The Official Status Thread
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@JazzyJosh Four million. It was a 50% bonus for those who bought the $8million Shark Card. Or at least it would have been, if the customer service penis wasn't such a lying cockhole.
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@RaceProUK Oh my god you're fucking talking about GTA.
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Status: Overhearing that the cubes in our new building will have half-height walls with glass panes. Fucking perfect. Wonder if I can get promoted enough to rate an office in a year?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got an automated email from my local library this morning, telling me that my library card is about to expire. Since I am about to move 800 miles (1300 km) from the only city in which the card is useful, I'm not too worried about this. However, since I am still claiming this as my permanent residence, I renewed anyway, to show my intent to return here.
If you have a Kindle and the library has echeckouts, it's still useful. (and no idea what I'm typing since it's off the bottom of the screen and I can't see shit)
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Status: Well, that was a long day. Too many meetings, though one did involve also watching our robotic lab system “do its thing” so that was actually pretty good. It's all driven by CSV files. Of course it is. And a horrible semi-graphical programming language that gives the worse of both text and graphical programming in one system. Thankfully I don't have to write those programs…
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
If you have a Kindle and the library has echeckouts, it's still useful.
I don't have a Kindle, but they do have online stuff; I've never really paid much attention to what they have, though. But yes, somewhat useful.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
So the amount of incorrect attempts at the password on my phone before it wiped itself was 5.
Guess how I found that outFBI told you?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The spec says support either v4 or v6. An answer with both styles in as separate programs would be fine…
Ok; but those aren't provided, so my criticism still holds.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Taking bets on how long our Cisco guy is going to take to figure out the NAT problem with the new ASA we're installing to replace the old (not Cisco) firewall.
...why would you switch from anything-but-Cisco to Cisco?
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Getting a raise of several thousand dollars. Downside: I might be bumped to a higher tax bracket...
I always wonder if people who say this know how tax brackets work, or if I don't know how tax brackets work and am an idiot...
Ok, I'll shoot: how can getting a raise possibly result in you ending up with less money post-IRS?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
God yesterday was awful. I actually did some work, got bored of that and then went on youtube and discovered this.
You just now discovered Cyriak? He was popular like... 6 years ago.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Overhearing that the cubes in our new building will have half-height walls with glass panes.
Welcome to my world.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Overhearing that the cubes in our new building will have half-height walls with glass panes. Fucking perfect. Wonder if I can get promoted enough to rate an office in a year?
Most companies I've worked for that promised office moves never actually ended up moving offices. So I always assumed it was just a management bluff to help morale.
This company did, now my commute sucks.
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Status: just go the email from Google saying that they are discontinuing the Google Wallet Card. It's a shame, because I found it really useful - it was a MasterCard that acted like a debit card from your Google Wallet balance, meaning you controlled the spending limit yourself and could temporarily freeze it. Oh well, back to my bank's regular credit card instead.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
how can getting a raise possibly result in you ending up with less money post-IRS?
I don't think in can, in general. Maybe if it put you over the threshold to qualify for something like the Earned Income Credit, but I think most, if not all, things like that are tapered to prevent that situation.
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@blakeyrat After years of "We are searching for a new building and will move ASAP!" they surprised everyone by buying a new building two blocks from here and drawing up plans. Apparently the building will be ready in about two months but the parking deck will take a year.
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@HardwareGeek Here's the deal: when I was a dumb kid I thought that when you went into a new tax bracket, that bracket applied to all your earnings (and not just the tiny bit outside the lower bracket). Obviously I soon figured out, no, that's not how it works.
But that's the only misconception I can think of that would cause someone to post, "oh damn I got a raise, this new tax bracket will kill me".
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
But that's the only misconception I can think of that would cause someone to post, "oh damn I got a raise, this new tax bracket will kill me".
This, otherwise what's the downside to getting a pay rise?
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Status: At our sprint planning this morning, our group did all the math and figured out that we actually have only 1.5 QA people for 9 developers. Which means that if we strictly follow our own agile rules, we need to can about 2/3rds of the work we've already done for the release coming next month.
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@loopback0 I've heard there's a narrow grey zone where you can make just enough to lose government benefits, which drops your total income to below what it was before the pay raise, making you unable to pay your bills. But if you're making enough so that your raise is "several thousand dollars" I don't think you're anywhere close to that zone.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
I've heard there's a narrow grey zone where you can make just enough to lose government benefits, which drops your total income to below what it was before the pay raise, making you unable to pay your bills.
I'm not sure that can happen in the UK.
If you're that close to the border between two tax bands, I'm not sure how that suddenly makes you unable to pay bills either though so *shrug*Any system where going up a tax band leaves you worse off is retarded.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: At our sprint planning this morning, our group did all the math and figured out that we actually have only 1.5 QA people for 9 developers. Which means that if we strictly follow our own agile rules, we need to can about 2/3rds of the work we've already done for the release coming next month.
QA is not exactly useful. I have had 43 people testing my code and saying "No ERRORS". only later to have it crash solid in production. This was for well known bank in Europe.
#thebankthatisneversleeping
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
you can make just enough to lose government benefits
Yes. Even government benefits can be enough to lose other benefits. When I was unemployed in California a few years ago, unemployment benefits were something like $10/month too much to qualify for low-income health care.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just go the email from Google saying that they are discontinuing the Google Wallet Card. It's a shame, because I found it really useful - it was a MasterCard that acted like a debit card from your Google Wallet balance, meaning you controlled the spending limit yourself and could temporarily freeze it. Oh well, back to my bank's regular credit card instead.
sees post Wait, What?!
checks emails Well, Sh*t. There goes my "I have a set of cards that works anywhere, despite being on the same bank account (basically)" plan...Of course, now that that's no longer a thing, I can no longer use my Wallet account at all, since Google Pay doesn't want to run and nobody else I show with supports Wallet directly.
Oh well, time to simper back to PayPal I guess..
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh well, time to simper back to PayPal I guess..
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@blakeyrat Because the previous firewall was so old that the newest firmware available for it was >5 years long in the tooth, so its SIP ALG was garbage, and the choices I could successfully argue for were Cisco, Cisco, or Cisco.
If I thought I could have sold using a MikroTik router, I would have argued for it until it stopped raining in Seattle.
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@izzion Back when I did networking stuff, our Extreme switches were like a dozen times more reliable than the Cisco ones. Also purple.
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Another windows update, another miraculous resurrection of Hyper-V.
For fucks sake, how many times do I have to disable this piece of shit before it gets the hint.
WE ARE OVER HYPER-V! I'M WITH VIRTUAL BOX NOW!
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@aliceif Mine too in the end. Redownloaded it, and the install actually worked.
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@cartman82 NoRepro. I unstalled Hyper-V once and it's remained that way ever since.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
For fucks sake, how many times do I have to disable this piece of shit before it gets the hint.
I've never had a Hypervisor install itself, Windows Update or otherwise, despite using Windows Editions that support it out of the box.
Signs of a trojan?
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@cartman82 NoRepro. I unstalled Hyper-V once and it's remained that way ever since.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've never had a Hypervisor install itself, Windows Update or otherwise, despite using Windows Editions that support it out of the box.
Signs of a trojan?Hmm... I updated visual studio before the update restart. Maybe that did it?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hmm... I updated visual studio before the update restart. Maybe that did it?
Did you elect to install the Windows Phone Emulator? That will automatically enable Hyper-V if available.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
WE ARE OVER HYPER-V! I'M WITH VIRTUAL BOX NOW!
But does she make you happy cartman, DOES SHE?
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@Yamikuronue When I was a teenager I had a part-time job that worked out just under the limit for untaxed earnings (I think the limit was about 70-odd quid a week back then).
The company would frequently mess up the hour count and underpay us one month, and then fix it the next month. Consequently, we often ended up paying tax we shouldn't have because the fixed months were over that limit.
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For everyone following and supporting "Where's The Fair Use?" - new video from Channel Awesome on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoIL5qUI1p8
You only have today to take action!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you elect to install the Windows Phone Emulator? That will automatically enable Hyper-V if available.
I think I disabled that one, but android emulator tried to install itself (and failed). It's probably one of those.
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Smart fucking websites :(
Yes, I know I'm in Poland. Can't I read the original version?
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@blakeyrat The spec also said to return the answer as hex for v6
Still, it was far more fun than most codegolf, which is usually just depressingly unreadable. It amuses me a lot that some of the programs are actually not much shorter than ungolfed versions, and both short and readable, while other languages have much longer versions that are completely impossible to grok. Merely being terse doesn't mean being obscure…
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@cartman82 Why not just ignore it?
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@LB_ What kind of action? DMCA is actually not terrible legislation. The problems I all have is with companies (YouTube) that implement broken systems that reward scammers (YouTube) and are significantly more restrictive than DMCA rules (YouTube).
Also I hate that fucking nostalgia critic/guest star on terrible indie Sonic the Hedgehog movie guy.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Still, it was far more fun than most codegolf, which is usually just depressingly unreadable.
That's because most of the entries are in these dumb languages people purposefully built to do codegolf specifically. Fuck those assholes. They should ban entries like that.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 Why not just ignore it?
VirtualBox doesn't work with it active, it sort of takes over VT-x or whatever hardware VM support is available.
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@cartman82 Sounds like VirtualBox's issue to resolve.
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@Tsaukpaetra I saw this thread before I got my email. WTG Google. They're clearly trying to kill Wallet altogether, turning Android Pay into just the tap-to-pay portions of the product.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 Sounds like VirtualBox's issue to resolve.
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How can they? A system component has taken over hardware they need!
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
turning Android Pay into just the tap-to-pay portions of the product.
Which I can't use because root. Dammit Google!
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
How can they? A system component has taken over hardware they need!
VMWare works with Hyper-V installed. Or it did last time I had Hyper-V installed anyway.
edit: Actually I'm sure that even Virtualbox worked for 32-bit, it was just 64-bit that was disabled with Hyper-V installed.
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@sloosecannon I don't know; I'm just saying that their product being incompatible with the Windows Phone Emulator sounds like their problem to me, not Microsoft's.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
VMWare works with Hyper-V installed. Or it did last time I had Hyper-V installed anyway.
This side discussion should be Jeff'd, but essentially (pedantically) they both work (including VirtualBox) installed at the same time, so long as you don't try to use more than one at a time.
Each of these products accesses the virtualization capabilities of the CPU, and expects full unrestricted access to said functionality. If you start another program that tries to access these functions while another program is already using them "Bad Things" happen, and that's not a thing individual software can solve on its' own, other than by detecting that other virtualization software is installed and to warn the user "Hey! I can't run at the same time as XXX! Certain things won't work with XXX running!"