The Official Status Thread
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@topspin eh, upboats are time-symmetric.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Delivery is scheduled 12/13.
And I just got a text: delivery will be between 2:15 and 5:15 this afternoon. Guess I can't leave the house since a signature is required...
And it's here. And busy installing the typical tons-of-updates after booting. Then it's time to strip all the crap. And install my dev env. Good thing the weekend is almost here.
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Status: Amazed at how TV news "journalists" can fill a nearly hour-long segment with a single <30 second clip of a landslide and live views of officials standing around looking at nothing happening, with repetitious, banal voice-overs by other TV "journalists" "familiar with the area." Half-way through, and unless more of the cliff collapses on-camera, there isn't anything more they can possibly say about it.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
And busy installing the typical tons-of-updates after booting. Then it's time to strip all the crap.
.... Why? Just fucking start from a clean install...?
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Status: Coming back to check on TDWTF feels like
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
unless more of the cliff collapses on-camera, there isn't anything more they can possibly say about it.
If the cliff collapses on the camera team, there will be much to say about it but nobody there in a good position to do it.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
If the cliff collapses on the camera team
They're in a helicopter, so if it collapses on them, either they've done something very wrong, or there's something very, very strange about the local gravitational field.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
If the cliff collapses on the camera team
They're in a helicopter, so if it collapses on them, either they've done something very wrong, or there's something very, very strange about the local gravitational field.
My point still stands. Either way, much to report.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Either way, much to report.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@MathNerdCNU said in The Official Status Thread:
Coming back
Holy shit!
The prophecy?
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Status (several hours earlier): Baking cookies, baking
baconcookies.Status (a bit later): if we don’t use up the Amaretto, I guess we have to drink the rest. pours Glühwein with shots
Status (now): Tipsy
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12:20 AM Status: lying in bed. Aiming to sleep.
Bunch of cicadas decide this is the optimal time to start making a racket.
Filed under: This is truly my favourite time of year in so many ways
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Status: Pondering who I might want to solicit the corporate sponsorships to...
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Status:
: tables are outdated! use DIVs and CSS! because imaginary reasons!
: not this shit again...
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@Zenith Also Status: I am this close to opening the case and ripping out whatever fucking fan is still buzzing.
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@Zenith Tables are outdated for non-email layout. Use other tags that are more appropriate, or DIV if you just need a block and don't care how you get it, and CSS. Because it makes things a lot easier for automation (script kiddie crawler scrapers you don't care about, but also accessibility screen readers you do and Excel you might), mobile responsiveness (much easier to get the results you want, even without flexbox), and future maintenance (because fucking nested tables fucking everywhere means you fucking can't fucking fix that stupid fucking bug GODDAMNIT)
If you're presenting data, data goes in tables, regardless of what says. That's what tables are for.
If you're doing e-mail styling, you have to use tables because Outlook and Apple Mail suck donkey balls. Good luck.
Otherwise, don't use tables. Please.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
much easier to get the results you want, even without flexbox
No, it's not. That's the point.
You wouldn't believe how many headaches knowing how to juggle cellpadding and cellspacing attributes made go away.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
much easier to get the results you want, even without flexbox
No, it's not. That's the point.
You wouldn't believe how many headaches knowing how to juggle cellpadding and cellspacing attributes made go away.
For more details, see his coding challenge that I haven't had the free time to try.
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@TwelveBaud Eventually I want to rewrite that page because the current approach with padding/spacing just about halves the number of nested tables required.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise, don't use tables. Please.
Use divs instead. s
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
remove all of the defects.
Still JPG'd the hell...
Not in the print it's not. Whatever they did was nothing short of a miracle.
If it's an official product, they could have had access to the original high res, defect-free artwork and used that
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Today's Weird Bug Status: If I do this:
record Foo(@NotEmpty List<@Valid Bar> bars) {}
then things blow up with an
AnnotationFormatError
when I try to deserialize and validate the record. The deserialization itself is working, and the positioning of the@Valid
is right when I write this as a class, but something in the code generator forrecord
is duplicating the type-use annotation position and that makes things blow up.I have a workaround (moving
@Valid
to beforeList
) but it's weird and I find it hard to believe that nobody's seen this before me.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I find it hard to believe that nobody's seen this before me.
Do we not sail on the ship of fools / ...
Why is life so precious and so cruel / ...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
remove all of the defects.
Still JPG'd the hell...
Not in the print it's not. Whatever they did was nothing short of a miracle.
If it's an official product, they could have had access to the original high res, defect-free artwork and used that
Nope, custom print where I gave copyright law the middle finger.
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Status Have been fighting Perl all day. Still not done, but reserving what very little remains of brain capacity for a meeting with the architect that may end up negating this entire day's effort.
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Status: I just don't like developers whose perspective is "all of history starts today."
If I had a solution that worked from Windows 95 to Windows 11, why would I remove the parts that work in Windows 95? These developers say it's too hard to maintain. After "then just leave it alone," my next thought is "isn't your spaghetti code the problem and not the wide support range?" I mean, I look at this situation and I see this fundamental difference of perspective.
I want people to use my product, so I make it as attractive and accessible as possible (easy to buy, works on lots of systems, etc).
And I can't help but cast the opposing side as "my product is super duper special and you'll DO MY BIDDING for the privilege of using it."And that's why I don't participate in anything software-related outside of this forum.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And that's why I don't participate in anything software-related outside of this forum.
Remind me. What do you do for a living?
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@Zecc Currently writing internal software in between DBA work. Why?
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@Benjamin-Hall Turns out the architect himself has made the "rewrite it all in Rust" joke and was seriously confused when I mentioned that someone had joked about that, like "wait...who said that?"
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc Currently writing internal software in between DBA work. Why?
Just curious.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And that's why I don't participate in anything software-related outside of this forum.
Remind me. What do you do for a living?
According to his rants, people at work don't let him actually work on software. So it's not the gotcha you thought it was
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a solution that worked from Windows 95 to Windows 11, why would I remove the parts that work in Windows 95?
Because supporting the code hacks for 95, 98 and ME is just an awful experience (used to do some of that). Those versions are now far into the "don't support if you don't have to for strong business reasons" domain. The problem is the mess that is Win32S (if I remember right) which is a really half-assed compatibility layer for the real thing that MS have been strongly indicating for a long time that it shouldn't be used any more.
XP (or old NT, if you must) is a much more reasonable starting point for support. Far far fewer disgusting hacks needed.
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@dkf: Win32s was a limited subset of the Win95 API for Windows 3.1 -- getting 32-bit applications running on a 16-bit OS was pretty impressive technically, but it was so limited most applications didn't run or crashed pretty frequently.
Win9x/ME is closer to current-day Windows, but it misses things that are taken for granted on the NT-based branch, Unicode support in particular.
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@Zerosquare It is a long time ago. I remember the Windows programmers I was working with being very happy when we switched out minimum supported version to XP.
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Status: slow burn binge of Rick and Morty through season five complete.
It's pretty good.
The pickle thing isn't nearly as funny as the copy pasta makes it out to be. WTF is up with that?
Also, Mister Poopybutwhole is clearly a Morty, why is he trying to play off like he's not?
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I've got to admit. Gamers nexus is on point with their reviews of Xs in graphics cards. I never knew they were so important.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I've got to admit. Gamers nexus is on point with their reviews of Xs in graphics cards. I never knew they were so important.
Of course they’re important. Giving up your most valuable asset to your ex in the divorce is always life changing.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Giving up your most valuable asset to your ex in the divorce is always life changing.
My ungodly attractive calves?!
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Giving up your most valuable asset to your ex in the divorce is always life changing.
My ungodly attractive calves?!
asset, not ass-et.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Giving up your most valuable asset to your ex in the divorce is always life changing.
My ungodly attractive calves?!
asset, not ass-et.
Confusing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The pickle thing isn't nearly as funny as the copy pasta makes it out to be. WTF is up with that?
That was the impression I got, without having watched any of the show
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The pickle thing isn't nearly as funny as the copy pasta makes it out to be. WTF is up with that?
That was the impression I got, without having watched any of the show
Yeah, same here.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The pickle thing isn't nearly as funny as the copy pasta makes it out to be. WTF is up with that?
That was the impression I got, without having watched any of the show
Without having watched any of it, nothing of the show looks funny.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The problem is the mess that is Win32S
*twitch* *twitch*
Trigger warning that !!!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare It is a long time ago. I remember the Windows programmers I was working with being very happy when we switched out minimum supported version to XP.
I was happy to drop XP - did that mainly because of the hoops you have to jump thru to target that with the newer versions of Visual Studio.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
: tables are outdated! use DIVs and CSS! because imaginary reasons!
: not this shit again...Hope this did not happen at a restaurant where you wanted to dine in...
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Status: My house is alive and doesn't like me.
It started, this time, with the bathroom sink. It periodically likes to drain very slowly or not at all. I pulled out the pipes and there was a clog six inches under the drain. Chalky stuff and long hairs...where the hair came from is beyond me. It's too long to be mine and I live alone.
Anyway, clear that out and now I have a new problem. The toilet won't flush all the way. The little bit that it drains before overflowing comes up the tub drain. It seems to reach an equilibrium of half a bowl and a half inch in the tub. Plunging the toilet did nothing, pulling out the pipes under the tub revealed no clogs. I'm afraid to put Dran-O in the tub since there's clearly a connection to the toilet that I didn't expect (the instructions say it fucks up toilets).
So I can't poop or shower now, which sucks.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The little bit that it drains before overflowing comes up the tub drain.
someone needs to be sued.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The little bit that it drains before overflowing comes up the tub drain.
someone needs to be sued.
I wish this would've waited like six months. I've been wanting to redo the plumbing in the basement for some time. But I can't even call in a plumber with the place looking like an episode of Hoarders.