The Official Status Thread
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
react-native-redux-router!? Pff! That's so last week. Don't you know all the cool kids use react-native-router-flux!? Get with the times grandpa!
At this point, I'm literally just sorting github by the number of stars and npm installing the top results.
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STATUS getting legacy code under test. Very important to remember not to refactor because we're so petrified of it breaking unintentionally...
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So the bill for the hotel I've spent the past week in just hit my credit card.
As a credit, rather than a charge.
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Status: My work machine apparently rebelled against Mafia by deciding to develop a spontaneous BSOD problem yesterday. I'm afraid to start doing anything today in case it bluescreens before the tech gets in
(attn @fox :( )
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Status: Charged with doing research into the UK Data Protection Act and PECR.
I do electrical precompliance testing and verification for our hardware products. That involves reading acres of impossibly dry standards. This is similar except the requirements are flimsy and open ended and the reference material contains wanky terms like 'Hyperlocal Direct Marketing' . Please kill me.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
So, like everything you post.
Nice one! Good to see some spunk between your "I'm a loser, pity me" episodes.
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Status: filing away a joke for after I enter the realm of
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@cartman82 react?? Are you working with COBOL as well? Old man, it's all about riot these days
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@blakeyrat were our comments supposed to be funny? shit, I've beein doing it wrong
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@bb36e also, while we're on the topic of comparing big bloated enterprise frameworks with lean webscale ones:
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@bb36e Mac Classic was two files.
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@blakeyrat I didn't know Mac classic came with tools for developing web applications
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@bb36e I got the blank/wrong page error again.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@bb36e also, while we're on the topic of comparing big bloated enterprise frameworks with lean webscale ones:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209028
Interesting fact that I recently came across:
bower and many other npm packages, has some dependencies that eventually depends on a package called "wordwrap".
And this "wordwrap" package somehow has its test folder exposed in npm.
The result:
Every single person using bower would have one or more copies of In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell on your local machine, depending on how many of your projects has a npm dependency of this package:
https://github.com/substack/node-wordwrap/blob/master/test/i...
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
I didn't know Mac classic came with tools for developing web applications
I'm sure there's a lot of things you don't know.
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Status:
"First you cross the white ocean, then things happen to you, then you cross the black ocean."
well, that is a completely accurate, yet information free, summary of everyone's life.... and yet it's some how compelling.
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@blakeyrat maybe, but they might be unknown unknowns
Also, given that there are so many things in the world, the concept that i don't know a lot of things should not come as a surprise
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@bb36e status: posting this reply took me to an empty next page. when i hit 'back' my post appeared on the next page.
wtf nodebb
Don't you mean the next previous page?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
As a credit, rather than a charge.
That's an impressive oopsie.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Good to see some spunk between your "I'm a loser, pity me" episodes.
He saves those for when he's losing arguments, mostly. Every once in a while it's nice to throw a low, slow one past the plate for him to hit.
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@FrostCat You repeatedly calling me stupid for dubious reasons does not constitute winning an argument.
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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
dragging her heels over wanting to install a new damn extractor fan in the upstairs toilet and getting a plasterer to skim a wall
What she does after she has bought it is her problem, not yours.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You repeatedly calling me stupid
Find a place where called you stupid. You keep saying that, but you never cite. Because you can't. Because you're a liar.
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@FrostCat I am a liar, I'm also illiterate, insane, etc. We all know this. No need to tell me.
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@Weng are you planning on telling anyone?
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@bb36e I'll see if it sorts itself in a day or two. It only landed this morning.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I am a liar, I'm also illiterate, insane, etc. We all know this. No need to tell me.
That's a long way to write "@frostcat is right again".
Recorded for posterity, just in case:
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Status: I was gonna move to a desk, but couldn't get the height things out of the cube wall to adjust the height correctly, but I came in today and someone had taken them out already, so I set up my stuff and then proceeded to spill a cup of hot tea over pretty much just the floor. And now I still need an extension cable, but progress has been made nonetheless!
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Status: "They emailed me the flash but when I click it it opens in the internet and only prints out one page."
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Status: Hey look a code review
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MegaGM added a note 6 days ago
omg why
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@ben_lubar
Any comment that is less than a 5 is a 0. Please feel free to talk to the manager so we can make sure you're fully satisfied!
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/17873/the-official-otter-pictures-thread?page=4
MOTHERFUCKER!?!!?!?!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
MOTHERFUCKER!?!!?!?!
Nope. No one has ever got an "access denied" message trying to fuck your mother.
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Status: *sigh* Does anyone have a good appliance to systemically turn off power to a device if the internet is apparently unavailable and said device is non-responsive? I'm tired of walking people through the process of unplugging the main modem and plugging it back in again...
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@Tsaukpaetra
Look into Digital Loggers Web Power Switches. Though I suspect they're gonna be overkill for your application.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Nope. No one has ever got an "access denied" message trying to fuck your mother.
I bet @otter made that topic and deleted it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Does anyone have a good appliance to systemically turn off power to a device if the internet is apparently unavailable and said device is non-responsive?
Plug the modem into a Clapper.
More seriously, put on a power strip with a switch. "Oh, internet's out? Turn off the power switch, wait ten seconds, turn it back on."
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@DogsB I get this several times a day on random pages, and have for months.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Digital Loggers Web Power Switches
Wow, this page has an auto-play audio clip right there on the home page. Very professional guys...
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
More seriously, put on a power strip with a switch. "Oh, internet's out? Turn off the power switch, wait ten seconds, turn it back on."
A whole power strip for one measly modem? That's almost uglier and more overkill IMHO then
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Digital Loggers Web Power Switches. Though I suspect they're gonna be overkill for your application.
Not to mention requires someone to be present.
Hmm... I think I might have finally found a use for my Raspberry Pi! I'm sure I can run a 12V relay off of it, and if there's no internet it pulses the relay for a few seconds to "unplug" the modem!
Wonder if there are any hats that do this already...
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As shitty as their website is, their Web Power Switch product works very well for the intended use of "force the Internet uplink equipment to reboot if the Web Power Switch can't ping an upstream address". One of my previous employers deployed many of them for remote equipment sites, where equipment lockups meant 30+ minute drives since you couldn't administrate anything when the uplink was offline. Very worth the money. We got about a 24 month useful life span (and they didn't always fail open), but that was largely because the fans would fail due to dust; they're not really intended for outdoor deployment in high corn dust environments. I would expect they'd work a lot better in an indoor environment.
Also, APC / Tripplite are starting to make similar solutions as well, but those are intended for (and priced for) enterprise server rack PDU type roles, so they're substantially more expensive, and an even fuglier form factor for "out of the rack" usage.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm tired of walking people through the process of unplugging the main modem and plugging it back in again...
If you don't like telling people to turn it off and on again, IT support isn't for you
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
One of my previous employers deployed many of them for remote equipment sites, where equipment lockups meant 30+ minute drives since you couldn't administrate anything when the uplink was offline.
This sounds exactly like my use case, because home is about that far away when I'm at work...
I think I might save $300 and just go for their IoT relay thing.
@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm tired of walking people through the process of unplugging the main modem and plugging it back in again...
If you don't like telling people to turn it off and on again, IT support isn't for you
Yep, been there, done that. It gets old. I don't want to be old.
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Confused about where you're getting $300 from... the Web Power Switch is a $130 product http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
But yeah, there are other simpler ways to do it too, I just know about the products I used (which was basically the only version available many moons ago when we first needed it)
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Confused about where you're getting $300 from... the Web Power Switch is a $130 product http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
But yeah, there are other simpler ways to do it too, I just know about the products I used (which was basically the only version available many moons ago when we first needed it)
Ah, I must have been in the wrong section. It was not obvious how to get there and I kept getting distracted by the automaticly playing videos on practically every page.
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Status: I love it when email servers compete to put legalese on email chains...