The Official Status Thread
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
my presence has done something weird
Don't tell anyone, but he was actually hired by AMD as a saboteur.
*wears read shirts*
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon That reminds me. I've been FF and Thunderbird asking repeatedly to download the latest update, and I click the Download button.
I gave up on that button since you never know what's happening. I just click "later" and then go to the About dialog and let it update from there (where it actually shows progress)
They've changed the "What's New" link in that dialog to point at the release notes of the version you currently have, not the one it wants to download. And navigating from former to the latter isn't straightforward.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Thanks VirtualBox.
Installed 6.1.28, VM fails to start. Reverted to 6.1.26, all is good again.I had similar problems, with a message about a kernel driver. An uninstall, reinstall, and extra reboot later it actually started.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Thanks VirtualBox.
Installed 6.1.28, VM fails to start. Reverted to 6.1.26, all is good again.The "Don't update" thread is somewhere else.
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Status: de-stress
inged with another Rhamphorhynchus
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@kazitor
E_DEAL_WITH_IT
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Thanks VirtualBox.
Installed 6.1.28, VM fails to start. Reverted to 6.1.26, all is good again.I had similar problems, with a message about a kernel driver. An uninstall, reinstall, and extra reboot later it actually started.
I forget what the error was now (something about memory?), but just installing .26 over .28 worked. (I was actually surprised - most installers won't let you downgrade)
I'll try again on the next release. Too to force 28 to work!
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STATUS an in house code generator... One way of reducing the bus factor to you and ensuring a job for life I susppose.
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Upcoming roundtable discussion with some guy I don't know. I looked him up in the company directory. He's my boss' boss' boss. :awkward-moment-seal:
[anxiety intensifies]
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
roundtable discussion
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Upcoming roundtable discussion with some guy I don't know. I looked him up in the company directory. He's my boss' boss' boss. :awkward-moment-seal:
[anxiety intensifies]
It doesn't matter how you slice up the teams, it's going to fix some problems and cause other problems. ... Which is why we switch up the teams every couple of years, to try and fix the problems the last reorg caused.
...Which, by your own admission, is a fruitless exercise.
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The man speaks in complete paragraphs.
:is-it-possible-to-learn-this-power:
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
...Which, by your own admission, is a fruitless exercise.
It's not fruitless. Instead of keeping the same, old, boring problems for years, you get fresh, brand-new ones regularly. Isn't what innovation is about?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
...Which, by your own admission, is a fruitless exercise.
It's not fruitless. Instead of keeping the same, old, boring problems for years, you get fresh, brand-new ones regularly. Isn't what innovation is about?
So not fruitless, but the fruit is brown, has a suspicious smell, and is accompanied by a cloud of flies?
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Status: Against my better judgment, I decided to order two dehumidifiers for the basement. Of course, they had sold out overnight so I couldn't. In fact, most of the dehumidifiers at Lowes mysteriously sold out overnight. So stupid me ordered that spare toner cartridge I've been dragging my feet on for months instead.
I might look a little harder for dehumidifiers tomorrow.
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Status Safari is the new IE6.
We setup an app redirect for certain urls so clicking on a link in an email would take you to the app if you have it installed, otherwise to the web version by setting a timeout that triggers if changing the window location fails (because the app doesn't exist or the request to open in the app (android) is rejected). Works just about everywhere...except desktop safari. Which goes ahead and does the window location change (which fails, of course, since that's not a valid app url on desktop) and so never hits the timeout.
Which means I'm going to have to do userAgent sniffing () to only try that app scheme when it thinks you're coming from a mobile browser. Which is...horrific. Thankfully I didn't have to write the (insane) regex myself....
And if you're in request desktop site mode on mobile safari, it probably won't work either. Which means I'm going to have to figure out something.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
most of the dehumidifiers at Lowes mysteriously sold out overnight. So stupid me ordered that spare toner cartridge
Yeah, I don't think that's going to help your humidity problem much.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Which means I'm going to have to do userAgent sniffing () to only try that app scheme when it thinks you're coming from a mobile browser.
Isn't single-casing Safari easier?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Which means I'm going to have to do userAgent sniffing () to only try that app scheme when it thinks you're coming from a mobile browser.
Isn't single-casing Safari easier?
Possibly. But it seemed more robust to only give the app option on mobile...since it obviously doesn't exist anywhere else. And that prevents desktop people from having to wait through a timeout at all--they just get an immediate redirect.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The man speaks in complete paragraphs.
:is-it-possible-to-learn-this-power:
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Status: Apparently I haven't been assigned the computer I've been using. It is in limbo.
I was directed to see what happens when I run a
.hta
file. Yes, an HTML Application. It hasn't been updated since 2016. It fails, because a WMI query returns no results, and this is not handled properly in the javascript.Half tempted to un-fuck it, but they mentioned if I somehow got it to work it would probably cause more problems because it would submit data to a deprecated system.
Sometimes...
I want to snap.
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Status: Every time you log in you need to receive a 2FA code. Sure, whatever, sucks that this is true even for sites in the same family but technically different domains. However...
Could you motherfuckers just... not with the different source numbers?
Goddamn this is even stupider theater than normal...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I was directed to see what happens when I run a .hta file. Yes, an HTML Application. It hasn't been updated since 2016. It fails, because a WMI query returns no results, and this is not handled properly in the javascript.
I see your new workplace feels like home already!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Upcoming roundtable discussion with some guy I don't know. I looked him up in the company directory. He's my boss' boss' boss. :awkward-moment-seal:
[anxiety intensifies]
It doesn't matter how you slice up the teams, it's going to fix some problems and cause other problems. ... Which is why we switch up the teams every couple of years, to try and fix the problems the last reorg caused.
...Which, by your own admission, is a fruitless exercise.
I worked at a place where they specifically said that they did reorganizations every 1.5 years because some research had shown that there was a 20% something increase in productivity after such exercises.
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@Carnage IIIIIIINFINITE GROWTH!
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Status: Put $500 into a pair of dehumidifiers for the basement. I will turn it into the Sahara if that's what it takes. Can't tell if it's a smart investment or not. House won't sell with a mold problem and it's probably not smart to ignore it while I live here but damn I did not want to spend that money with my job ending in a month.
After I put that through, of course I was turned down for another senior developer job where I thought the interview went well. No doubt my current situation played a part in that. I'm tired of doing everything I'm "supposed to" like wearing a tie, sending thank you notes, not badmouthing my current employer, etc for no reason.
Then I fielded another recruiter call where they wanted to submit me for a job that would be a 40% pay raise. They were going to e-mail me a submission confirmation and contact info. That was an hour ago. I've been having this happen way too much since I flipped the "looking for work" sign on LinkedIn. These people call me, act super excited to find I'm available, and then disappear. I tried following up twice with some mook from KForce looking to fill an OnBase position and nothing but crickets. Common courtesy would at l;east lie about the position being cancelled or something when somebody you cold-called follows up.
The economy is so damned stupid. It's full of assholes that just keep doing the same thing over and over against expecting different results.
(Yes, I'm aware that includes me keeping applying to jobs that seem to fit my skill set when I should just start mailing bags of feces instead.)
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Morning status: A song with the following line (translated) came up on my Spotify, and I thought it was apt.
One of the two of us has absolutely gone crazy // All that's left is to figure out whether it's me or the whole world.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Morning status: A song with the following line (translated) came up on my Spotify, and I thought it was apt.
One of the two of us has absolutely gone crazy // All that's left is to figure out whether it's me or the whole world.
Obligatory
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Status, 18:30: Should be wide awake; instead, can't keep my eyes open.
Status, 23:30: Should be asleep; instead, wide awake.
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Time to replace your RTC battery.
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@Zerosquare where's he going to find CR2032 at this hour!?
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Status: trying to understand why dumb people are so dumb.
Like why it is confusing that I should find the term “strictly white” racially offensive.
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@Arantor I can answer that if you ask this in Garage.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Like why it is confusing that I should find the term “strictly white” racially offensive.
Depends. Are you talking about people's skin color?
Because there's people who get offended if I say I like white chocolate, so the flip side is sometimes other people get confused whether something actually racist happened or just more non-events.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: trying to understand why dumb people are so dumb.
Like why it is confusing that I should find the term “strictly white” racially offensive.
Surely that depends on context? Could be talking about dress code.
:white_hanzo:
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Me: totally broken sleep pattern which makes me active at night and sleep in the day.
My sister: falls asleep watching TV every night, quite loudly by the way, and so it keeps playing all night. Usually cartoons from Netflix etc., so it's all episodes of the same show.
Net result: I'm sick and tired of Gumball theme music.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
white chocolate
The one true chocolate! But only milkybars that were made in Ireland. Did anyone have the milky bar kid growing up? I feel that this is an Irish thing that noone else gets.
STATUS I've just being running mvn clean install for half an hour waiting to be inspired.
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STATUS Modern remakes ruin everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2hp7sBE8hk
vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUxt2lhTfQ
More of my childhood ruined!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
More of my childhood ruined!
It only took you 10 years to notice!
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Status: putting on the hazmat suit to venture into the Garage to expand upon the comment made.
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@Arantor thanks! I appreciate.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: putting on the hazmat suit to venture into the Garage to expand upon the comment made.
Remember! The standard-issue revolver has six bullets. Five bullets for whatever is in there and one for yourself if you can't run fast enough.
STATUS installed Grammarly. Hopefully it works.
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@Gąska it’s up, along with the background and what my issues on the subject are.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Did anyone have the milky bar kid growing up?
Those ads were also a thing in the UK. I just didn't like the product all that much; I've liked darker chocolate for a very long time.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Did anyone have the milky bar kid growing up?
Those ads were also a thing in the UK. I just didn't like the product all that much; I've liked darker chocolate for a very long time.
I like the taste but as they're marketed at kids then the Milkybars themselves are usually kid-sized bars.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
like the taste but as they're marketed at kids then the Milkybars themselves are usually kid-sized
It was how I justified eating two of them.
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@dkf just because I can. These were part of my childhood, I didn’t particularly care for Milkybars though, never have particularly liked white chocolate.
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Status: Didn't check voicemail for a few days so I've accumulated 5 messages. 4 of them were final courtesy calls. At least 2 from the same company.
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@Gąska I know, I wish any of those car warranty calls were really their final attempt. I had one yesterday I was just going to waste time with but the Indians there knew a 2042 DeLorean isn't a real car and hung up.