The Official Status Thread
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Status: Having finished Dragon Ball Super, now I'm watching the original Dragon Ball. Now I understand why the international release skipped the first 60 episodes.
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@Gąska TV shows about fairly normal people
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@Applied-Mediocrity Bulma is quite normal.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No tuples either, SMH
Having seen what can happen in Python with plain types (lists of dicts of tuples of tuples of tuples... ) I can live very nicely with having to name things everywhere in Java.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
FedEx says they have two boxes in transit, and since I ordered two items, the item in question should be in one of them.
Filed under: Schrödinger's cat
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status Got yet another card in the mail yesterday offering to buy my house for cash (I get probably about 5 offers a week). "I'm a local cash buyer...", return address is in my city. Postmark is Carol Stream, IL. Something doesn't jive there...
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status Great. I'm going to have to enter that damn 48 digit BitLocker recovery key when I boot into Windows next time. (Lenovo just pushed a bios update down from the linux side)
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Status: Had to update my password when connecting to
client
VPN today. The prompt had me enter a new password and another copy to verify, and after submitting it, it rejected it. So after that I logged in with my old password and continued using the VPN.A bit later, my internet disconnected and I had to reconnect to the VPN. Tried my old password, and it didn't go. Tried the new one that was previously rejected, and that one worked.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
FedEx says they have two boxes in transit, and since I ordered two items, the item in question should be in one of them.
Filed under: Schrödinger's cat
I misremembered; I actually bought 3 items — 1 big and 2 small. The big item (UPS) and 1 small item are coming from the same warehouse, in separate boxes. The other small item is
in transithas a label in another box from a different warehouse in a different state. 3 items; 3 boxes. At least FedEx is making money from this order.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Great. I'm going to have to enter that damn 48 digit BitLocker recovery key when I boot into Windows next time.
For a while, I had to do that every day, because because gaming laptops don't play nice with enterprise security.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Great. I'm going to have to enter that damn 48 digit BitLocker recovery key when I boot into Windows next time.
For a while, I had to do that every day, because because gaming laptops don't play nice with enterprise security.
Considering I only boot into the Windows side every couple of months... I try to do it soon after Patch Tuesday. Today was soon - basically because I saw the bios update and my first meeting of the day is at 3p. Might as well get it over with while I finish my coffee (and before I start my actual work day)
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I got a warning for speeding through a school zone this morning.
I'm lucky to be white.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Had to update my password when connecting to
client
VPN today. The prompt had me enter a new password and another copy to verify, and after submitting it, it rejected it. So after that I logged in with my old password and continued using the VPN.A bit later, my internet disconnected and I had to reconnect to the VPN. Tried my old password, and it didn't go. Tried the new one that was previously rejected, and that one worked.
Last year, I was forced to change my password (as is normal every 6 weeks), but something went wrong in the propagation. Somehow half of our network (the Linux part) accepted my new password, and the other half (Windows/AD) would only accept my old expired password. It stayed that way until the next time I was forced to change it.
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@error BTDT. Desktop and network file server were using different passwords, but it got fixed real quick. Password reset, because everything got locked out due to too many failed attempts.
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status getting a dose of global warming.
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status Gee, thanks California. They required my company to come up with a COVID prevention course. And a test. At least there's no audio.
edit: Test results:
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SAP.
find
QWERTYUIOP
.
No results forQWERTYUIOP
, did you mean QWERTYUIPO?
Yes, search for that.
No results forQWERTYUIPO
.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
did you mean
Hey, it was just a suggestion, not necessarily based on reality!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
did you mean
Hey, it was just a suggestion, not necessarily based on reality!
I wonder if the search suggestion box is leaking data I don't have privileges to see.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No tuples either, SMH
Having seen what can happen in Python with plain types (lists of dicts of tuples of tuples of tuples... ) I can live very nicely with having to name things everywhere in Java.
I've seen a list/dict/tuple thing init in a python script that was just a page or two of a bunch of brackets and paranteses in random order. Can't remember what the script was for, but apparently it was an improvement over some tcsh monstrosity that it replaced.
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Status: I've been writing a letter to send to newspaper editorials about how mismanaged state IT is. Unfortunately, there are two major hurdles. One, they limit to 250 words, so I will have to write multiple letters and risk having at least some not published due to a lazy editor deciding they're duplicates. Two, they all have a real name and phone number requirement now, ensuring that retaliation will swiftly follow.
Another technologically stupid issue came up as well. I was looking online for newspapers to send these letters to. So many of their websites have the editorial contact/policy information on a page that's blocked by not having a subscription. It's like they all use the same Indian CMS to pretend like they get this newfangled interwebs thing.
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@Zenith Try talking to a reporter directly? Exposé on "corruption in your local government -- and it's not just the elected officials"? Or is that olds and not news to them?
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@TwelveBaud I was sending anonymous e-mails to three reporters that had published articles about expensive fuckups, including two I was directly involved with at the time, and none of them ever did anything with the information. Next stop was the state auditor but his term ended and he was replaced with a crony of the governor that signed pension "reform," ended civil service testing, and basically fucked the daylights out of small businesses the past year.
Edit: I know this isn't the but I highly doubt anything critical of election-related software was going to be printed what with the coordinated push against the now-former president.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
It's like they all use the same Indian CMS to pretend like they get this newfangled interwebs thing.
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async function inner() { throw new Error("LOL!"); } async function outer() { inner(); } outer() .catch(err => console.log("Caught it!", err));
I understand fully well why there's an uncaught exception, but I still can't get over it.
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status: didn't think I would spend so much time watching short video clips. Much less 60 minutes minutes...
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@Tsaukpaetra Maybe it means 60 minute minutes.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe it means 60 minute minutes.
Kinda like my keyboard?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe it means 60 minute minutes.
Kinda like my keyboard?
If you make the jokes yourself, there’s nothing left for us to do.
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Status: resisting the urge to throw my laptop against a wall, after turning off VS git integration for 200th time.
What kind of retard do you have to be to program it this way and refuse to fix it repeatedly.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status out-of-context: Summary: Don’t have a mid-life-crisis
(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ricom/mid-life-crisis)
For people that missed because of the title, that was interesting technical advice about garbage collection that I wasn't aware before.
In short, objects that live longer may be promoted to later generations of garbage collection that are slower to clean. If your application spend too much time in garbage collection you may want to release the ones you're done with by setting local variables to null before you do something slow (like database, network, disk, etc).
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Test results:
100 COVIDs is a lot of COVIDs.
81 more than the covid we're worried about
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Test results:
100 COVIDs is a lot of COVIDs.
81 more than the covid we're worried about
Don’t give them ideas.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
(lists of dicts of tuples of tuples of tuples...
Pffttt...
I have such great cow-orkers addicted to primitive obsession who'd include byte arrays at the lowest level of such structures. Then you have to know that byte #3 is actually a boolean meaning ..., byte #7 and #8 have to be combined to make up an unsigned 16bit integer meaning ..., ...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
(lists of dicts of tuples of tuples of tuples...
Pffttt...
I have such great cow-orkers addicted to primitive obsession who'd include byte arrays at the lowest level of such structures. Then you have to know that byte #3 is actually a boolean meaning ..., byte #7 and #8 have to be combined to make up an unsigned 16bit integer meaning ..., ...Byte arrays... That would have been nice.. I had single variables that were used to both hold short/integer values, bit masks and booleans. In a single 64 bit value. Quite fun to deal with those. Fortunately, not in that insane python thing I mentioned earlier. Just a codethulian mess of C++.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: resisting the urge to throw my laptop against a wall, after turning off VS git integration for 200th time.
What kind of retard do you have to be to program it this way
Which one, git or VS? Because I think they probably require different kinds of retardary.
and refuse to fix it repeatedly.
I'd refuse to fix it repeatedly, too. You should only need to fix it once.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
FedEx says they have two boxes in transit, and since I ordered two items, the item in question should be in one of them.
Filed under: Schrödinger's cat
I misremembered; I actually bought 3 items — 1 big and 2 small. The big item (UPS) and 1 small item are coming from the same warehouse, in separate boxes. The other small item is
in transithas a label in another box from a different warehouse in a different state. 3 items; 3 boxes. At least FedEx is making money from this order.Packages seem to exist.
Also, great responsive UI.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
you may want to release the ones you're done with
by setting local variables to nullbefore you do something slowUnless you're playing silly buggers with lifetime management, variables die immediately after their last use. That's why you (rarely, and it's a nasty code smell) need to use
GC.KeepAlive(thing)
-- that creates a new last use to keep the object alive. This isn't C or classic Visual Basic.Instead, try making sure you're grasping things correctly. Rather than holding onto a large object just so you can grab a tiny piece later, just grab that tiny piece ahead of time so the large object can be let go of. There are other techniques that work as well.
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@TwelveBaud Circular references are also bane to garbage collectors. Can't free object A because it's referenced by object B; can't free object B because it's referenced by object A. Some GCs are smart enough to see that neither A nor B are referenced, some aren't (see JS). Not to mention the implicit references you get from using closures.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Circular references are also bane to garbage collectors.
It's not a true garbage collector if it doesn't handle circular references. If there's no circular references, reference counting works very well indeed (and will actually generate pretty much an optimal resource release pattern).
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Circular references are also bane to garbage collectors.
It's not a true garbage collector if it doesn't handle circular references. If there's no circular references, reference counting works very well indeed (and will actually generate pretty much an optimal resource release pattern).
Filed under: No true garbage collector.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Some ... are smart enough ..., some aren't (see JS).
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, great responsive UI.
Yeah, I love how they "fixed" the "best viewed in 800x400" mentality...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, great responsive UI.
Yeah, I love how they "fixed" the "best viewed in 800x400" mentality...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not a true garbage collector if it doesn't handle circular references.
If it doesn't handle circular references, it's a garbage garbage collector.
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I wonder if the surname Sweep exists (can't see why not), and how many people named Mark have that surname.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not a true garbage collector if it doesn't handle circular references.
If it doesn't handle circular references, it's a garbage garbage collector.
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@sockpuppet7 @TwelveBaud keep in mind that the linked article was written 17 years ago. Garbage collectors have changed quite a bit since then.
Also - @error, your remark about circular references hasn't been relevant for at least 30 years.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Also - @error, your remark about circular references hasn't been relevant for at least 30 years.
JS still uses reference counting, which is why there are WeakMaps and WeakSets.