The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am not a good AI for drawing art.
Prompt: a wall with a clown wearing a train hat.
I recommend The Natural Way To Draw, by Nicolaides. Your image can be found in frames from Thomas The Tank Engine. Anyone seeking a reference shortcut from Nicolaides to Ringo Starr, see this post.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Client requested complicated feature.
So you made a YAML
outline of the variations so that they could version-control the complexity?Now client whining that configuring the feature takes too much time.
Oh, you built a web interface.
Prefers to copy-paste JSON, or beter yet we copy-paste JSON.
You're both .
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Status: Two current cups of coffee, both full, both hot, aka. stack corruption detected.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: $deity. Damnit.
[Task Manager showing
multiple php.exepoor guy is using Windows]FTFY
I am sorry.
I agree
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
: I'm sorry, your system doesn't meet the minimum requirements needed to implement this feature.
: Which requirement?
: User intelligence.This reminds me of a famous customer ticket for a system i worked on
C: The ${PRODUCT_NAME} is too complicated to configure.
E: The ${PRODUCT_NAME} is not a toaster.
CLOSED: OPINION ABOUT FUNCTION.
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@Zenith And of course because I spent $30 on said batteries, I managed to find two of the three lying around the house. I love it when a plan comes together.
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Are you sure they're not dead?
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@Zerosquare At least one of them isn't. I found actually found three, two unopened and one bloated that I kept because the model number was slightly different. I don't recall off the top of my head which is Official but it was a lottery whether I'd receive 600BU or 600BZ any time I ordered. Same form factor, manufacturers, mAh, etc.
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Status: I'm going to explode.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you sure they're not dead?
No, they live like soldiers of fortune.
Oh, you meant the batteries.
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I can't remember what it was, so it's probably fine.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
So you made a YAML outline of the variations so that they could version-control the complexity?
You're close. The feature is essentially describing when some things are active. So it contains a bunch of records for different time periods. And since there's a lot of these slightly different schedules, there's a lot of data entry.
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, you built a web interface.
Yes. I mean, the other guy did - this is the one service (out of many in this project) that I don't maintain. Now they are fighting some shitty library which won't let them enter '24:00', and switches to 12h AM/PM mode when opened in Safari. Also the data grid broke when they updated some-shit.js - now every joined entity is undefined and nobody knows how to fix it.
The general impression of this project is like this: I built and maitain like 10 services, which I must run on my machine, and the other 2 guys are doing CRUD with the "modern stack". They do it for like 1.5 years and it still doesn't work.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Now they are fighting some shitty library which won't let them enter '24:00', and switches to 12h AM/PM mode when opened in Safari.
Date+Time parsing! Not even once.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Date+Time parsing! Not even once.
Not just Date+Time parsing, but Date+Time parsing in Javascript. The 24:00 is very convenient though. I think I could replace that with 00:00, but it would require some additional if statements. What I don't want to repeat is the story I've been told recently, of a system where they introduced, while solving a similar problem, an assumption that 23:59:59 means 00:00:00 next day. Apparently it worked great, until something happened at 23:59:59.5.
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Status: My mouse (a Logitech MX518 from ~17 years ago) may finally be dying. As I move it around it repeatedly disconnects from USB just long enough to stop the mouse movement and get Windows to play the disconnect sound (but never the connect one). Can be anywhere from working for an hour to disconnecting every few seconds. Doesn't appear to be a messed-up cable, but I'll have to grab my other mouse tomorrow to make sure before buying a new one. :(
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Status: Thinking again about creating a WTDWTF mouse repair service
(Definitely sounds like the symptom of a messed-up cable, though. Typical mouse cables usually fail way before 17 years. Sometimes even before the warranty period is over.)
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@Parody
Status: Bewildered by people who treat their peripherals as pets to be mourned instead of cattle to be consumed.
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@izzion I'm careful of my logitech G13, but that's different. The only company who still makes anything like it is razer.
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@Parody Have you tried WD-40?
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Status: doing weird. 😋
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody
Status: Bewildered by people who treat their peripherals as pets to be mourned instead of cattle to be consumed.How about family members? My Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive turn 40 this year.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thinking again about creating a WTDWTF mouse repair service
(Definitely sounds like the symptom of a messed-up cable, though. Typical mouse cables usually fail way before 17 years. Sometimes even before the warranty period is over.)
I've had pretty good luck with mice. My Commodore's 1351 still works, for example. Optical drives have been the worst for me. When we had a LAN pit I'd lose one or two a year, and those weren't used all that much.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
When we had a LAN pit I'd lose one or two
Are you sure it's not a snake pit?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
When we had a LAN pit I'd lose one or two
Are you sure it's not a snake pit?
CDs, very dangerous. You go first.
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Status: The lead dev hired a new project manager. The guy has charisma of that r/antiwork mod interviewed on Fox. Also now instead of coding, the lead dev mostly manages the manager.
I have no idea why.
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Look at the bright side. While those guys are busy mutually wasting their time, they leave the rest of the team alone so
things can get donetime can be spent on WTDWTF.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Look at the bright side. While those guys are busy mutually wasting their time, they leave the rest of the team alone so
things can get donetime can be spent on WTDWTF.I don't suppose anyone knows if alex has figured out how to monetize our gripeing yet.
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@DogsB Keeping us away from doing actual work saves money in the long run?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB Keeping us away from doing actual work saves money in the long run?
Shhh, will hear you and implement WTDWTF interaction metrics!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Look at the bright side. While those guys are busy mutually wasting their time, they leave the rest of the team alone so
things can get donetime can be spent on WTDWTF.I don't suppose anyone knows if alex has figured out how to monetize our gripeing yet.
Is WTDWTF just an interactive self-service watchlist?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Look at the bright side. While those guys are busy mutually wasting their time, they leave the rest of the team alone so
things can get donetime can be spent on WTDWTF.Thanks for reminding me that all these hours spent in zoom meetings are billable
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Also now instead of coding, the lead dev mostly manages the manager.
I have no idea why.For some leads, this is a good thing...
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Status: Good night's sleep, for the first time in a long time. Went to bed around 01:30 and woke up just before 08:30. That's almost 7 hours, which is pretty good for me, but it gets better. Took my morning medicine and read my Bible for a while. Very sleepy again; my eyes kept closing, so I lay down again and slept for another ~2 hours. Nine hours of sleep. Usually, I can't sleep more than six, even if I want to.
And that's my excuse for why I didn't see @Zecc's DM that I should fix a typo before anybody ridiculed me for it. Oh, well.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody
Status: Bewildered by people who treat their peripherals as pets to be mourned instead of cattle to be consumed.How about family members? My Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive turn 40 this year.
Definitely consume the family members instead, then.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
And that's my excuse
There's the drop we were all waiting for!
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Status: Absentmindedly browsing through YouTube suggestions, I randomly clicked on yet another conference talk. Turns out the person presenting is some Polish guy who’s apparently still in Highschool. He looks like he’s 12. It really shouldn’t matter, but I watched two minutes of it and, no… I can’t handle that. Not getting lectured by a kid.
Filed under: E_GOOSE_NOT_FOUND
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc's DM that I should fix a typo before anybody ridiculed me for it.
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Status I just looked up BNF to make sure I was writing the formal specification for a part of my (in progress) TTRPG ruleset correctly. Specifically the specification for the attack line of a monster.
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Am I a nerd?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status I just looked up BNF to make sure I was writing the formal specification for a part of my (in progress) TTRPG ruleset correctly. Specifically the specification for the attack line of a monster.
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Am I a nerd?
Yes, but that story is confirmation and not causation
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status I just looked up BNF to make sure I was writing the formal specification for a part of my (in progress) TTRPG ruleset correctly. Specifically the specification for the attack line of a monster.
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Am I a nerd?
Yes but you have friends you haven't alienated yet so keep it up.
status cold.
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Status: Attempting to go to
javascript;
land...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Attempting to go to
javascript;
land...OMG! Microsoft security is working!
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Status: I want to stab LinkedIn to death with a butter knife.
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@Zenith What did LinkedIn do this time?
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith What did LinkedIn do this time?
Your mother. Probably.
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@Tsaukpaetra Ouch.
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Status: retroactively new year’s resolving to finally maybe actually remember the difference between lumens and candelas and all that other photometric bloat.
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You can't. The names make zero sense. When I was working with this stuff, I kept a cheat sheet.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You can't. The names make zero sense. When I was working with this stuff, I kept a cheat sheet.
How many lumens is a candela?
A light beam with a strength of 1 candela and a space angle of 1 steradian (for a cone-shaped beam corresponds to an opening angle of 65.5 °) has a total luminous flux of 1 lumen. 1 candela is thus equal to 1 lumen per steradian.Okaaayyy.... I know some of those words...