The Official Status Thread
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t-23:45 until; your get is wrong....
i could get help from a
TL4staff to increase that... but nah.... i can waitIIRC, TL4 don't have global delete. That requires staff powers.
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IIRC, TL4 don't have global delete. That requires staff powers.
they could still jeff the post in question
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they could still jeff the post in question
But that would leave a "This post has been jeffed" post, and wouldn't have the effect you desire.
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hmm...... point
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That reminds me of the time I saw a very... powerful staff in Path of Exile. Someone posted it in global chat in the alpha or something, but it was the Buzzing Ribbed Staff of Joy.
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Well, it is obviously all servercooties.com's fault.
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Status: My phone has been on my desk all day. I took one, brief, phone call. It just beeped to tell me the battery is at 15%.
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Maybe it was downloading some ungodly update. I'm looking forward to not having a crashing beta OS, but it's only like a month away, and I like the new stuff too much to go back.
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For fuck's sake, shouldn't the web devs know how DNS works?
Ummm...
Web Team Manager:
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grrrrrrr.....
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Maybe it was downloading some ungodly update. I'm looking forward to not having a crashing beta OS, but it's only like a month away, and I like the new stuff too much to go back.
Huh?
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A couple weeks ago I noticed that the (local) drive on one of our dev machines was getting almost full. I don't use that machine nearly as much as I used to, so I figured I had some stuff I could delete...
During my cleaning, I stumbled across a directory with about 500 GB of data that was so old so as to be completely useless. Between that and other stuff, I think I deleted more than 600 GB of stuff. That might be drive space than I've cleared the entire rest of my life if you exclude outright reformats (and probably have to exclude game uninstalls).
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Status: If life is all about the "little things", then for me one of those would be using Q-Tips. It is like scratching an itch that you did not know even itched. I even tilt my head like when you scratch a dog's ear, if I do not think about what I am doing.
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Status: Decommissioning databases and listening to New Order
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GitHub for Windows is a thing, you know.
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Mine has been doing that recently. I found out it was the Dolphin Browser app, if you have it set to 'keep the screen on' and lock the screen with it active it keeps using an ungodly amount of processor and drains the battery in a couple of hours. If you send the app to the background before locking it doesn't do that.
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Status: If life is all about the "little things", then for me one of those would be using Q-Tips. It is like scratching an itch that you did not know even itched.
Giving yourself an eargasm is one of the best ways to start the day.
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Status: on mobile today. Expect entirely different class of typo today... It's the return of the swypo!
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If you send the app to the background before locking it doesn't do that.
That used to work. This time all apps were in the background.
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Woo! Pugs!
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How do foxes and pugs interact?
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We're get along well.
Pugs are too tough and boney to be good food. They make better toys
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Yes. That limits their maximum speed and removes their stealth.
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Status: apparently, I've worked 120 hours yesterday. Or, more likely, Jira's time tracking fucked me over again.
Filed under: brb, collecting my overtime pay
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We have a templating system that allows content editors to make pages without supervision.
Most templates can be used in more than one branch of our CMS application. This is unfortunate because the system does not allow this. Originally, the template was made or edited, and then distributed manually around whichever branches it was supposed to be in.
Eventually, some bright spark wrote a couple of scripts which could be called from boilerplate 'template' files in the various branches, and include the relevant master template files that are kept in a single location. The distributed templates never need updating once a template is converted to the new style, so only the master files in the special template branch need to be changed when a template is updated.
This is somewhat confusing at first and rather sensitive to things being in the right places, but once it's set up it does actually work rather well. Actually working with the things is very confusing, for reasons related to documentation, organisation, and the intricacies of the CMS application, which I won't go into.
There are still old-style templates hanging around, usually something that was updated to the new style but a certain branch was missed, or something. When you're working on one of those you're supposed to only update the master template and overwrite the left-over old style distributed templates with the include templates.
There certainly should only be one version of any given template live at any given time.
I've been working on one of these templates. It had an old-style template but since I was given to understand that it was only ever to be needed in one branch, I was going to just update it in the branch. But on closer inspection it turned out to be configured in another branch as well, and that branch has a new-style template. It's also considerably out of sync with the one in the first branch.
Almost no-one knows anything about this template, but obviously, the version with the more recent changes, which includes all the options of the older one and some more as well, is the correct one, right? And it's definitely wrong to leave two disparate versions. So I take the one from the first branch and update the master template with it, and replace the branch template with the include template.
Anyway, after I'd done the changes, the person code reviewing (who, by the way, had absolutely no idea that the new templating model existed) succeeds where I failed and tracks down the only person in the universe who knows anything about this template - what he knows about it is documented nowhere.
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There are supposed to be two different versions. As far as I can work out, someone decided to repurpose the template for something slightly different than what it's designed for and what the naming implies, so it was configured to be in a different branch. Minor only. With some handling to do something slightly differently depending on which branch. Still not too bad.
Then apparently more functionality was to be added, but only for the first branch. So the first branch got its old-style template back, and it's meant to be considerably different to the same template in the other branch. And this is not documented anywhere.
Also, as a bonus , the template in the first branch still contains the redundant handling for the thing that's done differently depending on the branch.
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No fallacies here, the probability of something with probability 0.2 failing 23 times in a row is just 0.590%. That's why I'm annoyed it had to happen to me.
I would not be suprised if a game based on Oregon Trail lied in such a way as to make you die a lot.
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STATUS: Wrestling with python JSON serialization.
I am spoiled by node.js and its ability to just throw whatever object into json and back out effortlessly. In python ever little thing is a chore. It doesn't even know how to convert dates, for fucks sake.
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It doesn't even know how to convert dates, for fucks sake.
JSON has no spec for dates.
Nobody knows how to convert dates into JSON.
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JSON has no spec for dates.
Nobody knows how to convert dates into JSON.
Javascript at least dumps it as ISO time, instead of forcing me to make my own fucking handler.
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Which any sane JSON library should
Unix timestamp would also be acceptable, although less preferable
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That lacks timezone info though
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true, that's why it's less preferable.
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true, that's why it's less preferable.
Just assume that it is Eastern time and make everyone else accommodate you. Problem solved.
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Just assume that it is
EasternBSTtime and make everyone else accommodate you. Problem solved.
FTFM
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They have a summer in Britain? I thought their seasons only varied from winter to gloomy?
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I thought their seasons only varied from winter to gloomy?
yes, that's the two seasons.
for PR reasons we call "gloomy" "summer"
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No, we have four seasons: winter, hayfever, gloomy, and brown ;)
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i lay corrected.
;-)
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FTFM
You'd have to be pretty loony to want the default time zone to be the one that's 5 or whatever hours in front of you.
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it might be 5 hours ahead of me, but it's bang on for a certain someone else
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it might be 5 hours ahead of me, but it's bang on for a certain someone else
It would make as much, if not more, sense, for you to compromise and choose a timezone in the middle of the Atlantic, so as to minimize the variation from apparent time of day.
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i wouldn't dare impose on her in such a manner!
that would be ungentlefoxly of me
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i wouldn't dare impose on her in such a manner!
Oh, but it's OK for her to impose on you that way?