The Official Status Thread
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Fun parents house story (not really):
One of the friends I made when I started going to Canes games once told me about the time she opened her reddit Secret Santa gift in front of her very conservative parents. The person gave her [spoiler]a giant purple dildo[/spoiler]. She doesn't know why, probably just a really shitty person since she had nothing like that in her request.
She changed reddit accounts for at least awhile after getting harrassed about it once she reported it.
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Status: ESL using a cup and paper for randomization of the SC2 bracket, instead of something sensible like ping pong or bingo balls.
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Anchorage has it in stock. If I leave now and drive without sleeping, I might be able to make it there some time Monday.
Why? Flagstaff has it, too, and it's less than half the distance. You could be there by this time tomorrow, even with quick catnap on the way.
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Do you realize that with a little triangulation, we could figure out where in Wisconsin you are? Your anonymization was effectively pointless.
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Status: thought that my monitor had died, and started to get sad about it. But I'd just knocked the plug out of the wall so it's all fine!
The electric kettle I use for heating water for tea decided not to work. I wasn't quite panicked, but I was definitely ... concerned. I'm not sure if the electrical contacts were dirty, or it was unhappy about water spillage, but wiped it well with a paper towel, and now drinking tea.
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Do you realize that with a little triangulation, we could figure out where in Wisconsin you are? Your anonymization was effectively pointless.
If you want to have at it, go ahead. Probably that's... not the easiest way to do it though. I just want to make it not completely trivial.(Though I guess I do give my location on another forum, so I probably shouldn't have bothered here, especially because it's in an image and not Googlable by text.)
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Status: My 2 month old 8GB RAM stick just bit the dust (BSOD: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT). Now I'm down to 16G from 24...
Addendum Status: PNY's website and technical support hotline suck. 404s all over the place and they won't answer the freaking phone. I hope they still monitor the RMA page. They probably don't.
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Status: Went to rip a DVD to add to the collection, it came in at 22+GB. It is not a Blu-Ray. Well played DRM people. Well played.
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Maybe @EvanED is being routed through MilwaukeePC and it's doing it based on his ping to the server?
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I don't understand the whole idea of "you bought this video file so now you have to manually put it into a slot every time you want to watch it instead of using your computer as a computer". Especially when it applies to video games. I have a 2TB hard drive. I shouldn't need to worry about saving the space of a CD ROM if that's what they're marketing it as.
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For me, it was a children's movie. I rip them and run them through XBMC so that our son does not kill the discs with his sticky little fingers and they do not get lost.
Ever saw a toddler that can't find their favorite movie? It isn't pretty...
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On Xbox One you not only need to slide in the disk, but the first time you do it installs 50%+ of the disk content to the HD anyway. Or, in the case of that last buggy Assassin's Creed title, 90%.
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Status: Cards Against Apples To Humanity was a huge success!
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Status:
sudo pkg delete-f -a
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Finally got a stable KDE 4, and I think I know why I fubared it in the first place.
(It's probably not a great idea to mixpkg_add
all up in yourpkg install
...)
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Some combination of Apples to Apples and CAH, presumably.
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Some combination of Apples to Apples and CAH, presumably.
correct!
to be specific you deal both games and alternate between judging green and black cards,
you use red cards to answer black cards and whtite cards to answer green cards
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Ah, so A2A is basically played like CAH, so you can combine the games pretty easily
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TIL: Hadoop workflow.
- Chop up your huge glob of data and feed chunks into parallelised mappers
- Mappers output normalized rows of data to stdout
3) Magical fairy comes and sprinkles her pixie dust over ALL the output, making it sorted - Sorted data is fed to parallelised reducers
- Reducers process the sorted data and output grouped results to stdout
- Grouped reducer output is joined into the final result
Makes sense.
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Different sides of the same crappy coin.
Didn't Mays pitch Oxiclean? That stuff is actually pretty good.
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Status: Making pizza dough.
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Had a fight with a saran wrap dispenser. I think I lost?
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If your fight was with the serrated metal cutter, you lost — no "?" Those make nasty cuts.
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Status: It's past midnight... WAIT, WUT? WHEN?
I still had plans for today... yesterday... this evening...
I think my internal clock got broked.
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I did manage to avoid getting cut, which was about the only victory I can claim. It was more that I ended up with two halves of a container and about a yard of saran wrap on the floor...
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Hmm, I'm not sure I want to know how you managed to do that. When I lose a fight — which doesn't really happen very often — it's usually that the wrap tears in a way that it's not suitable (too small or wastefully big) for its intended use; less often that it pulls the roll out of the box instead of tearing, or I get cut. I don't think I've ever managed to tear the box in two.
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The wrap was kind of wrapped around itself and tearing lengthwise which resulted in an increasingly narrow band of wrap coming out of the slot. My attempt to resolve this (pulling harder) seemed to utterly compromise the integrity of the box... I've never had either of these things happen before, let alone both together.
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My attempt to resolve this (pulling harder)
As an engineer, my immediate response on reading this was, "Applying more force is probably not the correct solution for this problem." Ok, it wasn't really that articulate, more like .
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Alright then, "pulling hardener"...
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The "
fighting" reports are due to two sparring dwarves crashing into a wall.Apparently I have a cat in my military. I don't remember drafting it.
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I know I'm going to regret asking this, but: what the hell is a "Guineacock Child"?
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Status: Making a list of things to do today:
- Take care of some RL stuff
- Fix the "View raw" button
- Finish some additions for servercooties.com I started on
- Waste some time, play some games
- Spend some time hanging around with people
Conclusion: more hours in a day required. Also, sleeping in didn't help.
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Status: Spring is really here. This weekend was the first weekend of yardwork. My lawn is once again worthy of efforts to keep it child-free.
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@pjh let me do the next upgrade so I can switch the branch you are tracking here from tests-passed to beta
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@pjh let me do the next upgrade so I can switch the branch you are tracking here from tests-passed to beta
weren't we supposed to already be on beta?
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@pjh let me do the next upgrade so I can switch the branch you are tracking here from tests-passed to beta
Sure.
Can you not change it now, or have we currently got code/DB changes that cannot be regressed back to the last beta?
weren't we supposed to already be on beta?
Sorta - I was doing manual upgrades whenever I got a mail about a new beta being out - we've always been tracking tests-passed however.
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Status: Fighting with Salesforce..... so far it's winning.
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PNY's website and technical support hotline suck. 404s all over the place and they won't answer the freaking phone. I hope they still monitor the RMA page. They probably don't.
And this is why I stick with Crucial for my RAM needs...only ever had to RMA with them once and that was because of a no-P/N-change ECO on the part number I ordered, which meant that it was incompatible with my motherboard (a very early DDR3 board that doesn't like DIMMs above a certain density) -- RMAed them for the old version (which had been retained with an A on the end of the part number) and everything was hunky-dory after that. So at the ECO, but kudos to customer service for making everything right.
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STATUS: Node redis library is not the best, but is unfortunately representative of the quality of node ecosystem in general. A few gems and a lot of turds.
// CARTMAN: Let's not do this crap /* // stash original eval method var eval_orig = RedisClient.prototype.eval; // hook eval with an attempt to evalsha for cached scripts RedisClient.prototype.eval = RedisClient.prototype.EVAL = function () { var self = this, args = to_array(arguments), callback; if (typeof args[args.length - 1] === "function") { callback = args.pop(); } if (Array.isArray(args[0])) { args = args[0]; } // replace script source with sha value var source = args[0]; args[0] = crypto.createHash("sha1").update(source).digest("hex"); self.evalsha(args, function (err, reply) { if (err && /NOSCRIPT/.test(err.message)) { args[0] = source; eval_orig.call(self, args, callback); } else if (callback) { callback(err, reply); } }); }; */
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@pjh let me do the next upgrade so I can switch the branch you are tracking here from tests-passed to beta
INB4 blakeyrant about the implied claim that you guys do unit testing
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Status: WHAT... THE... FUCK?
Why is my system clock one hour ahead? I touched nothing!
WAT?
Addendum:
No, you idiot, that's 15:40.
What is WRONG with you?
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EU DST started weekend of 28/29 march?
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Status: WHAT... THE... FUCK?
Why is my system clock one hour ahead? I touched nothing!
WAT?
Every time I switched to Mac last week, the genius rewinded the clock 2 hours back. And on my linux VM, ntp keeps setting up wrong time every time I restart.
Time sucks.
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Yes. And it was fine until today. I just now noticed that all new posts on Discourse say 1h, started to write a bug report about it and then noticed it's my clock that's off.
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restart
That's what did it, probably.
Just checked, no
tzdata
updates in the pipeline.What in the holy mother of ass is going on?