The Official Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: fatfingered phone into toilet. Which I had just finished pissing into. Promptly removed it, shut it off, and began drying it...but ewww.
And yeah. It came on once after much drying, then shut off about 20 seconds later and never came back on. Much hassle ensued, especially since my carrier is an MVNO (Google Fi, I pay less than 35 each month and only what I use, don’t judge me) so I needed an unlocked phone. And they couldn’t ship one for like 5 days. So had to drive an hour each way to the nearest store that actually had unlocked phones that weren’t like 5 years old.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Tomorrow is ... Cow Appreciation Day!
Guess I better buy a burger...
I serendipitously wound up on that same site yesterday.
Yesterday was International Kitten Day.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Tomorrow is ... Cow Appreciation Day!
Guess I better buy a burger...
I serendipitously wound up on that same site yesterday.
Yesterday was International Kitten Day.I didn’t think it was possible for there to be a day without Chinese food.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
What are you doing with the phone on the toilet?
Is there anywhere more appropriate for reading TDWTF?
During the work day when you’re suppose to be paying attention to a meeting.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
What are you doing with the phone on the toilet?
Is there anywhere more appropriate for reading TDWTF?
During the work day when you’re suppose to be paying attention to a meeting.
What? Who would even think of doing something like that
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@HardwareGeek The nice thing about working at home is that you can procrastinate usefully. Like fixing the dinner table.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek The nice thing about working at home is that you can procrastinate usefully. Like fixing the dinner table.
for violating the Way of the
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@izzion It'll be the way of the reclining warthog in an hour or so. I've got mandatory meetings from 17:00 till 18:30.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie when I’m back. I don’t know yet how much I’ll have to get reimbursed.
But yes, I got both mobile and WiFi right now.Status: Apparently the maximum reimbursement, on top of the train ticket price, for a taxi ride is 120€. Considering taking a taxi to maximize their losses.
Dumb, over here you'll be lucky if you get a fuck you when the train is late
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Careful, you're talking about the best racing game released this side of Mario Kart Double Dash.
I didn't say it's bad. Just that they haven't released a new Mario Kart game since 2014 and are still milking money out of it.
I assume anyone who's had a switch for a while has already hacked it and is just pirating games now?
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@dangeRuss Yes, but they return them to their designated spot after they've done pirating
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Bored at work, time to
breakupdate the bot.
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Status <shatner>XCOOOOOOOOOOOOODEEEEEEEE</shatner>
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Status Thread:
I assume anyone who's had a switch for a while has already hacked it and is just pirating games now?
AFAIK that only works on the earliest models of the original Switch, and all others (later Switch, Switch Lite and the new OLED one) are unhackable at this time
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Status: Received Cat Mario figure in the mail today. Cool. Now just waiting for Tanooki Mario.
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status: forgot where the movies thread was. But apparently they're making another Willy Wonka movie?
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@Tsaukpaetra I’ve never read the great glass elevator so maybe there is something to mine there?
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@DogsB Well, there are the Vermicious Knids, and the whole business with Minusland.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
Microsoft Excel doesn't count.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
getting fired? Not happening any time soon. Our team managed to beat our deadlines. We didn’t advertise that. The time is been plowed into another project.
The inhouse team has shat the bed again so we might get their work too.
I would like to say it was strength of will but the usual incompetent was put on his own project so we were free of meetings explaining his job to him so the work got done.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
Noone offered an opinion so I just stored the long and let the shit fly when the fan turns on.
I might investigate this though.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
Microsoft Excel doesn't count.
Part of the build process generates java code for validators based on an excel sheet.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
Microsoft Excel doesn't count.
Part of the build process generates java code for validators based on an excel sheet.
This sounds glorious.
Please also make a swing gui that generates the excel.
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Status: The reset button process on Catalyst 2960X switches can jump in a lake.
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Status: Been going through our Python code, working out the type signatures of everything. Most of our code is pretty simple that way (modulo the general insanity of Python) but some very much isn't (there's a generalised high-dimensional dictionary that has given me quite a bit of trouble.) In the process, I'm finding some really weird bits like how part of our provenance system is hardwired to always report 0 because nothing actually uses the parts it reports on... Maybe I should open a separate branch to rip that all out.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
Microsoft Excel doesn't count.
Part of the build process generates java code for validators based on an excel sheet.
This sounds glorious.
Please also make a swing gui that generates the excel.That can only be an improvement to be honest. People copy and paste things in wonky sometimes and spend the rest of the day trying to fix it. I haven’t seen the code for it but I can’t imagine it filling me with glee.
Maybe I can make the swing gui xml driven.
The developers who did most of the older system had this weird obsession with code generators. Like why take a day to type out a few pojos when you can spend two weeks writing a code generator.
I can kind of get behind the swagger codegen stuff except for > 1500 line yaml. mapstruct is pretty novel until you realise you spend more time writing annotations than it would take to write the getters and setters. Jooq has code gen from db scripts which is actually fairly handy but never shall oracle and java dev speak here.
Here its completely batshit. There’s at least three different in house variations at different versions and none of them are even backward compatible with their own stuff. Its amazing.
I actually asked off one of the projects after two days and noone questioned it.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The reset button process on Catalyst 2960X switches can jump in a lake.
Is that the button that's above one of the ports, right next to where the thing you push down to release the cable is?
edit: Yes but it's not the Cisco switch I was thinking of.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The reset button process on Catalyst 2960X switches can jump in a lake.
Is that the button that's above one of the ports, right next to where the thing you push down to release the cable is?
Yup, sort of. But to trigger the factory reset using the mode button (which is the size of a micropencil eraser), you have to remove power from the switch (easy enough, these are retired switches I need to get ready for the recycler), then while holding the mode button apply power and continue to hold the mode button for ~40s until the boot process gets to a certain point in the init. Which there's kind of an LED tell for, but the instructions on that tell aren't clear enough, so the first two or three times you do it you'll release too soon. And the best way to tell is to have a computer within neck-crane range that can be hooked up to the serial console port so you can see the init messages and see when it gets to the right point.
But once it gets to that right point, it will stop until you actually let go of the button so if you're not paying close attention you're just working on the dent in your finger for no good reason.
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@izzion that's why Cisco engineers are so expensive. They know exactly
where to hit the hammerhow long to hold the button.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status we wait!
how do you want to encode the timestamp? The column in the db is a string.
...Why would you ever give anyone the option of deciding that? Everything except ISO is wrong, and they will definitely come up with some snowflake homebrew dumbassery.
How is he going to achieve his career goals if he makes good decisions like that?
True, destroying a company from within is easier with weaponized incompetency.
And the best incompetency is someone else's.Also, how else is he going to guarantee he's indispensable if he doesn't create an obscure format that only he understands!
One fun date format I've seen is days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short. And sometimes passed as part of a long that had to be bitmasked to read the different bits that was in it.
Microsoft Excel doesn't count.
Part of the build process generates java code for validators based on an excel sheet.
This sounds glorious.
Please also make a swing gui that generates the excel.That can only be an improvement to be honest. People copy and paste things in wonky sometimes and spend the rest of the day trying to fix it. I haven’t seen the code for it but I can’t imagine it filling me with glee.
Maybe I can make the swing gui xml driven.
The developers who did most of the older system had this weird obsession with code generators. Like why take a day to type out a few pojos when you can spend two weeks writing a code generator.
I can kind of get behind the swagger codegen stuff except for > 1500 line yaml. mapstruct is pretty novel until you realise you spend more time writing annotations than it would take to write the getters and setters. Jooq has code gen from db scripts which is actually fairly handy but never shall oracle and java dev speak here.
Here its completely batshit. There’s at least three different in house variations at different versions and none of them are even backward compatible with their own stuff. Its amazing.
I actually asked off one of the projects after two days and noone questioned it.
Yeah, some people seem to love reinventing the programming language thing, only they are shit at it so instead of something that any barely competent programmer can modify, now you have layers of piles of shit that require arcane incantations of the ancients to reveal their inner secrets.
And it will break every time someone looks at it wrong. Or when a starving infant on the opposite side of the world farts.The best way to fix getters/setters is to make the fields public. The reasoning behind the getters/setters have proven to be an utter non-issue and I've had to fix bugs with getters/setters in almost every project I've worked.
In the Java world the shit is so ingrained that several major common Frameworks piss themselves when you stop with the inanity.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
The reasoning behind the getters/setters have proven to be an utter non-issue and I've had to fix bugs with getters/setters in almost every project I've worked.
Clearly, you haven't worked enough with WPF applications and the joy of implementing IChangeNotify (or whatever the eff it is) in a way that can make auto properties work.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
The reasoning behind the getters/setters have proven to be an utter non-issue and I've had to fix bugs with getters/setters in almost every project I've worked.
Clearly, you haven't worked enough with WPF applications and the joy of implementing IChangeNotify (or whatever the eff it is) in a way that can make auto properties work.
Just because someone else is an idiot doesn't mean I have to be one too.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
days since 1970-01-01 stored in a short
Is that
short
signed or unsigned?
(Yes, of course)
With my old age, a signed short could store my birthdate, but with an unsigned short, I might turn out extremely young...
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Just because someone else is an idiot doesn't mean I have to be one too.
No external motivation required.
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status
Spent most of the morning doing unnecessary tech support. The instructions in the email were build this branch in project B. Then build the project branch in project A. Took about two hours fixing his other environment issues before I spotted he had checked out develop.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
The reasoning behind the getters/setters have proven to be an utter non-issue and I've had to fix bugs with getters/setters in almost every project I've worked.
Clearly, you haven't worked enough with WPF applications and the joy of implementing IChangeNotify (or whatever the eff it is) in a way that can make auto properties work.
Just because someone else is an idiot doesn't mean I have to be one too.
Not with that attitude you won’t
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Status: just tried to scroll a web page using WASD.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just tried to scroll a web page using WASD.
Everyone knows you need to use QE and strafe. You trying to get an ad in the back of the head?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just tried to scroll a web page using WASD.
Everyone knows you need to use QE and strafe. You trying to get an ad in the back of the head?
Strafing is AD. Keyboard turning should stay in the nineties where it belongs.
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Status: What?!
Changing some type definitions deep in a bunch of central header files. This is causing a massive amount of cascading build errors, each with it's own template wall-of-text.
To go through them one by one and not get drowned in the errors, I've been using "Build File" for single files instead of building the whole thing at once. This is mapped to Ctrl+Alt+B instead of Ctrl+B in Qt Creator. Well, was... ?!
I've been at this for a while, the IDE started misbehaving (go to source failing more often than usual), and at one point didn't do this anymore. The shortcut for "build file" doesn't do anything anymore, but "build" still works. Even weirder, even the corresponding entry in the "Build" menu disappeared. I've restarted the IDE and ... it's still gone.FFS, how can you lose a menu entry / keyboard shortcut?
I know everything is a buggy piece of shit, but that's certainly a failure mode I've never encoutered before.
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@topspin it is saving itself from your codebase. “I can’t… don’t make me deal with that again”
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Status: YouTube just embiggened the thumbnails. Now there’s like 2.5 thumbnails visible on the whole screen.
Someone here complained about that some time ago, but it was still normal sized for me an hour ago.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: YouTube just embiggened the thumbnails. Now there’s like 2.5 thumbnails visible on the whole screen.
Someone here complained about that some time ago, but it was still normal sized for me an hour ago.
Welcome... to the Future!
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Status: Today was a bonfire.
Apparently, I forgot to put the boot drive in a mirror as per standard. Said drive shat so hard it doesn't even show up anymore.
Sadly when I went on site I didn't expect anything like the above and so bummed a shitty thumb drive laying around to act as a bandaid.
This drive is very much unsuitable to be an OS drive, and freezes up at the slightest glance.
But we're working again for now and should be good enough to make it to the weekend when I can redo it correctly.
Someone slap me from 4 years ago for this stupid accident.