My wife is frontline support for an airline software system…

Twetch ·

My wife is frontline support for an airline software systems company. Everything is on fire.
She is Dagny Taggart right now. I just overheard her describing the whole process of database fallback to the emergency backup to a terrified new starter....

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Twetch ·

Do you need any help, devops?

Twetch ·

is wifey a flat earth fan, does she believe the "sphere" dimensions ?

Twetch ·

I think it’s terminal. I give it 3 more weeks.

Twetch ·

This doesn’t sound good. They should create a replica and dump the database from there so the new software could be built in parallel.

Twetch ·

Why would she be a flat earth fan?

Twetch ·

i was curious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Luft_Hansa

like Hitler

Twetch ·

During the 1930s, Luft Hansa aircraft had also been deployed on a number of experimental and survey missions, most notably for developing the best airborne crossing of the South Atlantic, and during the Third German Antarctica Expedition in 1938-39, when

Twetch ·

WW2 was kicking off

two Dornier Wal aircraft performed a photographic survey of 350,000 square kilometres, an area which became known as New Swabia.

Twetch ·

you might also wonder why or exactly how significant mapping Antarctica Immediately before WW2 began might have been for a soon to be at war surrounded nation in Europe

wife might also piss herself at US Admiral Byrd's Longine interview 1954
you know him

Twetch ·

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdSal9uH28

you don't want to listen to Admiral Bryd - Medal of Honor holder
(the highest honor for valor given by the United States)
full accounts of the South Pole by air event

because they said he went mad.

Twetch ·

December 8, 1954 Admiral Byrd Longine interview

Antarctica, in the future, would become the most important place in the world for science.

Operation Deep Freeze 1955–1956
to Antarctica marked the start of a permanent US military presence in Antarctica