The Official Status Thread
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
that sounds obnoxious
Eh, not that bad. It also has a DPI button, and I think the only LED (other than the one that makes it work as a mouse, of course) is the one that indicates the DPI setting when you push the button. It looks like it does do some minimal Stupid Light Tricksβ’ even without the custom driver, but it's not too obnoxious (to me, at least), because it's facing away from me when it's sitting on the desk, so I can't even see it without consciously choosing to look at it. The handedness of the buttons is the only real problem, and it's only an issue if I have to switch back and forth with the normal mouse.
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Status: worded like it's my fault for lawyering...
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Status: So, Master Server keeps track of all the game servers on a given VM. I programmed a recovery function that, if for some reason the VM knows it has a game server running, it can pre-fill in an expectation that said game server should be connecting (a "pending" instance) and deal with it there.
Works fine!
Except for when Master Server closes down a game server, it hasn't been actually exited on the VM, and Master Server picks it back up (believing it will connect again).
This results in odd inconsistencies for about half a minute while it waits for those ghost instances it just told to die to connect.
Hmmm....
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A popular website in my region is using the clbuttic bad word filter
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@tsaukpaetra Wait "if your vehicle failed go to the lobby"? Is that testing station self-service? Some old granny has to find and plug in her ODB-II connector? Huh.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Wait "if your vehicle failed go to the lobby"? Is that testing station self-service? Some old granny has to find and plug in her ODB-II connector? Huh.
No, it's not self service. Why would that sentence make you think that?
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@tsaukpaetra but but but but then why is it a sign? Couldn't the guy doing the test just verbally communicate that infoma-- you know what nevermind.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
just verbally communicate that infoma--
No.
In fact, there's a paper on the kiosk talking about the $17 charge to be tested, that he vaguely mumbled about and pointed his flashlight at halfway through testing.
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Status: Sign #3122 that maybe I'm running myself a bit too close to exhaustion and burnout: I just slept from 7 PM to 10 AM.
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Status: large numbers of websites are unreachable (DNS failure) for me. I thought the Comcast fiasco was fixed?
But thankfully this site still works!
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According to the trailer, the new Mission: Impossible film is all helicopter-based. ... Airwolf???
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@benjamin-hall
Oh, sorry, I had to take my botnet out for a walk so it didn't make a mess on the carpet...
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Status: Going to this page breaks the tab.
Don't do it.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to this page breaks the tab.
Don't do it.
Impressive. Before it freezes the scrolling behaviour is fun.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to this page breaks the tab.
Don't do it.
Impressive. Before it freezes the scrolling behaviour is fun.
I think it's because search results include a post with all the emojis, and some kind of search-and-replace listener thing is breaking because of all the loading...
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Status: Um... Ok, sure.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
According to the trailer, the new Mission: Impossible film is all helicopter-based. ... Airwolf???
Blue Thunder.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And yet you're still posting.
A few months ago I was posting from the ER when I almost cut my thumb off with a hatchet.
I'm picturing you trying to unlock your phone by holding your floppy thumb against the thumbprint sensor.
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Status: Just fixed an XLS file. Somehow the person who made it managed to bloat one page so that it was 200 MB of XML (uncompressed, 30 MB compressed). Every single cell possible was marked dirty and had a separate record. This made it difficult to open on many machines.
As a separate WTF, he had made each and every cell that actually did contain data a hyperlink to a record. So clicking on anything (unless you click and hold) opened a webbrowser tab.
After removing the wasted cells, the size of the whole file dropped to 34 kB. Yes, about a factor of 1000 space reduction.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
As a side note, he said that the most he'd ever drunk in a sitting was 2L of this spirt.
Then he was lying. A rough calculation for 2 liters of 90% alcohol using a 120 kg man over a period of 4 hours (lower mass / shorter time would be worse) yields a BAC of about 1.72.
Everything above 0.5 yields a high possibility of death. This is three times that.
He may have been exaggerating, but such shockingly high BAC levels are not completely impossible. Over a long period of repeated abuse, the body of an alcoholic is capable of building up quite a tolerance to ethanol. The highest recorded BAC levels are well north of 1.00, and most died of other causes.
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@anotherusername yeah. I saw this particular guy before he started drinking one day. He was fully awake, but was almost catatonic. It took him a few drinks to get to sober, as if he'd permanently replaced some blood volume with alcohol.
He also looked like he was in his 50s or 60s, despite being in his mid to late 30s.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Somehow the person
You need to learn about this person, shadow him, make friends with him, know him inside and out make plans to destroy his life. IME, the motherfuckers that have absolutely no second thoughts about handing out huge ass excel sheets to devs with their computers already filled to the brim with so many applications deserve no mercy.
I had to work with a Business unit where their entire mode of working was one hugeeeeee excel sheet that just could not be opened on our laptops. It was put on a VM with bigger RAM and we had to connect to that POS with a POS slow internet with fuckton latency issues halfway across the world. Horrible.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
an XLS file
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
XML
Ah, XLSX, you mean. Got it.
Considering each data cell takes between 20-150 characters in the XML (depending on formatting), I'm not really surprised.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And yet you're still posting.
A few months ago I was posting from the ER when I almost cut my thumb off with a hatchet.
I'm picturing you trying to unlock your phone by holding your floppy thumb against the thumbprint sensor.
Luckily it was my left hand.
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@polygeekery Cannot imagine the series of steps that lead to a hatchet coming down close on your thumb! Were you lumberjacking hard-mode?
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@anotherusername
While shouting at the hospital staff: it's ok, I kept it cool and sterile in my glass of jack! Hey! Give me back my glass I was drinking that!
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Cannot imagine the series of steps that lead to a hatchet coming down close on your thumb!
Did any of your steps involve booze?
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Cannot imagine the series of steps that lead to a hatchet coming down close on your thumb!
Did any of your steps involve booze?
Why would anyone choose to be intoxicated while using a hatchet?!
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@stillwater
In our world no, but in polygeekery's?
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Status: Yeah...
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@tsaukpaetra That sounds like a personal problem.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
entire mode of working was one hugeeeeee excel sheet
This suggests that whatever they're doing does not actually need to be done, if they can get by doing it that badly. The business unit is not the limin of inspection here. Perhaps the entire business is doing something useless.
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Status: eBay really wants me to "protect my account".
How do?
Oh, confirm my personal info?
Turns out, they want to make sure the email I've had for over 16 years and the phone I've had for half as long is still mine.
Good on them.
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@tsaukpaetra That's an understatement. Damn near broke my browser, opening in a new tab. Made the entire thing unresponsive.
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@erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra That's an understatement. Damn near broke my browser, opening in a new tab. Made the entire thing unresponsive.
I told you not to!
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@tsaukpaetra Yeah, well, glutton for punishment and curiosity and all that. And you did say it breaks the tab, so I figured "well, surely opening it in a new tab will be fine! :D ".
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@erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
surely opening it in a new tab
In Chrome, that doesn't always equate to a new process, as much as they tout that feature.
But it shouldn't have broken the browser proper, unless you're still on a single-core machine...
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@tsaukpaetra Well it is Pale Moon, so that might have something to do with it.
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@erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Well it is Pale Moon, so that might have something to do with it.
That doesn't do multi-process things? I thought they were working on that... Guess not. XD
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@tsaukpaetra On the contrary, they are very much against it.
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@erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra On the contrary, they are very much against it.
I must be crossing wires something or reference.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: large numbers of websites are unreachable (DNS failure) for me. I thought the Comcast fiasco was fixed?
But thankfully this site still works!
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Status: Right...but that doesn't exactly help with why 1803 fails with the sole error message as 'error 0x80070643'
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@erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra That's an understatement. Damn near broke my browser, opening in a new tab. Made the entire thing unresponsive.
Opens just fine for me.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to this page breaks the tab.
Don't do it.
Firefox chugged for a bit, popped up a "A website makes your browser slower" warning for a bit and then finished a moment later. No tab breakage. So, yeah, ο© 1 - 0 ο¨ I presume.
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@cursorkeys I think it gives you the right answer.
As with most windows errors, the cause is
and the solution is "wait until they fix it, or just reinstall the whole thing".
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Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
Which I now realize means I can see the search history of everyone else.
And they can see mine :x
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
reinstall the whole thing
Yeah. Might not be a bad idea. It's currently showing a CPU usage over 100% which I've not seen in Windows before:
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
Which I now realize means I can see the search history of everyone else.
And they can see mine :x
Why would anyone do that? Why not just, you know, share a folder or something? Because my work uses Google Drive extensively and we have plenty shared folders for stuff, in addition to our personal folders.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
It's kind of hard to imagine a dumber way to accomplish that goal.