The Official Status Thread
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@Intercourse said:
Current Status: High winds + trash day = my round, garage trash can is MIA. It is probably a county or two over by now.
I once put a trash can on top of a large box, so the box wouldn't blow away. The trash guys took the can.
Forewarned is half an octopus.
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The trash guys took the can.
You ever try to throw away a trash can? Nearly impossible. Trash guys are too busy to read a note, so they just empty the can and put it back. Now that we have a big recycling can, I can just put it in there, but before that throwing away a trash can was difficult to put it mildly.
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I keep trying to purchase the conveyor belt divider slab at the grocery store but the cashiers keep putting it off to the side! What's up with that?
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Status: helping to diagnose a bug in production that we apparently caught in testing (example of issue was sitting right there in QA) but no one had pointed out devs before last week's big deploy.
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But how would you do that? In C#, string is the same as char[]. It would take a major re-write to make that kind of change.
TRWTF is C# -- in Unicode land, string is not an array of codepoints in most encodings (UCS-4/UTF-32 is the only way to make that guarantee!)
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Like I said--you put a can inside a cardboard box, like something sized to hold a refrigerator. They'll take it--they did to me. Now I'm talking about old-school cans, not the modern ones with wheels that are meant to be picked up my a machine on the back of the truck.
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is there anything wrong with deprecating char in favor of a one-character string?
Depends on how strongly you interpret "wrong."What I don't like about it is that there are a lot of reasonable things that you could want to do that operate only on a single character, and by changing to strings to represent those, you're removing the ability of the type system to distinguish those types (pushing the check to runtime if it's even done at all). Unless you have some crazy language with dependent types that can express "this function takes a string of 10 characters" :-).
Seems OK for a dynamic language because you don't have a type system anyway; but I don't think I'd want it in something like C#.
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Current status: didn't go to Costco yesterday, as planned, since it was mobbed. Went today and completely filled my trunk with beer.
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Seems OK for a dynamic language
Yeah, Python just barfs TypeError at runtime if you try to say
ord()
a multicharacter string.because you don't have a type system anyway
...TypeError says no.but I don't think I'd want it in something like C#.
Perhaps not -- but what alternative would you propose? UCS-4 strings in memory throughout? Achar
type that varies in size depending on what it's holding?
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Current status: depressed about how I'm a .NET developer that is paid to do anything except .NET, and I spend most of my day in a help desk system that's probably one of the worst applications in the world. I spend more brainpower each day dealing with a POS system than I do on what should be the core of my job.
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Status: had my nearly-monthly panic over some critical utility in my 1927 house failing (leaking outside faucet this time), turned out to be a super-easy fix, so all that panic for less than an hour of actual labor and $12 in parts. Feh. Waste of good panic.
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Status: had my nearly-monthly panic over some critical utility in my 1927 house failing (leaking outside faucet this time), turned out to be a super-easy fix, so all that panic for less than an hour of actual labor and $12 in parts. Feh. Waste of good panic.
heh
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Yeah it's hilarious that I'd have paid $600 on my water bill because an outside faucet is leaking like crazy.
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Yeah it's hilarious that I'd have paid $600 on my water bill because an outside faucet is leaking like crazy.
Critical is normally "the hot water heater exploded through the roof like on that episode of Mythbusters" or "a hole opened in the kitchen floor[1]." Expensive normally is not the same thing as critical.
[1] Discovering the contractors left a 2x2x6 foot hole in your floor under the fridge, though, isn't, because they're going to come back out and fix it when you call them.
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But he used "critical" in that comment, so that's what that means now, because he can't be wrong.
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I could argue but I've got this cool new Captain Kirk avatar I can just blast him with.
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Like I said--you put a can inside a cardboard box, like something sized to hold a refrigerator.
Well, you said you put a trash can on top of a box and they mistakenly also took the can. That is how I read it. My point was more about trying to intentionally throw away a trash can.
Also, I buy a refrigerator like once a decade. I throw away a trash can once a year or so. Bit of a discrepancy there.
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@Intercourse said:
Well, you said you put a trash can on top of a box and they mistakenly also took the can. That is how I read it. My point was more about trying to intentionally throw away a trash can.
Well, it was an open box, maybe 2-3 feet on a side and a foot tall? I put the can in the box more than on it, inasmuch as the box was open side up. So in retrospect that was probably a bad idea. My excuse is I was a teenager.
But that leads to if you did the same thing you could probably get rid of it the same way. You can probably get a big box somewhere fairly easy. I know it wasn't actually a refrigerator, I just said it was something like that to give a feel for the size.
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I was just being an asshat. I knew what you meant.
I once left notes for the trash collectors and even spray painted a note on a trash can for them to throw it away. No dice. I finally gave up and hauled it to work and put it in the dumpster there.
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@Intercourse said:
I once left notes for the trash collectors and even spray painted a note on a trash can for them to throw it away. No dice. I finally gave up and hauled it to work and put it in the dumpster there.
That's why my story about them stealing it is ironic--I've heard other people say it's hard to get them to take one on purpose.
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Critical is normally "the hot water heater exploded through the roof like on that episode of Mythbusters" or "a hole opened in the kitchen floor[1]." Expensive normally is not the same thing as critical.
Well fortunately, I don't care what you think.
Status: absolutely nothing to do this evening. Drunk Call of Duty? Maybe. Oh or maybe re-record A Space Adventure with a proper screen capture method.
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Status: I think my Windows 8.1 experiment is done for now. I cannot stand this OS. Off to my office so I can get my Win7 laptop and get some work done instead of trying to trick the OS in to doing what I want it to fucking do.
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Well fortunately, I don't care what you think.
Fortunately, I have better things to do than care whether or not you care.
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It's dandelion and burdock
I disagree @Jaloopa - some root beers are quite like dandelion and burdock but Dr Pepper isn't.
I'd agree with WW Clements though ("It's a different kind of drink with a unique taste all its own") and put it in the set of soft drinks that don't taste like anything found elsewhere along with Vimto and Irn Bru.
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@Intercourse said:
I think my Windows 8.1 experiment is done for now.
What about it don't you like? I've been using it for a couple of weeks now since starting a job where it's standard and I quite like it
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Fortunately, I have better things to do than care whether or not you care.
Such as telling him how little you care.
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Such as telling him how little you care.
Of course! How can he suffer if he doesn't know he's supposed to?
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Just got this in my email. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be but it's kind of terrifying.
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I suspect it's an Assassin's Creed Unity screen shot.
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Irn Bru
But that's so much like the ferric chloride etchant I used to use when making circuit boards…
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ferric chloride
When you absolutely want everything you own to be permanently orange (or have holes...or both).
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Current status: came in this morning to a report of Department Y not having their files processed by their server. I check their server, and it's fine. Then get reports of Department X having the same issue on their server. Check their server, a Windows service needed to be restarted, then it was working fine. After that, Department Y reports that their issue is fixed, as well. So basically Department Y is using both their own server and Department X's server.
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Request from user:
"Can you please grant {user} read only permission for Support (TEST) on server {name-DB01} so we can run queries on {data}?"
First off, Support and Test are COMPLETELY SEPARATE environments.
Second, the server name that they specified doesn't even exist, it's pretty much the most basic components of our naming schema, without any proper detail.
Since this ticket should not be assigned to me, it probably will be, and I'll simply respond, "No."
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Ugh. Someone is using my email address to get password reset requests on just about every website in the world. But at least it's an opportunity to re-collect accounts I've forgotten about and enter them into KeePass.
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Ugh. Someone is using my email address to get password reset requests on just about every website in the world.
Some bimbo thinks she owns my Gmail account and does that every once in a while. I got tired of Pinterest notifications--apparently you don't have to validate your account via an email link--so I requested a password reset and changed it to something random, and now I don't get spammed any longer!
I think I mentioned previously that I almost canceled an order she'd made, but I'm not quite that mean.
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Seems like a lot of us have issues like that.
Current status: contacting a tattoo artist in Pennsylvania with the same name as me since I keep getting emails intended for him.
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I have a friend who's got a domain that's one letter off from another company (bob.com vs bobs.com kind of thing) and he gets confidential stuff including contracts all the time, because these people can't be bothered to correct their customers. If I were him I'd've probably sold them my domain.
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Uh oh, I just got two fraud alert calls on two of my credit cards. Except all the transactions they read off to me were in fact done by me.
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If I were him I'd've probably sold them my domain.
At a significant markup, of course.
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At a significant markup, of course.
Well, duh. Or perhaps held critical emails for
ransomdelivery confirmation.
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Status: just told that the "OMG get this project deployed this week so we can charge for it!!!1!" thing I spent time fixing early this week has conflicts with a later step (outputs # of characters instead of a value for something, later step cuts that kind of something down to 9) and thus is completely not useful to the customer.
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Well, duh. Or perhaps held critical emails for ransomdelivery confirmation.
To: webmaster@bob.com
From: emailprocessing@bobs.comWe have received a confidential contract from {REDACTED} in error. It appears that the contract may have been intended for your company. Since the contract is marked confidential, we do not feel comfortable just sending it to you until we can verify that it is indeed intended for you company. With this in mind, please remit payment for the attached invoice in the amount of $500 for legal fees and email processing so that we can properly handle this matter.
Thank you, and have a great day!
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Status: woke up at 10:00, ate a blueberry bagel, played with Blakeycat.
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Status: Friday morning, at work, about to have a cup of tea
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Current status: wondering if this Buffalo weather is a really intricate Bruce Almighty 2 promo.
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So my blood sugar goes low when I'm stressed/angry. I'm still below 40 mg/dL after eating a calzone meant for 2-3 people.
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calzone isn't going to metabolize quick, go grab a couple sodas (or better yet white rice) and suspend your pump.
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Yeah, I'm waiting for 2 hours from now when I'm 200.