The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Nnnnoooooooooo!!!!!!
Ffuuuccccccckkk, it's working on me!
But for $5/mo I get effectively $20 equivalent in rewards, so....
argggh! Brain! Stop it!
My offer's still available!
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Nnnnoooooooooo!!!!!!
Ffuuuccccccckkk, it's working on me!
But for $5/mo I get effectively $20 equivalent in rewards, so....
argggh! Brain! Stop it!
My offer's still available!
Sure, sure, but... would it honestly be any better? I honestly can't think of any potential result that wouldn't get me put on a list....
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith
For some reason, the coders never like the answer "yes, your code" to the SIWWTD diagnosisTrue, it is easy to conflate data model problems and bad queries with actual DB tuning problems. And usually I too will use the DB qualifier when the problem is in a phase of the process which communicates with the DB, rather than something entirely contained within our own process (like reading data from disk, or running the business engine).
And even in cases like now, when it was actually a DB tuning problem, I end up staying involved all the way to resolution because our interaction with the DB is just so tight, and the folks which can help approach that from the other end are so approachable.
I reserve the 'it's not on our end it's on your end' throw it over the wall attitude for the network folks. I'm still convinced they have performance problems they're shovelling under the carpet.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
I reserve the 'it's not on our end it's on your end' throw it over the wall attitude for the network folks. I'm still convinced they have performance problems they're shovelling under the carpet.
I suspect that the core of the problem there may be networks not actually working in the ways that the network people like to pretend that they do. TCP hides most of the sins, but UDP (which I've been doing a lot of in recent years) absolutely does not. Except that it does; raw ethernet frames are way worse because of the horror that is ARP and the lovely fact that the length of the frame header isn't a multiple of four…
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Status: Back at work after my day off to go to the most inconvenient hospital in the region for MRI. So now my brain has gotten a thorough scan, actually two as they did one without contrast and one with. Also the most overkill patching up after having a needle in my arm by putting a full bandage around the wound when a simple bandaid would have been enough. Also, we now have Covid-19 confirmed in the region. Time to start panic etc...
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Also the most overkill patching up after having a needle in my arm by putting a full bandage around the wound when a simple bandaid would have been enough.
Yeah, I noticed that the last time I got some blood drawn. Whatever, I just walk out and take it off by the time I'm out the door anyways...
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@Tsaukpaetra Also the solution (either the contrast or the saline) didn't taste that good. Which is exciting because they injected it into my arm, but triggered my taste receptors. Bodies are weird.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, we now have Covid-19 confirmed in the region. Time to start panic etc...
Self-isolate ASAP. If nothing else, it's a brilliant excuse for not going to meetings.
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Status: Did some refactoring that should have caused no functional differences. However, tests showed that different results were produced. Hmm, numerical discrepancies on the order of 1e-10 that I can totally ignore, but due to what I changed, this shouldn't be possible.
"Fuck, that's going to be hell to debug."
Then I realized that I'm an idiot (ok, I realized that long ago, but not relevant to the particular incident) and I had changed the compiler settings in the meantime, so optimization and rounding may be different. Run the old code again with the new compiler settings and it produces the same results as the new code.
Phew! Nothing to see here, then.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
argggh! Brain! Stop it!
*sigh*
Reboots @Tsaukpaetra again
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Did some refactoring that should have caused no functional differences. However, tests showed that different results were produced. Hmm, numerical discrepancies on the order of 1e-10 that I can totally ignore, but due to what I changed, this shouldn't be possible.
"Fuck, that's going to be hell to debug."@error_bot xkcd e to the pi Minus pi
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@error Yeah, I forgot it was Patch Tuesday. I came back to my computer this morning and it was asking some of the new install questions again. :P
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error: ’foo’ function uses ‘auto’ type specifier without trailing return type
What the hell is going on? Looks at command line:
g++ -c -pipe -std=c++17 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -g -std=gnu++11 ...
Goddamnit!
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Also the solution (either the contrast or the saline) didn't taste that good. Which is exciting because they injected it into my arm, but triggered my taste receptors. Bodies are weird.
The contrast solution sets by ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. Other than that I just feel slightly warm.
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Status: Two scammers/robocallers called me at the exact same time. I wish I knew how to answer both and put them in a conference call with each other.
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Status: So, I tried out an elderly friend of the family yesterday because her computer would not play nice anymore.
The "computer" is about 10 years old and, if I remember correctly, was on the low range of the power spectrum even back then. One of those netbooks. Single-core Atom, 1 GB of RAM and 64GB eMMC.
I'm honestly impressed that it managed to update to Windows 10 (via Win 8, by the way). It might even have run (she's the patient type) but she also managed to pick up several things which. made. everything. slow. as. molasses.
So I advised her to chuck the damn thing out of the window and get something from this millenium. She was adamant on wanting something small so I pointed her towards the Surface Go line.
She liked that just fine so she asked me if I could help her to buy that right now. Okay, I said, where's your credit card?
To which she handed me her debit card.
Ergh, then we'll have to see what other options the Microsoft Store provides for paying without a CC? And it does - two different types of paying via debit. Both of which require you to login into your online bank account. Which, of course, she never setup.
I finally wrote down the name of everything she would need to buy and told her to get to the nearest German equivalent of Best Buy.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
I tried out an elderly friend of the family yesterday
I mean, whatever floats your boat...
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@Rhywden: I assume the thing called "debit card" in Germany is something other than "a bank-issued card you can use to pay for stuff with money you have in your account"? Otherwise, I don't understand why you'd need to login into your bank account for it to work.
("credit card" and "debit card" seem to have various meanings and usage depending on which country you're in. Here they're all called "credit cards", but most of them allow you to spend only money you actually have)
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
The contrast solution sets by ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. Other than that I just feel slightly warm.
I too could set your ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. And make you feel slightly warm.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
The contrast solution sets by ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. Other than that I just feel slightly warm.
I too could set your ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. And make you feel slightly warm.
Put the taser away...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Two scammers/robocallers called me at the exact same time. I wish I knew how to answer both and put them in a conference call with each other.
Answer one. Put on hold. Answer second. There should now be an option to join the calls where the hold option was.
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Status: Will be working from home henceforth. No sense in catching covid19 if I don't need to…
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
The contrast solution sets by ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. Other than that I just feel slightly warm.
I too could set your ballsack off into a mad crawly routine. And make you feel slightly warm.
Put the taser away...
We've got better-controlled devices anyways.
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@Zerosquare German debit cards deduct the money straight from your account. If your account has no money it usually fails. Debit cards also have no methodology in place for them to be used online.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare German debit cards deduct the money straight from your account. If your account has no money it usually fails. Debit cards also have no methodology in place for them to be used online.
Come to the
darkVisa side. It usually works just fine.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Will be working from home henceforth. No sense in catching covid19 if I don't need to…
WTFHelpdesk is graciously allowing 50% of each helpdesk we have to work from home, starting Monday, because they don't want to "potentially overstress the remote work systems". I.E. They either don't have enough VPN licenses for everyone or they haven't bothered load-testing the VPN servers and are worried they'll fall over if everyone starts working from home at once.
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Status: Preparations are ramping up for us to go online only for 2 weeks after spring break (if necessary). I hope not, because that'll suck badly. Looks like we'll use Zoom...like everybody else. What are the chances of it failing under the load? My starting bet is at 95% for at least one significant interruption/technical failure. Not to mention all the kid-side technical difficulties.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
. I.E. They either don't have enough VPN licenses for everyone or they haven't bothered load-testing the VPN servers and are worried they'll fall over if everyone starts working from home at once.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparations are ramping up for us to go online only for 2 weeks after spring break (if necessary). I hope not, because that'll suck badly. Looks like we'll use Zoom...like everybody else. What are the chances of it failing under the load? My starting bet is at 95% for at least one significant interruption/technical failure. Not to mention all the kid-side technical difficulties.
Zoom seems ok... We’ve had up to 20 people on one meeting, multiple times.
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparations are ramping up for us to go online only for 2 weeks after spring break (if necessary). I hope not, because that'll suck badly. Looks like we'll use Zoom...like everybody else. What are the chances of it failing under the load? My starting bet is at 95% for at least one significant interruption/technical failure. Not to mention all the kid-side technical difficulties.
Zoom seems ok... We’ve had up to 20 people on one meeting, multiple times.
Not tons of people in one meeting. More like tons of meetings. It's become the defacto Coronavirus "online education delivery" platform for universities, school districts, plus the usual. That's a huge load at peak times on their servers. So we alone at my (small) school would have 600+ people logging in for 8 hours a day, switching meetings every hour. Assuming they just keep things the same of course.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Debit cards also have no methodology in place for them to be used online.
@error_bot giphy wat
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Not tons of people in one meeting. More like tons of meetings.
Tomayto, tomato...
I would think server load for, eg: 2 meetings 10 people, would be roughly the same as 10 with 2.
But then again
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Not tons of people in one meeting. More like tons of meetings.
Tomayto, tomato...
I would think server load for, eg: 2 meetings 10 people, would be roughly the same as 10 with 2.
But then again
What about overhead? I figure that there's some fixed cost for one meeting, plus an additional load per participant. Our classes are small, only about 20 people max. But what about the college courses with 200-600 (or more) people in them? We're talking millions of additional participants slamming the servers over a 2 week period.
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That may actually cause servers to and cootify...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare German debit cards deduct the money straight from your account. If your account has no money it usually fails.
OK, this makes sense...
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Debit cards also have no methodology in place for them to be used online.
...in freaking 2020?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, I noticed that the last time I got some blood drawn. Whatever, I just walk out and take it off by the time I'm out the door anyways...
Since I'm on a blood thinner, I have to wait a little longer than that... By the time I drive to work, it comes off. (about 1/2hr)
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Also the solution (either the contrast or the saline) didn't taste that good. Which is exciting because they injected it into my arm, but triggered my taste receptors. Bodies are weird.
At least they warn you about that.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparations are ramping up for us to go online only for 2 weeks after spring break (if necessary). I hope not, because that'll suck badly. Looks like we'll use Zoom...like everybody else. What are the chances of it failing under the load? My starting bet is at 95% for at least one significant interruption/technical failure. Not to mention all the kid-side technical difficulties.
I was just on a RingCentral call (working at home due to an afternoon off-site meeting that is 5mi from my house vs 20mi to work). And the client crashed in the middle. My bet would agree with yours. Maybe with some more 9s tho.
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
That may actually cause servers to and cootify...
: Sorry Dave. I can't do that. I have virus.
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
Tomayto, tomato...
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Status: Seems my new Taco doesn't like the rain as much as my old one did.
Oh well...
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I found a LttP randomizer that actually rearranges dungeon layouts, and finally it feels more roguelike.
I wish Nintendo would make an official Zelda Maker (a la Mario Maker). I wonder if I would have an easier time doing ROM hacks or just writing a Zelda clone engine.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare German debit cards deduct the money straight from your account. If your account has no money it usually fails. Debit cards also have no methodology in place for them to be used online.
Meanwhile, Swedish debit cards are typically issued by Visa and Mastercard and work like a regular credit card for all purposes, except for pulling/reserving the money directly from your account instead of a credit.
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Anybody want to start working on a Zelda remake in JS with me?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Debit cards also have no methodology in place for them to be used online.
@error_bot giphy wat
The problem probably stems from the fact that they're directly linked to your bank account. They rather work like cash withdrawals in that regard so I can see why banks are loathe to make them directly accessible over the internet.
Large providers like Amazon and intermediary services like PayPal usual offer direct debit from your bank account - that's completely independent of your card, however.