The Official Status Thread
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@CarrieVS
That someone is terrible at choosing domein names
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@Luhmann I dunno, I thought it might be deliberate.
I'd say the choice of website title is where they went wrong. It's hard to pronounce with the two s sounds in succession.
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One of the many “joys” (read: painful aspects) of multithreaded programming
This fairly dry and thorough for its level C#/.NET book is getting sarcastic right as we start getting into the most interesting (to me) chapters. Think it might be a sign?
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STATUS If only the ground would open up and swallow me whole...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Except that Microsoft automatically installed Candy Crush on his work computer (it was installed on my computer when I upgraddated to 10 so I'm assuming it was part of the 10 update and not shitware that my dad unintentionally installed) because Windows is never used by businesses ever, right?
How is "Candy Crush installed" and "used by businesses" mutually-exclusive?
Take a look at it from Microsoft's perspective: for decades, people have enjoyed the OS shipping with solitaire, mine sweeper, that pinball game, etc. (Many of them while at businesses.) Why wouldn't they also include a game with Windows 10?
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Status: I keep seeing stories about Trump supporters juxtaposed with articles indicating there's a thriving testing community in Manchester, right next door to where I got my degree. I feel like there's a hidden message here...
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I keep seeing stories about Trump supporters juxtaposed with articles indicating there's a thriving testing community in Manchester, right next door to where I got my degree. I feel like there's a hidden message here...
hmm.... does the test community in manchester need developers too?
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@accalia Judging by the number of e-mails I'm still getting from recruitment agencies, there's no shortage of vacanies
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STATUS: Back at work after a week off.
Bleugh :-( I need to go back to bed.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
there's a thriving testing community in Manchester
That explains why it's so hard to hire a good tester; we're low-balling the pay (as usual ) and there's lots of alternative employers nearby.
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Status:bolded text Wondering why Apple's idea of a numeric field allows the user to type
£?!@&
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@JazzyJosh Vacancies.
I blame @accalia.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh Vacancies.
I blame @accalia.
STATUS fucking hell. It's half four and I've done exactly one thing today.
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@DogsB do not like!
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I was scrolling slowly through posts, then some images loaded and now I'm at the bottom. GG WUD SCROLL AGAIN.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Professional idiot.
why? windows 10 performs perfectly well for me.
in fact i have negative problems with windows 10 compared to windows 7
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
in fact i have negative problems with windows 10 compared to windows 7
Negative problems are worst then positive ones, I believe
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Status: why doesn't Docker allow the Linux kernel system call to disable ASLR by default?
docker run --rm -ti --security-opt seccomp=unconfined --net none benlubar/df-ai:stable
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Negative problems are worst then positive ones, I believe
the sum of my issues with windows 7 exceeds the sum of my issues witnb windows 10, thus i have a net negative issues with windows 10.
simple.
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Status We're on a road to nowhere
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Status: Watching yesterdays "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" noticing this:
Paging @Lorne-KatesFiled Under: Also depicted: the joys of taking a screenshot of a person talking in a video... always the best expressions
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
accoutn
Ha! I found someone else that spells accoutn wrong!
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
They still haven't fixed it or responded back
Whelp, time to test it then!
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Microsoft automatically installed Candy Crush on his work computer
Yeah, I was wondering about that.
Haven't been up and around to figure out how to cancel it either. I have to wait for it to fully download and install, and then I can remove it. Until then, it's a non-cancellable non-uninstallable stub waiting for download. This as well as several other apps that aren't pre-installed in order to make Windows appear "slimmer" on the download apparently.
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
norepro, none of my 10 pro machines have candy crush.
Reinstall from (fairly) recent media. It will blow your mind!
@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
What's your first thought on reading the URL www.databaseskill.com?
Database skill? Sounds pretty unoriginal...
Status: I have returned from BABSCon! And apparently caught up with the Status thread...
Now to ready the other 86 updated threads...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
What's your first thought on reading the URL www.databaseskill.com?
Database skill? Sounds pretty unoriginal...
Da Tab Ases Kill
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@Fox Thursday through Sunday I walked a total of over 50,000 steps. T_T
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Status: I was on the toilet at work, and suddenly I thought of that gag in Red Dwarf about how Rimmer uses toilet paper (he only uses 3 squares: one up, one down, and one "to polish") and started laughing.
Then someone came in. So. That was kind of weird.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Then someone came in. So. That was kind of weird.
You have to kill them now. Nobody can know.
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@ben_lubar I did that, but while I was hiding the body, someone else walked in. Then I had to kill them. Anyway, it became like that episode of Futurama where Leela becomes a murderer and has to kill the entire cast one by one because they all figure it out.
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Status: In the past four hours I've been told, point blank:
- Operations is incompetant
- Marketing are idiots who don't know how to run their business
- Our intrim CIO is working against the IT department
- Users are muppets*
- One BA is "stealing" developers from another BA (and the CIO is on the other BA's side)
* Ok, that one was you guys
Seriously? I'm exhausted from trying to convince people I don't like to like each other.
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@Fox That's normal "sit on ass and go to meetings and then a nominal stop at the gym" for me. And i need to be more active.
I suspect that Gencon is 50k a day or so, the way we do it. I'll find out this year.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I suspect that Gencon is 50k a day or so, the way we do it. I'll find out this year.
are you literally just walking circles around the outside of the convention center for 24 hours?
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@Fox Felt like it last year.
50k is about 23 miles. At normal walking pace, about 8 hours.
Our room is about 3/4 of a mile from every damned event we do. Roundtrip that 4x daily and that's 6 miles of commuting. Double that to cover in-con incidentals (dealers, wandering around, being generally awesome, meeting up with other people, etc.).
12 miles.
Add another 4 miles for restaurant/club/bar action.
16 miles.
So probably not 50k. But almost assuredly 33k. About 5 hours of walking per day.
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Status: Currently importing the OSM file for Germany into a PostgreSQL db. The VM on my PC has roughly the same specs as a commercially available low-end VM my brother will probably use, i.e. 2 cores, 4 GB RAM and such.
I've begun the importing process at 1900h. Currently (2253h) it still shows no signs of being done yet. The progress indicator has three columns:
Node, Way and Relation.
Node is done at 241M, processed at 177 k/s.
Way currently stands at 1069k, processed at 0.09 k/s.
Relation has not even started yet.Seems as if we won't update the map very often when we let the site go live. :)
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@Rhywden
take a look at osm change files, i think i saw somewhere a service that lets you use that and only update your maps with the changes instead of starting over
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@Rhywden Though, judging from what the task manager shows me, I should have put the damn thing on my SSD - it's clearly IO that's the bottleneck here.
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@Fox Because the beer is in the room, duh.
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@Weng but why leave it in the room? They have camelbacks and baseball caps for that sort of thing.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I keep seeing stories about Trump supporters juxtaposed with articles indicating there's a thriving testing community in Manchester, right next door to where I got my degree. I feel like there's a hidden message here...
They're telling you that the US presidential candidates need more QA.
Filed Under: I'm pretty sure they'd all get rejected as inadequately stable.
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Status: Trolling through this mystery folder that I found in my Outlook folder list called
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, which appeared initially to contain no items, but had the obligatory "Click to see more messages from Microsoft Exchange Server".It seems that during the IMAP mirror while migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange, certain things got shoved around, such as SameTime saved chats.Sadly not all of the content made it, but I did find a humorous (I hope) message (Emphasis apparently mine, inserted into the chat):
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Good question, and good short story, but what the asker forgets is that the scientist who created these micro-robots was emulating their brains in a computer. So presumably, he could just reprogram the brains to not notice the stuff.
Also the long answer from Jay, which ends:
When I read the story I wondered: If the builders of Tiny Town had no moral qualms about uploading people's consciousness into these robots and using them for these experiments, why not just cordon off a real town of real people and do similar experiments?
Because making tiny robots controlled by human brain scans isn't illegal! Holding a town prisoner is. I mean, duh. It's so obvious the author didn't even bother writing it down, apparently.
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@blakeyrat http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/78448/count-up-folks
A lot of people missed the 2^64 requirement (99% sure the C++ example is wrong; maybe it works with the right compiler directive; the GNU CoreUtils one is probably also), but kudos to the JS guy who built an arbitrary precision JavaScript int to pull it off, since JavaScript's floating point numbers are only precise to the digit up to 2^53.
The Mathematica example is interesting, too. It just assumes all kinds of shit to make that "range" meaningful.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Users are muppets
To be fair, we're muppets too. These guys, to be exact:
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Status: Does anyone know what this symbol is?
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@ben_lubar It appears to be a black box