The Official Status Thread
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Pretty sure he's in the UK. Probably lucky to have indoor plumbing.
They have plumbing, but there are dead rats decomposing in water tanks in their attic.
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I don't know if I have ever been to a place that has a cafeteria, but then makes their workers pay for the food there.
Employers paying for lunch isn't that common here IME.
Every place I've worked with a canteen has required staff to pay for it or bring it from elsewhere.
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paying for your meal at your place of work? Is that a thing?
Yes, it is.
I once worked for a place that agreed to buy everyone's lunch if they ate in, so they could keep butts in seats at midday. It was nice until they started cheaping out and only started offering us choices of cheap restaurants.
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there are dead rats decomposing in water tanks in their attic
I grew up without mains water. You could taste when a frog had died in the water tank at the top of the field
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As opposed to stealing it?
No, Drax, he means a company cafeteria that gives free lunch as a perk.
Here in the Seattle area, most cafeterias aren't free.
Oh, wow, congratulations on the brain upgrade that gave you deductive reasoning!
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Status: Finding it hard to concentrate on work because I can't decide if I should buy a R9 390x or a GTX 970 for Fallout 4...or nothing because I don't have any funds earmarked for gaming.
Fallout 4 being out tomorrow is another reason I can't concentrateI have been installing nifty little Linux swipe terminals around the factories today. They refuse to talk to my Windows NTP server though so that's the next job.
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I finally bit the bullet and got that exact GTX 970 the other day. It wasn't specifically for Fallout 4 but it's good timing.
Fallout 4 is preloaded in Steam waiting for midnight. Think I'll be tired at work tomorrow
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They have plumbing, but there are dead rats decomposing in water tanks in their attic.
Had a pigeon die in a water tank at one place, A load of feathers came out of the tap one day...the one I'd been using to fill the kettle half an hour before. At least it was boiled I guess...
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nifty little Linux swipe terminals around the factories today.
Sounds nifty!
refuse to talk to my Windows NTP server
How can you mess up NTP like that, MS? Is it because the terminals don't register in the DNS or something?
Filed under: I thought NTP didn't care about that stuff at all...
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I have been installing nifty little Linux swipe terminals around the factories today. They refuse to talk to my Windows NTP server though so that's the next job.
Goddamn Linux hardware.
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How can you mess up NTP like that, MS? Is it because the terminals don't register in the DNS or something?
You're assuming Windows is at fault.
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When is it not?
Or are you saying that the terminals can connect to any other service but Windows because the terminals aren't configured to play nice?
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Not sure what to say about this, to be honest. I'm sure that there are quite a few places like this outside your version of the world...
Well, admittedly I did not think about where in the world he might be located. In the USA, it is exceedingly rare to find a place that will not accept debit cards, and very few people carry much in the way of cash.
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Calm down buddy.
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How can you mess up NTP like that, MS? Is it because the terminals don't register in the DNS or something?
They aren't members of the domain so it could be that maybe.
A quick Google says that we need to be syncing to a Stratum 1 source for things to work properly with some clients. I'll check that now.
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Well, admittedly I did not think about where in the world he might be located. In the USA, it is exceedingly rare to find a place that will not accept debit cards, and very few people carry much in the way of cash.
We only recently got card machines in the canteens. Previously you had to make sure you brought cash as only the biggest sites had ATM machines<TROLLOLOLOL>.
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Well, they're pretty rare. There's only about a million of them.
That may be. I have yet to run across one. At least that I remember. The hospitals around here are free for the workers, or at least the ones that I have been in and worked in. Cafeterias are rare regardless. But those that still exist around here are free for the employees. It is considered part of comp.
Of small businesses, I know of lots that will cater lunches 1-3 times a week and they don't expect employees to pay for that either, and those are free for anyone working on the premises that day, from outside IT contractors to the HVAC guy or electrician.
I'm guessing you've only worked at companies like Facebook, Apple, Google. In an area where you pretty much HAVE to provide a free cafeteria to compete.
Never worked at any of those.
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We only recently got card machines in the canteens. Previously you had to make sure you brought cash as only the biggest sites had ATM machines.
OK, so I am TR . I can handle that.
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Assuming that
- You're using MS SQL Server
- You're using SQL Authentication (not Windows accounts)
- Your database is not a "contained database"
then, no, they cannot just restore the backup to copy the database. Though that would be a good first step, since then they merely have to delete the security objects (users) in the new database and map the logins (users) for the test instance onto the restored database.
But, of course, that would not be a DiscourseApproved option. Way too simple.
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paying for your meal at your place of work? Is that a thing?
I guess I should have been more clear. Of the companies that I am familiar with, the most common option is "You are on your own for lunch. Bring your own and we provide refrigerators and microwaves, or you can fuck off and go out to eat at local restaurants". Of those that have cafeterias, it seems like most of them are free for the employees and considered to be a part of comp.
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Oh, wow, congratulations on the brain upgrade that gave you deductive reasoning!
Go fuck a goat!
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It's subsidised, but yes money is exchanged.
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Status: I'm going to do my entire personal story in one go when I get to level 80 on my Charr revenant. But I thought it might be fun to have you people choose what I should decide to do. So here are some polls.
Which order should I join?
[poll name="order"]
- Durmand Priory (read really old books)
- Order of Whispers (spy on people)
- Vigil (run at things with swords)
[/poll]
Which tribe should I help?
[poll name="race"]
- Grawl (monkey people)
- Ogres (large people wearing turtlenecks)
- Skritt (rat people)
[/poll]
Which plan should I choose? (if Priory wins)
[poll name="priory"]
- Steal weapons from communist mole people
- Get help from vegetables with sniper rifles
[/poll]
Which plan should I choose? (If Whispers wins)
[poll name="whispers"]
- Ask a space midget for help making a weapon
- Hire a human bandit and his thugs
[/poll]
Which plan should I choose? (If Vigil wins)
[poll name="vigil"]
- Beat up a tall person until he helps us
- Ask two very muscular cats to fire artillery at our enemies
[/poll]
Which order's plan should I choose? (not restricted by previous answers)
[poll name="plan"]
- Priory: find a missing squad
- Whispers: disable a lighthouse full of spiders
- Vigil: drive a bunch of tanks towards the enemy
[/poll]
Spoiler alert: [spoiler]The talking vegetables are children of an evil talking vegetable that wants to eat the world.[/spoiler] What should I do?
[poll name="mordremoth"]
- Find a squad of talking vegetable snipers
- Collect scrap metal and make a turret
[/poll]
Some talking frogs want my help. What should I do?
[poll name="itzel"]
- Help the really big frog with a really big hammer smash some talking vegetables
- Help the smaller (but still about the same size as a human) frog smash some talking vegetables
[/poll]
I'm in a cave with three paths. Which one should I take?
[poll name="cave"]
- Left: it's really dark
- Middle: there's some water with grubs in it that will get angry if I touch the water
- Right: a cave with some enemies in it probably
[/poll]
I need some bug juice. How do I get it?
[poll name="chak"]
- Kill lots of bugs
- Help the huge talking frog get his handbag back and then kill slightly fewer bugs
[/poll]
I'm in an ancient space wizard midget city. Should I break stuff?
[poll name="novus"]
- BREAK ALL THE THINGS
- no
[/poll]
Who should I rescue?
[poll name="rescue"]
- female space midget wizard
- male human who is friends with the female space midget wizard
[/poll]
Pick two skin colors to bring along into the final mission.
[poll name="racism_" type="multiple" min="2" max="2"]
- Beige
- Green
- Gray
[/poll]
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But I thought it might be fun to have you people choose what I should decide to do.
Fun for who?
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Status: We have had a nanny for ~3 weeks now. As I spend a lot of my time working from home, she is here with me a fair amount of the time.
Today she asks me: "So what is it that you do in your work?"
"I manage people, plan projects, recruit new business. Management things."
"It seems like you are just on your computer, occasionally cursing."
"That's what management is. I just do it from home."
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"It seems like you are just on your computer, occasionally
cursingworking."
"That's what management is. I just do it from home."FTFH.
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[poll]
- That was way too many polls and I CBA to vote in any of them.
- Fuck this poll
[/poll]
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How long is the slog to max level now? How long do we need to wait before this thread gets updated with the results?
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According to this thing, I've played for 31 hours and I'm level 73.
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Really? That's way quicker than it used to be.
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Go fuck a goat!
Bummed out you couldn't accuse me of not reading what you wrote, huh, old buddy?
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We use Windows accounts exclusively. Therefore they should be using a fucking backup because the damned security objects are the same.
Also, they complained that there were too many accounts to create and asked for just one or two.
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Also, they complained that there were too many accounts to create and asked for just one or two.
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Status: It was a nice spring day. now it looks like mordor is marching towards my office
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And to think, people here assume I'm so different from them. All of my answers are tied/in the lead as of this post.
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Status: SUPER CHALLENGE!
Find out what a ComposablePart is in C# using Google. Just... what it is. One sentence is all I fucking need. WHAT THE FUCK IS A COMPOSABLE PART!
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I think that I found where the missile landed in San Diego on Google Earth.
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and that means?
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Yes, thank, you, I got that far.
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Hell if I know. He asked for one sentence about what they are. Microsoft provided one sentence.
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I knew it! The Matrix is real!
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Find out what a ComposablePart is in C# using Google. Just... what it is. One sentence is all I fucking need. WHAT THE FUCK IS A COMPOSABLE PART!
As far as I understand, it's how MEF calls a component. So if you, say, write a plugin, and you want to export some classes that go together and grab some classes from the application, then they all go under the same "part".
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Status: Committed the "Closing over the loop variable considered harmful" mistake three times in the last 5 days. Time for another vacation...
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As far as I understand, it's how MEF calls a component.
Follow-up questions: what if MEF and what is "a component"?
Also, could they POSSIBLY have picked VAGUER terms to describe all of this?
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One sentence is all I fucking need. WHAT THE FUCK IS A COMPOSABLE PART!
Skim this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460648(v=vs.110).aspx
MEF, which I don't know how you use it, lets you create extensible application "without any configuration". IT looks like the extensions are made of ComposableParts--read the "What MEF Provides" section. If you scroll down far enough there's some kind of sample using a calculator, but I don't know if it uses ComposableParts or not. I would guess you'd use them, in the calculator example, as a way of plugging in runtime-discoverable new operations.
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Also, could they POSSIBLY have picked VAGUER terms to describe all of this?
Yes. That is entirely possible.
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How to do it: Call the function.