The Official Status Thread
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Status: is Firefox stuck loading a page under file:/// of all places?
Oh, an infinite loop in my JS because I forgot to increment a counter
INB4 "Programming confessions "
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
made the rainbow vomit go away.
Huh. I'd think that as a MLP fan, you'd like rainbows.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra āallotā is a word in its own right, but it is possible the person meant āa lotā, typed āalotā and spell check (rather than auto cucumber) suggested āallotā.
That's what I said....
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
made the rainbow vomit go away.
Huh. I'd think that as a MLP fan, you'd like rainbows.
I'm not that gay.
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Status: I need to upgrade my browser to Internet Explorer 9!
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
did the needful?
Someone summoned my peeps?
Kindly revert to me.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to upgrade my browser to Internet Explorer 9!
ServiceNow? Obsolete browser? Have you turned into @Zenith?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to upgrade my browser to Internet Explorer 9!
ServiceNow? Obsolete browser? Have you turned into @Zenith?
Transitive property of @boomzilla yadda yadda.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to upgrade my browser to Internet Explorer 9!
It's definitely better just to stop using ServiceHow.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to upgrade my browser to Internet Explorer 9!
It's definitely better just to stop using ServiceHow.
Tell that to $company.
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Status: Excel, the only program that can open spreadsheets at the moment, isn't the default program to open spreadsheets.
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Status: It appears my sister has entered the DDF....
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You got your sister shipped to you?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You got your sister shipped to you?
Well, no, but...
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@Tsaukpaetra Why would a package being sent from Mesa, AZ, to Mesa, AZ, go by way of Bloomington, CA, a detour of some 338 miles (each way), according to Google Maps? Although I've had something similar. A package from Los Angeles went to a UPS (or FedEx, or whatever; I don't remember) warehouse in Los Angeles, to a patch of nothing north of Reno, NV, back to Los Angeles (possibly the same warehouse), before finally making its way to TX. (Coincidentally, during its journey, it probably went through Bloomington, CA and not through, but quite close to, Mesa, AZ.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Why would a package being sent from Mesa, AZ, to Mesa, AZ, go by way of Bloomington, CA
Probably because that's where the closest routing hub is. The delivery companies tend to have to have all packages go through the routing hubs even if they're going out via the same depot they came in front.
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Status: Eternal mood.
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status: critical warning: unexpected failure in Censor: suicide evaluation was not cancelled within 39ms.
Stand-by
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: critical warning: unexpected failure in Censor: suicide evaluation was not cancelled within 39ms.
Stand-by
One cannot self-terminate.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: critical warning: unexpected failure in Censor: suicide evaluation was not cancelled within 39ms.
Stand-by
Shhh, it's alright. Nothing a reboot won't cure.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Why would a package being sent from Mesa, AZ, to Mesa, AZ, go by way of Bloomington, CA, a detour of some 338 miles (each way), according to Google Maps? Although I've had something similar. A package from Los Angeles went to a UPS (or FedEx, or whatever; I don't remember) warehouse in Los Angeles, to a patch of nothing north of Reno, NV, back to Los Angeles (possibly the same warehouse), before finally making its way to TX. (Coincidentally, during its journey, it probably went through Bloomington, CA and not through, but quite close to, Mesa, AZ.)
That is called
Eventual Consistency
.
Compensating Transactions
may have been involved, too.
You should take some lessons in cloud computing!
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: critical warning: unexpected failure in Censor: suicide evaluation was not cancelled within 39ms.
Stand-by
One cannot self-terminate.
Thereās a SCSI joke in there somewhere but
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I can see where this is going, and the answer is no. I won't plug a SCSI terminator (nor anything else) into @Tsaukpaetra.
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@Zerosquare Why do you resist?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Thereās a SCSI joke in there somewhere but
The cable is probably to damn short
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Status: Does Microsoft have any actual engineers left or are they all sales "engineers?"
It's like all you have to do to sell a software
productservice these days is put disappearing scrollbars over a gradient background with two or three borderless, reactionless, contextless controls and call it digitally transformative AI. Does it actually, you know, do anything? Fuck no, why would that matter!The PowerBI people are driving me up the wall. They keep pointing back to "documentation" that looks like it was generated by a tool and is full of "a thrombulator thrombulates and thrombulating is what a thrombulator does" level definitions. Yeah, genius, I read that and that's why I'm asking you "experts" now.
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@Zenith classic Enterpriseā¢ support. Just point to some unhelpful documentation ignoring that if the documentation had been any use I'd have not needed to contact them in the first place.
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@Zenith it is generated by a tool. For ages Iāve had to tell MSDN not to show me their āmachine translatedā absolute garbled bullshit. So itās not too far fetched that the English version is now also machine generated.
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@topspin Even if it was generated by a human, it was still generated by a tool.
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@topspin Well, yeah, I know a tool can run through and generate the empty XML or whatever from function exports. But somebody has to go back through it and fill in what it couldn't pick up (everything besides the names and types). Whatever they used for M (the replacement for VBA expressions) doesn't even do that much.
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@Zenith maybe they used ChatGPT?
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Status Contemplating pulling the trigger on the guts for a new PC.
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/bentomhall/saved/#view=YJHZQ7
I've already got a case and PSU that should work fine, even if not optimally, plus all the peripherals and storage.
Anyone see anything glaringly bad about that? I don't need top-tier graphics performance, but would like to be able to use something like Stable Diffusion.
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@Benjamin-Hall Prepare to appease the machine spirits.
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Status: 17:00 local. Having difficulty staying awake. Realized I neglected to prepare afternoon caffeine.
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@Benjamin-Hall Looks OK to me. I'm not a huge fan of Radeons due to having many more problems with the drivers over the
yearsdecades, but that's just my bias. (Much like how people won't buy a (insert drive manufacturer here) hard drive because one failed on them 12 years ago.)
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Well, yeah, I know a tool can run through and generate the empty XML or whatever from function exports. But somebody has to go back through it and fill in what it couldn't pick up (everything besides the names and types). Whatever they used for M (the replacement for VBA expressions) doesn't even do that much.
Tools like Sandcastle extract "documentation comments" from sources. People fill them with repetitive useless garbage of course and that's how you end up with MS docs.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
guts for a new PC.
Looks good to me. When you're done we should compare benchmarks.
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Status: Well, I guess three error codes is better than a guru one?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
we should compare benchmarks.
Wouldn't you need to have something that works to benchmark it?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
we should compare benchmarks.
Wouldn't you need to have something that works to benchmark it?
No, actually!
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Status: Microsoft sure does not make it easy to install old SDKs.
A few years back, I had a work PC where I managed to get all of the relevant SDKs from 5 to 10 installed (5.0/5.1, 6.0/6.1, 7.0/7.1, 8.0/8.1, 10). Thought I duplicated that at home but no, only 5.0, 6.0, 8.0, and what I think is 5.1 or 5.2 but can't tell (it's installed under "Platform SDK for Windows XP SP2/" instead of "Microsoft SDKs/#.#/" or "Windows Kits/#.#/"). So I decided to look online for some downloads.
All I need are the Win32 headers, so I can determine what version of Windows should use features/flags. I need this because it used to be on MSDN but Microsoft shit that bed and now everything is written like 11 was the first version of Windows. They did the same with SQL but that's a far shallower pool to drown in.
First stop, Google. Brings up the Wikipedia page. Useless because the links are either broken or point to web installers. Only link that was halfway useful was to the 7.1 ISO so I downloaded that at least. Rest of Google is worthless, as it keeps trying to point me to .NET 7.0 SDKs because they can't into quotes or whatever.
Next stop, Microsoft. Yeah, can somebody tell them that a search engine should AND terms together instead of OR them? It's Target's "show me everything with letters in it" search all over again. They do have a couple of "archive" pages that go all the way back to Windows 8.1. Gee, thanks.
Well I can't open this ISO as-is right now () so I figure, "what the hell" and decide to try a web installer since a couple of those links actually point somewhere. Does exactly what I expect and fails. Can't quite decipher why. All I had it download was the library headers. It should've grabbed them and put them in "Microsoft SDKs/7.1/Includes/" but instead barked about not being able to run functions to create files that already exist except they don't and having to roll back?
The log file is full of jibberish but does at least have a few URLs. Apparently I can download at least some of the CAB files myself. But the file names contained within are varying levels of jibberish.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently I can download at least some of the CAB files myself. But the file names contained within are varying levels of jibberish.
IIRC you need to use the catalog files. Been forever. Good luck!
Maybe you can bum an ISO from a MSDN subscriber?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Well I can't open this ISO as-is
I wish
httpdisk
got updated to work with recent Windows. It was really nifty!
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@Tsaukpaetra I downloaded Virtual Clone Drive. ISO still wouldn't install. Same error as the web installer. Then I went and dug up an old USB key with 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and 8.1 on it. 6.1 was a worthless web installer and didn't work. 7.0 was both and the ISO worked. 7.1 was both and neither worked....but I could run the MSI file in any subfolder and get the subfolder to copy so I at least got the headers. Didn't try 8.0 or 8.1 because fuck them.
Still, too bad I can't get 6.0 and 6.1 (6.0A is what came with VS 2008).
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
(6.0A is what came with VS 2008).
Darn. Earliest I have archived is 2010.
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Status: Random file access retrieve!
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Status: Discovered a thing!
( U+1D324 | U+2AD7D ) ā ( TETRAGRAM FOR PACKING | **ENONAME** ) Produced by a alpha version userscript by @āM_Adams...">ļ§š¤šŖµ½I don't know what it's for!
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@Zenith Sounds like you got what you wanted, but did you try the non-web installers in XP/Vista/7 virtual machines? (As appropriate for the SDK.)
Looks like the earliest installer/ISO I have without digging through optical discs is VS 2008 Express SP1. That's also the only one I have; apparently I wasn't very diligent about saving offline installers for Visual Studio in the last decade or two. :/
If they survived the last move I know I had VS6, .NET, and .NET 2003 discs. I don't think I had 2005. 2008 and later I mostly used the free versions.
Edit: This appears to be a working ISO download for Visual Studio 2005 Express: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=57034 . It'd probably have a 5.x SDK.
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status
Catching up on messages from over the bank holiday. An old challenger has appeared.
I made the changes but all these tests broke and it wonāt build and deploy so Iāve annotated the tests to not run. Can you approve the pr.
No. Go investigate what you broke.
but the deadline is tomorrow.
escalate to and see if heāll rubber stamp it.
he already said no too.
I might pop a couple painkillers and stare at the ceiling for a while.