The Official Status Thread
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Status: Turns out I think the milk was indeed sour. This morning it visibly smelled, so I dumped it into the sink and chunks came out of the bottle...
Cool beans!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
genius: (n) Cross between retail monkey and tech support drone.
Yup.
> Yeah, the mainboard is fried, we're going to need to replace it.
< But everything checks out fine! I just need to connect my GMail account to the Mail app!
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@NedFodder said in The Official Status Thread:
I thought someone mentioned doing that with dogsb+netflix@gmail.com, dogsb+amazon@gmail.com, etc.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: End of week. Going to a classical music concert tonight. Fun!
I wish my schedule was clear enough for "fun"...
Filed under: Multi-quoting on mobile results: Possible, but why are you torturing yourself?
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Status: When does the Windows 10 native photo viewer and image stuffs get support for .webp? It's been like 5 years now, it's getting embarrassing.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
When does the Windows 10 native photo viewer and image stuffs get support for .webp?
When you install the Windows Imaging Component handler for it?
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_codec#what_is_the_webp_codec_for_windows
Oh, you meant Native as in the Photos UWP App? Yeah, NFC.
Status: Apparently Outlook 365 wasn't able to interpret this broken link in someone's signature...
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@Tsaukpaetra That's interesting. Yeah the Windows 7 Photo Viewer (which they are now shipping once more in Windows 10) works with that plug-in.
Paint.NET and Windows Paint still won't open the file.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Paint.NET and Windows Paint still won't open the file.
Well, Paint.NET isn't made by MS (afaict), but apparently someone made a plugin...
As far as Paint itself... Yeah, good luck with that, I'm still waiting for true transparency support!
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Status: End of week. Going to see see Alton Brown tonight. Fun!
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: End of week. Driving to
KansasDetroit Rock City for arockconcert tonight.(Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Zakk Wylde)Fun!MTFY
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I dumped it into the sink
that's what the toilet is for
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
that's what the toilet is for
Why would I bring a jar of spoiled milk all the way to the bathroom when the sink is within arms reach?
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@Tsaukpaetra Because now your sink stinks of spoiled milk?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
that's what the toilet is for
Why would I bring a jar of spoiled milk all the way to the bathroom when the sink is within arms reach?
Why is your milk in jars?
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Because now your sink stinks of spoiled milk?
Not... really? I just washed it down. It's not so bad, considering what it already smelled like before....
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is your milk in jars?
... No comment.
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Status: still nothing to do at work, tdwtf is now blocked here, and feeling sleepy. I think I slept for a few seconds here.
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The obvious answer is the Spruce Goose, but the question's kind of vague and weird. (I think he means airplanes that can use UNPREPARED ground as runways.) It looks like the top-voted answer is the AN-124 (which is tough to beat-- I had no idea it could land on turf) and the second-voted is the obvious Spruce Goose.
SublimeText can be purchased for only $70.
4 bathroom breaks in an 8-hour period? Is that even abnormal? Where does StackOverflow get these people.
This guy is building a game even a 486 could handle pretty well, and going nuts asking how he can possible do all that work in just one frame of animation. Hah. I want to give this guy a Commodore 64 like the one I learned on and say, "cope with this, bitch."
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@blakeyrat http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125064/does-marriage-exist-in-the-star-wars-universe
I know it's a prequel, but two Star Wars characters get married ON SCREEN, guyz. ON SCREEN.
Ok I'm not super DB expert, but my experience of the TempDB is that you deal with it by simply ignoring it completely. Let SQL Server worry about its own shit.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
4 bathroom breaks in an 8-hour period? Is that even abnormal?
The abnormal part is being concerned about that.
He should try drinking coffee all day
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Has anyone else done this?
You can do effectively the same thing with +suffixes in gmail[1]. I've been doing it for several years now, although I don't sign up for tons of sites. I haven't noticed anyone using my email address from a different site yet.
[1] it's been mentioned before, but on gmail (actually, any mail server that uses sendmail does this, and possibly others) if you put a + after the name portion of your address, and anything else after that, the message still goes to you. So dogsb+cnn_com@gmail.com still goes to dogsb@gmail.com, but you can filter on it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I know it's a prequel, but two Star Wars characters get married ON SCREEN, guyz. ON SCREEN.
I'm not going to go back and watch it, but I think that happened with no audio, so s could argue it wasn't "marriage".
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@blakeyrat http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/315718/how-to-warn-other-programmers-of-class-implementation
It's called a "constructor", idiot. If your class needs X before it can perform its work, ensure its constructors all contain a param for X. How is this even a question?
Not that I have a better idea, but why is the icon for "programmers" the Java coffee cup specifically? I wonder how many casual visitors to the site assume it's Java-specific.
Our "futuristic" world does. Go to Disneyland if you don't believe me.
True story almost entirely unrelated to this question: I used to work with a guy who'd memorized the 47 (IIRC) bytes required to define a 1x1 transparent GIF image.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
TempDB
It's not just the TempDB stuff.
From what I can see on regular databases if I start with a database that is 10 GB and then put in a bunch of data into it to make it 100 GB, and then delete 50 GB out of it I have to perform a shrink to reclaim space on the hard drive. Until I do that the space is allocated to the database
And? I hope there aren't many companies who pay people like this to be DBAs.
Don't you need to assign the space to MSSQL before it can use it (like you do in Oracle) anyway?
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@loopback0 I will say that he default scaling options for TempDB are to grow the DB at 1 MB intervals, and start at 10 MB size. (Unless it's changed recently-- those were the numbers as of 2008.)
Growing at 1 MB intervals is a performance ASSASSIN. You should immediately set that to 100 MB. (You probably also want to up the starting size, too.) Other than that, don't touch anything. It's fine.
Oh and BTW, those dumb grow settings are also in TemplateDB, so fix 'em there or every DB you create will inherit them.
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I was trying to brush up on my knowledge of asynchronous programming in C# and went looking for what I'd done before.
Still inexplicably proud of it:
public static async Task<int> GetNthFibonacci(int n) { if ((n == 0) || (n == 1)) return n; var left = await GetNthFibonacci(n - 1); var right = await GetNthFibonacci(n - 2); return left + right; }
In case you don't know why I'd be proud of the standard bad fibonacci implementation, it's that this doesn't overflow the stack, because it does each thing in a new task.
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@blakeyrat Another "instead of asking my boss, literally the only person on Earth who can answer this, I'll ask the random morons on the internet":
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Now as a startup we are very cash-strapped and as a result our chairs have never been replaced. We buy new ones when we need to but I don't think we've ever thrown one out. The oldest ones in the office are probably more than 5 years old at this point.
A startup that seems to have had chairs for five years?!
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@loopback0 There is a market for used office equipment (companies that go bankrupt will sell chairs, tables, whiteboards, etc to them to recoup some costs). So I didn't see that as strange. It's quite possible an office manager wanting to save $$$ could buy chairs and desktop PCs from an outfit like that. It would be weirder if they had 5-year-old laptops.
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@blakeyrat Yeah but I got the impression (possibly incorrectly) that the start up he had worked for had owned them for 5 years.
Also unless they're buying the shittiest chairs ever, office chairs last way longer than that.
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Status: Listening to Back Through Time by Alestorm. This is one of the greatest things humankind has ever spawned. It's a song about a ship full of pirates falling through a time portal, deciding to steal gold from Vikings, and murdering them wildly.
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Status: No, I had NFC that the "What's new" dialog provides helpful tips about your application...
Also, way to go trying to hide the "Don't show again" button next to the close button. They're never going to find it there!
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Status: I just said something really stupid to a co-worker on IM, now debating whether I should try to explain it away (and possibly cause more harm/confusion) or just let it lie on a Friday afternoon at 2:50 PM and hope it's all forgotten by Monday.
(I posted something that was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it came across like I was totally ragging on a co-worker. Usually from my experience trying to explain how it was intended as a joke makes things worse... hm.)
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Another status: this C# constructor is INSANE:
WTF.
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@blakeyrat Looks like it's this one, except as an int32 array?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb1c1a6x(v=vs.110).aspxWhy would they do that?!
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat Looks like it's this one, except as an int32 array?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb1c1a6x(v=vs.110).aspxWhy would they do that?!
Backwards compatability (for c++ maybe?). And when you have it, you might as Well expose it.
It's not THAT insane, it's fairly strict with what it accepts.
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Status: FFS people!
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H&R Block got their shit together and gave me a discount for my trouble. Taxes are done...actually a lot better than I had feared.
TO THE LIQUOR CABINET
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: End of week. Going to see see Alton Brown tonight. Fun!
Super jealous. His tour isn't coming to Canada (yet). The last one did, and it was a fucking blast. Fair warning: he'll offer any untaken front-row seats at the start of the show. If there are any, just go for them. =)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
visibly smelled
wat?
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
that's what the toilet is for
No, that's if you DRINK the spoilt milk.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just said something really stupid to a co-worker on IM, now debating whether I should try to explain it away (and possibly cause more harm/confusion) or just let it lie on a Friday afternoon at 2:50 PM and hope it's all forgotten by Monday.
(I posted something that was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it came across like I was totally ragging on a co-worker. Usually from my experience trying to explain how it was intended as a joke makes things worse... hm.)
That depends. Did he ASK for your help?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just said something really stupid to a co-worker on IM, now debating whether I should try to explain it away (and possibly cause more harm/confusion) or just let it lie on a Friday afternoon at 2:50 PM and hope it's all forgotten by Monday.
(I posted something that was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it came across like I was totally ragging on a co-worker. Usually from my experience trying to explain how it was intended as a joke makes things worse... hm.)
I think the way you talk to your friends, friendly calling us assholes and morons, can cause lots of misinterpretation. But knowing you better we know that's how your sense of humor works, and you're just a nice, easy going person.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Fair warning: he'll offer any untaken front-row seats at the start of the show. If there are any, just go for them.
Just checking my interpretation was correct: This indicates that any seats found empty at the beginning of the show (despite presumably having been purchased by someone else) will be offered up first-come-first-serve?
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
wat?
You know how taste is actually mostly determined by smell? Well, this milk smelled so strongly you could see it.
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
No, that's if you DRINK the spoilt milk.
Luckily, my systems seem to have handled it well enough. Probably would not have done quite so well this morning if I had chosen to use it today though...
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Status: Boss just called 17:30 and told me the project that he told me to put in the freezer a year ago is now critical, they have to demonstrate to clients tomorrow, and I may need to work this saturday morning to help them.
Apparently the competitor has a working version of the product already (that's what happen when you don't put things on the freezer), and they are about to lose a big opportunity.
He wanted me to release an updated version of a library I develop, that wasn't tested for the device that will be used at all in the last 6 months at least, which I said would be a certain disaster, and they should use the last working version instead, that at least has the basic functionality working, IIRC.
Well, he just successfully removed any motivation I could put at work for the next month. And there is absolutely zero things I could do to help with what they plan to do tomorrow.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Just checking my interpretation was correct: This indicates that any seats found empty at the beginning of the show (despite presumably having been purchased by someone else) will be offered up first-come-first-serve?
Yes. He'll say, on stage, "Looks like some people didn't show. You can have them." Just rush. =)
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I STILL CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT ROAD
I'm not sure of it's name either, but…
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
ensure its constructors all contain a param for X
In addition, in C++ at least, you can declare the default constructor to be private so nobody can instantiate it that way. Or use a factory, I guess.
Android modifies Java so that certain overridding methods you write require you to call the overridden method as the first thing in your method. IIRC the app will throw a runtime error if you don't. Of course that only works for Android.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
this question
What's funny is that he answered his own question: "if I use method A, I only see one HTTP call; if I use B, I see a whole bunch."
Well, test in some other browsers, and if they all duplicate the behavior, just do that. Besides, if you use the same 1x2 blank gif everywhere, the browser's supposed to cache it and not keep requesting it. This is like website 102.