The Official Status Thread
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering how I'm going to fix code that works only when a debugger is attached.
You know, processors have lots of hardware debugging features to tackle this precise thing. You should be able to read the registers and memory of any computer with the appropriate device.
Then it's just a matter of single-stepping x86 instructions until you find the bug. Easy peasy.
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Status:
Go Jeb Go!
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@Jarry
Please clap.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
When in doubt, always blame threading conflicts.
Or Canada.
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@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
(along with some whining about how those properties are in a "rough neighborhood")
Interesting... I remember when I bought that the realtor specifically said that legally they couldn't say that. So they hinted more along the lines of 'you may be more interested in this neighborhood'. Don't know if that's a county or state thing tho.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Checks clock. Nope, not me. I was on the train 6 hours ago.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK MessageBox() based debugging
I once fixed a bug by adding a printf for debugging. sigh. Those are annoying.
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Status: I really dislike bluehost. Like, really really.
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Status: Here's a hint: Don't show fields you don't want people to try filling out, k? How about that!
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@Tsaukpaetra You sometimes do that as an antibot mechanism, or at least I've seen it used that way.
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@Magus that sort of anti bot thing is usually hidden somehow so only the bots will see it though
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@Jaloopa I saw it on a forum, though, and those are universally awful.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
(along with some whining about how those properties are in a "rough neighborhood")
Interesting... I remember when I bought that the realtor specifically said that legally they couldn't say that. So they hinted more along the lines of 'you may be more interested in this neighborhood'. Don't know if that's a county or state thing tho.
It could be tricky in terms of steering laws, but she was giving me crime stats on each property and speaking to that (as well as hinting that it "will" be a bigger deal "when" I have a wife and kids) . I've been resisting the temptation to reply, "Well, if these hoodlums are capable of consistently paying $2000+/month to live somewhere, they're probably my kind of hoodlums."
I'm not sure if she doesn't realize that pathos is ineffective and that I'm attempting to politely deny overt shilling tactics.
And while we're on topic...
Status: I talked with the finance person at the real estate agency and got her to agree with me and conclude that none of the local incentives are going to change the fact that my monthly payment will double compared to what I'm paying in rent. If first-time homebuyers were offered, say, $50-100k at 0% interest, it might make a difference, I said. A few thousand dollars to help with closing costs (which I can pretty much pay out of pocket) won't.
My realtor probably caught wind that the meeting with said finance person didn't go too well and left a message earlier today that her accountant would be giving me a call to explain how the mortgage interest deduction will magically make these properties more affordable. No matter that I'd have to cover the difference until tax refund time, and if Trump et al. remove that deduction, it'd put me in a very bad spot. I'm sure more hilarity will ensue.
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@Groaner
Yeeeeeeeeah, that's an agent that's not out to represent your interests. Personally, I'd be terminating her agency relationship with extreme prejudice.
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@izzion ?
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@Jarry
Edit: Oops, wrong in reply to.
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@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
explain how the mortgage interest deduction will magically make these properties more affordable
It's true. Related:
Status: Started 2016 tax return.
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@boomzilla
Except you're either giving the government a zero interest loan of all that money or having to fiddle around with your W-4 to make sure you have appropriate extra exemptions, and hoping that they don't abruptly remove the deduction over the next 15-30 years without an offsetting tax decrease. I get queasy thinking about what portion of my finances depended on that deduction when I bought my house.
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@izzion Last year I sold off a rental property, so I'm going to have to rejigger my deductions based on this exercise since a lot of stuff has changed. I am certainly withholding too much currently.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla
Except you're either giving the government a zero interest loan of all that money or having to fiddle around with your W-4 to make sure you have appropriate extra exemptions, and hoping that they don't abruptly remove the deduction over the next 15-30 years without an offsetting tax decrease. I get queasy thinking about what portion of my finances depended on that deduction when I bought my house.There's also the part where your interest payments and corresponding deductions will become a much smaller share of your mortgage payment over the years. Granted, rent goes up as well, but relying on the deduction carries a tacit assumption that your salary will rise to close the gap.
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Status: Out of all the shenanigans that happened today, the small glimmer of silver that this cloud has given me is that the LetsEncrypt extension thingy for Azure seemed to work just fine.
On the other hand, the new wordpress site is absolutely shambled, all the articles lost their owners, and comments, and BS BS BS FFS WARGLBELARARGKARG!
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@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
No matter that I'd have to cover the difference until tax refund time
Not really. Change your withholding exemptions. Of course, the first year is a WAG. Then you just have to tweak till it "works". I think I started with around 11 extra exemptions. I think I'm down around 7 now.
edit: 'd, of course...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla
Except you're either giving the government a zero interest loan of all that money or having to fiddle around with your W-4 to make sure you have appropriate extra exemptions, and hoping that they don't abruptly remove the deduction over the next 15-30 years without an offsetting tax decrease. I get queasy thinking about what portion of my finances depended on that deduction when I bought my house.I refuse to figure that deduction into my finances. At all. My CPA thinks I'm nuts.
Killing it of would basically suicide the economy, and I'm pretty sure that's a goal actively being worked by numerous politicians.
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Status: GG, ZenDesk.
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@Weng
I suspect it's going to be more correlated with the bursting of the bubble than causing it. But I may be wrong, the US government may not run out of other people's money to spend.
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A few times, I've had to debug something by using the system's email utility to send myself emails from different points in the code, and then seeing which emails I didn't get.
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I just had the version of a printf fixing the problem: Infiniscroll wasn't working for me even after reloading, but as soon as I opened the JS console it started working again.
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Status: Out Master Server VM just started freaking out for no apparent reason:
Completely unresponsive, so killed it. NFC what happened, since obviously nobody was around to witness it happening (I just so happened to check in).
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla
Except you're either giving the government a zero interest loan of all that money or having to fiddle around with your W-4 to make sure you have appropriate extra exemptions, and hoping that they don't abruptly remove the deduction over the next 15-30 years without an offsetting tax decrease. I get queasy thinking about what portion of my finances depended on that deduction when I bought my house.I refuse to figure that deduction into my finances. At all. My CPA thinks I'm nuts.
Killing it of would basically suicide the economy, and I'm pretty sure that's a goal actively being worked by numerous politicians.
I've read a few arguments lately calling for the end of it, as it doesn't really help get people into houses as much as it inflates prices. The only people who really benefit from the policy are people buying a bit more house they can afford and... realtors making commission!
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Started 2016 tax return.
I need to get on that as well. Fortunately, mine are pretty simple except for having to file an additional form due to working across state lines.
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Status: Who knew uploading a file would get views?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK MessageBox() based debugging
In an ASP.NET website?
<asp:Label runat="server" id="test" />
Codebehind:
private messages = new list(of string) Sub Page_PreRender... test.text = String.Join(messages.ToArray(), "<br />") End Sub
Pepper your code with messages.Add("I am here in the code and the value of whatever is " + whatever).
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@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
it "will" be a bigger deal "when" I have a wife and kids
If you do not have, it actually makes more sense not to buy a house. Also consider that your future spouse may not even like the place, then you will end up selling the place before 6 years, and then you have certainly not made a good investment.
Apparently you are smart enough not to buy into a marriage deal, why do you want to marry a piece of land?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK MessageBox() based debugging
I once fixed a bug by adding a printf for debugging. sigh. Those are annoying.
Did printf help you find the bug and fix it? That is my way of debugging (I almost never fire a debugger, unless there is a weird crash that needs a proper stack trace).
If however adding the printf fixed the problem, that is TR perhaps a race condition, that printf slowed down a path to hide. sigh, I have seen that too, but in embedded system where printf is expensive, evenputc
could be expensive.
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Status: Considering hacking together a set of curl scripts to add/remove
TXT
records for my domain on freedns.afraid.org, because I can't serve on port 80 for my website and therefore LetsEncrypt's ACME protocol literally cannot work for me. So I have to use TXT records instead.Luckily enough, there is really only a cookie variable needed for the authentication, and everything else seems to be just a few PHP endpoints that I'm going to probe to see if I can't blindly throw commands at it to do the needful.
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Hm. I'm sure glad I no longer have any business with those guys...
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Status: increasingly irate.
Hit upon weird behavior I can't seem to debug properly (fucking Asterisk!) so I'm down to trial-and-error testing, but I keep having to answer fucking calls about problems, mostly related to shit I'm trying to fix.
YES, I KNOW, I'M TRYING TO FIX IT, YOU'RE NOT SPEEDING THINGS UP BY INTERRUPTING ME!
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@Onyx Just leave the phone off the hook. Or unplug it ;)
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Status: Fixing bugs by turning things off and on again.
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Status: Wondering if any of @accalia's heavies are available for hire, as I'd like to 'encourage' whoever designed
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback
to never design an API again.
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@RaceProUK What's particularly bad about it? It's relatively sane for a security-related APIâŚ
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@dkf It's also ridiculously easy to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot with an anti-aircraft gun with it.
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Status: Just called my cable provider because, while all (independent) speedtests (and Steam) indicate that I'm indeed getting the full 200 Mbit/s downstream, Youtube is a bit slower.
In fact, even after downgrading to 240p, it's still buffering for minutes on end. It also does this independently of time of day.
I'm not sure that the agent fully comprehended the problem - they told me that they'd send a technician to my adress as I'm supposedly suffering from an unstable connection.
Would be a very weird unstable connection, whatwith only low double-digit pings, 0% packetloss and full 200/12 Mbit/s bandwidth to everything except Youtube.
I mean, I myself would have guessed some kind of routing problem on their end but I guess that's not in the script.
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**Status: **
Trying to change a How-to article on our website about changing some database stuff
This is worse than Markdown!
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I realize that's (very) US-centric, so it may not be 100% relevant for you if YT has a data center in Europe that you're connecting to, but if you're connecting to their US data center, there's been a lot of congestion in the past hour between Cogent and Level3 (two major CDN carriers - Level3 basically is all CDN or small ISP backbone, and most US traffic to Twitch and YouTube almost certainly rides Level3 at some point).
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
It's also ridiculously easy to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot with an anti-aircraft gun with it.
Well duh. It's a security API. They're all like that or much much worse.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
if YT has a data center in Europe
I'd be willing to bet whole boxes of donuts that they do, even if they're mostly configured to do caching of the master copies in the USâŚ
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@dkf
European Cat Movies First!
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@Luhmann Make European Cat Movies Great Again!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I realize that's (very) US-centric, so it may not be 100% relevant for you if YT has a data center in Europe that you're connecting to, but if you're connecting to their US data center, there's been a lot of congestion in the past hour between Cogent and Level3 (two major CDN carriers - Level3 basically is all CDN or small ISP backbone, and most US traffic to Twitch and YouTube almost certainly rides Level3 at some point).
It's been that way for the last several days now, if it had been only a few hours I wouldn't have contacted them.