The Official Status Thread
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Hard reset means HARD RESET.
I hope they understand this when we finally promote this dev site that they've been using as prod.
>You're going to lose all your data when we go to promotion for the V1.0 release.
< What, can't you keep the data?
> No, not unless you want to hand-key-in all the data again.
< Gee thanks for the help
> Remember I did warn you not to use the site, but apparently stern capitalized letters bolded in red doesn't mean anything to you...
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Filed under: Payment in likes
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Heh. In this case we have a pair of reset features for a data processing pipeline. A soft reset that does what they apparently intended and a hard reset that does that as well as eradicating all evidence that the original processing attempt ever happened. That one isn't user accessible and requires signoffs from God on a support ticket.
It effectively only exists to hide processing fuckups from our customers.
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requires signoffs from God on a support ticket.
Ah. We typically label those with a
NUCLEAR
tag. For some reason people respond differently when that word is present...
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It is (the button literally has a mushroom cloud on it) but the users can't see it. Hence the signoffs from God.
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And it turned out that sometimes duplicates are created on the same key. Sometimes items aren't in the hash and they don't get freed, but if they're on a duplicate key then it removed the copy that was in the hash but only freed the one in hand.
Still not sure whether the existence of duplicates is a bug, but given the multi-threaded nature and 'garbage in' it probably can't be avoided completely. Can't leak memory even if someone's feeding us garbage. especially when someone's feeding us garbage.
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Meanwhile, my Firefox window:
My FF just killed the display driver earlier today too.
As I've learned from playing several of the MS games (minesweeper, cards, soduko, etc), when they kill the DD, you've got to shut them down too. (Or they'll just silently crash / vanish when you try to do something.)
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@Fox said:
Disclaimer: My like does not apply to the quoted sentence, because fuck people who don't like cucumbers. Fuck them with cucumbers.
Look, if my stomach makes contact with a cucumber it starts immediate evacuation procedures, no questions asked. It's the only food that does that to me. I may not like other foods, but cucumbers - immediate vomit reflex.
Pickles though, I could live off pickles.
If you don't hate the taste as well, you might try removing the seeds.
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Way back in Vista, I had a couple video games that would occasionally kill the display driver, but were able to somehow recover from it and keep going like nothing happened. IIRC, World of Warcraft pulled it off. (WOW also was one of the few games that didn't totally shit itself when I had audio routed through a USB headset and pulled the USB plug.)
COOL STORY BRO
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Seen that as well. I used to have a video card that would occasionally run its voltage too low and crash. Wow was the only game I've seen survive that. Eventually I wised up to the cause and increased the baseline voltage by 10 millivolts or so, fixing the problem.
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Vista
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Status: I am out of Jack Daniel's.
Out.
The fuck.
Of Jack Daniel's.
This is like a goddamn Greek tragedy.
Costco tomorrow.
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Tastes awful anyway.
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Since I started drinking Scottish Whiskys, I can't tolerate Jack Daniels anymore. Ugh.
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Fucking yuppie.
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Since I started drinking Scottish Whiskys, I can't tolerate Jack Daniels anymore. Ugh.
The First World Problems Thread is .
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Installed slimrom, maybe now the battery will survive discourse a bit longer
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Status: I learned a valuable lesson today when the SSD in my brand new laptop died with absolutely no warning. It looks like I'm going to have to brave Dell Technical Support to get this thing replaced under warranty.
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You've never played asuraball in a guild hall?
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It looks like I'm going to have to brave Dell Technical Support to get this thing replaced under warranty.
home or work? If work, in my experience they're pretty good. They even came out to our office once to replace a laptop mobo.
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Home. I bought the laptop for personal use less than a month ago.
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status MOAR FOOD TALK!
Just finished packing up all the Christmas baskets full of home-made goodies. (The benefit of wife's family's Christmas party being mid-December-- forces us to get it all done early and relax the rest of the month).
Baskets full of homemade:
- Tolberone shortbread cookies
- Pfeffernuse (ginger molasses cookies)
- Turkey soup with carrots, celery and onions (made from Thanksgiving turkey carcass and leftover meat-- pressure canned)
- Bolognese sauce with bacon and home-ground beef (Did I mention I fucking love having a pressure canner??!?)
- Orange and Whiskey Marmalade (from Cara Cara oranges for extra sweetness)
- Ghost pepper hot sauce
And, since the start of November, I've had eggnog aging in the fridge. Eggs, sugar, cream, nutmeg-- and enough whiskey, burbon and rum to make it 14% abv. 8 gallons aging, ready to be enjoyed.
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@blakeyrat said:
Since I started drinking Scottish Whiskys, I can't tolerate Jack Daniels anymore. Ugh.
The First World Problems Thread is .
Scotch is exported to the Third World too.
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I read an article that said old booze companies were a good investment, because as poor countries become richer, one of the absolutely first things they want to buy are liquor products they can be sure won't make them blind.
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I read an article that said old booze companies were a good investment
I've never regretted having shares in them in the past. The best was one who gave a collection of samplers to all their shareholders one year. Pity the firms concerned tended to get bought out after a while.
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status: hating how upgrades break stuff. Updated router firmware, and now all of the sudden OpenVPN isn't connecting to the bridge anymore, despite using the same exact settings...
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Wait, all the data? You don't mean all the data right? I mean, you can't mean all the data, that's just not possible. You just mean most of it. Yeah, that's what he meant.
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@blakeyrat said:
Since I started drinking Scottish Whiskys, I can't tolerate Jack Daniels anymore. Ugh.
The First World Problems Thread is .
Is Scotland even first world?
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Unlikely, unless your previous ROM kept the CPU at max anyways.
It stoped reloading when I switch chrome tabs in my S3, at least
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Status: just figured out a way to turn Discourse into a webmail client.
That cannot be fucking healthy. Do you think it's the Syndrome?
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It looks like I'm going to have to brave Dell Technical Support to get this thing replaced under warranty.
It's not worth it. I would just buy a new SSD. I once had to attempt to run all the tests on their flowchart when a drive died.
"Can you (insert diagnostics that rely on the OS) and tell me the status it returns?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"The disk is dead."
"This test verifies..."
"It is clicking. There is no OS. I cant run that test. It won't boot."
"OK sir could you (insert diagnostics that rely on the OS)?"
(This happens several more times)
"Let's just skip to the bottom of that flowchart, where you send me a new hard drive and save us both some trouble. Deal?"
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Status: Watching with a weird mix of confusion, woe and horror as a clinical site is going completely offline. IT neglected to install a full copy of SQL server, but just the evaluation crap. We are now in the wonderful world of 180 days later. No licence key, middle of Bumfuckistan, critical patients waiting for treatment.
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Oh... shit...
At this point, I'd quietly recommend an off-the-grid laptop and downloading a keygen or something to get shit running long enough to schedule a proper, legal, reinstall. I'd usually just say "fuck them", but this is a hospital...
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I am currently fudging by installing SQL express and only enabling the actual treatment computers rather than the 100 of charting workstations. Still, it's hideous.
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STATUS: On skype since morning. I HATE this management / business analyst type of work.
I feel like a used condom. And haven't even been through the fun part.
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You'll get them treating, and that's the important thing here.
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fudge queen - don't like it but needs done
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fudge queen
Ever see a term and think "I bet there is a porn named that"? This is one of those times, but I don't dare look to confirm.
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@Placeholder said:
It looks like I'm going to have to brave Dell Technical Support to get this thing replaced under warranty.
It's not worth it. I would just buy a new SSD. I once had to attempt to run all the tests on their flowchart when a drive died.
This is the first time that I've had a drive fail in the warranty period, so I'm not familiar with this process. I am able to run hardware diagnostics with their pre-boot testing. Using the error codes from that, I was able to get to the point where their website basically said "You've had a hardware failure, fill out this form to get the part replaced". Of course, there was no link to said form.
So, what you are saying is that the replacement process is so tedious that it is better in the long run to just spend $70-$100 dollars on a replacement drive?
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So, what you are saying is that the replacement process is so tedious that it is better in the long run to just spend $70-$100 dollars on a replacement drive?
Depends. How much do you value your time? The drive replacement I mentioned cost me (WAG) 1.5 hours dicking around with them on the phone before they would send it to me. Considering what I make in an hour as opportunity cost, I could have bought several 1TB WD Black laptop drives.
Also, considering the fact that drive now sits on a shelf as I bought an SSD to replace it with as I did not want the laptop to be down for a few days while I waited for the drive the opportunity cost was a total loss.
<Fuck you Discourse.
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I was already leaning towards taking the time to go through the replacement process, so that is what I will do. It is much more economical for me to spend some time on the phone at this point. Thanks for the advice.
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Status: I decided to a full refresh of the main Discourse page, and precisely hit a cootiestorm.
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Considering what I make in an hour as opportunity cost,
I guess as a self employed guy this makes some sense for you, but for personal stuff for me, it's a bit disingenuous. Hell, I might sit on hold while I'm getting paid for working. Also that's the sort of thing my wife would do around here.
A more valid opportunity cost for me would be what I would do with the money that I'm not spending on a new drive.
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I feel like a used condom. And haven't even been through the fun part.
Why did the condom hit the wall?
It got pissed off
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A more valid opportunity cost for me would be what I would do with the money that I'm not spending on a new drive.
Fair enough. Salary would make opportunity cost non-point also as there is much less chance that having that time free would mean more pay.
To be fair, I don't tend to think of it in absolute money terms. At this point in my life, it is more like, "Would I rather spend time dicking around on the phone with Dell, or spend time with my kids at the park?"