The Official Status Thread
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Status: My redirect-to-the-actual-topic-address-instead-of-throwing-a-404 plugin works! Here's a demonstration:
Step 1: Copy the topic link. Any old topic link.
Step 2: Replace the hostname with the staging server for the NodeBB import.
Step 3: Push enter.
Are there any other URL types that we have to worry about being broken, or just /t/whatever?
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I've seen two (Athlon64) up and die as the only components involved
The laptop came with an i5 that was supposedly replaced twice; I put in an i3. Seems unlikely that 4 different CPUs were the problem, but I acknowledge that's theoretically possible. I just didn't want to keep throwing money at it.
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always assume YouTube is a giant pile of broken buggy shit before assuming malice.
Why not assume both? Why not @ Zoidberg?
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Are there any other URL types that we have to worry about being broken, or just /t/whatever?
Uploads?
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Seems unlikely that 4 different CPUs were the problem, but I acknowledge that's theoretically possible. I just didn't want to keep throwing money at it.
Yeah, that seems less like random failures and more that something is killing them. Bit of shielding flapping around and shorting the mobo occasionally or something like that?
Had a desktop machine with a curly bit of swarf around a mounting post that would every so often short the mobo and stop the machine dead. That was a weird one.
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Bit of shielding flapping around and shorting the mobo occasionally or something like that?
Nothing I ever noticed, but I didn't go looking, because, foolish me, I assumed HP was willing to stand by their products and fix them.
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Nothing I ever noticed, but I didn't go looking, because, foolish me, I assumed HP was willing to stand by their products and fix them.
I used to only buy HP servers for the name and the (supposed) support and then found out that SMEs aren't really that important to them. Dell on the other hand have been great for on-site responses.
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Dell on the other hand have been great for on-site responses.
That's been my experience. I just wish their products were nicer-looking, heh.
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Status: Doing some geographical analytics involving population and housing unit counts. App there are regions where there are nonzero populations but zero housing units.
Overlaying them on maps shows them to be, primarily, central business districts, universities and airports.
CBDs must be homeless populations. Universities must be students, and therefore a quirk in how housing units are counted (I guess dorm rooms don't). Airports... United Airlines passengers?
Edit: Also prisons and military bases.
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I'd expect to find hotels in CBDs and certainly airports. Maybe they're counting those?
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Small shop owners living above the shop?
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That'd be a housing unit. Long term hotel residence is a distinct possibility, though I wouldn't anticipate much of that at airports, and I would anticipate the census to be interested in homeless populations (man that must be a shit duty)
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Filed under: FUCK YOU DISCOURSE AND YOUR BROKENDOWNTML!, thanks to whoever did the talking head thing first
Speak of these emjoi, for they are my body.
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No, the tiny little num lock/scr lock lights. The power/HDD indicators are dark.
Way back when I was running my XT computer, it had blinking lights on the front for HDD indicator.
When I got my 286, it didn't have those LEDs. I missed them.
And then I found a TSR on a BBS that turned the Scroll Lock light into an HDD activity indicator.
It was small enough that I didn't even have to take it out of config.sys when I booted into Games Mode.
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People sleeping at their desks?
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**Status:**strong text Decided to get my son a video card for Christmas. Found it on sale at a local store Sunday night for $30 off and a $30 MIR. Win!
Got home, realize that I have to send in the MIR before Christmas, which means I need to install the thing to verify it's not a dud.
Take it into work this afternoon to throw in a spare machine and make sure it boots, gets good framerates, etc. Crack open the best computer available, and discover Dell doesn't believe in putting in any more plugs on their PSUs than the minimum required for the components it ships with, and two spare SATA power plugs. Plus now that I think of it the PSU's probably not big enough. Call the local store, that's only a 10-minute or so drive away, they don't have SATA power to 6-pin video power cables. Crap.
Now I just realized--I have access to a ~2004-era Dell that almost certainly has a couple of spare Molex connectors, if I had a molex-to-pcie-6-pin cable, although using two separate PSUs to power one computer is a bit freaky.
I guess I'll have to take my PC into work tomorrow or something, or else wait for the kid to go for a walk tonight, or drive 20 minutes go get a power connector I'll never need again, because I'm pretty sure his PSU has the requisite cables.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
And then I found a TSR on a BBS that turned the Scroll Lock light into an HDD activity indicator.
I have that on Windows, except it seems some programs really don't like the Scroll Lock button being pressed (required since apparently the program can't hook USB keyboards the same way it can PS2 :/ ) rapidly.
It's nice to know that the reason I have next to no CPU usage but the system is apparently completely non-responsive is due to the HDD being IO constipated. (Windows 7 FTW?)Status: Using The GIMP to censor PDF Files printed from Cute PDF reprinted from ABC123 PDF from a report.
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STATUS****strong text: Spot the bug!
setTimeout(someFunction(),1000);
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I Lol'd, did this yesterday and wondered why the callback happened once and immediately.
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This was worse, because the "callback" was recursive (it's a polling function)
Begin spamming REST calls and db queries yay!!!!!!!!!!
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STATUS****strong text: Spot the bug!
setTimeout(someFunction(),1000); ```</blockquote> setTimeout **Usage**: Everytime you use the darn thing, Google "javascript setTimeout" for syntax because fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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This. So much this.
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This. So much this.
fake edit: Typed in the line to actually get the error. Ouch. Harsh.
Console> setTimeout(1000, someFunction); Console> Error: useless setTimeout call (missing quotes around argument?)
Filed under: useless JavaScript
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Status: Using The GIMP to censor PDF Files printed from Cute PDF reprinted from ABC123 PDF from a report.
Here's a nickel kid, go get yourself a proper pdf editor
@Lorne_Kates said:
fake edit: Typed in the line to actually get the error. Ouch. Harsh.
Console> setTimeout(1000, someFunction);
Console> Error: useless setTimeout call (missing quotes around argument?)Call 1000!
Call 1000!
Also ducktype someFunction into an int!
freakin javascript.
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Status: Just got told that calling out a procedure risk about expiring passwords was a "Good Idea!"
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@Lorne_Kates said:
And then I found a TSR on a BBS that turned the Scroll Lock light into an HDD activity indicator.
Cotton X68000 Keyboard Lights – 04:44
— nekom68k
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A bomb with that kill radius
would probably crack open the Earth's mantlecould not exist because it would blow off excess energy in to space before achieving that size kill radius.FTFY
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I dunno. A radiation point source at 50km altitude has a line of sight to an 800km (500mi) radius. A sufficiently enormous enhanced radiation bomb detonated in the boundary layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere should do the job.
We don't need to destroy, just kill.
I'm not going to do the calculations on required yield on my work PC....
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I miss the hdd light on these fucking modern notebooks.
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For limited values of modern.
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Even then, wouldn't an apt cache be more effective than full-sized images?
@mott555 said:...I don't know what that means.
Package cache. Similarly to a WSUS server, this allows you to pull package updates into the network only once, and distribute to multiple machines (desktops/servers). An apt cache would be for debian base distros, redhat-based systems have similar solutions.
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Status: RIP Agni.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ctdgbsh5pp7ojy4/2015-11-24 19.07.33.jpg?dl=0
The motherboard transplant didn't take after all.
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didn't take
Oh dear.
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There was also a call to self.eliminateWaste() that I didn't think it was necessary to mention, either.
Around here? Of course it is! As @MathNerdCNU pointed out.
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Status: Oh fuck, GW2 is down. How will I do my dailies?
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GW2 came back right before you posted that. Thanks for fixing GW2!
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from the photo, my estimation is that it didn't work because you poked a hole in the motherboard and poured cheese into it. try gravy next time
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No, no. Those were the spare chips we were trying to install. Salt and vinegar are the fastest, right?
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It's over 30000!
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Status: Ok, I need one more poll before I can do the next storyline section. I know how much you guys love polls.
The cat people and the cisgendered human people are close to signing a treaty, so I'll
[poll]
- go to the Thunderbreak Hills and beat up some angry cat people including the angry cat person son of the founder of the Vigil
- defend Summit Peak from angry cat people
[/poll]
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The character on the left may sometimes identify themselves as a transgendered fox?
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@Rhywden said:
A bomb with that kill radius
would probably crack open the Earth's mantlecould not exist because it would blow off excess energy in to space before achieving that size kill radius.FTFY
That's true for fission bombs. With fusion I wouldn't be so sure.
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If you want a bomb with an N-foot blast radius, build a spherical bomb with an N-foot radius. Then, detonate the entire bomb. Guaranteed to explode in at least an N-foot radius.
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If you want a bomb with an N-foot blast radius
I'm sorry, but we went straight to the “'tarnation and dagnabbit” radius.
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STATUS I have no will power. I just bought this when is was 33% off.
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Dammit... I don't need another SSD... but it's so cheap...
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Status: Finished a meeting and I don't feel like killing myself. Might be turning into a manager. Send help.