The Official Status Thread
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status Ripping a DVD. Every 3rd sector is unreadable. According toe CDBurnerXP, this will take another 4340 minutes to finish. Hmm. Maybe that is intentional to prevent ripping?
edit: Killed, reduce retries from 3 to 2, turned off hardware error correction. Let's see how that does...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's see how that does...
Is it unreadable actually? Have you tested with another ripper?
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@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
Bitcoin ATM, buy, sell at a WallMart in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I was in a hurry so I don't stopped to get details.
THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN BITCOIN ATM
That's not a very high bar.
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Status: This message comes to you live from a brand new OnePlus 6T. I'm enjoying it so far.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Every 3rd sector is unreadable
Can you play it, at least?
Yes. I had another disk that had some issues like this. Just not as many. We'll see what it's like when done... When I get back from the dog show this weekend... Assuming Win10 doesn't reboot before it's done. Aw, fuck. I'm screwed.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This message comes to you live from a brand new OnePlus 6T. I'm enjoying it so far.
Have the forums experience improved whatsoever on your shiny?
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@Tsaukpaetra Mobile? Improved?
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status: huh, CoxWifi seems to have remembered me from last week. This amazes me.
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Status: Apropos “English language hard language”: The German Word apropos and the English word apropos don’t seem to mean the same thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This message comes to you live from a brand new OnePlus 6T. I'm enjoying it so far.
Have the forums experience improved whatsoever on your shiny?
They have. The website no longer takes up so much RAM that the keyboard crashes.
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@pie_flavor Composing your post outside the browser in the notes app helps. Yes, that’s telling.
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As far as I can tell, I can now map arbitrary lists of objects materialized over arbitrarily many one-to-many joins in single generated queries, composing joins as needed per the total graph of metadata objects and mappers, with minimal runtime branching.Wheel successfully reinvented, apparently I think it is rounder this way.
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@Gribnit Yes, LINQ is generally fun.
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@pie_flavor Oh, no, this is Java.
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@Gribnit Stream API. Whatever.
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Status: After being gifted several thousands in high-end lab glass I'm attempting to do organic chemistry only to discover my country has banned sulphuric acid because of reasons.
Don't worry though, I can still buy all the hydroflouric acid I can drink. It's quite cheap too.
This is retarded, it's pretty much required for everything. I'm going to have to either form a Limited Company or get an a 'Explosives, Poisons and Precursors' license which doesn't sound easy or in any way fun.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: After being gifted several thousands in high-end lab glass I'm attempting to do organic chemistry only to discover my country has banned sulphuric acid because of reasons.
Don't worry though, I can still buy all the hydroflouric acid I can drink. It's quite cheap too.
So you can’t buy a lot?!
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@topspin Depends on how fast you can drink it.
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Status: attempting sous vide dulce de leche. Easiest recipe ever--stick can of sweetened condensed milk in sous vide @ 185F for 12 hours. Open. Eat. It's possibly going to go on my pumpkin cheesecake for tomorrow.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why does this even exist, is there some use-case where you'd press yes?
See my posts in the minor
thread (starting here), I'm very happy that this thing exists otherwise I'd be entirely stuck until someone decides to actually do some work.
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status: I hate it when people ignore your request only to lead you on a wild goose chase. FFS I told you in the very first email what the problem was, what is being attempted, what is being seen, and yet twelve responses later "so, uh, what are you seeing again?
:flipping-table.png:
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@Tsaukpaetra:
<accent type="Indian">
I understand you're angry, sir. But first, can you try to turn off your modem and turn it on again?
</accent>
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@Zerosquare Aren't Indians fun?
My new shiny, as @Tsaukpaetra put it, doesn't have a CDMA radio. Calling and data worked fine just by swapping in the SIM card, but texting did not, so I had to switch to the old phone just to call Verizon in the first place because they send you a text code you have to enter in the call. There's an easy fix - tell Verizon to add CDMA-less roam to your account, whatever the fuck that means. Should be a fairly simple operation. Instead I end up having to restart my phone a total of 5 times, change the PIN on the SIM card, confirm that yes I was really sure I wanted to ever use this brand new very expensive phone, install four different SMS apps, and get shuttled between customer support, tech support, billing, tech support tier 2, the physical phone repair outlet in Providence RI (you'd like me to be being sarcastic here, but that's literally who I got transferred to), and tech support tier 3. All the while saying exactly what I wanted done to my account and that it works for everyone else with this problem. T3 was absolutely flummoxed when doing what I asked fixed the problem.
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Today I am only slightly sleep deprived, instead of a lot! Yay!
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Status: Writing database access code and trying to make the schema fit for purpose. Bored. Would rather be making my 42082…
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Status: The lounge works much better with the box-shadow removed.
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STATUS quite amused that my spellcheck is changing thrill to troll.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Today I am only slightly sleep deprived, instead of a lot! Yay!
This will be solved after Thanksgiving meal. Assuming you consume proper amounts of turkey, that is...
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@anonymous234 you're welcome. I didn't sleep well at all last night.
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Status
Hey Lorne, you said you had ideas on doing project scoping better.
.oO {you mean actually doing technical scoping to discover risks & hurdles, consult the developers who know the system, and then go over it with QA so they can weigh in on test scenarios that the developer has to do before giving it to QA so they stop giving broken shit to QA, and also let QA point out where all the regressions are, and also if at any point during this process someone doesn't 100% fully understand the client's requirements or how a specific scenario would play out, to go back to the client and get it verified-- and then and only then come up with the number of hours this project will take and thus be billed to the customer}
yeah
Okay, I'm going to send you a change document. Scope it and get me numbers. I've schedule you 4 hours.
ok
{walks away}
HEY ASSHOLE YOU'VE GOT 
HAHAHAH!
{opens Word document}. So by a "change request", you mean this is a brand new customer and thus this is an entire project, not just a change. Okay. What do we have here so far?
{vague This Is What The Customer Wants wordings, a bit of if/then logic that doesn't cover all the Elses}.
Um. Hmm. Okay.
{spends four hours going over just the first few of 14 parts}
{on Slack throughout the day}
What about their internal salespeope?
It says "QA ensure item name has been changed" but there is nothing anywhere that talks about changing an item name. Wrong or missing?
This concept of "ordering out of stock", we have the same UI presented in two different ways because we sometimes do and sometimes don't allow partial orders, huh?
It says to assign this data to contacts, but not who is doing it or how?
And this change to Add to Cart, you have it on the product page, but you realize there's add to cart in order history and upsell controls and Favorites and so many other places, that's going to be, like, a four-fold increase in effort?
They want to search by Author Name, but did anyone consider that Stephen King and King, Stephen are equivalent?
Our file transfer system doesn't do that. Are we going to rewrite it?
etc
{12 work hours later} Okay, I finally have it mostly done. There's some open questions, and some sections that still need to be fleshed out with dev and QA, but I don't see any roadblocks or risks there. Here's the time estimate.
{hands over estimate of ~500 hours of work}
wow that's higher than I expected.
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.o0 { THEN WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU EXPECTING? You've been the one talking to the customer and gathering these technical details for how long now? Did you not get a sense that maybe they were asking for a lot and you weren't considering the entire technical impact?Maybe it's good that I did look this over and get a high number, because otherwise we'd be in the exact same goddamn boat as we always are: no one thinks through or plans the projects properly. Most of the allocated time is burned by PMs constantly going back to client for clarifications, and Devs having incomplete specs, and work having to be redone-- that by the time QA happens the budget's almost all but gone. And since Dev didn't have the info they needed to succeed, QA finds tons of overlooked things, and then there is back and forth between QA and Dev, Dev and QA, QA to PM, PM back to customer, over and over and over. So much back and forth that QA barely gets through a smoke-test, let alone having the time for regression testing or edge case testing or anything else. So QA, through no fault of their own, blows through the rest of the budget and more.
And at some point the PM always ends up going back to the customer for a clarification of something which ends revealing we ovelooked a feature or scenario which ends up having a MASSIVE technical cost associated with it! But we agreed to these numbers, and there's enough conversations and emails and whathaveyou with the customer that it's obvious that yes, this is how the feature should have worked.
So Dev has to add in a whole bunch more code, which causes more QA and more regressions and back and forth-- until we're right up against the delivery deadline so everyone is stressed and tired and making mistakes and resentful of their job and the company. And then we deliver what we think is done, but because everyone was in rushing stuff was overlooked, so now the customer is finding tons of stuff in UAT that we have to fix for free.
So in the end we're 500% over budget so the project is at-cost at best, if not a loss. And then we end up with a ticked off customer who has damaged confidence in us. And the QA and PM and Developers involved in the project feel like shit because of everything that happened so now we have lots of employee turnover!}
yup. Let me know if you have any questions about the numbers.
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@Lorne-Kates What was that thumb-rule again? Get the initial estimates, then increase the number and the unit.
(I.e. 2 weeks -> 3 months)
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@topspin Sounds good. In this case, 600 days then.
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Status: I'm at home and want to quickly read up on something in a paper (
I know). Of course, without a subscriptions these things cost like $40. Don't want to open a VPN tunnel to work (
) so I go to SciHub instead.
Um, SciHub is blocked by my ISP?!?
Simple enough, changing the DNS server took care of that.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
What was that thumb-rule again?
I'm still trying to prove to them that fixing something sooner in the SDLC is better, because each phase you delay it by increases the cost of that fix by an order of magnitude.
"You're spending 4 hours doing the scoping?!?"
"We didn't spend those 4 hours, and it became three and a half weeks of unbillable time during QA."
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Status: By mistake instantitated the type
std::uniform_real_distribution<int>. To no surprise (in hindsight) this generates floating point exceptions.
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Status: Burned the gravy, forgot to put pecans on the pecan pie, allocated way the hell too much time for turkey-cooking 'cause it was free-range, ended up with stuffing that was basically just breadcrumbs, had no basil to put in the mashed potatoes, dropped every utensil at least once, and then had a gigantic lactose reaction to the green bean casserole. A traditional Thanksgiving in every way.
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Status: I'm going to have to survive without my desktop for a few days. The laptop's keyboard has been buggered for a year and my phone gets no use for anything other than calling and WhatsApp.
Hoping to pass the time by sketching but not sure what I would draw.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
SciHub is blocked by my ISP?!?
Did you call to switch providers yet?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
because otherwise we'd be in the exact same goddamn boat as we always are: no one thinks through or plans the projects properly. Most of the allocated time is burned by PMs constantly going back to client for clarifications, and Devs having incomplete specs, and work having to be redone-- that by the time QA happens the budget's almost all but gone. And since Dev didn't have the info they needed to succeed, QA finds tons of overlooked things, and then there is back and forth between QA and Dev, Dev and QA, QA to PM, PM back to customer, over and over and over. So much back and forth that QA barely gets through a smoke-test, let alone having the time for regression testing or edge case testing or anything else. So QA, through no fault of their own, blows through the rest of the budget and more.
And at some point the PM always ends up going back to the customer for a clarification of something which ends revealing we ovelooked a feature or scenario which ends up having a MASSIVE technical cost associated with it! But we agreed to these numbers, and there's enough conversations and emails and whathaveyou with the customer that it's obvious that yes, this is how the feature should have worked.
So Dev has to add in a whole bunch more code, which causes more QA and more regressions and back and forth-- until we're right up against the delivery deadline so everyone is stressed and tired and making mistakes and resentful of their job and the company. And then we deliver what we think is done, but because everyone was in rushing stuff was overlooked, so now the customer is finding tons of stuff in UAT that we have to fix for free.
So in the end we're 500% over budget so the project is at-cost at best, if not a loss. And then we end up with a ticked off customer who has damaged confidence in us. And the QA and PM and Developers involved in the project feel like shit because of everything that happened so now we have lots of employee turnover!}You described what happened at a place I used to work for. Word for word. Like you were there when it happened.
The place imploded a year after I left. Employee turnover 100%.
I dont what the fuck it is with the managers who just cannot get the basic AF things right.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates What was that thumb-rule again? Get the initial estimates, then increase the number and the unit.
(I.e. 2 weeks -> 3 months)I'm stealing this. This should substantially improve my professional life by orders of Magnitude.
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@kazitor update: I'm taking the laptop, with a wireless keyboard (ugh) as my desktop one is a bit bigger and I can't be bothered to unplug it after I shut down the minute before I leave. Still no graphics tablet nor drawing software though, but I can deal with that.
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Huh. I didn't know MS would use this for non-MS products.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
I dont what the fuck it is with the managers who just cannot get the basic AF things right.
If they could, they wouldn't be in management in the first place.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
SciHub is blocked by my ISP?!?
Did you call to switch providers yet?
No, but I googled it and found that for another site (video streaming) they have been legally required to install a block (yes, that's stupid), so I assumed they're doing something similar. The fact that they didn't blackhole the IP and just installed an entry in their DNS forwarding to a notice makes me believe they intentionally did as little as they were legally required to do.
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@topspin Largely true but I've recommended windows to someone who was forced to use Linux in the office for no real fucking reason
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Huh. I didn't know MS would use this for non-MS products.They want to know whose files to delete next update.
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Status: Bathroom renovation cost increased due to presence of asbestos, meaning special handling is needed for the demolition of the old one. Woo.
