The Official Status Thread
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"The first step to designing a custom graph search algorithm is to check if someone has patented it. Many companies have gone bankrupt from not doing this" - helpful advice from experienced university professor
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Status:Two hours now fighting with autofs. I can mount a CIFS share manually but autofs just shows me an empty mount point (with ls -la). Turning the logging from 'verbose' to 'debug' increased the log output from zero lines to...zero lines
As much as I love Linux I can agree with @blakeyrat that some of the usability is rubbish.
Edit: Now it works perfectly. I have no idea why.
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Status: Meetings. Because none of us is as dumb as all of us.1
[1]: Not my quote, but I can't remember who said it first.
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Status: I have a grid control. Said grid control can bind to object lists - and with a little helper I wrote, it also grabs things like column names, formatting, and all associated cruft from that object's property attributes. It's a really nice mechanism, all you need to do is create a model class with appropriate properties, set the attributes up, and it binds to the grid properly with zero additional code.
So, of course, my next requirement is to take seven different 60-column models and figure out a way to inject columns into them based on some EAV table in the database. And they want to specify the columns themselves.
Jesus fuck. Maybe one day I'll get a requirement that doesn't fuck up all my generalizations...
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That used to happen when there was a spoilered gif within the loaded posts. Haven't seen it otherwise.
We used to get invisible phantom user cards that would prevent you from clicking on stuff behind them.
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We used to get invisible phantom user cards that would prevent you from clicking on stuff behind them.
Weren't those the jellypotato ones, even?
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Weren't those the jellypotato ones, even?
No, I think it was pretty much any usercard. Once it had been dismissed they turned invisible or something but just hung around and made it so you couldn't click on some of the suggested posts, mostly, until you refreshed. Or that's how I remember it.
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Oh yeah I remember those now.
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Also, status:
SqlException|Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
If I find the fucker who keeps dropping my indexes each week...
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If I find the fucker who keeps dropping my indexes each week...
“But they make my INSERTs slow down by a few percent!”
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“But they make my INSERTs slow down by a few percent!”
That's better than causing a report to not finish after 24 hours.
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Status****strong text: My outlook has no fucking problem with this:
http://i.imgur.com/WSuilrM.png
Discourse Bug: Press CTRL-B to start strong text. Type in some strong text. Press CTRL-B expecting it to "close" the strong text-- effectively moving the cursor outside of the existing strong text enclosure. Y'know, what happens on every WYSIWYG editor since forever.
What actually happens: Discourse!!!!! (see above)
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Keep the fight in the playground.
Good point, it wouldn't do to have him ban everyone on another website.
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Why does an Instant have a power/toughness box. THIS JOKE MAKES NO SENSE!!!
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Status: released JobHunter 0.1.4.
I still suck as a designer but not as much as Google:
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However, Don't click this link if you value your sanity.
Jesus wtfing hell.
That's worse than most of the bay12forums stuff. Which is pretty bad.
The community fortresses are fun as hell to read though...
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yup, they used something like
opacity: 0%
so the usercard was invisible, but it was still there
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I really need to see more of these auto-generated magic cards.
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The only thing I use Twitter for......
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Right, because animations were more important that function!
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Status: Bought pre-sale tickets to the Toronto run of Phantom of the Opera.
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You're Canadian? I thought you fuckers were supposed to be nice?
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Status: Count query with where clause takes 30s to run
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You're Canadian? I thought you fuckers were supposed to be nice?
Fuck you. Give me maple.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Fuck you. Give me maple, free healthcare and funny looking cops with a freaking war train
Canadian'd that for you.
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War train? I need information on this.
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Status:
playing spot the WTF with css.someClass { (...) height: 30px; (...) padding: 14px 0; (...) font-size: 14px; }
I know the designers aren't suposed to know technical stuff. but at least they could know how to add and substract numbers
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Wow, this just started:
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what have you done to get that?
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Use Discourse, mostly. I got up for a while, loaded a page from one of those links, and it's been like that ever since.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Fuck you.
Give me mapleGive me free shit.Goddamn Socialists. I bet you're Quebecois.
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War train? I need information on this.
Fuck if I can find the original article but if you check the Wikipedia listing for Royal Canadian Mounted Police it lists a train in their inventory.
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.... Why do the mounties need a train? Nevermind a WAR TRAIN.
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Why do the mounties need a train?
IIRC, it was to move valuables about. It was a heavily armored train, staffed with Mounties and a fuckload of guns.
I can't find anything about it now though. Just that they have one. No details. Let's put on out tin foil hats and come up with wacky theories and assume they are true.
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i can't find the referenced page. but that wikipedia article has a lot of interesting trains
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Status: misplaced my access certificate for my OpenVPN DigitalOcean instance. And I think I didn't set it up to restart with the system.
Well, I guess I can just hope they don't reboot it, like, ever...
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Use the VNC viewer to get root access. Assuming you know the root password
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Use the VNC viewer to get root access. Assuming you know the root password
Oh hey, that worked. Could've sworn I've disabled root login via password altogether...
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- Lock all doors and windows and nail them shut from the inside
- Leave all keys on kitchen table
- Jump out of first-floor window
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- Profit!
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Lock all doors and windows and nail them shut from the inside
Jump out of first-floor window
???
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AFAIK
everyone learns to leave a connection up while fiddling with login conf the hard way
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Status: While I was doing my dailies, someone said "LFG CITADEL", then apologized for yelling.
Yep, I'm pretty sure that out of "I just asked who would like to commit genocide with me" and "I just said something in my outside voice while outside", the latter is a far worse crime.
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Yep, I'm pretty sure that out of "I just asked who would like to commit genocide with me" and "I just said something in my outside voice while outside", the latter is a far worse crime.
In-game, it is! You cultural appropriator, applying your moral standards to the game's denizens!
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This seems more like cultural imperialism than cultural appropriation.
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Turning the logging from 'verbose' to 'debug' increased the log output from zero lines to...zero lines
I had exactly the opposite problem at a previous employer. Changing from "low" to "medium" increased the logging for a particular section of code from zero to thousands of lines.
Look up name-value pairs by name. Hash table; almost instant, right? No. Array. Unsorted array. Linear search. Medium-verbosity logging reports every single failed match, in array of several thousand names. (But not the successful match, when (if) it eventually happened.)
Bonus points: If there was no match, the function returned NULL. Which wasn't checked by the caller before calling a method on it.
Bonus bonus points: The developer said the application segfaulting was correct behavior, because you should never try to look up a name that didn't exist.
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The developer said the application segfaulting was correct behavior, because you should never try to look up a name that didn't exist.
Well it makes sense because there's no other reason a piece of software like that could ever segfault. So since that's the only thing that could possibly cause a segfault you can just handle it and assume the name wasn't found.
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Status: found this topic: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/is-there-a-beta-test-program-i-can-sign-up-for/119
Fun fact:
codinghorror.com
shares an SSL certificate witherectiledysfunctiongo.com
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