The Official Status Thread
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@mott555 That should be fine. You might want to think about also putting plain text versions of those documents (e.g., just extracting the text content) into a separate FTS table in the database, since then you get to use SQLite's really quite reasonable full text search engine.
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@mott555 Or you could add some netcode to your word processor and rebrand it as a messaging app for COVID-19 crisis, but for writers
I mean, if a writer wants to do a note asking for help, it still has to go through first draft, second draft, editing, have well organized timeline, believable characters and motivations...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Or you could add some netcode to your word processor
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Interview update: went OK. Wasn't a good fit for the company probably. Postponed any further action until global quarantine ends.
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Status: For fuck's sake, Xcode constantly breaking shit. I'm never updating anything again.
Now I can't debug anymore, because apparently they changed something tolldb
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Postponed any further action until global quarantine ends.
This is what I'm worried about with my own job hunt. Not liking the idea of schools closing for the rest of the semester...part of the process is to do a site-visit (a day of interviews, teaching a class, observing classes, etc). That's rather hard to do with everything shut down or out of session. And I still want to be gone by the end of June.
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TL;DR: On the way to TX, 3 days behind schedule and without my dog
Status: Move to TX is not going well. Got back to my (former) apartment in CA late Friday night. Apartment was not boxed up and ready to put into the truck. Maybe 10% packed.
Picked up rental truck Saturday morning. Spent all day getting most of the stuff out of storage unit, in pouring rain — water damage to some of my daughter's stuff — with help from a friend. So much stuff that should have been decluttered years ago, but no time to go through it now; into the truck it goes.
Sunday, watched church service online, then spent the day boxing up the apartment and getting it into the truck, with help from the friend and two ex-brothers-in-law. BILs spent part of the day reloading the truck to optimize available space (probably at the expense of protecting fragile items). Got maybe 40% of the apartment loaded.
Tuesday and Wednesday, continued boxing up stuff and loading the truck. Spent a couple of hours Tuesday morning getting the last bits out of the storage unit and vacating it. As we continued loading the truck, it became increasingly obvious that it was not going to fit. We ended up abandoning a lot of stuff — some fairly new Ikea furniture, as well as an ugly old sofa and armchair we got from my daughter and her boyfriend when she moved back in with me a year and a half ago, and lots of random trash. The apartment complex is going to charge me an arm and a leg for cleaning, but less than the extra rent for the apartment, extra rent for the truck, and loss of salary to stay to clean it ourselves. Dropped the keys through the rent payment slot about midnight.
During my time back in CA, it was apparent, after not seeing him for 4 months, that my dog was not doing well. I had been worried about how he'd handle the stress of the trip since I started planning the move. I became increasingly worried as we packed, especially yesterday; it was obvious that he was in bad shape. Finally, just as we were ready to put him, the food for the trip, and ourselves into the truck, he coughed up blood. So, midnight detour to the emergency vet.
Very labored breathing. Fluid in his lungs. Very critical condition. They could try to diagnose his illness and maybe treat it, but <20% of success, and he might not even survive the diagnosis, let alone the treatment, and it would involve a long animal hospital stay, or we could say goodbye to him. He was old and had a long life during which he was much loved — he would be 14 next month — and under the circumstances, on our way out of town with no place to stay during his hospital stay, no reasonable way to get him after his treatment if we continued our trip, and the very low probability of a successful recovery, it was an obvious, but not easy, decision to let him go last night.
When we went through this with my other dog last June, we FaceTimed with my daughter (who no longer lives with us) through the process (status posts of that , but this time it was 01:00 and she was asleep and not answering her phone. My son called a couple of friends, one of whom was still awake and went through it with us.
We finally got on the road somewhere around 02:00. Because of the late hour, we only made about a half hour of driving before finding a motel for what was left of the night, but that was delayed by a Highway Patrol inspection. A half mile before the exit for the motel, there's a truck weigh station, which, somewhat surprisingly, was open that time of night, and we got directed to pull around for an inspection. No problems; just the inspection sticker was out of date. Finally got to the motel and went to sleep about 03:00, but I did not sleep well.
But at least we're on the way at last.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Literally sick and tired of eating all this moldy food.
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status 11a, time for a (parent) company meeting. Log into webex. Call 800 number (because audio is separate). Please enter your pin. Uh. The one you got when you pre-registered. Oops. They forgot to send out that info. New time: 11:30, waiting on connection info...
edit: off to Zoom!
editedit: Maximum 1000 users reached. You no join.
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other status: Um designers... Why is "disabled" such a hard concept? If you want a hint how to enable the button popup when you click on a disabled button, then it's not disabled.
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@Benjamin-Hall My university has a job board where companies post (usually pretty decent) job offers for junior developers. Usually it got 2-3 offers per day on average. So far this week it's gotten... zero.
Yeah, it's not a good time to be searching for a new job.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No one to have sex with during the quarantine. I don't know how you guys do it!
I relocated to a girlfriend's house for the weekend.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No one to have sex with during the quarantine. I don't know how you guys do it!
I relocated to a girlfriend's house for the weekend.
Just remember, 1.5m (5ft)
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Status: Now set to work from home starting tomorrow through the end of the month.
Not because of the Coronavirus, but because the primary client for which I would do work has already blown through their monthly project budget, most other clients work are either handled by my boss (as subject matter expert) or my junior (at first because my plate was too full, now he's the "subject matter expert"), and because I'm honestly due some sort of time off.
Despite the fact I'm an introvert, I'm gonna go crazy by the end of next week being a shut-in.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No one to have sex with during the quarantine. I don't know how you guys do it!
I relocated to a girlfriend's house for the weekend.
Just remember, 1.5m (5ft)
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Just remember, 1.5m (5ft)
Are we already getting social distance inflation? Wasn't it only a meter?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Just remember, 1.5m (5ft)
Are we already getting social distance inflation? Wasn't it only a meter?
I thought it was 2, personally, but then again that's my normal personal bubble, so...
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@mott555 I would love to hear more about this homebrew^1 word processor. Have any screenshots?
^1: When I tell people I wrote my own inventory/financial software^2, they look at me like I have two heads.
^2: Of course, right now it's practically disassembled in the garage, but no worse than most "production-ready" systems I've seen...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I would love to hear more about this homebrew^1 word processor. Have any screenshots?
I wrote a blog post about it...wow, a long time ago...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Literally sick and tired of eating all this moldy food.
Most of the time, the cheese I eat has killed the mold though...
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Status: Got a reference!
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Status: now that's taken care of, I can resume obsessing about Death Stranding
I want to pave all the roads from Lake Knot City and build bridges over the BT-infested hills leading to Port Knot City.
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Status: 3 hours until I can wake up in the morning to see I got 13th place Blacksmith because I didn’t skip raid night.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Just remember, 1.5m (5ft)
Are we already getting social distance inflation? Wasn't it only a meter?
I thought it was 2, personally, but then again that's my normal personal bubble, so...
Like everything else, different places different guidelines. I think it's been 1.5 here all along.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I would love to hear more about this homebrew^1 word processor. Have any screenshots?
I wrote a blog post about it...wow, a long time ago...
Nothing says "my custom software" better than a window captioned "MainWindow".
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Status: Questioning my own judgement after @mott555 called February 2019 "a long time ago".
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Status:
No fever whatsoever.
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@Applied-Mediocrity
Just gas?
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@Luhmann If you must know... yes.
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Status:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6hY_50Dh0
Don't mind the home office per se, but I have some things that I need to get done and it. Just. Doesn't. Work.
Cleanly re-installed a bunch of things and recompiled everything. Now at least the debugger doesn't crash anymore but instead uses 100% CPU continuously. Ok, whatever. But I'm getting random crashes in code that has always worked before, and in typical Heisenbug style only sometimes appearing when a debugger is attached. Even then it doesn't actually break into the debugger when it crashes, but at one point it appeared that the stack frame was in the assigment operator of
QString
. Which quite definitely isn't an actual bug.
I'm almost certain there's no actual bug but some library / ABI mismatch somewhere that causes this weird behavior, but I have no idea why. Everything should be clean.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Questioning my own judgement after @mott555 called February 2019 "a long time ago".
I misread it and thought it was from 2018.
EDIT: It is from 2018. NodeBB's onebox thingy is very wrong.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing says "my custom software" better than a window captioned "MainWindow".
The EXE is still called WpfApp1.exe, too.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Questioning my own judgement after @mott555 called February 2019 "a long time ago".
I misread it and thought it was from 2018.
EDIT: It is from 2018. NodeBB's onebox thingy is very wrong.
Status: Questioning my own judgement after @mott555 called September 2018 "a long time ago".
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
^1: When I tell people I wrote my own inventory/financial software^2, they look at me like I have two heads.
So, uh, I have another confession...my accounting is currently done in an SQLite database using SQLite Browser...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
^1: When I tell people I wrote my own inventory/financial software^2, they look at me like I have two heads.
So, uh, I have another confession...my accounting is currently done in an SQLite database using SQLite Browser...
Am I the crazy one for considering changing over to that sort of system?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
^1: When I tell people I wrote my own inventory/financial software^2, they look at me like I have two heads.
So, uh, I have another confession...my accounting is currently done in an SQLite database using SQLite Browser...
Am I the crazy one for considering changing over to that sort of system?
It's free, it works better than the Excel spreadsheet I began with, and you have the firepower of a fully-armed and operational
battlestationSQL to get basic reporting data from it.
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@mott555 Currently I've got a Google spreadsheet that I haven't updated in ages, and a text file that I keep open and add my bills, due dates, etc as I get and pay them
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@hungrier I only use it for my writing/publish stuff, which generally only amounts to a few transactions per month (advertising bills and sometimes royalty income). I need to track all that for tax purposes. Everything outside of that, well, .
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@error THE S IN STRAND STANDS FOR STRAND!!!
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Weirdly, the command succeeded, despite the scary error message.
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@error That's what I was fighting over in the Win10 thread yesterday. I ended up having to VPN/RDP into a workstation in the office and use its VirtualBox, because VirtualBox on my laptop simply doesn't work anymore.
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Something kinda-sorta related: I've put a vnc server on the computer that'll hopefully soon become my home file/media server, and had to fiddle with the setup a bit in order to get anything but a blank grey screen. But now I can at least move files around without having to plug in and turn on the monitor that's connected to the thing.
Next step: figuring out how to mount/setup the permissions for the external RAID enclosure so that a) Plex can see it, b) I can put a network share on it, and c) eventually get sabnzbd, Sonarr, etc working with it as well
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Rate my Canadian activity: using maple syrup to flavour my soda
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Rate my Canadian activity: using maple syrup to flavour my soda
Not unless you stir it with a miniature hockey stick.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I didn't stir it so much as roll the closed bottle around with syrup in it. Maybe if I had a hockey stick I could slapshot it around in my garage or something, but that sounds like a lot of unnecessary work
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm gonna go crazy by the end of next week being a shut-in.
This is where meetings actually help! (zoom/ringcentral video conf) Yeah. We have way too many meetings. This work-from-home thing hasn't changed anything.
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Status: I found 5 toilet paper rolls I had in a drawer. That should last me a few months, which is hopefully enough for all the hoarders to finish filling their entire apartments with toilet paper and stop buying more, at which point prices will drop and I can buy more.