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7am shift this week after 10am shifts last week =

I’ll see your 7am shift and raise you a poorly boy who was sick all over me at 5am

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If any of this is true it means there are staff at FedBook with permissions for global DNS entries that are so unprofessional it beggars all credibility. Even a novice tech knows you don't run a blanket update against DNS. You run against test infrastructure, verify, then check, double check and triple check the production update and run it past several eyes before applying it. These pimply little fucks know how to be woke but they can't update a DNS server without bringing the Internet down?

Doesn't sound right to me. And if it is right then expect things to get progressively (no pun intended) worse as more idiots posing as network specialists emerge from their gender studies course to play at being engineers.

I don't know what organisations you've worked in, but the ones I have are not blessed with competent staff or fool proof processes.
I went from a small organisation where we had decent processes but were not that technically mature to a large, multinational one. I expected things to be much more organised but nope, if anything the processes were worse. The system I worked on when I first joined had so many manual steps when you wanted to do a live release it was a miracle it ever worked. One time we did forget to update a config file and left the Prod system running against the UAT database . Thankfully we have got better since and I'm not technically hands on these days, which I think we can all agree is a good thing. But we still get fairly regular outages because of infrastructure issues.
TL;DR - I don't think you're ever going to completely avoid human error and make things perfect. These outages are very rare which implies that overall there's enough resilience to catch most balls ups before they end up causing downtime.

[WMUG]

I’ll see your 7am shift and raise you a poorly boy who was sick all over me at 5am

Oof.

I used to drink energy drinks during these weeks.

Then my heart started doing funny things, so I had to stop. Now I just deal with the tiredness.

No vomit is yet involved, thankfully.

[WMUG]

One time we did forget to update a config file and left the Prod system running against the UAT database

You absolute muppet.

Probably.

[Letters]

You absolute muppet.

Probably.

Actually wasn't me on that occasion.

But on another occasion I did forget the WHERE clause in a delete statement which means it deleted all the rows in a database table rather than the one I meant to. Whoopsie! Not putting things in a TRANSACTION
Anyway...the client were jolly nice about it and I managed to restore the table from the last night's backup - thankfully it wasn't a table which changed much so I got away with it.

TL;DR - probably for the best I'm not longer technically hands on. I was pretty good actually, but not that good and I was a bit gung ho with database stuff - partly because I was pretty good at it and didn't generally make mistakes.

[GP]

Actually wasn't me on that occasion.

But on another occasion I did forget the WHERE clause in a delete statement which means it deleted all the rows in a database table rather than the one I meant to. Whoopsie! Not putting things in a TRANSACTION
Anyway...the client were jolly nice about it and I managed to restore the table from the last night's backup - thankfully it wasn't a table which changed much so I got away with it.

TL;DR - probably for the best I'm not longer technically hands on. I was pretty good actually, but not that good and I was a bit gung ho with database stuff - partly because I was pretty good at it and didn't generally make mistakes.

[Letters]

Not as nerdy as these guys, but Computerphile’s take…

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Oh brilliant. So she's released another album whining about a failed relationship

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58842727

[Mac76]

slightly nervous about what "simplified most menus and folder views." mean, if it's another way of saying fewer options...

in any case am not sure my PC will have this 'security chip' anyway...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58795119

[Globalgunner]

slightly nervous about what "simplified most menus and folder views." mean, if it's another way of saying fewer options...

in any case am not sure my PC will have this 'security chip' anyway...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58795119

Lucky for me my 6 year old laptop is too backward to handle the upgrade so I will have to soldier on with my ancient windows 10