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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
On the other hand, Germans figured out 50 years ago how to do that without anything smart.
Which works fine until the idiots change the start/end dates.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
On the other hand, Germans figured out 50 years ago how to do that without anything smart.
Which works fine until the idiots change the start/end dates.
Radio controlled clocks should get the time as well as time zone / DST automatically.
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@dcon not what I meant.
Atomic-clock-backed synchronization radio broadcast, every minute of every hour of every day (99.95% uptime). Local time but includes DST info anyway.
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@Gąska TIL, didn’t realize that’s Europe only. (Guess the “time zone” part of my post was wrong too)
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Atomic-clock-backed synchronization radio broadcast, every minute of every hour of every day (99.95% uptime). Local time but includes DST info anyway.
Oh right. We had a couple of clocks like that where I worked a while ago. They sucked. I think they must have been in a location where they couldn't get a reliable signal. Or they just sucked.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Atomic-clock-backed synchronization radio broadcast, every minute of every hour of every day (99.95% uptime). Local time but includes DST info anyway.
Oh right. We had a couple of clocks like that where I worked a while ago. They sucked. I think they must have been in a location where they couldn't get a reliable signal. Or they just sucked.
Had one in my classroom. It was consistently
- about 1.5 minutes slow (relative to every other identical clock in the building), even when manually set with the radio off. It would drift slow...and then stop at about 90 seconds.
- incapable of picking up DST changes.
Plus being awkward to get at and vulnerable to falling down if someone closed the door too heavily. All in all, 2/10 (one point for having a temperature display).
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@Benjamin-Hall meanwhile, the ones I've seen - they're pretty common in western Poland - have always worked flawlessly.
Maybe you need to be close to Germany for it to work.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall meanwhile, the ones I've seen - they're pretty common in western Poland - have always worked flawlessly.
Maybe you need to be close to Germany for it to work.
Something something keeping the trains running on time?
(no really, time zones were supposedly developed to synchronize railway schedules across large areas. Or so I've heard).
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@Benjamin-Hall Because the time was different in every town, based on local solar noon at that lat/lon.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Had one in my classroom. It was consistently
- about 1.5 minutes slow
Your teachings were so boring that even the clock fell asleep?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
the ones I've seen - they're pretty common in western Poland - have always worked flawlessly.
I have an alarm clock in my bedroom that works like that. I'd say it's worked flawlessly for about 20 years now. Only has hour and minute hands (I hate clocks with second hands, can't sleep with the ticking), but I just checked and the minute jumps exactly at the same time as what my smartphone thinks the NTP-synced time is.
No idea what brand, actually. It only has 3 things written on it: "Precision", "Radio controlled", and "Made in Germany". The part that's most amazing, at least when you think about modern technology: it runs on 2 AA batteries and I don't think I've changed them since I've moved here 8 years ago. (The batteries say "use before 2018", no quite sure how long the printed "use before" time range is when you buy them.)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
no quite sure how long the printed "use before" time range is when you buy them
Usually it's ten years if memory serves.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Or they just sucked.
Best clock housing, very strong, block all interference, many lead, never break.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
"Precision", "Radio controlled", and "Made in Germany"
Are those three different settings?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
"Precision", "Radio controlled", and "Made in Germany"
Are those three different settings?
Did it say "Made In Japan"?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
"Precision", "Radio controlled", and "Made in Germany"
Are those three different settings?
All Germans are radio controlled.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
"Precision", "Radio controlled", and "Made in Germany"
Are those three different settings?
All Germans are radio controlled.
Hence the concern over Ërtrâd. Similarly, South Koreans are easily wind-abraded.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
no quite sure how long the printed "use before" time range is when you buy them
Usually it's ten years if memory serves.
You can change that with storage. For instance, some dry cell technologies actually do benefit from cold-storage, whereas if one cold-stores a fast-charge flatpak paste-cell battery costing over a thousand dollars like some fuckhat did to my project's batteries one time, one will break them.
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status: seems legit.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Atomic-clock-backed synchronization radio broadcast
Nice when you buy a clock not only using that thingy, but depending on it (i.e. without any fallback)...
Travel to the other side of the big pond, and it will refuse to work at all.
We could say that it's something like the Ancestor of Internet of Shit.
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Status:
Was in a store with someone, and we were looking over the line of Schleich figurines.
One of them looked to be Dimetrodon (that thing with the big sail), so I spontaneously lecture my accomplice that Dimetrodon is closer to mammals than reptiles (per the usual definitions).
At which point a woman nearby decides I should be asked to help find a particular dinosaur for her son.
P.S. the only pterosaur there was Pteranodon :(
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Status: debugging random errors that show up in my error log, where there are ten stack frames of boilerplate between the exception and the entryway into the library where this failed.
As in, I make an HTTP call out, this 404s (correctly in this case) but I have to wade through Guzzle’s 10 stack frames until I hit my code to maybe guess where my code is trying to initiate said HTTP call.
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STATUS God I fucking hate Word. I would rather write raw HTML.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS God I fucking hate Word. I would rather write raw HTML.
What about RTF?
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@Tsaukpaetra RTF doesn’t tend to mangle itself in the way OOXML does.
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@Arantor otoh, OOXML doesn't tend to mangle itself in the way RTF does. The prior being a terrible DOM format and the latter being a terrible escape-code format.
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@DogsB
pandoc -i easywrite.md -o easyread.docx
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS God I fucking hate Word. I would rather write raw HTML.
What about RTF?
Never again.
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STATUS
It's almost four! Where did the afternoon go?
You've been telling people you're fat to farm likes and then started posting memes in the wrong places.
Oh yeah!
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@DogsB well done, fatty.
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@Gribnit OOXML isn't so much a terrible DOM format as a critical mass of several of them together in a zip-flavoured wrapper. As someone that has written direct OOXML ingestors and excretors, I'd rather have the DOM with all its stupid because that at least does comply, mostly, with its own spec.
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@Arantor ah, yeah, the filesystem. Tbf, that's just another top-level node sort of.
But why not just use POI?
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@Gribnit because POI isn't a thing in PHP?
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@Arantor OOXML would be a lot less of a pain in the ass if you didn't have to deal with e.g.
text
inside arun
inside aparagraph
interrupted halfway though with aspellcheck marker
around a word, or atext cursor position at the time the user saved it
right in the middle, or some other nonsense horseshit
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@hungrier unfortunately since Word supports all that horseshit and OOXML is just a fancy container for the same, it kinda has to. :(
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@hungrier remember that literally the only reason OOXML exists is so Microsoft could be about "closed source software with proprietary formats" accusations.
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@Gąska it was even sketchier than that; on their original submission to ISO, literally nothing - not even the so-called reference implementation in Word - actually followed the spec.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit because POI isn't a thing in PHP?
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Status: Wow, someone actually revoked a certificate!
Too bad they couldn't be assed to get a new one...
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@Tsaukpaetra maybe some white hat data leak miner found a certificate file and contacted the issuing authority. I find it far more likely than anybody revoking their own certificate for any reason.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
anybody revoking their own certificate for any reason.
To be fair, the server that's still running the IIS is no longer properly hosting SharePoint (what it was apparently supposed to be).
For fuck's sake, the knowledgebase article that pointed me here is not even four months updated!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
knowledgebase
It's one of those words that means the opposite of what it sounds like.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra maybe some white hat data leak miner found a certificate file and contacted the issuing authority. I find it far more likely than anybody revoking their own certificate for any reason.
Or they're using a wildcard or otherwise sharing a certificate between multiple servers, and rekeyed to reissue the cert for a new server without realizing that was going to result in revoking it for all other current consumers.
No, I've never done that before :shifty_eyes:
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Status:
That may be the hottest thing I've ever put in my mouth. Pain.
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@hungrier Not intentionally, although I did see the obvious potential. However, I decided I didn't care; if somebody wanted to make something of it ... whatever.
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@HardwareGeek That pepper Jack is trying to burn through the wall of my stomach.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I have no problem turning on cheat engine and popping on a couple more levels instead of grinding. Life is too short for that kind of padding to be entertained.
I have weird hangups about reducing the difficulty, and I recognize that this is sometimes a to enjoying games. Like I'm more likely to quit altogether than to choose a less punishing game mode - not that that's even an option for me here.
Ultimately it seems like a counterproductive impulse. Though nothing really quite compares to finally beating that impossible boss.