.
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@Luhmann said in The contractor that should not be:
@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
Get out of here! This kind of sense is not tolerated around here!Hey, I heard a joke: This round wheel rolls into a bar. The bartender yells, "Hey, you, out! You can't bring your pi in here."
@Jaloopa said in The contractor that should not be:
@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
round is
bestworst of all:zeroinfinite corners--and infinitely fewerbumpsDon't even get me started on the "infinite number of infinitesimal corners on the head of pin" argument.. You remember last time, and how it came out being indefinite?
@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon?
Didn't those go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous or something?
It's late, I'm tired, a little silly...
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@heterodox Fucking hell.
I did a full OS update (14.04 to 16.04) on this forum's server and nobody even noticed the downtime.
Is it too much to ask to keep servers on at least a version of the OS that was released in the last decade?
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@Yamikuronue said in The contractor that should not be:
no, but symlinks are hard >.>
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@ben_lubar said in The contractor that should not be:
this forum's server and nobody even noticed the downtime.
Assumed normal cooties? We're well conditioned after all...
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@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
You remember last time, and how it came out being indefinite?
No. Was there a goat behind one of the infinite corners?
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@ben_lubar said in The contractor that should not be:
I did a full OS update (14.04 to 16.04) on this forum's server and nobody even noticed the downtime.
If it was this forum's server, wasn't it inside the Docker container? At which point the right thing to do is build with a new base image and yes, you can switch to that image with zero downtime.
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@heterodox Nope, it was the host. Docker containers get updated the way you said, though.
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@ben_lubar said in The contractor that should not be:
nobody even noticed the downtime.
I had to log in again on desktop, which I hadn't used to access TDWTF in a day or two, but not on mobile. Not sure if it's related to the update; maybe a session time-out, but I've not run into that before.
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@Onyx said in The contractor that should not be:
Is that what those RPGs with stupidly high health and damage amounts use as hit dice?
You can also roll a d10,000,000 in order to find out how many babies a particular woman will have, even though there are only five potential outcomes. Fucking FATAL.
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@Jaloopa said in The contractor that should not be:
@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
You remember last time, and how it came out being indefinite?
No. Was there a goat behind one of the infinite corners?
Whoa! No. The corners are not infinite, they're infinitesimal. And even though there's infinitely many of them, they
definitely can'tcan't definitely hide a goat.
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@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
they can't definitely hide a goat.
But they can hide a goat indefinitely. I know.
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@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
@Jaloopa said in The contractor that should not be:
@CoyneTheDup said in The contractor that should not be:
You remember last time, and how it came out being indefinite?
No. Was there a goat behind one of the infinite corners?
Whoa! No. The corners are not infinite, they're infinitesimal. And even though there's infinitely many of them, they
definitely can'tcan't definitely hide a goat.They almost surely can't hide a goat
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@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
@Onyx said in The contractor that should not be:
@accalia said in The contractor that should not be:
what about using a regular megagon?
Is that what those RPGs with stupidly high health and damage amounts use as hit dice?
yeah. their hit dice are: 8d1000000
Calling Byron Hall!
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@Jaloopa I am pretty sure that Goat is usually described as having a million young, though with her an infinite number is just as plausible.
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@ScholRLEA said in The contractor that should not be:
Calling
ByronMonty Hall!