The Official Status Thread
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Pizzas worked out though.
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Status: may as well accept that I'm basically up for the day now. (7:10AM)
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Status: got bored, wrote multithreaded video decoder in JavaScript.
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This is a strange and terrible new meaning for the word 'video'.
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This sure backfired:
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Isn't that sort of what you expected?
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I thought it would get fixed, not removed.
Silly me.
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Maybe we can report Jeff as a bug and someone will remove him.
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I thought it would get fixed, not removed.
Silly me.The “remove” commit only seems to hide the link from non-staff:
I’m guessing the server code never allowed non-staff users to change the staff color, but the local JS code though it was okay for TL4s (which explains why your changes wouldn’t stick).
I wonder if you can get the option back in the menu by setting
Discourse.User.current().staff = true;
in the JS console, though...
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Definitely disappointing.
Man, what a choke. I was getting excited that the Pats would lose.
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That was possibly the worst play call in football.
The dumb thing is Seattle's entire strategy this year has been, "give the ball to Lynch to force 3-6 yards at a time". That's basically ALL their strategy has been. In previous games, they'd hand the ball to Lynch like 84 times in a row when I'm sitting there screaming, THEY HAVE NO PASS COVERAGE! PASS THE BALL YOU IDIOTS!!!!!
Then during the one situation where "give the ball to Lynch to force 3-6 yards" is by far and away the best strategy, what do they do? Pass. IDIOTS!!!!!
FOOTBALLZ!!!!!
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Then during the one situation where "give the ball to Lynch to force 3-6 yards" is by far and away the best strategy, what do they do? Pass. IDIOTS!!!!!
Maybe they'd agreed before the game that they wouldn't win? The lack of winning streaks is what you might call… well, suspicious… given that other sports tend to be dominated by one (or a small number of) team(s) for a number of years before giving way to some other team(s). Pure randomness and the beneficial financial effects of winning would tend to ensure that sort of thing.
But is the NFL a normal sports league? There's a number of ways in which it looks more like a dodgy cartel…
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That was possibly the worst play call in football.
Yeah. I cannot explain it, except as one of those, "No one would ever expect this!" sort of moves.
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Yeah. I cannot explain it, except as one of those, "No one would ever expect this!" sort of moves.
But but but if you handed the ball to Lynch, it doesn't matter if they expected it because Lynch can always make a few yards even with half the opposing team grabbed onto him. That's what he does. And it's not like they were in a 4th Down panic or anything, they had plenty of time and plenty of plays to make the touchdown happen.
God the more I think about it, maybe dkf's conspiracy theory is right.
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God the more I think about it, maybe dkf's conspiracy theory is right.
Heh...I guess Vegas shit its collective pants when Kearse made that catch.
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Yeah. I cannot explain it, except as one of those, "No one would ever expect this!" sort of moves.
There's a B*****ming good reason "No one would ever expect this!"
Did anybody hear an explanation of why they called that play? I got disgusted and turned it off before the talking heads got around to interviewing any of the Seahawks.
Edit: WTF? I've been typing B*****m for months without it effing up the formatting.
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Edit: WTF? I've been typing B*****m for months without it effing up the formatting.
WAG, it's the asterisks later in the line causing the regex to shit itself
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I got disgusted and turned it off before the talking heads got around to interviewing any of the Seahawks.
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Status: Found this comment before some code that obviously assumes ASCII only
// Mask all lower case alpha's to UpperCase (as c# doesn't have a char.ToUpper convertor - PATHETIC !!)
30 seconds on Google got me to this page:
Proving that the function's been there since .Net 2.0, but as it's a static method I assume the original dev typed
myChar = myChar.to
and got annoyed at the lack of a ToUpper in Intellisense
WHO'S PATHETIC NOW, RANDOM DEVELOPER WHO PROBABLY LEFT BEFORE I STARTED HERE?
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Next, I suppose we'll be learning that C can't do integers, and Perl can't do Regexes!
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obviously assumes ASCII only
I feel I should expand on this part. Here's the "genius" ToUpper replacement
if ((i >= 97) && (i <= 122)) { i -= 32; _char = (char)i; }
i is the char cast as an int. Working out what _char is is left as an exercise for the reader...
Oh, and all of this logic is within the following if block
bool isValidChar = ((i >= 32) && (i <= 126)); if (isValidChar) {...}
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I buttumed it would be something likemyChar = (""+myChar).ToUpper()[0];
which would have been stupid but not a huge WTF.
But the thing you just posted is just ... WHAT.
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Status: Hardly slept last night and I'm giggly. Just to explain any liking sprees or semi-nonsensical posts you may see today.
I think I'll be pulling a Wally the rest of the day. (walk around and drink coffee for you non-Dilbert fans.)
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Just to explain any liking sprees or semi-nonsensical posts you may see today.
So you're pulling an @accalia?
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Knot enouhg speling misteaks
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where's that image i keep posting of an arrow through the heart?
cause dang that was a good shot.
;-)
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that's the one.
i should probably vary it around (or at least hat it) but i like it too much as is.
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Just read a great article: How space shuttle Columbia could have been rescued if NASA found out about the foam damage in time. Would watch as a movie.
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Status: Yesterday I watched some Top Gear UK stuff on YouTube. Today, I receive a bunch of recommendations for Top Gear USA. Those are not even close to the same thing. The original is awesome, the USA version is annoying at best. Get your shit together YouTube.
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Status: Staying in a hotel in Paris, probably about 200m from the Eiffel Tower—you can see it out of the window of our room. You can also see it when you leave the hotel. It's illuminated at night, which makes it even more apparent.
As we left the hotel as night fell, a couple of women approached us and asked "which way is it to the Eiffel Tower?" I managed to respond "Straight on", and was just able to avoid corpsing until they were out of earshot. The temptation was overwhelming to point at the Tower and say something like "See that Tower that you can see there? Walk towards it until you are at it..."
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Status: Anytime someone mentions the Eiffel Tower I am reminded of Guy de Maupassant. He was one of the most vocal critics of the tower when it was being built, but ate at it the restaurant in it every day after it was built. When asked why he ate at it every day when he had criticized it so much, he said it was because it was the only place in Paris that you could not see it.
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Image attached to that tweet:
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As we left the hotel as night fell, a couple of women approached us and asked "which way is it to the Eiffel Tower?"
At least you were nice about it.
points to Tower
You mean that one?
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At least you were nice about it.
> points to Tower
You mean that one?My answer:
They say it lights up at night with the lost souls of tourists who have failed to find it during their time in Paris.
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SourceTree has awesome menu items that, while active, do nothing at fucking all. For example, Discard Selected on my current branch either plain doesn't work, or should be greyed-out.
Anybody who recommends SourceTree as a "good" Git GUI is an idiot. It's basically a thin wrapper with all the same problems as Git (like the shitty terminology as we've discussed before) and new an exciting ones. Being written by dumbshits who apparently don't know how these strange new inventions called "menus" work.
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Anybody who recommends SourceTree as a "good" Git GUI is an idiot.
Just use the CLI interface.
In other news: Status: Splitting headache and a pain in my shoulder and neck. Dammit.
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Splitting headache and a pain in my shoulder and neck.
To the chiropractor!
Sorry, I'll show myself out...
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To the chiropractor!
So I can add a back ache and a bill for placebo to the list of shit going wrong? ;)
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Status: Holy crap it took an hour of someone talking me through corrections to get a deployment request submitted (after I had spent 2 hours submitting it earlier).
Best part? I pointed out that without a standardized (or labeled) section for things like implementation plan or roll back plan they probably aren't getting included in the requests and the person running approval junk went "oh, I hadn't thought of that". Apparently you are supposed to make up your own form for these and attach the files to the request or put them in a notes field (which isn't documented anywhere).
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Hurray for server cooties. Trying to make a post in a One Post topic. 15 minutes of 502 and 504 errors before I got a 403 because the topic closed.
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That's the second time today I've noticed Server Cooties™ around the time a One Post topic hits its close time.
I'm assuming that's an unfortunate coincidence.
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For a moment, I was concerned it might have been @NetBot on a binge; however, the cooties struck a few minutes before it could binge, so it got a 5xx and didn't bother.
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