The Official Status Thread
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I think I've figured a useful heuristic: if a document or presentation includes stock images of human figures and arrows, like
it's most likely bullshit and/or useless information.
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STATUS:
So I hit a rabbit tonight. Me and a buddy get out and walk back 50 meters to check it out. He's still alive, but doesn't seem long for this world (unfocused eyes, probably internal bleeding). We quickly check the front of the car. Everything seems fine at a glance, the engine is working fine. So we leave the rabbit by the side of the road and drive off.
150 km later, I'm leaving my buddy off and, as I'm walking around the car, glance at the front grate again.
"Wait... where is my licence plate?"
Rabbit has had his revenge.
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He's still alive, but doesn't seem long for this world (unfocused eyes, probably internal bleeding).
Please tell me you put it out of its misery…
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Status:
(Planet Rock online streaming)
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Please tell me you put it out of its misery…
Nope.. erm.. I'm sure he'll be find.. yeah.
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I had a buddy who was rear-ended on the way to work one morning. Totalled the car behind him, and tore the crap out of his car. I drove by and stopped to gawk/give him a ride if necessary. His car was still drivable, so once the cops were done with him, he headed towards his car to go to work. Meanwhile, the tow truck is scraping the other car off the pavement. Friend takes one look at his car, turns around, walks up to the other car.
Cop says "What are you doing?"
My friend reaches into the maw of the other car's front end, amidst shattered plastic and torn metal and spilled fluids, and yanks out his mangled, twisted license plate.
Cop says "Oh. Yeah. You should tape that up in your window."
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So I hit a rabbit tonight.
My friend reaches into the maw of the other car's front end, amidst shattered plastic and torn metal and spilled fluids, and yanks out his mangled, twisted license plate.
A combination of the two stories that happened to me:
Many years ago, I see a friend of mine at the gas station fueling up his truck. As I walk towards him, I see something wrong with the grille of his pickup. I walk back to him.
"You hit a duck on your way in to town?"
"Yeah, how did you know? Were you following me?"
"No, his fucking head is stuck in your grille."
Sure as shit, there was a mallard head lodged in the grille of his Chevy. Just the head.
Now, the obligatory...
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A game released in 2010 starts up the first time with this (full screen).
No, that image is not scaled by Discourse.
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What am I missing? Well, besides the horrible kerning?
Unless it started up at like 640x480?
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Ok, yeah, that's rubbish.
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####Status: Authentification woes.
Login via name and password ends up calling a function that verifies the Password and does the whole authentification loading handling.
Login via Active Directory ends up calling a different function that does the whole authentification loading handling.
Login via a MAPI Session ends up calling another different function that does the whole authentification loading handling.
And there's the kind of login that just sets random properties all over the application. That one broke last update.
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Status:
I decided to quit smoking after we close the current contract and move to a new office space. I am now glad I set that timeline for myself. I'm currently, not joking, capable of physical violence. I don't even want to imagine being in withdrawal at this point.
Fuck. This. Shit.
The weather is nice. I should go out, get some sunlight. If I expected shit like this I'd take a day off. I'm rambling.
Why am I even in front of the computer still? I'm not working. I can't work, not until I calm down a bit. I'm outta here.
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Status: thinking about failures, maybe monads, and jump patterns in assembly.
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Status: FIXED (Well, has been for an hour or so already)
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Have you calmed down?
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Status: Setting up my new Surface Pro 3
…which involves Windows Update; 72 updates
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Down to annoyed now
I took a break, played some good music, balance restored.
Edit: Also, just fixed an annoying bug.
mood++;
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I'm currently, not joking, capable of physical violence. I don't even want to imagine being in withdrawal at this point.
This is why I've put off quitting. It's definitely not the right time to deal with that on top of how things are here.
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This is why I've put off quitting. It's definitely not the right time to deal with that on top of how things are here.
99.9% of all the reasons I get angry lately will go away within about a month when I'm done with dealing with this client.
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Status: Setting up my new Surface Pro 3
Status: surious about the specs
Addendum status: wondering id @RaceProUK is using chocolatey to make installing things wonderfully easy.
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surious about the specs
Core i3, 64GB storage. Basically the base spec model
@accalia said:Addendum status: wondering id @RaceProUK is using chocolatey to make installing things wonderfully easy.
I'll be checking it out, yes.Although, when it says 'easy install', I was expecting an EXE, not
PS:\> iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
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Although, when it says 'easy install', I was expecting an EXE
And you'd tell it to install stuff... how? A list of checkboxes, like Synaptic? While that might not be bad (or even hard to make), this is more easily scriptable for deployment on multiple machines / recovery after reinstall.
Then again, looking at that command... Wasn't there something that could just do a simple
<manager> install <package>
for Windows as well?
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Wasn't there something that could just do a simple
<manager> install <package>
for Windows as well?
That'schocolatey
;)
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Although, when it says 'easy install', I was expecting an EXE, not
yeah, that surprised me as well. but at least they give you the cut and paste for it.
Then again, looking at that command... Wasn't there something that could just do a simple <manager> install <package> for Windows as well?
as @raceprouk sya that's chocolatey.
if you wnat the click installstuff you can
choco install chocolateygui
but don't rely on it 100% that one is in beta and sometimes goes weird (when it works it's awesome.... it just doesn't always work)
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Oh... so that's just PowerShell for
wget
? Ok, makes sense. I guess...
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/me offers @raceprouk a mars bar
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If you do .NET development,
(new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')
feels familiar ...(It's the Powershell equivalent to what
(new System.Net.WebClient()).DownloadString("https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1")
is in C#)
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Well, PowerShell is built on .NET after all
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That's what I wanted to show. It's just like C# except more shell-like (and thus, ugly).
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If you do .NET development
I don't. I got confused by the first part being parenthesised, that syntax is unfamiliar to me. Is that some scope thing? I'm guessing it gets discarded immediately?
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Well, as I said, it's a weird hybrid between an ordinary Shell and C# in a way.
It creates a .NET WebClient object, executes a method on it that downloads a file (
DownloadString
) and executes it (that's whatiex
does)
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Yeah, I got that part. The bit that I don't fully get is(new-object net.webclient)
/(new System.Net.WebClient())
Ignore me, I'm being stupid, I get it now.
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@Onyx said:
I'm currently, not joking, capable of physical violence. I don't even want to imagine being in withdrawal at this point.
This is why I've put off quitting. It's definitely not the right time to deal with that on top of how things are here.
same here. you know that you are fooling yourselves don't you?
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WINDOS 7
- as seen on the website of the place I work at.
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status:
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Let's test that, shall we?
I got some news right before leaving work today. Seems I'm not the only one that got royally pissed today. I am now officially free of any dealings with that client. I'm also going to work from home for a few days and moving to the new office early, either by the end of the week or early next week.
And guess what I just ran out of? Fuck it, ahead of schedule. Begin detox.
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Oh right, more statuseyness:
The CTI service thing for our phone equipment has been offline almost all day. Which is kind of annoying.
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Later. Right now the only thing I really have that's worthy of celebration is getting rid of someone, which, while a relief, sounds like a mean thing to celebrate.
As for the rest of the stuff, in due time.
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Great!
maybe we can make a bet to be sure you stay clean?
(it would be a bet i don't want to win thou)
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I have enough motivation as it is. But I will hear you out, if you have a suggestion.
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Begin detox.
For me the hardest part to break was habit of taking a step outside periodically/doing something while walking somewhere. So find something you can sink time into/something else to futz with while doing other stuff.
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Status: Damn it, Jim, I'm an intern, not a systems architect!
Also, client wants total data consistency between his internal app and a microsite hosted outside. That also includes popping up an error if somebody committed their changes while you had an edit form with outdated data open. The client also refuses to give the microsite any access to the internal network, where the DB server is supposed to reside - no web service, no limited user connection, nothing.
Considering using my newly-found position to fire the client.
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Status: Chrome has decided it hates me today.
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you know that you are fooling yourselves don't you?
I've done it before, now just isn't the time.
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Status: We are developing some warehousing software as part of a partnership with another company. I was asked to setup a handheld device to access the software on our network and send it to one of our warehouses so that they can perform some UAT. Two things have come up so far:
- My boss said that there was supposed to be a microSD in the box he handed me. There wasn't, and he is on vacation this week. I don't have purchase authorization.
- The damn thing isn't booting up. It just sits on the boot animation. I've tried half a dozen times, even letting it run for as along as 45 minutes, with no success.
This device is a complete POS.