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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
A 3rd party hosted system we use had to disable on the fly .doc/.docx to PDF conversions last year as it was crashing the entire web server due to demand.
Queueing systems are hard. Let's go shipping!
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status: unusually aroused...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Queueing systems are hard.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: unusually aroused...
TMI, man, TMI.
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@Tsaukpaetra Stop looking at your dog
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Stop looking at your dog
@Tsaukpaetra said in Stupid things on Quora:
observed many entities (non human) having sexual intercourse
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Stop looking at your dog
We're not really on petting terms after she accused me of flirting with the puppy...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
flirting with the puppy
That's zoophilia and pedophilia at the same time.
pedozoophilia
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
flirting with the puppy
That's zoophilia and pedophilia at the same time.
pedozoophilia
I'm telling you, she came on to me! Not my fault you didn't shove her away and defend me!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@KattMan said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys When asked what I do I say I'm a programmer, I push buttons and make pretty lights flash.
"So you're a lighting technician? Cool! It must be nice to see all kinds of artists."
Could also be someone who launches ICBMs.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
My job title is boring: 'Senior Design Engineer', hopefully most people would think it's real.
I'd certainly think it was real; I've had exactly that job title myself. These days, s/Design/Verification/. Also, s/Engineer/Consultant/ or s/Engineer/Contractor/, and the Consultant/Contractor title tends not to carry an explicit seniority designation, which is ok as long as my hourly rate acknowledges it (which it does).
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@KattMan said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys When asked what I do I say I'm a programmer, I push buttons and make pretty lights flash. They then ask no really, what do you do, so I start telling them what I really do. About thirty seconds in their eyes glaze over, I stop mid sentence and say I push buttons and make pretty lights flash, hopefully the right lights. They nod, say ok, and move to another topic.
Were you inspired by xkcd, or was xkcd inspired by you?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 Which reminds me of this:
4 in 10 who work in tech believe their job title would mean nothing to the ‘average British adult’
A lot of IT job titles mean nothing to other people in IT.
72% of people in the tech industry admit to not using their real job title when talking to people outside of their industry
That's because the default response to "I work in IT" is "Oh, right" followed by changing the topic.
"I am allegedly a Software Architect" is my line.
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@Weng my troubles with answering the question what I'm doing at work mostly come from the fact that I don't know what I'm doing at work.
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@Gąska My work is so secret, even I don't know what I'm doing
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng my troubles with answering the question what I'm doing at work mostly come from the fact that I don't know what I'm doing at work.
"Whatever it is I'm sure it's very valuable to the company"
I spent 8 hours today reverse engineering a legacy application for upgrade only to discover it has only processed 3 orders with a total revenue value of about $1.50 since 2015 and all 3 of those have yet to fulfill because they're blocked pending an out-of-inventory condition.
Earlier this week I spent 16 hours reverse engineering a different application, ultimately resulting in 20 pages of high level summary for upgrade only to discover that 98% of it's very complex features haven't been used since 2016. The only part that is still used is summarized in a sentence and is actually a small subset of the basic application template the framework creates when you start a new project. You have to delete things from the template to arrive at that little functionality.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think there's ever been an era where it was usual for large programs to have no known bugs.
That time is coming! With the advent of Machine Learning, big programs will be so complicated and inscrutable that its operators will have no idea if there are bugs inside it or not. Ergo, no known bugs.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 Which reminds me of this:
4 in 10 who work in tech believe their job title would mean nothing to the ‘average British adult’
A lot of IT job titles mean nothing to other people in IT.
72% of people in the tech industry admit to not using their real job title when talking to people outside of their industry
That's because the default response to "I work in IT" is "Oh, right" followed by changing the topic.
"I am allegedly a Software Architect" is my line.
"I'm a Support Engineer, which means people tell me 'your software is broken' and I'm like 'yep'"
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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
then following it up 30 minutes later demanding a response
That should get a response describing just what the SLA for responses to such things really is.
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Status: Discovered yesterday morning that someone had taken the software safety guard off a piece of code I'm a maintainer of, resulting in it being possible to push things into an unknown (and very weird) state. By the end of the day, that was changed to being a situation which was supported and meaningful.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@KattMan said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys When asked what I do I say I'm a programmer, I push buttons and make pretty lights flash. They then ask no really, what do you do, so I start telling them what I really do. About thirty seconds in their eyes glaze over, I stop mid sentence and say I push buttons and make pretty lights flash, hopefully the right lights. They nod, say ok, and move to another topic.
Were you inspired by xkcd, or was xkcd inspired by you?
No idea. I came up with that before I know about xkcd, but I am sure they didn't hear about my statement. I will consign to the idea that we both came up with that general idea independently so now it is a universal fact that this is the proper description to what I do.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@KattMan said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys When asked what I do I say I'm a programmer, I push buttons and make pretty lights flash.
"So you're a lighting technician? Cool! It must be nice to see all kinds of artists."
Could also be someone who launches ICBMs.
Yes, I push buttons, yes I flash lights. The lights get nothing out of it, but it's my little bit of rebellion all the same.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Discovered yesterday morning that someone had taken the software safety guard off a piece of code I'm a maintainer of, resulting in it being possible to push things into an unknown (and very weird) state. By the end of the day, that was changed to being a situation which was supported and meaningful.
Supported, as in the safety guard is now in the spec, or have you extended the functionality to doing unknown and very weird stuff?
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@Gąska I think he's saying that the unknown (and very weird) state is now a documented (and useful) state.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I think he's saying that the unknown (and very weird) state is now a documented (and useful) state.
Well, sort of. The additional code to make the (still very weird) operation now leaves things in a defined state that is what the operation should leave things in. But mutating an object into a class or back (especially back!) is very strange. It's not even a conceptually comprehensible transformation in most programming languages.
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@dkf So we'll get a new Tcl release soon?
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Status:
The system is going down for power-off.
Everyone's going home early today because of planned IT outage.
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@KattMan said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@KattMan said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys When asked what I do I say I'm a programmer, I push buttons and make pretty lights flash. They then ask no really, what do you do, so I start telling them what I really do. About thirty seconds in their eyes glaze over, I stop mid sentence and say I push buttons and make pretty lights flash, hopefully the right lights. They nod, say ok, and move to another topic.
Were you inspired by xkcd, or was xkcd inspired by you?
No idea. I came up with that before I know about xkcd, but I am sure they didn't hear about my statement. I will consign to the idea that we both came up with that general idea independently so now it is a universal fact that this is the proper description to what I do.
According to @Polygeekery, that's fundamentally impossible and you owe Randall lots of copyright infringement money.
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@pie_flavor TDEMSYR.
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@Gąska see the Copying Florida thread where he claimed that no two people could ever come up with the same idea and that's why ideas could be owned.
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@pie_flavor I'm pretty sure he never said that. I've read that topic too, you know.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
they're basically the same person.
Well, duh? So am I. And you. And the rest of the forum.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska maybe it was @djls45, my memory's slightly fuzzy. they're basically
the same personall @boomzilla.Welcome to the forums!
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Status: informed someone of an API called "webfinger" and then this happened:
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: informed someone of an API called "webfinger" and then this happened:
that's the official logo of an internet standard?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: informed someone of an API called "webfinger" and then this happened:
I've expected NSFW content. Finding no such thing, I now wonder why do you find this noteworthy enough to post it here (ie. at all).
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
that's the official logo of an internet standard?
It seems entirely appropriate to me. Have you never crossed your fingers when working with web stuff, as in "I hope this pile-of- will work this time?"
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf So we'll get a new Tcl release soon?
Yes. 8.6.9 is about ready to go, but not yet announced (mostly because of minor issues with dependent packages). 8.7a2 ought to follow shortly after that — alphas aren't subject to so much exacting testing, so it may be by the end of the month — and I don't anticipate 9.0a1 being that far behind that. According to what our release manager has said this week.
(That issue I was fixing that led to your comment? I found it because I was reviewing the draft of the release notes.)
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska see the Copying Florida thread where he claimed that no two people could ever come up with the same idea and that's why ideas could be owned.
That never happened and this is not the place for such discussion.
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@ben_lubar One in the pink, two in the stink, one...elsewhere?
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@Polygeekery oh, now you care about category
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status: these mosquitoes are going to transfer diseases to me at this rate! parp
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Status: MY BOT HAS TURNED AGAINST ME https://mastodon.lubar.me/@ebooks/100930211045741957
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Status: My current college semester consists almost entirely of pointless filler classes where I learn nothing useful and have to produce tons of pointless paperwork that nobody will ever read, forcing me to pull several all-nighters in a row. I'm too old for this shit. I have a full time job for fuck's sake!
The rest of my semester consists of Oracle SQL.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
The rest of my semester consists of Oracle SQL.
Savage. Sorry man.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: these mosquitoes are going to transfer diseases to me at this rate! parp
Technically it only takes one, if it's the wrong one.
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@anotherusername it's like photons. With so many of them, it makes more sense to talk about ratios than probabilities.
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@Gąska I make it a point of not being bitten by that many mosquitos.
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status: Took the Writing Skills Test today, which you're required to take between the time you take English 1A and the the time you take your 100-level GE courses. It costs $50, of course, because why would a required exam be included in the tuition? Anyway, it was just an essay, and my prompt was "What does it mean to you to be an <insert name of football team mascot>?' That was a pretty easy prompt; I wrote three pages about how it means absolutely nothing, the entire school sucks, and I'd rather be at Cal Poly.
For bonus ducks, before the test, the proctor told us that we should fix any errors on our preprinted label, and if there were any errors we fixed it could delay the test processing by multiple weeks. After the test, the proctor told us to check over the test label again, because if there was any unfixed errors, it could delay the test processing by a few days.
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Things I learned on today's lecture:
- Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
- The only reason why there's so little innovation in eastern Europe is because we have dumb ideas.
- The greatest innovators in history were the kind of people who constantly look for things they could improve around themselves, mostly on small scale.
- Stealing others' ideas is one of the best ways to innovate (ideally, we should all be Bills Gates.)
- That the university cut our project's funding right after we were invited to the grand final of international competition is our own damn fault, because suck at innovation, because our ideas are dumb.
- Hand-written letters are infinitely better for communication than emails.