The Official Status Thread
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand April fools jokes. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of humor theory most of the jokes will go over a typical reader's head.
I was very confused when I first started reading this morning. Of course, I was just starting my first cup of coffee, so I do have an excuse. Then I remember what today is.
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Status: Microsoft Teams is fucking garbage. After two hours of trying, in vain, to save a message in any possible way, I'm convinced it's to hide incompetence/wrongdoing from the sort of discovery that e-mail is subject to.
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Stupid incoming conference call made me forfeit my ranked Hearthstone match.
Yes, I know Hearthstone sucks but there's no proper MtG on Android.
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@dcon I usually procrastinate until around the last week. It's really the schedule C that's a pain and then mostly because of how screwed up the wind down has been. This year accelerated my timetable because I've only had every third day at home.
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@Zenith Seriously, who the fuck thought "hey, what if we did forums, except every thread is open so you have to scroll for miles, but any post longer than 20 words has the remainder hidden, and the scrollbar isn't a native scrollbar so it's broken in almost every scenario?" and greenlit this festering abortion?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon I usually procrastinate until around the last week. It's really the schedule C that's a pain and then mostly because of how screwed up the wind down has been. This year accelerated my timetable because I've only had every third day at home.
If I have to pay, so do I... This year was unusual!
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From the photograph of a printout on a wooden table department:
Anime Export posted that Japan Post suspended international mail. A URL was provided...drawn as text on a bitmap. But wait, there's more! The URL takes you to a page that's in Japanese. When translated, it contains a link to a PDF listing the affected countries. And that PDF is basically scanned moon runes. So now I can't clear out the last of my stuff sitting in a Japanese warehouse...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
From the photograph of a printout on a wooden table department:
Anime Export posted that Japan Post suspended international mail. A URL was provided...drawn as text on a bitmap. But wait, there's more! The URL takes you to a page that's in Japanese. When translated, it contains a link to a PDF listing the affected countries. And that PDF is basically scanned moon runes. So now I can't clear out the last of my stuff sitting in a Japanese warehouse...
Did they post this today?
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@PleegWat Today here or yesterday there. Not worried about the delay, just thought the way they posted was stupid. This graphic replaces the graphic that says they welcome wholesale orders but the link goes to their TransFormers selection instead of anything related to wholesale.
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Status: Strongly considering selecting "Beeper"...
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Made a Lorena Bobbitt joke at work today, nobody got it.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
Made a Lorena Bobbitt joke at work today, nobody got it.
Chopped your joke real short, didn't it?
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@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
Made a Lorena Bobbitt joke at work today, nobody got it.
Welcome to the club!
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Status: Adding new word to dictionary.
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Status: Implemented QoS to (hopefully, calculations permitting) force YouTube/Netflix/etc to be max 720p (except myself and the main TV). Because I'm getting annoyed at my RDP connection getting dropped because everyone is self-isolating at home.
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Exactly what I needed. My AC just went out. Not the same problem I've had before--not freezing up, but the compressor won't start. Hopefully just a capacitor. Why can't these things happen during the normal business hours?
And I'm supposed to have a showing tomorrow.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
My AC just went out.
Just open a window
I did. And it's actually pretty cool outside (64F). But that means paying a huge price: death by tree pollen. My plan is to let it cool down enough to sleep, then close the windows and use fans to minimize the time exposed to tree poison.
Fortunately I have a service agreement with my AC guys and they can send someone out tomorrow by 10am. The last service call said that one of the capacitors was weak. I'm hoping that's what this is, because that's cheap and easy to fix.
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Status: Starting tomorrow, it's work from home for me, as per the latest guidelines from the government. So I'll have to bring my work laptop home, and other misc stuff, and prepare to do my work from the comfort of the sofa. Sadly it will also mean the end of the free lunches I've enjoyed while working from work.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
free lunches I've enjoyed while working from work
Home lunches are also free. You just have to buy the products and make them, then you can enjoy them for free
Filed under: FSF logic
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Status: Giving a software presentation next week, and due to continued shenanigans with my Mac development environment will present it in a Windows VM instead. A 3D OpenGL context in a VM (and its graphics driver weirdness) sent over screensharing, that's going to be fun.
I've just tested it. Zoom let's you pick a virtual desktop to share and the available options are either the whole VM screen with a cutout where the 3D graphics are supposed to be, or just the graphics region without the rest. Not sure if there's an option to just share whatever I see instead, but that's a No so far.
Also tried WebEx, which crashed a few times before starting, but other than that and raping my CPU it "worked".
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@topspin I think you need more software. HTH, HAND.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin I think you need more software. HTH, HAND.
Maybe I should try downloading more RAM, too?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin I think you need more software. HTH, HAND.
Maybe I should try downloading more RAM, too?
No no, need to compress the RAM, it gets more Megs per Gig.
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@Tsaukpaetra @error_bot !xkcd kilobyte
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It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file with linebreaks in the data yet?
Spoiler!
No.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file
with linebreaks in the datayet?BWAHAHA, good one!
Consider yourself lucky you're probably using English locale, so at least you don't have to force it to not completely fuck up the data.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file
with linebreaks in the datayet?BWAHAHA, good one!
Consider yourself lucky you're probably using English locale, so at least you don't have to force it to not completely fuck up the data.
OK. "csv" is not a requirement for me. My requirements are "PHB needs to click on it and see the data in Excel with no extra steps" and "I can dump the data into a file without needing a library for encoding" (i.e. not a binary format).
Is there a better option?
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@error I was only commenting on Excel's CSV import sucking, not offering any better alternatives. That would be... too helpful I guess?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I was only commenting on Excel's CSV import sucking, not offering any better alternatives. That would be... too helpful I guess?
As stupid as it sounds, ISTR Excel will open an HTML table with an xls extension just fine.
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Status: Working remotely would be a lot easier if the servers didn't constantly crumble under load.
I can't reach my Jenkins server directly, because it's obviously not routable from the Internet. Connecting to VPN still works, but for some reason I can't reach the server from there anyway. No idea why. Since I'm on VPN already, I tried to use VMware Horizon for an RDP session. Won't load. Okay, how about an NX connection? Doesn't connect either.
Terminal based browser over ssh? No dice. Why??
wget --no-check-certificate https://myjenkinsserver
actually gives me a 403: Forbidden. Um, what?! (Obviously wouldn't help, but I assumed it'd download the login page)That's it, I'll do what I really shouldn't do anymore: Run firefox over ssh with X forwarding! Slow. As. Fuck. But it works.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Run firefox over ssh with X forwarding! Slow. As. Fuck. But it works.
That's basically what Citrix is.
But the application I forward is "Remote Desktop Connection."
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Status: Decided I'll just stop going to the office and see what happens.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
"I can dump the data into a file without needing a library for encoding" (i.e. not a binary format).
If you're using a .NET language, you can use the
ZipFile
class to replace the Worksheet XML file inside a template Excel document with one you create in code with no non-Framework dependencies. There are NuGet packages that make it easier, but since you said "no libraries!", well...@error said in The Official Status Thread:
As stupid as it sounds, ISTR Excel will open an HTML table with an xls extension just fine.
A cat is fine too. By default it will warn you that the extension doesn't match the contents, but who reads dialog boxes anyway?
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@Zenith Probably a bunch of non-locally-sourced apparatchiks asking you to revert back to them each and every explanation the needful has not been done.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
If you're using a .NET language,
I wish.
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
There are NuGet packages that make it easier, but since you said "no libraries!", well...
I'm working with a web interface that lets me write JSP (‍) but doesn't let me add any dependencies not already on the CLASSPATH. It's a web app so I do have HTML encoding libraries, though.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
use the ZipFile class to replace the Worksheet XML file inside a template Excel document
I can't even upload a template document.
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@error You're in luck! And you could keep the individual sub-files you'd need as plain text inside your JSP; none of them have any fancy encoding.
But HTML-masquerading-as-XLS is the more practical path here. It's not even , it's the best business decision.
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@TwelveBaud I can only imagine what the ~500 people not in the office have been doing and it only makes me angrier.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file with linebreaks in the data yet?
Spoiler!
No.Pretty sure the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair on this one:
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Quarantine Status: The shortages are getting dire. I just ran out of pickles.
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@izzion What a pickle!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file with linebreaks in the data yet?
Spoiler!
No.Pretty sure the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair on this one:
What's going on here then?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file with linebreaks in the data yet?
Spoiler!
No.Pretty sure the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair on this one:
What's going on here then?
OMMFG it was the spaces after the commas.
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@error
When opening a CSV, Excel requires that every field be quote encapsulated (especially the first one it finds), or it won't treat any field as quote encapsulated. Which I suppose is technically an Excel "bug", since the CSV spec is "any field may be quoted (with double quotes), fields with a line-break, double-quote, or comma should be quoted", but to me the Excel behavior is the better one and it's generally not hard to get your CSV converter to MUST encapsulate all fields.Edit: Ooooor I hadn't noticed that either, but yeah, CSV shouldn't have spaces between fields lol
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
it's generally not hard to get your CSV converter to MUST encapsulate all fields.
Note it has no way to force quotes.
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@error
Oh well, free software, that's different
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 2020, can Excel correctly read a .csv file with linebreaks in the data yet?
That would break backwards compatibility. Or that unittest that is designed to fail with that input. Or Both.