The Official Status Thread
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
That red stuff I spilled all over the laptop, the couch, glass table, floor, and basically everywhere else? Soda? Nope. Jelly? Nope.
It's candle wax.I once witnessed someone attempt to extinguish a candle by dabbing over it, who then struck it and knocked wax onto the table.
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Status: Upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 because F# for VS2015 cannot create folders.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 because F# for VS2015 cannot create folders.
WTF Bites thread is
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A lot of people seem to think heavy industry is an eyesore. Personally I quite like it.
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status: Finally figured out why my custom driver wasn't working on the microcontroller - it was being called by a bootloader, so I have to manually set up the stack. Except I can't, since the application entry point is in a third party library. Dangit, I really don't want to have to rewrite all of what it does.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
A lot of people seem to think heavy industry is an eyesore. Personally I quite like it.
I like looking at it; heavy industry tends to be fascinating to watch.
I don't like the pollution or noise typically associated with heavy industry.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 because F# for VS2015 cannot create folders.
Creating folders is clearly a side effect.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 because F# for VS2015 cannot create folders.
Creating folders is clearly a side effect.
So long as it doesn't have spaces in the name, we'll be fine...
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Status: Gods, don't you just love games where you have the power to flatten dragons the size of cathedrals but are powerless against common household guards if the story demands it?
Hamfisted, sophomoric story-writing relying on a bunch of Deus-Ex-Machinas.
Coupled with killing off sidekicks (which show a lot more fight than "you" did), promptly leaving only the angsty guy behind you already wanted to give a smack on the back of his head some 100 quests ago.
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@Rhywden yeah, Super Paper Mario sure is a trip.
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status: between history and math, I knew that one was due tonight and one was due tomorrow night.
Got which one was which swapped around, though. Fuck!
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Tell your professors that it's been delayed "because of QA issues", that it'll be ready "Real Soon Now™" and the expected release date is "When it's done™".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: ten Internet points to whoever can guess what this is!
it even has replacement parts!
No I'll, let you actually guess. But it still works!
It's a sewing machine obvs.
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Status: My old dumb TV has apparently been infected with the smart virus. Occasionally the UI will seize up (noticable because the volume indicator will be on) and it will stop honoring any inputs, either from the remote or the buttons on the TV. Even the power button will display ”This feature is not available right now” and the only solution is disconnecting it from the power socket. Also, it no longer finds any TV channels. Unsure if TV or the antenna or the cable to blame for that, though.
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Status: Contemplating the futility of telling a SQL server to be less fucked
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@hungrier
Well, you know, if you spent 5% as much time cleaning up after your developers as you do letting them slap RBAR code together and call it good enough, then maybe I could actually function properly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking Zotac.
Status: Fuckety fuck fucker fricken BULLSHIT.
Five beeps meants "Display not connected"
Guess what signalling standard can't tell the difference between a connected-but-not-powered-on monitor and a disconnected monitor?
Guess what monitor's power LED looks the same whether it is in Standby or powered off?
Thanks Blakeyrat for the warning, should have thought to try turning off and on the monitor that appears to be on already as part of troubleshooting.
Edit: The official support ticket person answered:
"Huh, if your power supply isn't working, you'll need to send the computer in for repairs."
Which is hilarious because directly prior I said I checked that both power supplies were working, so...
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status Open floor plans.
Group has their standup meeting in the middle. (yes, with people on speakerphone/computer)
A birthday! Yes, let's have someone play the french horn.
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I have 300GB of stuff in my OneDrive. Somehow it forgot that it was logged in so now it's re-syncing everything and creating a whole lot of duplicate files.
Whatever. I guess I'll have fun deleting them.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I guess I'll have fun deleting them.
In the Dwarf Fortresss sense
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Status: Bobby3 finally decided he wanted to date himself higher.
Good luck, friend!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Good luck, friend!
Your files could be where you left them
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@Tsaukpaetra Your build user is called Bob, too?
Mine ended up being called Bob because I used the bot account creation page (for the repository) and entered something like “foobarbot” (where foobar is placeholder for the product name, obviously) and the system decided to truncate after 8 characters and helpfully append a “b” for bot. So the bot ended up being called Bob ever since.
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@JazzyJosh: oh, it could be worse:
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Your build user is called Bob, too?
Yes, and the perforce server is named
purrforce
as well.You'll never guess the name of the cloud-hosted website!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You'll never guess the name of the cloud-hosted website!
cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You'll never guess the name of the cloud-hosted website!
cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs
You mean "FLDSMDFR"
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Even the power button will display ”This feature is not available right now” and the only solution is disconnecting it from the power socket.
Have you tried holding it?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Even the power button will display ”This feature is not available right now” and the only solution is disconnecting it from the power socket.
Have you tried holding it?
I'm not sure acts of comfort will mean anything to a dumb TV. Maybe a Smart TV will have a comeback, but...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Good luck
Someone tripped the breaker by using a kettle on the same line as the main server. POP
Now let's see what Windows things about having been turned off despite commanding us not to...
Ah...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Even the power button will display ”This feature is not available right now” and the only solution is disconnecting it from the power socket.
Have you tried holding it?
If he's talking about the power button on the remote, I doubt that would make a difference.
If the TV has a hard power button, then holding it might work.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
by using a kettle on the same line as the main server. POP
Uh.
That's concerning.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
by using a kettle on the same line as the main server. POP
Uh.
That's concerning.
It's a fucking small office.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a fucking small office.
Still, the server should be on a separate line
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a fucking small office.
Still, the server should be on a separate line
Re-iterate: Small office. There isn't any ability to separate the lines. It sits on a shelf next to people's workstations.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
There isn't any ability to separate the lines
Next you're gonna tell me you can't install a UPS?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
There isn't any ability to separate the lines
Next you're gonna tell me you can't install a UPS?
No battery.
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Status: Linux has useful error messages, as usual.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Guess what signalling standard can't tell the difference between a connected-but-not-powered-on monitor and a disconnected monitor?
One of my ports/cables plays up constantly. It will spontaneously disconnect somewhat-frequently, but what's really odd is this: sometimes it refuses to detect the screen, except when I turn it off. Turning it on disconnects it again.
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Dammit, I was fooled into looking at an oblique projection.
Maybe I can grant artistic licence…
Though it doesn't look as bad when scaled down and put on a proper background.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a fucking small office
if you don't appreciate the small fucks ...
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a fucking small office
if you don't appreciate the small fucks ...
It's so small my chair is typically butting against the guy behind me's chair.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Those replies have a kind of Spanish inquisition thing going on, you expect them but you still get caught by surprise.
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Status: once more, I spent the evening taking apart my dishwasher to clean up the limescale building up in one tiny component (some sort of plastic wheel that the water goes through and that apparently measures the in-flow?).
While I'm glad that I found out (a couple of years ago now) it's easy to fix (rather than calling the repairman etc.), I'm annoyed 1) that this happens so often (about twice per year), despite my house having a water purifier so not-so-hard water and 2) that this minor cleaning operation requires pulling the dishwasher from its place and unscrewing a dozen tiny screws to remove a couple of side panels, therefore turning a 5-minutes clean-up job in a full evening of "fun"...
And of course, to make things worse, the error only happens when the dishwasher is choke-full of very dirty dishes.
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
choke-full of very dirty dishes.
Hey, at least you weren't a dumbass that dumped a cup of shredded cabbage down the disposal.
We're still dealing with that, btw...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Gods, don't you just love games where you have the power to flatten dragons the size of cathedrals but are powerless against common household guards if the story demands it?
Hamfisted, sophomoric story-writing relying on a bunch of Deus-Ex-Machinas.
Coupled with killing off sidekicks (which show a lot more fight than "you" did), promptly leaving only the angsty guy behind you already wanted to give a smack on the back of his head some 100 quests ago.
Sounds like Skyrim, except not story, just design incompetence. I recently killed an entire dungeon of elite soldiers without effort...and then got promptly yeeted by a random bandit...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I said I checked
First responder replied...
What a self-righteous jerk!
I was impressed, now I'm annoyed. Thanks, Zotac!
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Dammit, I was fooled into looking at an oblique projection.
Dammit, I was fooled into wikipedia'ing the difference between an oblique and orthographic projection.
I'm still not sure how it differs from an appropriately rotated viewing angle of an orthographic projection, I guess I need more of that coffee I don't drink.