The Official Status Thread
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Status: Today's my 26th wedding anniversary.
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STATUS:
My new designery/photography colleague:
".... for example, I have great memory for CD keys. All these pirated programs I use, I see the CD key once and bam! I can just type it in, again and again. People are like, 'OMG, how can you do it?' I guess everyone's an idiot savant for something.... "
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@NedFodder But the variable only exists inside the For-Loop's scope, right?
Yes, accessing isEven outside the loop is an error. But you can see the "declaration" moving outside the loop in the disassembly (isEven is stored in
[ebp-40h]
):
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia Because other than a few weird quircks, it's C# with different keywords.
Then this is one of those weird quirks: porting @aliceif 's code to C# would give
Error CS0165 Use of unassigned local variable 'isEven'
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the chicken.
A gentleman never comes first.
NB: If you're a lady, you just Lost At Sex, so condolences but congratulations on your second/first finish.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
"Oh, well, here comes the usual argument about...
Oh, well, here comes the usual argument about conservation of energy, by the usual "scientists". Yeah, well, maybe there's just bits of "science" that aren't explored yet, and they just don't "understand" how perpetual motion works.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
new version of Dwarf Fortress came out and I stopped playing that world.
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a software update to a new universe"
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Status: Extremely annoying coil whine coming from a PCI board I'm working on..
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@NedFodder said in The Official Status Thread:
Then this is one of those weird quirks: porting @aliceif 's code to C# would give
VB seems to implicitly initialise everything with its default value.
Dim o As Object Console.WriteLine(o)
compiles and runs fine, but with a warning
Variable 'o' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime
. When you pause and inspecto
, it has a value ofNothing
(VB equivalent tonull
). Explicitly assigning it asDim o as Object = Nothing
removes the warning but otherwise doesn't change behaviour.With a value type like
Integer
orbool
, the default value is used instead (0 andfalse
respectively)C# behaves the same if you inspect an uninitialised variable, it's just the compiler being more strict about insisting you explicitly assign a variable before referring to it
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Those of you following /r/TalesFromTechSupport may be interested in /r/MaliciousCompliance
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Status: Currently in a surgery waiting room waiting on my father to be done with his cataract surgery. I go to refill my coffee and the pot is stuck to the hotplate thing. I give it a little twist and the carafe shatters. Coffee runs all over the counter and floor.
So now, of course I am the guy who broke the coffee pot, made a huge mess and is now preventing anyone else from having coffee. There is a disheveled groggy looking hipster giving me the evil eye right now.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
pot is stuck to the hotplate thing. I give it a little twist
Classic mistake. If it's stuck, wait for it to cool and soak off every time
EDIT: or let some other fool try to move it and risk breakage
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The Pope says WtfCorp is going to hell:
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: In memory of Shorast Nogleshavuz / Born 209 / Struck down by the dwarf Bomrek Glovedpages the Steamy Flame of Purity with a pig tail sock in the year 270 / United with diorite
You're still playing that dwarf thing? Haven't you gotten tired of it already?
YMBNH
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
rocks fall and everyone has FUN.
? (Personally I think that one is a bit more of a stretch than normal, but who's to deny
?)
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
You can fix it by changing line 2 to say
Dim isEven As Boolean = Nothing
,WAT.
@El_Heffe said in The Official Status Thread:
Last night I went out dressed as a chicken and hooked up with a girl dressed as an egg. A lifelong question has been answered. It's the chicken.
The Bad Jokes Thread is
@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
A gentleman never comes first.
Considering he didn't disambiguate with "hen" or "cock", the world will never know...
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Extremely annoying coil whine coming from a PCI board I'm working on..
Drizzle some wood glue onto it. That'll fix her right up!
Status: Fscking with the Windows API so I can have pretty progress bars in my application Icon. Wohoo!
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
The Pope says WtfCorp is going to hell
We knew that. WtfU will be following just behind…
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Status: Yay!
Action: Attempted to copy all + headers from the results pane of an empty result set.
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Status: slowly realizing how terrible having "truthiness" in dynamic languages is.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis Your post is true.
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Windows 7: I hit Win key and start typing "Add Remove" and can select "Add Remove Programs"
Cinnamon/Gnome3: I hit Win key and start typing "Screen" to run Screen Capture...
Windows 10: I hit Win key and start typing anything, and I get a "fuck you, did you want to search internet?"
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows 10: I hit Win key and start typing anything, and I get a "fuck you, did you want to search internet? If not, wait about 30 seconds to see if Cortana (aka Windows Search) knows where standard system programs are"
CTFY. If the stars align and the Search Indexes are up to date, it almost works.
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes, but stopping the world for a while just because someone hit the Win key and typed something is great UX…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes, but stopping the world for a while just because someone hit the Win key and typed something is great UX…
Oh absolutely.
I mean, how hard can it really be to manage a small microdatabase of programs, filenames, and (if you wait a bit) internal contents and metadata?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes, but stopping the world for a while just because someone hit the Win key and typed something is great UX…
Oh absolutely.
I mean, how hard can it really be to manage a small microdatabase of programs, filenames, and (if you wait a bit) internal contents and metadata?Here's a bit of fun:
- Stick the windows search index somewhere other than
C:
(Assume you're running low on room on C: or something) - Other drive dies or otherwise goes away, but your space pressure on
C:
is gone and you've got backups, so you're not worried. Yet. - Try getting search indexing to work without that other drive.
From my experience, you can't even get to the option to change where it's located. You might be able to change a registry entry to get it working, but it may also be (b)locked for whatever reason. It constantly reminds me to turn search indexing on, but won't let me do it without making a
D:
drive.(Yes, I know how to fix it - call a thumb drive
D:
, change now-available setting, etc. Still incredibly stupid and user-unfriendly.)
- Stick the windows search index somewhere other than
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STATUS
My new ipad keyboard.
You have one attempt to spot the tragic flaw in this layout.
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@cartman82 I'm buttuming you tried to copy/cut/paste stuff by using the key in the bottom left...
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 I'm buttuming you tried to copy/cut/paste stuff by using the key in the bottom left...
Nope, that actually works OK for Apple's layout (where CMD is the main key for everything, and CTRL has some undefined rarely used function).
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@cartman82 well, then I cant find a single flaw then, the whole thing is awful.
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@cartman82 That it's not a full 101 keyboard layout and is thus sacrilege?
Other than that, I see no problems.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis
No Numpad!
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@Onyx , @CreatedToDislikeThis , @aliceif
Imagine actually trying to do some work on iPad, like emailing, shitposting, maybe some light google docs work. You get into the grove. You start multitasking between several applications. You're eager to try out apple's new task switching functionality. You reach out to press CMD + Tab...
Oh.
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@cartman82 Having to press fn+Q for tab is odd, but unless I'm writing code I don't need to tab very often.
'd
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@cartman82
Task switching is not done via something involving the ï‚– button?
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Task switching is not done via something involving the button?
The square button is Home. You can do it that way, but it really kills the flow.
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@cartman82 Ah yes, that could be Quit annoying…
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@cartman82 Yeah, that shit really pisses me off on iOS. No
Back
button more so than the switcher, I know the apps are fairly standardized in where they put the back button but still...Also, I preferred the menu button on Android, I don't find myself switching tasks often enough to warrant not just having it on "hold Home", I usually need the contextual menu functionality more.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, I preferred the menu button on Android, I don't find myself switching tasks often enough to warrant not just having it on "hold Home", I usually need the contextual menu functionality more.
I agree. A dedicated menu button was useful, and the new functionality when holding home in Marshmallow is pretty useless
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Status: It turns out that if you want to tell two DOM elements apart by ID, it really helps if you set an ID on them. And that you ship the description of the ID of the element from the server to the client. And I can't even blame anyone else.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, that shit really pisses me off on iOS. No Back button more so than the switcher, I know the apps are fairly standardized in where they put the back button but still...
They actually added Back button in recent iOS updates. It sort of wedges itself in the upper-left corner awkwardly, like an introvert at a party. Not sure if this is now a part of iOS or just something apps agreed on doing. But it's crap compared to android's native functionality.
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STATUS: Shipment arrived. Isn't Amazon great?
Uh-Oh. Looks like their toner cartridge went empty on that last one.
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@El_Heffe The hell do they feed them, Spice?
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Status: don't have the ability to run my code locally to test. Only a dev environment. That would be ok except that I was only grudingly given access to the console and can't SSH into the box. No logs, console output, nothing to help with debugging. I've been adding customised exceptions to my code on the error conditions I so that I can see them in SoapUI (I'm working on a webservice at the moment) without having to step through in the debugger each time.
Just as I finally figured out what (I'm 99% sure) was the last error, the dev environent went down. Been waiting about two hours to test this final change so I can check in my code.
This should have been done days ago, but what with one thing and another... and I have to leave in less than an hour and a half because I need to drive to Yorkshire in Friday afternoon traffic to arrive in time for an event. I'll have done my contract hours by then but I really don't want to cut and run and leave this over the weekend.
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Status: Inserting 15m randomly generated records into my local DB.
Also team has abandoned me.
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Status:
Making changes to a site via a home grown CMS. It uses razor CSHTML, which I'm not entirely familiar with, so there's a little bit of trial and error involved.
Due to it being CMS driven rather than running locally, I have no way to actually debug it when I cock something up. If I get a 500 page I didn't do it right. It also takes anything up to half an hour for changes I make to show up on the site, so it's slow going to say the least
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Also team has abandoned me.
Well, it's Friday after all.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
You're eager to try out apple's new task switching functionality. You reach out to press CMD + Tab...
Pfft. That's OS X shortcut they stole from Windows. You're not an Apple old-timer.
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Status: Outlook randomly popped up a notification bar in the email list about an app crashing (Outlook addons have been disabled via group policy, so what app is it talking about?).
Clicking the "View disabled apps" button, what do you expect? A dialog listing apps? Heck no!
Instead, let us open Internet Explorer (despite your default browser being something not that), and.... display your Inbox! Because that's totally what I asked you to do...
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Status:
Proxy!
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