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jonty, to random
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If you play music that involves electronic instruments in any way, you should really sign up for EMOM at @emf. Its really fun!

https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuses/01HY0KFVF0911G81RQ1J1MW830

jonty,
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@aldroid It says in the blog! Maybe I should have bolded it.

Email: music@emfcamp.org with the subject "EMOM"

mathowie, to random
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There’s something so incredibly broken with Google calendar when you track all your flights and travel appointments that take place in other timezones.

It auto-adjusts time stamps to your current timezone that you view your calendar in, so you see things like a flight at 4am or a hotel check in at noon, which you know are fundamentally wrong.

jonty,
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@jwz @mathowie My biggest request is a confirm dialog for "You are creating an event in GMT when you have other events that day in CET. Is this the correct timezone?".

I have missed so many trains, planes, and appointments because they were only off by an hour when corrected to localised time.

jonty, to random
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I could have done without every single thing I am involved in having a small crisis in the same week

gsuberland, to random
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just scored a giant 8-person tent for £140. it's not the warmest thing but I'll be able to stand up in it and that's way more important. hilariously it was cheaper to buy it than rent the exact same tent.

jonty,
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@gsuberland Graham! Electric blanket! There is power! It is the only way!

jonty, to random
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I can say with confidence that "an attendee building a service on our internal phone network that validates juggling notation inputted over DMTF" is not the most niche thing at the event, but it comes close.

https://mstdn.social/@lpbkdotnet/112438381844530784

jonty, to random
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Nonsense show idea: QVC Karaoke.

Players have three minutes to sell whatever they're handed without cracking up. Highest score determined by number of audience "orders" placed.

jonty, to random
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Exactly 12 years ago I made a terrible mistake

https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuses/01HXRZ1PRXCPNPDSFQSCMED9TB

nevali, to random
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polyglottery is hard work

jonty,
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@nevali @tommorris Graphviz is great if you know how to fight it. Make sure you try the alternative renderers - dot isn't the only one!

joelanman, to random
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I have a database question - say you have an items table and a messages table, and messages can refer to items. If someone needs to delete an item, you can't because of the foreign reference in messages.

I know you could 'soft delete' - set a status column to deleted, but what if you really need to delete, for example because the content is illegal or the user has a legal right to delete it?

jonty,
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@joelanman Do messages need to refer to items, or is it that you just need to get all the items attached to a message?

If not, the item should be foreign keyed to the message ID and the message has no reference to the item. That means items can be deleted but messages cannot unless they CASCADE or you delete all items first.

jonty,
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@joelanman Are you saying you don't want the item to disappear if it's deleted?

jonty,
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@joelanman Right, then yes as I said earlier you want a foreign key from item -> message ID only. That'll do what you want!

jonty,
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@joelanman ...that was not a clear constraint ;)

If the item is deleted should it be deleted from all messages, or just one?

andrew, to Eurovision
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Having re-watched them, I think there's a perfect trio of songs this year to introduce someone to how mad it is - Ireland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMq8ofCstMQ), Finland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nidDtyS0Wo) and then Croatia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBjarAiAVc)

jonty,
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@andrew I cannot get over how good Finland's camera choreography was. The perfectly placed cowboy hatted person in the audience broke me.

jonty,
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@andrew This is the second Eurovision in a row where my favourite performance involved someone getting out of a large egg

gsuberland, to random
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I swear I just heard someone drive past playing Nina Simone dubstep, what on earth

jonty,
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@gsuberland Honestly that sounds awesome

jonty, to random
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I hope this email finds you. The email knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The email delivery subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the email from a server where it is to a server where it isn't, and arriving at a server where it wasn't, it now is.

jonty, to random
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A surprising amount of organising @emf is rediscovering clever features we implemented in our massive codebase and totally forgot about.

There's a running joke that we are a software development organisation that accidentally runs a festival.

jonty, to random
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Tonight I did not press send on an email to thousands of people, because I figured people who were not awake at 3am should probably check I didn't write ludicrous nonsense first.

Personal growth, right.

jonty, to random
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Today it feels like I am sat directly in the tornado path holding a comically small umbrella

Edent, to opensource
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If you're coming to , I'll be giving a talk all about the UK's Contact Tracing app - and whether open source saved lives.

https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/16-lessons-learned-open-sourcing-the-uks-covid-tracing-app

jonty,
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@hugh @Edent It's been the case since 2016 at least, maybe earlier! Somehow speakers keep missing the memo and doing it anyway...

jonty, to random
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We have now completed the ceremonial "oh no the EMF scheduler is broken / oh no the scheduler is doing exactly the right thing and we gave it bad data" half-day debugging session

jonty,
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every. single. year.

jonty,
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@gsuberland Half a day ago, but as I have already mentioned, oh no

jonty,
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@gsuberland Monday at the latest, the code-punching is still in progress and we hate the people who wrote it.

(It was us in 2022. We wrote it. We hate 2022 us.)

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