The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek You need a pile of machines so you can fire off a new build on the next one once the errors start coming in. :)
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
"We're treating good testing like calorie counts on restaurant menus: Everyone might say they want it, until they find out that one bloomin' onion is 32 million calories, and then they're fucking done."
It's nice of him to ignore the actual problem, which (for example) pizza places have been complaining about forever, and which is "the rules imply you have to have a calorie count for every possible ingredient combination."
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
try to eat the Vermonster by himself
Did he make it?
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
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@FrostCat Yes; but the point of classes is that if a type to do what you're wanting to do doesn't exist, you can make one yo' damned self. And PHP has classes.
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Status: dreamt about hoarding batteries .
On an unrelated note, I'm very tired and two hours late for work additionally. Today is going to be fun.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
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Nice naming there.And I managed to simply erase an entire value from a big expression consisting of pluses, minuses and parentheses.
VB? I am truley sorry for your lots.
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@FrostCat Eh, it was a throwaway line when complaining about an entirely unrelated problem. It just amused me.
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@Lorne-Kates I don't remember this particular time.
I suspect it is "You oughta know" - Alanis Morrisette based on how I was standing.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes; but the point of classes is that if a type to do what you're wanting to do doesn't exist, you can make one yo' damned self. And PHP has classes.
Sure.
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@Maciejasjmj That's a squid.
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@FrostCat No, it's a space squid
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I've never had a cold that made my tear ducts hurt before.
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Come on, Microsoft. A measly 5GB? What is this, 2010? And suddenly the bonus that was totally going to last forever doesn't seem like such a good idea. Why didn't you think of that before making the promises?
So I go from 30GB to 5GB. Good thing I didn't use it in the first place.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Come on, Microsoft
Come on, anyone who would use a cloud storage service, especially one run as an ancillary venture by a large corporation whose primary purpose is to satisfy their shareholders!
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
I've never had a cold that made my tear ducts hurt before.
Do you have one now? Or just an idle observation?
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@Lorne-Kates Hey, if people give me free things, I use them.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
a large corporation whose primary purpose is to satisfy their shareholders!
As opposed to a large corporation whose primary purpose is...?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Hey, if people give me free things, I use them.
Does it still apply when people offer you free punch in the face ?
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@TimeBandit Correction: free things that produce a net positive impact in my life.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Correction: free things that produce a net positive impact in my life.
"Man! That punch in the face really made me rethink some things! I should eat better and exercise more."
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Status: Unexpected thermal boundary exceeded. Why am I sweating? 110°F isn't too hot... is it?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Unexpected thermal boundary exceeded. Why am I sweating? 110°F isn't too hot... is it?
You need to upgrade your cooling system.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you have one now? Or just an idle observation?
Yes to the first question.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Unexpected thermal boundary exceeded. Why am I sweating? 110°F isn't too hot... is it?
You need to upgrade your cooling system.
Unfortunately, too many things break at sub-zero temperatures to make that cooling system viable for me.
Meh, I'm still working on improving energy consumption, storage, and conversion. Putting a fan on and moving along...
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Status: I just finished up an eye exam and there was an issue that came in that I needed to look in to. While I am sitting here in the parking lot of the strip mall, a very attractive girl walks past and another fellow chats her up and is hitting on her. You could tell he was majorly flirting with her. She walks in to some waxing salon and he walks down to another shop. Moments later he comes back with some flowers and gets in his car and drives off.
Something tells me that this dude has to buy a lot of flowers.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Unfortunately, too many things break at sub-zero temperatures to make that cooling system viable for me.Pfff, just buy a computer built for Canadian winters. We just put them outside at -35 C so they never overheat !
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Pfff, just buy a computer built for Canadian winters.
It's very difficult to "buy" a new me....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's very difficult to "buy" a new me....
Just move to Canada, after the first winter, you'll get used to sub-zero temperatures ;)
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's very difficult to "buy" a new me....
Just move to Canada, after the first winter, you'll get used to sub-zero temperatures ;)
Well I do recall running around in the snow in gym shorts, but with this recent development I'm not so sure I could handle that anymore...
filed under: Why must everything constantly break itself?!
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Status: Just now catching on to this G2A store/scam.
http://tinybuild.com/g2a-sold-450k-worth-of-our-game-keys
In the original article I refer to key distribution partners, the ones that G2A claim are sneakily reselling keys. I can confirm without a doubt that these partners do not resell their keys: Humble Store, BundleStars, IndieGameStand, IndieGala. They’re our trusted partners and everything you buy from them is legit.
Phew, all the bundle sites I use are legit.
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Status: Spent the last half hour trying to figure out why a database update wasn't working.
Turns out I was targeting Test.
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Status: Got into a discussion on another site about how all mainstream Linux distros can magically patch their libraries without rebooting. When I asked for details of how this worked specifically, I got hemming and hawing. Because of course I did, because Linux can't fucking do that.
It's easy to do your pro-Linux rah rah rah cheerleading when you just make up lies about its capabilities.
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@blakeyrat you're suspiciously vague about this mysterious "another" site.
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@cartman82 Yes I am.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux distros can magically patch their libraries without rebooting
Linux doesn't prevent deletion of open files, so what they might have meant is that you can replace the shared library files without having to close every program on your system first, and then if the shared library is only used by, say, some program that handles printing, you can restart just that one process and not have to have downtime between the printer daemon being stopped and it being able to start again.
You can even do crazy stuff like what we do with NodeBB updates where you start the new instance of the program before killing the old one. Not quite as amazing as restarting the kernel without shutting down the user space would be, but it's something.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux doesn't prevent deletion of open files, so what they might have meant is that you can replace the shared library files without having to close every program on your system first, and then if the shared library is only used by, say, some program that handles printing, you can restart just that one process and not have to have downtime between the printer daemon being stopped and it being able to start again.
Right; I understand that, but for a commonly-used library (like libc), you'd have to shut down basically every application and every service. And at that point, you've rebooted for all practical purposes.
There are edge cases that Linux handles better than Windows, I'm not denying that. But that's not the argument Linux fans use.
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Status: OMG I got a notification!
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@blakeyrat Replacing libc is indeed difficult, but doesn't need to be done so often as the API and ABI that it exposes are pretty stable. If the frequency of an event is low enough, the difficulties imposed by that are largely moot. Some of the designers of Unix and POSIX evidently really did know what they were doing (and Linux inherits that stuff).
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@dkf We're talking about security updates, those usually don't require a change to the ABI or API.
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@blakeyrat You are taking the most used library as an example. Of course you need to restart every program / service that use it, so in the case of libc, you might as well just reboot.
Not all library are used by everything.
Still, you can replace the library while some programs are using it, then when you restart the program, it will load the newer version. When all programs that are using the old version have been restarted, the old one is removed from memory.
If, for example, a library used by apache is replaced, I restart apache and I'm done. Restarting apache takes about 1 second, rebooting takes much longer and brings all services down for a while.
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status: ???
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Status: got rear-ended on the way home from work. I was the front of four cars, so my damages weren't bad.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
status: ???
Where have you been? @Lorne-Kates constantly talks about this.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: got rear-ended on the way home from work. I was the front of four cars, so my damages weren't bad.
That's not fun.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: OMG I got a notification!
Speaking of followers, it seems that at least two TDWTF users are practically there... ;)
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
status:
- You're in paged view. That's Different™
B. at least you didn't mention @Lorne-Kates to come in and rant about that. Oh wait.
- You're in paged view. That's Different™
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
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Where have you been? @Lorne-Kates constantly talks about this.
I only mention it at the top of every page.
Every fucking page.
Because it breaks EVERY FUCKING PAGE.
But maybe people aren't seeing my messages-- because they're at the top of every fucking page-- and maybe the first message of every fucking page gets lost?
Because Counting Is Hard