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[Urwumpe]

Finding a bug that causes a permanent off-by-one error in billable metrics is not great for your mental health. I'm on the fast track to becoming paranoid now... :shifty: At least the code wasn't in production yet.

Had the same off by one once...luckily it wasn't billable. It only decided if the server park was available or was considering itself out of sessions. So, maybe it was billable in a way.

Problem: The software redesign I did for fixing a major race condition the previous developer left me, assumed that there is never a prolonged period in which all second tier servers in the pipeline are physically not available to the first tier servers that interact with the "users" (or better, connected systems).

What I did not include was, that operations still shut down the second tier servers every night for maintenance, but did not shut down the first tier servers. So the first tier servers still accepted sessions, tried to contact every other second tier server and rolled back all second-tier sessions in that attempt per request. Except that, when all servers in that process did not respond at all, one last zombie session was not deleted, because the time for the long connection attempts inside the first tier server exceeded the response-timeout and bypassed the code to clean up all session resources properly. :facepalm:

Sadly I am no longer responsible for fixing this bug and shutting down the second tier servers sequentially for maintenance was a cheaper solution...

 

[Linguofreak]

Centreline didn't look that bad. Maybe the reverse's didn't deploy?

To my eye his left main was about on centerline, and his nose gear significantly to the right. It's hard to judge given the compressed depth of field, but I formed the impression that he was angled right of centerline as well, so the off centerline distance would be increasing.

 

[jedidia]

Sadly I am no longer responsible for fixing this bug and shutting down the second tier servers sequentially for maintenance was a cheaper solution...

Ah yes, I'm familiar with that way of "fixing" things :lol:

In my case the metrics are about the number of various types of objects existing. In the case of one of these types of objects which I looked at first, the timing was such that the data I received for aggregation was the number before a deletion took place, so I just assumed that would be the case for all of them. Only, some of the services actually delivered the number of objects after deletion. Of course all the data was mocked on the first assumption in the unit tests, so no chance of catching that there...
Got no one to blame but myself, at least.

 

[Notebook]

 

[Notebook]

Dramatic photos show 'ghost ship' washed up by Storm Dennis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-51558440

Remarkable, would have thought it flooded and capsized long ago ?

 

[Urwumpe]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-51558440

Remarkable, would have thought it flooded and capsized long ago ?

AFAIR, it was in distress because of an engine and electricity failure.

But the odyssey was far more complex.

It was first abandoned by the crew south east of Bermuda.

Then claimed to have been put under tow by its African owner, but claimed hijacked near the coast of Africa.

Then reappeared in the Mid-Atlantic, when discovered by the HMS Protector, likely never been towed at all. (The wind patterns are pretty reliable at the west coast of Africa, it would have been blown south by drifting)

Finally made it to Ireland after 5000 km travel in almost 2 years. Without somebody else sighting it or noticing the ghost ship on radar. As if it simply managed to avoid all other ships.

 

[Notebook]

Spooky!
Sort of inverse Mary Celeste?
More likely insurance fraud...

Wonder why HMS Protector didn't torpedo it as a danger to navigation?
They could have got into the record books as the first RN torpedoing since WWII. Just
before the court-martial.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

You forgot the ARA General Belgrano was sunk by a 21 inch Mk 8 mod 4 torpedo (WW2 era) fired from HMS Conqueror in 1982.

 

[Notebook]

Yes, I sure did!

I'll qualify it by adding surface ships only.....

 

[Urwumpe]

Wonder why HMS Protector didn't torpedo it as a danger to navigation?

No torpedoes. No weapons at all. Its an ice breaker and research vessel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Protector_(A173)

 

[Notebook]

Yes, that's what they say!

Bit suspicious it just happened to come across that vessel when it should have been hunting icebergs...

 

[Urwumpe]

Yes, that's what they say!

Bit suspicious it just happened to come across that vessel when it should have been hunting icebergs...

As long as the Protector is not commanded by Tim Allen, all is fine...

 

[jedidia]

You broke the ship! you broke the bloody ship! :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

"That man is mentally unstable!"

 

[jedidia]

I just realised that Kotlin lets you declare immutable accessors with lazy initialisation in the local function scope the exact same way it lets you declare them as class properties.

Considering most languages don't offer syntax support for this kind of thing on any scope at all... God, I love this language.

 

[C3PO]

"NASA's next Mars rover has a new name – Perseverance."

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...t-earns-honor-of-naming-nasas-next-mars-rover

Fingers crossed that the name doesn't come back to haunt them. :hmm:

 

[Linguofreak]

Fingers crossed that the name doesn't come back to haunt them. :hmm:

Eh. If I we're inclined to be superstitious, I'd worry more about Curiosity, and its effect on cats.

 

[Urwumpe]

"NASA's next Mars rover has a new name – Perseverance."

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...t-earns-honor-of-naming-nasas-next-mars-rover

Fingers crossed that the name doesn't come back to haunt them. :hmm:

We should name the next ESA rovers (following Rosalind Franklin) in the following scheme:

1. Pride
2. Greed
3. Gluttony
4. Lust
5. Envy
6. Sloth
7. Wrath

We are really a fan of all seven.

 

[jedidia]

I felt, not quite randomly, inspired to misquote lovecraft this morning:

It was just a colour out of the nose—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

Sorry if anybody was reading during breakfast... :shifty:

 

[Urwumpe]

Now that I have ordered a replacement for my defect notebook to again have a working GPU and have silence again because the main fan kept on running at 100% the whole time with the defect GPU...

It suddenly and without any known cause decided that its cold enough now and switched the fan to silent 25% speed...

At least I will be able to do Orbiter again soon.