The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra I've got a handful of purchased movies on YT as well, but none of those ones.
IIRC 8 Mile got ported over from some defunct streaming service where I got the code included with a Blu-Ray copy. The others were free promos at one time or another.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I've got a handful of purchased movies on YT as well, but none of those ones.
IIRC 8 Mile got ported over from some defunct streaming service where I got the code included with a Blu-Ray copy. The others were free promos at one time or another.
You can buy stuff on YouTube?
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@Jaloopa no, you can only buy a license for unspecified period of time to maybe sometimes watch stuff if they allow you.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Sudden crack of thunder, very close and very loud, with no prior warning of (visible) lightning or more distant thunder.
That was your "Welcome to Texas".
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@dcon I've had plenty of Texas thunderstorms worse than that, closer and louder, including one with a tornado warning in the middle of the night (that my phone couldn't be bothered to tell me about until the next morning), but they've had warning — thunder in the distance before thunder nearby. This morning's storm, that was the only thunder in the entire storm (at least the only one that was noticeable over the general background noise of rain, furnace, computer fans, cars driving by, etc.), and it came as a complete surprise.
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Status: The price I pay for printed statements...
The plan was to deposit new job's paychecks into a new account and transfer ~80% to my old account for bill payment. Well it turns out to be more difficult than expected. I knew it would be impractical to withdraw and immediately deposit thousands in cash. Turns out I can't do direct transfers either. I mean, technically I can, but only over the phone, only three figures at a time, and only by paying a $25 fee per transfer. But I can drive out the the main branch, during a small window on the weekend, and have the bank issue a check to me, which I can then deposit wherever I want.
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@Zenith If the accounts are at the same bank, why wouldn't you be able to transfer money directly between them? If they're at different banks that kind of makes sense, but three figures seems like a tiny limit.
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@hungrier Different credit unions entirely. I understand there's a physical limit on cash in the ATM but I've never hit a limit on direct transfers.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns out I can't do direct transfers either.
Hehe, my bank let's me set up "automated bill pay" in which they will mail a check to the payee. Which can totally be myself. I think it's free too. Then I can mobile-deposit it.
It's somewhat amusing to make Rube Goldberg mechanisms...
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@Zenith I don't know if you have anything like e-transfers in the US but in Canada you can send up to $3000 per day (as well as some additional limits over longer periods of time), for free to anyone.
e: As long as the recipient has a bank account with online access. It also has to be a participating bank, but I don't think there are any banks that can't into e-transfer
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah, I was hoping to have the second bank transfer $1 every month to a third bank to satisfy their stupid DD requirements but that really seems like a stretch now. I might just use the third bank for one of those sell-your-own-art T-shirt sites and hope that counts as a DD. That's not really a long term plan; likely just to run out the clock on the early closure penalty.
Edit: I was also hoping for a way to deposit this last stimulus check so I could keep it as souvenir. Turns out everybody wants to go app-only for that and fuck you if you want to use regular online banking.
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@Tsaukpaetra You must be a programmer!
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@Zenith Whenever US people here are talking about banking I'm just like,
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@PleegWat Reminder: We're the country where bank passwords are often limited to 8 characters and two factors of authentication is 1.5 too many.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Reminder: We're the country where bank passwords are often
limitedsilently truncated to 8 characters and two factors of authentication is 1.5 too many.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Reminder: We're the country where bank passwords are often limited to 8 characters and two factors of authentication is 1.5 too many.
My bank limits me to 8 digits and possession of the bank card. And that's relatively recent; for ages the limit was 4 digits.
Online, I still use the card+pin with a special security device, or I could use my phone with a separate pin. Other banks use one-time-use tokens or passwords; I do not know their complexity limits.
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Ours did away with passwords altogether almost two years ago. It's either token device or a phone app with two 8 digit keys, one for login, one for confirmations of payments. Recently fingering and facials also appeared, but I haven't bothered. The login can also be used for gubmint and many utility sites. And the other way round - gubmint's electronic signature thingamajig can be used in banks.
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@PleegWat For in-person transactions where you possess the bank card, our limit is still 4 numeric digits, and only for "special, only available by request European-compatible" cards. For the most part you can just bwip it contactless with no further interaction, and where you are required to provide another factor, any scrawl on a PIN pad's signature tablet will do, whether or not it looks like the signature on the card, or whether or not it looks like a signature at all.
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status My old Microsoft Sidewinder joystick has found a new home. Posted on NextDoor (offered for free), someone jumped!
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
a PIN pad's signature tablet
Another of those US banking inventions I've never seen here. Contactless, sure. No pin up to certain limits then with pin above that. Abroad I've also seen terminals which don't do contactless & pin and want a switch to chip & pin when you hit the limit for contactless.
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@PleegWat Reminder: Chips only became "mandatory" in the United States two years ago. And some early (2012ish?) versions of contactless weren't EMV but simply wireless delivery of magstripe data.
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Status: Hast thou slain the keyboard-scrolling demon? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy.
Ok, doesn't quite scan right. But I think that demon is dead. No thanks to iOS, which makes scrolling the screen so that a particular element stays in view when the keyboard comes up (and the back when it goes away) needlessly complicated, with particular structures (UIView with one child, which is a UIScrollView, which has one child, another UIView) and nasty nasty constraints that are mostly WAGs based on range of screen sizes, plus a bunch of random calculations and getting event notification in the right place (and removing it again). And the documentation has changed, so most of the answers out there no longer work. Or are for something slightly different--just enough so that it fails miserably.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Am disappoint. No decent waifus in WotR. Floozies, evil harridans, furry options. Eh, maybe a DLC then? Not that anyone will hear my lonesome cries. People seem to be really into weird shit.
I dunno, the choices seem to be fine to me. It's hard to tell before knowing the personalities involved, though.
Wrath of the Righteous is not a campaign where I'd expect Romance to be a major factor. You're kinda busy with the seemingly endless demons pouring out of the Worldwound.
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@Parody Dunno. Didn't catch my eye. Other than Camelia (which seems to be NE - a no-go for goody-two-shoes like I tend to be).
The demon thing seems like just another leaking can of ancient evil. Which is entirely fine by me. I do find the overplayed rush to save the galaxy in imminent danger anti-immersive when some Admiral Hackett inconsiderately bombs you with sidequests. Doesn't he know what's at stake? Therefore, I say, if we can do any of that, we can also have some nookie.
I hope they're not doing the half-hidden timer thing once more? It's a good challenge for those who know the PnP rules or for an n+1 playthrough, but me, I want all the sidequests. Collect ancient roc's egg for which I have to trek a week to the mountaintop and a week back just to bake a very large omelette? Count me in, you know?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Reminder: We're the country where bank passwords are often
limitedsilently truncated to 8 characters and two factors of authentication is 1.5 too many.Only when setting the password. After that, you'd better be aware that the password has been truncated or you'll never log in again. Well, not unless you get the customer services helpline to read you out what your real password is over the phone. (UK banks used to be just as awful, but some smart lawyers got wind of it and courts started to systematically hit the banks with the full liability for the ensuing frauds which was both costly and embarrassing, so their shit was put somewhat in order.)
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Status: The result of a significant amount of head-scratching yesterday.
def require_subclass(required_class): # Beware! This is all deep shenanigans! def decorate(target_class): __class__ = target_class def __init_subclass__(cls, **kwargs): if not issubclass(cls, required_class) and type(cls) is not AbstractBase: raise TypeError(f"{cls.__name__} must be a subclass of {required_class.__name__}") super().__init_subclass__(**kwargs) setattr(target_class, '__init_subclass__', classmethod(__init_subclass__)) return target_class return decorateOK, the real code has both a lot more documentation comments and a whole lot of citations. But fuck me, Python's a ghastly mess under the covers…
The code is used to mark a class that's working as an interface so that it is an error to apply that to any class that is not a subclass of a different (main) model class, unless that class is also an abstract class (in which case the constraint will apply to its subclasses), a constraint we can't do by other, more obvious means because of problems with resolution of the Method Resolution Order solver. It's a messy problem, but this lets us just say:
@require_subclass(MainModel) class FooInterface(metaclass=AbstractBase): # abstract method definitions, etc...and then things Just Work. Mostly.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
And some early (2012ish?) versions of contactless weren't EMV but simply wireless delivery of magstripe data.
As someone who works on payment processing software, fuck contactless magstripe
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Status: Overzealous plower forcefully trimmed my bush. Not impressed as it's a mess. And it's not just my bush that was timmed, I saw others having undergone the same treatment. Think they thought the streets were wider than they are when "improving" the plowing.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
fuck contactless magstripe
Yes!
Pushing harder to increase the other's force is great exercise!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The code is used to mark a class that's working as an interface so that it is an error to apply that to any class that is not a subclass of a different (main) model class
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Status: CPU is being throttled again.
Maybe I need to check the blower...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I need to check the blower...
In case it sucks?
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
early
Oh those are still around. Every Samsung phone still has that "feature"
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I need to check the blower...
In case it sucks?
In case it's not blowing, but it shouldn't be sucking.
Status: TIL the system will beep when the CPU is throttling. Holy fuck that's annoying...
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Status: Apparently the BIOS is unable to control the fan speed. How this has never come up before is a mystery, but it looks like I'm going to need to perform maintenance....
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Because the way that my colleagues had chosen to do it involved overriding
__new__and that's just Bad when you stack them together. (I don't bother with such constraints, but some of my cow-orkers love their little type restrictions.) Like this, they get to say what they mean instead of just how to implement it.The general pattern is that the interfaces mark extra capabilities/protocols that the main model classes can opt into (e.g., they know how to synthesise their configuration data programmatically and remotely rather than needing a raw data blob to be moved over the network, an orders-of-magnitude acceleration strategy). That's actually sensible. But there's a lot of other things going on in the type hierarchy so we can't do it by simple linear inheritance.
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@dkf I'm not sure if I'm simply not up to speed today or if this read like
to anyone else.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I'm not sure if I'm simply not up to speed today or if this read like
to anyone else.Our code is complicated. It does a complicated task. (That's not too bad a pair of statements.) That Python monstrosity I wrote tames some of the worst parts a little bit, and does so by putting horrible things in one place rather than spreading them around.
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@PleegWat Some of it is just dumb for the sake of dumb. Every bank account I've ever had has something wrong with it. That's why I have half a dozen of them instead of just one or two.
Status: Wow, the mail has been stupid lately. I had a preorder for some toys from China come in stock. It went from China, to NYC, to Texas, to Philly, to Harrisburg (less than an hour away), to Virginia, and still isn't here after six weeks, four of them spent in the US. I'm also waiting for some T-shirts that went from Texas to Arizona for some reason on their way here.
GameStop's website is also still down from my desktop even after a modem reboot. How the hell do you set up a website so it only connects on phones?
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@sloosecannon At least Google Pay, Apple Pay, and Microsoft Wallet now comply with EMV, as do recent physical cards...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
GameStop's website is also still down from my desktop even after a modem reboot. How the hell do you set up a website so it only connects on phones?
The same way I apparently configured a static website to only load once in a while on this one particular PC while it loads perfectly fine on every other device?
And it's not a browser problem either, nothing on that computer can access it when it's having a hissy fit. But it can get other sites just fine while pissing itself.
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Over in one of the Game Stop threads I complained that you can actually buy a game new on Amazon for cheaper than a used one on Game Stop. But worse, I just realized that buying a game digital only directly from in Nintendo’s eShop is more expensive than getting a physical copy (including a
123 month Nintendo online membership bonus) from Amazon.
How do you fuck up your pricing this much?E: misread it.
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@topspin different stores have different sales at different times. Amazon is an aggregate of millions of sellers, Nintendo is just one.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin different stores have different sales at different times. Amazon is an aggregate of millions of sellers, Nintendo is just one.
Still doesn't make sense that a first party download is more expensive than a 3rd party physical sale, which includes profit for the 3rd party and cost of the physical product.
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@topspin Is that a really a fuckup or a strategy of aux income? From Amazon sales Nintendo gets a cut that predictably satisfies the quarterly projections. From their own shop they ka-ching on the loyalists.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin different stores have different sales at different times. Amazon is an aggregate of millions of sellers, Nintendo is just one.
Still doesn't make sense that a first party download is more expensive than a 3rd party physical sale, which includes profit for the 3rd party and cost of the physical product.
Physical items take up physical space, which for a store or warehouse has its own cost. If something doesn't sell at full price, it's better to sell it marked down and get some revenue from it, rather than keeping it around taking up space that could be used for something that sells.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Some of it is just dumb for the sake of dumb. Every bank account I've ever had has something wrong with it. That's why I have half a dozen of them instead of just one or two.
Status: Wow, the mail has been stupid lately. I had a preorder for some toys from China come in stock. It went from China, to NYC, to Texas, to Philly, to Harrisburg (less than an hour away), to Virginia, and still isn't here after six weeks, four of them spent in the US. I'm also waiting for some T-shirts that went from Texas to Arizona for some reason on their way here.The more I read your posts, the more I get the feeling you've got the same curse as @Tsaukpaetra, except it's for non-computer things.
