#Soylent | Logs for 2017-07-13
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[04:04:14] <SoyCow0098> How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life just posted, midnight eastern time. Why such a long time since previous article Breaking News: Net Neutrality Protest Day at 5:36 eastern?
[04:07:19] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - http://sylnt.us
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[05:46:06] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - http://sylnt.us - shipshape
[06:47:23] <chromas> Digibooty
[07:17:58] <Ellenor> oh no
[07:27:23] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - http://sylnt.us - Little-Jack-Horner-Approved
[09:16:46] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - http://sylnt.us - national-prison
[09:57:22] <boru> Deucalion; paulej72; ping?
[11:26:24] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Tesla's Next Gen Roadster is One Step Closer; Speculation of September Announcement - http://sylnt.us - semi-news
[12:56:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Robolawyer Files Appeals - http://sylnt.us - queue-the-lawyer-jokes-in-3-2-1
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[14:01:50] <AndyTheAbsurd> #submit http://www.teslarati.com
[14:01:50] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[14:02:15] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[14:37:48] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - http://sylnt.us - nobody-reads-the-fine-print
[16:06:22] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - http://sylnt.us - backup-jar
[17:13:04] <mechanicjay> Wow, the new payroll system at work is just broken
[17:13:14] <cmn32480> you made $18.74 this week?
[17:13:46] <mechanicjay> No, but folks I know over there were happy that they managed to pay everyone this pay cycle.
[17:14:00] <cmn32480> Nice!
[17:14:06] <cmn32480> but at least everybody got paid
[17:14:43] <mechanicjay> yes. Everyone's manager is wrong, and I think about 50% of folks are getting paid out of the wrong budget, but we got paid.
[17:15:33] <mechanicjay> All sorts of really stupid confusing things you need to do - like go into the system and claim a holiday credit for the July 4th, because the holiday fell on a reguarly scheduled holiday....go figure that one out.
[17:15:47] <cmn32480> I'll go with "Let's be happy everybody got paid, regardless of what budget it came from"
[17:16:31] <mechanicjay> This is what happens when you move from a 20 year old custom application -> CLOUD Provider
[17:16:45] <cmn32480> chaos!
[17:17:15] <mechanicjay> But they didnt' manage to fix the dumb stuff about how we used to get paid. Like pretty much no one does twice/month pay anymore, it's either once /mo or every 2 weeks.
[17:17:38] <cmn32480> I get paid 2x per month
[17:17:41] <cmn32480> 15 and last
[17:17:59] <mechanicjay> apparently the initial roll of this was delayed some large amount of time, with a ton of extra programming expense to handle the 2x per month payment paradigm.
[17:18:50] <cmn32480> nice
[17:18:59] <cmn32480> months of codeing...
[17:19:05] <cmn32480> so that was like 3 or 54 lines of code?
[17:19:17] <cmn32480> s/54/4/
[17:19:18] <exec> <cmn32480> so that was like 3 or 4 lines of code?
[17:19:25] <mechanicjay> No idea, this is just what I hear through the grapevine.
[17:20:11] <mechanicjay> it's all microservicy and responsive and the interface swoops and morphs on you -- it looks more like a toy than a usable payroll system.
[17:23:09] <mechanicjay> Ugh -- I've released the double-edged sword of docker containers on my researchers.
[17:23:31] <cmn32480> BUM BUM BUUUUUUMMMMM!!
[17:23:35] <mechanicjay> Yeah, I no longer care about the package requirement of your software, just ship me a dockerfile.
[17:24:08] <mechanicjay> Downside, "I'm going to compile like a whole distro from scratch in my container!" Do you know long that takes?
[17:25:26] <cmn32480> 6-8 months
[17:25:58] <mechanicjay> "it takes a long time between when I deploy and the changes show up!" Ya think?
[17:26:30] <cmn32480> duh?
[17:28:37] <mechanicjay> I cut them a little slack, they're learning how to use docker from scratch -- I was no better 2 years ago. Still, there's a way to set things up so that you don't want to kill your self -- unless their using the "It's compiling!" excuse while they dick around doing other stuff.
[17:29:23] <mechanicjay> good news, I get to do that this morning, while I rebuild every image on the system do the storage subsystem change.
[17:29:26] * cmn32480 isn't even a programmer and uses that excuse
[17:46:11] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Binary Star Systems Affecting Exoplanet Density Measurements - http://sylnt.us - twice-as-bright
[18:12:07] <mechanicjay> A random thing I've been seeing the last couple weeks, bad paraphrasing passed off as a quote. Kinda driving me nuts.
[18:39:31] <chromas> "Those who would trade security for convenience deserve cloud storage"—Thomas Jefferson Starship Enterprise
[19:04:08] <mechanicjay> chromas++
[19:04:08] <Bender> karma - chromas: 189
[19:04:59] <chromas> https://www.nasa.gov
[19:05:00] <upstart> ^ 03Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination | NASA ( http://feature )
[19:05:29] <chromas> Those panos have more resolution than congress
[19:05:35] <chromas> I guess that's not saying much
[19:27:27] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - http://sylnt.us - a-rocky-endeavor
[19:56:56] <chromas> from the lunatic dept
[20:57:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Intel's Skylake-SP vs AMD's Epyc - http://sylnt.us - an-"Epyc"-battle
[21:02:29] <Bytram> !uid
[21:02:29] <Bender> The current maximum UID is 6639, owned by crafoo
[21:03:44] * Bytram Updated the beg-o-meter (aka 'Site News') this morning to reflect a VERY nice donation we received to start of this quarter.
[22:36:16] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The Wave Nature of Light in Super-Slow Motion - http://sylnt.us - not-to-be-taken-lightly