The Official Status Thread
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Does this show up as anything other than the same one or two characters repeated in anyone's browser?
Yes.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez4dc7jqmoetm0p/Screenshot_2015-11-16-07-19-35.png
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Discomace is pretty awesome. Good luck getting it.
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There are no characters that can equip both the unicorn bow and the discomace. This saddens me.
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Ah, but as of HoT there is one that can equip both the unicorn bow and the gay staff.
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And the pistol that shoots confetti, for that matter.
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What is it supposed to be, then? Are those boxes modifiers for colour or something?
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Status We're recruiting:
- FOUR SENIOR LECTURERS/ PROFESSORS (permanent, research and teaching)
- ONE SENIOR LECTURER/ PROFESSOR (temporary, research and teaching)
- THREE POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
- TWO LECTURERS/ TEACHERS (teaching positions)
- FOUR PHD STUDENTS
Deadlines: Dec 15 and Jan 15.
(Sorry for the capslock. It turns out that our HoD may be another one of Blakeyrat's alter egos. Don't let that stop you, though)
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Status: That rain the other day has to go somewhere, and that somewhere was apparently over the railway tracks for the route I normally take into work. I guess I did pretty well by only getting in 30 minutes late, but I ache from standing for ages on a completely packed train on my alternate routeโฆ
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Status:
I've got an instrument mounted correctly, and I've managed to copy data off that and onto our institutional file store. I've won my battle with Norton AV, and my battle with Dell's dumbass default config, and my battle with networking, and my battle with getting stuff installed, and my battle with the insane filestore configurations we have round here. Much still to do, butโฆ
I HAVE WON, MORTALS! FEAR ME!
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In the North West?
It wasn't just in the North West, alas. But I don't give a shit because my stuff works.
Damn, I'm actually too wired to do anything sensible now. Gotta goof off :) and have meetings :( instead.
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instrument mounted correctly
Whatever you're doing to it, I'm pretty sure it's very wrong, if not illegal.
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It wasn't just in the North West, alas
Yeah but I'm not one to forgo a "it always rains in Manchester" dig.
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Yeah but I'm not one to forgo a "it always rains in Manchester" dig.
Meh. It's Oldham and Rochdale where it always rains. Those places (both of which are about 10 miles away from Manchester, and are in the same overall urban area) put the manky one to shame for sheer miserable sogginess.
Damn good thing I don't live in either of them, but my daily commute pretty much has to go near by.
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Status: My glasses are squeaking when I move them. I think it's time for me to take them for a... tune up? Seriously, is there a word for that?
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My glasses are squeaking when I move them.
The screws that hold them together are probably working loose. If you've got a small enough screwdriver, it's trivial to rectify. (I'd loan you mine, but STP isn't a thingโฆ)
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So how do I get it to spawn? Well, I need to fail an event that can be completed by one player and then fail another event that can be completed by one player,
Wow, that's kind of a dick move on the game designers' part.
"You can't get the tooth. Why? Reasons utterly beyond your control. Fuck you."
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Yeah, that's almost certainly it. But since someone can do it for me for free, and if something breaks it won't be my fault, why shouldn't I use that option?
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someone can do it for me for free
โฆ ignoring the time & convenience cost to get your glasses to them, of course.
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Are you using the DailyWTF status thread as a job board? Really?
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Eh, the place where I bought them is literally a two minutes' walk from the train station I need to go to anyway. So...
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Ah, so "Student" is a real occupation!
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Why? Are you interested in applying?
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Would you hire anybody who came from this forum?
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Some, yes. (Even if they have a tendency to break out in lojban on occasion.)
Besides, if the formal requirements aren't met they are filtered away long before we actually have to look at the applications.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
MODS, do we have any stats on:
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Users who got this warning on a message, and then the message that they posted was substantially different from the triggering message (as opposed to just appending "fuck discourse" to the end of it)?
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Users who got this warning on a message, and then never posted the message?
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69.96%
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6%
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Ah, here in the US, grades 9 through 12 are the same type of school,
Some schools are 10-12. You get variations all over the place on where to break the grades up.
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You get variations all over the place on where to break the grades up.
Federalism, fuck yeah?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
MODS, do we have any stats on:
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Users who got this warning on a message, and then the message that they posted was substantially different from the triggering message (as opposed to just appending "fuck discourse" to the end of it)?
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Users who got this warning on a message, and then never posted the message?
69.96%
6%
70% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
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Status:
Remember my cousin?
He needs to have a chat with Bobby Tables...
Status: Le sigh
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I have a "don't fucking use
mysql_
functions" and "use fucking prepares!" rant somewhere around here.I'm not saying "link it". But I am saying "repeat it".
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That's a good idea. If I can find that thread. Twas a good rant :)
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I did call people who'd use
mysql_
functions idiots there though, IIRC. If you link it I'm going to sound like a condescending asshole, most likely....
Ship it!
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Later in the SMS chain...
P: What if I pulled data from the database and compared it to user data while the actual database data was untouchable but the users input?
: Why would you do that on the application layer when you could do it on the database layer?
P: #RAMtospare?
: That's causing a performance hit by not using database optimization for absolutely no good reason. RAM would definitely not be your chokepoint there. You'd be thrashing your disk and CPU by grabbing extra data, piping it over a network connection to a terribly optimized language (PHP), then doing work there. For literally no reason at all. Plus you still have to insert the data so you've still got that injection vector.
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QA reports no issues found. Sending link now
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left chromium 45 right FF 42 on linux mint 17. what's the deal with that chars?
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Lorne reads this tomorrow: If it was on a droplet, I wouldn't have to ask @PJH to test my code for me.
Okay, after thinking about this all night long (for certain definitions of "I'm lying"), I think my thought process was this:
- See the word "droplet"
- Think it's funny how we come up with all these fancy and "wicked kewl X" terms for VMs and servers. Droplet. Blade. Shard.
- At the same time as thinking that, see it's just a Core 2 Duo in Ben's basement
I lol.
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also http://www.phptherightway.com/#databases
(one of the few good php tutorials)
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Status: It's now about 07:30 (close enough), and I have now been up about 5 hours. I'm on my second cup of tea.
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(one of the few good php tutorials)
Liar. A good PHP tutorial would tell you to use a better language.
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Quite a few, actually, now that I've given it some thought.
How many were disqualified because of workplace harassment rules?
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Nah. I can probably continue harassing them here...
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now the swedish idioms thread makes sense, you were trying to prepare the people for swedish idiosyncrasy
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hey!
if i can't talk you out of drugs, at least i can tell you how to do it to avoid an overdose
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Status: We have a data centre change in 2 weeks which involves an outage across some of the network. There's a long call where we're supposed to confirm if our services are impacted or not, and no-one's sent out the list of impacted servers but the calls going ahead anyway.
So... 2 x 60+ minutes long calls later, we've had a list of servers for days, and it's still taken 70 minutes to agree to nothing except 2 more calls about it.
I'm amazed we get anything done here some days.
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I'm amazed we get anything done here some days.
well.... you do spend a lot of time on WTDWTF....
:-P
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well.... you do spend a lot of time on WTDWTF....
These are people who, to the best of my knowledge, don't
wastespend time on here.