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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
from the CLI
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
enormous pain in the ass?
I think you answered your own question
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear Outlook,
Please stop notifying me of meetings that occurred weeks ago or that were cancelled entirely.
Thanks,When you get the cancellation email, there's a button to remove the meeting from your calendar. Don't ask me why this isn't the default
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like this a/b test.
I'm pretty sure you are the only "b" in this test.
K think it's a broken "tutorial" thing that's been going on. Like, just the other day it pointed out where to find my downloads tab. There's obviously something it's looking for on the New Tab page that's missing.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear Outlook,
Please stop notifying me of meetings that occurred weeks ago or that were cancelled entirely.
Thanks,When you get the cancellation email, there's a button to remove the meeting from your calendar. Don't ask me why this isn't the default
For me, that doesn't work half the time. Since we (actually, our parent company) bought another company, both (there's actually 3 systems in play, but we don't use our parent co's stuff, so still really just 2) calendar systems are still in operation. And supposedly linked. So I'll get the meeting invite, it will show on my calendar. But when it's canceled, 'Remove' doesn't do shit.
$deity only knows when we'll all be on one email/calendar system. sigh.
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Status: I will admit I'm comforted with returning to my bed, which smells like my bitch. 😘
It's those little things, you know?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Did he rage quit during the Benpocalype or just fade away like in BTTF?
He got older
Aww, did we miss his 13th birthday?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like this a/b test.
I'm pretty sure you are the only "b" in this test.
Reminds me of a wonderful Square update a few years back, where it would randomly crash 1-4 screens into the Android app. It would never make it through a card swipe but sometimes it'd let you key one in (at a higher rate of course). Square's idea of support was "buy a new tablet." I was able to download an old version from some random Android site but that only bought me about six months before they fucked up the API (source of one of my first questions here was how to read from the headphone jack so I could keep using the card reader). You know, because a technology from the 1970s turns inside out every sprint once hipster script kiddies get their fingers in it.
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Status: Snowstorm incoming. Pre-pandemic this would have meant a total close of the office for 1-2 days until things calmed down, but due to our amazing new WFH skills it means we're just gonna do enforced WFH for 1-2 days instead.
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Status: 3AM and watching Star Trek because I can't sleep.
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If you want to fall asleep, there are more boring shows to watch
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
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Can't you parse this XML file without adding an XML parser to our dependencies?
No.Come on, I know you can do that using regular expressions.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
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Can't you parse this XML file without adding an XML parser to our dependencies?
No.Come on, I know you can do that using regular expressions.
I've seen people doing XML generation using Perl template strings…
Filed under: Your family name may not contain
'
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
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Can't you parse this XML file without adding an XML parser to our dependencies?
No.Come on, I know you can do that using regular expressions.
Nah, apparently he thought this other PHP XML API didn't require installing an extra OS package. He was wrong.
Yes, Yes, , I know.
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@PleegWat What, do you work with @Zenith or something? Did everyone just suddenly become allergic to code written for AOT compilation?
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat What, do you work with @Zenith or something? Did everyone just suddenly become allergic to code written for AOT compilation?
We're a small team. I mostly work on data processing which is in good old C but sometimes they make me do UI stuff which is in PHP. And this one was cross-component.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Did everyone just suddenly become allergic to code written for AOT compilation?
Yes, some 12 years ago.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
good old C
(I've been programming in C for >35 years, and I like it, but many disagree. It certainly has no shortage of foot-guns.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I've been programming in C for >35 years
Cool, maybe you'll be able to help me out. I've read somewhere that the very, very ancient versions of C (before ANSI C) had you declare all local variables not at the beginning but before function body (between the
)
and{
). Have you ever seen anything like that, and if you did, do you remember if there was any difference in behavior compared to how variables work in ANSI C?Also, was the "default type is int" thing used a lot back in the day, or was it considered a bad practice even in the 80s? Was the size of the source file ever a concern for you?
Sometimes I wish I was born 20-30 years earlier. Programming was much more interesting back then. Nowadays almost everything is a solved problem and resources are basically limitless.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
resources are basically limitless.
That erroneous thinking is what got us into the current mess
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@TimeBandit we've got into this mess because this thinking is correct. If resources were limited, everything would be crashing every other second, but it doesn't.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
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Can't you parse this XML file without adding an XML parser to our dependencies?
No.Come on, I know you can do that using regular expressions.
I've seen people doing XML generation using Perl template strings…
Filed under: Your family name may not contain
'
I've seen regex used for data extraction from csv file generated from static xls file - once for every page refresh... one regex per csv line... there were over 200 lines... each regex over 300 chars long...
It was glorious. In a horrific cthulian way.
Debugging it was less glorious.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Cool, maybe you'll be able to help me out. I've read somewhere that the very, very ancient versions of C (before ANSI C) had you declare all local variables not at the beginning but before function body (between the ) and {). Have you ever seen anything like that, and if you did, do you remember if there was any difference in behavior compared to how variables work in ANSI C?
I just
GoogledDuck-Duck-Goed that, and what I found confirmed what I thought I remembered from that ancient time. The variables that were declared between the)
and{
were the function parameters, not all local variables. Other local variables were defined inside the function body, like any sane language, although IIRC they all had to be defined at the start of the function.Differences:
- Function parameter types need not be declared; they default to
int
. (This was preserved in ANSI up through ISO C 1990.) - The biggest difference is the lack of compile-time checking.
- Function parameter types need not be declared; they default to
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
If you want to fall asleep, there are more boring shows to watch
Could watch ponies! I hear it's surprisingly good.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I just
GoogledDuck-Duck-Goed that, and what I found confirmed what I thought I remembered from that ancient time. The variables that were declared between the)
and{
were the function parameters, not all local variables.Wait, so what were the parentheses for, if the arguments were after parentheses?
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int main(argc, argv) int argc; char ** argv; { /* ... */ }
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
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Can't you parse this XML file without adding an XML parser to our dependencies?
No.Come on, I know you can do that using regular expressions.
I've seen people doing XML generation using Perl template strings…
Filed under: Your family name may not contain
'
😇
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
int main(argc, argv) int argc; char ** argv; { /* ... */ }
Oh okay.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
If resources were limited, everything would be crashing every other second
That would depend on where the limit is.
Also, I sometimes write (in C) for truly limited devices and those programs run for far longer than a couple of seconds before crashing. (I don't call
malloc()
very much; that's far too slow for use in an interrupt service routine.)
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh okay.
Having worked with code like that, I can say that that style was fugly, and it working in an actually useful way depended on the good graces of the compiler implementor (so extremely hit and miss). That's why it was changed in C89 (I started coding C during the period when C89 was gradually becoming everyone's default version).
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
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Can't you parse this XML file without adding an XML parser to our dependencies?
No.Come on, I know you can do that using regular expressions.
I've seen people doing XML generation using Perl template strings…
I mean, generating valid XML from a bunch of simple template strings is pretty easy. I've probably done that before in throw-away hacks. I don't think writing XML without including an XML library comes even close to it on the WTF scale as trying to parse it.
EDIT: This assumes you know the structure and contents of the data you're going to write and don't introduce shit that you're forgetting to correctly escape.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
If you want to fall asleep, there are more boring shows to watch
I didn't say which Star Trek. Voyager is a real snooze fest.
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Status: My son baked pizza for dinner — sausage and veg, with added pepperoni and extra cheese, because the toppings on the store-bought frozen pizza were rather sparse. My son made another addition to his half of the pizza, Trinidad scorpion sauce. Only problem (besides forgetting again to set a timer, so it was rather badly over-baked) was that the boundary between the half with scorpion sauce was not where he thought it was, so part of his half didn't have hot sauce. Um, yeah, that was the problem, right.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think writing XML without including an XML library comes even close to it on the WTF scale as trying to parse it.
Phew
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My son baked pizza for dinner — sausage and veg, with added pepperoni and extra cheese, because the toppings on the store-bought frozen pizza were rather sparse. My son made another addition to his half of the pizza, Trinidad scorpion sauce. Only problem (besides forgetting again to set a timer, so it was rather badly over-baked) was that the boundary between the half with scorpion sauce was not where he thought it was, so part of his half didn't have hot sauce. Um, yeah, that was the problem, right.
That's what toothpicks are for.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My son baked pizza for dinner — sausage and veg, with added pepperoni and extra cheese, because the toppings on the store-bought frozen pizza were rather sparse. My son made another addition to his half of the pizza, Trinidad scorpion sauce. Only problem (besides forgetting again to set a timer, so it was rather badly over-baked) was that the boundary between the half with scorpion sauce was not where he thought it was, so part of his half didn't have hot sauce. Um, yeah, that was the problem, right.
That's what toothpicks are for.
A bit chewy for my taste
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Status: Not sure what's going on with Ameritrade.
So I had some shares of JC Penney. Took a gamble that really didn't work out. Anyway, for some reason, the broker can't figure out how to track the stock.
It used to be JCP. Then when it went into bankruptcy (or was delisted), it was changed to JCPNQ. But they didn't update it everywhere, so some charts stopped updating several months ago while others appeared to keep up. Doesn't really matter since the stock is toilet paper and will probably never go back up over $1. But here's what's really weird.
Some days, my holding list says JCPNQ. When I click the details page, it says "Old Copper Company Inc" but everything else is clearly JC Penney. Some days, my holding list says "CPPRQ" but has the copper company headline with JCP details. And intermittently, everything says JC Penney - the ticker, the long name, and the details. Like there's some sort of identity crisis going on as realities phase across each other.
I guess eventually the stock will convert into that mall property company that bought their operations (or disappear) but WTF is it fluctuating like crazy?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Not sure what's going on with Ameritrade.
They're assholes. I left about 8 years ago. I still get account emails - and I can't change my account settings to turn them off because - I CLOSED THE ACCOUNTS! (Finally printed an email, made some notations, and snail-mailed it to them. We'll see...)
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@dcon Yeah, I didn't land there by choice, but because they bought Scottrade, and were then bought by Schwab. They surprise jacked me for years of dividends via "reorganization fees" when one of my holdings split without warning. I was also not happy to learn that the much-ballyhooed "free trades" doesn't apply to all stocks. If it's delisted, like JCP, you have to pay the $7. At this point, any less than about 70 shares will actually cost money to dispose of.
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Status: Snow shovelling after severe snowstorm done, unfortunately very heavy snow as was half rain. Told my watch it was "workout: other" as it did not have that kind of exercise. Right arm, and especially right wrist is now hurting. Now relaxing with gentle stroking of pussy instead.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Now relaxing with gentle stroking of pussy instead.
See if you can convince pussy to stroke you back. I hear it's pretty nice.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Now relaxing with gentle stroking of pussy instead.
See if you can convince pussy to stroke you back. I hear it's pretty nice.
My previous pussy used to lick me. And the one before that gave me belly massages. This one gives occasional beard massages mainly.
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Status: Jesus PayPal...
: Can I have the report generated from "all transactions" between 1-1-2014 and 12-31-2014 in CSV, TAB, and PDF formats? Due to the 7 year limit, the website wouldn't generate the entire year for me.
: Sure, we can have that in 24 hours.
...three days later...
: Here's a completely different format XLSX file!Edit: I mean it's great that it looks like the data I need is probably there but I wanted these three formats to match the other reports that I had downloaded for import into my software...
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Status: Let the layoffs begin...
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My son baked pizza for dinner — sausage and veg, with added pepperoni and extra cheese, because the toppings on the store-bought frozen pizza were rather sparse. My son made another addition to his half of the pizza, Trinidad scorpion sauce. Only problem (besides forgetting again to set a timer, so it was rather badly over-baked) was that the boundary between the half with scorpion sauce was not where he thought it was, so part of his half didn't have hot sauce. Um, yeah, that was the problem, right.
That's what toothpicks are for.
A bit chewy for my taste
I like my toothpicks al dente.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Jesus PayPal...
: Can I have the report generated from "all transactions" between 1-1-2014 and 12-31-2014 in CSV, TAB, and PDF formats? Due to the 7 year limit, the website wouldn't generate the entire year for me.
: Sure, we can have that in 24 hours.
...three days later...
: Here's a completely different format XLSX file!I'm sure they had some intern banging on the exact same web interface you were using for an hour before saying "fuck it" and sending you that.