The Official Status Thread
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Are there any new cars or trucks that don't require this sort of bullshit to change a fucking headlight? I'm actually being serious for once.
On my Kia (which is a 2005, so YMMV) you can replace the headlight bulbs without taking anything apart, if you're careful and lucky. It's an annoyance, though.
Doing the back lights requires undoing two screws to remove the entire light cluster, and the bulbs replace easily after that.
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STATUS I have to spend tomorrow getting our product to work on mac. Time for cheap Irish courage and a lot of wishful thinking.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Doing the back lights requires undoing two screws to remove the entire light cluster, and the bulbs replace easily after that.
That does seem to be a common way of doing the taillights. Thankfully, with all the cars I've owned, removing the rear light cluster is a trivial job; on my current car, I don't even need any tools!
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Status: Waiting for 10 more minutes
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB $550 for a fucking speaker?!
Hookers are cheaper
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@ben_lubar I am 68% certain the last one must have been doctored.
Judging from the responses, they can't have trained the bot with much more than a few hundred photos. What gives?
@ScholRLEA said in The Official Status Thread:
just randomly drawing from a large table of descriptions
Or the base images pool is very very small...
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Why not just spam 50,000
imagesStackExchange questions in the status thread instead of making a new thread. Why not. Keep going. Post a billion more.RTFY.
Pre-edit: 'd by @Lorne-Kates@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Waiting for 10 more minutes
Okay, I'll byte. What are you waiting for?
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@FrostCat My 2008 Renault Clio had the same, though I've never actually needed to replace any lights there - I just needed to get at the rear light cluster often cause of a problem with the trailer plug that made the mist lights not work if the trailer plug was hooked in. 3 screws with funny heads. Headlights were a bit tricky to get at, but not to the level of disassembly.
I haven't checked it on my 2012 Kia yet, as I haven't needed to get at it for any reason.
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My life is pain. I haven't even opened an IDE this week yet.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
My life is pain. I haven't even opened an IDE this week yet.
I am truly sorry for your loss. Have some internet cuddles?
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@Tsaukpaetra giant folder full of confidential everything. Permissions: servername/users..Full access.
Servername/users members: Domain Users.
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Status: Saw a Google Self-Driving Car on the way to work. Things are apparently fscking paranoid about the speed limit, would make even a Mexican ...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Okay, I'll byte. What are you waiting for?
job interviews :--)
1 down, next 2 are in the afternoon and I can continue bothering blakey here till then.
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Status: We're in code freeze, assigned to just try breaking the thing. One thing is broken for a QA person, that we can't repro even in the really excruciatingly bad environment we created to stress test things.
Boring.
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@Weng
Sekuritee: By Some Dipshit
A Haiku.Domain Users: Child, Users.
File share: all things confidential.
Users: Full access.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
which party (if any) is supporting anything like "fix bureaucracy"
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Status: Why? Why do you want two version of the same thing?!
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@Tsaukpaetra someone forgot to
npm install left-pad
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@cartman82 Quick decision tree for all 21st century elections:
Will you or your family be tortured or killed by not voting for a particular candidate? If so, it is in your interests to vote for that Candidate.
Are you a high ranking member of a candidate's party? If so, it is in your interests to vote for that candidate.
If none of the above applies to you, no candidate cares about anything you care about. Do whatever.
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@accalia Perhaps, but it seems they even want the column names like that too! Like, as if it's more difficult to derive a number that doesn't have leading zeros (The second has a format that technically matches a field elsewhere in the database with the same name, but gets cast as an INT for raisins, so the zeros are lost anyways).
Then (same file), we're expecting an address to have columns name like so:
?!?!
Also, looks like some data is shifted (not going to cap the sample values for disclosure, it's very likely an actual address...)!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra I have software that turns addresses into that level of normalized derp.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I have software that turns addresses into that level of normalized derp.
Does it derp it up even more than "Address Line 4 is the street address, Address Line 3 is the apartment number of applicable)?
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@Tsaukpaetra Twitter's JSON API does that with tweet IDs, since the number's so large there's a risk it'll get truncated into scientific notation. So they also offer a string version of same.
#trivia
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I ended up ordering them from the US.
Hah, just like if you'd needed an MRI.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Unless there's more to the mount point than I know, I hope that's not it.
In my case you could clearly see it from the passenger compartment when you removed the access cover. I didn't have the car long enough to bother spending the money to fix it, but I was told basically it involved just welding a steel plate in there.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
he hated we certain cars came in, because it would be at least 3 hours of labor just to do anything
I need to replace something in my engine that the serpentine belt moves, because it's making a noise. The mechanic said there's no way to tell what's wrong without opening the cover, which probably means lifting the engine out or something moronic. It's $385 just to find out how much more it's gonna cost me.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Why there isn't a simple chart where I can find out which party (if any) is supporting anything like "fix bureaucracy" or "leave IT sector alone"?
My guess is that none of them support that, so there's nothing to chart.
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@FrostCat Did I see you had a Subaru? If so, just have them do the timing belt and replace both idlers and the water pump. Should be basically no extra labor beyond what they have to do for one of them.
Don't just cherrypick the one that's gone out today - the others will follow shortly.
And if any of that actually breaks, you're in it for major engine repairs because of bent valves.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Twitter's JSON API does that with tweet IDs, since the number's so large there's a risk it'll get truncated into scientific notation. So they also offer a string version of same.
I might understand if for some reason your system is trying to parse it or something (maybe adding two IDs together? Who knows?), but for IDs you'd normally leave them as-is, unless I'm . Actually, if I was developing from the start I probably wouldn't even assume IDs were numerical in nature at all TBH, so casting things to ints or even doubles wouldn't waft across my mind at all...
I'm sure there's an argument somewhere about storing IDs as in versus String, but in this case that's not really what's going on (I don't think).
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
I cracked the fucking display in the exact same way as the other I was replacing
Well done.
I tried to replace the glass on my Galaxy Note II--it's not bonded to the digitizer, so it's actually cheap. Then I cleaned my living room and accidentally threw the envelope with the new glass out. Dammit.
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Dear 6pm meeting host guy: Fuck. You. Forever.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
I haven't checked it on my 2012 Kia yet, as I haven't needed to get at it for any reason.
Must be nice. I have to replace an average of slightly more than 1 bulb a year between the three clusters.
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@FrostCat I'll find out. I've had it for 3 months now.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Don't just cherrypick the one that's gone out today - the others will follow shortly.
I'm irritated, because I just replaced the belt & water pump (but probably not the idlers) in 2012 and the new ones only have ~25K miles on them.
And if any of that actually breaks, you're in it for major engine repairs because of bent valves.
My mechanic was more dire. She used the phrase "destroy the engine". I suppose, given the money involved, it doesn't really make a difference--either of them is a call for a new vehicle.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear 6pm meeting host guy: Fuck. You. Forever.
If someone tried that with me, first off, I would tell them "no", as I work until 5. It was clearly communicated when I was hired that I work a 40hour week, and excess time is unusual at best. (Of course if a customer has a critical problem I am willing to stay late, but that's rare.)
I don't know why I said "first off", as there's nothing else to say. Yes, my company has some management types in California. None of them are the kind of asshole who would schedule a meeting that would keep someone after 5PM their time.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
I'll find out. I've had it for 3 months now.
Ah, well, that's
mobiledifferent.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I might understand if for some reason your system is trying to parse it or something (maybe adding two IDs together? Who knows?), but for IDs you'd normally leave them as-is, unless I'm .
You aren't; Twitter is.
There's literally NO reason they shouldn't be using GUIDs as IDs. Their strange compulsion to keep numbering everything with ints is baffling.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear 6pm meeting host guy: Fuck. You. Forever.
No. Just no. Here:
http://www.geneticanomaly.com/RPG-Motivational/slides/cluebat.jpg
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@Tsaukpaetra Billing Address 3 could be P.O. Box?
Still
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
And if any of that actually breaks, you're in it for major engine repairs because of bent valves.
Depends on the engine, if it's interference type or not.
For a Subaru, 1997 and up are all interference.
It really depends on the make/model/year/engine.
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Status: waiting
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What's with people asking movie questions when they haven't watched the movie in question?
One of the Star Wars movies has a wedding scene. Back to the Future explicitly shows the band member jimmy-ing the trunk with a screwdriver. These are things shown ON SCREEN.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
These are things shown ON SCREEN.
So you found another idiot on the internet. BFD
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@dkf I don't understand why you would:
- Care enough about the film to post a question to the internets about it, but
- Not care enough about the film to actually watch the film.
What's the sweet-spot there?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
My life is pain. I haven't even opened an IDE this week yet.
I have opened an IDE, and it was Cloud9, and the new workspace I created didn't have javac available, even though it had a JDK and Maven installed (I'm developing in Java). However I did get my personal laptop back from the repair shop this evening, so I can go back to taking my own kit to work in order to get something done.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't understand why
Someone's trying to shill for internetpointzzz? Whatever. If that's the plan, they seem to have chosen a dumb way to do it.
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@FrostCat "destroy the engine" is a possible outside outcome of pistons and valves meeting at speed.
And generally, $2000 in head work and $3000 in engine swap are sufficiently indistinguishable as to make no difference to most people.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Their strange compulsion to keep numbering everything with ints is baffling.
They're probably the kind of people who would say "Goo-ids? What is that, a Micro$oft thing?" And then you wouldn't be baffled any more.
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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.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Depends on the engine, if it's interference type or not.
I think mine is. I googled it, came up with a list that claims to be of engines that are interference engines, and mine's on the Kia list: 3.5L V6 DOHC.