The Official Status Thread
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: phone thinks Chrome is a game. 😋
Well...
Welcome back stranger.
No meetings and no tickets. I suppose I should do more graphql research.
Anyone want to take bets on how much effort will be expended for it to be used like a regalur rest endpoint?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Welcome back stranger.
I think you're confusing me with someone who had his forum avatar changed to a different cat for a moment. I wasn't gone nowhere.
And I shall still claim those dogecoins of yours.
Silence, demon!
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@DogsB no bet. Your company seems entirely too likely to do just that when it dawns on them that GraphQL requires querying it differently.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB no bet. Your company seems entirely too likely to do just that when it dawns on them that GraphQL requires querying it differently.
I haven't dug in deep enough yet but my gut points towards this is probably how most graphql endpoints are consumed.
My first thought was I'll probably need a caching layer between us and the inhouse group to make this work in any way because their uptime is abysmal and so far we're only interested in yesterday's analytics. Thinking about my initial foray into graphql, the only way to keep this thing any way performant would probably be a catastrophic caching monstrosity. In theory, you can pick and choose the data you want but in my heart of hearts, I know that's going to be a select * and probably a select * for every item in a list.
God help me but I hate caching but at least that bit won't be my problem.
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@DogsB my limited experience of GraphQL is that it’s often deployed against stuff like MongoDB backends where you’re not doing SELECT * shenanigans in the first place because you’re implicitly getting the data in JSON and just cutting the keys you don’t want.
Trying to run GraphQL on a relational database hurts IME.
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@Arantor @DogsB I was learning something about graphql just for the sake of updating myself
The server side looked easier, with tools that make the basic stuff automatically. I didn't look some things like permissions or logging that you would probably want for any serious work
For the benefit of lurkers and other people reading us I'll put more details than I think you would be interested
I looked into seaography as I've been interested in rust lately, but the most popular thing is probably apollo, both on the server and client side.
Seaography used a standard called relay, that have interesting conventions that are good for large scale performance, like paging using cursors, and some concept with edges and whatnot.
The client side tool I tested to access a graphql with the relay standard was relay.dev. It annoyed me that it forces you to have babel in your build. You don't just add it as a library on your frontend, it's more like a framework you build upon. The more you deviate from it's way of doing things, more details you have to configure. It has a compile step that generate code based on graphql snippets on your code.
I think I would probably like the apollo client library better, but at this point I was a bit tired of looking at graphql and put the idea on the fridge
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I'm annoyed that gog galaxy don't let me left click to open a game listed on the store in another window/tab, and if I click on a game to look and the back button it loses the position I was on the list. The middle click worked, but I took to long to find it out
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CRYMACHINA steam review
I've seen pride parades that are straighter than this game.
10/10, love this game.Now I'm all kinds of interested but not at that price.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
CRYMACHINA
CRYMACHINA is an action RPG where mechanical girls strive to survive in a post-apocalyptic world to become “Real Humans''. But what does it mean to be a “Real Human”?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
left click to open [...] in another window/tab
Is that a common thing that happens normally? IME that usually only happens when a link or other specific interaction element indicates that would happen (usually with an icon or someshuch).
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You have my attention....
I hate timing-combo games, but I'll wishlist it when I'm not at work, maybe someone can gift it to me.
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@Tsaukpaetra no, I meant right click
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra no, I meant right click
I repeat myself....
Secondary-interact doesn't usually "open in new tab/window" for me in almost anything...
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@Tsaukpaetra I usually right-click and open new tab on the menu, with the mid button I often scroll instead of clicking, and had many mice with damage on the scroll wheel before
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm annoyed that gog galaxy don't let me left click to open a game listed on the store in another window/tab, and if I click on a game to look and the back button it loses the position I was on the list. The middle click worked, but I took to long to find it out
I'm annoyed that Steam will go back to the order confirmation screen for the last thing I bought when I click the Store link, instead of sensibly going to the Store's frontpage or whatever you want to call it.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm annoyed that gog galaxy don't let me left click to open a game listed on the store in another window/tab, and if I click on a game to look and the back button it loses the position I was on the list. The middle click worked, but I took to long to find it out
I'm annoyed that Steam will go back to the order confirmation screen for the last thing I bought when I click the Store link, instead of sensibly going to the Store's frontpage or whatever you want to call it.
Probably just speeding up the process of buyer's remorse.
I was trying to buy a gift voucher from Monsoon last night. Tried brave on ios. Got all the way to me having to verify with my credit card provider that the purchase was allowed. Confirmed. No joy. Okay Brave has hyper-sensitive adblocking. Try disabling that. Got to CC approval. Approved. Still no joy. Is it the vpn. No Joy. Tried safari. Twice. No joy.
Tried on brave on my laptop with vpn, script and cookies allowed but other adblocks enabled. Worked first time.
Conclusion: They never tested on ios.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I was trying to
buyuse agift vouchercoupon fromMonsoonREIlast nighttoday.It failed.
I looked closely at the terms&conditions.
Offer not valid on prior purchases
Well, fuck. Guess I can't replace my shoes yet...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Conclusion: They never tested on ios.
This applies to the Papa John's app too.
The most ridiculous one is that when you apply a discount voucher it rounds the discounted price down. Not only does that mean it's sometimes different to the website which expectedly rounds up, but when you try and pay it (I assume) hits the server to confirm the price and start the actual payment and the server disagrees so it'll throw up a message saying that the price of an item has changed and take you back to the start of the checkout. It doesn't actually update though so still has the same price and you get stuck in a loop of not being able to checkout.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Conclusion: They never tested on ios.
iOS Safari (it's all Safari under the hood) is special, in the short bus sense. The ie6 of the modern age.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Conclusion: They never tested on ios.
iOS Safari (it's all Safari under the hood) is special, in the short bus sense. The ie6 of the modern age.
You're doing IE6 super dirty with that comparison
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STATUS Catching up on my spam emails. I wonder if I set up a filter to delete everything with emojis in the subject line how much of my problem would be solved.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS Catching up on my spam emails. I wonder if I set up a filter to delete everything with emojis in the subject line how much of my problem would be solved.
Maybe if you stopped signing up for anime conventions, you wouldn’t get as much mail with uwu in the subject.
HTH. HAND.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS Catching up on my spam emails. I wonder if I set up a filter to delete everything with emojis in the subject line how much of my problem would be solved.
Maybe if you stopped signing up for anime conventions, you wouldn’t get as much mail with uwu in the subject.
HTH. HAND.
Do your duty and get the rope. I'll be waiting at the gallows.
STATUS All is quiet at the moment. I wonder where the piano that's going to fall on me is hiding.
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Look above you... oops, too late.
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@Zerosquare I don't remember that Seinfeld episode
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@DogsB stop pushing elephants up the stairs.
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Status: Where is servercooties.io when you need it.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Where is servercooties.io when you need it.
We need a serverservercooties.place!
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@Tsaukpaetra No.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Where is servercooties.io when you need it.
We need a serverservercooties.place!
don't you mean servercootiescooties?
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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:
All it took to break direct deposit distributions was for the company to change the description on the deposit.
.... I'm dismayed yet unsurprised that an arbitrary text field was used as critical identification.
I feel the same way not knowing if "COMPANY, IN" is a data entry mistake or string truncation. I already have one monthly charge that gets truncated every month because the company has an & in their name. I wouldn't recommend this bank to anybody that worked somewhere like AT&T, Wendy's, or Toys Я Us.
21 days and 3 phone calls later and it's still broken. It was supposed to work today because it takes two weeks to
flatten the curverecognize the deposit. I knew it wasn't going to work because, as bought Chinese officials stay bought, broken Indian code stays broken.This time, though, there was a twist. Customer service decided they were going to try to gaslight me!
So the way deposit allocations work is really easy. You can set up a series of transfers and the schedule will go down the list executing them until it runs out of money. To completely allocate a deposit that isn't a fixed amount, the last transfer has to be high enough that there's nothing left to transfer after it executes. So my part-time paycheck, which can be anywhere between $90 and $200 depending on hours, has exactly one step to transfer $4096. I would've loved to set 100% instead but, you see, my bank's developers are all Indian.
Well, first Ms Retarded rudely tells me that's not how it works, even though that's what the form itself says and exactly how it's worked for three years and also how the last five support people confirmed it works. Then she claims nothing changed, even though this was precipitated by a fucking description change. Now the goal posts move to what I must do because they fucked up. Tell your employer to deposit directly into the destination account. No, stupid, nobody can direct deposit anywhere but checking or savings. Then it was "set the amount manually every week" to which I shot back "what part of 'automated' transfer don't you fucking understand?"
I told her I was a programmer and this is a classic case of incompetent developers not testing and trying to pass the buck to users. She started stuttering out an excuse, which I interrupted, and she said "let me finish." That worked once because she continued with the excuses so I kept talking over her. I said WTF do you keep upping the version number anyway? Is it tied into the clock or something? Because you never fix anything that you break and this is just the latest in a long line of fuckups that'll never work right again.
She said everything is working fine and you'll just have to take care of it on your end. I said, you know what, maybe I'll take care of it by withdrawing everything in the account and taking it to a bank with a functioning IT department. How would you like that?
Then she says she set it to transfer 100%. I said "no, you can't. That option isn't on the page. I'll tell you exactly what will happen. You'll set it to 100 and it'll move 100 dollars if it does anything at all. And I will call in and complain again. And again and again and again until you actually fix this." Then she hung up on me.
After I called and failed to get anybody at the insurance company (because they fucked up something now too), I called back and verified with another agent what the first one did. This one claimed it was set to 100%. I said "why isn't it showing on my account screen? I see zero dollars." Apparently they're going to put in a request to show that option to customers. I told them their feedback system was awful because nobody on the the development team ever fixes anything no matter how many bug reports people file. She told me management was going to watch this transaction and have an answer for me when I call next Thursday so I thanked her and hung up.
There's now an unexplained (because what's a tooltip? hur dur not being teh needful) green checkmark next to every transfer between the two accounts on the web page. I fully expect this to not work because why should I?
And this, Random Asshole On LinkedIn, is why I talk like I'm the only person who knows anything - because I fucking am the only person who knows anything.
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I'm starting to think that like some other WTDWTF members, you have a personal Distortion Field. Yours appear to make everybody around you incompetent.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm starting to think that like some other WTDWTF members, you have a personal Distortion Field. Yours appear to make everybody around you incompetent.
I thought that's part of the CMB.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm just waiting for "fuck it, I'll just use Total Commander."
Speaking of which:
Actual screenshot from the start menu of the new PC I got at work a week ago. This was pre-installed when I got it.
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Another example of IT running in circles. A long time ago, you needed third-party utilities because the OS only included the bare minimum. Now it's happening again.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm starting to think that like some other WTDWTF members, you have a personal Distortion Field. Yours appear to make everybody around you incompetent.
My PDT keeps the screaming internal.
STATUS Corporate security just learned that Okta recently had a security breach and has put the brakes on a project to migrate to Okta. Gave themselves a pat on the back. The project has been specced for about 18 months. Nothing was likely to happen in the immediate decade.
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@Zerosquare are we at risk of the ghost (not the product) of Norton Utilities coming back and being usable?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare are we at risk of the ghost (not the product) of Norton Utilities coming back and being usable?
Was it ever?
Maybe I'm not enough to have experienced them in their prime, I've only tried them back in the day when they were already bought by Symantec. Those things were some bloated, resource hungry garbage that did the opposite of "optimizing your system". And contained an assorted mix of random shit, for example a "protected recycle bin", which was essentially in that you could recover files that you've deleted from the recycle bin.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
A long time ago, you needed third-party utilities because the OS
only included the bare minimumwas an OS and just ran programs you had to buy to get actual functionality from and wasn't an advertising platform.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare are we at risk of the ghost (not the product) of Norton Utilities coming back and being usable?
Ghost is being actively used over in the department I'm backfilling for today. Well, Altiris, I guess, which uses it too?
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@Tsaukpaetra that’s why I said “not the product” because Norton Ghost was still useful a long time after Norton Utilities stopped being.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I've only tried them back in the day when they were already bought by Symantec.
That's like using a piece of software after it has been acquired by Adobe.
(I've been told that Norton Utilities were genuinely good in the early days.)
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm just waiting for "fuck it, I'll just use Total Commander."
Speaking of which:
Actual screenshot from the start menu of the new PC I got at work a week ago. This was pre-installed when I got it.
Hey, I use that on my phone because yes, @Zerosquare, that fucking thing didn't have a usable file manager either.
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@Zenith My phone originally came with a usable file manager. But then, an update of Android followed, and I had to install a usable file manager...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
(I've been told that Norton Utilities were genuinely good in the early days.)
Can confirm, back in the days where their tools did something.
It was certainly for power users, back when things like an undelete tool were newfangled ideas, but includes shit like a disk-level hex editor for direct editing, a disk caching program that was significantly faster than SMARTdrive, a tool for rewriting information aligned to the rotational set of your drive so you could access files faster (by rewriting them to interleave to drive speed).
There were a bunch of editions over the years with more tools but it all went downhill in the Windows era.
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status: I wanted to cast my phone screen so I could watch progress on a thing.
Enabled WiDi on my PC, connected to it.
Phone thinks it's talking to an external monitor with input, so it goes into some weird mode with a different launcher button.
Huh.
Move my mouse over the cast window and... Whoa! A second mouse cursor!
Lo and behold I can send keyboard and mouse events! Neat!
Sadly the delay of almost a whole second is not conducive to actual usage.
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Status: Animorphs!
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status: huh. Someone finally got around to using my breached password for my main Google account. Took what, 12 years?
Anyways, officially burning password "secure unsalted 2005". Kinda relieved actually.
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@Arantor The defragmenter was kind of mesmerising to watch at least.
STATUS made my yearly donation to Movember. Didn't do a page but I'm doing it in solidarity. If I can grow a good porno mustache I might go for a mullet.