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@Tsaukpaetra erm. mumble mumble swedish tradition mumble mumble...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra erm. mumble mumble swedish tradition mumble mumble...
Wait wait huh? You actually eat crap for tradition?
Or I must be misinterpreting...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You actually eat crap for tradition?
They eat rotten fish. After that, nothing is all that surprising.
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Goddamit, Lorne, September has 30 days. Stop writing end-of-month billing reports for "September 16 - September 31, 2016".
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@Lorne-Kates
Well, I mean, teeeecccchnnically, the data aren't wrong if you add all sales events that occurred on September 31
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates
Well, I mean, teeeecccchnnically, the data aren't wrong if you add all sales events that occurred on September 31That depends on the date library you're using. Some will helpfully convert an invalid date like 31 September to the equivalent valid date, 1 October, in which case your data will be wrong.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg My life has insufficient cinnamon rolls.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Why is he making cupcakes out of crap?"
He's overcooked them slightly; they're a bit too dry. They're also not cupcakes, but rather rolled up sweet cinnamon pastry cut into pieces (~1" long) before being put in casings to bake. The white crystals on top are sugar crystals. They're awesome with a good black coffee.
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Status: A site I occasionally visit has disappeared in a puff of hosting smoke. Disaster! But Memento is very awesome, as that had archived the redirect that used to exist, so I could update the link in my own stuff to where the site had moved to. Yay for the librarians' approach to the web!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: What? Cthulhu in the abyss, why?
Looks like someone wants to stay in the MS-defined universe. (Those are typedef'd in "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include\BaseTsd.h")
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Why is he making cupcakes out of crap?"
Look, a bit of sugar now and then isn't going to kill you.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I forgot that one common cause of paralyzing dread and terror is turning on a tub spigot, hearing the shower head gurgle and realizing you are about to get a gallon of cold water down your back
I've never understood how anyone can step into a shower and turn the water on... Reach in, turn it on, wait, then get in...
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Status: Well, crap. Looks like not all the VMs survived the power outage. I was wondering why I couldn't RDP in...
Dammit, now I have to start at uptime 0 again...
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Status: So, I wanted to prepare an experiment where I could show my pupils the result of two soundwaves interfering, with both having the same frequency (as an intro to general interference patterns).
Since I only have two ultrasound generators (which each can double as a ultrasound microphone, depending on which equipment you plug them into), I thus had to use sound in the hearing range. I have plenty of speakers for that range.
However, in order to be able to plug a microphone directly into my oscilloscope, I needed to boost the signal. Luckily I have two of those microphones with a built-in booster.
Or so I thought.
When I opened up the first one (due to its non-functional status) I found that the battery had leaked. The second one didn't work as well, upon opening I found a snapped power cable. Guess I'll need to do some repairs.
Good news however: My Van de Graaff generator was in a fine form today and I suspect I was able to build up to a million Volts.
Zapped several pupils with it. Fun!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I've never understood how anyone can step into a shower and turn the water on...
Get one with a good heater (or good hot-water supply) and thermostat.
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Oh, and just as a word of caution (because I also zapped myself several times, rather involuntarily, though):
Did you know that if such a Van de Graff generator is working really well, it is also able to charge metal plates up to 30 cm distant from the generator with no connections whatsoever?
Me neither.
I had some warning, though, when the electroscope half a meter away suddenly showed a full charge without me doing anything (other than turning the damn thing on, of course).
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@Rhywden
This is why they usually restrict high voltage equipment to trained professionals. How did you manage to get them to let you use it, again? :p
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
How did you manage to get them to let you use it, again?
I suspect he just charged in there and got on with it, since he's at least a current teacher…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I suspect he just charged in there and got on with it, since he's at least a current teacher…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I've never understood how anyone can step into a shower and turn the water on...
Get one with a good heater (or good hot-water supply) and thermostat.
Your plumbing must be different from ours. Typically, there is a central water heater. No matter how good it is, water in the pipe between the heater and the spigot/shower will stand long enough to approach the ambient temperature, unless someone has used it quite recently (and not used all the hot water in the tank). Even if one has a point-of-use heater (not common in residential plumbing), there are probably a few feet of pipe between the heater and the showerhead that will hold cold water.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if one has a point-of-use heater (not common in residential plumbing)
Invest in a proper shower. Talk to your plumber.
Though you've got a fair point about the few feet of pipe between the valve and the shower head. Best way of handling that is to drain the pipe when not in use.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Best way of handling that is to drain the pipe when not in use.
Now I'm curious how your water system works, since ours is constantly pressurized and doesn't "drain" unless we've had to shut off the main inlet because damage.
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@Tsaukpaetra I've seen photos with the point of use heater literally attached to the shower head with no intervening pipe. I suspect something like that.
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Oh. My. God. Redgate SQL Prompt now yells at you if you try to run a delete or update without a where clause.
That's just gone from "optional if the dev or operator wants it" to "mandatory, compliance enforced with an axe"
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Invest in a proper shower. ... between the valve and the shower head.
You seem to be implying that the heater is located in the valve itself. I have literally never heard of such a thing in the US. The few point-of-use heaters I've seen have been rather too large for that — maybe roughly .5 x .4 x .3 m. Also, they require not only atypical plumbing, but atypical wiring, because they draw a lot of current to heat the water in the short time it's flowing through the heater.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh. My. God. Redgate SQL Prompt now yells at you if you try to run a delete or update without a where clause.
WHERE 1=1
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I've seen photos with the point of use heater literally attached to the shower head with no intervening pipe.
TIL, I guess. I've never before seen nor heard of that.
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Meanwhile, I am literally having an argument with my boss about how it is not fucking okay to have database tables without primary keys.
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@Weng Well, I guess we don't have to worry about any silver linings at your place of employment ruining our entertaining WTFs.
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@HardwareGeek They're not to code in the US.
Or likely anywhere in the world that cares about building codes. But I've seen them in central and south America and heard rumors of them in China and Africa.
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Status: Was looking for how to use docker to put a legacy app somewhere interesting, and learned that the docker folks have been assimilated. Quite... thoroughly.
24 days later, a 'You're probably '
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if one has a point-of-use heater (not common in residential plumbing)
Invest in a proper shower. Talk to your plumber.
Though you've got a fair point about the few feet of pipe between the valve and the shower head. Best way of handling that is to drain the pipe when not in use.
A "proper" shower? What does that mean? Drain the pipe? That sounds like a bigger hassle than letting it run for a few seconds.
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Tried to see how much it'd cost me to rent a van for an hour.
All the "big names" want to charge me 45€ minimum (65€ if I admit I'm under 25, gonna need someone to drive me). Now, if that model costs around 25.000€, and were used (very conservative estimate) for just 2 hours a day on average for 5 years, then scrapped, that would put the baseline at 6.8€/hour. So no, fuck you.
Thankfully, if you spend more than 2 minutes looking you'll find plenty of small competitors charging more reasonable prices.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Get one with a good heater (or good hot-water supply) and thermostat.
When my water heater failed (CA doesn't have sump pumps in the basement - of course, very few houses have basements! Let's just say I got rid of a lot of boxes...), I replaced it with an on-demand heater (gas). But it's still 30ft from the shower. You can set up a recirculating system for instant hot water - I didn't. I haven't looked into them, but it seems like you'd need to be constantly heating that water - which defeats the on-demand system...
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@dcon What I've been looking at for my remodel (which is loosely themed on 'DIY home automation because I have at least a vague idea of what I'm doing and no home automation vendor does') is a system that blips on the shower x minutes before I plan on using it, holds it on until it comes to temperature and then shuts it off. All of 150 bucks in hardware (most of which is a waterproof UI), and the preheat feature is literally $0 incremental over having electronic control to begin with.
Mind you, this same shower, I've also decided that I need literally the entire ceiling to be a rainfall shower head. 16 inch square? Fuck you, MAKE ME WETTER. I'm probably going to have to get that custom machined.
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Status: In the process of moving. Just got cable and real internet that doesn't have a data limit with overages for the first time in my life (I'm 23) today. Then get a call from Staples saying that the desk that we had ordered is now out of stock at the warehouses. This prompts a ~2 hr long ordeal for the Staples store to then try to find a different desk at their store that we want. The system says they have two there, one on the floor and one in the back. Except the one in the back doesn't actually seem to exist. So the Assistant Manager calls up the next nearest store looking for this desk. Luckily they have it, and we should have it by Friday.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm probably going to have to get that custom machined.
Buy a bunch of rain gutters, punch holes in them, and then add a water hose. Tada!
I'll take that $361 by check or PayPal.
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Status: Has anyone ever made a topic on CSS yet?
I'm frustrating at it hardcore right now....
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@Tsaukpaetra we have a stylish topic if that's what you mean
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra we have a stylish topic if that's what you mean
Nah, this is for a different website I'm helping to edit, themes OK if a bit specific, so we're trying to customize it and a few roadblocks keep shoving in the way, mostly to do with CSS.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if one has a point-of-use heater (not common in residential plumbing),
Strange fact: My grandpa's house in mainland China have one of these (50+ years old traditional village type), but none of our homes in Hong Kong have it (we still have to wait for water tank to boil before we use it).
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh. My. God. Redgate SQL Prompt now yells at you if you try to run a delete or update without a where clause.
That's just gone from "optional if the dev or operator wants it" to "mandatory, compliance enforced with an axe"
That's a good thing. If you really want to delete all data in a table, either you truncate it or add "where 1=1" to the end of the delete statement.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
You seem to be implying that the heater is located in the valve itself. I have literally never heard of such a thing in the US.
Well, I've got one at home. It's about .3×.2×.1m, plus whatever is in the wall itself. It does have a dedicated power circuit. The connection from it to the shower head is a flexible hose connected with a screw coupling; I'll leave working out how to drain it as an exercise for the reader. ;)
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Status: I hate Puppet.
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What's that? pgAdmin 4 is finally out!
Yes!
Umm... where is the SSH tunnel option?
Sigh... back to pgAdmin 3...
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@cartman82 What does that "SSL mode" option offer?
From: https://www.pgadmin.org/docs4/1.x/server_dialog.html
•Use the drop-down list box in the SSL field to select the type of SSL connection the server should use. For more information about using SSL encryption, see Section 31.18 of the Postgres documentation:
Possibly: Table 31-1. SSL Mode Descriptions
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
function foo(s) { var n=s.length+1,a=[].reduce.call(s,(a,c)=>[...a,+a.slice(-1)+(c=='{')-(c=='}')],[]); return Math.min(a.indexOf(-1)+1||n,(a.lastIndexOf(a[n-2]-1)+1||n-1)+1)%n-1; }
Um...
Perl doesn't like the competition for the "executable line noise" ...
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@cheong Yes.
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Status: """I've been writing many Python docstrings and now my fingers want to triple quote everything."""
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think in theory Apps are supposed to detect that they're being obscured by the IME and adjust themselves (see Office for an "Excellent" example of this), but in practice.... well Microsoft's legendary Compatibility with Legacy applications falls through majorly here...
For Metro apps that works. For Desktop applications, the docked touch keyboard just gets painted over the lower half of the fullscreened application.
In Windows 8.1 it worked like you (and any reasonable person) would expect it to.
If you docked the touch keyboard, the screen space available for fullscreened applications got reduced by the height of the touch keyboard.This is all in Tablet mode by the way. I have no own experience with how it behaves in not-Tablet mode.