The Official Status Thread
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Our legendary front page is a little more legendary (as in, completely unseen by living souls) than usual. Or maybe I'm just getting a 500 for shits and giggles?
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@dkf I too receive the blessed status code.
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@Arantor Maybe it's implemented in JIRA? That'd be for sure.
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@dkf works for me
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@loopback0 Might be some kind of auth fuckup then.
[EDIT]: No, it's not that. Tried with a different browser and that's also not working. More likely some sort of cache on your side.
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I remember 2017. Not that I remember being happier, but possibly less grouchy.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
More likely some sort of cache on your side.
I've not visited anywhere near recently enough for that to be the case.
Also it's now throwing a 500 error.
Edit: now a 522 error from Cloudflare
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Looking over new job specs for the company I work for. I don't know who they're trying to recruit. Some kind of DB/Dev Ops/Java Developer/Tech Lead god. There isn't enough time in the day to cover all responsibilities dictated in the spec. I suppose the new person could do it as badly as it's being done now.
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@loopback0 might as well be the same thing, either way the site itself is failing, just one of these routes youβre seeing it as-is, the other via CF.
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@Arantor it's working now so I can go back to not visiting it
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@loopback0 Today's article was much weaker than normal.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 Today's article was much weaker than normal.
I should rather hope so. Normal strength is hardly for daily use.
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@Arantor do you mean the CloudFoundry instance or the ColdFusion app?
ed. he said cf
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: drilled a hole in my hand.
Not useful. Quite painful. Would not recommend.
Are you channeling your inner ? That sounds like the sort of thing for which his local ER staff love him.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: drilled a hole in my hand.
Not useful. Quite painful. Would not recommend.
Are you channeling your inner ? That sounds like the sort of thing for which his local ER staff love him.
In my defense - I didn't do it on purpose
And 'drilled' is not a good description. I have this gas container, like for lighter gas but larger, which has a long steel pipe nozzle. I wanted to take it to the other room, but I was in a hurry, so I grabbed it by the cap. The cup let go, of course - I grabbed it in the air, when it was upside down. It's not heavy, about 2kg, but that weight, with the place where I grabbed it, created a lever - it pivoted in my fingers and the nozzle effortlessly went under my skin.
So now I have a 1.5cm long tunnel under my skin, which is annoying.
Once I put a needle right through the middle of my palm, which was a lot worse, so it's rather ok by comparison.Oh, I dropped the container anyway, of course.
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I also have a long history of grabbing scalpels that I dropped. It's a reflex that was not easy to root out
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Status: It isn't every day that the test code logs so many non-fatal exceptions that it crashes my IDE. Twice.
Fortunately, I could run the tests from the command line as well, and that let me find what the problem was (a worker thread busy looping when a very strange-looking exception was thrown, and the exception was just filling up the logging output which the test framework was merging into the main output, and processing of that much output β quite a few gigabytes, I believe β was what made the IDE unhappy) and sort out a fix. But it was not a fun afternoonβ¦
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
I also have a long history of grabbing scalpels that I dropped.
Eh, just leave 'em in the patient - fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Losing my mind. Why is a read operation affecting the record in a permanent manner?!?
Because it was programmed by Kevin:
@BernieTheBernie said in CodeSOD collection:
What's a
property
?
Look at that special new idea by Kevin:internal byte TestFlag { get { if (m_TestFlag == 0) { m_TestFlag = 1; } else { m_TestFlag = 0; } UpdateFlag(); return m_TestFlag; } }
No
setter
. But the value changes whenever you call it. And has some side effects (UpdateFlag
makes some other crap, too).
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@BernieTheBernie there should be a site out there on the internet where you could send such wonderful snippets to, to share the brillant wisdom.
Maybe call it, I donβt know, βCode Snippet of Doomβ or something. Iβm sure itβd a hit. Then we could enjoy the WTFs, perhaps even daily, Iβm sure we could put together the material? What a world that would be if such a site existed.
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@Arantor There could also be a forum adjacent to the site where personal experiences could be further discussed in a civilized manner
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@Arantor @Applied-Mediocrity ... and helpful comments added for further improving the ity character of the snippets.
After all, before writing them down in the Annals of Dirty Code, we want them to be of finest quality.
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@BernieTheBernie @Applied-Mediocrity By Jove I think weβre on to something!
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
and helpful comments added
Only in help threads!
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A long weekend is about to start.
No need to slack on The Daily WTF for a couple of days.
Have fun!
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@BernieTheBernie Take care,
KevinBernie!Still Thursday to endure here... unless Kevin bungled date diff code, so that you also have one more day ahead like the rest of us?
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Broke the armrest of my cheap-ass Amazon-no-name-brand "gaming chair" last night. Between that and the fact that the seat leans to the left, this chair is just busted, so I put an order in for a SecretLab chair. My wallet will cry for a bit but from all the reviews I've read, these are actually good quality and the ergonomics are pretty good. They even had them "in stock" for an Easter sale instead of their usual "pre-order for a batch made in a month or three" sales model, so it should hopefully arrive this week.
She has arrived. My throne is ready.
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Status: Sick, ENT, vs usual baseline sick, (.*). Something took a beachhead in my throat, flanked my nose via the sinus, and is going to be really surprised in a minute when I eat all that mustard. No overt eustachian activity. Overt.
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@BernieTheBernie you're just mad because Kevin reinvented the clock and you didn't.
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status went to dentist. He needed to reconstruct three teeth or something equally horrific sounding. The drugs worked well until about half an hour ago. Iβve being in pain and light-headed since. So much so that I've forgone my ill-gotten contractor money for the rest of the day. Not amused. It's very difficult to read. I might have to fall back on anime. Fucking weeb!
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Didn't the dentist prescribe you pain-relief pills?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't the dentist prescribe you pain-relief pills?
I might get paracetamol but nothing interesting in this country.
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@e4tmyl33t I looked those chairs up. The biggest problem buying a chair online is that you can't tell what it feels like. From the pictures, that fabric looks like yarn or a wool sweater. I generally like something like microfiber, though the chair I have right now is neither.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
SecretLab chair. My wallet will cry
No kidding. I looked up their website and the first thing I see is
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I can't do those chairs because, well, I'm "heavier" (aka a fat blob of lard). And that means chairs not built for such people (which theirs aren't) tend to break in new and unexpected ways, unexpectedly.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I looked those chairs up. The biggest problem
...is that they all come from the same factory. Get either a good recliner or a proper office chair. Or if you're cheap, but crafty, go to a junkyard and rip a seat out of totaled Mercedes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity One problem with the latter is that whatever base you use may be way too tall even at its lowest setting, and your chair won't fit under your desk
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't the dentist prescribe you pain-relief pills?
I might get paracetamol but nothing interesting in this country.
I am prescribing you diacetylmorphine.
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@hungrier You were trying to make that sort of thing some time ago, actually, no?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
From the pictures, that fabric looks like yarn or a wool sweater. I generally like something like microfiber, though the chair I have right now is neither.
Ew. You haven't worn clothes in months, have you.
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@Applied-Mediocrity That's how I know. I haven't actively looked for a shorter base in a while but I still have the seat part ready to go whenever I get back to it
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Heh.
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@Benjamin-Hall they do have one for people in our weight class, allegedly. I picked up an AndaSeat last year after doing much the same research - it claims to be good up to 200kg if you're not using the seat tilt function, and I'm definitely north of 150kg at this point.
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status not feeling too well. Ate at least a kilo and a half of chocolate yesterday. If I die @Applied-Mediocrity can have my doge riches.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall they do have one for people in our weight class, allegedly. I picked up an AndaSeat last year after doing much the same research - it claims to be good up to 200kg if you're not using the seat tilt function, and I'm definitely north of 150kg at this point.
I was gifted a gaming chair that is rated to hold folks up to 500 lbs. (~225kg). Unfortunately I'm too short for it; at its lowest setting my feet would hang off the ground if I wasn't constantly slipping off of it due to the lack of seat space. The only way I could use it was by sitting on the very front edge, which isn't very comfortable.
I found a much better fitting office chair at the local office supply chain store. I can even leave the arms on it because they're not integral to the chair structure and they are far enough away from the edges of the seat to not squish my sides.
The best for-work office chair I've had was at one of my former jobs. It was a boring but large office chair with a seat that was separate from the back (so I could sit back far enough that my rear hung over the end of the seat) and optional arms.
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Last year in approximate chronological order. Guess which one I like the most
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Status: The fucking TV decided that my "developer mode" session has expired and deleted the "YouTube Ad Free" app that I had installed. Could you fucking not?!
So I spent the better half of Saturday with installing the development kit on my laptop, fully rooting the TV, installing the app again, and trying to add some customizations while I'm at it. And OMG, now I have JS/node/yaml/babel and whatever else this terrible ecosystem uses all over me. Yuck.
I really don't understand how any of this works, so I'm going full on it. I also tried to figure out where everything is stored, now that I have full root access, so that I can 1) just scp the changes over instead of going through this bullshit and 2) start trying to figure out where the code for the home screen is so I can rip out the "suggestions" reel that's packed full of Amazon+ stuff for which I don't have a subscription. That didn't work out too well, though, because I couldn't find it documented and just running afind
over the whole filesystem it looks like parts of the app are spread everywhere.In the meantime, I looked at some of the code that gets compiled/minimized/whatever like that and I'm seriously wondering what kind of shit produces such awful code. I mean, I'm not sure if this is supposed to be intentionally obfuscated, if the tool that generates this (babel?) is just horrible or if there's a reason behind this kind of code that I just don't understand, so it's considered idiomatic.
Reformated example of their API file: jsfiddle.
It's passing arrays of functions to IIFEs, has all these weird call constructs, individual statements in comma expressions, etc. What is this shit?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Could you fucking not?!
ο : I'm sorry @topspin, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, I'm not sure if this is supposed to be intentionally obfuscated, if the tool that generates this (babel?) is just horrible or if there's a reason behind this kind of code that I just don't understand, so it's considered idiomatic.