The Official Status Thread
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng I have my antivirus disabled. It likes to take exclusive locks on source files in the middle of compilation, which kills the build. And it also likes to block some of my own assemblies as "untrusted" or "unverifiable" even though they're all code-signed, some even with an expensive Extended Validation certificate.
I always add an exception - "don't look in this directory" (reminds me, I need to look at my work machine...)
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I have my antivirus disabled. It likes to take exclusive locks
That is always wrong. Fuck that AV.
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@dcon I have no access to change any settings in our corporate antivirus. Strangely, though, I do have the rights to disable it completely, and that's a lot less painful than trying to get them to add exceptions to the system.
I once lost almost an entire day of work because IT declared my PC was "heavily infected" and was an immediate threat to the corporate network. They took it over via RDP, and spent most of the day running a complete scan on everything while I read a book. When it was finished, I was supposed to look at the report and delete everything it quarantined etc.
When the scan finished, every single item in the list was a software product developed by my division. I sent quite a nasty email in response to that.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I wouldn't dream of it.
twitch
Oh wait, that was correct. Sorry, force of habit.
When I'm handwriting I don't make that mistake.
Because there's no backspace so it's harder to pull off "hey, I used 'have' here, I could change it to 'of' and annoy some people"?
It just doesn't occur to me for some reason. Also, it's gotten quite funny to wind up the pendants.
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@DogsB BTW - it's quite interesting how the term "grammar nazi" has evolved in recent years from someone who's absolutely obsessed with pointing out even the tiniest mistakes, to someone who acknowledges that grammar exists at all.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB BTW - it's quite interesting how the term "grammar nazi" has evolved in recent years from someone who's absolutely obsessed with pointing out even the tiniest mistakes, to someone who acknowledges that grammar exists at all.
Are you describing yourself or projecting onto me?
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@DogsB just a random thought, not quite related to your... situation?
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Status: A good three weeks ago I put up a job ad for a student position. Doing that formally already took fucking forever with the stupid internal processes, when really all I wanted was a piece of paper with the official corporate design to pin up on the university blackboards. Should've just put up something
handwrittenslapped together in Word, learned that much.
Well, so far nobody has bothered to reply to it. Is the market really that swept up? Quite possible.
But then I checked with HR again and we actually got two applications already. But I didn't get any emails for it, or even an account for the stupid system we use. So now I know there's two applications but can't even read them.From the applicants' perspective it's probably for the better, who'd want a job at a technical institution that can't even figure out how to send internal emails.
:fuck_this_place_i'm_going_home.png:
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Status: Unvis is back! But the bad news is that some sites still either don't work at all, or the actual content gets stripped out instead of the filler.
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Status After many hours spent wrestling with my own past design decisions, I have finally updated the product I'm responsible for. Should be less prone to stupid bugs now. Of course the whole thing is a total snake-pit of nested, interwoven , but seems to work well enough. And that's enough for me.
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Status: Just spent two days trying to figure out why some tests stopped working. What I found (with lots of tracing through complex multithreaded mocks) was that I had no idea why the tests ever worked in the first place.
At least I know who wrote those tests without looking at the VCS history.
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Status: Trying to piecemeal-upgrade our Python 2 scripts to Python 3 without blowing up the entire world. It's not going well. You better all invest in bombproof backyard bunkers. (Getting Python 2 and 3 to peacefully coexist on the same computer at all times is far more difficult than it should be, especially factoring in other engineers' computers that only have one or the other installed. Any change I make breaks things for someone somewhere else. )
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Status: STOP EXECUTING PYTHON 2 SCRIPTS IN PYTHON 3 WHEN I DO EVERYTHING DOCUMENTED TO MAKE IT EXECUTE IN PYTHON 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm doing all this on branches so I don't screw up anyone else's systems until I can merge everything in one go and warn everyone first. But no, Python makes that impossible. I have to make changes on the trunk that force it to run in Python 2 otherwise it breaks CI or any systems that have Python 3 installed, which requires the users I'm trying not to interfere with, to have Python 3 installed, which bypasses the entire point of doing it on a branch in the first place.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I believe the hard drive is also going bad because it took a half hour for it to try doing Windows Updates.
How can you tell? It might just be WU taking its sweet time given that the machine's been off for so long.
Could be. It is spinning rust after all...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB just a random thought, not quite related to your... situation?
So you're projecting your nonsensical nitpicking onto me then.
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@DogsB no, I'm just observing a general trend in other forums and social media, a view that you might or might not subscribe to.l, but your posts reminded me of this.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB no, I'm just observing a general trend in other forums and social media, a view that you might or might not subscribe to.l, but your posts reminded me of this.
Grammar Nazis, general nitpicking, or you're only noticing these exist now?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng I have my antivirus disabled. It likes to take exclusive locks on source files in the middle of compilation, which kills the build. And it also likes to block some of my own assemblies as "untrusted" or "unverifiable" even though they're all code-signed, some even with an expensive Extended Validation certificate.
Prominent on the list of ways to get fired is to turn off AV on servers handling millions of people's healthcare and banking data.
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Status:
What it's supposed to look like (as displayed in-game):
What it gets saved as:
Unreal Engine fucking sucks
somemosttimes...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Getting Python 2 and 3 to peacefully coexist on the same computer at all times is far more difficult than it should be, especially factoring in other engineers' computers that only have one or the other installed.
Put them on different paths, calling one
python2
and the otherpython3
, then build virtual environments based on those? WOMM. It's also how we do our CI.
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Status: Successfully created my first compiler plugin. What a thing it would be to use a language that didn't need them.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Unreal Engine fucking sucks
somemosttimes...The tutorial lied to me. But I figured it out. Brute-force trial and error, baby!
Now that I've spent three days to make a tool to turn a 15 minute job into a 5 second one I'm... Going home because fuck it's late!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
after all...
So, finished the update and logged in (and finished the update).
"Start syncing again"? I never started in the first place!
Oh, and yep:
I'm still missing important security and quality fixes.
I think it's just looking for the latest "security" update that alters a timestamp for that message...
Edit: I'm not up to date, despite literally just checking and nothing being available.
Editedted: OMG OneDrive! Fucking go away!!!
Editedtedted: And you can't say "Oh, just tell it not to start with Windows", because look, it's already been told that!
Fucking hell!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB no, I'm just observing a general trend in other forums and social media, a view that you might or might not subscribe to.l, but your posts reminded me of this.
Grammar Nazis, general nitpicking, or you're only noticing these exist now?
Bad grammar of your question made it hard to figure out what you mean. But assuming you're asking about what trend I mean - I meant the trend of hostility toward those who care about basic grammar rules.
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Status: cognition error accessing pipeline
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@Tsaukpaetra you put a finger in ass and felt something strange?
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@Gąska you’re trying to out-Tsaukpaetra @Tsaukpaetra?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB no, I'm just observing a general trend in other forums and social media, a view that you might or might not subscribe to.l, but your posts reminded me of this.
Grammar Nazis, general nitpicking, or you're only noticing these exist now?
Bad grammar of your question made it hard to figure out what you mean. But assuming you're asking about what trend I mean - I meant the trend of hostility toward those who care about basic grammar rules.
That's pretty rich. This is the first post in this exchange where I finally have an inkling about what you're talking about. I'm also a tad confused. This hostility probably existed long before the Elements of Style first came off the printing presses. Are you just noticing it now or has it become obvious because some of us realised recently that you're an easy mark.
If you want to make a sport of it just troll Guardian writers on Twitter. I've been blocked by at least four of them. Saying that, when you spot a a grammar nazi in the wild they are fun to wind up.
Also if you started your post with a "the" it would have being easier to read. Staring a sentence with a conjunction is also considered a faux pas in some circles but we're getting into Oxford Comma territory now.
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@DogsB calm down, I don’t think he meant it that way.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB calm down, I don’t think he meant it that way.
Spoilt sport. It's not often that you get to grammar nazi a grammar nazi.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Also if you started your post with a "the" it would have being easier to read.
Don't lie. It wouldn't. An article there would be just useless fluff. Required useless fluff, but still just fluff. It wouldn't make anything easier.
Now, if you didn't make it so each subclause of your "or" has a completely different grammar structure that makes them impossible to compare to each other, it would really be easier to read.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB calm down, I don’t think he meant it that way.
Spoilt sport. It's not often that you get to grammar nazi a grammar nazi.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Staring a sentence
I don't always look for grammings.
But when I do, I stare them down into submission!
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@izzion a typo is not a grammar mistake.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Also if you started your post with a "the" it would have being easier to read.
Don't lie. It wouldn't. An article there would be just useless fluff. Required useless fluff, but still just fluff. It wouldn't make anything easier.
Try reading the sentence aloud a couple times then.
Now, if you didn't make it so each subclause of your "or" has a completely different grammar structure that makes them impossible to compare to each other, it would really be easier to read.
Impossible for whom? It's not rhyming slang. Also this this paragraph implies that every subclause has a completely different composition. This is inaccurate. Only the last one did. I want a correction.
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@DogsB I'll make a correction as soon as you make grammar corrections in all your posts.
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slow Saturday, eh?
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@Gąska if you want a reputation for being inaccurate and hyperbolic that's your own lookout.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska if you want a reputation for being inaccurate and hyperbolic that's your own lookout.
Can't be worse than being considered Rust evangelist
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@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
slow Saturday, eh?
So it seems. And rudely in the Status Thread too! Would that I were a ...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
slow Saturday, eh?
So it seems. And rudely in the Status Thread too! Would that I were a ...
Well, the Status thread wouldn’t have been a slow Saturday if lazy you hadn’t stopped your routine of re-installing Windows twice a day.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
slow Saturday, eh?
So it seems. And rudely in the Status Thread too! Would that I were a ...
Well, the Status thread wouldn’t have been a slow Saturday if lazy you hadn’t stopped your routine of re-installing Windows twice a day.
Sorry I'm up late, the two targets are right there in the floor itching to go...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Oh, just tell it not to start with Windows"
Right click on that notification and tell it don't-fucking-annoy-me!
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Status: Useless documentation
OK, I guess I'll move to Votex then. Let's just click the link...
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Status: Experiencing a law of nature. Whenever something goes wrong that requires a service call, it will happen on a weekend evening. In this case...my house AC. I think I have a corrosive effect on AC units. They're consistently failing around me. Winter can't come too soon.
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I started this post several times over the last few days. Lots of complaints about the stupidity of job seeking. But then this happened.
We had a power outage here, the first in probably 3-4 years. When my PC booted back up (it, too, had been up 3-4 years), I was logged out of lots of stuff. Including, as I discovered tonight, GMail. Well I went to log in and they can't verify my account.
Give them the e-mail, password (that I've never changed), security question answer, and fill in the blanks of the original signup e-mail. Uh oh...see, I signed up for this through an employer 15 years ago. But I added a security question and phone number so I was fine, right? Nope! Now they want a verification code from that e-mail. But, if I select another option, which is another e-mail, they'll contact me later. Now, keep in mind I'm trying to get into MyName@gmail, with this address of MyName@oldemployer, and directing them to MyName@majorISP, where the overall account is registered to Mom and Dad, and I also have MyName@MyBusiness registered to GMail for the now-defunct GoogleCheckout API. There's no way this isn't me asking for access to my e-mail.
In typical hipster fashion, I get no confirmation of the security question's correctness (it's referring to a person, of which there can only be two and neither has a nickname) and "we'll contact you later" means "we'll send a code and say we still can't verify it's really you." The page suggests I create a new account as the old one can't be closed until the owner (me) signs in (which I can't). My first thought is to see if the employer's domain lapsed, because they're defunct, and see if I can buy it and set up an e-mail but, alas, despite the URL being parked, it's held by a state agency until 2028. So, out of ideas for the moment, I do what everybody does and search Google for "how do I contact the assholes at Google?" and I get a phone number where some hipster recording says they can't do anything for GMail and LOL farewell, adios, auf wiedersehen, sayonara.
So...I go back to my phone, and use a GMail app that hasn't updated for at least a year because I can't update it over mobile and turning on WiFi triggers a flood of updates I don't have space for (sorry, it's five years old and I have more space hanging off my car keys). THAT lets me in because it's somehow a trusted device. So after bouncing around the hipster interface for ten minutes:
- I find I did indeed have a phone number registered that it simply chose not to use because hipsters.
- Security questions, which it says can be changed, actually aren't supported at all anymore. Explains why the recovery process asked for and then didn't like the answer. Hipsters just return "LOL failed" instead of crusty old error codes/messages.
- And thus I dumped the old e-mail for one I can still get to because I'm not taking any chances of this happening again.
But God damn was that a harrowing experience. Fuck Google.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We had a power outage here, the first in probably 3-4 years. When my PC booted back up (it, too, had been up 3-4 years), I was logged out of lots of stuff.