The Official Status Thread
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I may be developing symptoms of a URI.
Case insensitivity and a plethora of colons?
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@TwelveBaud Let us not forget the likelihood of having a slash or two, as painful as that may be.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Case insensitivity and a plethora of colons?
Colon infections are no :laugh::::ing: matter!
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Status: Power restored. Computer reset its
BIOSUEFI settings, so I had to go back in and restore things like using AHCI and disabling booting from USB 3 drives.It now refuses to turn on with my Model M keyboard plugged in. :(
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Status: Thunderstorm. Lightning strike so nearby that the EMP blanked my monitors on this computer. It didn't take out the power, or affect the other computer, but the monitors on this one went black for about a second. Lots of other nearby strikes, less than a half-mile, from the delay between lightning and thunder. But the one that affected my monitors, the thunder was instantaneous. I'd bet that if I walked around the neighborhood in the morning, I'd find a smoldering ex-tree within a block or two.
The storm started out dry, but now it's raining cats and dogs.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Thunderstorm. Lightning
Very Very Frightening me
x5
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I may be developing symptoms of a URI.
Around the time I read this post, I got a nose bleed.
Coincidence? :tinfoil-face-mask:
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Status: Argh. Bug when I run the program normally, no bug when I run it in valgrind.
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@cvi those are the worst.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
:tinfoil-face-mask:
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Argh. Bug when I run the program normally, no bug when I run it in valgrind.
Don't worry. You'll soon have code like:
OutputDebugString(L"Do not remove this. The program will fault if you do.");
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Argh. Bug when I run the program normally, no bug when I run it in valgrind.
Some kind of race condition then?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Some kind of race condition then?
No - that particular code wasn't running multi-threaded, which is why this was strange.
Now that I've figured it out, well ... it's still somewhat strange that it worked under valgrind, although I do now understand why valgrind didn't catch the error. (I guess I might want to look into annotating some stuff with
VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED
, but .)
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
It now refuses to turn on with my Model M keyboard plugged in. :(
Make sure the
Belt Onion Legacy Support
option is set to[Enabled]
.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I may be developing symptoms of a URI.
Around the time I read this post, I got a nose bleed.
Coincidence? :tinfoil-face-mask:
No further epistaxis has occurred since yesterday.
Nasal discharge is clear.
Resistance under sternutation is presently unknown.
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@Zecc ...And I just sneezed, as if on cue.
Nothing notable happened.I still feel one nostril more clogged than usual, and I'm resisting doing some aggressive picking.
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Status: switching through TV channels. Found that the first round of the darts world championship is on. I am taken aback that one of the contestants is a young, (objectively) attractive woman. And the other one is a guy that looks… normal!
Is that even legal? I thought the rules required that you basically look like this:
ETA: awe, she lost.
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status I want to reach out and kill someone.
I've gotten 11 fake phone calls from Amazon between 12:14 and 1:40 today. Call interval between each: 9, 9, 10, 6, 8, 6, 8, 5, 6, 17.
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status: why are my tax things from 2018 here? Highly unusual....
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status I want to reach out and kill someone.
Ah yes, the unrevised title of the Depeche Mode song.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
reach out and kill someone.
Ah yes, the unrevised title of the Depeche Mode song.
:deusvult.aac:
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status: went to sleep with headache, woke with headache. Today will be splendid...
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STATUS There is five, FIVE, representations of this data and I have to convert between each one. Why can't we have one? WHY!?!?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS There is five, FIVE, representations of this data and I have to convert between each one. Why can't we have one? WHY!?!?
I usually deal with that by having a single internal data model that can be converted to and from all the retarded formats, that way you can go from any format to any other format in two steps. The internal data model owns the rules and data so if the retarded ones do not live up to the internal one, the conversion fails and requirements people need a witch round of making their minds up what rules apply.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: went to sleep with headache, woke with headache. Today will be splendid...
Call in sick and go get a covid test?
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Status: The most certain indication that caffeine therapy is needed: Trying to prepare a hot aqueous solution of caffeine without hot water. Tea bags and sugar in a mug without boiling water don't cut it.
Status: Noticed a recently-purchased, unopened jar of caraway seed in my pantry. I'm not sure when I bought it, nor why. I don't like caraway.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Trying to prepare a hot aqueous solution of caffeine without hot water.
Top ten signs it's time to switch to intraveinous
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: went to sleep with headache, woke with headache. Today will be splendid...
Call in sick and go get a covid test?
Negative indications. However I do think my stomach is not appreciating that eggnog I drank last night...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Noticed a recently-purchased, unopened jar of caraway seed in my pantry. I'm not sure when I bought it, nor why. I don't like caraway.
Check for unexpected cohabitators?
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@Tsaukpaetra Only cohabitator is my son, and I should be so lucky as to have him buy any groceries.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure when I bought it, nor why. I don't like caraway.
It's a nice addition to bread, provided you don't use too much.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Only cohabitator is my son, and I should be so lucky as to have him buy any groceries.
Fantasizing increases!
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@dkf I think caraway seeds are probably the main reason I never liked the taste of rye bread, back when I could eat real bread. (I know rye is made without caraway seeds, but it seems to be much less common, and I never really had any enthusiasm for seeking it out.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Only cohabitator is my son, and I should be so lucky as to have him buy any groceries.
Fantasizing increases!
That's disturbing, but from you I expect nothing less.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Only cohabitator is my son, and I should be so lucky as to have him buy any groceries.
Fantasizing increases!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I think caraway seeds are probably the main reason I never liked the taste of rye bread, back when I could eat real bread. (I know rye is made without caraway seeds, but it seems to be much less common, and I never really had any enthusiasm for seeking it out.)
These? They’re the best!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
They’re the best!
You're welcome to your opinion. I won't argue with you. But I won't agree with you. De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Status When github's online merge conflict tool is lightyears better than xCode's merge conflict tool...for an xcode-generated storyboard file (machine generated xml), you know xcode sucks.
Xcode? couldn't figure out where the conflicts were and wouldn't even show a diff, just letting me choose theirs or mine (neither of which is correct).
Github? Sure, it mangles the file with text markers, but it was fairly easy to disentangle.
For all everyone complains about XAML, at least that can be diffed sanely instead of using opaque references everywhere and panicking at the thought of a conflict.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I think caraway seeds are probably the main reason I never liked the taste of rye bread, back when I could eat real bread. (I know rye is made without caraway seeds, but it seems to be much less common, and I never really had any enthusiasm for seeking it out.)
These? They’re the best!
Looks like a whole lot of larvae.
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@Benjamin-Hall Xcode is one of the most awful pieces of shit I’ve ever had the misfortune to work with. I recommend a dose of https://www.textfromxcode.com/ for sympathy from others who have encountered its brillant behaviours.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Trying to prepare a hot aqueous solution of caffeine without hot water.
Top ten signs it's time to switch to intraveinous
I sometimes think it might be more cost-effective to switch to tablets. I did try it for a while but it's just not the same as drinking it.
STATUS
I could work or I could harass Southern Rail until I've gotten a partial refund. Guess which one I'm going to be doing.
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Status: On holiday until the weekend after New Year. Masses of vacation entitlement to use...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: On holiday until the weekend after New Year. Masses of vacation entitlement to use...
I'm off from Thursday for 2 weeks. I had enough leave to cover the whole of this week but lots of other people are off this week and it would have left too few people in.
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@Arantor It's so crazy backwards from Visual Studio that I had to buy an off-brand VB compiler to do anything with my PPC Mac that shipped with it.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: On holiday until the weekend after New Year. Masses of vacation entitlement to use...
I'm off from Thursday for 2 weeks. I had enough leave to cover the whole of this week but lots of other people are off this week and it would have left too few people in.
I'm actually annoyed with taking holidays. Two days next week are mandatory. I tend to see bank holidays as the government preventing me from earning a living these days.
STATUS first call to southern railway. They also didn't believe that the driver got lost on a train track and had to retreat back to the train station of origin.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm actually annoyed with taking holidays. Two days next week are mandatory. I tend to see bank holidays as the government preventing me from earning a living these days.
Sounds like a you problem
We have a furlough for contractors for 3 weeks over Christmas, as most of the work we'd need them for slows down or stops.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm actually annoyed with taking holidays. Two days next week are mandatory. I tend to see bank holidays as the government preventing me from earning a living these days.
Sounds like a you problem
We have a furlough for contractors for 3 weeks over Christmas, as most of the work we'd need them for slows down or stops.
Yeah, one place I worked practically shut down over Christmas. All the contractors were basically booted out of the office in the second week of December and didn't get access until the second week of January. I'm quite lucky in this gig.
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I only have Friday and next week off (so 4 vacation days + 2 holidays). Usually I take a few more days off over the holidays, but I already took 34 of my 30 days off this year, so there's not much left.
Last year I took off fewer days than I had available because "who needs to take vacation days while working from home in a pandemic?" This year was more like "fuuuck, I'm too exhausted to do any work at all."Also Status: No more meetings for the rest of the week. Working on an absolutely
uselesscool, but zero priority optional feature, just because I want to.