The Official Status Thread
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But that would perpetuate the indication of interest!
And let Google think I'm actually interested in it?!
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I have no idea what reggaeton is.
What music do you listen to on youtube? Though if you actually did listen to something close I'd assume you would know what it is. (also so you don't need to google it):
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Nothing like that.
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Well, if Twitter has integration with Google's AdWords or DoubleClick platform, and if Google is run by assholes with no ethics, it's technically possible.
Yeah.
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And also, holy fucking shit, do none of you have the ability to look at your account's settings?!?!
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Right; but that doesn't imply a relationship with Google or Google's ad network.
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you don't want to know, trust me on this one, that fucking thing is the latest trend here, and it's annoying
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Reggae
They Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Ribbit, darling
I don't get your frog fixation but I think that would be animal cruelty
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For a second I thought the first option read 'Tailor Swift based on my recent ...'
It didn't make sense.
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do I download files in a recursive loop, or do I start all downloads at once and then manage parallelism using an async lib?
I would go with parallel downloads, but with a configurable max-number-of-open-connections (most applications I've used that does this has four connections alive at the time).
Why recursive? Do you have sub-dirs? If so, I would do the recursive loop first to queue the downloads in a flat list.
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Why recursive? Do you have sub-dirs? If so, I would do the recursive loop first to queue the downloads in a flat list.
It's mostly just to manage locking, failure states, reporting, etc.
Never mind, I figured it out. Took the third option :-)
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**Status:**strong text GUYS A 9 CHARACTER ACRONYM PASSWORD THAT YOU JAMMED SYMBOLS AND NUMBERS INTO IS MORE SECURE THAN TYPING THE WHOLE PHRASE AND REPLACING WITH NUMBERS AND SYMBOLS BECAUSE ~DICTIONARY ATTACK~
Holy fuck what is wrong with this place.
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They Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means
Obviously this is the best example of the genre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQAB1ZE47s0
Interesting bug: Discourse thinks that video's titled "From" because it pukes when it encounters a perfectly normal quote mark in a video title. Quality.
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Status: My AT&T U-Verse modem decided to die, so I'm at my dad's office right now.
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While you're there, check the internet speed...
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Status: My javascript monstrosity of an interface for launching directory archiving jobs works. Bwahahahaha!
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Just like Beggar's canyon back home.
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Status: were the fuck i had the instructions for setting nodejs into debian?
seriously guyz, this should've been fixed ages ago...
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@Lorne_Kates said:
How does it compare to sake?
Soju is more like Korean vodka in my experience. Usually weaker than vodka typically, though.
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It's a lot more "drinkable" than either saki or vodka, IMO. Especially vodka.
I'd actually say it's one of those "dangerous" drinks to give a young/new drinker, because you could easily accidentally drink it by the glass and get way too wasted.
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It's a lot more "drinkable" than either saki or vodka, IMO. Especially vodka.
Definitely.
I'd actually say it's one of those "dangerous" drinks to give a young/new drinker, because you could easily accidentally drink it by the glass and get way too wasted.
Yeah, it doesn't have the alcohol burn or whatever that you tend to get with vodka, but it's a lot stronger than beer or wine. Just checked the bottle on my shelf: It says 24% alcohol by volume.
Of course, if you go to a restaurant in Korea, you'll see a whole table of middle aged / old men sitting on the floor drinking this stuff like it's nothing.
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Of course, if you go to a restaurant in Korea, you'll see a whole table of middle aged / old men sitting on the floor drinking this stuff like it's nothing.
Well yeah but it's still served in tiny cups or shot glasses, not in beer steins.
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Right; but that doesn't imply a relationship with Google or Google's ad network.
Actual, I think it does imply**emphasized text a relationship (given the size of Twitter and Google, and the likelyhood of both wanted to use the other's massive data sets).
However, it proves****strong text absofucking nothing.
Now, if @WhoeverTheOPWasIForgetAndImOnALaptopSoTheScreenIsSmallAndICannotBeArsedToScrollUp unchecks those boxes, does some more Gaggle searches for "horn-billed duck porn", and starts getting promoted tweets from "You won't believe what this horn-billed duck can fit in it's bill!"... well, then that's a hell of a lot closer to proof.
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This site is being belgium-ly slow again. And opening stuff under /users/aliceif just outright errored on me with 404s.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Actual, I think it does imply**emphasized text a relationship (given the size of Twitter and Google, and the likelyhood of both wanted to use the other's massive data sets).
Atlas has just as much data as Google does. Publishers (typically) do not use both DoubleClick and Atlas, so it's quite possible Twitter is an Atlas customer and has absolutely no relationship with Google what-so-ever.
But whatever, despite my experience in the ad exchange industry, people on this forum are just going to ignore me and go on their rants regardless. So knock yourself out.
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STATUS:
Digging into the oldest niches of my code, I suddenly realized my oldest classes are all initialized as singletons.
What the fuck was I thinking?
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Status: Dad called MilwaukeePC for the third time so far today (we get the internet from AT&T through them because of some tax loophole or something) and the support person claimed to not know who my dad was, and that he had spoken to someone else with the same last name (which is a very uncommon last name).
The support tech also said that because the lights were all green, AT&T wouldn't be able to help if he called them. And then he didn't give any alternative way to fix the problem.
He said that we should try plugging in a laptop directly to the modem (which is a modem-router combo) with nothing in between and seeing if we can access the internet that way. My dad said he'd try that, finished the call, and then I said "isn't that exactly how your laptop is set up at home?"
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No, no, what you need to do is cut all the wires and hang them upside down so they can drain out all the stuff that's clogging the tubes.
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drain out all the stuff that's clogging the tubes.
Yeah, a tech told me this exact thing!
"Okay sir, I found the problem: There was water in the lines, once we aired it out the signal came back good!"
Filed under: How can a modem, "go bad"? did I say the wrong magic words in its' presence?
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Ben you should write a sitcom about a fictional ISP named, say, "Wichita ISP". Or "Toledo Internet". Or "Madison Networks".
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TBH, I thought we (speaking as AT&T) had finished getting rid of the traditional DSL customers and
forciblyencouragingly migrated them to Uverse.
In that case, if a Factory Reset didn't work (the lights being solid green and not blinking), and I could communicate with the RG from the provisioning tools, we would proceed to user-side troubleshooting.
Oh the fun we would have, instructing people what a WiFi icon looks like and why connecting to the password-less "linksys" network was a Bad Idea. Better yet, trying to explain why the magix buttons isnr't werkung! and why I can't just "Flip the Switch" and make it all better.
Filed under: Hmm, I probably have some issues from my time as a Tier1 support rep
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Wait, am I allowed to do a factory reset? I was under the impression that that would lose some kind of authentication information that we don't know because we aren't directly buying it from AT&T. It's a NVG589 router/modem combo with the default (arbitrary if not random) password and SSID.
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Could hardly hurt, if it's 0% working right now.
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That depends, are you Uverse? If you're on the traditional DSL, then it might not be a good idea to FR it (unless you remember your sbcglobal.net credentials).
If you ARE Uverse, then yeah, FR it away, configuration parameters are retrieved by the RG upon connection based on the serial of the RG, so at worst you would need to look for that sticker that tells you the Wifi name and password.
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because you could easily accidentally drink it by the glass and get way too wasted.
We have that mint herbal vodka out here - back when I was a tad bit younger, a friend brought a bottle of it to the gig. I had no idea what it was, so I opened it, took a few swigs, and thought "mm, tasty, doesn't feel alcoholic, I wonder how strong this is... oh fuck, 80 proof?"
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mm, tasty
Probably because your taste buds were discombobulated at that point?
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Probably because your taste buds were discombobulated at that point?
No, it actually is quite tasty. Thought that might have happened too.
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Status: came home, unplugged every single cable from router-modem, re-plugged every single cable, and now the internet works.
Because for some reason, the router-modem's physical reset button, the reset button on the control panel, and just unplugging the power aren't enough to make the router realize it fucked up and shouldn't have green lights for broadband when it can't talk to DHCP.
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Because for some reason, the router-modem's physical reset button, the reset button on the control panel, and just unplugging the power aren't enough to make the router realize it fucked up
But then you would have missed out on the entertaining interaction with tech support.
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unplugging the power aren't enough
Actually had this issue with a Windows 8 machine a while back. Steps:- Rebooted the PC
- Released the IP (ipconfig /release *)
- Attempted to Renew the IP (ipconfig /renew *): Instantly succeeded and "got" the same IP information (I had changed subnetting to expand our growing needs, so this shouldn't have been possible).
- Rebooted the router and cleared all DHCP leases that still lingered from previous subnet (and restarted DNSMASQ just in case)
- Repeated steps 0 through 0 again, still have this bogus IP config.
- Give up and try a new cable, just in case. Success?
- Try old cable (after ensuring I would get a different IP this time). Success!
Apparently something wack in the drivers kept the information in lockdown because Windows thought I was "still connected" to the network.
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Status: Unlocked my computer to find that Steam apparently thinks Guild Wars 2 is a game I haven't bought on Steam (technically true, but good luck buying it on Steam.)
I clicked the PURCHASE button and Steam completely locked up and just did the little bell ringing sound whenever I tried to click on anything. No other Steam windows were visible from alt-tab, so I killed Steam and restarted it.
Status: Also, this came out today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju2Nor8xJUQ
Strong Sad has dental surgery on the day I stay at my dad's (dental) office most of the day? COINCIDENCE?
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Repeated steps 0 through 0 again, still have this bogus IP config.
what you did there.
Also more on topic, I found Windows' automatic troubleshooter to resolve most of the "Windows thinks it's connected, but it's really not" issues. Granted, that might be because one of the troubleshooting steps is resetting the adapter, but...
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STATUS: I did everything the voice told me and finished "The Stanley Parable" in 10 minutes. Off to the next game.
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I did everything the voice told me
What a good little Drone! You've passed the first screening for entry into the Collective!
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Status: Stoked after getting 100% signup at Join Scouting Night. Granted, it was only 6 new scouts, but that practically doubles the size of my pack.