Best posts made by PJH
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Hertfordshi.. where?
Hertfordshire for those who don't know where they're supposed to be talking about.
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RE: In other news today...
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Canvas of Girl With Balloon passes through shredder in frame shortly after £1m sale
“The auction result will only propel this further and given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the £1.02m they paid last night.
“This is now part of art history in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% to its value, possibly as high as being worth £2m plus.”
I have some AudioQuest cables this lot could buy if they want...
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RE: In other news today...
Doctors using group consultations said they had proved far more efficient at dealing with a host of heath complaints, including arthritis, diabetes, obesity and even treatment of erectile dysfunction.
Doctors at the Royal College of GPs’ annual conference yesterday said the groups were a “fun and efficient” way to carry out consultations with patients who shared the same conditions.
But patients’ groups said people would feel “incredibly uncomfortable” discussing personal matters with large groups of strangers, with one saying “you might as well tell the town crier”.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
I think stuff started on CS would be more challenging...
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
First mention of medicine stones for example?
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
Once upon a time, there were three kingdoms, all bordering on the same lake. For centuries, these kingdoms had fought over an island in the middle of that lake. One day, they decided to have it out, once and for all.
The first kingdom was quite rich, and sent an army of 25 knights, each with three squires. The night before the battle, the knights jousted and cavorted as their squires polished armor, cooked food, and sharpened weapons. The second kingdom was not so wealthy, and sent only 10 knights, each with 2 squires. The night before the battle, the knights cavorted and sharpened their weapons as the squires polished armor and prepared dinner. The third kingdom was very poor, and only sent one elderly knight with his sole squire. The night before the battle, the knight sharpened his weapon, while the squire, using a looped rope, slung a pot high over the fire to cook while he prepared the knight's armor.
The next day, the battle began. All the knights of the first two kingdoms had cavorted a bit too much (one should never cavort while sharpening weapons and jousting) and could not fight. The squire of the third kingdom could not rouse the elderly knight in time for combat. So, in the absence of the knights, the squires fought.
The battle raged well into the late hours, but when the dust finally settled, a solitary figure limped from the carnage. The lone squire from the third kingdom dragged himself away, beaten, bloodied, but victorious.
And it just goes to prove, the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@doctorjones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's a real book cover? I assumed it was shopped.
Here ya go, some that are:
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RE: In other news today...
Two road gritters have been named Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney and David Plowie in a council-run online poll that saw a flurry of witty suggestions.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
"I caught my twelve-year-old son looking up women's skirts today," I told the barman after my second whiskey.
"That's pretty normal for a twelve-year-old, isn't it?" he asked.
[spoiler]"Not on eBay it isn't!" I said.[/spoiler]
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RE: Do not compare Strings
And apparently my phone number is going to change every time that link registers a new click...
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I did not know police departments were allowed to have a sense of humor they were aware of.
I don't think anyone (of importance) has noticed yet. There's a few others in their feed:
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"Working" from home.
TLDR: TIL "Working from home" involves not actually doing work because you can't connect to the company network (from your bed no less) - but do you have to be so blatant about it? And why does no-one else of consequence give a fuck?
So, I get a filtered email from one of our automated build servers.
A while later a second server comes in.
Then a third server chimes in.
And then the fourth server decides to join the party.
Now given that these servers generally start their builds about 90 minutes apart, this indicates that rather than a transient problem with a particular server (which I've never gotten to the bottom of, but put up with the occasional failed build,) someone Done Fucked Up® and checked something into SVN that they shouldn't have.
So I go dig up one of the emails. They are in the general format of:
from: slave-04 <buildbots@mycompany.example.com> reply-to: pjh@mycompany.example.com to: PJH <pjh@mycompany.example.com> date:Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:40 AM subject: [version] FAILED: make -C /home/autobuild/version release
[list of copy/pasteable
exports
should I need to go retry the build manually from where it left off][log of what my autobuild script tried to do and the result of each command, like
- wiping the previous autobuild on that machine
- checking out the SVN source
- ensuring there's enough disk space for the build
- attempting the actual build...]
[And on failure....]
[
tail -n 100
of the output from the last command][
svn log -l 10
so I can normally get a quick idea of who to blame if any of those match the previous block][attachment: contains full build log from the start of the script]
So, the
tail -n 100
indicates that someone still can't remember that they need to put a\
before an unadorned_
in atex
file (let alone 'compile' the release notes before checking in to check for such errors):[][][]\T1/cmr/m/n/10 JIRA_TICKET-765[][]:\T1/cmtt/m/n/10 logging \T1/cmr/m/n/10 - changed print spec-i-fier for vari-ables Cur-rent-DEV and g_CurrentDEV ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ l.84 ...file_with_underbars, other, inhouse, programs} updated to operate with l... ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! Transcript written on releasenotes.log. make[2]: *** [releasenotes.pdf] Error 1
The
svn log -l 10
indicates that this is indeed the case:------------------------------------------------------------------------ r12345 | other.programmer | 2015-03-31 15:31:36 +0100 (Tue, 31 Mar 2015) | 1 line Changed paths: M /svn_root/other/directories/release/releasenotes/V4.next.tex JIRA_TICKET-987 - changes to in-house utilities [even though this *particular* checkin has fuck all do with them and is a change to the release notes. Note that there were about 7 other individual files checked in in 7 individual checkins]
Now this isn't an unknown problem. Everyone in the department has been bitten by this in the past.
Everyone knows what you're supposed to do:
- prefix your
_
with\
in the release notes
- compile the release notes to make sure you didn't miss one
- check it in.
(1) rarely gets followed by some people. You can guess what happens with (2).
Everyone's capable (sadly) of doing (3) without necessarily doing (1) or (2).
Anyway, when [!1, !2, 3] happens I generally forward the 'failure' email to the person indicated the
svn log
file to have last touched (therefore not checked) the release notes, and tell them to fix it.This time the build failed in this manner, this happened:
from: slave-01 <buildbots@mycompany.example.com> reply-to: pjh@mycompany.example.com to: PJH <pjh@mycompany.example.com> date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:49 AM subject: [version] FAILED: make -C /home/autobuild/version release
[body of email as above - releasenotes.tex fucked]
from: PJH <pjh@mycompany.example.com> to: Other Programmer <other.programmer@mycompany.example.com> bcc: Sorta Manager <sorta.manager@mycompany.example.com> date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:42 AM subject: Fwd: [version] FAILED: make -C /home/autobuild/version release
O.P, build broken again, you [ed - yet again] appear to have been the last to touch the file...
[forward of above email]
from: Other Programmer <other.programmer@mycompany.example.com> to: PJH <pjh@mycompany.example.com> date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM subject: Re: [version] FAILED: make -C /home/autobuild/version release
Hi P,
Can you do me a favour and fix it.
Yes I should have ran make but
$BLAND_EXCUSES
I'm currently tucked up in bed. I'm trying to work from home today. I have no VPN to
$COMPANY
.If you can't fix it then I'll have to drag my ass in to work.
from: PJH <pjh@mycompany.example.com> to: Sorta Manager <sorta.manager@mycompany.example.com> date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:07 AM subject: Re: [version] FAILED: make -C /home/autobuild/version release
How does this work then? [ed - implication - working from home but no access to work resources]
Answer, dear readers, there was none. For the sake of my sanity I just stuck in a couple of
\
's and checked it back in.NB: Even though I live a 5-7 minute drive from the main office, I can still get to any company resource (I'd have from my desk) from my laptop at home. And technically from anywhere I can get to my home laptop (i.e. anywhere I have an internet connection).
I think the fact that they can "work from home" yet not be capable of doing the most basic work from home is inexcusable.
Anyone I asked about this incident that day didn't.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Actually, hold on, didn't someone say they are working on a web-based MUD engine recently?
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/help-me-choose-an-open-source-license/1852
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Wait, now that you mention the pear of anguish, maybe there should be an equal and opposed badge as well.
- Grapes of Wrath
- Pomegranates of Dyscalculia
- Melons of Joy...
I personally think it's silly to name them after metals when they're not super-de-luxe shiny graphics like starcraft 2 rank icons, but eh.
I meant you can override them, regardless of the G/S/B designation on that form - see INB4 Fail or SDGtJ badges for example.You mean custom CSS?
Yup. They're near the bottom of CUSTOMIZED. Search for
Badges. Badge names are case sensitive in this context
That whole block should probably be copied over to the Mobile CSS, but I don't recall ever bothering with the badge pages when on mobile...
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Are you 😄 or 😞 to be working for Sports Direct?
Sports Direct warehouse staff who say they are unhappy with their working conditions are being identified by their fingerprints and asked to explain their grievances to management, according to the trade union Unite.
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RE: Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile
@tsaukpaetra said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@ben_lubar You've spent two months not flipping a switch?
What kind of game are you playing here?
@polygeekery said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Why does a person who has never posted except to ask to delete his profile want to delete his profile? You wouldn't have one if you had not posted to have it deleted.
@coldandtired said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
You also forgot it two months' ago.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
“Mommy, can I watch Twister?”
“No”
“Why?”
“It’s PG-13”
“Why?”
“Intense Depiction of Very Bad Weather"
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Early in the morning, a lawyer and his Czech friend went out to pick berries for their morning breakfast. As they were picking blueberries, along came two big Bears – a male and a female. The lawyer, seeing the two bears, climbed a tree.
His friend wasn’t so lucky and the male bear caught him and swallowed him whole.
The lawyer drove his car to town as fast has he could to get a policeman. The policeman took his gun and ran to the berry patch with the lawyer.
Sure enough, the two bears were still there. “He’s in THAT one!” said the lawyer, pointing to the male.
The policeman looked at the bears, took careful aim with his gun, and SHOT THE FEMALE.
“What did you do that for!” shouted the lawyer, “I said he was in the other bear!”
“Exactly,” answered the policeman. “Would YOU believe a lawyer who told you that the Czech was in the Male?”
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RE: In other news today...
The 24-year-old received a notification in December telling him that he had matched with a woman in his area. After she messaged him to say hello — unlike other dating apps, Bumble requires women to make the first move — Harrison asked how she was doing.
She had just shot a “bigo buck,” she told him — a big old buck. “Pretty happy about it,” she wrote.
At first, Harrison figured it had to be a prank. His profile on the dating app doesn’t mention what he does for a living. But in rural McIntosh County, a community of roughly 20,000 residents where he’s worked since 2017, plenty of people recognize him as the game warden.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Oh - I thought the game was just finding random shit that was specific, not actual meme-Wiki material :)
Medicine stones I don't think count as a meme worthy of inclusion.
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/open-sources
Here's another way open-source works: A group creates a product. They decide to avoid the above PR disaster by using some off-site bug tracker. Someone files a bug. Then another bug. Then 5 or 10 more. The creator goes on a rampage, insisting that everyone is using it wrong, and deletes all the bug reports, banning the users who submitted them. The product continues to gain success, and more and more people file bugs, only to find the bug reports summarily closed. Sometimes people get lucky and their reports will be closed, then re-opened when another dev decides to fix the problem.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The original fidget spinner:
Nah - that was these:
Which brings me to how to ground kids today:
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RE: Using Java? Google thinks you might be suicidal
@pie_flavor said in Using Java? Google thinks you might be suicidal:
@Lorne-Kates Aha. Bolded words. 'Tell' is equated with 'talk' - does it think you're trying to talk to a counselor?
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Babypod.
I bet Gwyneth wishes she'd thought of this first
Babypod is a small intravaginal device that stimulates neural development in unborn babies through music.
scientifically guaranteed
It has been tested and approved by Institut Marquès, an international centre of reference in Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Assisted Reproduction.
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RE: In other news today...
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
To all Oreganos out here [...]
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RE: In other news today...
“We believe the sheep was uninjured and left the area unaided,” the team said.
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RE: 📖 Teh Official Discopædia (Forums Dictionary)
DiscoBool
noun- A boolean flag that has the opposite sense to what its name implies. e.g. download_remote_images_to_local == true means remote images won't be downloaded to local.
- A boolean flag that has discorsistent values, e.g.,
t
andfalse
.(cite) - Tri-State Boolean you get True/False/File_Not_Found instead.(cite)