The Official Status Thread
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
confused the cats
they will return that favor by staring at a blank spot on the wall until you inspect it
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Please, someone, just write boring code. Please, look at your problem space, pick the tools you need, and then just write something boring to solve the problem.
You don't have 2 billion users. You'll probably never have 100k users. You don't need web-scale adaptive-load actor clouds.
Just make it boring! Please!QFT
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Today I am supposed to merge Drunken Ace's and mine 3 weeks of work and put it all on staging.
Boss informs me Ace had called in sick today and won't be able to come in (he is only here 2 days a week).
Fine, I'll do it on my own. I merge in his code, run it and start clicking around. The app immediately crashes. There are clear bugs all around, undefined variables and such. It's not clear if it's due to bad merge or buggy code.
Ping Ace on skype. He is shown green, but doesn't respond. I am not sure how to proceed.
Eventually, I call him on cell phone. He sounds hung over. His "illness" seems to be the aftereffects of another weekend bender.
And yes, he had pushed everything. He "has no idea how this happened".
Sigh.
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The new manager had a 30 min presentation of the changes they intend to make to improve the organization. He gave the presentation by reading notes from his phone in a quiet disinterested voice, with loooong pauses between sections.
TLDR: Jira, developer utilization, jira, stricter workday and sickday policies, did I mention jira?
Conclusion in the dev office - he's a wet noodle who has read a few trendy books, but otherwise has no idea what he's doing.
BTW, since I am a team lead now, or something, my "expected project utilization" is 50%. I presume the rest of the time I'm to be a Jira jockey and spend my time writing emails and crap like that. Fuck that.
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@cartman82 You forgot the meetings you'll be in.
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status: I don't use my electric shaver often, but it's finally dying. Now trying to figure out where I disappeared the charging cable (because of course it has to be special ❄).
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Status: My brain is wavering between incredulity and hilarity as I've learned that there is apparently an actual Scottish clan named Clan MacDonald of Clan Ranald.
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@weng Really? That makes me interested in it. (The last thing I want to see is another awful Seth MacFarlane "comedy". The only thing worse than a Seth MacFarlane "comedy" show is a rip-off of a Seth MacFarlane "comedy" show, like Bordertown.)
Problem is, as a cord-cutter, I can't watch either show at the moment. I'm sure as fuck not paying CBS $6/month to watch one show a week.
EDIT: that said, please no spoilers. I did already get spoiled that the new Star Trek had Klingons in the first episode, to which my reaction was a drawn-out groan of disgust.
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STATUS: not looking forward to this "mandatory assembly" that was sprung on us (that will eat most of a class period, I'm sure). It's about stupid stuff that would completely blow over if we'd just shut up about it. Oh, and a stupidly-handled but non-malicious issue from last Friday. Which would also blow over if we didn't say much.
Also--is there a forum consensus on upvoting old posts? I've been working through one of the lounge threads (almost caught up) and have wanted to upvote things but then I see that they're from like 2 years ago.
I also keep getting notifications of people upvoting things I don't even remember posting. Maybe I'm just losing my memory? That could be it...
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@blakeyrat Soylent Green is people.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng Really? That makes me interested in it. (The last thing I want to see is another awful Seth MacFarlane "comedy". The only thing worse than a Seth MacFarlane "comedy" show is a rip-off of a Seth MacFarlane "comedy" show, like Bordertown.)
Ditto. I'd like a new Star Trek that's not a "gritty" action snooze fest, but actually has some of that universe and ideology and cleverness of the old shows.
Basically, this:
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
is there a forum consensus on upvoting old posts?
Just ask @obeselymorbid
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ditto. I'd like a new Star Trek that's not a "gritty" action snooze fest, but actually has some of that universe and ideology and cleverness of the old shows.
I want a Star Trek that is nothing but the bottle episodes of other Star Treks.
For some reason, Star Trek is great at bottle episodes. They seem to do worse when they have huge budgets, as seen by their films.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Also--is there a forum consensus on upvoting old posts? I've been working through one of the lounge threads (almost caught up) and have wanted to upvote things but then I see that they're from like 2 years ago.
There's a personal consensus that if nothing else, the positivity should be well received. Well, with intent anyways...
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@blakeyrat Yeah. It has a nominal level of funny, but it doesn't distort the story to make jokes.
They're the kind of jokes you make at the office about things going on in the office.
The stories, however, are solid Trek.
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Status: TIL you can zap the DNS cache of 127.0.0.1
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Status: I think Canada Post is a bit over-optimistic about their delivery estimate:
As far as they know it hasn't even started moving yet:
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Microsoft once again fails at making service popular despite their huge advantage of bundling it with Windows and just gives up
Microsoft throws in towel against Spotify, drops Groove Music Pass
Microsoft is throwing in the towel against Spotify and ending its Groove Music Pass. The Groove app for Windows and Xbox will remain, but only for local and OneDrive-stored music.
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Article post @anonymous234 linked said in The Official Status Thread:
against Spotify,
As opposed to iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, Slacker Radio, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Pandora .... .....
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: not looking forward to this "mandatory assembly" that was sprung on us (that will eat most of a class period, I'm sure). It's about stupid stuff that would completely blow over if we'd just shut up about it. Oh, and a stupidly-handled but non-malicious issue from last Friday. Which would also blow over if we didn't say much.
Also--is there a forum consensus on upvoting old posts? I've been working through one of the lounge threads (almost caught up) and have wanted to upvote things but then I see that they're from like 2 years ago.
I also keep getting notifications of people upvoting things I don't even remember posting. Maybe I'm just losing my memory? That could be it...
Personally, I quite like getting notifications for old posts and be reminded of conversations from years ago.
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STATUS: Forgot to sort the tuesday rescheduling. Oh, well. I suppose I can live with the extra long lunch break another day...
In other news, going to do an inspection round of the house I'm interested in today. To help me I have a friend who is skilled in a lot of related stuff. Maybe my sister will come help out too, as she said she wanted to inspect the house too (although I suspect she's mainly just curious). Also, the seller will be present so I'll have time to ask him questions too.
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Just arranging a pre pre meeting meeting meeting.
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@hungrier
Update: My package is expected to travel backwards through time.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
My package is expected to travel backwards through time.
Brought to you by the DeLorean Delivery Company
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@anonymous234 I wonder if this will affect me. I bought music on the Windows Store that I know Spotify didn't have. The article states that buying music from the store is getting axed... but I'm not sure if the context means something there?
EDIT: Oh look, when you download songs, they end up as regular MP3s in your music folder. Which is like the sanest thing I've ever seen a music app do.
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@magus Not FLAC
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 I wonder if this will affect me. I bought music on the Windows Store that I know Spotify didn't have. The article states that buying music from the store is getting axed... but I'm not sure if the context means something there?
EDIT: Oh look, when you download songs, they end up as regular MP3s in your music folder. Which is like the sanest thing I've ever seen a music app do.
Also:
Microsoft getting out of the music biz, moving Groove subs to Spotify
The app will stick around for local playback, but streaming is gone.
The company says that it will continue to develop the Groove Music app (formerly known as Xbox Music) for playing local and owned music
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@rhywden Yeah, I don't understand why shutting down streaming means also shutting down a category in the Store. That just seems weird.
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Status: One of my pupils must've been fast asleep the last three weeks. Because I just got a question from him on how to recognize a "closed circuit".
We had at least one experiment every week where they had to build simple circuits in order to "discover" Kirchhoff's laws.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: One of my pupils must've been fast asleep the last three weeks. Because I just got a question from him on how to recognize a "closed circuit".
We had at least one experiment every week where they had to build simple circuits in order to "discover" Kirchhoff's laws.
I call this "baby bird" syndrome:
Feed me they cry. What? Think? Remember things? Too hard. Feed me. Give me the answers. Stuff that knowledge into my empty little head.
Ok, I might be being a touch cynical and overdramatic here. But only a touch.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
BTW, since I am a team lead now, or something, my "expected project utilization" is 50%. I presume the rest of the time I'm to be a Jira jockey and spend my time writing emails and crap like that. Fuck that.
In our project the dev lead gets that 50 percent despite not having touched a line of code for good three months now (and no, in true agile fashion we don't put meetings in the backlog). I get 100 percent and many of the same meetings, on top of the majority of devops work that I rarely get to actually put on the books.
That scrum expectation of 6 hours a day of "productive" work (ie. excluding pretty much anything that isn't writing business code) is some major wishful thinking.
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@maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
In our project the dev lead gets that 50 percent despite not having touched a line of code for good three months now (and no, in true agile fashion we don't put meetings in the backlog). I get 100 percent and many of the same meetings, on top of the majority of devops work that I rarely get to actually put on the books.
That scrum expectation of 6 hours a day of "productive" work (ie. excluding pretty much anything that isn't writing business code) is some major wishful thinking.
Today I was told by the bosses to stop my half-done deployment, then create a new branch off dev, backport some ad-hoc features the Important Client needs right now, and push that to production, skipping the entire staging/QA/versioning system we are trying to setup.
This manager is for a rude awakening if he thinks he can just prance in with his jira and get everyone to play along.
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Status: Somehow Software Protection has ingratiated itself onto our Master Server.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Somehow Software Protection has ingratiated itself onto our Master Server.
Is that like when the crash reporter opens itself as a sub-process of something that just crashed? That might mean that something is wrong with your server process.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Somehow Software Protection has ingratiated itself onto our Master Server.
Is that like when the crash reporter opens itself as a sub-process of something that just crashed? That might mean that something is wrong with your server process.
Yes, it definitely crashed (because the previous instance hadn't finished closing by the time I relaunched it and tried to bind the port that the previous instance already bound).
But... Why would Software Protection be stuck inside it twice? :/ Eh, it's not an issue so long as it doesn't interfere with the running of the server.
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STATUS: Went to inspect house with friend and seller. Was a very different experience to being shown the house by the real estate agent. The house does need love and care (and refurbishment), which I knew beforehand. Agent pushed for drainage and bathroom being the high priority targets for fixing, especially bathroom before moving in.
My friend did a different assessment. Bathroom he found perfectly fine. No signs of any damages or beginning damages. Horribly clashing colors (burgundy and turquoise) does not inhibit the functionality of the room. For the basement, no signs of any water leaks despite the plentiful rainfall lately. So no immediate need to sort new drainage either.
He did object to the recently made outside paint job and suggested we redo it and do it properly before the walls take damage from it. He also told me that the homemade wiring to the garden shed should be disconnected asap as it's a major electrical hazard, but at least the one responsible for it made that easy to do.
Other than that, it's all good. Interior and equipment is worn, but perfectly serviceable. No rush with anything, can just do all repair work slowly over time. So, feels good! Now I just need to contact my bank and have them approve the needed house loan.
Another bonus is that just counting the running costs, it'll be cheaper than my current rented flat. And that one is already pretty cheap. The difficult part will be the downgrade in internet speed until I can afford installing a fiber connection.
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@atazhaia One consideration to do the bathroom before moving in is that having the toilet out of operation is less of a problem if you're not living there full time.
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@pleegwat Of course, but buying the house is expensive just that (even if this is cheap) and I'd prefer to have the ability to save up for all refurbishment work over time rather than take loans for them too.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@atazhaia One consideration to do the bathroom before moving in is that having the toilet out of operation is less of a problem if you're not living there full time.
Oh, do I know this. Thankfully, my house has a second toilet I was able to utilize during the several months my bathroom was being remodeled. Unfortunately I do not similarly have a second shower.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@atazhaia One consideration to do the bathroom before moving in is that having the toilet out of operation is less of a problem if you're not living there full time.
Oh, do I know this. Thankfully, my house has a second toilet I was able to utilize during the several months my bathroom was being remodeled. Unfortunately I do not similarly have a second shower.
I have a tub/shower in both. So I remodeled my bathrooms serially. (the master bath turned into shower only, left the tub in the other one)
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
One consideration to do the bathroom before moving in is that having the toilet out of operation is less of a problem if you're not living there full time.
Rebuilding a toilet is like a 2 hour job at max. I wouldn't let that stop you.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
One consideration to do the bathroom before moving in is that having the toilet out of operation is less of a problem if you're not living there full time.
Rebuilding a toilet is like a 2 hour job at max. I wouldn't let that stop you.
Only if the surrounding floor doesn't have to be rebuilt... ok, we would have made that target. But it was Sunday night, the hardware store was closed, and we forgot the wax ring.
(that was my first house that only had 1 bathroom)
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
So on Runescape, you can kill Imps and they'll sometimes drop a bead. Beads can be white, yellow, red or black. You need one of each color to get an amulet. The wiki says the drop rate is the same for all colors, i.e. 25% probability of each.
I've been killing Imps all fucking day. Collected at least 25 beads and not ONE single black one.
Either I hit that 0.075% probability or I'm doing something wrong.
Edit: and of course, as I was seconds away from submitting that post, I find one
.You can just buy... oh right, hardcore ironman.
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Status: So a guy posts a picture of a 1/4 mile timeslip to one of the super-seekret muscle car groups of which I am a member on Mark Zuckerberg's abomination. It was a mid 13-second pass, which is not unusual for bone stock cars like his. Immediately, several people jumped on him, asking if it was "only a V6" or otherwise cast aspersions on his build or his driving skills. I've had the privilege of dealing with this type of idiot before, who assumes that because one car ran X time once, all cars must run X at all times. Fortunately, a trip to a dragstrip on a day with high density altitude is usually enough to neutralize this kind of idiocy. I was tempted to speak out in his defense, but I kept silent for the time being.
Later, a performance shop owner comments that his "mild" build V8 cars run 11-second quarter mile passes (instead of the stock 13ish) and his similarly "mild" V6 cars run 12-second passes (instead of the stock 14ish). At this point, my bullshit detector could no longer stay silent, as quarter mile times and power to weight ratio follow an inverse cubic relation, such that going one second faster requires an increasingly larger power to weight ratio. Long story short, a 13-second car running 11 seconds has had a fair amount of work done on it (probably 200 horsepower over stock, and/or suspension/tire/transmission upgrades that would have some sacrifices for daily driving, or perhaps modifications that render the car not street legal). So I asked, in which world is an 11-second build "mild" when stock cars are two seconds slower, and my car is one second slower with a $10k supercharger on it?
I got an answer. "Your racing team sucks, we've been doing this for 40 years, we can get you to 11 seconds easy for a few thousand dollars, I'll be in [area 5 hours away] next week." And I got several more answers from people who had bored and stroked engines with aftermarket heads and camshafts. I wasn't sure how to respond to people so oblivious to the point that they'd bring up their heavily-modified 650+ horsepower engines (on which they'd have spent similar amounts of money as I did) as exemplars of "mild."
Conveniently, said performance shop owner posted some videos of his builds, and I decided to investigate. One of them was supercharged, running about 1 atmosphere of boost (which basically doubles the engine's output as compared to standard temperature and pressure) and water-methanol injection to prevent detonation under those conditions. Okay, that makes sense. So now, I have two fuel tanks to fill, with the second one of them containing a highly toxic substance that if spilled on skin, can cause blindness. Additionally, this second fuel isn't at every corner gas station. Sounds like a very "mild" build perfect for a daily driver!
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Status: The life of a city person... when the power goes out for a few hours and your life comes to a stop... and the gorram mall closes before the power comes back on.
Filed under: First world problems
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@groaner Similarly, keyboard bandits call 1000HP 2JZ builds mild.
Basically, bench racing on the internet is populated exclusively by morons.
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