Updating anything with stuff running is a bad idea. Yeah, yeah, I know all about the cases where this works, but I’ve spent too much time fixing it when it doesn’t.

The “gateway drug” thing was a lie in 1985 and its a lie now.

And don’t let Ethel in Finance have administrator access and cat screensavers, that helps too.

I so much wish I was joking.

Now making mods butthurt is something I can get behind.

I promise Reddit is not selling the production database and a first year data engineer will be able to use SQL to disregard lorem Ipsum posts anyway.

3 rules could probably clean the whole thing. And it won’t be the new employees processing the data.

Basically if Loren Ipsum is encountered replace post data with last backup post that doesnt have it. I’ve worked with data engineers who could run the commands in their sleep.

Even worse, maybe the database just contains every revision to a post anyway, making the project even more trivial.

No lie, I got a 3 day ban notice yesterday for a anti China comment and both a pm and email inviting me to buy their stock for their IPO.

Soo, they are pro-chinese communist party and pro money, but we knew that already.

I did not know this, I will now go see if there is anything worth playing.

I just tell them to get cheeky wit it. If they watch Brit TV they laugh. If not they grumble and do it anyway. If they are a very young and new employee they don’t get it. If they totally get it I get statements I don’t have comebacks for.

Someday said person gets a cath installed. Then what?

Seeing m$ lose a little more market share.