The Official Status Thread
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
sufficiently indistinguishable as to make no difference to most people.
Heh. Count me in that group, as long as you throw the word "effectively" in there. I mean, I don't really care if the block, say, isn't shattered. Based on how much I drive, I would probably just use the cost of replacement on a down payment for a lease.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
I stored indices as strings and didn't realize.
"264" < "26451".
I wrote 'LEXICOGRAPHIC ORDERING' on a big sheet of paper and threw it away.Oh, that's easy. Just right-justify number-like things before sorting!
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@Tsaukpaetra Related: I noticed something was up when I was looking at some real integers next to these 'strings' and noticed they were justified differently.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
noticed they were justified differently.
Oh, you were sorting in Excel? Well, now you know!
And now for my next trick: Copy an empty cell (or a cell with the equivalent value of Zero) and paste-special it onto things that are definitely supposed to be numbers, telling it to "Add". Voila! Instant numbers!
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Status: OMG, they're arguing about fixing an internal site so that it only works in Internet Explorer in Compatibility mode.
And here we were, not even a year when the mandate came down to ensure compatibility was maintained with IE 11...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: OMG, they're arguing about fixing an internal site so that it only works in Internet Explorer in Compatibility mode.
As opposed to what? Are you saying the site currently works in Firefox and Chrome, but they're removing that support so it'll only work in IE + compat. mode?
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Status: 2nd done, and here comes the 3rd, so tiring
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you saying the site currently works in Firefox and Chrome, but they're removing that support so it'll only work in IE + compat. mode?
Yes. Exactly this. Because:
- Well, technically our agents shouldn't be using any other browsers, only the Approved Internet Explorer
- All the other intranet sites work well in Compatibility mode (actually, they do not, they just have good fallbacks), so why not this one?
- Wah we're resistant to change I want my blankie!
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Status: My AI was crashing because the game over screen sets
autosave_request
, and my AI writes its state to disk whenever that flag is set. My AI deletes the state right when the game over screen first appears, but then it used to re-write the entire file it deleted over and over for the next 60 seconds until it restarted the game.
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Status: Seems SPANK-SPANK has spread to Lemurs...
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Status: That was quick! will have a free travel soon. Also got good offer from my previous startup, which means tomorrow is the day to give notice and try not to burn any bridges. They can hire me as a highly paid contractor, I know how much they like overpaying their contractors
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Status: My university has spent a significant budget (n*10^5 EUR) and almost a year to create their new web, that was launched live without any testing at all. Today I had reason to check up something on it, and noticed a bunch of links to a directory called "wp-content".
They can't have, can they?
But... How did they break it so terribly if they did?
investigates some more
Yes. Yes, they did.You maniacs! You built the site in wordpress!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
You maniacs! You built the site in wordpress!
Did they leave it writeable? If so, you have a major time ahead…
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Paging @fbmac we have a prentender going for the throne...
@Adynathos you should be ashamed of yourself. I saw that post and bashing wordpress is a socially acceptable past time on this forum.
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I fucking hate it when coworkers half-ass a job, and then it's up to me to find all the little glitches and flaws, and send it back to rework.
Hey asshole! How about you make sure your crap is polished and ready, and THEN you close the ticket?
I should just let things slide broken into production, and let the blame roll down to them. This way, I'm just teaching them it's OK to be sloppy and that good ol' Cartman will pick up the slack.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
You maniacs! You built the site in wordpress!
Did they leave it writeable? If so, you have a major time ahead…
I wouldn't be surprised if they did. I'll spend some time trying to find it out this afternoon.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
You maniacs! You built the site in wordpress!
Did they leave it writeable? If so, you have a major time ahead…
I wouldn't be surprised if they did. I'll spend some time trying to find it out this afternoon.
Oh, FFS! I just tried https://www.fuckupuniversity.se/wp-admin, and managed to log in with my ActiveDirectory username and password.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg So? I think that WP can delegate the credential validation to LDAP; it's not an automatic fail. Where it matters is whether the site is writeable. (There are cases where being able to log in doesn't give you write permission, but rather just lets you see additional pages.) A writeable WP site is a ticking time-bomb, whereas if it is read-only then it can be locked down hard enough that nobody can break in (e.g., by mounting everything on a read-only filesystem).
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@dkf All right.
I browsed around, and there were a lot of links available (like "delete this page permanently"), but I don't know if I could actually click them (didn't dare to :-s ).
I tried uploading a picture to the media library, and that worked, so presumably the upload directory is writeable at least. I think the idea is to have an active website with lots of new and per-event contents, so it would not make sense for them to lock it down fully. But with any luck they've put the pages that ought to always be there on a read-only share. This would be an unusual show of competence for them, though.
Edit: Wohoo! I can edit the frontpage. I wonder if fa-spin works on the university logo?
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@fbmac Good job fello!
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Status: Just had a supplier in, he kept talking about his colleague by mentioning his full name when I asked certain technical question...The name? John Thomas.
I did an admirable job keeping a poker face I think. It didn't help that I could see one of my colleagues stifling laughter behind a divider across the office.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear 6pm meeting host guy: Fuck. You. Forever.
you can host a meeting at 6PM if you want, but unless you are LITERALLY on fire* I won't be attending
* or approximately half way around the world
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Status: plugged in, not charging.
My laptop, that is. Last night I finally got it back from the repair shop fixed, and at some point between when it got back to full charge after I got it home and about 11 this morning when I decided to unplug it for a minute and let the battery run down a couple of percent to verify it was still charging, the same problem came back.
I could cry. If that's the worst problem I have, I'm pretty well off, of course - it even still runs on mains so it's usable, and the repair is guaranteed so it'll be free to fix this time. But it's a huge inconvenience fitting in taking it to the shop around work, and managing without it for days, and I'm not sure I'll even trust it enough to ever let the battery need charging after one repair failed. To say nothing of that fact that I'm never entirely happy while my computer's in the shop: I can't imagine that the chances of something being damaged are zero.
I'll be looking for a new laptop anyway in six months to a year, I'm considering just asking for a refund and only using it plugged-in.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
I can edit the frontpage.
I wonder if fa-spin works on the university logo?
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/shia-labeouf.png
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
I can edit the frontpage.
I wonder if fa-spin works on the university logo?
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/shia-labeouf.png
https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/files/1461068198405-upload-81c6b1a4-4fd2-4fbd-b203-459ec0a3ad35
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Status:
*deploys the Unfuckeriser*
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It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just had a supplier in, he kept talking about his colleague by mentioning his full name when I asked certain technical question...The name? John Thomas.
I did an admirable job keeping a poker face I think. It didn't help that I could see one of my colleagues stifling laughter behind a divider across the office.I don't get it.
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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
It's slang for penis?
What is? John Thomas?
Is that like a British thing or something? Now that you mention it, I guess I do remember it from that one Monty Python bit where the guy sings that song which is all about cocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRPFUYUUdQ
Pretty sure that's literally the only place I've ever heard it, and being a comedy show you never know if they just made it up. They also use "piece of pork", so. And I can only assume "lock you in the dock" refers to jail or prison?
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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just had a supplier in, he kept talking about his colleague by mentioning his full name when I asked certain technical question...The name? John Thomas.
I did an admirable job keeping a poker face I think. It didn't help that I could see one of my colleagues stifling laughter behind a divider across the office.I don't get it.
It's slang for penis?
I've never heard that before.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that like a British thing or something?
I think so. It's a thing, anyhow.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a thing
There's hundreds of euphemisms for the male genitals in English. On the grounds that the Eskimos have lots of words for snow…
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
And I can only assume "lock you in the dock" refers to jail or prison?
Didn't notice that before.
Close, but not quite (also, by the by, jail and prison are synonymous in Britain). "In the dock" means charged with a crime. Because the space in a courtroom reserved for the defendant is called the dock. I wasn't aware it was a Britishism but I don't recall any specific instance of hearing it from a non-Brit.
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@thegoryone One of the best ones at the moment is “Johnson” as it also accurately refers to the current mayor of London, and there's always time to call him a penis.
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@CarrieVS Does the flag have a gold fringe?! ADMIRALTY COURT YOU'RE EVEN USING THE WORD "DOCK"
This summons is addressed to the straw man JAZZYJOSH who does not exist!
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@CarrieVS So you realize that you and your idiot co-worker are sitting there sniggering about a bit of slang that, maybe 5% of the English-speaking population has even heard before in their lifetimes. The asshole isn't the supplier, the asshole is the you. And then you post it here without explaining the damned thing as if we'd just be expected to know it.
Look, nobody gives a shit about your tiny little islands and the dumb words people on them make up.
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Trying to decide whether to write up my experiences in the Tower of WTF on the forums.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a thing
There's hundreds of euphemisms for the male genitals in English. On the grounds that the Eskimos have lots of words for snow…
How many words do we have for rock?
STATUS I need inspiration. Mind melted must work on stuff.
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@blakeyrat Check your attribution. All I did was answer your question about the slang.
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@CarrieVS Pfft. Nationalist Trolling applies to all within the nation.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
You maniacs! You built the site in wordpress!
QFT. I nearly went crazier trying to make sense out of Turdpress.
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Status: I hate working with keytool. I also hate working with openssl. Both make using git look nice and easy…
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@CarrieVS Pfft. Nationalist Trolling applies to all within the nation.
Yes but I think it's important that @Cursorkeys gets a notification about how terrible he is.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@CarrieVS Pfft. Nationalist Trolling applies to all within the nation.
So all american's are toothless hicks... Today I learned @blakeyrat needs to improve his dental hygiene!
STATUS I found my inspiration. BABYMETAL!!!!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I found my inspiration. BABYMETAL!!!!
Kawaii desu!!! ^_^
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Status: "Failed to execute SQL script statement ... CREATE PROCEDURE retrieve() MODIFIES SQL DATA BEGIN ATOMIC DECLARE x VARCHAR(4); ... unexpected end of statement: required: ;"
Note the semicolon at the end of the statement quoted in the error message. Yes I have tried putting two. And none. And one on a new line.
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Look at what I can watch with my Prime subscription!
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Status: The back button on my mouse just stopped working. If a reboot does not fix it, it may suffer the same fate as the last laptop that decided to annoy me...smashed on the tile floor in my office.