The Official Status Thread
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Though to be fair, Edge randomly starts playing videos in random tabs on rare occasions.
Lots of news sites start playing videos. Some right away, others after a delay. I open a lot of that sort of page in the background and get to them later. If they start playing, it usually gets closed before I ever look at the page.
I may investigate the mute tab extension...
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I used to have an Allen motor scythe.
We call those "sickle bar mowers" on this side of the pond.
It was lethal, it would drag you along at high speed until it successfully buried you in a hedge (or 10 foot thicket of nettles) then stall so you had hours of fun digging it out.
That's amusing. It also reminded me of the first time I brushhogged with my dad's old Ford 8N tractor. It did not have a Live PTO. I remember coming to the end of a fence row with the brushhog running full tilt, hitting the clutch and the rotating mass of the brushhog acted like a flywheel and run me completley through the fence and in to a tree before I could get it stopped.
Dad was proud...
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If they start playing, it usually gets closed before I ever look at the page.
I may investigate the mute tab extension...
An extension I would love to have is one that if a page starts autoplaying an annoying ad video, it would close the tab and send an email to webmaster@example.com telling them that their bounce rate just went up because of that ad and that I would not visit them again.
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STATUS:
Crisis at my parents' house. The weather desktop gadget has stopped working. Fix it, Cartman! FIX IT!
Of course, stupid MS had removed gadgets during their "mobile is king" midlife crisis.
So... out of curiosity, if I went here: http://win7gadgets.com/s?q=weather
and installed their weather gadget, what are the chances of the thing just working without adds, malware or some other disaster hitting my mother's laptop?
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https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fa33a5c2ff2285c2e74f8b6cb0ee00dd21bb80ae777c960b0d7ff6dfcea3f88a/analysis/
says this is good
Will try it, WCGW?
shouldn't your mother call you eric?
SHUDUP MY MOM LOVES ME IN HER OWN WAY
Tell them to look out the window.
They say they don't see any weather gadgets on the lawn.
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Or buy a mower.
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So buy a reel mower.
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Status: Remember when the Washington Post reported news?
... me neither.
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Discostatus: DB deadlocks appear to be the cause of recent cooties:
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (PG::TRDeadlockDetected: ERROR: deadlock detected
DETAIL: Process 23751 waits for ShareLock on transaction 117043071; blocked by process 2462.
Process 2462 waits for ShareLock on transaction 117043074; blocked by process 23751.
HINT: See server log for query details.
: UPDATE "posts" SET reply_count = reply_count + 1 WHERE ("posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL) AND "posts"."id" = 501213)
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Seriously, what kind of loser has 32 youtube tabs open among 100 others?
One time, I decided to count the web pages I had opened at a time.
Well, I had three virtual machines running, each with four virtual desktops, plus the physical machine, on each desktop two to about ten browser windows, each with maybe six to thirty tabs. All well-arranged, so that I could find a tab I remembered I had opened somewhere within seconds.
I didn't really count all of them but made a (albeit not very vague) estimation, and there were about 950 pages. Don't know how many youtube pages among them. But probably less than 32.
So I agree with someone like you described being a loser.
Btw, I like hibernation.
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I typically have at least a hundred tabs around. I cut them down occasionally. Google, however, hates tabs.
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I typically have at least a hundred tabs around. I cut them down occasionally.
Same here.
Google, however, hates tabs.
Didn't notice so far. I don't use Chrome or Chromium very often because I get timeout messages significantly more frequent than on other browsers, and because the CPU usage goes up to 100% for several minutes every time I open one of them. (On my Android device, Chrome runs quite fine, though. OTOH, there aren't tabs like in windows for desktop window managers.)
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Here we go again! Yaaaay!
When you launch chrome, all 100+ tabs start loading. If you don't have an addon to stop it, any sites with any streaming content that plays automatically, like a web radio or youtube, start playing at once.
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Status: Remember that TLS-for-everyone thing where your server can verify its own identity? Well, they may have made a bad choice in their "support tracker" choice.
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I use bookmarks, like a normal person.
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Chrome is broken. I make no claims of being normal.
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Status:
IT PERSISTS. EVERY TIME I'VE ENTERED THIS THREAD. ALL DAY.
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So buy a reel mower.
Does not work on long grass, makes more noise, and is more work than the scythe I use.
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Status:
waiting for the manual vs auto grass mowing flame war to start
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Status: Just realized that I mined like 100 Programmers.SE rep this week, for just telling some guy that no, your App.config is for application configuration, and that your XML data should be in an external file, in case you eventually go json or get a database.
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STATUS:
Look at this shit.
User can enable "auto-complete option". If they do, they can enter how many hours. This value is converted to and from milliseconds, in a backing field. There needs to be validation. Empty value is OK if checkbox is unchecked.
That's it. Simple?
I'VE BEEN MESSING WITH THIS FOR HOURS!
It's always some subtle thing that's wrong. Be it validation or conversion or null handling.... Uggh!
I suck.
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Validation is awful. Or remaining intern spent a couple days getting one of the for built in wpf validation systems working in the app she'd been working on. I helped as much as I could from memory of doing something similar at intel, but it's awful and complicated and everyone has their own way of doing It.
She got It, and far faster than I remember doing It. She'll go far.
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any sites with any streaming content that plays automatically, like a web radio or youtube, start playing at once.
I usually have a tab open to my local classical music radio station's live stream, though not always playing. The tab loads to a 15-second intro that cannot be paused or bypassed. The page's start/stop, volume control, etc., are disabled until the intro is done. The intro (and music, when it starts) play at maximum volume. The only upside is that Chrome is so busy trying to load 7593 tabs, the intro is over and the volume control is accessible by the time the tab actually starts making noise.
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Status: doing a code review over a +500 LOC PR
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TIL redis is pain in the ass in low memory conditions.
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Status: One meeting done, and it is pouring with rain. Flooding too. Hope it doesn't flood too much more; I can't go home until I've got another meeting finished…
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Status: Productive morning meeting, so that's nice.
Also, email from a (very good) Chinese supplier. I scored two cat emoticons and an unfortunate typo. Her English is infinitely better than my Chinese though
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Status: fighting yet another DRM issue. Also, playing with memes:
That's so funny
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Actually, I found the magic:
Don't ask.
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It's just the World's Doofiest-Looking Box Cutter.
I can't even imagine how they think that's supposed to be superior to the normal box cutter design. I guess you can hang it in a closet?
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It's also a bluetooth headset, what's not to like?
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STATUS: Family lunch.
Barbeque? Check.
Alcohol? Check.
Racism? Check.
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I can't even imagine how they think that's supposed to be superior to the normal box cutter design. I guess you can hang it in a closet?
~m a g i c~
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STATUS: Family lunch.
Barbeque? Check.
Alcohol? Check.
Racism? Check.Are we related?
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It's just the World's Doofiest-Looking Box Cutter.
You can apparently win a design award, even when the design is silly and the form defeats part of the function.
There is just no way to improve upon this:
...without adding a laser.
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I 100% agree. I mean, the speaker said you can hang it on the wall with the hook.
YOU COULD ALREADY DO THAT WITH AN OFF THE SHELF REGULAR BOX CUTTER!! IT HAS A HOLE OR SLOT TO HANG IT BY A NAIL YOU IDIOT!!
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I 100% agree. I mean, the speaker said you can hang it on the wall with the hook.
YOU COULD ALREADY DO THAT WITH AN OFF THE SHELF REGULAR BOX CUTTER!! IT HAS A HOLE OR SLOT TO HANG IT BY A NAIL YOU IDIOT!!
Idiot designer: "But you can hang this one from a larger hook!"
Normal person: "It has a hole, add some string and you can hang it off of an infinitely sized hook."
I also notice that it has an appropriately silly single-word product name.
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There is just no way to improve upon this:
[normal box cutter image]I dunno, for general usage I prefer the folding style.
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I dunno, for general usage I prefer the folding style.
To each their own. If I am using a box cutter, I like the classic as I can pull it from my pocket, extend the blade, cut what I need to, retract the blade and put it back in my pocket, entirely one-handed.
For general stuff around the house, I generally just use my pocket knife, which is also able to be used with one hand.
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Folding normally have a clip so I don't need to root around in pockets and can still be done one handed, but if it is a badly done folder (like those that use a button on the back to release the catch) then I could agree with you.
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No dancing on the tables yelling "slivovitza!" yet?
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badly done folder
The ones I have noticed have been. They are fine up until you get to the closing the blade part of it.
The other thing I love about the classic version is the ability to store quite a few extra blades, as I tend to change them out frequently.