The Official Status Thread
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Status: My co-worker, who is demoted today to cow-orker, CBA to upload a test file to the IRS for me. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes but he asked "why don't we do it in the morning?" Because there's a significant turnaround processing time, and my clients are bugging me about having this feature delivered, dammit.
Decent guy but he's not terribly customer-focused.
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Status: Are you fucking kidding me?
Warning: The element 'ALEMemberInformationGrp' in namespace 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:7.0' has invalid child element 'SepALEMonthlyInfoGrp' in namespace 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:7.0'. List of possible elements expected: 'SeptALEMonthlyInfoGrp, OctALEMonthlyInfoGrp, NovALEMonthlyInfoGrp, DecALEMonthlyInfoGrp' in namespace 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:7.0'.
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@FrostCat SepALEMonthlyInfoGrp != SeptALEMonthlyInfoGrp
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@FrostCat Missing
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?Status: Overviewing emails to generate requirements (because paragraphs of text is mounds better than simple lists of conditions and descriptions), when I came across this:
I see a lot of trans where the principal amount is $99,999 but the amount of the payoff was greater than $99,999. What is the significance of the $99,999.
My my, could it be that this "principal amount" field is only 5 characters wide, when obviously it should be quite a bit wider? (Assuming it's not actually verbatim text
$99,999
of course, but people are dumb...)
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Status: Today we did a cabling job that I have wanted to do for a long time. A client we picked up a year or so ago has always had gremlins in their network. I always suspected the network cabling, considering the other shoddy stuff we found that wasn't in the walls.
We ripped out a shitload of CAT3 and found a few splices up in the attic that looked like Ray Charles did them with his feet. Why the fuck they even spliced them, I have no idea. I was always told to not have anything but home runs from patch panel to jack.
Now everything connects at Gigabit speeds (new switch, in preparation for new phone system) and everything seems to be stable, as it should be.
Highlight of the day though was a quip by one of my workers. It was he, another friend who has a remodeling business who worked the attic and did some other non-tech stuff, and myself. I forgot a bunch of stuff today...
Employee: "Where is the fiberglass fishrod?"
Me: "I think I forgot it back at the office."Employee: "Where are the LV boxes?"
Me: "Pretty sure I forgot those also, back at the office."Employee: "Where are the faceplates?"
Me: "Uhmmmmmm, I think they are in my other bag..."
Employee: "Back at the office?"
Me: "Yep. Seems to be a recurring theme today."
Employee: "...."
Me: "Sorry about that."
Employee: -grins- "At this point, I am just amazed you even remembered to show up this morning."
Me: "Funny thing that...I nearly forgot we were doing this today..."
Employee: "Why am I not surprised?..."At least I remembered the cable and the keystone jacks. That counts for something, right?
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat SepALEMonthlyInfoGrp != SeptALEMonthlyInfoGrp
I KNOW. The fuckers that specified this XML used three-letter codes for all the other 11 months!
Whoever designed this schema, well, I don't know. How should we name the tag that holds the Minimum Essential Coverage Offer Code? How about MinEssentialCvrOffrCd. You will NEVER guess what ALESect4980HTrnstReliefCd is without Googling it: ALE Section 4980H Transition Relief Code. It's like they got tired towards the end of the name.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates :fa_slashdot:
Did they ever implement unicode? I want to think that was too hard for whatever talent was left over after Dice gutted the place.
Soylent News managed to hack up the Slashcode, and get Unicode working.
The first thing I posted was one of those. (sorry @NCommander )
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Minimum Essential Coverage Offer Code
In some old era when you had very small limits to identifier size, someone told me we remove first the vowels, then the rest. So MinEssentialCvrOffrCd isn't quite right, it should be MnmmEssntlCvrgOfrCd
Warghblargh would be as good as any of these names anyway
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@Tsaukpaetra Riiight, but that means her neck is like circus-freak flexible.
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@FrostCat You typoed the fuck out of that September tag.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Riiight, but that means her neck is like circus-freak flexible.
The artist got the left ear wrong, so the face was probably turned a little more realistically at first but had to be adjusted so that it appeared they were looking at the camera/artist/whatever..
Anyways, you asked which position it was supposed to be, and I answered. I can't attest to the literal physical accuracy of the work.
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@Tsaukpaetra You haven't convinced me. I still think it could be 50/50 either way.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You haven't convinced me.
Isn't that the beauty in art? It's all up to interpretation...
Anyways, lets stop verbalizing how much you're starting at @accalia's avatar, hedgehogs might not approve... :P
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
So MinEssentialCvrOffrCd isn't quite right
I KNOW!
The XSD is FULL of bizarre shortenings. Not to mention that Sept inconsistency, where the tags for the other 11 months are all 3 letters.
Oh, and every other place--there's about 3--where there's tags for each month, they used Sep. Just for fun, 2 or 3 tags are IN ALL UPPERCASE.
The good news is that was a trivial fix on my part and the new file's been uploading and I'm not impatiently waiting for it to get past the processing stage. I realized after I submitted I forgot to implement one tag, but it will only take a couple minutes to add that.
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@Tsaukpaetra But what about the top/necklace? Or are those just really thick lines for the arms?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You typoed the fuck out of that September tag.
No, I buttumed it was Sep like the other 35 places a monthly tag was used and had 3-character abbreviations.
ETA: that is to say, it wasn't a typo, because I meant to type Sep. It just turns out that was wrong. Because the people who designed that schema are assholes.
Who have already changed the schema 3 times or so since November, and you are required to keep up with the changes.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
But what about the top/necklace? Or are those just really thick lines for the arms?
Bra/Bikini top?
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Status: I got my Amazon shipment today. I TOTALLY FORGOT I PUT GODZILLA IN HELL IN MY CART! NOW I HAVE IT!
But I can't read it until I finish at least 2 more bug tickets for work, sigh. Every page looks amazing.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I got my Amazon shipment today. I TOTALLY FORGOT I PUT GODZILLA IN HELL IN MY CART! NOW I HAVE IT!
Having mostly dealt with China-sourced things for quite a while, I've gotten into the habit of forgetting my own orders until they arrived a month later (probably some kind of coping mechanism to reduce stress). Then I ordered something in the States, and it came in two days and I was like, "What is this magic?!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I got my Amazon shipment today. I TOTALLY FORGOT I PUT GODZILLA IN HELL IN MY CART! NOW I HAVE IT!
Having mostly dealt with China-sourced things for quite a while, I've gotten into the habit of forgetting my own orders until they arrived a month later (probably some kind of coping mechanism to reduce stress). Then I ordered something in the States, and it came in two days and I was like, "What is this magic?!"
Me with my music preorders. They're mostly coming to the US from Austria, and because of the way the company calculates shipping (nearly or actually flat rate, but not small) it's usually best to buy a bunch at once, and they won't ship until everything's available. So several months later...yay! Big box o' metal!
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Status: Liking Windows 10's memory management. Under the same usage patterns as with 7, I have a lot more free.
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@Tsaukpaetra My strategy is to just keep a Amazon cart open until either I need something fast, or it totals to $200 or so. Then I hit checkout.
In this case, the cart lasted like over 2 months so I forgot about some of the stuff that was in it.
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Status: Just got supremely fed up with one of our kernel-mode drivers and wrote a new one nearly from scratch that is half the LOC, has variable names that make sense, and isn't over-complicated. And on the first try, it didn't blue-screen my PC. I feel like I did something wrong by not doing something wrong.
The old one was hard to follow. For example, the BARs variable didn't contain BARs, it contained a list of counters. Meanwhile, the interrupt status variable did not contain interrupt status, instead it contained BARs.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Liking Windows 10's memory management. Under the same usage patterns as with 7, I have a lot more free.
I dunno,
System
regularly consumes a few gigs of RAM for no discernable reason...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Liking Windows 10's memory management. Under the same usage patterns as with 7, I have a lot more free.
I dunno,
System
regularly consumes a few gigs of RAM for no discernable reason...Mine says "System and compressed memory". I'm thinking it's the latter part that's the bulk of it, which is probably the reason for much of the substantial memory savings I'm seeing.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
"System and compressed memory"
Mine must be dumb because I didn't get that update then...
This is after rebooting last night, it will climb up eventually to about 1Gb, but if it's "compressed memory" then I suppose it's probably all the Chrome tabs that are sitting idle...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Having mostly dealt with China-sourced things for quite a while, I've gotten into the habit of forgetting my own orders until they arrived a month later (probably some kind of coping mechanism to reduce stress). Then I ordered something in the States, and it came in two days and I was like, "What is this magic?!"
I occasionally order tons of electronics shit from eBay. For months later every trip to the mailbox is like Xmas. If Santa were Chinese.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
My strategy is to just keep a Amazon cart open until either I need something fast, or it totals to $200 or so. Then I hit checkout.
I used to use my Shopping Cart like a wish list. Probably before they had wish lists. Then I went out one night with the boys, got shitty drunk, came home and just ordered it all.
A few days later everything started arriving and I had forgotten all about it.
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Status: Waiting for a VP to call me (lowly me) so I can update her on the status of a project that's been mostly stalled for the better part of three years.
News I'll tell her: Well, the break-fixes I wrote should be going in tomorrow, but all the other stuff is still getting designed because you barely provided sufficiently understandable requirements last week....
In other news... Progress!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
"System and compressed memory"
Mine must be dumb because I didn't get that update then...
This is after rebooting last night, it will climb up eventually to about 1Gb, but if it's "compressed memory" then I suppose it's probably all the Chrome tabs that are sitting idle...
Weird. For comparison:
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@Dreikin Mine's System and Compressed Memory but only using 0.1 MB. So I guess I don't have any compressed memory right now.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
And on the first try, it didn't blue-screen my PC
Isn't that fun? I submitted my first ACA 1094C to AATS today and the only errors were "oops, I forgot a couple of fields on the data entry screen", not programming errors.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates I copied it to a text file, and it was 1MB of zalgo, wtf. That explain why my browser was slow on that page.
WTF is anyone allowed to upload 1MB of data in a comment? Isn't there a size limit on comments? @apapadimoulis ?!?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's interesting how we feel the need to be polite when talking with machines.
I'm 99% certain most users on this forum frequently swear at machines.
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@blakeyrat she's looking over her shoulder. You can tell because foxes have white fronts/undersides and russet backs.
Side note: who's the artist, @accalia? Looks kinda like virmir
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm 99% certain most users on this forum frequently swear at machines.
I feel confident that you can change that to 100%.
Wait, @abarker is a Mormon. They don't swear. Adjust appropriately.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm 99% certain most users on this forum frequently swear at machines.
I continuously internally swear at the people who previously spoke to machines, actually. The machines after all, are only doing (or trying to do) what they've been told (for the most part).
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, @abarker is a Mormon. They don't swear. Adjust appropriately.
Not necessarily! Nobody's perfect after all (did you hear the one about the swearing Apostle?)
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's interesting how we feel the need to be polite when talking with machines.
I'm 99% certain most users on this forum frequently swear at machines.
If I do that, it doesn't like it. I speak encouraging words to it. If it keeps misbehaving though....
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
wouldn't someone already be doing it?
I remember seeing people with early-generation e-cigs that were about that size.
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@dkf Those were probably the ones I referred to above. Never tried them, but from what I heard from people who did, they are crap.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Never tried them
I don't use any of that sort of product at all, but I can report that I've seen them in use by people at my station. I can also report that the people who used to use them don't any more. (It's illegal to use e-cigs on the station, but that's not a rule that anyone seems that fussed about enforcing unless the user is being a complete jerkwad about it.)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's illegal to use e-cigs on the station, but that's not a rule that anyone seems that fussed about enforcing unless the user is being a complete jerkwad about it
I don't think most places here even have rules about e-cigs at this point, but I basically use the same rules as for regular cigs in public only breaking them if somewhere with people I know and they don't have a problem with it. So I'll go out if smoking isn't allowed, but I use my e-cig in our offices since everyone is fine with it.
Note that I don't use any strongly flavoured fluids nor one of those e-cigs that produce huge amounts of vapour, so I'm not enveloping people in huge clouds of strawberry fog in either case.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
strawberry fog
Not a phrase I'd have thought of encountering in this life when I was 5 years old. It would have thrilled me to bits!
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Status: So much for chip cards being so secure. Mine was just compromised. The charge originated in Delaware just a few days ago so it clearly wasn't something I forgot about.
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@Tsaukpaetra It looks like it's on backwards?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
So much for chip cards being so secure
Maybe if you used chip and PIN rather than the weird halfway house of chip and signature...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Mine was just compromised.
You don't actually know that. You've still got lots of merchants who aren't using the secure terminals.
The charge originated in Delaware just a few days ago so it clearly wasn't something I forgot about.
The chips don't magically make the magstripes secure. All you can know is that it wasn't a proper chip-and-pin terminal that leaked the info, and that nothing immediately refused the transaction on policy grounds over there in Delaware. Given the rife bad practices (especially at any merchant that's scummy or who happens to employ scum) you've still got lots of possibilities.
Have you used the card anywhere (excluding ATMs) that might have not used the chip and instead the magstripe?