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How my day is going: (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So today I discovered that there's a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.

The cron job doesn't live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there's no way to revert it.

I'm currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

He does charge a consulting fee to "fix" these issues

Almost all of them are dumb shit like this, where something is built in super hacky and dumbass ways.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Smart man. This is how we fight being replaced by AI.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Judgement day postponed indefinitely due to "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know why but this is the first time I read this phrase and it actually makes sense.

I knew exactly what it meant before, but it didn't make sense until now

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