The Official Status Thread
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar My computer is insane. It will once again reboot itself today in another attempt to install the same update that has been failing every week for the last two months. I have no reason to expect this outcome will be different than its previous attempts.
Hide it?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar
This is why you shouldn't use a cloud hard drive on Milwaukee PC.Ha. I used to be able to boot iSCSI over the Internet. Now with the bloat, that's pretty much impossible...
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar My computer is insane. It will once again reboot itself today in another attempt to install the same update that has been failing every week for the last two months. I have no reason to expect this outcome will be different than its previous attempts.
Hide it?
That's the reason it only tries every week instead of every day...
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@tsaukpaetra after Fail Craters failed to install for me, I downloaded update hider from MSDN and haven't had that update install even once for a month.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: browsing random xkcd comics now... Thanks @pie_flavor!
It looks like https://www.xkcd.com/1446/ is broken. Can someone confirm it's not just me?
Well, the hover tip is "[LIVE]". (It's dead Jim!) Wasn't that the landing on the comet thing?
edit: 'd (And I was right!)
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@dcon it' supposed to show this (at least that's what it showed for the last couple years):
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ate some bad yesterday, gone to the a dozen of times
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Status: Windows just finished installing important updates! Click here to see what the updates were!
So you installed literally nothing, Windows? And it took you over an hour?
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Status
In a project I'm working on, found a place where an if/elseif/else had instead somehow turned into an if/if/else. So instead of doing the first thing when appropriate, it would do that, then also do the else since that's effectively a separate if block.I don't think the client ever noticed, or else Shirley they would have said something.
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Status: I recently learned something super obvious. Something that, logically, has to be the case. I'd just never thought about it.
In C#,
async
is really useful. It lets you do nice asynchronous things pretty effortlessly.public async Task<IEnumetable<Blah>> GetTheBlahs(string segment) { return await Something(segment); }
You read that, and it makes sense.
You also have another weird syntactically sweet construct:
public IEnumerable<Blah> GetThings() { foreach(var blah in GetBlahsFromSomewhere() { yield return blah; } }
Super useful. Obviously these examples are contrived and dumb, but you get the idea. The interesting thing was I recently had a situation where they might both have been useful in the same method. But since they're both based on the return type (And really, asynchonous yielding sounds insane) you just can't.
So yeah, obvious. But I'd never thought about it.
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Status: installed a game. The intro was loud, and I couldn't turn down volume (I have this problem with some fullscreen apps), so I Alt+F4'd. Windows detected it as crash and applied compatibility options without asking me whether it should. I hate when this happens, and it happens surprisingly often.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
And it took you over an hour?
Half an hour to prepare, two minutes to try, 40 ms to fail, 34 minutes to rollback.
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Status: So, I want to introduce my pupils to the world of semi-conductors. In order to do so I'll first show them how normal metals have a positive temperature coefficient, i.e. their resistance goes up with rising temperature.
The experiment is simple enough: Put a coiled wire into a heat-resistant glass, run a current through said coil (which of course is measured), pour water into the glass and then raise the temperature. Watch the current fall with rising temperature.
At least that was the plan. What I got was: "Hey, yo! I din' care for no boiling water, mon!", i.e. nothing actually happened.
Next time I'll try a wire that's not made out of Constantan.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: installed a game. The intro was loud, and I couldn't turn down volume (I have this problem with some fullscreen apps), so I Alt+F4'd. Windows detected it as crash and applied compatibility options without asking me whether it should. I hate when this happens, and it happens surprisingly often.
:fa_windows.png: : "Oh? That program only ran for less than one minute? Must have had an issue, all programs must run for at least one minute! Let's Help!"
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@rhywden Try a wire made in Istanbul
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@jaloopa Coincidence, on HackerNews is yet another "the technical underpinnings of Git aren't completely awful, but the UX is the biggest piece of shit in software" article:
The kind that literally everybody who knows any SCM product other than Git has already written so far. When you've written a program with worse usability than Subversion, you should just turn the pistol on yourself and end it all.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa Coincidence
if git worked only by coincidence entire multimillion dollar companies would not be growing stably on its back.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
, on HackerNews is yet another "the technical underpinnings of Git aren't completely awful, but the UX is the biggest piece of shit in software" article:
yes, and?
if git is an affront to you either don't use it, there are plenty of alternatives out there, and i won't yell at you for using them, or try to actually fix it. writing a whiny forum post or a blog on hackernews doesn't fix it, that article is phrased as a call for action but it's saying "someone go fix it" not "join me, together we will fix it", that's an improtant difference.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
The kind that literally everybody who knows any SCM product other than Git has already written so far.
putting aside the provable untrueness of this statement the articles you refer to are all either "it's shit use X instead" which is good at promoting X but doesn't actually go much for fixing the actual problem or "Someone should fix it. I would but i can't because Y"
so yeah.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
When you've written a program with worse usability than Subversion, you should just turn the pistol on yourself and end it all.
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just -_-
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@rhywden probably nowhere near hot enough to change the current by a measurable amount.
I'd set up a battery, ammeter, filament, and resistor in series so that the filament just barely started to glow, then have them swap the resistor out for lower resistances, estimating the temperature (if you've got an infrared thermometer, even better), writing down the current measurement, and the size of the resistor that was in the circuit. Then use Ohm's law to get the total resistance of the circuit, subtract the resistance of the resistor that they used, and hopefully then show that the resistance of the filament increased (measurably) as it got hotter.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden probably nowhere near hot enough to change the current by a measurable amount.
I'd set up a battery, ammeter, filament, and resistor in series so that the filament just barely started to glow, then have them swap the resistor out for lower resistances, estimating the temperature (if you've got an infrared thermometer, even better), writing down the current measurement, and the size of the resistor that was in the circuit. Then use Ohm's law to get the total resistance of the circuit, subtract the resistance of the resistor that they used, and hopefully then show that the resistance of the filament increased (measurably) as it got hotter.
Actually, it was a current drop of 20 mA using 40 cm of proper copper wire.
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Status: I'm building a function page that searches for orphans.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think the client ever noticed, or else Shirley they would have said something.
You might find if you ask them nicely that they just thought it was always supposed to do that.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
And it took you over an hour?
Half an hour to prepare, two minutes to try, 40 ms to fail, 34 minutes to rollback.
Windows I'm giving you one more try and if you install zero updates I'm going to complain loudly on a forum no Windows devs read, probably.
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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:
And it took you over an hour?
Half an hour to prepare, two minutes to try, 40 ms to fail, 34 minutes to rollback.
Windows I'm giving you one more try and if you install zero updates I'm going to complain loudly on a forum no Windows devs read, probably.
???
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@ben_lubar Clearly, you just need to reboot, twice
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Clearly, you just need to reboot, twice
It found another one apparently.
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@ben_lubar You should probably click it
Then write a long angry letter explaining all your issues.
And finish it with : "Fuck you, I'm tired of this shit and
installing Linuxgoing back to Windows 7"
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
just
I don't know what that smiley is intended to communicate, so I'll choose to interpret it as "wow you are so smart and right, Blakeyrat, all the time forever."
Also: a defense of Git from someone who uses DailyWTF primarily as a way to share their furry porn. Exactly what I wanted, thanks.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
"wow you are so smart and right, Blakeyrat, all the time forever."
no, it's intended to communicate disgust that you would advocate that anyone commit suicide.
pure disgust.
I am so dissapointed in you right now.
Although given that you have chosen to ignore the entirety of the rest of my post, i really shouldn't be surprised at my disgust and dissapointment.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar You should probably click it
Then write a long angry letter explaining all your issues.
And finish it with : "Fuck you, I'm tired of this shit and
installing Linuxgoing back to Windows 7"There is a Windows service named
DoSvc
that's using 100% of my download and upload bandwidth and I can't stop the service through any method I've tried.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
no, it's intended to communicate disgust that you would advocate that anyone commit suicide.
Yes when my eyes turn into minus signs, that is exactly what I'm expressing. Good.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
There is a Windows service named DoSvc that's using 100% of my download and upload bandwidth and I can't stop the service through any method I've tried.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
no, it's intended to communicate disgust that you would advocate that anyone commit suicide.
Yes when my eyes turn into minus signs, that is exactly what I'm expressing. Good.
no, it isn't i just told you it isn't.
you know it isn't and pretending that it is is just.... intended to get me angry which is exactly what you want.....
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@accalia I actually think he's right on this, though. Git is like Microservices and The Cloud: Everyone is excited about how new and exciting it is, and they use it without any thought.
If I had any power over what I use, I wouldn't use it. But I don't have that power. Most people don't. We all get forced into using a program with the worst usability in the world by design, which specifically rejects attempts to improve usability and interoperability and integration with other tooling, and is designed by someone who feels about users exactly the same way blakey feels about git.
It isn't about whether you can get by using it, and it isn't about whether or not there are alternatives. The majority of developers are now being forced to use a piece of software that sounds like a bad joke.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar You should probably click it
Then write a long angry letter explaining all your issues.
And finish it with : "Fuck you, I'm tired of this shit and
installing Linuxgoing back to Windows 7"There is a Windows service named
DoSvc
that's using 100% of my download and upload bandwidth and I can't stop the service through any method I've tried.That's the peer to peer windows update distribution mechanism. Go to the modern settings screen, updates and security, advanced options link, delivery optimisation link,
Turn off allow downloads from other PCs, click advanced, check all 3 options and move their sliders all the way down. Note you CANNOT actually fucking turn off uploads altogether in latest.In older builds you could just disable DoSvc in the usual fashion.
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Status: Not only is our highly scalable microservice web application slow, awful, and single-threaded in practice, it does not always report errors the same way. If it takes too long processing a specific request, it goes through a different system and does not return errors with their appropriate HTTP status code, but instead sends them as the content of a 200 OK, in json, with the correct HTTP status code as an element in it.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar You should probably click it
Then write a long angry letter explaining all your issues.
And finish it with : "Fuck you, I'm tired of this shit and
installing Linuxgoing back to Windows 7"There is a Windows service named
DoSvc
that's using 100% of my download and upload bandwidth and I can't stop the service through any method I've tried.That's the peer to peer windows update distribution mechanism. Go to the modern settings screen, updates and security, advanced options link, delivery optimisation link,
Turn off allow downloads from other PCs, click advanced, check all 3 options and move their sliders all the way down. Note you CANNOT actually fucking turn off uploads altogether in latest.In older builds you could just disable DoSvc in the usual fashion.
Yeah, unfortunately, these are the settings I already had set:
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@ben_lubar nuke port 7860 at the firewall.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had any power over what I use, I wouldn't use it. But I don't have that power. Most people don't
This is why I'm glad the people trying to push Git where I work currently seem to be listening to the feedback from me and others who are happy with TFS and have seen nothing in Git that improves our lives. They might end up going with it anyway and if they do I will be seriously considering looking for another job; not just because of forcing a bad tool on us but because of the lack of respect for our opinions that would show.
From blakey's article:
'm at a loss to understand how an open source tool as popular as Git has remained so mediocre for so long.
I'm not. That's what happens with open source tools when their developers know what they're doing so are apparently blind to the need to make them useful for new people
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Proctored 5 hours of exams and graded 60 exams (30 with 10 pages, 30 with 6 pages). Ugh. Still have "adjustments" to make and comments to write.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a function page that searches for orphans.
Status: It's working!
Status PS: Next, implementing the slaughter...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
implementing the slaughter...
So close!
Need to delete from related tables too.... :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
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Status: Doop de doop doop doo....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
So close!
Status: Deleted all the orphans.
Now, just need to whip up something that deletes from the other direction...
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Status: Apparently we can use a double-sided, single page cheat sheet during my psychology final. I have a pen with a magnifying glass for no real reason. Time to see how finely my roommate's printer can print.
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When benching this afternoon, I noticed my left elbow was making an audible pop on every repetition but didn't really think much of it since there was no associated pain; I'm just old and all my joints pop.
A few hours later:
: Oh. Oh, HERE comes the pain.Fucking idiot.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently we can use a double-sided, single page cheat sheet during my psychology final. I have a pen with a magnifying glass for no real reason. Time to see how finely my roommate's printer can print.
You can for in surprising amount of information at 600 dpi.
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@ben_lubar I'm to
lazybusy to check right now, but I'm pretty sure that's the same update that has been failing to install on my laptop for the last two months.