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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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[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

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

[-] kiagam@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days 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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