The Official Status Thread
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One day people will forget FUCKING HELL, Signature Guy, the Mug, Advanced Technology of Laser, the thread that logs you out, and the forums turning green when they shat the bed. And then I will be sad. Well, more sad.
In the meantime not having to write HTML or host my own images is a major plus.
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Status I have discovered another circle of hell: fighting with liquibase rollbacks, nested in docker containers, with logging turned off. And horribly cryptic mysql error codes. For EOL versions, filtered through a 3rd-party vendor's addons (which change the error codes). No,
Percona exited with 29
doesn't tell me anything useful.Plus having to drop the database, make the change to the changeset by hand in vim, inside a container via SSH, then run the update, then run the rollback and hope it gave me something useful, especially when there need to be particular environment variables set... Yeah. No fun.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
One day people will forget FUCKING HELL, Signature Guy, the Mug, Advanced Technology of Laser, the thread that logs you out, and the forums turning green when they shat the bed. And then I will be sad. Well, more sad.
In the meantime not having to write HTML or host my own images is a major plus.
I had one of those signatures that used php to generate a dynamic image.
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@error I had signature display disabled, because Signature Guy just gets old, you know?
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Status: This is so annoying. I can picture this box. I know what's in it. I just cannot for the life of me find it.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This is so annoying. I can picture this box. I know what's in it. I just cannot for the life of me find it.
Yo I know the feels bro.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This is so annoying. I can picture this box. I know what's in it. I just cannot for the life of me find it.
Consider that, in a sense, you already have the box. If that works, improve on it. By induction, the box is found.
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Status: hard drive is giving ominous SMART warnings. Just when hard drives are in short supply because of Chia mining. And while Amazon has a bit of stock and offers same-day delivery, there are also lots of reviews pointing out their packaging is so bad the drives are DOA (or fail quickly), and/or they don't actually ship the right model (SMR instead of CMR).
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@Zerosquare I can give you an iSCSI extent if you want.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Just when hard drives are in short supply
Is it a very large drive or some specific model? I'm seeing (non-Amazon) warehouses full here, no stock issues whatsoever.
Large SSDs have jumped >25% in price, but, strangely, stock is holding up, too.
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Status: I rediscovered the dumped contents of one of my custom Windows builds.
Ten guesses what it was for.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ten guesses
Which base? (inb4 “10”)
2, of course! It's only traditional!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ten guesses
Which base? (inb4 “10”)
Ten is ten in any base, it is not a name for the decimal sequence 10, but the other way around.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I rediscovered the dumped contents of one of my custom Windows builds.
Ten guesses what it was for.
Judging by the file names, it's related to footwear sales, game boxing, child social media, and... some sort of lottery?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I rediscovered the dumped contents of one of my custom Windows builds.
Ten guesses what it was for.
Judging by the file names, it's related to footwear sales, game boxing, child social media, and... some sort of lottery?
Bzzt!
Aww come on, the WIN51 file and I386 folder didn't give any clues?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Aww come on, the WIN51 file and I386 folder didn't give any clues?
Yeah, it did. The chance to win the lottery was 5 to 1. The last week's numbers were 3, 8 and 6.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Signature Guy just gets old, you know?
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Advanced Technology of Laser
Oh no, I've already forgot.
(The name rings a bell, but I forgot the details)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Advanced Technology of Laser
Oh no, I've already forgot.
(The name rings a bell, but I forgot the details)According to the evidence cited slantwards in this post, it must've been a banner ad here.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Advanced Technology of Laser
Oh no, I've already forgot.
(The name rings a bell, but I forgot the details)According to the evidence cited slantwards in this post, it must've been a banner ad here.
The image seems to be lost in time, like ads in the rain.
I kind of, vaguely, remember what it looked like but didn't remember there was a typo in it.Anyways, I found this curious tidbit in said thread:
@morbiuswilters said in Washinton:@blakeyrat said:
Blakeyrat's Law: Any discussion of an ad quickly devolves into a discussion of ad-blockers.
MorbiusWilters' Corollary: After 10 dickwads chime in with "zomg I didn't even know there was an ad there because I use AdBlockProPlusPremium" somebody (probably MorbiusWilters) will flame them all for being little, unethical shits. The retorts will fall into one of the following categories:
- "I wouldn't buy anything anyway [presumably because I have no money and I'm using the free Internet at the public library in-between my weekly shit, my weekly jerk-off to large-format books of nude impressionist paintings and my weekly sink-bath] so blocking the ads makes no difference."
- "I already paid for the Internet connection, so I shouldn't have to see ads!"
- "I know that I'm basically depriving content providers of revenue, possibly driving them out of business and making the Internet even lamer than it already is, but I don't care because I am a sociopathic asshole. I also like to pour lighter fluid onto stray dogs and throw a match at them so I can watch them slowly burn to an agonizing death. Then I masturbate onto the charred corpse. Oh, and I'm going to use even more of your resources to post this comment because I can't wait for the day when the only original content available on the web is at Cracked.com. Remember: I'm a sociopathic asshole."
and find it incredibly ironic that the people blocking ads are supposedly the "sociopathic" ones. I remember the
trackingadvertising industry deciding something along the lines of "we recognize your browser has sent a DNT header, but we've elected to ignore it!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I rediscovered the dumped contents of one of my custom Windows builds.
Ten guesses what it was for.
Judging by the file names, it's related to footwear sales, game boxing, child social media, and... some sort of lottery?
Bzzt!
Aww come on, the WIN51 file and I386 folder didn't give any clues?
It's a fake Xbox.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
"we recognize your browser has sent a DNT header, but we've elected to ignore it!"
The DNT header ranks up there with the evil bit in terms of good ideas. When browsers started making it opt-out instead of opt-in (obviously correct from a user preference perspective) the natural consequence was that no one would heed it. Not that advertisers ever gave a shit about the user's preference in this regard in the first place.
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Management noticed that my daily calendar is crammed full of status meetings, some overlapping, so they decided to do me a kindness.
They moved the first one to 8:30am (I "start" working at 9am.)
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
"we recognize your browser has sent a DNT header, but we've elected to ignore it!"
The DNT header ranks up there with the evil bit in terms of good ideas. When browsers started making it opt-out instead of opt-in (obviously correct from a user preference perspective) the natural consequence was that no one would heed it. Not that advertisers ever gave a shit about the user's preference in this regard in the first place.
The thing is that advertisers pretend to be legitimate, not malware.
They also pretended first that there was no technical solution to opt-out (or opt-in, which is what I think needs to be done. You don't opt-out of rape). Once it was possible, their thinly veiled pretense disappeared, making it explicit that they do this against the will of the user. If DNT wasn't good for anything else, it was certainly good for proving what everybody knew. And then they started crying when the GDPR hammer landed on them.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I "start" working at 9am.
Me too. In Karla's words: I shower on the clock.
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Status: Looking at top, I happened to notice that Jenkins is using 12GB of RAM and has amassed 18 hours of CPU time.
What. The. Fuck?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Looking at top, I happened to notice that Jenkins is using 12GB of RAM and has amassed 18 hours of CPU time.
What. The. Fuck?!
Any build steps involve opening Chrome?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Looking at top, I happened to notice that Jenkins is using 12GB of RAM and has amassed 18 hours of CPU time.
What. The. Fuck?!
Any build steps involve opening Chrome?
No, but I told it to restart and and it went down to 4GB.
But wait, it's still got the same PID and CPU time... Actually restarted and it went down to only 2GB....
Aaaand, now it's back up to 8.
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@topspin it needs to hold those dicyclic portographs on memory!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
No, but I told it to restart and and it went down to 4GB.
But wait, it's still got the same PID and CPU time... Actually restarted and it went down to only 2GB....
Aaaand, now it's back up to 8.Are you using the JVM tools for monitoring memory usage or the OS ones? JVMs are usually configured to consume up to a fixed limit of memory, and only then will they get serious about garbage collection. The OS sees this as consuming a lot of memory. However, you need the JVM tools to work out what it's real working set size needs to be and to take a guess at how much headroom to give it. (More memory = less frequent GC runs.)
For example:
There's shit-loads more on the topic. I've only scratched the surface myself…
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I
"start""working" at 9am.
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@HardwareGeek I'd object but
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't opt-out of rape
But if you opt-in, is it really rape? :philosoraper:
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't opt-out of rape
But if you you opt-in, is it really rape? :philosoraper:
CNC is
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
No, but I told it to restart and and it went down to 4GB.
But wait, it's still got the same PID and CPU time... Actually restarted and it went down to only 2GB....
Aaaand, now it's back up to 8.Are you using the JVM tools for monitoring memory usage or the OS ones? JVMs are usually configured to consume up to a fixed limit of memory, and only then will they get serious about garbage collection. The OS sees this as consuming a lot of memory. However, you need the JVM tools to work out what it's real working set size needs to be and to take a guess at how much headroom to give it. (More memory = less frequent GC runs.)
For example:
There's shit-loads more on the topic. I've only scratched the surface myself…
The OS of course. I don't really care if the JVM thinks that it has several GB of "free" memory in its heap when it's actually using them.
The used address space is 40GB, but that's pretty irrelevant of course. Those 8 / 12 GB in the working set according to the OS are what's relevant for... well, everything.
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Status: Successfully migrated to a new API in less than a day, while I'd expected to take two. Mostly because I only made one stupid mistake in the process.
On the other hand I did already spent a day doing semi-related code cleanup, and I'll probably spend another implementing a requested feature.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
child social media
installChildProfile
is more probably the "50 year old single fat balding man is a 13yo super hunk to get a date" profile.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
child social media
installChildProfile
is more probably the "50 year old single fat balding man is a 13yo super hunk to get a date" profile.The internet. Where men are men, women are men, and children are the cops.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
They moved the first one to 8:30am (I "start" working at 9am.)
Simple - you move your end up 1/2h also.
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status This global warming shit better get its act in gear. I might need to turn my furnace back on.
edit: My dog just laid under the desk - that's better - now my feet are warm.
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@dcon Texas's A/C running 24/7 laughs at your furnace.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Texas's A/C running 24/7 laughs at your furnace.
It's only 59F at 1030. Weather app says today's high is 68.
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@dcon 85°F with a high of 92. With
9272% humidity.
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status Cursing at Apple again.
My Mac wanted to update. "About a minute" for an hour.
Hard reboot.
Update continued. It lives!
Then "Oh, I have a security update for you".
sigh.
Got past the initial install screen at least.
Now it's working on 'Installing on "Macinitosh HD"' (32 minutes to go)I might need to buy a new one for my sanity - this 2012 model is so ungodly slow. Like molasses in Canada.
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@HardwareGeek 84 degrees F today, which is alarmingly low for Venus.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Cursing at Apple again.
My Mac wanted to update. "About a minute" for an hour.
Hard reboot.
Update continued. It lives!
Then "Oh, I have a security update for you".
sigh.
Got past the initial install screen at least.
Now it's working on 'Installing on "Macinitosh HD"' (32 minutes to go)I might need to buy a new one for my sanity - this 2012 model is so ungodly slow. Like molasses in Canada.
Well of course the new software has special code to prolong the life of older hardware.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
It's only 59F at 1030.
American English sometimes looks like sci-fi gibberish.
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Status: I bought a cordless electric string trimmer to attack weeds in my back yard. It arrived by FedEx this morning. I tried it out during my lunch break; it worked better than I expected against the toughest weeds (small oak shoots sprouting from the roots of the big oak trees). About the time I had enough of the heat and humidity and came inside, I got an email from Home Depot saying my order had been delayed, and they'd try to ship it within 5 business days. I wonder if that means I'll get another one.
Now if it was the extra string that was delayed, I wouldn't mind; I'd just cancel it. I'm going to have to return it anyway; turns out it's the wrong diameter for my trimmer. But no, it's the trimmer itself that's "delayed".
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Soviet Muhosransk