The Official Status Thread
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Status: Meeting with AVP about a new web application section that we've gotten no guidance on (essentially, it was to "modernize" an Access '97 DB's WinForms code to .Net). It started off friendly enough, until they decided to interject with questions about simple things. 2.5 Hours later, we've reached the conclusion that they would like to spend some time looking at it and figuring out how everything works, and we'll have another meeting.
This thing is in production, just not enabled. It's a good thing nobody spoke up about the apparent flaws that will prevent anyone from effectively using it...
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Status: Meeting with AVP
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Man, if there was any time I needed a bona fide chill pill, this would be one of those times. It's a good thing they were in the next building, physical interaction may have occurred...
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More a comment on I have absolutely no idea what AVP stands for. But Google brought up Association of Volleyball Professionals, so I'll go with that.
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Status: All my best performance optimizations happen under insane time pressure when we hit a wall in prod.
Most of them involve stripping out Entity Framework or occasionally tricking it into behaving sanely.
Why do I allow developers to use this shit?
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Wow... what car requires you to remove its engine to replace those?
Most modern cars are close--my stupid V6 Kia requires you to take off the intake manifold to be able to reach the second cylinder bank.
I wanna buy some 80s car like a Chevy Celebrity and drop a modern powertrain into it.
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The plugs themselves also cost $20 each.
Ugh.
My car takes platinum plugs, but they're worth it for the 100K miles, given the three-hour time the job takes.
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These are Iridiums. Factory equipped. The stated change interval is 60k miles. I waited until 90k. I shouldn't have. The coils were pushing extra current as a result and one developed an intermittent fault. It's a 6 hour job.
They were positively obliterated.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
1) I don't have a jack2) I don't know which one to buy
One big enough to support the weight of the car, AIUI. Plus ramps or jackstands, again, that'll support the car's weight.
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The stated change interval is 60k miles.
If I had to change my plugs at 60K miles I would be tempted to pack the car full of explosives[1] and remotely pilot it into a Kia factory.
[1] If anyone from a spy or law agency is reading this, that's not true. As far as you know.
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It has been a long time since I've had to/willingly change plugs but I remember the gap getting smaller not bigger on old plugs. Do the new sucba-ru engines generate magnetic fields that pull the plug-tip out? I thought Iridium plugs were good for like 80k+ miles?
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At this point we're dealing with ignition energies that wear the plug down by the expedient of literally vaporizing tiny chunks of electrode with the spark. On older plugs you'd get apparently decreasing gaps because of corrosion and carbon deposits.
Used conventionally, Iridiums are usually good for 100 to 120k in street applications. New engine designs? Not so much.
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Godfucking damnit. Why do sites that encourage weekly or even daily visits based on new content being posted insist on using login cookies that last what seems like a week. Or the cookie's set to expire in 30 days, but expires in less than a week.
Not to name any names, but let's just say the site rhymes with
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Login cookies should expire like two years after the last visit. Put it at some time so far out that you'd have to completely stop using the website for 2⅔ babies to get automatically logged out.
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Status: I am consistently amazed at how universally awful utility companies are. How hard can it be to charge money for stuff that comes through your pipes and wires anyway? Why do they all staff their support centres with syphillitic monkeys?
Currently battling with the supplier from my old address who thinks I owe hundreds of pounds over at least three accounts, and my new supplier who thinks "you closed my account, please reopen it" means "please try to reset the password for my online account but if you delete all records that it ever existed that's fine too"
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Status Car is getting way too bumpy. I really want to replace the shocks myself except, after watching a YouTube how-to, except:
- I don't have a jack
- I don't know which one to buy
- I'm worried I'll jack it wrong () and crush myself
- I don't know if it's the shocks or some other part of the suspensions system, and have no idea how to diagnose.
I need to learn more about :car:
If you are going to meddle with the shocks, I think you are going to need two jacks (one for the car, and one for the wheel-axle.
Once you have removed the wheel, put it under the car, next to the jack. That will give you some extra safety.
First step is to just look at things and bang on them with a hammer to see if they sound "right".
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If you are going to meddle with the shocks, I think you are going to need two jacks (one for the car, and one for the wheel-axle.
Woaaaah. No.
You put the car on stands, then use the jack under the suspension if needed. You don't mess with the suspension with the car supported only on a jack.That will give you some extra safety.
So will using stands.
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Fair enough. I stand corrected.
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Woaaaah. No.You put the car on stands, then use the jack under the suspension if needed. You don't mess with the suspension with the car supported only on a jack.
QFT so much. I have a friend who broke his jaw when a jack slipped. And I'd count him as extremely experienced and capable. He wasn't even under the car, he got his head caught between the disc and wheel arch when the jack moved.
I never work on my car raised without axle stands and even then I shove some old tyres or breeze blocks under it too. Doesn't matter if you damage anything if it drops, at least you won't be maimed or crushed to death.
Edit: Also buy the most expensive spring compressors you can afford. The cheap ones will kill you.
https://youtu.be/kY56ib3I-ew?t=10s
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Most of them involve stripping out Entity Framework or occasionally tricking it into behaving sanely.
Why do I allow developers to use this shit?
because it was more work to fix shitty sql than shitty linq code?
shitters gonna shit
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Status: All my best performance optimizations happen under insane time pressure when we hit a wall in prod.
I just found something that's practically a speedup loop after the users complained about performance. Looks like I checked it in about 5 years ago.
Welp, time to look like a hero!
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status: wife wanted to know who is this I was sending hearts emoji in the phone. it was discourse likes
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status: wife wanted to know who is this I was sending hearts emoji in the phone. it was discourse likes
Hi @fbmac's wife!
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Status: Dressed pretty "cool" and "hip" today, IMHO at least.
Then spent the entire day so far coding in PHP.
Something went horribly wrong in my life.
Filed under: Maybe if I upgrade the project to PHP 7...
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Status: Trying to decide whether I should ask what a whoosh badge in this forum stands for or thankings for being learnd englisch abbreviwhatevers.
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Status: Because when I think "leading home Private Cloud NAS device", I think phpBB, Joomla, and phpMyAdmin... http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/AAG/ENG/4178-706093.pdf
Filed under: why not discourse
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/badges/169/someone-didnt-get-the-joke-sql-version
(And of course Discourse does not onebox its own shiat)
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Thank for learnings me this. Or are you applying for one?
(I was referring to https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/safe-ty-first/53165/14, btw.)
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(And of course Discourse does not onebox its own shiat)
Could it be that it wouldn't onebox stuff from blacklisted domains?
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Doesn't matter if you damage anything if it drops, at least you won't be maimed or crushed to death.
+Car = replaceable
You = Non-replaceable
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Status dev is back from vacation, and the fun's already begun.
I don't know how to set up MI (a specific variety of items) in dev lab
Did you ask QA to help?
Yes, but they're busy.
Makes sense, that's why you're doing the QA on this. Just set up a MI. The change is to increase the name from 30 to 100 characters. Make sure you can do that.
But I checked Production, and they don't have any MI set up for me to see.
That's because this client hasn't gone live with our website yet. Didn't you notice that their current website is on a completely different URL, and doesn't have ANY of the structure or features of one of our websites?
So how do I test?
... you set up an MI, and make sure 100 characters appear on the screen.
But do I have to set up an MI?
Yes.
I have to?
................. well, what's your plan to test the change request, then?
{blinks for nearly a minute} I don't know.
So set up an MI and make sure 100 character names appear on the website.Patience level: -65534
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Makes sense, that's why you're doing the QA on this. Just set up a MI.
But....
@Lorne_Kates said:
I don't know how to set up MI (a specific variety of items) in dev lab
Unless the adding characters was the MI? This is confusing because it seems like you're telling him just to do what he already admitted he didn't know how to do (again, unless it's the adding characters bit, but it's not clear here that's what it is).
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http://www.othersidetease.com/strawberry.php
What are the chances of this not turning into a bitter disappointment?
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What are the chances of this not turning into a bitter disappointment?
I'm getting the shovel, you start putting System Shock's corpse into that wheelchair...
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But Underside Entertainment has such a great track record of ... uh. And also... that thing?
No wait, they haven't done shit except announce they're working on some Ultima Underworld thing. Which appears to be a Kickstarter scam.
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Also, these links make me very optimistic of their attention to detail:
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Unless the adding characters was the MI? This is confusing because it seems like you're telling him just to do what he already admitted he didn't know how to do (again, unless it's the adding characters bit, but it's not clear here that's what it is).
For clarity:
- MI is a standard, base feature of the product
- To test if an MI will show up on the web with 100 characters, needs to create an MI, then set it's name to 100 characters, and look at the website
- Despite the fact that this is a standard, STANDARD feature, doesn't know how to set one up
- Rather than learning by asking a co-worker or reading the product's manual or turning on a fucking debugger, his solution is "can I just skip testing MI"?
Car analogy:
Make sure the new stick-shift covers fit properly, and don't slip when shifting gears
I don't know how to drive stick shift.
You've been working on fixing manual cars for how long?
Do I have to learn to use a stick shift?
How else do you plan on testing a feature that requires using a stick shift?
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STATUS: Spent yesterday pair-programming as I tried to install VS2015 Update 1. It finally fixed the bug where go to definition crashes when navigating to a separate solution's source through debug symbols if that source was indented using tabs when it was compiled.
However, when it finished, VS wouldn't launch. So I ran the installer and did a repair install. I think IT broke it after I left, but it actually opened. The solution explorer wouldn't, though. So I'm trying another repair now. I'd really like to do some work...
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It finally fixed the bug where go to definition crashes
New version of Visual Studio! What should we focus on? Well, this is a tool for developers-- so let's spend all our efforts integrating the consumer-grade UI that developers HATE. You know, that one where every time a developer raises objections to it, they're told they're because they're developers, and our end-user customers LOVE the UI? Yeah, that line of bullshit lies we tell them? Well, how are we going to justify the shittastic UI on a tool used exclusively by developers? Oh, we'll tell them to go fuck themselves? Awesome.
Anyways, about this new version-- right now I have 100% of my resources allocated to breaking the current UI and fucking it up with Metro. Should we worry about regression bugs, new bugs, resource hogging, stableness and general "just fucking works"? No? Okay, ship it!
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Status: Episode 26
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