The Official Status Thread
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@blakeyrat said:
TWICE now because solicitors at my door.
Put up a sign.
Answer the door naked.
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Do you get the same error here:
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/
It's a gaming site that thought their "news" page was so important it needed to be under some fancy new version of SSL. And so my Firefox can't access their site-- their commercial site I was subscribed to for upcoming product announcements so I could give them money.
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It looks like spdy/3.1, according to Chrome. So basically HTTP/2 minus one. Which this forum is also running.
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Status: since I've been an efficient worker, project is pretty much done. Guess the next few days I'll be a lot more active around here.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@FrostCat said:
@blakeyrat said:
TWICE now because solicitors at my door.
Put up a sign.
Answer the door naked.
A sign might stop you from being interrupted in the future[1]. Answering the door won't.
[1] especially if it reads "I answer the door naked."
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Status:
Sigh... End
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It just takes some time dicking around at work rather than working to get caught up. That's how I did it.
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status****strong text annoyed.
Intent: right-click project, rebuild.
Actual: right-click solution, rebuild.Fuck. Wait 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds.
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Status: Really weird ... issue with my Surface Book.
It has a magnesium hull and when I run my fingers across it while on battery, everything feels normal (i.e. smooth metal coat).
When it's connected to the power supply, however, running my fingers across the hull feels like it's vibrating.
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When it's connected to the power supply, however, running my fingers across the hull feels like it's vibrating.
...... bad ground? maybe some leaking voltage?
does a glass of water shoe the vibration?
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I can't repro on my Surface Book. Maybe Microsoft screwed up something with non-US plugs/adapters?
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Will have a look at it tomorrow with my Physics lab equipment.
Has to have some kind of advantage that I can measure electric field strength and voltages on the nV-level :)
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Status: Gave expert advice to CTO, answered his difficult questions without a pause, basically kicked-ass at suck-up type stuff today.
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our solution at work is overly large, slow, and terrible, but 30 min?
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I'm more impressed his project is so decoupled. In my company's codebase, building any one project means building 90%+ of the solution anyway.
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We're rather lucky in that regard. We can safely funnel down to around 30 projects in most cases, occasionally just 2 if we're just doing something and its tests.
But we have over 120 projects, some in C++, some in C++/CLI, and some in C#, and the full build of our whole program, including delphi and our weird proprietary language, takes 3 hours usually.
We have VS6 code and several other solutions around. It's terrifying.
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I was trying to just rebuild the resource dlls. (I had made a change that VS didn't detect.)
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Status: Slacking on StackOverflow again this afternoon.
Something that bugs me mucho to the max:
http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/49150/wife-is-missing-husband-suspected-of-murder
The MOST pertinent thing about this post is its tag. Yet that information is NOWHERE except in tiny light-grey text well below the question itself. This is a pain on EVERY Stack-whatever site. Is the question about the SQL keyword or the C++ keyword? Look for the tiny nearly-invisible grey text. Is this Aircraft question about jets or helicopters? Look for the tiny nearly-invisible grey text. Seriously, who designed this page? Why haven't they fixed it? It's been a problem for YEARS.
Ironically, the one-box that gets pasted here puts it in a much more appropriate location.
EDIT: this question is fun:
Say what you want about Voyager, but Jeri Ryan is the BEST. I like that she instantly recognized the pronunciation problem, and even called-out that pedantic dickweed fans would write letters about it.
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I feel like when Black Desert comes out, I need my surname to be Seer, so that I can name one of my characters T'dem.
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Status: My bank, because I applied for a credit card, helpfully sent me a copy of my Experian credit report.
They have not yet send me the credit card.
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Status: Congratulations on post 40000, @blakeyrat!
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Give me money.
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81 posts were split to a new topic: ï…¹ Cartman's Maccellent Adventure
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Status: Home internet is suffering from random connection problems. The ISP's DNS servers randomly stop working sometimes. For raisins, I need to use the default DNS options on some networks. However, I made the change temporarily and tested the connection.
Suffice to say, this wasn't the result I was expecting. Welcome to the future, I guess?
Does anybody know an easier way to change DNS providers on the fly? I'd prefer to not have to dig into the One True Windows 10 Control Panel every time.
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Bonus Status: 40004, STATUS_POST_NOT_FOUND.
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Why not set the ISP's DNS servers as primary and Google's public DNS server as secondary? That way it'll automatically fall back.
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Not that we're in time to fix it, but using a document-store database like MongoDB for a forum is ridonkulous.
Why are we out of time? It could be changed if it's proven not being a good idea. @ben_lubar is reporting more problems than I expected that would happen with MongoDB.
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If you can come up with a better forum to run, I'm all ears.
We're mainly going for NodeBB because the devs still exist and aren't dicks.
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The MOST pertinent thing about this post is its tag. Yet that information is NOWHERE except in tiny light-grey text well below the question
No repro on mobile.
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Status: PayPal account locked because I tried to add money to it and guessed my birthday wrong? Or SSN? Or Address?
Now apparently I need to provide three pieces of identification (two government) proving my identity.
What BS, I never had to do this before...
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Status: cat-in-a-box
What is it with cats and cardboard boxes? Put an empty cardboard box on the floor, turn around ... box is now filled with brown cat looking smug: 'I've been sitting here all day, it's my box.'
Make cereal ... walk past box ... is now occupied with black cat.
After that I thought I'll give the grey one a chance to sit in the box too but he started scratching from the second I even hoovered him above the box.
Conclusion: 2 out 3 cats sit in the box.
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he started scratching from the second I even hoovered him
I don't blame him for scratching you if you went after him with a vacuum cleaner.
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I know ... but it's a fitness test ... If they stay around while vacuuming then they are sick
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Status: brown cat took control of the box again
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STATUS:
Boss is performing high stakes negotiations with a displeased contractor who stole our social network API account over a perceived slight.
There are literally TENS of dollars of unpaid fees at stake.
I'm too embarrassed to watch the whole charade.
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does a glass of water shoe the vibration?
If it does, it's powered by a small dinosaur.
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Status: Really weird ... issue with my Surface Book.
It has a magnesium hull and when I run my fingers across it while on battery, everything feels normal (i.e. smooth metal coat).
When it's connected to the power supply, however, running my fingers across the hull feels like it's vibrating.
Perfectly normal with a switching power supply. It's a little bit of leakage current, probably less than 50uA. In the UK it depends what market segment your product is for the exact limit. For Class II IT equipment (your case) it would be 250uA.
The usual cause is that to pass EMI you need a capacitor between the primary and secondary of the switching transformer so you have a path for a little bit of mains energy.
On the power supplies I've designed I've always tried to keep it as low as possible as customers complain about it. You can feel down to a few uA as a 'fuzzy' feeling, it's quite amazing.
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You don't get to be a millionaire by paying contractors their rate 100%
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STATUS:
Half an hour on call with client, listening to his excited diatribe about how our product will conquer the world.
You wouldn't be so excited if you've seen the code, dude.
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STATUS Second day of being sick and very bored. I also think I'm getting thin skinned :(. I'm a little put out by the doctor, my work colleagues and my flatmates all calling me a fool for not going to see the doctor last week when it was a minor infection.
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Status: I have this code:
private GetDistinctValuesDelegate GenerateDistinctValuesDelegate(Func<Lots, Of, Params> func) { return x => GetDistinct(x, func); } private IList<Value> GetDistinct(string propertyName, Func<Lots, Of, Params> func) { return func(propertyName, null, null, 0, ...).Select(x => new Value(x, null, 0, ...)).ToList(); } //...somewhere else switch(currentProduct) { case Products.ProductX: filter.GetDistinct = GenerateDistinctValuesDelegate(ProductX.GetDistinct); case Products.ProductY: filter.GetDistinct = GenerateDistinctValuesDelegate(ProductY.GetDistinct); //... }
Basically the data access classes expose a static method to get distinct column values that has a bloated signature, and the filter needs a delegate with a different signature, so to avoid repeating code we just generate the delegate on runtime. But it doesn't work as expected. Why?
Answer: [spoiler]because assigning to GetDistinct on filter actually puts the method in a global static cache of methods, keyed by the assigned method's declaring type name, method name, property name and session ID - but since we return a lambda, the first two are always the same, and some products have the properties with the same name. Oh, and the cache disallows putting another value under the same key - it simply discards it.[/spoiler]
Why. What problem on Earth does it even attempt to solve.
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If you can come up with a better forum to run, I'm all ears.
Just get us out of Discourse :)
If you get frustrated with mongo, maybe it's worth implementing a dal for a saner database.
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Over-engineering is worse than no-engineering imo. When a job ad asks for design patterns it's a red flag to me. Design patterns is portuguese for cargo culting.
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Lots, Of, Params
Nice name for you classes.
Oh, and you can imagine the person who did this feeling so clever for using the word "delegate".
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Well, it... is a delegate that's returned from the function?
I anonymized the methods a bit, but I don't really see what you're getting at... It kind of makes sense that the filter is going to need some way of retrieving distinct values from the DB, and that way may differ for different objects, so why would passing a delegate/functor/whatchamacallit be a bad idea?
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My point is: you don't usually use the word "delegate" unless you're being clever or over-engineering something.
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STATUS:
Boss is mismanaging this account hostage negotiations so badly.
JUST PAY THE GUY HIS 100 BUCKS AND BE DONE WITH IT!
I'd pay that much just not to have to deal with this guy again, and I don't even have a company level funds at hand.
Gah!
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Now, now. You did not become the forgotten corner of Europe by throwing money around.
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Status: <Sigh!>
5.1.2 Forward and backward snowballing in iterations
I'm not going there again, but this was a really bad naming decision in the scientiffic community.