The Official Status Thread
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
there's lots of other big sites having problems
Everything is better since we moved to the cloud
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Run some script from a stranger on the Internet to remove services/etc that are not essentials
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Windows is still slow as molassesDuh. It's all those crypto miners that script just installed.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: WTF is going on? Lots of big sites are having problems (timeouts in connect to github, for example) yet I'm working with other stuff that's online just fine. What's more, according to https://downdetector.co.uk/ there's lots of other big sites having problems. It's all annoying and horrible and very very patchy.
You're not on Virgin Media by chance? Definite problems there and the spikes for a lot of the other services are all the same time as them - and in the comments for the couple of other services I checked are a lot of people just complaining about Virgin Media anyway.
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Status: dogfood. Apparently.
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Status: It always amuses me how much of installing Ubuntu is "Completely removing XXX package"...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It always amuses me how much of installing Ubuntu is "Completely removing XXX package"...
Why did you load so much pr0n on the PC before installing Ubuntu?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It always amuses me how much of installing Ubuntu is "Completely removing XXX package"...
Why did you load so much pr0n on the PC before installing Ubuntu?
It comes with it, I swear!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: WTF is going on? Lots of big sites are having problems (timeouts in connect to github, for example) yet I'm working with other stuff that's online just fine. What's more, according to https://downdetector.co.uk/ there's lots of other big sites having problems. It's all annoying and horrible and very very patchy.
You're not on Virgin Media by chance? Definite problems there and the spikes for a lot of the other services are all the same time as them - and in the comments for the couple of other services I checked are a lot of people just complaining about Virgin Media anyway.
It does look like it was them, and probably just them doing something screwy with their DNS configuration.
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Status: Program crashed on Windows, unfortunately in a release build, and Windows offered "debug the program":
New instance of Visual Studio Professional 2017
New instance of Visual Studio Professional 20192019? Don't we have anything newer installed?
So I click that and VS 2019 starts up. It shows some bullshit about preparing for first use and that this "may take several minutes..." Wait, haven't I started this before? I definitely complained about this here before, as I remember it made me jump through several more hoops with signing into stupid accounts.
After a good 5 minutes, it's finally loaded VS and ... nothing. It didn't attach the debugger to the crashed process. Good jorb!In the meantime, I've started Qt Creator, and it also takes forever to start, loading sessions/projects, "updating documentation", updating its fucking useless "locator caches" (which it does all the fucking time and freezes the GUI while at it), etc. It then tells me I should "link with a Qt installation", which I have definitely done before. After I select that, it needs a restart and it takes forever to start again.
This 1) used to just work, and 2) be fast. Task Manager shows 16 cores and 48GB RAM, so I think it's not that.Everything just gets worse all the time.
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I love accurate weather forecasts.
Forecast: Partly cloudy, with a 20% chance of rain. Rain tomorrow.
Actual weather at this very moment: Thunderstorm with heavy rain. Edit: At the time I posted that, the rain sounded heavy but, after getting up and looking outside, it wasn't really. Now it's heavy.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Firefox does not understand the
httsp://
protocol.Maybe the page is too large for the protocol. Did you try
httbsp://
?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Compiling it on Windows using
latexmk.exe -pdf
: ~40 seconds.You'll probably find it gets a lot faster if you disable all AV products on that machine. Yes, that isn't recommended for good reason, but when every file access triggers a scan things get pretty slow. It'll probably still be slower than Linux on the same hardware, but maybe only 8 seconds instead of 40.
We see the same sort of thing with building our C code (using gcc configured as a cross-compiler for an embedded ARM platform). The OS and its associated AV systems really don't tend to cope well with accesses to lots of files.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
We see the same sort of thing with building our C code
I've told the antivirus to ignore the directory where I do my dev. Tho it still scans
%TEMP%
andcl
does like to create lots of temp files there...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It always amuses me how much of installing Ubuntu is "Completely removing XXX package"...
Why did you load so much pr0n on the PC before installing Ubuntu?
It comes with it, I swear!
Status: switching to Ubuntu
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Everything just gets worse all the time.
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@error Did it also took a long time for you to delete all the XXX packages?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Compiling it on Windows using
latexmk.exe -pdf
: ~40 seconds.You'll probably find it gets a lot faster if you disable all AV products on that machine. Yes, that isn't recommended for good reason, but when every file access triggers a scan things get pretty slow. It'll probably still be slower than Linux on the same hardware, but maybe only 8 seconds instead of 40.
Yeah, I doubt IT will let me do that.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I doubt IT will let me do that.
You've got to show them who's boss.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I doubt IT will let me do that.
You've got to show them who's boss.
Iâm sure IT will feel appropriately chagrined watching him in the unemployment line.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I doubt IT will let me do that.
You've got to show them who's boss.
sudo ...
(required for me to do my job)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I doubt IT will let me do that.
You've got to show them who's boss.
sudo ...
(required for me to do my job)
Sir, this is a Wendy's...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Did it also took a long time for you to delete all the XXX packages?
Some of them keep getting deleted over and over and over....
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@Tsaukpaetra End a session, delete 69 packages in disgust.
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Status: Wondering if Bill OâReilly is broken or my ears are. I happened to catch both his radio show and him as a caller on another radio show recently. If I hadnât been told who it was, I wouldâve had no idea. He just didnât sound like I remembered.
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Maybe it's just your radio that's broken.
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status Taxes (Fed & State) are filed. Now to wait for my money...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Compiling it on Windows using
latexmk.exe -pdf
: ~40 seconds.You'll probably find it gets a lot faster if you disable all AV products on that machine. Yes, that isn't recommended for good reason, but when every file access triggers a scan things get pretty slow. It'll probably still be slower than Linux on the same hardware, but maybe only 8 seconds instead of 40.
Yeah, I doubt IT will let me do that.
Even running the build in Linux in a VM helps. Windows simply isn't great at dealing with programs that read a very large number of small files over and over, and isn't very fast to launch processes.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows simply isn't great
at dealing with programs that read a very large number of small files over and over, and isn't very fast to launch processes.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Taxes (Fed & State) are filed. Now to wait for my money...
My tax return this year is a whole round 2PLN (0.47USD).
Ah, sweet early retirement.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
My tax return this year is a whole round 2PLN (0.47USD).
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Taxes (Fed & State) are filed. Now to wait for my money...
My tax return this year is a whole round 2PLN (0.47USD).
Ah, sweet early retirement.Lucky. My brother's was once 0PLN and because of it he was locked out of e-filing his taxes for 2 years.
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It was all so nice and neat until I had to add error handling.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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It was all so nice and neat until I had to add error handling.
Just program it without errors. HTH
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Three day weekend.
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@error Four day weekend.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Four day weekend.
Six Day weekend!
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Wait, why is Easter Monday a holiday if the resurrection was on Sunday. And how is Sunday âthree daysâ after Good Friday? Someone using 2-based indices or what?
Never really cared to think about that.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, why is Easter Monday a holiday if the resurrection was on Sunday
Here if what would be a public holiday falls on a weekend the next weekday is the public holiday. Easter is always a Sunday so there's always a Monday public holiday.
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Status: I've been adding spell checking of out doc comments to our codebase, as we have just too many places where things are awful. Just a small part done so far (a bunch of utility functions and classes) so I could practice with the tooling configuration and the likely impact. But... the spell checker has found a lot of things despite it being code that I thought was issue-free. Guess it is going to be a long few weeks while I sort this all out.
(I have a colleague who is dyslexic. Good and thoughtful coder, but makes awful spelling errors frequently.)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, why is Easter Monday a holiday if the resurrection was on Sunday.
Because it's a super important holiday. One day off just isn't enough.
And how is Sunday âthree daysâ after Good Friday?
Third day, not three days.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
And how is Sunday âthree daysâ after Good Friday?
Third day, not three days.
So âsame dayâ would be âone dayâ and âday afterâ would be âtwo daysâ?
Thatâs a pretty weird way to count.@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, why is Easter Monday a holiday if the resurrection was on Sunday
Here if what would be a public holiday falls on a weekend the next weekday is the public holiday. Easter is always a Sunday so there's always a Monday public holiday.
We donât have that, which sucked for both Christmas and new yearâs last year, and still Easter Monday is a public holiday. As well as Friday and Sunday.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
And how is Sunday âthree daysâ after Good Friday?
Third day, not three days.
So âsame dayâ would be âone dayâ and âday afterâ would be âtwo daysâ?
Thatâs a pretty weird way to count.
Indeed it is. I have no fucking clue what you meant by it. Certainly not what I said.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've been adding spell checking of out doc comments to our codebase, as we have just too many places where things are awful. Just a small part done so far (a bunch of utility functions and classes) so I could practice with the tooling configuration and the likely impact. But... the spell checker has found a lot of things despite it being code that I thought was issue-free. Guess it is going to be a long few weeks while I sort this all out.
(I have a colleague who is dyslexic. Good and thoughtful coder, but makes awful spelling errors frequently.)
That reminds me. In a part of a codebase inherited from a sister company, there's a check against a string error message (ie does the error message equal <hardcoded string>, if so, do <something different>). That's bad. Ugly in fact. What makes it worse? That hardcoded, server-supplied string has a glaring ugly typo in it.
else if (message.equals("token premissions rejected as outdated")) {...}
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
But... the spell checker has found a lot of things despite it being code that I thought was issue-free.
@HardwareGeekâasâaâService?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
And how is Sunday âthree daysâ after Good Friday?
Third day, not three days.
So âsame dayâ would be âone dayâ and âday afterâ would be âtwo daysâ?
Thatâs a pretty weird way to count.@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, why is Easter Monday a holiday if the resurrection was on Sunday
Here if what would be a public holiday falls on a weekend the next weekday is the public holiday. Easter is always a Sunday so there's always a Monday public holiday.
We donât have that, which sucked for both Christmas and new yearâs last year
Suckers.
, and still Easter Monday is a public holiday. As well as Friday and Sunday.
then. I don't question free days off.