The Official Status Thread
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Status: Mouse-catching idea 17b6 acted: Glued local favored food to the bait switches on traps. Let's see if the Elmer's glue tips them off.
In other news, I'm looking for where the fire extinguishers are (for some reason it's not obvious ). I've detected enough bare/exposed wiring that I'm rather uncomfortable right now...
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Status: Playing Guild Wars 2 on MilwaukeePC:
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Guild Wars 2 on MilwaukeePC:
Your ping average is
higherlonger than a second? Or is this another example of using a comma as the radix character? (Though that sounds dumb, you really can't measure sub-ms response times reliably)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Guild Wars 2 on MilwaukeePC:
Your ping average is
higherlonger than a second? Or is this another example of using a comma as the radix character? (Though that sounds dumb, you really can't measure sub-ms response times reliably)It is actually a 5 second ping.
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TIL Windows 10 has an Emoji keyboard if you press +;
😐
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
It is actually a 5 second ping.
That's terrible. I've seen worse, but it is still terrible. Who's running video streaming and seeding a torrent on the same network?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
It is actually a 5 second ping.
That's terrible. I've seen worse, but it is still terrible. Who's running video streaming and seeding a torrent on the same network?
I'm not sure, but my dad is the only other person who has been in the house today and he told me he bought a new printer.
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?
The fact that this sentence can be said in a context where it makes sense is baffling.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure, but my dad is the only other person who has been in the house today and he told me he bought a new printer.
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?Possible… but I'd suspect Netflix usage first. That sort of thing can overload even a slightly congested network easily. Also, it might be not inside your house but rather at the next level out, in your neighbourhood, where the problem usage pattern is. Alas, if that's the case then it is something that the operator of the physical layer has to worry over; you can't fix it for yourself.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure, but my dad is the only other person who has been in the house today and he told me he bought a new printer.
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?Possible… but I'd suspect Netflix usage first. That sort of thing can overload even a slightly congested network easily. Also, it might be not inside your house but rather at the next level out, in your neighbourhood, where the problem usage pattern is. Alas, if that's the case then it is something that the operator of the physical layer has to worry over; you can't fix it for yourself.
If Netflix can saturate an entire neighborhood's internet to the point where I have a five second wait to get my packets to Frankfurt, and Net Neutrality is currently still a thing, I can't imagine how terrible the Netflix viewing experience is for those people.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure, but my dad is the only other person who has been in the house today and he told me he bought a new printer.
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?Possible… but I'd suspect Netflix usage first. That sort of thing can overload even a slightly congested network easily. Also, it might be not inside your house but rather at the next level out, in your neighbourhood, where the problem usage pattern is. Alas, if that's the case then it is something that the operator of the physical layer has to worry over; you can't fix it for yourself.
If Netflix can saturate an entire neighborhood's internet to the point where I have a five second wait to get my packets to Frankfurt, and Net Neutrality is currently still a thing, I can't imagine how terrible the Netflix viewing experience is for those people.
Well, so long as that wait is very consistent, it shouldn't be that bad, as the buffer would just request a bunch of data and it would start streaming in 5 seconds later.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure, but my dad is the only other person who has been in the house today and he told me he bought a new printer.
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?Possible… but I'd suspect Netflix usage first. That sort of thing can overload even a slightly congested network easily. Also, it might be not inside your house but rather at the next level out, in your neighbourhood, where the problem usage pattern is. Alas, if that's the case then it is something that the operator of the physical layer has to worry over; you can't fix it for yourself.
If Netflix can saturate an entire neighborhood's internet to the point where I have a five second wait to get my packets to Frankfurt, and Net Neutrality is currently still a thing, I can't imagine how terrible the Netflix viewing experience is for those people.
Well, so long as that wait is very consistent, it shouldn't be that bad, as the buffer would just request a bunch of data and it would start streaming in 5 seconds later.
If the network is saturated, either the machines viewing Netflix have infinite RAM or at some point someone will have to buffer for an absurdly long amount of time.
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@ben_lubar It really depends on what is going on. Torrenting is a technical problem because of the sheer number of hosts that participate; it tends to induce unpleasant failure (well, reduced service quality) modes in cheaper routers. Netflix OTOH has a tendency to overwhelm the total bandwidth available, especially if there's a high degree of connection sharing in a neighbourhood.
It's the connection sharing ratio that is the real issue, especially if the ISP is relying on stochastic multiplexing of some kind. Other types of mux strategy have better over-usage failure modes, but might cost more to deploy; they're what is used when business-grade connectivity is set up. I guess it must be possible to mix the two — I can't see why it would be impossible — and tune the domestic QoS offering that way, but that doesn't mean that the ISP has actually done it.
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@dkf I live in a neighborhood with a lot of old people and small children but not a lot of people who know anything about computers. I very much doubt anyone who lives near me would even know how to install bittorrent.
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@ben_lubar Ah, but what about those helpful anti-virus people on the telephone…
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@ben_lubar
How old is your router? Is it a standard consumer/prosumer router complete with crappy chinesium capacitors?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure, but my dad is the only other person who has been in the house today and he told me he bought a new printer.
Maybe the printer is participating in a botnet?Possible… but I'd suspect Netflix usage first. That sort of thing can overload even a slightly congested network easily. Also, it might be not inside your house but rather at the next level out, in your neighbourhood, where the problem usage pattern is. Alas, if that's the case then it is something that the operator of the physical layer has to worry over; you can't fix it for yourself.
If Netflix can saturate an entire neighborhood's internet to the point where I have a five second wait to get my packets to Frankfurt, and Net Neutrality is currently still a thing, I can't imagine how terrible the Netflix viewing experience is for those people.
Well, so long as that wait is very consistent, it shouldn't be that bad, as the buffer would just request a bunch of data and it would start streaming in 5 seconds later.
If the network is saturated, either the machines viewing Netflix have infinite RAM or at some point someone will have to buffer for an absurdly long amount of time.
Why would you need infinite RAM when the mass storage devices can probably handle much more than one Netflix video?
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL Windows 10 has an Emoji keyboard if you press +;
😐E_NO_REPRO
(presses Win; while editing here)
Oh, hey! 👀 It works!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL Windows 10 has an Emoji keyboard if you press +;
😐E_NO_REPRO
(presses Win; while editing here)
Oh, hey! 👀 It works!Yeah, I think it's new with Fall CU.
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Status: Chrome mobile seems to have broken the site for me. Many xsrf things like user profiles and maybe the theme aren't Loading at the moment...
Edit: wait, nevermind...
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Does anyone remember when health insurers gave you nice durable membership cards, and not fucking sheets of paper?
I just washed my god damned wallet again and destroyed the goddamn paper contents again. I just got around to reprinting them LAST WEEK after the last great wallet washing.
That said, I fully and completely understand the move away from nice durable cards. The credit card grade ones go for a solid buck a pop printed. The thinner, newer ones that are still nonetheless plastic are $2 for a sheet of 16 BEFORE printing costs (and due to WTFCorp idiocy we often end up printing just 1 on a sheet and have to price accordingly) whereas paper is effectively free.fiddyfree.
On the other end of the spectrum, my newest Amazon credit card is two thin layers of plastic sandwiched around a metal core.
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Status: Not bad. But I wasn't doing anything but reading books... Kinda expected more...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
stochastic multiplexing of some kind.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
might cost more to deploy; ... that doesn't mean that the ISP has actually done it.
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Status: decided to load up the site on my S4 Active.
Still not too terrible...
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Status: I did not just buy socks and underwear instead of doing laundry. A lot of my underwear is old and worn out and needed to be replaced, and half my socks have gone to ... wherever it is that they go when they disappear in the dryer. That I chose to replace them today is coincidence. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I did not just buy socks and underwear instead of doing laundry. A lot of my underwear is old and worn out and needed to be replaced, and half my socks have gone to ... wherever it is that they go when they disappear in the dryer. That I chose to replace them today is coincidence. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Yesterday I did my laundry. Next scheduled Laundry Event is on 12/16/17.
I'll leave it to your imaginations what that means.
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Status: Buffer underflow.
Also, considering making one of those bucket traps, not sure how I'll position it though...
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Status: That's a lot of coincidental blue.
https://i.imgur.com/DG0c0js.png
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: That's a lot of coincidental blue.
https://i.imgur.com/DG0c0js.pngFor the thinker inside you.
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status had to make my browser window 3px wider
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
half my socks have gone to ... wherever it is that they go when they disappear in the dryer.
One house I lived in several years back, the washer-dryer stopped working and it turned out that it really had swallowed a sock, but after being chewed up a bit, it got stuck somewhere in the workings.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yesterday I did my laundry. Next scheduled Laundry Event is on 12/16/17.
I'll leave it to your imaginations what that means.@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Buffer underflow.
No fair, I was going to guess ;)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Next scheduled Laundry Event is on 12/16/17.
I'll leave it to your imaginations what that means.That you use the wrong date format?
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Next scheduled Laundry Event is on 12/16/17.
I'll leave it to your imaginations what that means.That you use the wrong date format?
Nah, it's perfectly sensible. He'll next wash on 12 quadecimber this year.
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Status: Brother just appeared with a director's business card and request for a CV to be sent over. Apparently he was interviewing someone about engineering and mentioned I was in the field. They are looking for people and do very interesting high-tech stuff.
That was very unexpected, I am unhappy though so why not?
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I saw Hillary Clinton at a Costco yesterday. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother her and ask her to sign my book or anything. She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing her hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard her chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen throat lozenges in her hands without paying. The guy at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Madame President, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be senile and not hear him, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When the clerk took one of the lozenge and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped him and told him to scan them each individually “to prevent any Russian interference,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s possible. After he scanned each lozenge and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting him by coughing really loudly.
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@anonymous234 I legitimately can't tell if this is parodying something or not.
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status wrote some sql
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status: cleaning up code. It's quite satisfying to watch the line count tumble as you remove redundant code, while also improving the readability
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@luhmann
status it didn't blew up
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann
status it didn't blew upJust earlier today I was encountering some horrible code which (a) ran
select * from accts
on every call, (b) did no caching, and (c) got called sixteen times in a row. Lovely.
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STATUS
Boss suddenly decided we are hiring again. URGENTLY.
So the Mettle is back.
This guy is scheduled for tomorrow 11AM CET (sorry Americans).
Seems we are starting next season with a bang.
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status making a new access app
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@pie_flavor It appears to be some 4chan pasta
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Imported some SharePoint lists as a test, tried to close the access without saving ... it crashed
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status translations are hard
When I open up the Dutch version of an app from a French customer everything is in Dutch except for an Options menu that isn't the same as Opties
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remind me to stop laughing at this customer ... after seeing this in their user table
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Seems we are starting next season with a bang.
That's enough about your personal life.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
That's enough about your personal life.
Ah if only.
Sorted lists of fruit can't say no