The Official Status Thread


  • BINNED

    Status: wow Firefox sucks really bad. :wtf: happened to them? It gives error about source not found or such crap when downloading zip files and flat out refuses to load pages some times!! And no, new profile does not hep, Mozilla is dead.

    The solution: Installed Chrome it imported every thing including TDWTF thumbnail and UBlock addon! Considering that FF tried to look like Chrome I am now all at home but in a sane working browser.



  • STATUS:

    Staring my own repositories on my own private gitlab.



  • Status: Only in MongoDB could "get me the 100000th to 100250th IDs in this table in ascending order" require a full table scan even with an index.



  • MongoDB IDs are GUIDs. There's no order to them. Your post confuses me.



  • These are IDs put into the database by NodeBB, not the object IDs that MongoDB generates.

    Like the 1673 in this topic's URL on Discourse.



  • Status:

    // THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
    content = content.replace(/(<kbd>){100,}/g, '<b>importer:</b> snipped lots of &lt;kbd&gt; here');
    

    Edit: specifically, this one: https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/more-fun-with-discourse/53252?u=ben_lubar


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    I thought MongoDB was into SCAN ALL THE TABLES! for pretty much anything? The point being that it assumes you've spread it out over a cluster instead of using some saner level of resourcing, so being individually wasteful is not such a big deal.

    But then I've never needed that sort of solution to any of my problems.



  • Status: wat

    controller.progress { count: 292986, total: 813833, percentage: 36.00075199703133 }
    27/2 20:31 [139] - error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'implementation' of undefined
        at Function.getListeners (/usr/src/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import/node_modules/bbcode-to-markdown/node_modules/jsdom-nogyp/lib/jsdom/level2/events.js:176:74)
        at Function.dispatch (/usr/src/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import/node_modules/bbcode-to-markdown/node_modules/jsdom-nogyp/lib/jsdom/level2/events.js:192:40)
        at Object.events.EventTarget.dispatchEvent (/usr/src/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import/node_modules/bbcode-to-markdown/node_modules/jsdom-nogyp/lib/jsdom/level2/events.js:287:33)
        at Object.DOMWindow.dispatchEvent (/usr/src/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import/node_modules/bbcode-to-markdown/node_modules/jsdom-nogyp/lib/jsdom/browser/index.js:114:40)
        at /usr/src/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-import/node_modules/bbcode-to-markdown/node_modules/jsdom-nogyp/lib/jsdom/browser/index.js:50:16
        at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:415:9)
        at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:385:13)
    


  • Status: Ok, I'm not sure if "remove the entire post and then crash" is the correct response in this situation.



  • Status: trying to learn something about HbbTV. The thing is so obscure it's like trying to read the Windows kernel source. I mean, I'm used to obscure documentation from TV manufacturers, but this thing, which is supposed to be a "standard" is incredible lacking information. For example, what APIs are exposed by the devices? No wonder it hasn't kicked off.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    I'd never heard of it before, so I googled and found https://www.hbbtv.org/ which looks like the sort of terrible slick flashy site that happens far too often; all glitz and no information of any real use. But there's worse!

    When I go to their specifications page, the link for the spec points to the Google front page.

    Yes, the consortium publishing the spec is apparently telling me to just f'ing Google it to find out what's in it, despite it apparently being published around a year ago. That's even worse than telling me to pay an exorbitant fee, right up there in You Have Got To Be Shitting Me territory.

    You have my sympathies.


  • BINNED

    @dkf said:

    I have a simpler fix. Eat all the ice cream first time you open it. 😋 🍨 🍦

    That reminds me of the old Dreamery Ice Cream commercials. One of them has the mother-in-law visiting a young married couple. The three of them are about to sit down for ice cream. The couple has a bowl each, but the mother-in-law grabs a fork, sticks it into a container of ice cream, and pulls the whole thing out. Before starting, she says "How cute....you still use bowls".



  • Status: WHY IS THIS TAKING SO LONG

    2016-02-28T02:22:26.017+0000 I COMMAND  [conn149] command 0.objects command: find { find: "objects", filter: { _key: "posts:pid" }, sort: { score: 1 }, projection: { _id: 0, value: 1 }, skip: 514090, limit: 101 } planSummary: IXSCAN { _key: 1, score: -1 } keysExamined:514191 docsExamined:514191 cursorExhausted:1 keyUpdates:0 writeConflicts:0 numYields:5360 nreturned:101 reslen:2832 locks:{ Global: { acquireCount: { r: 10722 } }, MMAPV1Journal: { acquireCount: { r: 5362 } }, Database: { acquireCount: { r: 5361 } }, Collection: { acquireCount: { R: 5361 }, acquireWaitCount: { R: 1 }, timeAcquiringMicros: { R: 54 } } } protocol:op_query 67048ms
    2016-02-28T02:23:35.380+0000 I COMMAND  [conn151] command 0.objects command: find { find: "objects", filter: { _key: "posts:pid" }, sort: { score: 1 }, projection: { _id: 0, value: 1 }, skip: 514191, limit: 101 } planSummary: IXSCAN { _key: 1, score: -1 } keysExamined:514292 docsExamined:514292 cursorExhausted:1 keyUpdates:0 writeConflicts:0 numYields:5752 nreturned:101 reslen:2833 locks:{ Global: { acquireCount: { r: 11506 } }, MMAPV1Journal: { acquireCount: { r: 5754 } }, Database: { acquireCount: { r: 5753 } }, Collection: { acquireCount: { R: 5753 }, acquireWaitCount: { R: 1 }, timeAcquiringMicros: { R: 92 } } } protocol:op_query 69225ms
    2016-02-28T02:24:51.897+0000 I COMMAND  [conn154] command 0.objects command: find { find: "objects", filter: { _key: "posts:pid" }, sort: { score: 1 }, projection: { _id: 0, value: 1 }, skip: 514292, limit: 101 } planSummary: IXSCAN { _key: 1, score: -1 } keysExamined:514393 docsExamined:514393 cursorExhausted:1 keyUpdates:0 writeConflicts:0 numYields:5997 nreturned:101 reslen:2831 locks:{ Global: { acquireCount: { r: 11996 } }, MMAPV1Journal: { acquireCount: { r: 5999 } }, Database: { acquireCount: { r: 5998 } }, Collection: { acquireCount: { R: 5998 }, acquireWaitCount: { R: 1 }, timeAcquiringMicros: { R: 37661 } } } protocol:op_query 76409ms
    


  • It links to this: http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts\102700_102799\102796\01.03.01_60\ts_102796v010301p.pdf

    Which, experts believe, is not the Google front page.



  • It's because your cursor's so exhausted. Give it a rest.


  • 🚽 Regular

    Status: Currently at 2 hours of CPU time for 300ms of simulation time...I think my model is too detailed.

    Edit:

    Could not allocate 268435456 more bytes in one contiguous block.

    You will need to restart LTspice to continue.

    This was finally the bit I wanted! Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.



  • I can't find it now but someone I follow tweeted that Fuller House is like the porn spoof of Full House, but they accidentally left out the porn. Also a good description.



  • Yes we gave you guys like $300k an episode to make Fuller House, so we're going to ensure every episode starts with a jarring jump-cut and about 3 lines of missed dialog.


  • Notification Spam Recipient

    Status: My dad just received a big old PC from an old lady we're supposed to destroy. It has 128 Mb ram, 460 MHz Pentium II CPU, and 8 Gb of HD space.
    Has Windows 98 apparently. Turned it on two minutes ago and it has yet to show anything other than the boot animation.
    "Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error." Whelp, there goes that.

    I think I'm going to wipe it and install Windows 7 on it!



  • @Tsaukpaetra said:

    from an old lady we're supposed to destroy.

    Why? What has she done?


  • Notification Spam Recipient

    @OffByOne said:

    Why? What has she done?

    Who knows? The quest sheet didn't say.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    Huh. It's changed now to that url that you posted (since I checked the source before griping about it last night). This means that the site shit itself when serving up something which ought to be just a static url in some html. :wtf:



  • Status: Wondering who will become the next DEER PINTS of the AAA CEDE FEMINIST TROUTS.

    [poll type="multiple" name="anagrams"]

    • A TRILLION LYNCH
    • BRAINED SNEERS
    • MR ADULT POND
    • AI CURB ROOM
    • CURT ZED
    • NEON CRABS
    • HA SICK JOHN
      [/poll]


  • Status: Apparently MongoDB has resumable cursors, but NodeBB decides to do query spamming instead. "Class, turn to page 5603053 in your textbooks. Now close your textbooks. Now turn to page 5603054 in your textbooks."

    Edit: Oh, it's not NodeBB doing that, just the importer plugin.


  • BINNED

    If you keep improving the importer, soon it surpasses NodeBB in capabilities then just call it NodeBC and refuse to import to NodeBB.



  • @ben_lubar said:

    Status: Apparently MongoDB has resumable cursors, but NodeBB decides to do query spamming instead.

    @blakeyrat said:

    It's because your cursor's so exhausted. Give it a rest.

    Empty can't be post.


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    @accalia said:

    IIRC there is the fact that it's impossible to drive a tank of that model and operate its weaponry at the same time, to do so requires multiple people.

    The second video has the cops radioing to have someone call the armory and find out if the tank's loaded.

    Of course, nothing would stop the driver from parking, going to the turret, and opening fire.

    Also also, when someone is driving a tank through city streets, you need to kinda assume the worse. Maybe he had an accomplice in the tank with him, reading the owner's manual...


  • BINNED

    @Lorne_Kates said:

    I was going to joke about stolen tanks, but Buddah-fucking Gaea that shit is scary:

    I am glad at least one lunatic did that once, all the better no one was hurt. Humanity can now tick that off bucket list.

    Was it now, we had many many more footage.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    Status: Studying. Is it just me or is this exam sample question gibberish?


  • Garbage Person

    That appears to be copypasta from several questions and the review/editing/approval of those questions.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    It's definitely only one question; these tend to be long, complex issues you have to work out on paper to get the right number of partitions. But there's definitely review text in there too.

    I think it's meant to say something like:

    The participants in a yearly health check for employees are required to answer questions:

    • Whether they are smokers, non-smokers, or are attending a stop-smoking class
    • Their BMI, measured in the following categories [...]
    • Their blood pressure, measured in the following categories: [...]

    How many test cases are needed to achieve 75% test coverage of the above scenario when testing using boundary value analysis? Use 2 values per boundary, and assume that only positive integers can be input for BMI and blood pressure.



  • It's like the original question, plus some editorial notes on the question "suggest delete", plus two entirely different questions, none of which are actually questions.

    @Yamikuronue said:

    How many test cases are needed to achieve 75% te

    Your answer's based on 85% ass-pull, and 15% "the actual text in the question". I'd go see the proctor, and say, "whassup?"


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    Ah, I think the extreme boundary bit is another review text, saying the question should clarify if the student should take into account the extreme boundaries.



  • There's not even any question marks or, AFAICT, requests for you to provide any response.

    There is a sentence that kind of looks like it was originally supposed to be a question. "How many test cases are need", but it's utter gibberish.


  • Garbage Person

    Status: This student loan is like fucking cancer. This is month three of "YOU OWE US A FEW CENTS BECAUSE OF ACCRUED INTEREST ON LAST MONTH'S A FEW CENTS OF ACCRUED INTEREST ON THE PREVIOUS MONTH'S FEW CENTS!"


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    Yeah, most of my reconstruction of what the question was meant to be (I got it right) was based on previous practice exams I've taken.

    I'm rolling about 70% (The pass mark is 65) without having done any extra studying this weekend except taking the practice exams, and that' with my brain feeling like mush today, but I'm torn, because these questions are so awful I'm not sure I'm actually prepared. Unfortunately the other source I have for practice exams uses several of the same questions word-for-word, so I might be out of practice exams now.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    Oh hey, I should see if they have a clean version of the mangled.... oh what the fuck.



  • Well don't just stand there, call up these clowns and get them to correct their obviously shitty and wrong question.


  • Garbage Person

    There are certifications for testing? Interesting.

    Incidentally, I'm considering going back to school and having WtfCorp pay for it.

    I'm at the career growth point where the only options for movement are 'go backwards (imposter syndrome says this)', 'get a PMP and become reviled' and 'get an MBA and become a lizard'.

    Even if I quit the shit out of WtfCorp before the timeout period, I only have to pay back the original balance - no interest.



  • I'm at the point where the only thing I've ever been even slightly good at in my entire fucking useless life is computers, and I hate them and everybody else who loves them.


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    @dse said:

    Was it now, we had many many more footage.

    Here's what 99% of the footage would be:

    • A vertical video
    • of someone going "omg bro a tank lol selfie time"
    • shaky camera running after tank
    • dudebro posing
    • tank approaching "oh shi-"
    • static
    • end of video

  • Garbage Person

    Club membership: 2.

    Although I am good at other things, but they're ways of consuming money by the truckload rather than generating it.

    And computers aren't inherently awful. The people involved in them are properly the objects of hatred


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    @Weng said:

    There are certifications for testing? Interesting.

    Yeah. The syllabus carves out a pretty decent set of knowledge, but so far everything about the training course I took, the textbook for it, and the exam itself are crap. A lot of testers rail against ever taking the exam because it isn't "useful" for "Real-world applications" because it tends to assume ideal conditions, but to me, having the knowledge of how to do testing well can then inform your decisions when you're forced to do it badly due to real-world conditions, so I've enjoyed learning about new test design techniques and whatnot.

    I just hate taking the exams. Though apparently I"m allowed a non-programmable calculator and some scratch paper, so that might help. Last time I got a few wrong because of mental math.


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    @Weng said:

    Status: This student loan is like fucking cancer. This is month three of "YOU OWE US A FEW CENTS BECAUSE OF ACCRUED INTEREST ON LAST MONTH'S A FEW CENTS OF ACCRUED INTEREST ON THE PREVIOUS MONTH'S FEW CENTS!"

    1. Call them up and ask them "how much do I pay you to end this right now." Send them that amount OR
    2. Write them a check for $5. Eventually they'll send you an overage check for $4.98. Or they won't, and it's $5 well spent.


  • The computers are awful because the people in charge of them are awful. And what's worse, the people who used to be the good guys (like Apple) are now the bad guys.

    There's actually less recognizance that usability is a desirable attribute of software than there was 20 years ago, now the whole world is divided between software that's impossible for normal people to fucking use and will never get better, and tiny walled gardens that remove people's agency and creativity and make them into passive TV-like zombies.

    There's kids like Ben L who are firmly in the "fuck users" camp, despite being raised in the golden era where it looked like things were actually improving. Somehow people are backsliding straight into the 70s, ass-first, and people like me are just forced to re-live this shit all over again and smile and pretend it's perfectly ok that brand new shiny languages like Go have worse developer tools today in 2016 than Microsoft Basic had in 1986.

    I just can't even articulate how terrible this all is. Any passion I once had, any belief I once had that computers might make the world better is just completely gone forever.

    But hey what else am I going to do? I can't do math. I can't draw or paint or compose or sing or dance. I can't live on a manual labor salary, despite a manual labor job sounding like paradise to me at the moment.

    The one line in Office Space that resonates with me the most is when he's talking to the counselor early in the movie, and he says, "since I started this office job, each day of my life has been worse than the day that came before it. Which means, every day of my life is also the worst day of my life."

    Of course I also have faulty brain-juices, so who knows how much of this is me actually having a reason for feeling useless and depressed and how much is just my defective brain being defective as usual.


  • Garbage Person

    If it extends beyond this month, I'll do #2. (I actually did #1 for the initial payoff. They were wrong.)

    For now it's an extra 30 seconds on the monthly bill payment routine (which I usually do at work anyway, I'm just doing it today because I'm procrastinating on other matters).

    Given at 6.8% interest, I should accrue precisely dick on 2 cents in 30 days...


  • Garbage Person

    Bizarre as this sounds, Bullshit Lame Enterprise LOB Software isn't that bad. A significant amount of it is .net. The software exists to please pointy-haired morons, so we have to take into account at least some usability for their sakes, and it's largely static - you can happily ignore alleged progress in the rest of the shithoused industry and calcify your projects.

    The problem is that, if you aren't a hardcore capitalist, you're not going to be able to twit the "I am making the world better!" itch.

    My desire to continue progressing is partially rooted in a desire to continue getting farther away from the dumbshit-treadmill. If I can manage projects and/or people, I can abstract myself away from the death spiral of IT as a whole.



  • More power to you. I want to get out entirely.

    In addition to the other 50 things I can't do, add-on "manage people".



  • I'm in a weird camp. Internally I classify myself in the same camp - it's the only thing I'm good at, and I'm at the shitty end of the spectrum out there in PHP land. Though it's not the voted-by-TDWTF worst language ever, which was MUMPS, so that's something.

    The problem is take several parts damaged self worth, sprinkle a dash of "hey you're good at x" from people whose knowledge of x is... questionable and wonder why when you try x yourself, you find you actually suck at it, just slightly less than other people. The real mindfuck is when the "you're really good at x" people are better than you at it but refuse to acknowledge it.

    I wish I knew how to fix this industry, or failing that, fix the people that seem to be broken in the industry so then maybe the industry would get fixed anyway.



  • Status: So, I'm looking at some Javascript modules for Node and there's this guy posting on a forum:

    "Hey, I'm usually pulling these modules into my applications and the boilerplate code started to annoy me, so I wrote this module so you can use all the other modules in 4 easy lines! Just use npm install --save xxx-yyy, insert these four lines and you're done and can start developing!"

    Yeah. The npm command returns a 404 for this module (all other modules install just fine, this joker seems to have forgotten something - he probably got confused because he sometimes refers to his module as xxx-yyy and sometimes as yyy-xxx).

    Okay, but he has a Github repo, thus I can simply install from there! Um, no. As it turns out: Installing per Github pulls in all the dependencies but not the actual code for the module itself.

    Last try: His repo has the source code right there and it's a single file. Simply copy&paste that, reference it correctly... no errors so far.

    Hmmh, now for his vaunted "4 lines!"

    Err in UnholyDepthsOfNodeModules, line 1456:177: Object required
    

    Ah, forget it.

    Moron.


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