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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@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.
I recommend starting a Coding Help thread and ask your questions there.
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Status: I discovered that Google voice typing doesn't exhibit the same behaviors as normal keyboards, so Chrome Beta mobile doesn't freeze the text boxes. So I guess I'll be using that instead for now until they fix it!
Hopefully nobody finds it strange that I'm suddenly talking to my phone to this forum...
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"Oh hey, babe, how's it going, can I get your digits? Oh, hang on, I need to respond to this forum post, give me just a second..."
"Colon, giggity, colon"
"Babe? Where'd you go?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hopefully nobody finds it strange that I'm suddenly talking to my phone to this forum...
No stranger than anything else you do to this forum.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Colon, giggity, colon
Colon kicking a coin
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Apparently that doesn't actually work, or did you get he is not aware that it recognizes.
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My younger daughter is discovering the thrills of addition. She kreps asking me "how much is x plus y" questions. Today, after a barrage of such questiobs, she looks at me and asks shrewdly:
... No, I didn't bother to explain, but I had fun at least.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hopefully nobody finds it strange that I'm suddenly talking to my phone to this forum...
No stranger than anything else you do to this forum.
Maybe. But people don't often see me actually doing them. It's a little less obvious when you're simply typing on a phone.
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Status: OMG!
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Status: Are CITY OF INDUSTRY and COMMERCE seriously cities in California, or is newegg just weird?
Whatever. I expect the parts should arrive by the end of the week.
The excitement is building. And the building will be exciting. I look forward to exiting the building.
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@Magus http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Industry%2C+California
(Yes, they're basically designated "dirty capitalist zones" in the LA area, and fairly common locations for warehouses, distribution centers, and the like.)
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@izzion Weird.
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@Magus
Well, when you're in a Government Cheese Paradise, you get to a point where you have to start creating designated reduced-tax zones, otherwise the businesses all go elsewhere, leading to absolutely no taxes, and even more people you have to try to support via the governmental programs.(And that's about all the more I can manage to say about the subject without getting too snarky and y for the Status thread...)
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Are CITY OF INDUSTRY and COMMERCE seriously cities in California
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@HardwareGeek This is the most California sentence ever written:
Industry also features a McDonald's restaurant that is used strictly for filming movies and commercials
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@Tsaukpaetra Sounds like your IT is related to ours!
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@Tsaukpaetra yeah. I think that's default, and IIS has funny ideas about where it should write to.
Every time I configure an app pool I get to play the "and where the fuck do I have to give that user permissions again?" game
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Status: Just booked to go to a conference in Houston next month. :) Except that the hotel booking just crapped out half way through. Guess I'll try again tomorrow (there's a few days before they release the room block…)
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Status: Just imported the map of Germany into mapnik, let osm2pgsql unpack it, create indices and whatnot (especially the whatnot, as it turned out).
However, due to that endeavour taking 6 hours on a 6-core VM with 8 GB of RAM, we're now a bit behind on the updates.
Luckily, there's a script for that!
Yes, I simply type:
sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/openstreetmap-tiles-update-expire
and it fetches the updates for me!In one-hour increments. And without giving any feedback as to what it's doing or what it has done. As a result, the installation manual includes this gem:
If your tile server is behind more than an hour you will need to call the openstreetmap-tiles-expire script multiple times.
The only thing that's telling you when you've caught up if you only use this script: It'll exit after a mere second instead of minutes.
Oh, well,
tail -f /var/log/tiles/run.log
to the rescue. Because that's where it's actually telling you how much it is behind.
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@clatter said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: """I've been writing many Python docstrings and now my fingers want to triple quote everything."""
Looks like a miniaturized bar code...
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Status: connecting through the work VPN to an Azure VM to access an SQL database behind the firewall. Feels like I'm playing Uplink.
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Afternoon meeting.
Can't keep eyes open. Must pee
now.Finally over.Over at last!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Afternoon meeting.
Can't keep eyes open. Must pee
now. Finally over.TIL peeing your pants is a good way to end the meeting you don't want to be at.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Afternoon meeting.
Can't keep eyes open. Must pee
now. Finally over.TIL peeing your pants is a good way to end the meeting you don't want to be at.
Not quite what I had in mind, nor what actually happened (thankfully), but I suppose that would probably work, too.
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@HardwareGeek Finally has three syllables, noob!
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek Finally has three syllables, noob!
In some dialects the middle syllable is dropped. I thought about using an apostrophe to indicate the elision. At one point I remember thinking of "At last;" I'm not sure why I didn't go with that.
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@HardwareGeek Sometimes you have to back out an idea with a poem and try to do it a different way.
Try this final line: “Relief! Ah, at last…”
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Status apparently I supported something in Microsoft quote on quote listened
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
tatus: Are CITY OF INDUSTRY and COMMERCE seriously cities in California, or is newegg just weird?
Cities. Probably known to the state of California to cause cancer, too.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just booked to go to a conference in Houston next month. :) Except that the hotel booking just crapped out half way through. Guess I'll try again tomorrow (there's a few days before they release the room block…)
When the hotel's booking system crapped out, my sister will usually send email directly to the hotel to make reservation on the size/price of room desired. Most hotel still accept booking via email if you also provided your credit card number. (If you're not sure you want to trust how the hotel handles booking - like worrying if the room class you want is already fully booked, they'll automatically make booking for a lower class room for you, you can choose not to include credit card number in the beginning but giving them after they replied that they have free room on that class)
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Status: Received an email inviting me to be a Chapter Director of HackerX in Asia to host events in Hong Kong. Considering that I have no facilities to hold an event, I'll just ignore that.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
My younger daughter is discovering the thrills of addition. She kreps asking me "how much is x plus y" questions. Today, after a barrage of such questiobs, she looks at me and asks shrewdly:
... No, I didn't bother to explain, but I had fun at least.
Actually, the answer is moo2, or
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
My younger daughter is discovering the thrills of addition. She kreps asking me "how much is x plus y" questions. Today, after a barrage of such questiobs, she looks at me and asks shrewdly:
... No, I didn't bother to explain, but I had fun at least.
Actually, the answer is moo2, or
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
When the hotel's booking system crapped out, my sister will usually send email directly to the hotel to make reservation on the size/price of room desired. Most hotel still accept booking via email if you also provided your credit card number.
In this case, the group rate is only available through the website; someone's already tried doing it by phone with the hotel and they had no idea about the group rate. It might be due to crappy coding interacting with Safari, and that'd be Yet Another SNAFU for here…
Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry. ;)
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Forays into setting up a hadoop cluster. Starting "easy" with just local virtual machines, and using an online tutorial:- [X] https://www.airpair.com/hadoop/posts/getting-started-with-hadoop - NOTE: Needed to also add into yarn-site.xml to make sure it binds to all network interfaces #+BEGIN_SRC xml <property> <name>yarn.resourcemanager.bind-host</name> <value>0.0.0.0</value> </property> #+END_SRC (source: http://hortonworks.com/blog/multihoming-on-hadoop-yarn-clusters/) - [2016-10-06 Thu] SUCCESS: It took me ~1 minute to count the words in one of my articles using the builtin example "wordcount" - Reflections: - That was slow! - Do I /really/ have to log in to the NameNode server to add files? BOOO! - Setting file permissions was a bummer, since the node is started as `root`, and when I log in I get to run as `vagrant`. I ended up hacking the sodding hdfs and doing a chmod -R 777 / - Getting the files out of the cluster: Ditto; you have to be logged in to the NameNode. There is a webFS gui that might work iff: - You have the right ports open for it to redirect to the datanodes. This is not meant to be run together with a firewall or in a VM. - You have managed to configure the hostnames of the datanodes right; otherwise you try to connect to a name that is correct on the private network, but not accessible outside VirtualBox/Vagrant. - BOO! This stinks!
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Another day, another idiot intern I have to baby-sit.
This one isn't even theoretically useful. All he knows is C++ 101. WTF am I supposed to do with that? He can't even do basic HTML+CSS gruntwork.
Boss is basically doing a favour for the kid's helicopter dad, and it's going over my back.
Blagh.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
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: I now have two working boosted microphones again (even though the repairs will make electrical engineers cry (duck tape FTW!))
Bad news: I successfully mapped my full hearing range, with a side-dish of tinnitus.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Afternoon meeting.
Can't keep eyes open. Must pee
now. Finally over.TIL peeing your pants is a good way to end the meeting you don't want to be at.
Only if you close your eyes and think of England.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Cities. Probably known to the state of California to cause cancer, too.
Goddamn fucking-- you know what. I want to take each and every Prop 65 supporter. Every one of them. And one by one tell them:
"The sun. The sun is known to cause cancer. It needs a sticker, or someone might get cancer or get sued. This is important. Go."
And then just film the various ways they die trying to put a sticker on the sun.
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@Tsaukpaetra So wait, Greninja actually has a mouth? Above the giant tongue? With a second tongue? Or was that just the only way that guy figured he could animate it?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
This one isn't even theoretically useful. All he knows is C++ 101. WTF am I supposed to do with that?
Tell him that, since C++ compiles code down to the low level, it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for him to be Deputy Environment Efficiency Expert.
Give him a stack of hard drives.
Tell them they have to be optimized by running chkdisk /r and defrag on each one.
Bonus points will be if he get stuck in a "defrag has detected a change in the file system and will restart" loop.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry.
I wouldn't be in any hurry to get to Houston, either.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Tell him that, since C++ compiles code down to the low level, it's EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for him to be Deputy Environment Efficiency Expert.
Give him a stack of hard drives.
Tell them they have to be optimized by running chkdisk /r and defrag on each one.
Bonus points will be if he get stuck in a "defrag has detected a change in the file system and will restart" loop.That sounds like a lot of work.
What I did instead is, give him some HTML 101 to read, so he can stay off my back.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Cities. Probably known to the state of California to cause cancer, too.
Goddamn fucking-- you know what. I want to take each and every Prop 65 supporter. Every one of them. And one by one tell them:
"The sun. The sun is known to cause cancer. It needs a sticker, or someone might get cancer or get sued. This is important. Go."
And then just film the various ways they die trying to put a sticker on the sun.
As a long-time-and-recently-returned Californian, I wholeheartedly support this proposal. I would even go so far as to say that it may be the best use to which my tax dollars could be put.
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Status: one of the packages shipped! It's out for delivery! I hope they take it to the main office, since they need a signature and I'm not home.
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University sent everyone an email reminding them you need to wear your personal protective equipment when using the laboratories.
The idea of wearing glasses, plastic gloves and a lab coat to connect a 5v DC cable to a microcontroller is kinda funny.
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Task completed in 496.125 seconds 1,435,094 rows updated.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
The idea of wearing glasses, plastic gloves and a lab coat to connect a 5v DC cable to a microcontroller is kinda funny.
Not as funny as wearing a cricket box would be, or a full set of baseball catcher's gear. ;)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Not as funny as wearing a cricket box would be
Google tells me (unsurprisingly) that this is either a box in which to keep crickets (wearing one of those would certainly be odd) or what we, on this side of the pond, would call a cup. While wearing one of these would certainly be absurdly unnecessary under the circumstances, it wouldn't really be funny because, at least the way we wear them, nobody would really know you were wearing it unless they tried to kick* you, or something. Do you guys wear them over your clothes?
* I remember an incident in a karate class when I was maybe 10 or 11 years old. I was really glad I was wearing it. The person who was responsible for my being glad reacted with, "What are you wearing?" "A cup — you know, like the instructor said we are supposed to wear, for exactly that reason."
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just booked to go to a conference in Houston next month. :) Except that the hotel booking just crapped out half way through. Guess I'll try again tomorrow (there's a few days before they release the room block…)
Or, I bet they have a sequence of numeric digits that you could use to exchange voice communications with them, through a device often referred to as a "phone"...
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someone's already tried doing it by phone with the hotel and they had no idea about the group rate
TRWTF.