The Official Status Thread
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@RaceProUK OK, I've heard of Kilimanjaro, though the other one (Kyalami) is the one with a race trackβ¦
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Does the number "three thirds" mean anything to you?
I normalize all my fractions, like normal people do, unless not doing so would annoy someone I want to annoy.
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Status: Jesus fucking Christ on a bouncy castle, some software is really shit. This data management system I'm trying to hook my code up to (which lacks a proper API layer so I'm poking my fingers into the guts of the system in the first place) lets me upload a collection of files as an organised data set and returns a handle to the created data. Which is nice. Except the handle doesn't work for most operations until the some critical part of the upload completes (not quite sure whether it is the upload itself or the database commit) and there's no way to listen for that to happen. So I have to add an experimentally-determined pause to my client code to let things happen or I get weird exceptions thrown out of the API. Because being able to tell a consistent story is totally not something that a data management system should do.
At least I'm now more convinced that how I go about writing my own web services is good; I at least don't throw evil errors back in clients' faces. (I also use consistent identifiers for things. These jokers don't. FML.)
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: snowing. In England, in almost-May.
Now snowing dawn sarf as well. It was t-shirt weather last weekend.
Edit: now the wind has stopped and it's bright sunshine. Bizarre weather.
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@Cursorkeys The snow's up in the north west now
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@Cursorkeys Yeah, it's alternating between sunshine and snow here.
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Hello! and welcome to the British Weather channel!
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edit - worst onebox ever.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm cinvinced that there's something about taking money for someone to access the gas and electricity that are already connected to a house that makes it impossible to be even vaguely competent.
Can't you just buy gas cylinders? I like my gas coming in cylinders. It's the only option here, but I don't see any problem with that.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't you just buy gas cylinders?
You can but there's no reason to. It comes from the gas main, it's about as simple as it gets.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
there's no way to listen for that to happen. So I have to add an experimentally-determined pause to my client code to let things happen or I get weird exceptions thrown out of the API.
Can't you use something in their api and check for weird exceptions as a way to detect if the handle is good?
Set a polling for it and you can abstract this bug away with a nice wrapper.
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@loopback0 hundreds of videogames would have to be redesigned if everything came in pipes and there were no barrels
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
It comes from the gas main, it's about as simple as it gets.
Exactly. The only complicated thing is paying one of the almost identical companies money based on some weird tariff for something that's literally always on tap. I want nationalised utilities, that seems to make a lot more sense
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone want a free string of random characters? Well look no further than https://www.youtube.com/feed/watch_later
"Screenshots frighten them"?!
Well one thing I noticed is that apparently the characters always seem to start with AB38WE, an apparently madified base64 string that means very little.@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe this will help:
Probably not, my translation libraries are quite old and don't support internal references... Crappy 15-year-old libraries that I can't be arsed to update...
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The new hire is still spooked after the fax machine went off.
Did you make sure the external volume was set to Max?
Status: Message just on (I'm CC'd on because raisins) just in:
So, not only do we have some sort of undecipherable FTP problem, but it's a problem that happened before and NOBODY TOOK NOTES ON HOW IT WAS FIXED?!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Probably not, my translation libraries are quite old and don't support internal references...
Dwarf Translation
CAT-FACE CUP-CAKE KINDNESS-SOCIETY FRAGILE-MEMORY LOCK-TWO-WHEEL-HOUSE
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Dwarf Translation
Yeah, that wasn't even close to what I got back. Oh well, it's not in my supported, somewhat supported, or even detectable languages sets. so ο .
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@Tsaukpaetra the post a few replies up the chain has a translator linked on the l in help.
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STATUS very amused. Apparently the outsourced ivr testers are speaking with bad British accents when they test it.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
linked on the l in help.
I did see it, but it seemed not working for me (probably proxy again. Thanks Work!)
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: snowing. In England, in almost-May.
Better get your refridgerator boat ready.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
I am the only person in the company that works with GPRS connected stuff
Someone else stuck in private APN hell .
I always find it amusing when phone spammers dial our gear, hope you like getting lots of txts of encoded gibberish that won't stop for a while because you can't ack the message (It falls back to SMS if you call it or send it an SMS).
Would your company spring for a (legal) repeater, we have to use one for O2.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
Hello! and welcome to the British Weather channel!
Look we're British. It's what we do. We're famed for it. You know you'd all be disappointed if you met real live Brits and we didn't talk about the weather.
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Status: Finding that there is a forum system that's worse than even Discourse:
Thankfully it's only on one website.
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Just can't rabbit...
/.\ /.\
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O.O
is the best yet, but those dont look like... ears/\. ./\
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O.O
is messy.And don't get me started on:
O.O
Clearly, nodebb is worthless.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Just can't rabbit...
/.\ /.\
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``O.O``
is the best yet, but those dont look like... ears/\. ./\
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``O.O``
is messy.And don't get me started on:
` `
` `
O.O
Clearly, nodebb is worthless.
No, just Markdown.
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/.\ /.\ | |_| | | O.O | \ . / \_/
That looks crap
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@RaceProUK How about π°?
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@ben_lubar That's cheating!
I'm now going to call you Cheaty Mc Cheaterface!
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@ben_lubar That's so much worse...
My theme has white text, and red text in the preformatted blocks, which are white.
So I was trying to make ears around the pre, and nothing works.
Why does
render so badly?EDIT: you know what, its getting worse...
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar That's so much worse...
Why does
<pre>` ` ` `</pre>
render so badly?Either use Markdown or HTML, don't try to use both inside each other.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Either use Markdown or HTML, don't try to use both inside each other.
I'm sorry, WHAT!? markdown is normal text that formats itself. Apparently I can never put anything in html tags?
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@Magus Also, what am I supposed to do?
` `
renders like something completely unlike itself...` ` ` `
is all I was trying to post, and there's no sane way to get it. Seriously!
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 hundreds of videogames would have to be redesigned if everything came in pipes and there were no barrels
In this hypothetical world, do we still have access to crates?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK How about π°?
if you're gonna cheat, cheat big:
____ ____ /' | | \ / / | | \ \ / / | | | \ \ : / | """" |\ \ A-ha! There is nothing better | / / /^\ /^\ \ _| than eating a BIG BIG carrot!! ~ | | | | | | ~ | |__O|__|O__| | /~~ \/ ~~\ / ( | ) \ _--_ /, `\___/^\___/' \ _--_ /~ ~\ / -____-|_|_|-____-\ /~ ~\ /____--------/~~~~\---/~~~~\ -----------_____ --~~~ ^ | | | | - : ~:~-_ ___-----~~~~~~~~| / `^-^-^' `^-^-^' : ~\ /' ____/--------| -- ; | /~~~------~~~~~~~~~| ; : : | ----------/--------| : , ; . |---\\--------------| : - . : : |______________-__| : , , : /'~----___________| __ \\\ ^ ,, ;; ;; ;._-~ ~~~-----____________________________________----~~~
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@Magus ` ` ` `?
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@ben_lubar Yeah, not going to bother trying to view raw on the whole thread just to see that.
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@ben_lubar said in [The Official Status Thread](/topic/12236/the-official-status-thread/43405): > @Magus \` \` \` \`?
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Yeah, not going to bother trying to view raw on the whole thread just to see that.
The quote button is your friend!
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@ben_lubar That is one thing this has over , but I'm still trying to recover from my 'discard ptsd'
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
/.\ /.\ | |_| | | O.O | \ . / \_/
That looks crap
That looks like a person kissing their ass goodbye upside down.
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Status: The noise level near my cube has quadrupled over the last ten minutes. I wonder what's going on?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The noise level near my cube has quadrupled over the last ten minutes. I wonder what's going on?
So has mine. But no cube. And I don't have to wonder - another group is holding a brainstorming session. Have I mentioned recently that open floor plans suck?
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't you use something in their api and check for weird exceptions as a way to detect if the handle is good?
That's quite possibly what I'll do eventually if necessary (don't really want to; the API's huge and all tangled up internally in nasty ways). Why the vendor of the software didn't do this already⦠well, the more I see of their code, the less happy I get. Dumbass fuckweasels.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
Can't you just buy gas cylinders?
Those cost a lot more per unit of gas used once you've got the infrastructure in place.
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Status: Gave my 2 weeks notice last week, and my last day will be May the force. My boss looks all hurt.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
last day will be May the force.
be with you?
Nice autocorrect... :P
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STATUS:
Spot the bug!
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