The Official Status Thread
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Fuck Kotlin.
That's what I get for trusting the recommendation of someone from Earth-73.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Eyyy!!!!
And I've approved myself to get the latest Windows!
Wish me luck!
Edit: Damnit.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
we're used to extreme cold, not to extreme heat
Let us know when you have some.
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Status: hi. Been a while. Had to click into the forum to find from the discopocalypse thread the original image referenced by this meme a friend sent me:
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, great, someone on Stack Overflow has the same problem/question as me.
For a moment I was wondering, is there a Kink Exchange yet? And what kinds of questions would get closed as per community guidelines and whether that just serves as an encouragement...
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@pydsigner Welcome back!
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Last year: how can we uniquely identify whatchamahoosits so we can link to a special fancy doohickey for each whatchamahoosit on our website?
Also last year: I guess we use the "unique reference" field that each whatchamahoosit (of the kind that should have a fancy doohickey) has?
This month: So, "unique reference" turns out not to be unique.OK, just update the handful of duplicates to have unused ones.
Nope, about half of them have legitimate reasons for a "unique" reference to be duplicated.
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Status: Google's autosuggestion is a bit off:
If someone is sending me alarms from substation transformers then they've made a mistake. My work is electronic engineering, electrical stuff is for people in hard-hats.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Kotlin.
Any particular reason, or is it just the usual JVM crap?
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
If someone is sending me alarms from substation transformers then they've made a mistake. My work is electronic engineering, electrical stuff is for people in hard-hats.
Our corporate office once decided my job (somewhere between software/driver engineer and IT administrator) required mandatory arc-flash training, even though I work with PC's and PCI/PXI devices. It was far easier to just take the training than convince them to leave me alone because it doesn't apply to me.
I had to watch a video showing an electrical panel blowing up and spraying 40-million degree plasma everywhere, and I remember thinking, "If my PC ever does anything like that I'm switching careers!"
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
Last year: how can we uniquely identify whatchamahoosits so we can link to a special fancy doohickey for each whatchamahoosit on our website?
Also last year: I guess we use the "unique reference" field that each whatchamahoosit (of the kind that should have a fancy doohickey) has?
This month: So, "unique reference" turns out not to be unique.OK, just update the handful of duplicates to have unused ones.
Nope, about half of them have legitimate reasons for a "unique" reference to be duplicated.
Remember kids, natural keys are NEVER unique.
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@Gąska it's not like we don't have a truly unique surrogate key for the damned things. But we didn't use that because raisins.
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Car maintenance is expensive.
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@error it's still one of the least expensive vehicles to maintain.
Edit: sorry, that didn't sound pessimistic enough. I meant to say, other vehicles are even worse!
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A DLL I maintain leaks a bit of memory when loaded into a certain third-party application. It's slow, but after a few days of runtime the application crashes with an OOM exception, and this is a problem for a certain customer.
Attaching the Visual Studio Performance Profiler to the third-party application in order to do memory profiling on my DLL causes an instant system crash and reboot. And porting the feature that reproduces the leak in this application over to an independent EXE results in an application that leaks no memory.
This is going to be fun.
Turns out this third-party application has a built-in profiler!
FAKE EDIT: Third-party application's memory profiler says there are no memory leaks at all, in fact it shows total memory usage is less than a megabyte. This is at complete odds with what the Windows Task Manager and the application's own Out-Of-Memory popup dialogs state.
Status: Third-party application has a "trace" mode that executes the application more slowly with graphics showing you where it's currently executing. I thought I'd run it in this mode with Task Manager up and see if there's an obvious step where memory usage climbs.
Nope. No memory leak at all when running in this mode. And it's been running for a full day. I'm starting to think it's the application itself that's leaking, and not our DLL plugin for it.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Kotlin.
Any particular reason, or is it just the usual JVM crap?
Aggravated with the weird quirks of anonymous classes.
In C#, anonymous classes can't inherit from classes or implement interfaces. In Kotlin... they must, or all their members are private.
There must be a middle ground here.
Actually just wanting an inline object literal like in Javascript.
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@error really? A quick look at language reference suggests otherwise. Or are you trying to avoid typing type names in public declarations?
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@Gąska Yeah, that.
I had a shader class and I wanted an attribs property that exposed all the attribs as properties on that. Each shader has unique attribs so each one would have a unique attribs object.
TBH I wasn't pissed at the language so much as the obtuse uninformative error message, docs, and toxic Stack Overflow community.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska Yeah, that.
Well, then I'm glad Kotlin stopped you from doing that.
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STATUS Unhappy. I aim to make people unhappy with downvotes however my name keeps getting replaced with Beto Boomzilla.
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@DogsB nice try Boomzilla.
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Status: My main Linux computer at home is in an old Mini-ITX case with a blown power supply by a manufacturer that no longer exists, with a standard ATX power supply that's as large as the rest of the computer sitting on the floor next to it with all its cables snaking in like tentacles. Maybe it's time to shut that down and replace it with one of these, install Linux Mint to it, and have a cheap and portable Linux laptop.
EDIT: Ugh, everything this size uses eMMC for storage.
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CBD oil actually helps with my anxiety. I thought it was just a placebo.
But now I'm one of those vaping douches.
Is it worth the cost?
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@topspin I'd heard cannabidiol doesn't get you high, but might help with anxiety, but my doctor said there was no useful research for or against that claim. I tend to assume unsubstantiated claims are bullshit unless proven otherwise.
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Me last night: "All this code is working. Everything's in sync (between the repository and my working copy), but I'm going to do a clean build from the repository overnight anyway. Just because I'm a lunatic; logically, there should be no difference."
Me this morning: "Huh, a small piece of my code's not working anymore. I guess it's a good thing I'm a lunatic."
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
It was far easier to just take the training than convince them to leave me alone because it doesn't apply to me.
This is true of most corporate training.
All persons in job X must take Y training.
I have 30 years of experience in Y. I wrote a book about Y.
All persons in job X must take Y training. No exceptions.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I wasn't pissed at the language so much as the obtuse uninformative error message, docs, and toxic Stack Overflow community.
So, business as usual.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin I'd heard cannabidiol doesn't get you high, but might help with anxiety, but my doctor said there was no useful research for or against that claim. I tend to assume unsubstantiated claims are bullshit unless proven otherwise.
I had the same experience with taking fish oil supplements for joint pain. I assumed it was nothing but a placebo, but damn, it was a good one. Since if it worked, I didn't really care why, and being as it's just a concentrated form of something from a food I don't even consume otherwise, I figured it wouldn't have any real bioactivity and couldn't be doing any harm, even though I take double the "recommended dose".
Then research showed it has a genuine anti-inflammatory effect. Now I'm less comfortable taking it continually.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I had to watch a video showing an electrical panel blowing up and spraying 40-million degree plasma everywhere, and I remember thinking, "If my PC ever does anything like that I'm switching careers!"
Switching careers to a pile of ashes and/or a carbon shadow?
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My phone will only make a USB connection if you position the cable at an ever-increasingly precise angle.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
Then research showed it has a genuine anti-inflammatory effect. Now I'm less comfortable taking it continually.
...shouldn't that make you more comfortable?
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Me last night: "All this code is working. Everything's in sync (between the repository and my working copy), but I'm going to do a clean build from the repository overnight anyway. Just because I'm a lunatic; logically, there should be no difference."
Me this morning: "Huh, a small piece of my code's not working anymore. I guess it's a good thing I'm a lunatic."
I might be doing that later today. Magically the release version is doing really weird things in prod compared the the previous one...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
Then research showed it has a genuine anti-inflammatory effect. Now I'm less comfortable taking it continually.
...shouldn't that make you more comfortable?
I don't know, the day after I had to stop taking my anti-inflammatory meds (mix-up with the prescription) I immediately got sick from a presumed infection.
The two events are probably unrelated, but I'm going to try it intentionally next week...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
...shouldn't that make you more comfortable?
I thought I was taking a harmless placebo, and the beneficial effect was from my own brain. Turns out I've been taking a low-dose, but impure and regulated with reduced scrutiny, anti-inflammatory medication every day for years, without any medical advice or supervision. That warrants some consideration.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
...shouldn't that make you more comfortable?
I thought I was taking a harmless placebo, and the beneficial effect was from my own brain. Turns out I've been taking a low-dose, but impure and regulated with reduced scrutiny, anti-inflammatory medication every day for years, without any medical advice or supervision. That warrants some consideration.
So why not replace it with sugar pills?
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@error Before I found out it wasn't a placebo? Because.
Now? Because it turns out the beneficial effect is not the placebo effect, so sugar pills are unlikely to duplicate it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I might be doing that later today. Magically the release version is doing really weird things in prod compared the the previous one...
I've been trying to figure out this stupid thing for four hours now; it's an "impossible failure". It's an XML task that's failing to match a certain XPath expression. It's a simple XML file and a simple XML expression. I can see that elements are there. I can throw the XML document into Notepad++ and the XPath evaluator (in XML Tools) pulls the right elements given the XPath. This worked yesterday.
I'm mindful of the fact that I shouldn't take too long (operating under a deadline), but I'm the kind of stubborn asshole who's probably eventually going to debug into this third-party library to find out what the fuck the problem is.
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Status: Forgot C# Enums are crap compared to Java Enums.
Having to make String 'enums' out of a static class with
get
properties, bleah.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
toxic Stack Overflow community.
This reminds me of an ASP.Net problem I had recently. The first relevant-seeming result from Google took me to a SO quesiton that had been flagged as a duplicate. OK, standard SO, nothing new there. I followed the link to a question that had also been marked as a duplicate. OF THE FIRST QUESTION.
I wish I could remember which one it was.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
This is true of most corporate training.
Yes. I'm still not quite sure why I ended up having to take bioscience chemicals handling training given that it's widely agreed I'm best not in a lab with anything much at all, but take the training I did.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
This reminds me of an ASP.Net problem I had recently. The first relevant-seeming result from Google took me to a SO quesiton that had been flagged as a duplicate. OK, standard SO, nothing new there. I followed the link to a question that had also been marked as a duplicate. OF THE FIRST QUESTION.
It happens occasionally, though fortunately usually with low-value questions. I think it's something worth actually bitching about to the devs, as marking things as cross-duplicates is an annoying failure mode (and one that it ought to be possible to detect).
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GOD DAMMIT AMAZON WHY IS MY PRIME SUBSCRIPTION STUCK I NEED A GOD DAMN MOUSE
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Just drive to a store near you, you lazy bastard
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@TimeBandit But mice there are like 5€ more expensive.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Tired and cold. Heart rate is only 49. Normally if I have heart rate issues, it's ectopic beats and/or beating way too fast. A low heart rate is something new...
Yeah, a flutter can be fun too... Mine was hitting 160 pretty regularly. (95 now) Having another echocardiogram tomorrow.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
To make it as cold inside as it is outside?
There is no AC powerful enough for that
I know plenty of people that are trying to make the outside as cold as the inside... SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR!
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Me last night: "All this code is working. Everything's in sync (between the repository and my working copy), but I'm going to do a clean build from the repository overnight anyway. Just because I'm a lunatic; logically, there should be no difference."
Me this morning: "Huh, a small piece of my code's not working anymore. I guess it's a good thing I'm a lunatic."
Yeah. I just blew that.
Me: My push is just adding a new project. No changes to existing. I don't need to rebase/rebuild.
git: Yeah? We'll show you! <field in structure is removed>
build: Busted.error: blahblahblah has no member named 'xyzzy'
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@dcon
But what if we buy power from an electric coop and thus literally own stock in the power company?