The Official Status Thread
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Status: just realizing it's Friday.
I think I lost one of this week's days or two.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Had to unblock unknown callers for 2 days so that the technician from my internet company can call me. In that time, I've got one confused Uber driver, one stranger who told me I called them earlier, 2 extended warranties, 1 loan relief and 4 disability advisors. #Mericuh
That sounds stressful to the point of anxiety inducing.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
> Be
> Doesn't block calls.
> Waits for scammers
> Months pass
> Nobody calls.
> Wants sum fuk.Random thought: Can you still be sued for sexual harassment if they call you unsolicitedly?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
just realizing it's Friday.
I think I lost one of this week's days or two.I lost three days this week and I'll lose another next week too.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got an e-mail from a recruiter asking me to fill an opening at a small .NET shop in Berea, Ohio. Split between onsite/remote, low pay (compared to DC) but excellent benefits and perks, good coworker community, working on developer tools.
Whoa! So we aren't actively hiring (there's a "passive ad" on indeed, and if we find a candidate great, but no rush). But, we absolutely do not work with recruiters at all... but every now and then a particular sleazeball will try pimping us someone's resume.
I'm legit curious... are you being pimped now to random indeed ads?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Struck me as a little hypocritical is all. There was a time that somebody told Alex to stuff his new ideas and go along with industry standards. Now he's in a big chair telling new people with different ideas to stuff them and do as they're told. I respect that he put up this website many years ago but that doesn't mean that attitude suddenly doesn't stink.
My intent wasn't to offend/etc., just explain / help empathize why the folks sitting in the big chair tell folks to go stuff their new ideas.
I'm still told that all the damn time by the way -- the difference is that, all these years later, I don't blame the guy in the big chair for not understanding. I try to learn how to articulate/explain my ideas better.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I suspect it's Schlemieling when going back through the history and doesn't have an efficient representation of the state as anything less than a full checkout.
Must be something stupid like that?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I was under the impression you had server access.
@Tsaukpaetra kind of brought up a good point there:
I just got a full repository dump from the server (took about 3h), then restored to a local repository into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (
??) which is mounted in RAM, then checked out a working copy from that.
Just for fun running the svn log command again from there it took 0.02s instead of 1h. And looking at the db format on disk it seems thatdb/revprops/?/*/contains individual files <1KB for all revisions with the author/date/log message information in a trivial text format, as suspected. No reason this can't be queried instantly.So I have literally no idea what fuckery the server was doing for such a trivial task.
On a side-WTF: the first 100 commits of the original author are all without any commit message whatsoever. Around commit 200 there is a commit message stating that they've removed the standard trunk/branches/tags layout because it "doesn't fit the project structure". So far I had always assumed that not having a standard subversion layout was due to ignorance on their part, not willful incompetence.
Status: dry run successful. Now contemplating battle plan of when/how to migrate.
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@apapadimoulis said in The Official Status Thread:
the folks sitting in the big chair
A cartoonishly oversized chair might be good for my ego.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Had to unblock unknown callers for 2 days so that the technician from my internet company can call me. In that time, I've got one confused Uber driver, one stranger who told me I called them earlier, 2 extended warranties, 1 loan relief and 4 disability advisors. #Mericuh
Status:
> Be
> Doesn't block calls.
> Waits for scammers
> Months pass
> Nobody calls.
> Wants sum fuk.I'll give you $50 if you swap numbers with me.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Had to unblock unknown callers for 2 days so that the technician from my internet company can call me. In that time, I've got one confused Uber driver, one stranger who told me I called them earlier, 2 extended warranties, 1 loan relief and 4 disability advisors. #Mericuh
That sounds stressful to the point of anxiety inducing.
Well, in my case it's rage rather than anxiety, but you're absolutely right. Blocking all incoming calls is an awful idea that caused me serious trouble a few times, but it feels necessary if I want to remain sane. And no, changing phone number doesn't work.
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Random thought: Can you still be sued for sexual harassment if they call you unsolicitedly?
You can't, but only because of technicality. To sue someone, you need to specify who you're suing.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You can't, but only because of technicality.
You can sue anyone for any reason.To sue someone, you need to specify who you're suing.
Filed under:
ITYM whom
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Status: memory leak in NodeJS* thingy finally found and squashed.
The direct cause was a reference not being dropped — as per "memory leak" — due to a single letter typo.
But I blame my predecessor having named a property holding a list a word that's singular and then taking an element from that list and storing it in a variable with the same name as the property.
My first reaction when I first saw that was: "this is confusing AF and it's bound to induce someone into making a stupid mistake".
And sure enough, someone did. I —cough— I mean they called
delete knob[knobId]instead ofdelete holder.knob[knobId]**, effectively silently deleting nothing.*Not my choice. Might have been the right choice at the time, but it certainly isn't now if we could restart the project from scratch. Which I burningly want.
**You might say using
deleteis an anti-pattern and that we should be using aMapinstead of indexing a JS object. Way ahead of you on this.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
due to a single letter typo.
By this I meant the property should have ended in
sin the first place.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Around commit 200 there is a commit message stating that they've removed the standard trunk/branches/tags layout because it "doesn't fit the project structure". So far I had always assumed that not having a standard subversion layout was due to ignorance on their part, not willful incompetence.
At high enough levels, ignorance, incompetence and intellectual laziness converge. There's no real distinguishing them.
Having seen what sort of shit happens in SVN when the whole thing with trunk, branches & tags is all just conventional (I can't think of a good reason to ever have branches inside tags inside branches
), I much prefer having that sort of level of structure enforced strongly. Even git is a bit too inclined to let this sort of thing slide for my taste.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Had to unblock unknown callers for 2 days so that the technician from my internet company can call me. In that time, I've got one confused Uber driver, one stranger who told me I called them earlier, 2 extended warranties, 1 loan relief and 4 disability advisors. #Mericuh
Status:
> Be
> Doesn't block calls.
> Waits for scammers
> Months pass
> Nobody calls.
> Wants sum fuk.I fucked a scammer just this morning by accident, they pulled the old Phone2Vagina vuln on me. Not even sure I was awake. It might have been some sort of /[NC]+/ situation technically.
Maybe your phone is broken. Have you tried calling your local Chinese restaurant?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I blame my predecessor having named a property holding a list a word that's singular and then taking an element from that list and storing it in a variable with the same name as the property.
My first reaction
...your predecessor was a bit of a knob
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
So I have literally no idea what fuckery the server was doing for such a trivial task.
I do.
Open directory. List all files. Determine which one contains the one revision it's looking for. Open file. Read file. Read file. Read file. Close file. Redo from start.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
So I have literally no idea what fuckery the server was doing for such a trivial task.
I do.
Open directory. List all files. Determine which one contains the one revision it's looking for. Open file. Read file. Read file. Read file. Close file. Redo from start.
Schlemiel is just thorough, okay?
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Manufacturers recommend weighing the resin when mixing different resins or pigments and resins for 3D printing, in order to be able to reproduce results. (I'm not sure why one couldn't measure by volume, instead, but whatever.) So I bought a "garden and kitchen" scale from Walmart. I chose one that has a (claimed) capacity of 6 kg and precision of 0.5 g. (I also chose to buy the lime green version because, for some reason, it's less than half the price of any other color.
) The picture on the walmart.com page shows the scale being used to weigh some broccoli.The scale was just delivered. The scale appears to be exactly what I ordered, but the packaging is slightly different. According to the packaging, it is a "420 garden" scale, and the picture shows what appears (it's not a very clear picture) to be a rather different sort of garden green, one not to be found in my garden nor my kitchen.
Also, instead of leaving it on my doorstep (behind a pillar, where it's not quite invisible from the street, but at least it's partly hidden and inconspicuous, making it less likely to walk away on it own), where every other FedEx driver ever has left my packages, this driver left it at the far corner of the garage. I'd never have known it was there, but for the email from Walmart saying it had been delivered. I looked outside and didn't see it. I had to look up the tracking info to find out where FedEx said they left it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
So I have literally no idea what fuckery the server was doing for such a trivial task.
I do.
Open directory. List all files. Determine which one contains the one revision it's looking for. Open file. Read file. Read file. Read file. Close file. Redo from start.
Yes, but as you have already guessed, the files are simple tiny text files. The whole
revpropstree is maybe 5MB. That’s... just too small to make this slow without trying really hard.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
... on the walmart.com page shows the scale being used to weigh some broccoli.
The scale was just delivered. The scale appears to be exactly what I ordered, but the packaging is slightly different. According to the packaging, it is a "420 garden" scale, and the picture shows what appears (it's not a very clear picture) to be a rather different sort of garden green, one not to be found in my garden nor my kitchen.
...
Sweet Clyde, laugh derisively at this fool.
Also, cannabis is indeed yet another variety of brassica. Genetic diversity doesn't actually exist. It's literally just us and brassica.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
So I have literally no idea what fuckery the server was doing for such a trivial task.
I do.
Open directory. List all files. Determine which one contains the one revision it's looking for. Open file. Read file. Read file. Read file. Close file. Redo from start.
Yes, but as you have already guessed, the files are simple tiny text files. The whole
revpropstree is maybe 5MB. That’s... just too small to make this slow without trying really hard.T'wasn't a guess.....
Besides, you can read the source. 💆
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Status: My car's alternator let out the magic smoke. Guess I'm not getting new computer parts anytime soon. :(
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My car's alternator
Status: It's 01:12, and I read that as "My cat's alternator..."
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status: power outage 45 minutes ago. We're coming up on battery capacity...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: power outage 45 minutes ago. We're coming up on battery capacity...
Ayyeeee!!!!
Sorry @error, out of my control,..
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Status: Annoyed by regional restrictions.
My phone (an LG G5) is getting a bit old and some apps are starting to require newer versions of Android than the last one available for it (7.0), so I thought I'd try installing a custom OS (LineageOS) on it. There's plenty of instructions for installing it on the specific G5 model I have (H850), so I thought it would be pretty easy.
The first step is to unlock the bootloader through LG's developer website, but when I entered all the required information, it said that my device can't be unlocked. It turns out that the European H850 can be unlocked, but not the Australian one, despite being the same model.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
, out of my control,..
Jesus fuck that was literally at 1 minute remaining. 😨
Am I in a movie?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
, out of my control,..
Jesus fuck that was literally at 1 minute remaining. 😨
Am I in a movie?!?
Tsaukpaetra and the Cursed Hardware.
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@topspin good save. But it's time we told him.
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Status: Ouch. Everything hurts.
Actually left the house yesterday, first shortly dropped by the office then went for a game of pool with a friend who hasn't been here in awhile. And since it's freaking 13°C in August, apparently I immediately caught a cold.
Limb pain, back pain, stiff neck and a headache from that. Alternating between shivering cold at night, so I actually got out the winter blanket, and sweating during the day. Even lying in bed hurts my back. Gosh, I'm
when even lying down is beyond what I can do well.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ouch. Everything hurts.
Actually left the house yesterday, first shortly dropped by the office then went for a game of pool with a friend who hasn't been here in awhile. And since it's freaking 13°C in August, apparently I immediately caught a cold.
Limb pain, back pain, stiff neck and a headache from that. Alternating between shivering cold at night, so I actually got out the winter blanket, and sweating during the day. Even lying in bed hurts my back. Gosh, I'm when even lying down is beyond what I can do well.Don't worry, it's no more dangerous than the common cold.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My car's alternator
Status: It's 01:12, and I read that as "My cat's alternator..."
Status: New warning message: Check Tail Assembly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Sorry @error, out of my control,..
Nothing to worry about, you'll still meet your 9.99999% uptime SLA
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Status: My webcam arrived.
Downside? Only the webcam arrived. Creative doesn't provide anything else at all, not even a calibration/testing utility. There's a camera app in Windows 10 but
. So it was a little tough seeing how it worked until I went to a horrible www.testmycameraandtotallydontspyonmelol.com sort of site. The lighting here really sucks.Also: Chrome sucks when it gets into that I-won't-even-load-this-site-because-retarded mode. I've been trying to look at a paystub site and it just won't connect. It connected once, said the current version of Chrome was too old to be supported, and blanked out. I had been having trouble intermittently where it decided to OutOfMemoryException on the login page...that Brave handles just fine. Google needs to fire everybody on the Chrome team yesterday.
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Status: Found a key.
BitLocker Drive Encryption recovery key
To verify that this is the correct recovery key, compare the start of the following identifier with the identifier value displayed on your PC.
Identifier:
FC1BC822-8129-4C36-A64B-04FD8903E685If the above identifier matches the one displayed by your PC, then use the following key to unlock your drive.
Recovery Key:
443289-131395-309353-293051-551133-146333-016929-463012If the above identifier doesn't match the one displayed by your PC, then this isn't the right key to unlock your drive.
Try another recovery key, or refer to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=260589 for additional assistance.Thanks, Microsoft, this helps me identify the drive quite easily. I know exactly which drive this is for....
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@Tsaukpaetra I know which drive that is, and you should be ashamed, possibly arrested
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the current version of Chrome was too old
.. how do you manage that? It keeps it up to date automatically!
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
you should be ashamed, possibly arrested
I know using Windows is dumb, but this punishment is going a bit too far
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the current version of Chrome was too old
.. how do you manage that? It keeps it up to date automatically!
Believe me, I know. I thought I had finally killed the update service for good a few months ago until it came back. So the site was crying about version 92 because stupid.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the current version of Chrome was too old
.. how do you manage that? It keeps it up to date automatically!
Believe me, I know. I thought I had finally killed the update service for good a few months ago until it came back. So the site was crying about version 92 because stupid.
Oh right. You're the guy who intentionally hobbles his browser. Carry on...
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the current version of Chrome was too old
.. how do you manage that? It keeps it up to date automatically!
Believe me, I know. I thought I had finally killed the update service for good a few months ago until it came back. So the site was crying about version 92 because stupid.
Oh right. You're the guy who intentionally hobbles his browser. Carry on...
The browser that updates every day with more problems because why not. Lately it's decided it needs to not just spawn a renderer thread for every single tab, it keeps letting the main GPU process grow as high as 400MB. Last year it was exploding the network service process. That's on top of the 700GB it's using for "browser" which is somehow separate from the 300MB it's using for my e-mail, any major retail storefront, Discord, or anything else with more lines of (JavaScript) code than all of Windows. And did I mention it has some kind of lock that it won't let go of that really fucks up any other browser that I dare run simultaneously?
Yeah. Fuck updating Chrome. If I had my Windows CD or wasn't shopping for a new PC, I would burn this entire instance to the ground.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I know which drive that is, and you should be ashamed, possibly arrested
I know. I found it. Contains high school work. Booo......
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the current version of Chrome was too old
.. how do you manage that? It keeps it up to date automatically!
Believe me, I know. I thought I had finally killed the update service for good a few months ago until it came back. So the site was crying about version 92 because stupid.
Oh right. You're the guy who intentionally hobbles his browser. Carry on...
The browser that updates every day with more problems because why not. Lately it's decided it needs to not just spawn a renderer thread for every single tab, it keeps letting the main GPU process grow as high as 400MB. Last year it was exploding the network service process. That's on top of the 700GB it's using for "browser" which is somehow separate from the 300MB it's using for my e-mail, any major retail storefront, Discord, or anything else with more lines of (JavaScript) code than all of Windows. And did I mention it has some kind of lock that it won't let go of that really fucks up any other browser that I dare run simultaneously?
Yeah. Fuck updating Chrome. If I had my Windows CD or wasn't shopping for a new PC, I would burn this entire instance to the ground.
You should and you should fix the permissions on your cache. It sounds like Chrome started as root and owns the browser cache, which I remember to be inexplicably user level vs app level on Windows.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My car's alternator let out the magic smoke. Guess I'm not getting new computer parts anytime soon. :(
They're not that expensive.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ouch. Everything hurts.
Actually left the house yesterday, first shortly dropped by the office then went for a game of pool with a friend who hasn't been here in awhile. And since it's freaking 13°C in August, apparently I immediately caught a cold.
Limb pain, back pain, stiff neck and a headache from that. Alternating between shivering cold at night, so I actually got out the winter blanket, and sweating during the day. Even lying in bed hurts my back. Gosh, I'm when even lying down is beyond what I can do well.You don't catch colds from cold weather.
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Status: twice trolled by Slack.
First I wanted to click a picture to expand it but those on-hover buttons appeared and I clicked download instead (this keeps happening).
Then I wanted to refocus the message text input so I went to click it but a popup saying the image was downloaded appeared and I clicked "open in folder" instead.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ouch. Everything hurts.
Actually left the house yesterday, first shortly dropped by the office then went for a game of pool with a friend who hasn't been here in awhile. And since it's freaking 13°C in August, apparently I immediately caught a cold.
Limb pain, back pain, stiff neck and a headache from that. Alternating between shivering cold at night, so I actually got out the winter blanket, and sweating during the day. Even lying in bed hurts my back. Gosh, I'm when even lying down is beyond what I can do well.YOU CAUGHT THE 'RONA!!!
WEAR A MASK WHEN READING OR POSTING ON TDWTF!!!
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ouch. Everything hurts.
Actually left the house yesterday, first shortly dropped by the office then went for a game of pool with a friend who hasn't been here in awhile. And since it's freaking 13°C in August, apparently I immediately caught a cold.
Limb pain, back pain, stiff neck and a headache from that. Alternating between shivering cold at night, so I actually got out the winter blanket, and sweating during the day. Even lying in bed hurts my back. Gosh, I'm when even lying down is beyond what I can do well.You don't catch colds from cold weather.
You catch colds from being exposed to virus while cold weather affects your blood circulation.
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