The Official Status Thread
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm trying to get everything backed up to my NAS, but various things like Windows Defender, Razer Synapse, Java Updater, some Oculus Rift server (? I don't even have an Oculus...), Cortana, and TeamViewer are all thrashing my disk to the point that I can't really do anything. And every single one of these relaunches immediately after I kill it in Task Manager.
Sounds like a hardware problem to me, I don't have those problems so you should look into buying a new computer
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@mott555 Windows 10 simply follows the Discourse school of software development. Publish first, polish later.
So don't worry, all those minor issues will get fixed. Eventually.
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
In JS, you use parseInt(a) + 1 or (0 - a) + 1 to get the correct result.
That depends on what you mean by "correct". If that's the behavior you want, then yes, you do that. Generally speaking though you should have a type in mind for each variable and stick to it to avoid situations where you don't know what type a particular variable is.
In Excel, you store the number as '01234 to tell Excel "I want to store it as string, don't meddle it".
You can't do that in a CSV, which is what you're trying to import to Excel.
You can store the number as
="01234"
, which Excel interprets as a formula which evaluates the result of the string. Then your workbook has a formula in the cell, but at least the value's correct. And it's not a valid CSV string since it's not wrapped in double quotes, so if you want to make it valid you'll need to escape the quotes and add double quotes around it:"=""01234"""
. And I don't know how well other applications would handle that, since you're basically to support Excel's idiosyncrasies.
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Wtf kind of provider is this??
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
If that causes problems, it's your own fault for using a
sloppyweakly typedcodingprogramming languageFTFYFM. If you can't handle implicit type conversions then yeah, Javascript isn't for you. Use a language that will beat you over the head every time you forget to explicitly cast a type.
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@anonymous234
That's the real problem with software development today. Not enough competent Poles, so everyone has to polish later.WTDWTF needs to stop hoarding all the Poles and let them be free to save the world.
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@Tsaukpaetra Almost all.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234
That's the real problem with software development today. Not enough competent Poles, so everyone has to polish later.WTDWTF needs to stop hoarding all the Poles and let them be free to save the world.
@Maciejasjmj did find some of the best exploits ...
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
the Discourse school of software development. Publish first, polish later.
You can polish a turd, but you can't polish a discourse.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla Thankfully I caught it before I submitted a PR
Oops, I did it again!
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla Thankfully I caught it before I submitted a PR
Oops, I did it again!
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@bb36e a home one, obviously.
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@accalia he's not that innocent
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia he's not that innocent
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Thank you, Windows 10, for scheduling an uninterruptible malware scan that consumes 100% of my disk I/O when I'm trying to kill alien pirates while listening to Swedish heavy metal!
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Windows' nannyism to prevent you from doing something potentially harmful is annoying when you have a legitimate need to do it, but in this case I think it's probably justified.
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Status: I must have had a really rough StarMade session last evening, and/or I'm falling apart in my old age. Today my ankle that isn't stress-fractured hurts far more than my ankle that is stress-fractured, to the point that I can barely walk.
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Managed to properly piss off a PPI claim cold caller.
Hello, I'm calling to talk to you about your PPI
PPI? What's that?
You haven't heard of PPI?
No, please tell me more
It's a type of insurance on loans that protects you against not being able to pay
Oh, that sounds good. I'll take some
why do you have to be so sarcastic? I'm just doing my job trying to get you some money back. I can't just give you the money WAAARBLGARBLE
OK, goodbye. Thanks for playing
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
NEVER. BOOKING. A. 5AM. FLIGHT. EVER. AGAIN.
I can't. Flight curfews...
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Jesus. Delta really doesn't do frills. This is the first boarding area I've been in for ages that doesn't have phone chargers.
Saw an interesting thing in a casino a little while ago (we were there for the buffet) - secure charging stations. The phone gets locked in a box to charge - of course, you have to pay...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I've become the web dev guy and I am now in charge in such bullshit going forward....
WE'RE TAKING THIS SHIP TO THE ICE-BERGS!
/jealous
I'm the web dev guy, but I'm not in charge. I'm at the wheel, but I have to steer the way the captain says
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
And Dog help you if you have a line feed in that data somewhere.
My import/export works with that! (As far as I know, I fully support RFC4180) But it's in C++, not PHP so can't help @Arantor there...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Saw an interesting thing in a casino a little while ago (we were there for the buffet) - secure charging stations. The phone gets locked in a box to charge - of course, you have to pay..
The local mall has one of those in the food court. It's got Best Buy branding all over it, so I assume it's a advertising thing.
Originally it didn't have locks. No one used it, because who wants to stand in the middle of a food court for however long it takes to charge the phone?
Filed under: You can barely masturbate at all before Security shows up
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@dcon none of my exports comply with that RFC because there's a modicum of doing it wrong inherent to PHP - the built in
fputcsv
command record-separates with\n
rather than\r\n
.But I gather I don't have to worry. At least I take care of the cretins who want to open things in Excel with the dedicated for Excel CSV shenanigans like a BOM and
="12345678901234567890"
and this is a separate download from the "pure" CSV export.I do also offer "actual XLSX" if the consumer wants that. No accusations of "not playing nice" here!
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Status: WhyTF is the underline styling we have for abbreviation tags not the default behavior for all abbr tags everywhere HTML spec, pls.
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Status: NCrunch's personal licence is $159. NCrunch's company licence is $289 per seat. That looks... terribly ass-backwards. Especially since the company states there's absolutely no way to get volume discounts, education discounts, anything.
I ran down the 30-day trial, it's a really nice tool, but it's unlikely we'll have a budget for it.
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@Maciejasjmj Oh, there's a free alternative, though:
Contribute or SHUT IT!
ContinuousTests is an open source continuous test runner for the .NET platform. The project relies heavily on user contributions and it lives by the "contribute or shut it!" creed. As a result of this we have stopped putting up binaries and expect the user to compile it from source.Yep, those are literally the very first words you see when visiting their website. Totally sold on it!
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@izzion Can't you Stylish that?
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@aliceif
This is a "5 minute" project that I'm doing quick and dirty. And mostly I just wanted to take a break from hacking at it and complain on an Internet forum, because :effort:
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Yep, those are literally the very first words you see when visiting their website. Totally sold on it!
Maybe you can contribute by getting them to run Discourse?
Filed under: Karma
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@Lorne-Kates Better idea seems to be these ~3k mAh batteries that cost $20 to purchase and have free exchanges.
Now, if they had a decent number of places you could exchange at, it'd be much better. At best, it seems this is a way to sell a bunch of middle of the road priced battery packs.
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Whoops, looks like the NodeBB counting engine ran out of batteries:
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Status: 99+ notifications in a span of ~2 minutes.
Edit: Apparently, the time span was actually longer than 2 minutes, but "Show all notifications" doesn't really mean all of them, or else streaming is buggered and half of them hadn't actually arrived when I dismissed them. Also, :nod: seems to be incapable of sorting on the timestamps.
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Status: This purple thing. It bothers me.
It's a piece of color in an otherwise grey and dull world...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This purple thing
filed under: there's no purple dildo emoji
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This purple thing
Should have put the full line.
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Status: Upset over spilling a full bowl of soup on myself.
I'm not crying over it though.
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Status: Damn it, @anotherusername !
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@Onyx Ha!
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@Magus you have more shit to wade through than me! Sucka!
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@Onyx I'm free and clear!
And that's without using the cheater "Clear all notifications" function. :P
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Status:
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@Onyx Damn it, it's at
99+
now, good fucking luck finding any legit ones... Oh T-1000, we love you so...
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx Damn it, it's at
99+
now, good fucking luck finding any legit ones... Oh T-1000, we love you so...Don't worry, the forum's pretty quiet at the moment. Well, aside from the flamewars (I would think).
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah, well, I'll have to deal with it in the morning, since it's sleepy time methinks, so there may be actual replies and shit, yay...
Also, Bug report:
Poor favicon...
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Status: Not bad. Won't fix the first, because legacy. and the second is an accident from someone else's code.
Lol, throwing exceptions in the instantiation logic!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Lol, throwing exceptions in the instantiation logic!
Ooooh, the temerity of checking whether shit is going to blow up at a sane point! What did the megabrainiac who submitted that issue expect to happen instead? The evil way to fix this is to document that the exception gets thrown if things are characterised as unsupported at the point where the class is instantiated. That will then make it an expected location to throw an exception, and hence absolutely OK.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Lol, throwing exceptions in the instantiation logic!
Ooooh, the temerity of checking whether shit is going to blow up at a sane point! What did the megabrainiac who submitted that issue expect to happen instead? The evil way to fix this is to document that the exception gets thrown if things are characterised as unsupported at the point where the class is instantiated. That will then make it an expected location to throw an exception, and hence absolutely OK.
I suspect the OP was just lazy and didn't want to put
if not IsSupported() then return
checks on every function.
Who knows. My app won't run on anything less than Windows 7 (which I'm assuming the check is for Vista+) so it's
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
ITaskbarList4
What happened to
ITaskbarList1
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?
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
ITaskbarList4
What happened to
ITaskbarList1
throughITaskbarList3
?You'll have to ask Microsoft about that one.