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How can tmux help with VPN issues?
If you are sshing, it keeps open your session and whatever you were doing,
If your ssh session is closed, all the apps and scripts you were running are killed.
You went an hour between saves? My guy, you were basically asking the universe to screw you over
It’s current year. Autosave and live files have been around for decades. OP and their mum deserved this.
My guy. If homicide doesn't work the first time, you're doing it wrong.
If it worked the first time then it's much easier the second time.
If it worked properly the first time, then it's IMPOSSIBLE the second. Can't kill a corpse. It's too busy being dead.
Or... They're already dead so your job is done, easy!
Unless you're a bitter king that decides to dig up your enemy's corpse in order to hold a public execution after the fact...
That's not homicide though. That's a publicity stunt.
Nobody said anything about killing the same guy though.
"Considerably."
Always ctrl-a ctrl-c before submitting!
Who the fuck doesn’t use Tmux
The Army.
Screen?
Our client forces us to exclusively use a virtual windows machine that is accessed through a browser that kills your entire session if you leave it unattended for 3 minutes.
Going to the restroom? Bad luck everything is gone.
It's like working with Alzheimer.
If something like this happens I usally start using git, never before😅
I’ve started saying “it’ll be easier the nth time”
What work do you do that loses all progress, just because the VPN disconnects? Only thing I can think of is transfering a hue file, I guess
Who does an hour of work without saving.
Yeah my PC also wipes itself on disconnect super annoying
That's a fucking mood lol
VPN drops are annoying, CAC VPN from work is my personal hell. It goes down at the weirdest and most ridiculous times
How the hell do you lose an hour's worth of work because of a dropped VPN?
The platform is cloud based and requires CAC authentication. I didn't know the VPN had dropped. When I went to save, it just hung there. I had to reload the page. Lost an hour.
I'm still confused. You're writing code in a web form?
Doesn't have to be code.
A friend I know was working against a deadline to fill an audit doc. The system was old and similar to OP's case, he lost connectivity, but there was no popup or warning.
When he went to save, it submitted for him, but didn't actually save anything. A couple seconds later he gets the error message, and going back didn't restore everything he had hand typed in.
This is r/programmerhumor
How dare you suggest we spend more than 10 minutes on something other than code and sitting in meetings that should be emails
I prefer to type with my feet
Sounds frustrating but not really programming
I mean it is called Programmer Humor, not Programming Humor. Programmers do stuff like this at work all the time
Programmer's job isn't just 8 hours of programming
Agreed. But a lot of senior programmers or IT managers do have to do this, so I guess OP found it relevant enough
Maybe he had to create a figma what Button color is best ( multiple options)
We have desktop application that connect to servers and if the connection to the server drops out sometimes the application refuses to save your code. Even though the application and code are both local. Modern software is a mess
maybe organization managed cloud environment like coder.com
Doesn’t have to be a web form. I am coding in VS code but through the ssh extension on workstations in the lab. If the ssh connection is gone I cannot save my work to the workstation. If my vs code were to crash then I the last work would be lost. But I press save every 15 secs so I loose at lost a line of code for the 2 times a year that my laptop freezes
This is the weird part. You went an hour between saves?
Literally what is the point of working in the cloud if it's not instantly auto backed-up?!
Well, someone gets to charge money for it, so there's that. Also it's in the cloud, and that's a buzz word, and management likes buzzwords.
Yeah, VPN is not the problem here.
That is why anytime I write long texts into a website, I copy them into Notepad before submitting. I even do it on Reddit and Social media when it's >2k characters or so.
Gotta save that Confluence doc more often.
Confluence basically makes an api request every character you type. It’s actually pretty immune to client disconnect. The fact that it’s an unsaved draft when you come back can be super annoying though.
Now if an admin does a restart in the middle of your edit - you’re hosed.
Skill issue
You need a new job
Too close to my triple retirement.
Came here to say that. Who is running workloads over vpn.
We can't access our internal network resources unless on our vpn, including all non prod database servers and our build server.
This has happened many times to my partner who’s a data analyst
So a little insight here.
Some companies use a software management system that requires an always active connection. If the connection is lost for more than a defined period, usually a minute or two then it force closes the software. Sometimes with no warning. Oh and if you are saving to a network drive then saving won't work anyway.
Most users won't react fast enough even if they get a cryptic notification.
I hate these setups with a passion because they can screw your companies productivity just by pulling the wrong network cable.