The Official Status Thread
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cuz haz things hard think.
Status: It's almost literally dead at the office right now.
Filed under: Should I start up a FPS on these office machines?
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**Status:**strong text Apparently IE is wacky about "Tracking Protection" for servercooties.com:
Filed under: At least tell my what matched in the URL to be blocked! Jeez!
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Status: A good day! One manager bought me lunch, another bought me a beer. Morale building exercise: reasonably successful, but I'm very happy to have my morale built up next Friday too. ;)
And I'll be not about much this weekend; taking the old car down to my brother's place, and that's far enough away to be not a one-day job…
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It's a MS product, it is probably blocking anything that matches *google*, because raisins.
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huh.....
will have to take a look at that....
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blocking anything that matches
I wonder if I can teach it to match anything microsoft.?
Filed under: Begins decompiling the can't-actually-turn-it-off-Firewall...
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Don't touch the firewall, you might want to change fonts.
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I'm assuming MS is being a butt and wanting you to use their CDN so they can inject some other stuff into it.
<head> <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script> </head>
Don't touch the firewall, you might want to change fonts.
Nah, everyone's perfectly fine with nothing but Helvetica and Arial, right?
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i'll change it to
//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js
before i use aspnetcdn!
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Should I start up a FPS on these office machines?
yes, the answer to that question is always yes
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I will never do that again.
Our software requires that you use the installer to install it. In spite of that every once in a while a client tries to copy the files from another PC, thinking they'll save some time over the about two minutes it takes to run the installer.
They are NEVER right. Sometimes they learn after one experience.
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I was about to bitch that fully completing that badge required buying an Android or iOS device, but then I noticed you only need 28 of 29 to complete it. So that's optional.
Technically speaking you could probably get Bluestacks. Or buy a cheap $20 Android phone and not activate it.
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WHY IS IT A SEMI-COLON!
It's not, it's a semicolon, but you already know the answer, which is "because Japanese people are weird."
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Apparently we have a guy that brings a grill to work on really nice days like today. For lunch he goes out to the parking lot and grills a steak on the tailgate of his truck.
What a nice day. I think I'll put a few pounds of 1200 degree F incendiaries into a wobbly bucket on top of 30 gallons of gasoline.
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Tailgating is an American southern tradition and an American football tradition, which means of course there's a bit of stupidity involved.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I think I'll put a few pounds of 1200 degree F incendiaries into a wobbly bucket on top of 30 gallons of gasoline.
How do you think people get bottles of LP or whatever home, eh? beavers?
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Given the current thread title, something from Enema of the State is called for, but since the better known ones are already in the Song of the Day thread, here's one you probably haven't heard:
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Our software requires that you use the installer to install it. In spite of that every once in a while a client tries to copy the files from another PC, thinking they'll save some time over the about two minutes it takes to run the installer.
Today I ran in to an interesting one. Client was having issues getting something installed, I found an updated version of the software on the web. Download it on my laptop, copy to flash drive, plug flash drive in to client machine, run installer. Things seem to work fine, I remove my flash drive and the program crashes.
That's right, it installed to the root of whatever drive the installer was on.
How do you fuck that up? We use NSIS, which can be confusing, but you would have to try to fuck up things that much.
And no, there was never a prompt to ask where to install to.
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And no, there was never a prompt to ask where to install to.
What? Everybody's got a C:, so just copy the installer there and run it.
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What? Everybody's got a C:, so just copy the installer there and run it.
You never even got within a mile of the point. That's exactly what I did to fix it, but not even close to the point.
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You never even got within a mile of the point. That's exactly what I did to fix it, but not even close to the point.
I don't understand your complaint. WOMM CLOSED_NOREPRO WONTFIX.
Also whoosh.
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how so? i think my sarcasm detector is broken
I was channeling the idiot who wrote such a stupid installer. "Our application is a special snowflake and simply must go in
c:\blargle
, so there's no point in bothering the end user with asking them where it goes."Shit, he probably assumes all computers have a c:. Which isn't true.
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Status: why am I still getting these every day even after the Likes thread was moved to the time-out room?
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STATUS:
BEST HALLOWEEN EVER
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why am I still getting these every day even after the Likes thread was moved to the time-out room?
Because no new posts are allowed, but people can still read and like existing posts.
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Status: Yay! Spent an hour with this view today. You'd be surprised how fun it is.
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Now they can't. Mwahahahahaha
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Now they can't. Mwahahahahaha
did you do? I can't remember when that topic was locked, so I'm not sure when the most recent post was, but I just spent an hour scrolling, one slow chunk of data at a time, back to April, and I can't even find the damned topic. All my likes given and likes received are gone, too. It looks like I still have the badges, and I can "find" the topic from the Great Post links, but I get "You don't have access to that topic."
I remember @PJH or @Boomzilla saying it might get moved to a hidden category if it still caused performance problems even after locking it. Moving it to a hidden category just because you feel like being an asshole is not, IMO, acceptable behavior.
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I remember @PJH or @Boomzilla saying it might get moved to a hidden category if it still caused performance problems even after locking it. Moving it to a hidden category just because you feel like being an asshole is not, IMO, acceptable behavior.
I moved it this morning to see if the cooties situation improves.
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You broke out the speed-up loop over something this minor? What kind of an admin are you?
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Status: Hanging out in the venue ahead of a wedding the bride and... Other bride? I'm still unclear on the verbiage at play here. Anyway, they run by singing a Totinos pizza rolls jingle. And then I wander by the kitchen and..... They're talking about how to time platters of pizza rolls to be ready for cocktail hour.
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What kind of an admin are you?
The kind that normally does not do his job. is this shit?
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And he just Jeffs the whole topic at once, instead of Jeffing out a few posts at a time to keep the performance at expected levels (which for Discourse is "well it works sometimes")?
That's just crazy.
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- Jeffing posts from /t/1000 is illegal
- Jeffing 10000 posts from a 100000 post thread gives you a 90000 (visible) post thread with 10000 deleted posts.
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Status: Wondering how to implement stack unrolling (for exceptions) in a runtime that uses reference counting for objects that have pointers to them on the stack and garbage collection for objects that don't. And also not everything on the stack is an object pointer.
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Have you done a literature search yet? There's been quite a bit of work done on the interaction between stacks and garbage collection IIRC, and it would be silly to duplicate all that.
Can you guarantee that the objects are a DAG? If you can, reference counting is sufficient. You only need true GC when you have cycles in the object graph. A (compound) keyword I've encountered is GC Root, and I think that you can probably postpone GC until at least one GC Root has been dropped from the set of active variables, but I don't know whether they can be determined by compile-time analysis. This isn't an area I've looked at in huge depth.
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Status****strong text: I paid $5 for a Roomba!
http://puu.sh/l4FgE/db29024666.jpg
Now I can have first world robot problems!
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I have objects that are never garbage collected (literals, interned strings, etc. with reference count negative) and objects that are currently on the stack (which get reference counted), and then anything with a reference count of 0 is fair game for garbage collection. The garbage collector marks anything that is referenced by something on the heap with a nonzero reference count, then recursively for anything that is referenced by a marked object. Then it marks anything that is still at 0 references and no mark as garbage and unmarks everything.
I can't guarantee that the objects are a DAG because doubly-linked lists and trees with parent pointers are possible in Cool. I can, however, guarantee that the stack is a DAG (more specifically, a singly-linked list with extra edges that point out into the heap). Nothing ever gets a pointer to the stack itself.
I can't just mark anything on the stack that gets chopped off as unused because the stack can contain raw integers and other nasty things. Objects can't, purely because the garbage collector only knows about the number of pointers per type (for String, it's 1 pointer to an Int, for Int it's 0 pointers with 4 bytes of data the garbage collector doesn't look at afterwards, for ArrayAny it's a special case where the value of the int pointed to increases the number of pointers it's looking at), and if I allowed raw ints inside types, I'd need to have them all at the end, which would make inheriting methods impossible.
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I think we'll see how Monday goes. Then we can move it back to where it's visible on Tuesday and see how that goes.
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Don't provoke him. He is weird enough as it is.
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Status: My wife wants to watch 'Se7en' tonight since it is Halloween. My only thought is, "I got my first blowjob while watching that movie".
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One like is not enough.
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