The Bridge

7:02 PM

current status: father, mother and sister in separate vacations, flooding me with pictures of swimmable seasides and delicious foodstuffs

please send depressing pictures to compensate

Avery

what am I doing with my life

that's a good start

@Beedrill hmmmm yes.

7:04 PM

@Avery ah, work.

Avery

badp

@Avery yes, our mission is quite critical to us.

Avery

badp

@Avery yes I'm duct-taping things that check that the duct-tape is sticking well enough

Avery

php, ladies and gentlemen.

badp

7:06 PM

hey I mean that's a DB error.

BlueBarren

Avery

@badp are you ready

for

some

True Depression™

BlueBarren

oh it's going to be a picture of me next

@Avery oh I was wrong

badp

@Avery I mean it's to be expected, a large majority of websites are blogs or other things that can otherwise get away with wordpress

Avery

badp

7:08 PM

or wikis

lots of wikis

and lots of older websites

I hear @Sterno has some PHP bits

Sterno

True

Avery

90% of my sites aren't in php

nope

totally not

BlueBarren

oh my geebus

this guys sucks his teeth when he talks to people

Y

Lazers 2.0

7:25 PM

-1

Q: tu 54 release date minecraft xbox 360

help there is no release date for mine craft t.u. 54/55 that iv'e found if you find out the answer reply asap.http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki

minecraft

BlueBarren

@Lazers2.0 I wonder why there's a sense of urgency

Can we talk about that Lucky's Tail game?

What was that yesterday?

Is it an IP I should know about already?

Because if it's not why would you make that your 3D platformer?

over an amazing IP like Banjo-Kazooie

hmm seems like Lucky's Tale is a VR title

so they turned it into an actual game?

Sterno

cc @wipqozn

MBraedley

7:43 PM

Dammit, Oracle, why does your database have to be such a pain in the ass to get fully configured? Just figured out that the user that my application is running under can't connect to the DB.

And I don't know how to fix that.

MadMAxJr

A very expensive Oracle rep would love to help you with that.

badp

@MBraedley the user?

how would it know whether to accept or refuse a connection based on the user?

Wipqozn

@Sterno thanks. It's been a long day, so I needed that.

@Beedrill he looks so angry

MBraedley

@badp The DB is using Linux user permissions

I can connect using the oracle user, but not the main application user.

badp

??? are you connecting to localhost or something through unix filesystem sockets ???

MBraedley

7:47 PM

@badp sqlplus db_name/db_password and I get a TNS error

Which is odd because I'm not even specifying a TNS name, so it should just default to localhost

Tim Stone

@badp 1. Oracle is crazy 2. Unix-y systems usually run ident servers on TCP 113, so that works if you trust the client

badp

@TimStone I know some of those words and I actively refuse to parse the rest

I know I asked for something depressing

but this is too much

MBraedley

@TimStone We hand a connection string to the API for all our stuff, and connect directly to the database TCP port

Frank

Has anyone read an article about the cost differential between proactive versus reactive IT support?

I'm trying to put together some educational material for my boss.

MBraedley

@Frank Hard to estimate reactive costs in the future, which makes it hard to estimate savings.

You can try and base it off past costs, but the error bars are much larger than estimates for proactive support costs.

Yuuki

7:57 PM

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen Announce Trailer

►

Frank

@MBraedley Yeah. I figured there was a study done or something, to at least ballpark it.

My gut says reactive costs about three times as much. But I have nothing to back that up.

Napoleon Wilson

For your consideration:

5

A: Can we increase the maximum tag length?

This can be increased, but only up to a maximum of 35 characters. This means zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance is right out. I increased the allowed length to 32, thus allowing zen-and-art-of-motorcycle-maint, which should be a little bit easier to recognize. This sort of compromise is ...

Sterno

@Frank Don't know if it would correlate but I bet there are at least studies out there about the cost of preventing software bugs vs fixing them after the fact

Jason Berkan

@Yuuki Everytime I see XCOM 2 in my Steam list, I think, I should give that another try. And then I remember the final mission and run screaming away from the computer.

MadMAxJr

Agreed.

badp

8:08 PM

@NapoleonWilson thanks~

Frank

@Sterno I have lots of anecdotes of reactive IT, and their relative cost, but there's no way to judge what it would have cost as proactive.

Such as the one where an electrician wired some network cable, and wired it as split pair to save costs.

It worked...for a while.

The upshot was that you just nudged that cable, and it brought down half of the plant.

Yuuki

@Frank I'm just going to assume that's a typo and that one nudge of that cable would actually bring down half of the planet.

BlueBarren

Frank

@Yuuki Sadly, the electrician wasn't that skilled.

It led to about three days of downtime, as nobody knew it was split pair.

We instituted a, "not touching that network" rule at that point.

Sepia Lazers

8:33 PM

3

Q: Increase tag length limit to 32 or 35

Before you go and close this as a duplicate, I'm posting this as a new feature request because a lot has changed since the last time this was requested. There are now no technical changes necessary anymore to increase the tag length in a certain range. And there is a precedent now on Literature.S...

feature-request tags

Dragonrage

8:47 PM

3

Avery

@Dragonrage let me try that

Dragonrage

9:01 PM

Avery

For all your overpriced pupper needs

DanmakuGrazer

I guess that's too big

Avery

no

put ! before link

DanmakuGrazer

Neat

Avery

it didn't automatically onebox because it didn't end with an image format

DanmakuGrazer

9:07 PM

Oh, I see

Avery

one could technically gzip bomb chat members with that but it'd be a quick way to get banned

DanmakuGrazer

Look how cute that moon is

Unionhawk

@Avery i think Nick Craver would personally hunt you down and assassinate you tbh

user15026

@Unionhawk I was going to say, that would be a terrible idea, to put it lightly

Avery

@DanmakuGrazer look at how cute THIS moon is

@Ash yeah.

DanmakuGrazer

9:12 PM

Negatory

Unionhawk

Alternatively chat just gives up trying to onebox at a certain threshold and serves inf instead but based on the gif size you're allowed...

Avery

@Unionhawk a gzip bomb of 300bytes can unpack to 10gb.

Yuuki

9:37 PM

The Silent Man First Look Trailer (2017) Liam Neeson Biography Drama Movie HD

►

Hmm... now that I think about, Liam Neeson has the perfect voice for "Deep Throat".

Avery

9:50 PM

learning news about your country on a twitch stream about economy...

Kaz Wolfe

10:03 PM

wheeee! *crashes into bridge*

Avery

@KazWolfe what brings you here

Yuuki

@KazWolfe You know that's going to skyrocket your insurance premiums, right?

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: mystery game crash

when I press play it just says "game crash - an issue has occurred and Minecraft has crashed, were sorry for the inconvenience" that's it, it won't let me click the crash report or view details when I try, nothing happens. I don't know why it has crashed and none of the videos I've watched have ...

minecraft pc

Kaz Wolfe

@Avery "rejoin favorites" button.

@Yuuki They're already insanely high. They can't get worse anymore.

Avery

@KazWolfe yeah yeah

We both know why you're here.

Kaz Wolfe

10:06 PM

Yes. I just realized I hit 10k here, too.

Godmode enabled.

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