The Official Status Thread
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Odd. When I recently got a new systembuilder license, I just got the sticker without the disk. If memory serves it also arrived in an unpadded envelope.
It's from the warehouse. They have stacks of these things, apparently they don't have the ability to order them any other way.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
though your coworker will probably that this is a worm not a virus, though the distinction is largely arbitrary that far back
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Back then there was no distinction between types, everything was a virus, no malware/spyware/trojans none of that
Huh. I was of the impression that actually viruses only existed "back then". Nowadays malware is mostly worms/trojans/whatever. Even though (anti-)malware software is commonly called (anti-)virus, actual viruses that are just a piece of code, not a full program binary, and which infect other programs don't seem to really be a thing nowadays.
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Status: Douglas Adams be damned, but the upright posture really was Homo Sapiens‘s first mistake.
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Fuck Steam games that require an external account and launcher.
I should start a Fuck This megathread.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Steam games that require an external account and launcher.
And then it hardlocked my Steam Deck.
Steam Deck has been mostly awesome though. I blame Rockstar.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I blame Rockstar.
Reasonable, considering what was discovered about their JSON parser.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Steam games that require an external account and launcher.
I should start a Fuck This megathread.
Sounds like the "WTF Bites" thread...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Steam games that require an external account and launcher.
I should start a Fuck This megathread.
Sounds like the "WTF Bites" thread...
I was thinking Bites. For things that aren't really but are just irritating.
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@error I’ll post there every day.
Filed under: I have nowhere else to go
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Status: The USB charging sockets in the outlet "strip"* I use on my desktop died. The regular outlets still work, so I can just plug in a normal charger brick to replace them, but they were convenient.
* I say "strip" because it's shaped like a cone, giving you plenty of space to hang six transformer bricks off of it...unless the transformers were designed to go sideways to avoid this problem and you have one that goes one way and one that goes the other.
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Status: Boo urns.
Months back, I wanted to reorder this shirt I liked and discovered the design was disappeared. I eventually tracked the image down to somebody on DeviantArt. Alot of the links on this person's profile are dead - the watermark link, their link to another shirt site, etc. Their profile is still up on the first shirt site, just minus this design (there are crappier designs featuring the same character(s) though). I couldn't find a way to reach them except a PM on their presumably dead DeviantArt account so I was resigned to failure.
Well the other day I just happened upon the shirt design again, on the second shirt site but another username attached. And during a sale no less. Happy day! And then...
...I looked to closely into the sun. See, this person had apparently lifted the image from DeviantArt and used some sort of AI to remove the colored background and watermark. The more I looked at it, the more mistakes I noticed. Fuzzy details and stray lines everywhere. Now I'm really bummed.
I guess nobody would really notice the defects on an actual shirt unless they stared like I did. But there's still this overwhelming urge to redraw and upload the image to my own account.
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Two days in the office. What a fucking nightmare.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Two days in the office. What a fucking nightmare.
This is why you’re supposed to go home in between days.
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Status: in a meeting about 'our standards'.
Passively listening to unending blabbering about 'processes', 'industry standards' and 'code quality', by people who are just so slightly not intelligent enough to come to any useful conclusions.
They will construct impossible procedures and counterproductive rules, which within a month will result in a major fuckup. After which the 'standards' will be silently tossed aside and everything will return to the usual amorphous cluster fuck. Until next redefining meeting, of course.
I'm not weighing in, just listening. I'm done with fighting against the same idiocies from the same people over and over again.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
They will construct impossible procedures and counterproductive rules,
For us, these are implemented in SonarQube. Too many code smells, and the PR fails. Guess what using Qt does... Immediately violates 2 rules because of Qt's naming (functions start with a lower-case letter) and the
Q_OBJECT
macro - because it violates the public-protected-private order. At least we don't have to hit0
. Yet.
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@MrL The type of people that want to control others with typing "standards" are universally the type of people that created the mess they're using to justify a need to control others with typing "standards." I'm done tolerating them and would fight them at every turn while applying for other jobs.
Edit: Yesterday I learned I was an honorary member of the Chicago school of prose formatting. Go to Hell AP stylists!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
They will construct impossible procedures and counterproductive rules,
(functions start with a lower-case letter)
Qt uses camel case, like Java, while “idiomatic” C++ uses snake case. I think Qt’s choice is better, but in neither case should function names start with a capital. So is that rule targeted at??
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
They will construct impossible procedures and counterproductive rules,
(functions start with a lower-case letter)
Qt uses camel case, like Java, while “idiomatic” C++ uses snake case. I think Qt’s choice is better, but in neither case should function names start with a capital. So is that rule targeted at??
Coding style says use Pascal case.
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@dcon Pascal case is best case
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
They will construct impossible procedures and counterproductive rules,
(functions start with a lower-case letter)
Qt uses camel case, like Java, while “idiomatic” C++ uses snake case. I think Qt’s choice is better, but in neither case should function names start with a capital. So is that rule targeted at??
If memory serves, Golang makes functions starting with a capital public otherwise private.
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@Tsaukpaetra yet another reason to hate it.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
For us, these are implemented in SonarQube.
We have it. Horrible counterproductive piece of crap.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL The type of people that want to control others with typing "standards" are universally the type of people that created the mess they're using to justify a need to control others with typing "standards." I'm done tolerating them and would fight them at every turn while applying for other jobs.
Coding standards are great when they are thought out and consistent. Something I find people incapable to do - it's always 'follow blindly what others do' and 'apply everything with default settings'. The complete lack of capacity for independent thought is actually quite astonishing to observe.
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: Proposals for rest of the year?
: We should review all of our tests, check covarage and write tests everywhere they are missing.
[crowd]: Yaaay! Tests are awesome and so important!
: Splendid idea, this will surely catapult us to highest quality land.
: Not this shit again, ffs.Complexity of our code is virtually zero, it does nothing even aproaching complex. All of complexity comes from communication with external system, which we have no access to, no specification of and no way of simulating.
Tests do nothing in this environment. Well, nothing productive - you can waste your time writing them and later 'fixing' them (which means making them compile, because you change the name of something). But programming is the kingdom of cargo culting morons, so now we'll be writing hundreds od Assert.IsEqual(2 + 2, 4) for months.
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Status: Today's discovery of the day:
I can finally save / open files from firefox (e.g. email) using a sane dialog where I can use the keyboard to enter a path, instead of the retarded search-in-current-folder shit that appears when you try using the keyboard in the GNOME barf. No more clicking through file system hierarchies with the mouse. Finally, Windows 95 era usability achieved.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL The type of people that want to control others with typing "standards" are universally the type of people that created the mess they're using to justify a need to control others with typing "standards." I'm done tolerating them and would fight them at every turn while applying for other jobs.
Coding standards are great when they are thought out and consistent. Something I find people incapable to do - it's always 'follow blindly what others do' and 'apply everything with default settings'. The complete lack of capacity for independent thought is actually quite astonishing to observe.
We're really saying the same thing here. Stupid developers come up with stupid "standards." Except I've destroyed the doomsday weapon while you've only dismantled it and hidden the pieces at the far corners of the globe.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
the retarded search-in-current-folder shit that appears when you try using the keyboard in the GNOME barf
In the save file dialog, no less.
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Status: It's time to retire, I don't understand anything in this industry anymore. I just stumbled upon shells.com offering DaaS, i.e. cloud desktop, and I'm thinking: so I need a computer to run a computer. Remotely, in the cloud. Like a thin-client but I only have fat-clients, of course. What's the point of this?
Also, I'll be 40 soon, so I guess off to the nursery home I go.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, I'll be 40 soon, so I guess off to the nursery home I go.
You planning on aging in reverse? Are you Benjamin Button?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, I'll be 40 soon, so I guess off to the nursery home I go.
You planning on aging in reverse? Are you Benjamin Button?
Blech.
I was unsure about it and asked Google. It seemed to be fine, but of course the images correspond to what I should've searched instead of what I did search. Good jorb.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm thinking: so I need a computer to run a computer. Remotely, in the cloud. Like a thin-client but I only have fat-clients, of course. What's the point of this?
It's not new - the point is the same as it's always been, enabling working to connect to a corporate computer from any device.
For us back in the pre-pandemic days when most users had desktops, anyone who needed access from home also had access to Citrix. We still have Citrix farms for our offshore teams to access our network from a device we still completely control.
The only thing that's new is making it an XaaS.
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@loopback0 oh, we do have that kind of stuff. We used to run NX servers, now we have vmWare Horizon servers. But those are run on premises and the point is that they offer me access to work-related resources, i.e. file system, intranet / ssh, etc. Without those, there's no point in not running stuff locally.
Their service is just-another-computer, but in the cloud instead of on-prem, and with nothing that I can't do locally.
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@topspin being in a cloud doesn't stop these devices accessing corporate stuff if needed.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Like a thin-client but I only have fat-clients, of course. What's the point of this?
Remote working efficiency, I think. Instead of waiting for a laptop with the Blessed Corporate OS Image to ship to every new worker, just tell them to gotowork.com
e: was momentarily distracted by nursery home discussion
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Coding standards are great when they
can be accomplished with
clang-format -i *.cpp *.h
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
: Proposals for rest of the year?
:We should review all of our tests, check covarage and write tests everywhere they are missing.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
: Proposals for rest of the year?
:We should review all of our tests, check covarage and write tests everywhere they are missing.Only the best proposals!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin being in a cloud doesn't stop these devices accessing corporate stuff if needed.
But less efficiently, because routing between computers that might be on the other side of the planet.
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@Tsaukpaetra You replied but you didn't upvote? Who are you, and what have you done with the real @Tsaukpaetra?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You replied but you didn't upvote? Who are you, and what have you done with the real @Tsaukpaetra?
It disappeared between the pages and I couldn't see it until you replied just now.
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status: USB charger cord usually used in the dark. It was stiff, but lately not so much. And also failing to function as expected. Responding to anomaly report...
Hrm. Yes that's a problem...
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Thank you, Office, for protecting me from a link that would take me directly to the documentation I need, hosted on a local, in-house server, and instead directing me to an external, not-controlled-by-us "safe" link service that's down (DNS failed).
OTOH, the link was to Confluence, so it was protecting me from that.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
pages
What's a "page"?
It's this thing that happens sometimes, where posts go to fuck around before I can find them out.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
where posts go to fuck
And you follow them hoping to get in on the action?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
where posts go to fuck
And you follow them hoping to get in on the action?
Why do you think I seemingly disappear at random times?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It was stiff, but lately not so much. And also failing to function as expected.
It sometimes happens with age.
Edit: also d in the QooC thread. You must be proud.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It was stiff, but lately not so much. And also failing to function as expected.
It sometimes happens with age.
Edit: also d in the QooC thread. You must be proud.
Finally! The sweat sweat relief of release!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The sweat sweat relief
Good for you it has transpired.