The Official Status Thread
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Status: Just got a delivery from Amazon Fresh (wanted to try their delivery service for groceries because they have some stuff which is sometimes a bit of a hassle to get).
Turns out that if you order stuff that's supposed to be frozen they use dry ice to keep the food frozen during delivery.
Three guesses whose appartment now partially looks like a mad scientist's laboratory? And the first two don't count.
I'll have to get some food colouring or something to see if I can get coloured fog streaming out of the containers...
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/me takes notesβ¦
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hallway: Stuff that's long
@Perverted_Vixen's toybox is in your hallway?
ah. so that's where it got to.....
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Three guesses whose appartment now partially looks like a mad scientist's laboratory? And the first two don't count.
Is it.... Mewtwo?
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@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hallway: Stuff that's long
@Perverted_Vixen's toybox is in your hallway?
ah. so that's where it got to.....
Yeah, some idgit thought hiding stuff in a no-no-pants zone would be a good idea...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Three guesses whose appartment now partially looks like a mad scientist's laboratory? And the first two don't count.
Is it.... Mewtwo?
Mewtwos have a severe dislike of mad scientist laboratories, though. Smash them up and then retreat to the (man?) cave is more its thing.
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Status:
... Um....
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just got a delivery from Amazon Fresh (wanted to try their delivery service for groceries because they have some stuff which is sometimes a bit of a hassle to get).
Turns out that if you order stuff that's supposed to be frozen they use dry ice to keep the food frozen during delivery.
Three guesses whose appartment now partially looks like a mad scientist's laboratory? And the first two don't count.
I'll have to get some food colouring or something to see if I can get coloured fog streaming out of the containers...
Turns out that using coloured water will not also colour the fog
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ugh. My dad treats the entire house as the Man Cave area. Literally. Coffee table: Piled high with stuff and projects. Front door: piled up with tools and boxes of stuff. Kitchen counter: Stuff. Bedroom desk: Stuff stuff. Hallway: Stuff that's long.
I guess that makes the house a definite pants-required zone.
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Actually, having your dad there would probably do that too.
I think "man cave area" implies "pants forbidden"
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status: pondering what potions or other magical artifacts I need to rule 34 this arrogant Centaur into his place.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm at work so I'm not clicking it to find out.
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@onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I hate localizing software. Especially to my own language:
Ok, wrong grammatical case there, Google, but yeah, that's it.
Yup.
To be clear, I went to ask Google just to make sure I'm not completely illiterate. There is no word I can use there. Awesome.
Maybe it's just too specific. Don't they have a word that means recipient? If you want to be that that specific, you might need more than one word. "Recipient of the call" is wordy, but it means the same thing.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe it's just too specific. Don't they have a word that means recipient? If you want to be that that specific, you might need more than one word. "Recipient of the call" is wordy, but it means the same thing.
I find it all works better when I feed in at least a phrase. There's often too much (natural) ambiguity in a single word.
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Status: My wife got me a pint glass that reads: "I am the outdoorsy type in that I like getting drunk on patios" and a t-shirt that says: "Of course, you're right, let's do it the stupidest way possible because it's slightly easier for you".
She gets me.
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STATUS:
Just saw a guy with a Tesla.
With a Pizza Hut delivery flag...
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
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Just saw a guy with a Tesla.
With a Pizza Hut delivery flag...
One of our clients is close to a Supercharger station. I constantly see the same Teslas hanging out there around lunch time. A long time ago I calculated that charging a Tesla cost a couple of bucks. It takes ~30 minutes to charge a Tesla at a Supercharger station. So hanging out at a Supercharger station profits you >$10/hour.
I think that Tesla's primary market is fucking idiots who cannot do math.
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Status: So, my latest Microsoft Band 2 also developed the crack in the rubber band it is notoriously known for. This is actually my 4th band now (the first replacement was DOA, the other two developed the crack as well).
After MS support had hemmed-and-hawed a bit about "you're just out of the 1-year warranty!" last time but were graciously replacing it nonetheless, I knew that I was in for a bit of an argument this time around, due to two reasons:
- The purchase is approaching two years now (end of October, to be exact) and, more importantly,
- They don't have any Bands anymore (out of stock everywhere).
So, the guy tried the "the one-year warranty is over!" spiel. Which is when I explained to him that, while the one-year period is indeed over, EU-wide law actually states that it's two (2) years.
Granted, the first year is a "we'll replace it, no questions asked" period whereas for the second year I would actually have to prove that it's not my fault...
... but how difficult do you think such a proof would be, considering that I already had two replacements for this exact reason and also the forums are full of other people's pictures with the same problem?
Confronted with that fact, the agent in question (whom I don't blame at all) has escalated the issue and now they're checking about "warranty extension" or something. Given that they're out of stock, I predict that I might get a refund instead.
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Status: Github is down, so no more work for today.
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@dkf Not from here
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@timebandit I present the evidenceβ¦
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@dkf Problem with "Is it down" ?
Edit: And I can login to Github and browse it.
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@timebandit It appears to be just brutally slow. Like multiple minutes to load a not-particularly-large page slow.
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@dkf Not from here. Did you switch provider to Milwaukee PC ?
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@timebandit We suspect someone's doing some kind of DNS attack.
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Status: 80s pop classics on the office Spotify.
I am OK with this.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Github is down, so no more work for today.
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Not from here
https://status.github.com/messages/2017-08-21
Also the graphs tab shows it being nearly completely down right now (but I can access it).
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@lorne-kates I think there's a permalink button somewhere on CP's package tracking page. It's really dumb.
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Other colleagues are always pissed that I "over-engineer" and "factor too far" the stuff I make. Making them learn my system, instead of just blasting out code as they are used to.
The latest hire (senior who aced the last mettle) just came in and told me he loves it.
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STATUS:
Server-side caching of static assets is annoying at times. This is one of those times. Finally found the "flush static cache" button on the shared hosting management page.
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Status:
AGPBI: {"kind":"error","text":"Error converting bytecode to dex:\nCause: com.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: field ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536","sources":[{}],"original":"UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:\ncom.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: field ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536\n","tool":"Dex"}
Thanks. With that information I'll easily be able to find the issue, it must be somewhere in source file {}
Edit: It looks like something funny is going on, the cause seems to be:You have too many methods. There can only be 65536 methods for dex.
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Status: Well, what do you know, using a
LEFT JOIN
to try to eliminate rows from the left set if the right set isn't empty doesn't do shit.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
You have too many methods. There can only be 65536 methods for dex.
..... what the.....?!
uh.......
but......
WHAT?!
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Status: Mostly finished the GUI on this feature, which means I'm almost done. I'm not sure if I like how it came out. I'll make the final verdict tomorrow.
I'll probably decide to live with it - the alternative will mean either dialogception or writing a new control and I don't like those options either.
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Status: unpinned Notepad++ from the taskbar and now pinned Sublime Text instead.
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@arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: unpinned Notepad++ from the taskbar and now pinned Sublime Text instead.
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@arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: unpinned Notepad++ from the taskbar and now pinned Sublime Text instead.
Luddite, you're supposed to use a real IDE !!!
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Got a call from a North Carolina area code with a person (not a machine or recorded) who asked, "Hello, this is your Walmart pharmacy. .. are you currently taking any medications?"
I responded, "... yeah, I'm going to hang up on you now."
a.) Not the right area code.
b.) Those calls are always automated.
c.) Didn't ask for patient name or date of birth.
d.) Asking me to disclose PHI over the phone?!It was only a sec after I hung up that I realized how freaking CREEPY that call was. Don't know where they were going with it. Don't know if it was a fucked up scam, a fucked up investigator, or what. What the FUCK. Is this a thing that's happening to other people?
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@heterodox I got one a few days ago that was from "my credit card provider" who had a better deal.
I asked, "ok, before we go forward, one question for you: what bank is my credit card through?" When she couldn't answer I just hung up.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox I got one a few days ago that was from "my credit card provider" who had a better deal.
I asked, "ok, before we go forward, one question for you: what bank is my credit card through?" When she couldn't answer I just hung up.
Yeah, I've gotten those before, mostly automated or pause before connection to a human. I've never had a health-related one though.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: unpinned Notepad++ from the taskbar and now pinned Sublime Text instead.
Luddite, you're supposed to use a real IDE !!!
It was either Sublime Text or vim at work and since I forked out for my own personal licence already, figured I might as well actually use it at home too.
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@arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
It was either Sublime Text or vim at work and since I forked out for my own personal licence already, figured I might as well actually use it at home too.
You should use your licensed copy of WinRAR to pack up the sublime license and keep it safe.
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Nothing makes you wonder "where did I go wrong in life?" quite like looking at TCP traffic traces.
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@unperverted-vixen
Filed under: @Onyx forgot to log back into his main account after a long SIP debugging session.
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@unperverted-vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing makes you wonder "where did I go wrong in life?" quite like looking at TCP traffic traces.
Yeah, wireshark is definitely one of those programs where I'm glad if I don't need it.
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@izzion I don't know what you're talking about - this is my main.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@unperverted-vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing makes you wonder "where did I go wrong in life?" quite like looking at TCP traffic traces.
Yeah, wireshark is definitely one of those programs where I'm glad if I don't need it.
And I should have added: I am glad I have it if I do need it.
I'd go absolutely mental if I had to do without. Or explain to other people that I'm right and they're wrong without its help.
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Status: weighing books. For Science!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@unperverted-vixen
Filed under: @Onyx forgot to log back into his main account after a long SIP debugging session.Fuck no! Once you get to wireshark stage you know it's so fucked that you should probably just start yelling at network guys to fix their shit.
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@onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
yelling at network guys to fix their shit
In general, once I get to that stage, I have to bust out WireShark to prove it's Their Bug(tm)
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
yelling at network guys to fix their shit
In general, once I get to that stage, I have to bust out WireShark to prove it's Their Bug(tm)
Ok, that's a point. Fair enough.