The Official Status Thread
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That should also help fulfill most symbol or length requirements.
Except those broken systems where the date alone would exceed the maximum length.
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Status: remember a couple weeks ago when we finally had the old CS posts ported to this forum? I'm so glad I was wrong when I predicted it'd never actually happen.
Oh wait. No. I guess... I guess Blakeyrat was fucking right. Again.
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Status: Engorging myself on gas station donuts to make up for the fact that I hardly ate yesterday when I was sick.
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Status: Engorging myself on gas station donuts to make up for the fact that I hardly ate yesterday when I was sick.
Next status: Sick again...
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Status: Completed the internal transfer to a different project for a year (it was complicated because HR) and start on that properly next week. I guess I'll be posting ELN and LIMS WTFs for a while…
Bonus Status: colleague brought in some nice Polish dark chocolate.
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Status: Reading up on the new shiny in C# 6. A lot of it is good, but I can see Primary Constructors causing confusion. And Static Using Statements is making my quills twitch. Declaration Expressions are cool though
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Status: Bored out of my gizzards while waiting for Yet Another Ubuntu Install and hoping it doesn't crash out halfway through. Is Ubuntu 14.04 built on Windows ME or something?
Meanwhile, I'm considering a full-size build of a Victory-class Star Destroyer on Space Engineers.
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Status: a little pissed off at the schmuck who couldn't maintain a consistent naming convention for lazy-initialize variables to hold PDOStatements that might get run multiple times in a single API query
Filed under: The lazy schmuck is the only coder that's ever worked on this project, aka me
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Except those broken systems where the date alone would exceed the maximum length.
With the Y10K date standard that is not as unlikely as you might think, even on higher maximum length values.Oh wait we were talking about passwords weren't we.
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Oh wait we were talking about passwords weren't we.
Yes. The complete text of War and Peace shouldn't violate a maximum password length constraint.
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Take a while to log in though. And you just know you'd @accalia at character 323,095, but not realise until character 434,704 ;)
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Is Ubuntu 14.04 built on Windows ME or something?
I'm now wondering what the heck you're doing. I haven't had a troubled Ubuntu (OK, Kubuntu, technically) install in...well, I can't remember.
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Status: So I have a Python program which loads a C library (libclang) in order to parse a C header file and in return generate C source code to build a C library which can be loaded from a Lua script which will then be able to create objects whose memory pattern matches the C structs in the header file.
My head is starting to hurt...
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.... Why!? Jesus, build a real serialization / deserialization process.
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But this Matryoshka serialization sounds so much more exciting! Just think of the failure modes! Think of the bugs!!
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Status: got home to find the roomba trying to haul off with the laptop by its power cord.
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Status: terrible. Spent most of the day sleeping due to high fever. Probably going to go back to that now.
I hate flu.
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Status: Spent the past 2 hours figuring out how to update the DB configuration correctly to start working :/
Why? Because someone inserted Ok instead of OK. You could argue that this is also a code problem caused by comparing strings without equalsIgnoreCase. I'd say it's the former.
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Status: Just seen a code change from a cow-orker that ensures tax figures are always shown as positive on a P11 summary.
He did it by using the unary-
operator. In a framework withMath.Abs()
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Added topic descriptors to help with identifying. Couldn't access 4292, so it is either a staff topic or a PM. Looks like the Moving Posts topic got excluded because @PJH was in a trolling mood, since that topic is only 24 posts long. And for some reason, the Status thread got excluded twice in a period of about 3 posts.
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Couldn't access 4292, so it is either a staff topic or a PM.
Staff. Explains all the UUIDs.
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colleague brought in some nice Polish dark chocolate.
Don't fall for it. It is actually poo.
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I'm now wondering what the heck you're doing. I haven't had a troubled Ubuntu (OK, Kubuntu, technically) install in...well, I can't remember.
I wish I knew what, if anything, I was doing wrong, but seeing how it's just a plain-jane ISO burnt from Ubuntu's website I don't see how I could have screwed up multiple installer discs across multiple versions.
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Take a while to log in though. And you just know you'd @accalia at character 323,095, but not realise until character 434,704 ;)
I didn't say War and Peace would make a good pass
wordphrasebook, just that it shouldn't exceed the maximum password length constraint (because there shouldn't be such a constraint).
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...just that it shouldn't exceed the maximum password length constraint (because there shouldn't be such a constraint)
Sounds like a great way to enable DOS attacks.
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the Status thread got excluded twice in a period of about 3 posts.
Sometimes one exclusion is just not enough
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I didn't say War and Peace would make a good pass
wordphrasebook, just that it shouldn't exceed the maximum password length constraint (because there shouldn't be such a constraint).
Tempted to flag for whoosh
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No, I got the joke. Maybe I should have just written
I didn't say War and Peace would make a good pass
wordphrasebook.and left it at that. That wouldn't have been mistaken for a whoosh, and would have been funnier. The rest just detracted from the intended humor. I don't always do comedy well on the first try.
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collague brought in some nice Polish dark chocolate.
Lucky devil. One of my colleagues brought in chocolate too, but it was American (Hershey's, to be precise). Another one of my colleagues managed to identify that bizarre taste in American chocolate that has always seemed very definitely wrong but whose nature has always eluded me - although once the answer had been told to me, I recognised it immediately. Perhaps the reason I never did before was because I was trying to connect it with a food, whereas the answer is not something I ever thought to mentally compare with chocolate.
Sick. American chocolate tastes, slightly but definitely, of sick.
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Status: Choosing a mascot and music for a special event Race 07 thing I'm doing on March 22nd.
The track is Lydden Hill… and someone's filled it with dinosaurs
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Sick. American chocolate tastes, slightly but definitely, of sick.
Hershey's is basically chocolate-flavored sugar.
Have you tried Dagoba (ironic that they are owned by Hershey now)?
or this?
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American chocolate tastes, slightly but definitely, of sick.
Do not judge all American chocolate by Hershey's. That's rather like judging all American beer by Bud Lite. It may be typical, but there are also excellent, high-quality products made in small quantities by people who know what they're doing and do it right.
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Status: discovered that somewhere in the path of my API refactor, the "customer search" method went from looking for $_POST["search"] to looking for $_POST["string"] as what it passed to the search database function. In related news, I figured out why the customer search method was ignoring anything you put in the search box.
Filed under: this is why we don't test in production, boys.
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Same could be said about German chocolate and Milka.
Yes, that one is everywhere all the time but it's far from the best there is.
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Do not judge all American chocolate by Hershey's. That's rather like judging all American beer by Bud Lite. It may be typical, but there are also excellent, high-quality products made in small quantities by people who know what they're doing and do it right.
I've tried other brands of American chocolate. It all has that taste.It's a process they put the milk through, apparently, [url=http://www.quora.com/Why-do-British-and-American-chocolate-taste-different]which releases the same chemical that gives baby puke its distinctive odour[/url].
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It's a process they put the milk through, apparently, which releases the same chemical that gives baby puke its distinctive odour.
Ew.
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have you thought of this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoikUowTLUo
/me runs away from the angry vilagers
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Well the thing they do to it, lipolysis, partially breaks down the fatty acids in the milk. I.e. partially digesting it, more or less. And what is baby sick but partially digested milk?
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You want to know what I was listening to when you posted that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrVO1ptFf7k
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@CarrieVS said:
It's a process they put the milk through, apparently, which releases the same chemical that gives baby puke its distinctive odour.
Ew.The chemical to which @CarrieVS is referring is also responsible for smell of Parmesan cheese. Since Parmesan and baby vomit don't quite smell the same, I think that @CarrieVS is stretching the truth a bit here.
Not that anyone around here would ever stretch the truth just to get a reaction.
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The chemical to which @CarrieVS is referring is also responsible for smell of Parmesan cheese. Since Parmesan and baby vomit don't quite smell the same, I think that @CarrieVS is stretching the truth a bit here.
I'm not saying it tastes like sick because I found out it has butyric acid in. I'm saying it tastes like sick because I've tasted it and it does, and I've since found out it has butyric acid in which seems likely to account for that taste.
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I've tried other brands of American chocolate. It all has that taste.
Note that the small batch style things that @HardwareGeek was speaking of (not being terrible) tends not to be the stuff that gets exported (for basically any product).
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Dark chocolate
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Why are they putting baby vomit in chocolate in the first place? That's just gross! I'm never eating chocolate* again!!
* except cake
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Well, there's your problem. Dark chocolate FTW!
I very much like dark chocolate - if it's dark enough: none of that 70% cocoa crap, that's neither one thing nor t'other. Give me 85% - but it still has milk in and American dark chocolate still has that taste.
I'm sure if you grew up with chocolate tasting like that, it tastes fine, probably even tastes weird without it.