The Official Status Thread
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...then again, it's VB, so I wouldn't be surprised if this actually made sense.
Public Class Stuffs Implements IEnumerable Public Property Count Implements IEnumerable.Count this = Nothing Return 1 End Property End Class
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the vehicles will need to be fitted with new fuel injectors
It being the EU I'd imagine someone's going to hunt you down and force you to "fix" your car if you don't volunteer.
Is the European situation similar to the American one? I gather it was something like "the last standard was 0.12 ppm, the new one is 0.07, and the cars produce up to 0.20 ppm", so when they talk about "up to 40x more than the limit" what they're really saying is "in absolute terms these produce a tiny bit more particulates than they're allowed."
A year or two after the great Northeastern Blackout of 2003, that atmospheric particulates in the areas that had the blackout had 90% reduced particles in the air 24 hours after the plants shut down.
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Congrats. Higher credit:debt ratio for you.
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Are you a bicyclist and a vim user?
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Status: Changed the keyboard shortcut that switches between QWERTY and Dvorak layouts on my work computer because I kept hitting Ctrl+Shift by accident.
I keep going through the following process over and over again:
Lkakf;
Ctrl+Shift
:kakgls
Ctrl+Shift
:kakf;Z
Ctrl+Shift
:kakf;Z
Alt+Shift
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So, where I work, my team works in a sort of open zone (as in, open to eachother, not to other teams), and there are some whiteboards around.
One of these whiteboards had a picture of a happy stick person on a sunny day. Someone seems to have later drawn storm clouds, rain, and a lightning bolt halfway covering the sun. Possibly someone else added the text "Unit Tests!" in a speech bubble next to the smiling stickperson. At some point, when this was moved, a smal segment in the middle of each leg was erased.
Next to this image, I have added some new text: "With unit tests you'll be at ease, when storms come and you have no knees."
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Higher credit:debt ratio for you.
Sure. But I'm not sure how much that particular information is relevant. My Credit Score was like, 757 a few months ago, and I think that agency only counted whether you were making payments or not....
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Nah, FICO has a formula they use, credit:debt ratio is 30% of your score.
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Status: What do you get for the dad who has everything? Well, if you are me and you are buying for your dad, you get him a really nice high-powered air rifle with a suppressor on it so that he can take care of the nuisance wildlife getting in his garbage.
Also, it is a bit of a present for me also. I am tired of hearing about "Those goddamned raccoons spread my trash all over the place again". Win-win.
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really nice high-powered air rifle with a suppressor on it
Ah, no remote-controlled turrets? C'Mon man, where's the fun!
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I don't think his neighbors would appreciate that. Especially once emacs becomes SkyNet and we all become targets.
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Status: Apparently Visual Studio 2015 has some updates available for it. 2 of them sent me to (Microsoft-owned) websites where I could download an executable that would download the update, and the remaining 3 updates were installed by clicking the "install" button and then waiting about a minute for the update to download and install itself, without needing to exit visual studio.
Also, I opened a Visual Studio 2013 project and it said "we need to update some things" after which it copied the entire project to a subfolder named "Backup", added a few fields to the project xml file that basically said "we updated this" and then didn't change anything else.
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Apparently, this exists:
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Status: So I botched an update this afternoon, and it left a machine in a state where it was only half-booted. (It wouldn't bring up the network until the filesystems were all mounted, and it wouldn't mount the remote filesystems until the network was there.) Irritating. And that particular system doesn't have a separate console card set up for a whole bunch of raisins. Or someone helpfully near it that could poke the machine and give back a sensible answer. (It's in a lab; the scientists there know their stuff, but they don't know machine configurations well enough to debug them. That's part of my job.)
So I get to go over there and fix it. Not normally much of a problem; it's on my way home, so I leave a bit early and call in en route. Except that it was cold, utterly pouring with rain, and blowing a gale and I got absolutely drenched despite having good waterproof clothing and an umbrella. And I have nobody to blame but myself. Still got to solve the mounting problem, but at least it won't block boot (and I've tested that properly). But that can be fixed next week, once I'm back inside the network perimeter…
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Status: What do you get for the dad who has everything? Well, if you are me and you are buying for your dad, you get him a really nice high-powered air rifle with a suppressor on it so that he can take care of the nuisance wildlife getting in his garbage.
Also, it is a bit of a present for me also. I am tired of hearing about "Those goddamned raccoons spread my trash all over the place again". Win-win.
I get the whole "shoot the fuckers" thing but when I had a problem with raccoons getting in my garbage I just put a 2x10 that stretched across all the cans, with some heavy rocks on top of the board. Problem solved. Besides, this way you torment them.
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STATUS: CYANOGENMOD WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PHONE THAT IT CONSTANTLY CRASHES AFTER I INSTALL GOOGLE APPS?!
<FUCK YOU JEFF BODY is DESCRIPTIVE
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"We need to make nonfunctional changes to your solution in order to open it."
@ben_lubar said:copied the entire project to a subfolder named "Backup"
added a few fields to the project xml file that basically said "we updated this" and then didn't change anything else.
Sounds like a pretty normal "Project Upgrade" to me.
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CYANOGENMOD
Are you sure it's them? Google Play Services died some time ago on my Samsung S4A and no amount of FRs fixed it...
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I get the whole "shoot the fuckers" thing but when I had a problem with raccoons getting in my garbage I just put a 2x10 that stretched across all the cans, with some heavy rocks on top of the board. Problem solved. Besides, this way you torment them.
That works until trash day, when the trash guys come at 6am and they will not pick up your trash if it has a lid on it.
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Are you sure it's them? Google Play Services died some time ago on my Samsung S4A and no amount of FRs fixed it...
Well CM works, but when I flash Gapps and reboot, it goes into a loop where it constantly pops up "unfortunately, X has stopped", where X is all the google apps, and then eventually just forever "setup wizard".
Then I have to wipe the system partition and reflash the rom. I have seen some suggestions, although it might be a different phone, that a Samsung update changed the size of the system partition and gapps is too big...but I'd expect an error while flashing if that were the case. So I'm not sure what to do--I'm considering trying a different ROM built off the stock Samsung one instead of CM, and seeing if that helps.
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That works until trash day, when the trash guys come at 6am and they will not pick up your trash if it has a lid on it.
Yeah, I always had to bring the cans down to the street. But it was late enough that the raccoons left them alone.
I did find out the way to throw away a trash can: put it inside a cardboard appliance box to hold the latter from being blown away by the wind, and they will haul the box and the can away.
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Then I have to wipe the system partition and reflash the rom
Did you also wipe /data ? If you didn't, we might be in the same boat. Somehow Google remembers the phone somewhat and breaks during authentication or something and everything google-related craps out.
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Did you also wipe /data ? If you didn't, we might be in the same boat.
I thought I did at least once.
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I did find out the way to throw away a trash can: put it inside a cardboard appliance box to hold the latter from being blown away by the wind, and they will haul the box and the can away.
We never had boxes big enough. I always had to catch the trash guys and ask them to throw them away. Now we have a tipper can and I don't have to deal with that anymore. Added benefit, I can now throw away demolition debris from house projects as long as I do it 1/2 can per week. :)
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I thought I did at least once.
Hmm... Not sure then. No custom DPI or anything like that?
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It being the EU I'd imagine someone's going to hunt you down and force you to "fix" your car if you don't volunteer.
It's getting replaced in a few months, so it'll be volunteered anyway unless it goes beforehand.
Free engine tuning and free new fuel injectors!
Assuming there's no negative change to either performance or economy, yes.
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no negative change to either performance or economy
I think that's exactly the point? Wasn't the whole debacle about how the test results were (essentially) fake? So in effect, any testing after the replacement would give you "true" data, and comparing it against the "fake" data would therefore result in altered results.
Of course, if you use data independent of the affected components, then (in theory) there should be no decrease, but it really depends on what the changes are.
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I think that's exactly the point? Wasn't the whole debacle about how the test results were (essentially) fake? So in effect, any testing after the replacement would give you "true" data, and comparing it against the "fake" data would therefore result in altered results.
The whole point was the car
ranruns differently on a stationary rolling road test versus real world driving in order to change the emissions under test conditions. The real world 'test' results are the only ones I don't care about, and they're the results which weren't cheated.Considering other manufacturers manage to make cars with performance and economy that is (near as makes no difference) the same, it's possible to meet the emissions tests and leave those two untouched. Whether VW manage that or not is the unknown.
Of course, if you use data independent of the affected components, then (in theory) there should be no decrease, but it really depends on what the changes are.
Well I'd be using the amount of fuel consumed over the distance driven. You know... how fuel economy is measured.
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@FrostCat said:
I thought I did at least once.
Hmm... Not sure then. No custom DPI or anything like that?
Nope--seems to just be a problem with various Samsungs. I'm gonna try CM 11 instead, see if that helps.
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Assuming there's no negative change to either performance or economy, yes.
Except you know there will be. Or you'll get a urea tank in your trunk. Or both.
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Considering other manufacturers manage to make cars with performance and economy that is (near as makes no difference) the same, it's possible to meet the emissions tests and leave those two untouched.
I thought I'd read a couple weeks ago that several other European manufacturers were doing the same thing.
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@FrostCat said:
I did find out the way to throw away a trash can: put it inside a cardboard appliance box to hold the latter from being blown away by the wind, and they will haul the box and the can away.
We never had boxes big enough. I always had to catch the trash guys and ask them to throw them away. Now we have a tipper can and I don't have to deal with that anymore. Added benefit, I can now throw away demolition debris from house projects as long as I do it 1/2 can per week. :)
It was a one-time thing for us--bought a new dishwasher or something, I don't remember.
I see I forgot to mention that I didn't actually want to get rid of that can.
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Except you know there will be.
Quite.Or you'll get a urea tank in your trunk.
Apparently only a requirement to meet the US emissions, not the EU emissions.
I thought I'd read a couple weeks ago that several other European manufacturers were doing the same thing.
Actively cheating? Just VW AFAIK.
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You sure the gapps version is correct for the Android version?
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Status: Finally have 2 job offers that one of them does not need moving out of state, but is a startup. Will know about 2 more by next Wednesday hopefully. I am weary of startups because of the current experience, but this one seems it has passed the early stage and is a very exciting domain. If I can get 2 big fish on the hook, I might even play a little dance.
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You sure the gapps version is correct for the Android version?
I followed a link from the CM wiki so it should've been: in both cases it was CM12.1/Android 5.1.
At any rate I grabbed a rom of XDA -- CyanideL -- and the version of GApps it suggested--Paranoidsomethingorother--seems to work. Nicer theming too except the CM12.1 battery icon was better than most.
can't you change those out without editing your ROM!? (that's how it was, anyway, the last time I messed around with this, which was the Gingerbread timeline.)
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Interview done. Dicsores on mobile sucks. It's been a very long day -- up @ 0300, home about 2400. Flight boarding; gotta go.
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Apparently, this exists
So do all of these:
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Status: wondering if @aliceif is competing at the Frankfurt Major.
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can't you change those out without editing your ROM!? (that's how it was, anyway, the last time I messed around with this, which was the Gingerbread timeline.)
basically. Either edit the ROM (frameworkres.apk IIRC, it's been a while since I tried to change that) or use (I think) an Xposed module for it.
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What is your phone model? I had difficulty with CM on Galaxy SIII, but works flawlessly with LiquidSmooth.
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@FrostCat said:
I get the whole "shoot the fuckers" thing but when I had a problem with raccoons getting in my garbage I just put a 2x10 that stretched across all the cans, with some heavy rocks on top of the board. Problem solved. Besides, this way you torment them.
That works until trash day, when the trash guys come at 6am and they will not pick up your trash if it has a lid on it.
If only there was a way to ridiculously overengineer this...
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Sleep tight. We're holding our thumbs for you.
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Never really played DotA2, sorry.
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Status: It snowed overnight. First of the season.
It's only a tiny amount of snow, even by the UK's meagre standards, but it's enough to make the place much brighter.
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