The Official Status Thread
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@RaceProUK said:
Poor soul. Can't you at least give him a chair? ... Or a seat.Or a Share. It's right there under the text.
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wait.... if i'm reading that right UKIP got 12% of the vote, and ended up with 20% of the seats that a party with 6% of the vote got?
...... DAMN, that's almost as messed up as the electoral college.
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That's not the final results, but they're not changing much as the rest of the seats are decided.
And yes, it's really fucked up
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Status: at work at 0600 because today is the super deploy day that i've been stressing over for weeks now and there's nobody else here.... and no email from the crew that was going to be starting at 1700 last night to let me know where they left off...
i could have been sleeping! okay i wouldn't be sleeping right now i'd be reading the news and comics but i could be doing it in my own bed with my cat trying to get her morning scritches!
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If you want fairness and variety, really, you want some form of proportional representation
There is no system that can fairly and accurately represent all of the people all of the time. There are mathematical proofs. Even in Labour's '97 landslide, over half of voters chose someone else.
I think there should be some voting reform (I voted yes in the AV referendum), but the main thing you lose in PR is the notion of having an MP for your constituency.
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the main thing you lose in PR is the notion of having an MP for your constituency.
I have a friend who is quite well-informed about these things, who assures me that there are PR systems that do allow direct representation. I'm sure he'd explain them to me if I asked, but too much consideration of political systems gives me a severe case of wanting to curl up and die.
But you must necessarily either have uneven representation overall, or some constituencies where the popular candidate isn't the one elected. There's no perfect system.
@loopback0: just waiting for Miliband then,
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I'm surprised Clegg kept his seat
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You should have posted those two the other way round. The Farage shot has 'Con need 2 to win', Clegg has 1. Quite possibly, the Miliband shot, when it comes, will have 'Con win' or suchlike.
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Allright then, I just read the headlines.
which are saying he's expected to resign. Unless the news has just broken and you're talking about a headline from the last few minutes, in which case, link?
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Status:
Swapped
and (field_name is not null and field_name != 0)
for
and field_name > 0
in someone else's query, reducing the run time from >2 minutes to 2 seconds as it swaps a full table scan for an index range scan.Sort of fed up of trying to get through to people about caring about database performance when writing these queries.
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You should have posted those two the other way round.
Yes they are the wrong way around because I was reading down the live feed on the BBC website.
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Ah, of course.
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do we have servercooties or not?
servercooties.com says yes, but i posted this so.....?
.... oh. nevermind.
i've had this queued to post for too long not to post it!
also the desktop notifications code on servercooties testing didn't work.... i need to figure out why.
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We can't even make the banner correct - this thing breaks in such idiotic ways there is no sensible code that can test this shit properly.
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So when the polling plugin doesn't update properly, it basically prevents people posting.
Call me crazy, but I find posting to be something that's kinda slightly important? As in, something that shouldn't be so trivially broken?
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We can't even make the banner correct -
no we got that right... at least until the site came back in error induced read only mode.
i could probably figure out a way to poll posting as well but i really wanted the site to not require a login...
this thing breaks in such idiotic ways there is no sensible code that can test this shit properly.
yeah.... i thought moving to Beta would make that less likely to happen... but no. still plenty of bloody noses here too.
oh. look who's back:
(yes repeated from above. image upload is broked)apparently because the site went away completely..... lovely.
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Ran a rebuild
[poll]
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- no
[/poll]
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no we got that right... at least until the site came back in error induced read only mode.
That's what I meant. TRWTF IS YOU doesn't really fit with "you can't post, and it's not your fault".
But I don't see a way around that, really.
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That's what I meant. TRWTF IS YOU doesn't really fit with "you can't post, and it's not your fault".
true.
got this issue though. might help in some cases.
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Swapped
and (field_name is not null and field_name != 0)
for
and field_name > 0
Asking because my SQL knowledge is rusty: what happens when your version encounters a
field_name
that is NULL?
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Dat ending scene tho...
Season 5 hasn't been ordered yet (though most think it's a foregone certainty.)
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what happens when your version encounters a field_name that is NULL?
It's excluded, because
NULL > 0
isUNKNOWN
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Thought [Miliband] was already gone?
He is now. But I can't find a BBC News headline screenshot of it to complete the series.
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Our director responsible for health and safety cut his fingers off with a circular saw over the weekend.
He's just been round showing off his stumps*.
*stupidity
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Why the hell does that carry a warning that it is not to be sold to anyone under the age of 16?
Three days behind on reading, so I may be d but ...
I think that's a "suitable for" age, not a "not to be sold" age. It has a lot of pieces; it's complex and will take quite a while to put together. They probably think that only adults and older teens will be able to complete it successfully. Choking hazard warnings usually refer to age 3.
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I would hope it is... if they cancel that show.... well I may become a relevant number...
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I think that's a "suitable for" age, not a "not to be sold" age.
The warning appears to only show on the mobile site? Wtf?
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Status: You know how I intimated on reddit that the poll plugin upgrade wasn't tested? Well…
https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-polls-broken-after-latest-discourse-update-2015-edition/28487/24?u=raceprouk
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intimated
I ... don't really know what that word is supposed to mean in this context.
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No idea what it would be in German
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Look it up, it's a dictionary definition.
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I never heard of it before though.
Stupid lackluster German school system!
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They taught you about dictionaries, right?
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@Boner said:
Our director responsible for health and safety cut his fingers off with a circular saw over the weekend.
He's just been round showing off his stumps*.
*stupidity
Well, if you can't be a good example, it works at least as well to be a horrible warning.
Filed Under: I 'quote entire post'ed and it quoted the quote, as a nested quote with proper attribution, and the emoji. Wow.
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One summer I worked it a big industrial place (BIP) where everybody clocked in and out.
I worked at a place like that for a little while. I even saw a VP clocking in and out. It was a WTF for a bunch of other reasons, too (highlights below). I spent the first couple of months thinking "it can't really be as bad as it seems." After about two months, I realized it really was that bad, and started looking elsewhere.
- They searched your bag on the way out looking for bits of hardware; you could have walked out with every trade secret in the company on floppies (yes, it was that long ago) and the "security" guard wouldn't have questioned it.
- Everyone was required to be in by 0800 and leave no earlier than 1700. As a salaried employee, you were welcome to come in earlier or leave later, but if you ever came in late (even if you stayed late to make up the time) or left early, you were required to explain, in writing, at the end of the week.
- You were required to explain any unusual phone calls, even work-related ones. E.g., a software engineer calling MS tech support would not be considered unusual, but a hardware engineer making the same call would have to explain it. I vaguely knew, from a previous company, the head of the mechanical engineering department; he told me about having been called into a bean counter's office to explain $2.30 of personal phone calls. (He said, "I don't have time for this;" threw $3 on the desk, and walked out.)
- The company was made of 99% H1B workers who would work long hours because they didn't know anyone outside the company and had nothing else to do. It was said that you could tell who got a Green Card, because they quit the next day.
- If you quit, you may think you're giving two weeks notice. In reality, it's closer to two minutes. You are told to clean out your desk while they watch, then you are escorted out of the building.
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crossbows that fired the long grey bits. Good fun.
That depends on which end of the crossbow you're on. :)
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post-midnight makes me sleepy
I used to be a night-owl; I could stay up to 0200 or 0300 and still be reasonably functional the next day. However, I seem to be turning into a morning person (and I don't like it). I've been waking up around 0500, or even earlier, no matter how late I stay up. Waking up at 0530 is "sleeping in."
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Look it up, it's a dictionary definition.
This post belongs in the funny stuff thread.
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I vaguely knew, from a previous company, the head of the mechanical engineering department; he told me about having been called into a bean counter's office to explain $2.30 of personal phone calls. (He said, "I don't have time for this;" threw $3 on the desk, and walked out.)
I like that guy.
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He is now. But I can't find a BBC News headline screenshot of it to complete the series.
There's a photo of a screen showing it
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/512/amz/vivo/live/images/2015/5/8/tweet-596634787063930880-2.jpg
Or
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verification of
After the talk of the guy sleeping with them, this is how I read that.spoiltsoiled ballots