The Official Status Thread
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Under a time limit to get some stuff done and I have to test against a million obfuscated customer data. It is taking like 5 minutes to just debug the mapping profiles per run. This is going to be a long night.
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@sweaty_gammon Yes I Generated the bloody file. Only about 4 fields being mapped, but this is more progress than just exceptions and everything shitting itself.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL that one of my college teachers is allergic to the phrase "a finite number of students".
Why?
Redundancy? Students implies countable and finite?
This seems too picky - I could think of all sorts of annoying uses for an infinite number of students for discussion purposes.
Like assigning them rooms in an infinite hotel without vacancies?
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@PleegWat Or marginally more efficient typewriter monkeys.
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All Programsanything does nothing.
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@Cursorkeys try making your screen 3px taller?
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@Cursorkeys I sincerely hope Edge was open either for testing purposes or because of a group policy :/
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@kazitor What are you talking about? Edge is the best browser and I really lament the fact that I can't use it atm, being stuck with just macOS and Linux for a while.
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@pie_flavor on the plus side, your chosen major allows you to pay it all back in reasonable time - and then you'll be earning more than you ever would without a degree.
At least I hope so. I don't want to tell you you fucked up hard.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys I sincerely hope Edge was open either for testing purposes or because of a group policy :/
Texas Instruments are stuck in the past, so I need to use Flash to run their design tools.
So I can give a
ringinggrudgingthinendorsement that "Edge works OK if you need to use a Flash website that has no ads I guess".
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@Cursorkeys so does Firefox. Just FYI, in case you're looking for alternatives.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys so does Firefox. Just FYI, in case you're looking for alternatives.
Thanks, but I think I'll stick with Edge for as long as it supports Flash. I swapped from Firefox to Vivaldi because Firefox was just so damn slow doing anything at all.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
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All Programsanything does nothing.Maybe don't use that program in that way?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
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All Programsanything does nothing.Maybe don't use that program in that way?
Nah, no configuration changes and it fixed itself after a reboot. Very weird failure though.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Nah, no configuration changes and it fixed itself after a reboot. Very weird failure though.
Maybe the failure was weird, but the fix was expected
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Status: Dear Epic
StoreShit and other wannabe crap store exclusives without any added value whatsoever - GOG.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
That would be obnoxious to use. Seriously. Here, attendance can be
Imma stop you there because that same admin totally knows a company who can build this attendance platform for us customized and sure the owner of that company is a close, personal friend of the admin, but that doesn't mean anything right lol anyways $$$.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
update the system came back up for the last 2 periods. Then died again, hard enough that it knocked all the attached online systems down with it.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: fingers are covered with habanero seed juice so of course my eyes decided that now is a good time to itch severely.
I'm not falling for it, I know better... I washed my hands like twice... washing just doesn't take that off...
how bad could it be, though, really...
OW. WOW. THAT WAS STUPID.
Well, it's too late now. Just gonna have to ride this out...
Don't blow your nose and accidentally get capsaicin lodged in your sinus.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
update the system came back up for the last 2 periods. Then died again, hard enough that it knocked all the attached online systems down with it.
That's not the fault of not using paper. That's the fault of using an antiquated system that hasn't seen core updates since the mid 2000's. All because of one of our "system admins".
Which is funny, since one of the main selling points of the school is that we're tech-forward and on the cutting edge. Except in our back-end systems...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL that one of my college teachers is allergic to the phrase "a finite number of students".
Are they perfectly spherical and frictionless?
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Status: So that whole thing with the coverity security analysis? The code was so braindead stupid that 50% of it could not possibly be achieving whatever it was written for. But, because this product isn't really supposed to be worked on apart from security fixes, I have to fix it in such a way that it behaves as it currently does. Which makes it easier for sure, but oh so very wrong.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
That's not the fault of not using paper.
So it's the fault of...
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
That's the fault of using an antiquated system that hasn't seen core updates since the mid 2000's. All because of one of our "system admins".
... the system. Because it hasn't been kept up to date, and because the person who maintains it is incompetent.
Scantrons haven't been updated since 1972, and it still works with no updates needed.
The pencil hasn't been updated in about 500 years. Still works.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Which is funny, since one of the main selling points of the school is that we're tech-forward and on the cutting edge. Except in our back-end systems...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
one of the main selling points of the school is that we're tech-forward and on the cutting edge. Except in our back-end systems...
"Don't look behind the curtain" is a reality in basically every industry, if that makes you feel any better.
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@Zerosquare I can see how that can make people feel even worse.
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My neighbour is too drunk to open his front door again.
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Status: My Macbook Air just decided it was done. Went from idle (web browser up, not refreshing page) to hard shutdown instantly, no error message or anything. No indication on boot that anything strange had happened.
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Status: Butts.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Big ones?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My Macbook Air just decided it was done. Went from idle (web browser up, not refreshing page) to hard shutdown instantly, no error message or anything. No indication on boot that anything strange had happened.
Don't worry. The nice people at the Apple store will be delighted to sell you a shiny new one.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My Macbook Air just decided it was done. Went from idle (web browser up, not refreshing page) to hard shutdown instantly, no error message or anything. No indication on boot that anything strange had happened.
Don't worry. The nice people at the Apple store will be delighted to sell you a shiny new one.
This is a shiny new one, albeit of the 2017 edition (but new from the factory as of August of this year). And it's work property anyway.
It also does this thing where sometimes when waking up from sleep (including just screen off) it doesn't automatically turn back on the wifi. It says it does, but network operations time out until I manually turn off the wifi and turn it back on again.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It also does this thing where sometimes when waking up from sleep (including just screen off) it doesn't automatically turn back on the wifi. It says it does, but network operations time out until I manually turn off the wifi and turn it back on again.
it just works™
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It also does this thing where sometimes when waking up from sleep (including just screen off) it doesn't automatically turn back on the wifi. It says it does, but network operations time out until I manually turn off the wifi and turn it back on again.
it just works™
Exactly. I've had fewer problems with my 5-year-old, frankenstein's monster windows computer (running windows 10, originally on windows 7 with a hard-drive migration in between, although the spinny rust is still there as a data drive) than with this 4 month old computer.
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Status: Currently discovering new and exciting ways pupils can molest maths. Yes, molest. It's that bad. I've also decided on a new grading system:
"Slightly troubling."
"Not completely coupled to reality."
"I need a stiff drink."
"Make that two and leave the bottle."I just armed myself with this:
So you can guess where we're currently at regarding the average grades.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
one of the main selling points of the school is that we're tech-forward and on the cutting edge. Except in our back-end systems...
"Don't look behind the curtain" is a reality in basically every industry, if that makes you feel any better.
The difference is that in other industries the experts will tell you “it works, but don’t ask how sausage is made. It’s ugly.”
In our industry it’s “everything is completely broken on every level. Despair!”See also:
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
one of the main selling points of the school is that we're tech-forward and on the cutting edge. Except in our back-end systems...
"Don't look behind the curtain" is a reality in basically every industry, if that makes you feel any better.
The difference is that in other industries the experts will tell you “it works, but don’t ask how sausage is made. It’s ugly.”
In our industry it’s “everything is completely broken on every level. Despair!”Mostly because a broken plane doesn't work at all, while broken software is still mostly functional.
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@Rhywden And just so you guys can feel my pain:
The red box is the original task. And that is just one example. I'm really not sure how you can get "multiplying fractions" this wrong.
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@Rhywden Just when you thought multiplying fractions is easier for kids than adding...
Ouch.
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@topspin They even had a fucking calculator!
Granted, a bare-bones one which only does the basics but still!
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@Rhywden I wouldn’t award points for doing this with a calculator to begin with.
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@topspin Yeah, I know. But this way at least I got the
4 * 5 = 15
errors out of the way. Because those would make it even more horrible.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Mostly because a broken plane doesn't work at all, while broken software is still mostly functional.
Quite a few people had to die in the process though to get to where we are today with air safety. The De Havilland Comet worked fine until it ripped itself apart. Also in the early days of passenger planes you had things like this:
If there were deaths due to poor software engineering you bet it would get quite a bit better.
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
If there were deaths due to poor software engineering
If bad software could kill, the entire planet would be a rapidly-growing disc of dissociated debris flinging out at near-lightspeed. And that's not even accounting for NodeJS.
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@mott555 Bad software can kill and has killed, but that’s the exception. In the overwhelming majority bad software causes far more indirect damages, and thus the
industrymarket has decided that it’s cheaper to deal with shitty software than spend an order of magnitude more.
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Mostly because a broken plane doesn't work at all, while broken software is still mostly functional.
Quite a few people had to die in the process though to get to where we are today with air safety.
Meanwhile, broken software doesn't kill anyone. Usually.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Bad software can kill and has killed, but that’s the exception. In the overwhelming majority bad software causes far more indirect damages, and thus the
industrymarket has decided that it’s cheaper to deal with shitty software than spend an order of magnitude more.It's worth noting that it wasn't necessarily the right call, even from purely financial perspective.
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I knew someone would nitpick on
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
If bad software could kill