The Official Status Thread
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Status: Discovered this weird quirk in Access (because using the MS Ace drivers, therefore Access) where exporting a table that has columns with
#
in the name causes them to become.
in the resulting export.What. Is. This. Crap.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why is this guy repeatedly sending requests? (Yes, it's the same agent).
Do you have shitty ajax on the sign up page, so that instead of posting back so the browser spins and the user knows shit is happening-- it just sits there sending ajax silently without any feedback-- so this guy is hammering the "FUCKING SUBMIT'" button over and over?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you have shitty ajax on the sign up page, so that instead of posting back so the browser spins and the user knows shit is happening-- it just sits there sending ajax silently without any feedback-- so this guy is hammering the "FUCKING SUBMIT'" button over and over?
Nope, and in fact the Submit button is disabled (and greyed out) the nanosecond they click on it (because somehow they were managing to double-click it and the browser respected that and sent the requests twice in succession).
No, this guy went in to the form, filled it out, submitted it (at that time the site was being upgraded, so this errored out after 30 seconds), so he hits back (presumably) which clears the form, enters the account number, is shown this screen (with an "override" checkbox, should never have implemented that), clicks the override, fills in the form again, and rinse and repeat.
The was that the form is designed, even if he managed to hit the submit button multiple times, it would only submit the same form again, which would not result in duplicate submissions (actually, just an error).
So, this guy was doing it manually over the course of about fifteen minutes. I IM-ed him.
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Status: The new Top Gear is absolute shit. I did not even finish the first episode. That show is rubbish without Clarkson, Hammond and May. I literally had more fun watching James May assemble a lawnmower.
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The hulu app for PS4 is complete trash. I'm not even talking about how you can't watch more than two hours of programming without it crashing. If you pause a show and don't touch the controller for 5 minutes, the show automatically resumes playing. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?
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Sigh. Need to pull the transmission in my car because the throwout bearing sounds like the apocalypse is happening.
While I'm in there, I may as well do a clutch upgrade. And while I'm doing that I may as well go to an aluminum flywheel. And while I'm doing that I may as well change to a short shifter. And while I'm doing that I may as well install a reinforced transmission mount.
Grand total.... $1000. All because a $30 bubblegum bearing packed up.
Dealership clutch parts: $300.
Dealership clutch labor: $700.
Total: $1000.Since I like working on cars and I like driving cars.... Yeah. Let's do this.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
While I'm in there, I may as well do a clutch upgrade. And while I'm doing that I may as well go to an aluminum flywheel. And while I'm doing that I may as well change to a short shifter. And while I'm doing that I may as well install a reinforced transmission mount.
Might as well pull the engine and run through it while you are at it. You are already 95% there anyway. :P
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@Polygeekery Nothing to really run through, I did plugs and coils 30,000 miles ago (which did require mostly removing the engine from the car) and will be back in to do it again in another 30,000. Being a Subaru flat 4, going through the actual engine internals is... Nontrivial, and I'd like to run the 'how long will the head gaskets last!' game to its conclusion (so far, the FA20 engines are beating the snot out of the EJ25) anyway.
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For $60 I can replace my cracked leather shift boot with alcantara? Gimme.
Now, apparently I have to remove the bit of the dashboard that has the engine start button on it. For $170 I can replace it with a mad, red, JDM part. Not sure if want?
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@Weng You should not want. The fact you "need" an engine hoist to change the plugs+wires is a bad sign and bad mechanical design. You enjoying ripping half of your car apart for simple maintenance indicates gear-head-infectus-idiotus.*
- I once drove an Isuzu Rodeo v6 and was "supposed" to do the same kinda deal where I rip half the engine forward to change the wire-packs. I have small hands. Fuck that shit, made it work with my Vienna sausage meat hooks.
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@MathNerdCNU It's not a "need". It's a literal need. Physically impossible otherwise. You only have to lift it about six inches - you can technically leave the transmission attached.
And I have a racecar and race in a series where "Replace the engine in the middle of the race" is a routine activity. I may be even more demented than you thought.
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Shit. What's this going to do to my autocross classing? I won't be eligible for C-stock anymore!
Edit: C/Street Prepared. That's two classes up.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@MathNerdCNU It's not a "need". It's a literal need. Physically impossible otherwise. You only have to lift it about six inches - you can technically leave the transmission attached.
And I have a racecar and race in a series where "Replace the engine in the middle of the race" is a routine activity. I may be even more demented than you thought.
The fact that Suba-yota were higher than a when they designed the box-tard-go-zoom-zoom-mach-2 doesn't mean they werent...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"pin to homescreen"
Safari on iOS had that for ages.
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@MathNerdCNU They helpfully fitted the engine with Iridium plugs, which mean you only have to do it... Wait, what's that?
They figured out a way to make $20 (each!) Iridium spark plugs only last for 60,000 miles?
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@aliceif iOS had that before it had apps at all. At the time, Apple made a ton of noise about how you wouldn't need apps because you could just pin webpages to your home screen. (That didn't stop them from shipping their own functionality in app form, natch. But Apple is awful.)
What short memories people have...
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Status: Here's the expected and actual TV schedules, with red being Stephen Colbert, blue being commercials for prescription drugs and soft drinks, and yellow being a weatherman telling me that it's raining a few counties away from me.
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@blakeyrat I wouldn't know, my first iDevice ran iOS 4 IIRC.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Safari on iOS had that for ages.
Oh, I'm sure Android has too, just never discovered it (because, really, who wants to pretend websites are apps?!)
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Hmm I think I wont have to pay to play with this
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Hmm I think I wont have to pay to play with this
Why not? You get a promo or something?
I'm in Wave 4 so... here's to hoping it's available to me in a few months...
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@Tsaukpaetra Nope, my team will have it for sure. I am very excited!
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Nope, my team will have it for sure. I am very excited!
Lucky! I'm just a poor sod scrounging around to make sure I have the $3k when I get the "privilege" of getting a development version.
If you do any development on it, I'll beta test for free! :D
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
because, really, who wants to pretend websites are apps?!
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@anonymous234 which ones? I'm looking for a good pair...
Also, what incantation? I messed with that shit, might be a better solution...
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Status: Fuck Microsoft, fuck Oracle, fuck VMWare, and fuck Cisco. Actually, fuck Cisco twice, just in case, it almost never works on the first try anyway.
Give me my fucking FOSS crap back! Give me my god damned magical incantations, I don't care, I'll recompile it all from source, at least it's a better option than "look into the screen helplessly".
Fuck.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
it almost never works on the first try anyway.
That's cause you're still behind a firmware version. The latest IOS release fixed the random-fuck-cisco-packet drops
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@sloosecannon oh, no, it's their shitty VPN client thing. Actually, it connects exactly once. If I drop the connection I have to restart the entire Windows VM I'm running it in to get it to connect again. For raisins. It just fails with an equivalent of "try again". No explanation, no nothing, just refuses to work until I reboot.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
shitty VPN client
Oooh lawrd. Yeah, that's terrible.
As is pretty much every corporate VPN client out there, actually. Except (oddly enough) the built-in Windows one. Which isn't secure.
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Status: Connected to all the shit at last! Click "Power on VM". A message flickers in the "Recent tasks" panel. Nothing happens. I can't find any errors in any of the tabs.
It's going to be a long day...
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Good. Yes. Awesome.
I need a drink. Might wait until it's at least 10AM first though... should I?
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STATUS:
I agree wholeheartedly with whatever @RandallMonroe just said!
EDIT: The title text is better, but I can't easily copy that from mobile...
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Good. Yes. Awesome.
I need a drink. Might wait until it's at least 10AM first though... should I?
It's past 5PM somewhere in the world, that makes it OK.
It's only a drinking problem if you're spilling it on the servers
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 which ones? I'm looking for a good pair...
These ones, but I suspect any Chinese branded model with a similar price will be pretty much the same.
Also, what incantation? I messed with that shit, might be a better solution...
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
. Thenpactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
on every startup.
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@anonymous234 huh, weird that wasn't installed by default. And it's not autoloading, so, bad post-install trigger, yay.
Anyway, sticking
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
next to other similar lines in/etc/pulse/default.pa
should do the trick.
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@Onyx Oh, forgot to mention: sometimes you have to go to the bluetooth panel and change the "audio profile" from "HSP/HFP" to "A2DP". But if you fiddle too much and try to change profiles back then sometimes they'll just stop working completely and you need to disconnect and reconnect them.
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@anonymous234 can't relate there, I set it to AD2P once, worked ever since...
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Status:
Great. Thank you. Now stop bloody popping up to let me know about nothing.
Edit: I went into the actual control panel to see if was something important. It lists a new warning event!Description: /Event/undefined/undefined
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Status: It's stupid how complicated things can be, but I've now managed to make the cluster of services for data management that I'm using be able to all sit behind the one nginx front-end. Too many stupid bits to this that weren't quite obvious, but it works now and all the CORS crap that was in the way now isn't buggering it all up.
Next up (next week I guess): watching WTF it is doing with requests in the process so I can simulate them from Java, and so create an API for doing dataset upload where there isn't one right now (because the developers haven't created one yet in the current official major API version, the fuckers).
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Status: full-screen ad in a video game on my phone complained that the content was best viewed in portrait mode and would I kindly rotate it out of landscape?
I DON'T THINK SO.
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@Tsaukpaetra I was quite excited to see that there's a project template for a holographic SharpDX app, but then I found out how much I hate SharpDX and DirectX in general. Though it may just be the fault of the sort of people who write DirectX code...
Giant methods full of long lines of gibberish full of underscores and hex codes, allocating different sorts of buffers for mysterious reasons...
I need to see if I can hook OpenTK or Monogame to it properly instead. It can't be that hard...
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status Filed under TIL. Our company in notoriously tightfisted with options. (As in, you get some when hired. Period. Unless you're extra special and about to leave the company.) They decided it was time to make things better. Evidently, this means 50% of employees get some. I'm typically cynical (not ra-ra-go-company) - I got none. Yup, that's going help my cynicism... TIL: Optimistic is more important than doing good work.
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I need
PRO: I have coffee
CON: I just spilled it all over me
PRO: Opportunity to clean my office chair anyways
CON: Pants wet
PRO: After drying, I smell like really nice coffee
CON: That WAS really nice coffee from really nice beans. Good enough to drink black
PRO: Since it was black coffee, I won't stink of curdled milk over the course of the day
CON: I still need coffee
PRO: The office has coffee
CON: It's a fucking Kuerig
PRO: It'll need milk to make it drinkable, and I do need extra calcium in my diet
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Status: How does this happen? Do we not have maintenance terms with the lease of this stuff?
INB4 when they pull it out and find a bunch of black mold in the pipes...
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CON: Milk is white, and therefore you are appropriating racial inequality. Therefore you can't use milk.
PRO: You can use chocolate milk and make a faux mocha
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Status: FINALLY reproduced a bug.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon oh, no, it's their shitty VPN client thing. Actually, it connects exactly once. If I drop the connection I have to restart the entire Windows VM I'm running it in to get it to connect again. For raisins. It just fails with an equivalent of "try again". No explanation, no nothing, just refuses to work until I reboot.
On our internal linux support list, the first suggestion when someone has trouble with anyconnect is always 'have you tried openconnect yet'. Because that just works. AND it has network manager integration so it's easier to use to boot.
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@PleegWat I tried the
network-manager-vpnc
package, but it kept asking for group password and whatnot. I only have username and password...
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@Onyx vpnc is slightly more hassle than anyconnect. We've been off it for years now, but if I remember correctly there's a configuration file with your cisco download, and vpnc includes a contrib script that will convert it for you. There may also be some certificate shuffling involved.
It's still more reliable than the cisco stuff once it works because it doesn't include a kernel module.