The Official Status Thread
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I wrote a heartbeat Chrome extension that pops a toaster if it can't fetch a given intranet URL (and a different toaster if it can't fetch a given extranet URL).
I hope you called it ServerCooties.
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Apparently my web hosting package includes private git repositories and even continuous integration. This was never advertised; it's just some cPanel functionality I stumbled into.
Knowing my hosting provider is very , it's probably just an OOTB feature of cPanel.
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@error I also have the opposite problem. On a laptop with a small screen, the big black speech boxes Outlook 365 uses for notifications don't have a close button and don't go away on their own. The only way to keep reading the e-mail under them is to click the text and close the mail item it opens. Having to use a trackpad, especially on a laptop, to do this is an endless source of frustration.
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Status: just found the WTF.
Writing a SQL where clause on a web client, using JavaScript. Concatenating that where clause to a reporting query on the server side.
Now I need to figure out how to parse this stupid string and get an actual parameter out of the goddamned stupid where clause my code is about to get thrown in its face.
Great, I have two options: T-SQL and the small fragment of Visual Basic SSRS includes. I sense pain in my future.
Update: Of course, I didn't expect parser combinators in either... but no regex? I'll have to imperatively consume a string with a (slightly) varying format to parse out the values I need. Using T-SQL. Lots of fun.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
a heartbeat Chrome extension
The web browser has truly replaced the operating system...
Yes?
Us don’t consider this a good thing.
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**Statis:**apparently the Readynas has suffered a degrade. So I pull the disk.
Now this happened.![0_1588107351732_15881073152418052119226919464732.jpg](Uploading 84%)
What the fuck...
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Status: Since I returned about a month ago, I finally decided to check my reputation rank on the forum. After two years away, I'm still at number 2.
Suck it, @Luhmann!
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@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just found the WTF.
Writing a SQL where clause on a web client, using JavaScript. Concatenating that where clause to a reporting query on the server side.
Now I need to figure out how to parse this stupid string and get an actual parameter out of the goddamned stupid where clause my code is about to get thrown in its face.
Great, I have two options: T-SQL and the small fragment of Visual Basic SSRS includes. I sense pain in my future.
Update: Of course, I didn't expect parser combinators in either... but no regex? I'll have to imperatively consume a string with a (slightly) varying format to parse out the values I need. Using T-SQL. Lots of fun.
I.. uh... ow.
Godspeed. May the Lord have mercy on your soul.
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Picked up an old game project I've had sitting dormant for a few years. Ew, I need to start this thing over.
Incidentally, I've heard that this actually a good sign: it means you've improved significantly from when you originally wrote the code.
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This rep though, this warms the cockles:
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@abarker said in The Official Status Thread:
After two years away, I'm still at number 2.
It's interesting how much reputation rank some former members still have after having been missing for years.
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@M_Adams Almost 30x worse than his next closest competitor, FoxBox, who may have been one of his short-lived alts. That's impressive.
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@abarker
Only reputation that excludes the Likes Thread is true reputation
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Nice round number.
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Status: Amazon wants me to provide feedback on some oatmeal sample that they supposedly sent me. I didn't receive any oatmeal sample, or any previous notification that I would be receiving one
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Nice round number.
The
1
is not; in fact, it's rather pointy.
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So that school network I mentioned applying to, the one with the seriously slanted application questions? Got a callback with one of their schools in Phoenix. Still have tons of reservations (no, not the Navajo kind, those are further away in AZ), but beggars and choosers. A phone interview is pretty cheap, after all.
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@Captain I once had to rewrite a VB5 application in T-SQL so believe me when I say I feel your pain.
Status: Just found out, today, that a hiring freeze on March 17th squashed three positions I applied for back in February. The "tests" were graded between the freeze and the silent "announcement." Yet, for some reason, they opened a development manager position in the same department as one of those three last week. We can't do transfers to positions with work to do but we can increase management staffing? Wow...careful what you wish for when you talk about running like a business...
Note: only applying to management so I can work around my almost assuredly retarded subordinates
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck...
Just a friendly reminder to test your backups, folks!
You do have backups, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You do have backups, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You do have backups, right?
Yes. BTDT. Backups have saved me when I lost my primary disk (I think it was mechanical failure). If you've got decent backup software, all you need to do is make sure the machine can see the backup disk and let it get on with it. Tada! Bacon status: now saved.
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Status: You have successfully installed Java.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
If you've got decent backup software,
Hah!
So, this unit is the first on-site backup, and unfortunately it (probably) is the only location for a not-insignificant amount of (to me, inconsequential) data.
As for the online backup... Heh, I'm not even sure if that's even running, much less still there. Not paying bills tends to cause problems with longevity...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Got a callback with one of their schools in Phoenix.
You could team up with @Tsaukpaetra.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Got a callback with one of their schools in Phoenix.
You could team up with @Tsaukpaetra.
We could form up with I think it was @abarker and make a WTF coalition.
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Status: Google Meet finally allows disabling all video cams! My mobile data is saved!
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I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out why the audio suddenly sounded like shit.
It turns out Spotify was playing a non-studio (live) recording.
But I did figure out that my center and left sound channels have been swapped for god-knows how long.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Google Meet finally allows disabling all video cams! My mobile data is saved!
And you don't need to wear clothes anymore!
Filed under: We miss you,
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Google Meet finally allows disabling all video cams! My mobile data is saved!
And you don't need to wear clothes anymore!
Well, I never had, because I never enabled mine. The difference is that I don't have to see what I wasn't looking at anyway.
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New team keeps giving me assignments with extremely vague requirements (e.g. "Implement rich text functionality in foo component.")
Then coming back with bugs like "this shouldn't allow linebreaks" and "user should not be able to enter more than 200 characters." These requirements are not specified anywhere, to my knowledge.
I'm guessing (hoping) the original components had some formally specified requirements, but I've never seen them. Shit keeps getting kicked back to me during testing with requirements I never knew were in-scope.
It doesn't help that I don't get to actually communicate with the ticket submitter; and, I think the person entering the tickets is usually not the person making the request. It's a game of requirements telephone.
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@error
Please to do the needful. Including all those other needfuls we didn't tell you about.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
you don't need to wear clothes anymore!
I do, because my son is in the room with me.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
you don't need to wear clothes anymore!
I do, because my son is in the room with me.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It doesn't help that I don't get to actually communicate with the ticket submitter; and, I think the person entering the tickets is usually not the person making the request. It's a game of requirements telephone.
They do this deliberately so you don't develop any sort of working relationship with users. Having also reduced your effectiveness, there's less pushback from them when management brings in some needful doers. Or at least that's the playbook out here.
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Status: Rebooted a VM and all of the sudden...
Uh oh....
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Then coming back with bugs like "this shouldn't allow linebreaks" and "user should not be able to enter more than 200 characters." These requirements are not specified anywhere, to my knowledge.
Solution is to remove these arbitrary restrictions from the back end code.
CLOSED
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Status: it is 5am local and birds are chirping. The sun is not due to dawn for another hour. What the fuck?
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Status: This is spooky. I got one of those Bitcoin ransom e-mails that claims they have webcam footage of you touching yourself. Usually they're just stupid because I'm as far behind on tech trends as BlakeyRat. The spooky part is the password they claim to know is really specific. Like if I was the Tick and they suggested "Spoon!" was my password.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The spooky part is the password they claim to know
Is probably from a really old leak.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The spooky part is the password they claim to know
Is probably from a really old leak.
The ones I get have a password from some job/resume site back in the days before I knew about randomized passwords and not reusing them (so I'm not entirely certain which one of those sites got leaked). Whichever site it was, I've either long ago changed the password and/or not even logged into the site in a decade.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it is 5am local and birds are chirping. The sun is not due to dawn for another hour. What the fuck?
Have you checked the birds' NTP server is still up?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it is 5am local and birds are chirping. The sun is not due to dawn for another hour. What the fuck?
Have you checked the birds' NTP server is still up?
Hmm, I have noticed fewer devices on the network lately...
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Status: As coworkers and I debate going to a pre-release version of our reporting library to see if it fixes a .NET Core upgrade issue we're having, the vendor publishes an official release of the update. Guess that debate is solved.
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Status: Finally filed my taxes. One last bit was a stupid piece of paper from my insurance company - they had sent me that two months ago but for the four different contracts I have with them at once. And I kind of overlooked the part about contract #3 which contained the needed info for tax.
Now, let's see how much of that 1,280€ I'll actually be getting.
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Ugh. Eslint automatically "fixed" a dead store by removing the entire statement.
let foo = bar();
But
bar()
had side-effects! You can't just not call it! Remove the variable declaration, not the call.
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Status: fixing the bugs introduced by eslint
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Still working on mine. They're a fucking mess. I need to be out of business yesterday.
Status: Updating LinkedIn. Really debating whether or not to just make stuff up. I mean so crazy it can't possibly be true, like astronaut cowboy time traveler that invented the question mark. Also clearing out my eBay watch list. Too much stuff that either sold out or would be stupid to buy right now.
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Status: Cleaned the keyboard by removing the keycaps, then washing the caps and vacuuming the board. Re-assembled now. Squeaky clean now, so we won't have a situation like this: