The Official Status Thread
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Status:****strong text Unable to pay my Internet bill because the billpay website's "Pay Now" button has been broken for a week now. No JavaScript errors or anything, it just doesn't work.
Did you try a different browser? Because it's probably shitty programming.
- Your billpay website is shittily programmed and doesn't work on an updated version of your browser
- Your browser is shittily programmed and they broke some ssl something that fails silently on an ajax call
- You're a shitty programmer, and karma hates you.
- All of the above
- None of the above, except for some of the above
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Tried multiple browsers and multiple PC's/OS's. It Just Doesn't Work™.
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Status: So this is back on Wikipedia...
They must be doing it at different times in different countries; I got it a while ago, but not now--I just checked, including on Edge, where I don't run an adblocker.
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Everybody intelligent knows that polygraphs are complete bullshit pseudo-science. They aren't admissable in court for that very reason.
But you can get 2 years in prison for teaching people how to "beat" them? That's grossly unfair.
This is similar, in a way, to how they sent Martha Stewart to jail: she was found guilty of making false statements about something that wasn't illegal.
It's why Popehat--a criminal defense lawyer--says never talk to cops without your lawyer.
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Yeah, I'm not getting either the big version nor the small version at the moment. Even with Adblock turned off, although I'm not sure that matters as it was turned on when I saw it.
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Yeah, I'm not getting either the big version nor the small version at the moment. Even with Adblock turned off, although I'm not sure that matters as it was turned on when I saw it.
Last time around, I managed to tune Adblock to kill it. I'm kind of waiting for the next go-round to see if it still works.
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Status****strong text: At the gas pump...
@GasPump said:
Select Payment Method:
< Credit
< Debit
< Pay Inside*Selects Credit*
@GasPump said:
Insert card and remove quickly
*Inserts card and removes quickly*
@GasPump said:
Is this a Debit card?
< Yes
< No
?
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Unable to pay my Internet bill because the billpay website's "Pay Now" button has been broken for a week now. No JavaScript errors or anything, it just doesn't work.
Did you try turning it off, and then turning it back on again?
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Ignore the first prompt and just insert card. 90 percent of cards it auto detects. The other 10 percent it'll prompt afterwards.
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Status: two and a half years after I got this phone number I am still getting calls for the pistachios owner. Who calls someone at ten pm on a weekday seeing if you want to do something tonight
Also, dude, if he hasn't given you his new number yet, he probably doesn't want to be your friend any more. I'm tempted to call this guy around 6:30 tomorrow morning and let him know.
Also, for some reasons this week Stupid (Swype--has ha ha) is randomly pluralizing noun. I left a couple in there to show what I mean.
Also also, it just "corrected" "nouns" to "noun" on me. Twice. I can't win, I guess. Except I got my own back where it got its own name wrong.
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Who calls someone at ten pm on a weekday seeing if you want to do something tonight
People looking to go out clubbing.
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onyx@jarvis ~> mysql -uroot -psupersekkrit migration < migrate.sql ERROR 2013 (HY000) at line 348839: Lost connection to MySQL server during queryLost conn... IT'S LOCALHOST!
No, the service didn't crash.
Going for 10 minutes strong now. The SQL file size is 136.9 MB.
I'm so happy I don't have to deal with you daily any more, MySQL.
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onyx@jarvis ~> php -a Interactive mode enabled php > foreach ($doesnot as $exists) { echo 'This should throw an error'; } PHP Notice: Undefined variable: doesnot in php shell code on line 1 PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in php shell code on line 1 php > // Paranoia check php > foreach ($doesnot as $key => $exists) { echo 'This should throw an error'; } PHP Notice: Undefined variable: doesnot in php shell code on line 1 PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in php shell code on line 1Good.
Actual code:
protected function updateMailboxes(array $params = null) { foreach ($param as $key => $value) { // Stuff that never gets executed }NO ERRORS! (hint: there's a tyop in there)
PHP, can we come to an agreement? When there's an error, fucking tell me there's an error! Or, if you want to be an ass, stay silent. Just be fucking consistent!
Note: I did not deactivate error logging in my code. Actually, I explicitly set it to log everything, including warnings and notices.
EDIT: ok, those are technically warnings, don't care, should still be spewn out.
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there's a tyop in there
Why do some programming languages think they can get away without requiring assignment to a variable before reading from it? While yes, it might let you do some cute tricks, it also causes vast amounts of pain.
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In this case, you can't actually do that, not even in PHP. But for some freaking reason it wouldn't throw an error, it just silently skipped the
foreachbecause$paramdid not exist, so of course it could not loop through it.Also, yes, it's annoying as all hell, but JavaScript actually bit me in the ass with that more often than PHP. Might just be the type of data I juggled in there though.
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it just silently skipped the foreach because $param did not exist
Empty collection, nothing to do. Theoretically cromulent. But fucked up when it means typos go undetected…
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Status: two and a half years after I got this phone number I am still getting calls for the pistachios owner. Who calls someone at ten pm on a weekday seeing if you want to do something tonight
I have had the same cell phone number for 10 years now. 2-3 years ago, I started getting random texts from some number I did not know. I ignored the first few, thinking it would go away. But they were always about buying weed. Then I responded one day, "Wrong number". The guy argued with me. Thought it was his friend playing a prank on him.
Then, a couple of times I got calls at 3am from the number. My phone goes silent from 10PM-8AM, except for whitelisted numbers (big clients, family who might call in emergencies, etc), so I never even heard them.
All of this was never very frequent, so it was never anything that bothered me. Maybe every couple of months. Then he texts me again the other day, wanting to buy weed. I was having a bad day (newborn, no sleep, cranky clients, etc). I told him again he had the wrong number and he gets all shitty with me...for not wanting to sell him weed.
I call him, "Listen here fuckhead. I have told you multiple times that you have the wrong number. You have the wrong number. Stop calling me, stop texting me, erase my number from your phone. Also, you might want to be careful who you sends texts about drugs to. If you call me again, or text me, I am turning over all the texts where you asked me to buy drugs to the police." I actually wouldn't do that, but I wanted him to fuck off.
"Larry (not my name), if you don't want to sell to me you don't have to be a dick about it."
"I AM NOT LARRY!!! HOW ARE YOU NOT IN JAIL YET??"
I finally just blocked the number and any future texts will end up in /dev/null.
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I finally just blocked the number and any future texts will end up in /dev/null.
I'm astonished you lasted this long. I block stuff after just one or two unwanted calls.
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Empty collection, nothing to do. Theoretically cromulent.
But PHP should raise a notice and a warning about that none the less. I actually have a bug here, should set it to empty array if it's
null(the default is anulldue to some reflection idiocy I have to deal with, would be an empty array otherwise).
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Meh, as I said, it was only every few months. So each time it happened, I assumed it was done. It also usually happened when I was busy, so I was always going to do it when I got around to it and then forgot.
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Fucking update.
I, of course, have the notification bubble thing stuck in my muscle memory.
Time to forget and return my entire workflow, thanks @wood!
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Good thing, though! You get TWICE the number of notifications!
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Fucking update.
I, of course, have the notification bubble thing stuck in my muscle memory.
Time to forget and return my entire workflow, thanks @wood!
Yeah... stupid fucking thing.
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Fucking update.
Yeah... stupid fucking thing.
I would like you to know I LOVE it! It has a working scrollbar!
It does jack fucking shit and shouldn't be there, but it works!
Status: Off to store, need a new sarcasm fuse.
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It does jack fucking shit and shouldn't be there, but it works!
Hmmmm, mine does not have that. Perhaps you brokeded it?
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I must be Doing it Wrong™
For reference:
Opera 31.0, equivalent to Chrome 44.0.2403.155
Though I do have a pending update...
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Though I do have a pending update...
We do too, to better forum software. Also, updating to forum developers who are not cocks at the same time.
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2-3 years ago, I started getting random texts from some number I did not know
About 5 years ago, one night I started getting texts from someone with a wrong number. Some girl who thought I was her sister. Same deal, she refused to believe I wasn't her sister. After about ten minutes, she called me. I answered with something like "See, I told you I wasn't your sister." I got back an "uh...." and she hung up.
Well now. Shoulda listened.
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Ah, the old "2' behind the keyboard error".
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"Larry (not my name), if you don't want to sell to me you don't have to be a dick about it."
Solution is simple.
- Find out what your local "cop restaurant" is. It's probably near a station
- Reply to text with "Sorry, I just don't have any. I'll send you to my guy. Restaurant at 123 X street. Table in the back. He's not a subtle guy, so don't worry about codewords or anything."
Problem solved.
Filed under: I should start a business for this.
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/// <summary> /// Function to test if an object is still instantiated (ie Not NULL). /// </summary> /// <param name="_AnyObject"></param> /// <returns></returns> protected bool ValidateObject(object _AnyObject) { return (_AnyObject != null); }I particularly like how the name makes it sound like it might do some useful validation. (there are other
ValidateThingmethods in the codebase that check things).Bonus WTF****strong text
catch (Exception ex) { // If the ex.Message starts with the folowing string then we have attempted to duplicate the item. if (ex.Message.StartsWith("Cannot insert duplicate key row"))
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Ah, the old "let's hide away UI elements so the user can't find what they need"
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I actually wouldn't do that
You should. Even if you personally don't think there's anything wrong with trying to buy weed, somebody that stupid deserves to have his own stupidity used against him.
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Status: Just been out to a really nice restaurant in celebration of a family member's birthday. I've had a bit too much fish and beef.
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Status: Found a (another) problem with having so many Chrome windows open.
(TL;DR: There's a YouTube video playing somewhere, and I CAN'T FIND IT.)
Closed Chrome to play a game (because Chrome+Discourse=No memory available for anything else). Started Chrome again this morning. YouTube Center normally stops videos from playing when they load, but sometimes when Chrome starts up with a bunch of YT tabs open, it takes a while to stop them, and occasionally it fails altogether. There is a YT video of a Blender tutorial playing somewhere. I've looked at every Chrome window I have whose active tab has something related to Blender or the subject of the tutorial (a horse), and I can't find a playing video in any tab of any of those windows. Meanwhile, the video keeps playing (it's probably an hour or so long), with the guy droning on about every single mouse click and key press.)
Finally found it! It only took 3 or 4 times scrolling through the list of tabs in Chrome Task Manager, which itself only took like 3 tries to open, because for some unknown reason it decided to open the window off-screen. Chrome, you're better than the alternatives, but sometimes I really hate you.
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Empty collection, nothing to do.
Actually that's a non-existent variable (as oppossed to a variable that exists but is set to null) rather than an empty collection.
PHP, can we come to an agreement? When there's an error, fucking tell me there's an error! Or, if you want to be an ass, stay silent. Just be fucking consistent!
PHP is consistent about ignoring things like that. It used to* silently cast false when used as an array index (as in foo[false] is equal to foo[0]). Very useful if you want your program to never crash, even if it has errors that should make the program crash.
(*) Read: at least until 5.4. It might have gotten fixed.
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@aliceif said:
Fucking update.
Yeah... stupid fucking thing.
I would like you to know I LOVE it! It has a working scrollbar!
It does jack fucking shit and shouldn't be there, but it works!
Status: Off to store, need a new sarcasm fuse.
Any moron who is semi-competent in UI design would know that the scroll bar should only apply to the notifications area. The links at the top should be fixed! This:
#SHOULD NOT HAPPEN!!!
And it wouldn't even be hard to do right!
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Message form PM: "oh noes, who can do Bob's estimate?" (as Bob is on vacation)
The change that needs to be estimated? Change the instruction on a webpage "Has a [general category] or [specific thingy] been sold?" to "Has a [specific category] or [specific thingy] been sold?".Now trying to explain to PM why changing a word in some static text on a webpage is less time than doing the estimate paperwork.
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Other than the pointless scroll bar, it's meh. Six of one, half-dozen of the other, as far as I'm concerned.
I am a little annoyed that they replaced the text labels like "messages", "preferences" etc with icons.
I actually like having a place to see my bookmarked topics without having to go back to the home page. Go figure.
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And it wouldn't even be hard to do right!
It must be one of these things that is discoeasy to do right…
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And it wouldn't even be hard to do right!
Discourse: We reimplement easy stuff to make it hard — so hard we can't get it right.
INB4 hard ==
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Chrome, you're better than the alternatives
I don't get that at all from the other stuff in your post/
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Victim of Animes!
Hey guys, remember SNES Final Fantasy games? Let's make EVERY INDIE RPG EVER FROM HERE ON TO FOREVER LOOK AND PLAY LIKE THAT EXACTLY!
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Let's make EVERY INDIE RPG EVER FROM HERE ON TO FOREVER LOOK AND PLAY LIKE THAT EXACTLY!
QFT.
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To be fair, RPG Maker hasn't helped. It's a good thing they charge outrageous prices for the horrid thing.
However...
Status: I early accessed again! Twice! But one was free, so whatever. The one I got free from an alienware-run thing is completely awful and not worth anyone's money. The one I paid for, completely on a whim, is beautiful.
Basically, someone did this:
- Hey, I bet we can replicate Smash Bros
- Lets make everything all elemental, kids love that
- No need for items
- What if the game was in a nice 16-bit style, so every character looks like a megaman boss?
And it worked. Rivals of Aether or whatever is a good game. The combat actually works well, and the differences between it and smash bros are creative and fun.
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What was the bad one?
And yes, I get early access too, if they're free or for less than $0.50 or so from a bundle deal. I wouldn't buy a bundle of all early access, but a lot are like 5 normal games and 2 early access and I pick up those.
