The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Until I do that the space is allocated to the database
But that's the whole point! If you give the space back and later need it, you have to ask the OS for it again, format the blocks on disk, do any other housekeeping. Just let the DB manager hold onto it.
In a Progress database, there's even a tool for pregrowing the file that holds the transaction rollback information so you don't have to freeze your app the first time it issues a transaction.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
it does each thing in a new task.
Instead, you create a pile of small stacks?
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@blakeyrat Good lord. If your company won't buy you a chair, buy one yourself. You can get a decent one for under $200.
For that matter, depending on how corporate your company is you may be able to upgrade the computer yourself. I've done that at a number of places.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Usually from my experience trying to explain how it was intended as a joke
"Aw jeez, you know what? That was supposed to be a joke but it came out totally wrong. If you found it offensive I apologize." And then don't try to explain what you meant.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF.
You're reading data from a binary file that was written by some ancient COBOL program or something--or maybe reading data off a serial line or something--is about the only cases I can see where you'd wanna use that.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
H&R Block got their shit together and gave me a discount for my trouble. Taxes are done...actually a lot better than I had feared.
TO THE LIQUOR CABINET
$1000 refund from the feds.
$80 refund from the state/county (these are collected in aggregate).
$800 refund from the city where I work, who have rejected my refund for several years running on the basis of 'you don't have a local tax where you live so you owe it here!', which is in fact the law in their state, ignoring the fact that the state where I live collects on behalf of local governments. This year, in addition to the relevant forms, the envelope contains: A copy of my out of state driver's license, a notarized statement that I don't live in their godforsaken shithole and do in fact pay local tax at home anyway, a letter from my CPA concurring that I do in fact pay local tax, and a thinly veiled threat of legal action if they don't wise the hell up.(There is no official appeals process if they don't audit you - they haven't audited me but instead made unilateral 'corrections' to my past filings, which cannot be appealed.)
This year the tax rate with them went up sufficiently that it is now worth paying accountants and lawyers to deal with it, where previously it wasn't enough money to bother.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
refund
I owed money this year, but a lot less than I thought I would, so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
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The kid holding the camera's grunts are pretty cute!
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
ohai
Instant meetup? ;)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The kid holding the camera's grunts are pretty cute!
I was looking for a better one-boxable clip. Could only find that clip. Sadness...
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Again?
I think NodeBB's definition of "page" and "one" needs some work.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
one
You didn't sort the thread, did you? Post 1 usually ends up being the end when sorting by votes...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
one
You didn't sort the thread, did you? Post 1 usually ends up being the end when sorting by votes...
I was going for an "off by one" joke.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I was going for an "off by one" joke.
Oh. In that case, you missed by one.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
It's called a "constructor", idiot. If your class needs X before it can perform its work, ensure its constructors all contain a param for X. How is this even a question?
Constructors work fine for some cases, but in general there's no way to force the clients of a piece of code to use it right. Dumbass stupidity is always possible. Heck, there's often no way to formally tell the clients what the right way is (that's definitely true with web services; there have been attempts but nobody actually deploys that stuff so no tooling copes with it).
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Dear @blakeyrat
I have nothing to object about your SO/SE excursions, but would you mind putting them in a separate thread so that I may give them the attention I think they deserve? IMHO, they get drowned out by all the other noise in the status thread.
Thank you for you consideration.
/M
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear @blakeyrat
I have nothing to object about your SO/SE excursions, but would you mind putting them in a separate thread so that I may give them the attention I think they deserve? IMHO, they get drowned out by all the other noise in the status thread.
Thank you for you consideration.
/M
I agree, some of these seem quite discussable.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
the browser's supposed to cache it and not keep
except the advertisers succesfully convinced the w3c that the browser have to still contact the server to check if a image was changed, so they can monitor you. and all browsers are doing that.
That's the nearest I ever felt from downloading a browser code and modifying it a bit.
I wonder if someone already did that, because it suck.
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Status: just waiting to take off on my way to Fuerteventura for a week of all inclusive food and drink, along with the fabled self service beer pump by the pool. Fuck yes!
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@Luhmann I'll post some pictures if that'll help ;-)
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
I agree, some of these seem quite discussable.
Um, actually, did Blakeyrat ASK you to discuss them? No? I didn't fucking think so. Unless he explicitly asks you to discuss his public posts in a public forum, you're expected to shut the fuck up.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
except the advertisers succesfully convinced the w3c that the browser have to still contact the server to check if a image was changed, so they can monitor you.
That's a crazy conspiracy theory, you nut.
Caching for images works the exact same way as caching for anything else in HTTP. There's no "special treatment" for images, much less for advertising-related images.
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@blakeyrat no it's like the government man they take all our emails and whoa man fuck this is harder to write than I thought
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@blakeyrat that's how the information was presented when I read about it somewhere
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Just found out that all large internet providers in Brazil introduced caps for new customers at the same time. I hate these cartels. With the largest tiers between 80GB and 130GB/mo. This is fucking ridiculous.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
that's how the information was presented when I read about it somewhere
Was it in that blog that said the queen of england is really a reptilian alien from beyond Jupiter?
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@blakeyrat I have a tendency of remembering things without remembering were I learned them.
But it annoys me that the browser keep going to the server even having everything in cache. I should be able to control it. Old netscape would load an entire page without going to the server when I configured it the way I liked.
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Status: I have a file on my desktop called 'BACKUP - IMPORTANT DO NOT DELETE.txt'. It contains a very long string that is a mix of BASE64 and percent encoding. I haven't got a clue what it's for and I want to delete it :/
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@Cursorkeys You could back it up before you delete it ;)
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@Cursorkeys malware companies are using your desktop as their backup you have the chance to crush that industry once and for all, delete the muthafuka ...
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@Cursorkeys sounds like a good idea for a prank. we could start leaving files like these in all servers we have access
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Status: Just saw an advert where Sheldon Cooper was advertising Intel-based touchscreen laptops
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just saw an advert where Sheldon Cooper was advertising Intel-based touchscreen laptops
Those have been around for at least a year.
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@aliceif I guess that shows how little TV I watch
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
'BACKUP - IMPORTANT DO NOT DELETE.txt'
Serves present-you right for letting past-you leave an ambiguous file with no description.
Status: Preparing for convention next weekend. I have a feeling I need to bring all the technology I can, which is going to make getting through security sooooo much better....
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
this C# constructor is INSANE
I was bitten by exactly this constructor on Friday. Apparently, if you override the value of a decimal in the watch window, then negate it in code, this constructor gets called incorrectly and throws the exception about the length of the array not being 4. Very confusing and made me think I'd broken something badly in my code
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Status: spring cleaning.
Encompassing:
- two monitors
- two desktops
- three PS2 mouse and keyboard sets
- two bare motherboards
- four laptops
- cheapo drawing tablet
-Mac mini - box of power cords.
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Your camera has like 48 megapixels, but the universe's worst CCD. Each pixel is completely different than the one to its left and right. Only scaled down like 400% does the image look like non-shit.
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@blakeyrat My dog sure like to play with her Kong.
https://www.kongcompany.com/products/for-dogs/rubber-toys/classic-rubber-toys/classic/
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Your camera has like 48 megapixels, but the universe's worst CCD. Each pixel is completely different than the one to its left and right. Only scaled down like 400% does the image look like non-shit.
Yeah. NFC why it sucks so much, it's one of the phones that's all about its camera (but I never use it for that).
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@Tsaukpaetra My Nokia 1020's like that, but on purpose and they do actually scale-down the image in software to compensate for the shitty CCD (IIRC it actually grabs each pixel twice, also.) Every CCD pixel is shitty and wrong, but averaged together they do ok.
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@blakeyrat It could also be my shaky hands. Movement is a to good pictures.
Heck, I tried again in "50 MP" mode, then (because we're only allowed 2 MB uploads on the forum for some reason) shrunk that down to 25%, and here's the result:
It's still pretty crappy, despite (probably) doing the same thing you described.Also, movement is still apparently a to getting a good picture.
Maybe I should have turned on some lights?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
-Mac mini
Which version / stats?
Also @ben_lubar I keep getting burned by this. If I highlight-to-quote, and click quote, can the software just do quote-my-highlight? The same way "reply" does? Except that "quote" is what I'm trying to do?
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While we're at it, does this option actually do anything:
http://i.imgur.com/iqwMcTp.png
Cause I have it unchecked, but images are still doing the delay loading thing.
OR maybe it's a css thing. I know there's css for images that aren't loaded yet that makes them 0px high or some dumb shit like that. Instead, how about NOT doing that, and letting the browser put in a placeholder. That way I know to expect an image.
Example: Blakeyrat's image loaded before @Tsaukpaetra 's image. So I didn't know TS had an image, and then there was this out-of-context image in BR's reply.
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Status: just saw The Jungle Book. It was a wonderful movie - great visuals and excellent voice acting.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Which version / stats?
Latest. It's a PowerPC model, so that's not very recent.
For example, the latest version of Firefox I have loaded is Firefox 3.5-ish.
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@Lorne-Kates Thanks for taking the time to write a good bug report. Pull request has been submitted.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just saw The Jungle Book. It was a wonderful movie - great visuals and excellent voice acting.
I just saw POD, where two acts full of tension and excellent acting got slaughtered by a shitty monster denouement, and a end-of-film jumpscare that would make Blumhouse blush.
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Status: Looking at aftermarket engine management systems for a possible future project car.
Haltech lets you download the software and fuck around with it (because they properly realize that they make their money selling fucking hardware, who cares how many copies of the software are floating around).
This shit is light years ahead of where it used to be.