[08:14] personally think it's a bad idea, but they must have enough economics experts whispering in the ear to justify it [08:14] time of day everyone [11:57] afty [11:57] * daftykins consumes coffee #1 [12:11] listening to economic experts during a pandemic... just what the doctor ordered [12:11] * zxm-pi heads for 2nd mug of tea [14:13] Ahoyhoy [14:19] o/ [14:34] \o [14:58] We're getting close to opening up over here. We're just a handful of cases each day in the province. Alberta removed all restrictions the other day. [15:00] While I agree the restrictions are necessary, it's now getting to the point (at least here in Quebec) that we can start treating it more like the flu. We have a high vaccination rate and the aim is to have 75-80% of the Quebec population fully vaccinated by end of August. [15:01] I get my second vaccine in two weeks. Hoping soon I'll be able to visit the UK in Sept/Oct time. [15:06] Myrtti: If I do end up visiting, it'll be nice to see you & D. [15:08] September is a tough time with the weekday necessity of being home, but yes. [15:10] I've not even dreamt of seeing my family this year. it's close to three years now that we've seen [15:33] Fingers crossed you get to see them soon. [15:38] Client's message in response to being told we don't do Friday deployments/launches: We have told clients the site will be live on Monday, so if we cant launch on Friday then I supposed it will need to be Monday morning. [15:39] Why don't clients ask developers when they can deploy before telling the world when things will happen? [15:46] launch shouldn't even mean customer facing launch, should be a 24 hour dry run :( [15:49] when has a masive deploymen ever gone wrong? :-P [15:52] my personal facvourite was we installed it on a friday evening ready for monday. storm that night caused building next door to collapse and drop rocks on shiny new server. that was a busy weekend :-) [15:54] Ouch [15:56] luckily when rain soaked rocks hit the server they tripped the power which saved the server. took a microwave sized rock off the pc. used lump hammer to beat it back into shape. dusted off and used hair dryer on motherboard. plugged in. switched on. IT'S *ALIVE* \o/ [15:57] back when pcs were made with solid steel cases [15:58] big secuity company. was cool to see all the contractors they had on retainer. electricians, glaziers, carpeting all in and out and building fixed by monday morning [16:08] xD [16:08] then the HDDs failed Tuesday morning... [16:09] I would have expected quite a bit of shock damage. Especially if the heads were moving at the time [16:10] hdds.... 1 single 110mb esdi drive blessed by novell :-D [16:10] me too [16:11] drive was a full height tank that could have been used as a door stop while in use :-) [16:12] i'm sure it was last esdi drive we ever used [16:14] no wait, 3rd last. we got another one, filled it up in a week and then got a 330mb one for office server. that was the last [16:28] Google image search for esdi does not return the results I was expecting here [16:32] pre www https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Small_Disk_Interface [16:32] solid tech. just. kept. running. [16:44] https://twitter.com/thenaughtysquid/status/1412450241027117058 [16:46] xD [16:54] Silly [16:56] my pal who works for Apple in CA but is from Guernsey, his cousin is the creator of ogre3d - https://www.ogre3d.org/ [16:57] ah he retired [17:39] interesting these web services that don't recognise £ as a "special character" [17:43] every irish developer wants to meet the genius who decided that ' was special in sql :-D [17:44] xD [17:45] Sql, O'Lordy [17:45] you do not want that many annoyed o'briens and o'neills annoyed at you [17:46] just logged into my Oracle Cloud free account 'cause i feel like i should accept their default iptables config but it seemed to be a chore to let me open ports last time [23:34] to bedski! [23:37] o/