The Official Status Thread
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Status: I thought "custom backgrounds" was a silly feature for a tab-managing extension, but I think I like it now.
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@accalia said:
well.... you do spend a lot of time on WTDWTF....
These are people who, to the best of my knowledge, don't
wastespend time on here.Ah.... so they spend their time watching porn instead of on WTDWTF then.....
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+= () => is a sure sign something's wrong with your codebase, by the way.
Do not misunderstand, I would never do that in code that isn't purely to demonstrate the weirdness you can do. If anyone doesn't know why, it's not just how awful it looks: you're creating an anonymous delegate and telling some class to listen to it, with no way of telling it to forget about it. Free memory leak!
Anyway:
Status: Started building a Tal'Darim race mod for SC2. I intend to make Protoss, Aiur, Tal'Darim, Shakuras, and Purifier separate races. Then I'll move on to the other races, and try to make factions out of them. Should be fun!
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Ah.... so they spend their time watching porn instead of on WTDWTF then.....
Time is pretty darn expensive, judging on how rich the porn industry is....
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I'm gonna go with yes. Because Unicode has that.
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Status: Got a Microsoft support scammer on the phone right now.
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Status: I wonder if anyone's actually watching these. Anyway, Episode 4!
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Status: Got a Microsoft support scammer on the phone right now.
Hmmmmmm, now would be a good time to have a Win3.1 VM, or maybe something Linuxy for them to connect to. Just to fuck with them.
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I tried doing that with Wine one time. They get really flustered when I follow their instructions to press Win+R and I tell them that nothing happened.
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Or an actual window, made of glass.
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No eyes, cat ears, head desk? That is quite a status, and you may want to get that checked out.
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Status: User's laptop is misbehaving with bizarre symptoms.
Files corrupt in My Documents. Folder is synchronized with server so maybe something in that.
User has over 100 sync warnings
Fixed sync warnings with no improvement.
Laptop is impossibly slow. Disk queue is not excessive though.
No SMART errors and extended test passes OK.
Event Log is clean.
Rootkit, Malware, AV scans all pass with no issues detected. No unusual processes or services running.
Reboot for Chkdsk with surface scan, passes.
30 minutes to log on and instant warning on reboot that C:$Secure is corrupt. Balls...
Event log is full of thousands of NTFS errors.
Reboot for another Chkdsk which says it's fixing a couple of index entries.
Reboot and it's still dog-slow, no errors about $Secure this time and the Event Log has stopped screaming.
Still no SMART errors.
Reboot into a fresh profile this time and everything is normal speed...I suspect aliens or somehow the original profile is damaged and managing to corrupt the disk somehow
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No eyes, cat ears, head desk? That is quite a status, and you may want to get that checked out.
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Had a similar issue recently where deleting the profile files fixed things for no apparent reason. User claimed they weren't doing anything when all of the sudden Explorer just kept crashing and never came back up (which meant that they, as a normal user, couldn't start any programs).
I suspect Windows Update...
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where deleting the profile files fixed things for no apparent reason
Yep, I think that's the route I'm going to take.
I'm just doing a quick Memtest86 to try and rule out hardware and them I'm just going to nuke the user's profile and start again.
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SMART is shit.
SMART only goes into an error state about a week AFTER the HD is completely toast. From my experience.
I've never gotten a SMART warning early enough to be able to do something sensible with the already-dead HD.
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SMART warning early enough
I treat it as a confirmation system. Sure, the disk appears to be slow because the platters are rotting away, but you can never be sure....
Status: Finally able to move data off of my local machine into the Dev environment.
Well, at least now I don't have to ensure my PC is always available for a site that's not supposed to be used as production....
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SMART only goes into an error state about a week AFTER the HD is completely toast. From my experience.
I'd still kinda expect offline-uncorrectable or some other stat to be degrading in the raw data even if it isn't a SMART fail yet, especially after whatever the hell happened to $Secure.
I'm not sure of a better way to test the drive other than the offline SMART test. I'll have a quick Google and see what's available.
Edit: This thing seems to be the best available. It's currently abusing the HD on the 'error scan' setting but no sign of problems yet.
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Estus: today was a good day at work; had to work on Tizen multitasking
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Seriously? You use that laptop for coding? No proper keyboard, and a single monitor? That keyboard will give you so much pain you will curse yourself for years.
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Seriously? You use that laptop for coding? No proper keyboard, and a single monitor? That keyboard will give you so much pain you will curse yourself for years.
Forum for nerds: You see that big ... picture in the background and instead someone is griping about the keyboard.
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Status: Got passed a nice greenfield stand-alone project that was started by one the QA guys, believe it or not. My boss tells me I'm in charge and I can complete it exactly how I want-- great! Because the QA guy's solution is a desktop app that does nothing but call our web API, which is stupid and slow.
Then I go into the acceptance criteria with the second-in-command of QA, and he's like, "no, you MUST expand on this code, you can't write a new version that talks to the back-end directly." Having dealt with this idiot before I just smiled and nodded. Now I have to talk to MY boss about it. Ugh.
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Status: waiting for a program to finish counting the number of times that it called methods through static and dynamic dispatches. I mean it's not like this server is running on a massively overpowered processor at a university or something.
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On this forum? Then again, it might be a version of a Schrödinger-Joke.
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Fuck...another one called!
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Status: One of the programs has 9697711 dispatches. Another one has 82. Not sure how optimizing that last one is going to help since starting up the MIPS VM probably takes longer than the entire execution of the program.
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Status: found this inside a controller made by junior #2
(new AnotherThingController())->save($thing->id, $thing->total, $thing->foo);
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Does he look like this?
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Yeah, a 13" laptop that is. But since I spend more time thinking about the code to write so we write less code, this is not an issue. Although I'm able to pull 8h straight without a problem. Good genes I guess.
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Status: I should really learn more commands for vim than just a, A, i, I, R, Esc, :w, :q, :wq, v, V, Ctrl+v, d, y, p, gu, gU, and Ctrl+xCtrl+o.
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I should really learn more commands for vim
Status: realizing that maybe my life is not so bad after all.
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Vim is like riding a bicycle. Most of the commands I use come all natural to me by now... Except for HJKL nav... Ugh! I can't wrap my head around it.
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Vim is like riding a bicycle.
It's more tiresome and inefficient than the alternatives, but supposedly "better" and "more lightweight", except nobody really uses it to get it from point A to point B effectively and instead they do it just for the sake of it, and in the end they spend more time researching the accessories and theory and bragging about it than actually using it properly?
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Status: I thought "custom backgrounds" was a silly feature for a tab-managing extension, but I think I like it now.
Dude? Opera? What planet are you from?
Seriously. I don't know how to get back.
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Also, status: I dug out my old Discourse C# project. One of the integration tests just hung - all the others completed, and that one was just stuck there for a while. I stopped the suite, tried debugging it, step by step...
...then I realized that I was running it against WTDWTF, and it was hitting the Profile page to check if the login completed properly. No wonder it took 15 seconds...
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ggVGd:wq
b is a very good command. Why it's not just Shift-W instead idk.
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It's more tiresome and inefficient than the alternatives, but supposedly "better" and "more lightweight", except nobody really uses it to get it from point A to point B effectively and instead they do it just for the sake of it, and in the end they spend more time researching the accessories and theory and bragging about it than actually using it properly?
Also, the people who are really in to vim or really in to bicycling are usually also the people I want to run over with my SUV.
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I'm really into spelling words correctly.
Then please explain to me how your phrase is describing action?
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ggVGd:wq
b is a very good command. Why it's not just Shift-W instead idk.
Why not just
ggdG:wq
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Are you guys having a keyboard headbashing contest, or something?
Filed under: I'd join, but I'm on mobile
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These things that you people are typing are not commands. They are seizures.
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Your IDE has shortcuts. Our IDE has different shortcuts. I don't see the problem.
Filed under: and ours can be easily typed in discourse without having to use <kbd> tags
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Are you guys having a keyboard headbashing contest, or something?
Waving their viPeen about.
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Didn't someone around here have a keyboard with vi commands on the keycaps?