The Official Status Thread
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And for my next trick, I will provide something disturbing for our resident magician!
*throws a deck of cards out the window*
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I'm totally fine with being called a magician, but I'm named after a particular one who usually goes by another title, and is debatably the same person as my avatar. Do you really not get that?
<I'm so glad he doesn't know about ctrl+v, though. Thank you IT! For once, your policies are useful!
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There is only one Magus, and his name is Medivh.
Do you really not get that?
Do you really not get that I started trolling you when you started being an asshat in random threads?
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Status: Porting more Ruby code to C++. Staring at both #thedailywtf channels on IRC. Nobody is talking.
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Status: What the fuck, IIS! Listen on the fucking port!
You have another site that has binding to *:80 (all host names). So your other site won't listen on that port.
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He's alright, but he can't make black holes at will.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFwbVEwaYWw
Yes he can.
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That isn't whenever he wants. That's when he's lucky enough to fight an enigma.
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My browser thinks that that audio is a nice image of an audio player. But it doesn't matter, because Magus' voice in either form is too awesome to be rendered as anything but text.
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It was binding HTTP just fine. But we have some net.TCP services which weren't. Persisted through IIS restart but not a machine reboot.
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@Fox said:
There is only one Grand
MagusNagus, and his name isMedivhRubickZekk.Post can't be
Post still can't be
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Staring at both #thedailywtf channels on IRC. Nobody is talking.
Be the change you want to see in this world.
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Even the asshole nagus falls before my magic?
Was that recorded on Edison wax cylinder?
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Was that recorded on Edison wax cylinder?
Rubick's helmet covers his entire face and has no holes. I'm not entirely sure how he can see through it. Or breathe.
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How come the abbrev tags don't do mouseovers anymore? I have to hit the "view raw" now to see those.
Chrome bug or Dishorse bug?
EDIT also to turn on my "I actually have an eye for detail unlike most devs" mode, the underline has an extra rogue pixel:
Why is that last black pixel there, Chrome?! It looks like assssss.
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Same on Sleipnir.isprofessionalversionnumber
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Chrome bug or Dishorse bug?
I've noticed chrome doing this occasionally, though usually with links not showing up when I hover. Page refresh seems to "fix" it.
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Refresh didn't help and I'm too lazy to shut down and restart Chrome. Knowing how it's coded, I'm sure showing a tooltip is like 42 different processes in Windows, and one of those 42 is locked-up.
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Status: K, Pandora, you were fun. A lot of new music was exposed to me, through you. But Spotify has The Blue Hearts on it. And this radio station seems to be getting awesome. The song 7.2 by High and Mighty Color is pretty great imo, and I hadn't heard it before.
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Nobody is talking.
Attention is divided... elsewhere. And IRC is blocked in work network, and I can't be arsed to VPN/reflect/reverse-proxy/whatever just to sit in a quiet room...
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showing a tooltip is like 42 different processes in Windows,
Actually, I think it's only three! Quick check: If you hover the clock (or other System Tray Icon), does it ToolTip then?
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Yeah, it also works on Chrome on my laptop. So I bet restarting Chrome would fix it, but, again, too lazy.
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Why is that last black pixel there, Chrome?! It looks like assssss.
Text or line rendering engine bug (if a bug at all) which could be a Windows or a Chrome issue. Given that it doesn't occur for me with Chrome on OSX (though on a HighDPI display) I'm guessing this one is likely Windows. These sorts of edge cases for the drawing algorithms are really tricky too, since you want the endpoints of the line drawn yet you want the regular gaps.
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Status: Well that was an interesting day. This morning, someone outright resigned from his job in a meeting I was in. It was a bit of a downer, but not entirely unexpected as he's been unhappy for months over all sorts of things. His boss has a soft spot for him, and is trying to pull some strings to get him a post elsewhere (in another city entirely, not working for us and our stinky bureaucracy at all).
This afternoon was wrestling with the NAS. Turned out (after a bit of inspired guesswork) that the problem was that it only takes initial installations of the OS when uploaded from machines on the same physical network segment. Which my laptop isn't usually because of the way we set up our VLANs. Borrowing someone else's thunderbolt-to-ethernet adapter saved me from the hell that is the NAS vendor's utterly uninformative online help (all of which assumes that the initial setup has already succeeded…)
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These sorts of edge cases for the drawing algorithms are really tricky too, since you want the endpoints of the line drawn yet you want the regular gaps.
This is probably it. I would assume that if a different font/size were used that made the width off-by-one in that exact instance, you wouldn't see it happen.
Status: De-Mix-ifying tables used in the "Old Process" from tables used in the "New Process", which are essentially slightly "enhanced" versions of the "Old Process" tables.
Somehow the developer of the New Process wanted to assure us it was output-compatible with the Old Process, so saved the packages with references to one or the other.At least, at this point in time I only have lookup tables to rectify, but I think I'll leave those alone, as they're not too insane at the moment...
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Status: Fucking Please try and remember where I am in threads, and don't send me to the start of them. It isn't amusing after the 1st time, and I do kinda want to be able to read what people have written.
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Status: Getting to do some code reorganization and performance work since last week. Stuff is cleaning up nicely. Too bad I couldn't resume the configuration code cleanup I was working on before Christmas but I'll get back to it. Though I have to see about merging the bits of that I got done ASAP.
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Status: I hate the ending of Castle season 6.
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I hate the ending of Castle season 6.
No spoilers, please; I'm way, way behind on watching it.
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Status: i tought woosh was a local meme.
also: Evil Idea****strong text: a bot that randomly replies to certain forum members with
woosh
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Status: Watching random YT videos. Fashion designers design some intentionally weird clothes, but starting the video of your fashion show with the main title music from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly may not be the best idea; you probably don't want viewers thinking "ugly" before they even see the first outfit.
Edit: Truth in Television — outfits that glam rockers would reject as too over the top.
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Fashion designers design some intentionally weird clothes, but starting the video of your fashion show with the main title music from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly may not be the best idea; you probably don't want viewers thinking "ugly" before they even see the first outfit.
Well, at least one of their three designs will have positive reception...
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Status: TIL the best way to see if a program is broken is to try telling it to do impossible things:
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Liar, that's just VB shenanigans.
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Liar, that's just VB shenanigans.
Really? What's the expected result?
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"right"
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Huh. TMYK. What about a negative length (he tried that earlier, and that one did fail, though I coded a smart-ass reply to that).
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VB.NET: ArgumentException.
VB6: Not sure but I think take |n| characters starting from the i-th mod m character ordering right to left where m is the string length. All assuming ASCII blah blah blah.
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take |n| characters starting from the i-th mod m character ordering right to left where m is the string length
Huh, couldn't grok.
In any case, my implementation takes all but the last |n| characters if n is negative, unless (shuffles characters around and checks logic) wait, if |n| > length, then it gets set to length, so if you put in negative n greater than the length, you get the full string back. That's probably not what was intended...
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Also Continuing the discussion from Some Anti-Patterns At My Job:
null.toString()
Apparently that's not so protected as mentioned in
@Maciejasjmj said:Well, virtual call guarantees that this won't be null - otherwise you eat a NullReferenceException before you get a chance to start executing.
It bombed nicely, but then again they were talking about
string
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Yeah I fucked up the explanation I had in my head. Basically my expectation is left("right",-100) would return "thgir".
For some reason I was thinking Mid() which does the fucked up thing I tried to explain.
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fucked up
Sounds pretty exciting! All these strings going forwards, backwards, parts here and there, cut up and mangled... Okay, Engine, you need some serious readjustment!
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STATUS:
The Korean from upwork is still on my back.
That node.js webcam girl seems to be doing fine with her side business. Just saying.