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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Always spell-check outgoing mail on the off-chance you send an e-mail to an entire team signed off as
Retards,
Thegoryonebeen there, done that, saved by me spellar reputation.
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@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone, be it your clients or your company should contact a lawyer to look at the new law to tell for sure.
It's the clients' responsibility unless they've explicitly paid @cartman82's outfit to sort it out.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
MERGE
statements often seem complicated because in essence they're 3 statements in one.That said, I'm not sure what's going on in the INSERT clause there.
It's inserting the item into the next available slot of the primary inventory (if there's room) and if not, shunting it into the alternate inventory (next available slot). The primary inventory is limited and doesn't handle over filling very well, while the alternate inventory (while still limited) is a list and handles being too full a lot better.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Um... WTF? Why is my stomach 121 percent full nominal? Gagh my body sometimes.
Registering 75 percent nominal capacity used still. I guess I'll just have a small bowl of cereal today...
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@tsaukpaetra Ah. The kind of self-joining madness where I've recently been told by an expert that analytic queries are not just more readable, but faster as well. Though this one will probably still be nasty just because of the amount of logic in there, and selecting unused IDs is inherently hard in sql.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
maybe the aftermath of https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/01/sweden-scrambles-to-tighten-data-security-as-scandal-claims-two-ministers ?
Sounds like it.
Luckily, we don't deal with confidential data, so the bureaucrats will just relax and leave us alone..... Right?
Only if your definition of "confidential" and their definition of "confidential" align.
This is also the reason why Deutsche Telekom went into cooperation with Microsoft to basically create a German Azure - this allows Microsoft to indirectly sell Azure and related stuff (like OneDrive for Business and Office365) to German companies and governmental agencies with a bombproof assurance that the US will never have a legal method of accessing data on those servers.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Already dragging and it's only the start of my longest day of the week. I teach all five classes (including two lab sessions) and have lunch duty so I have minimal breaks.
And all my dreams last night were of the "Well, I'm glad that was just a dream" variety. The "nope" memes would have worked as commentary for all of them. Bah.
My schedule this semester actually yielded a free day. And it's a Friday to boot!
Granted, the rest of the week is packed but it only looks intimidating on first glance - I've got 3 lessons on a biweekly schedule, plus another 3 are on a monthly rotation because the pupils are at school for 1 month, then 1 month of traineeship, another month at school and so on.
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@rhywden Of course this also means that the amount of lessons in a week can fluctuate just a bit.
One week will have me give 14 lessons of 90 minutes each. And the next may very well be 9 lessons of 90 minutes each. Depending on random events (like a course doing a field trip) this number may be even lower.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden Of course this also means that the amount of lessons in a week can fluctuate just a bit.
One week will have me give 14 lessons of 90 minutes each. And the next may very well be 9 lessons of 90 minutes each. Depending on random events (like a course doing a field trip) this number may be even lower.
I have between 3 55-minute classes (plus one large-group thing that's not quite a class) and 5 55-minute classes, depending on the day.
Normally, each class (out of 7) meets 4 times per week but which class doesn't meet each day changes. For example, on a regular monday periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 meet. On a regular wednesday, periods 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 meet.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Crap. How did I end up in the status thread?
JFM?
While they haven't had any perverted vixens so far (though I expect they are around somewhere), they do have a bisexual crossdressing psychologist who gets more action than Casanova, a gay super-intelligent gerbil who turn into hot guy, gay mad scientist opposums, lesbian robots, a man who married a sentient swamp whose ghost then needed a vodoun practitioner help arranging a divorce, and Zombie Emperor Norton, so...
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Crap. How did I end up in the status thread?
JFM?
While they haven't had any perverted vixens so far (though I expect they are around somewhere), they do have a bisexual crossdressing psychologist who gets more action than Casanova, a gay super-intelligent gerbil who turn into hot guy, gay mad scientist moles, lesbian robots, and Zombie Emperor Norton, so...
......... SOLD!
/me spends the next several hours reading the archives
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@accalia Oops, Mercutio and Tony are opposums, not moles. My bad.
OTOH, I fixed it in the earlier post, and added a mention of the story of the Cypress' daughter. So that's something.
And as an added bonus, here's Unity doing the crossdressing this time, rockin' a smart Baron Samedi look.
And you might want to look up Shaenon earlier series, Narbonic, set in the same universe (and the series Artie is originally from).
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing actually wrong with the drives as far as I can tell.
Yeah...about that
System Properties
Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size that you specified.
OK
My paging SSD seems to be 100% dead. In spite of passing all tests yesterday. Just had it in the laptop and BIOS doesn't even detect it.
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Status: People are mad about the DRM in Sonic Mania's PC release. But this is just funny:
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Yes, currently I'm encountering it 100% of the time and can't even hit a breakpoint. Been sitting here for half an hour waiting for it to actually get there.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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Yes, currently I'm encountering it 100% of the time and can't even hit a breakpoint. Been sitting here for half an hour waiting for it to actually get there.
have you tried turning it off and then on again?
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
My paging SSD seems to be 100% dead. In spite of passing all tests yesterday. Just had it in the laptop and BIOS doesn't even detect it.
Testing is bad for hardware. Replace. Don't skimp on the hardware quality either; it's a total false economy.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
My paging SSD seems to be 100% dead. In spite of passing all tests yesterday. Just had it in the laptop and BIOS doesn't even detect it.
Testing is bad for hardware. Replace. Don't skimp on the hardware quality either; it's a total false economy.
exactly this.
double exactly this for data storage hardware.
You can get away with skrimping on a graphics card or a processor, or a motherboard, but skrimping on a storage device WILL bite you in the ass hard.
Also remember the 3-2-1 rule of backups.... and the testing rule of backups.
those are important rules too.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Does any of the local Swedes have an idea what's going on?
Eh, it's like someone told them about GDPR and they took it a bit more literally than the law indicates it should be.
I've been stockpiling the for when that lands but I'm not taking bets on who the first 5 companies to get their asses handed to them under it are.
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BIOS setup, disable Secure Boot, Save and Exit. Try to boot from USB, image doesn't authenticate. Restart, BIOS setup, Secure Boot is enabled. What the fuck?! I don't want to clear all secure boot keys; I want to be able to turn Secure Boot back on when I'm done doing what I'm doing. ffs.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
My paging SSD seems to be 100% dead. In spite of passing all tests yesterday. Just had it in the laptop and BIOS doesn't even detect it.
Testing is bad for hardware. Replace. Don't skimp on the hardware quality either; it's a total false economy.
All true. It was a Samsung 840 Pro though. That's premium SLC Flash. I'm a little bit shocked it couldn't see its own demise coming.
Guess that's the backup argument really, and I do have tested backups.
Edit: My main drive is MLC (as a 1TB SLC is ) and the storage drives are spinning rust. I though SLC would be best to hold the page file given the serious R/W requirements.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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Yes, currently I'm encountering it 100% of the time and can't even hit a breakpoint. Been sitting here for half an hour waiting for it to actually get there.
have you tried turning it off and then on again?
Actually, yes.
I'm tentatively blaming Cox for this, I emplaced the new router with the current one, which gave me a new public IP of 98.numbers (instead of 72.numbers), and all the sudden I got download speeds of less than 2 Mbps (We're supposed to be getting 50+, but I'd settle for 12) and a latency of more than 700ms ping.
Once I switched back the previous unit, I got back the old IP and everything is.... somewhat normal. At least ping is down to 171 ms so that's better. Still not great, but I can almost work again.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
We're supposed to be getting 50+, but I'd settle for 12
You think your ISP would settle with you paying only 1/4 of your monthly bill ?
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
We're supposed to be getting 50+, but I'd settle for 12
You think your ISP would settle with you paying only 1/4 of your monthly bill ?
14 times out of the 14 times I called in on this issue, it ended in "Well it says 'Up to', but your bill doesn't say 'up to' so you have to pay full price nyah".
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well it says 'Up to'
There's your problem.
Yeah, and I've never been able to negotiate a contract that says otherwise. So, I pick and choose my battles.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, and I've never been able to negotiate a contract that says otherwise.
You're not a good negotiator
If your connection is "Up to 50", then I'll pay "Up to $50"
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, and I've never been able to negotiate a contract that says otherwise.
You're not a good negotiator
If your connection is "Up to 50", then I'll pay "Up to $50"
I challenge you get a contract that says that first then, if you're so good. ;)
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I miss my old office. (I'm only there one day a week.) This one doesn't have a coffee machine that can make quadruple espressos.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I challenge you get a contract that says that first then, if you're so good.
My current contract is 30 meg, every time I test it I get at least 30 meg.
My ISP is not a crook
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
My ISP is not a crook
Cox is. Still, if you were getting less than 30 from your provider you couldn't pay a pro-rated portion of the bill; don't be disingenuous. AFAIK for pretty much any U.S. provider, only those paying for business services (with the associated exorbitant rates) can claim any sort of speed or uptime guarantee.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
30 meg, every time I test it I get at least 30 meg.
Is that from emulated speedtests or real-world transfer rates?
'cause, you know, ISPs can actually detect most of the popular speed tests and just send garbage data at the right speed when you do it.
Cite: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23610/ben_lubar-s-internet-is-getting-suspiciously-bad
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
AFAIK for pretty much any U.S. provider, only those paying for business services (with the associated exorbitant rates) can claim any sort of speed or uptime guarantee.
Yep, at 30x-50x markup in price. Pricing is usually linear WRT speed versus price for consumers (i.e. $15 more will triple your speed each step) versus linear for business accounts (Each $15 will get you 5Mbps more)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yep, at 30x-50x markup in price.
Yeah, but that's the cost of doing business when that's what you need. Can't stand when Twitch streamers or YouTubers complain about their Internet cutting out and poor customer service from their provider while also saying they're on a residential plan because the business plans are too expensive. Your business is the Internet. It's the way you make money. (And incidentally, I know you make enough money to pay for a business plan.) You don't get to complain if you've chosen the wrong service.
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@heterodox
Speaking from the other side of the support desk, your ISP hates it when you call in bitching all the time and refuse to pay for business service, too.It's not a completely uncommon reaction for the support techs to silently blackball that customer. They're kind of a useful canary (oh this POP is acting up again), but you're certainly not motivated to go out of your way to help them when they refuse to avail themselves of the options that you've made available to them.
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Status: Youtube Jeff'd away all their color, becoming the whitest website I've seen in a long time.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Youtube Jeff'd away all their color, becoming the whitest website I've seen in a long time.
It's black on my PC, but white on all my other devices
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@raceprouk Yeah, just noticed that now that I'm using a browser Google deigns to recognize, I can enable the dark theme. But they've super simplified it. Too much.
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@magus For some reason, it's a per-browser setting, not an account setting
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox
Speaking from the other side of the support desk, your ISP hates it when you call in bitching all the time and refuse to pay for business service, too.It's not a completely uncommon reaction for the support techs to silently blackball that customer. They're kind of a useful canary (oh this POP is acting up again), but you're certainly not motivated to go out of your way to help them when they refuse to avail themselves of the options that you've made available to them.
I was a tier 1 rep for at&t for two years and I would never "black ball" customers that weren't getting their speeds. Worse came to worse, if automated testing concluded their profile couldn't match reality I'd happily downgrade them down to an appropriate one (with a promotion too! Few reps knew you could do that) so at least their connection was stable. If they weren't satisfied with that there's always a prem tech if this is the first call or outside guy if it's recurrent, but I'd never to put out of my way to avoid helping a paying customer.
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@raceprouk Ofc it is, it's only even an option on browsers google has whitelisted.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Well it says 'Up to', but your bill doesn't say 'up to' so you have to pay full price nyah".
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@tsaukpaetra
There's a difference between customers who can't get their speeds (due to a technical problem or whatever) and customers who call complaining about problems that are endemic to being on residential service, when a business account definitely will fix their problem (because you'll run fiber or move them to a different POP or give them priority shaping or whatever) and the customer refuses to pay the extra money.In the former case, yes, we'd make accomodations or begrudgingly tell them we couldn't serve them and help them transition to another option.
In the latter case, well, sometimes you need to make sure they don't leave their assprint on the door :/
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
problems that are endemic to being on residential service
So in other words, business means actual real support and actual service, while residential means "hope it works, pay for the dream" service.
My house address is technically using the "business" physical cable line to the node, but I'm damn sure it cost less for them to hook that up than the 22 or so technician visits it cost for them to finally concede that maybe tapping onto the literal end of the line wouldn't cut it.
If you can't provide service, then say so. Don't sell me something that doesn't work, and don't make claims like "average download speeds as a percentage of advertised speeds were 97% and 100% for the peak and 24-hour periods, respectively. Cox’s average upload speeds as a percentage of advertised speeds were 102% and 103% for the peak and 24-hour periods, respectively." if such claims are unquestionably false because it's "endemic to being on residential service".
As retrieved from https://www.cox.com/aboutus/policies/internet-service-disclosures.html on 8/30/2017Especially considering that "a business account definitely will fix their problem" isn't necessarily true, unless (as mentioned above) downgrading their profile to lower speeds stabilizes the connection (and therefore fixes it), since business accounts invariably offer much slower speeds than residential at almost 4x the cost (I think they kill direct comparison between plans because people would get suspicious):
Speed Residential Business 5 40 n/a 15 63 n/a 25 n/a 174 50 n/a 254 100 83 n/a 300 100 374 Even then, when I was engaging in Sales last the end result of comparison was basically, with a business account you get a nicer wire (possibly) and a same-day tech appointment capability. Other than that, it's still going through exactly the same hardware through the same technology etc. as a residential account. Indeed, when I was on the line I was told there wouldn't even need to be a tech visit, they'd just "flip a switch" and BOOM magic happens I'd be a business customer.
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@tsaukpaetra Is that $83/month for 100Mbps download speed? That seems… seriously expensive by comparison with prices here.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Is that $83/month for 100Mbps download speed? That seems… seriously expensive by comparison with prices here.
Yes. And that's not even guaranteed; it's "residential" which means it could be jack shit for all the contract says we're paying for.
BTW these are prices for the greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area, I didn't check for any other areas because, you know, it's a City, you'd think the infrastructure would practically sparkle with that much money being spent PER MONTH on it.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And that's not even guaranteed
Sure. I pay for 100Mbps myself (in a package with all sorts of other things that make comparing prices impractical; the family want cable, so they get it, and there's other things in the service package too that I've forgotten) and get about 90 when I actually measure a sustained transfer. That's Good Enough, as it is usually faster than most servers will deliver the data to me in the first place. It's also quite a lot faster than the next service tier down. But sure, the download speed isn't guaranteed.
The different experiences of internet connectivity (in cities) in the US and UK makes me think someone is getting a very raw deal.
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Update
My theory that the always-2-weeks-out estimate was a complete ass-pull is correct, since it's now been shipped. According to Canada Post it will arrive tomorrow.