The Official Status Thread
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Status: chowing down naproxen sodium and paracetamol at a completely unsound rate to deal with the onset of pain and tingling consistent with a herniated disc at C5-C6.
Anybody got any clue how long this bastard thing might take to stop hurting?
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@Luhmann Apparently, they also come in green:
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@flabdablet said in The Official Status Thread:
Anybody got any clue how long this bastard thing might take to stop hurting?
Last year, I had medium-level sciatic nerve pain for several months. I decided to play through it, only taking meds (which weren't all that effective anyway) when the pain went to 11. I even saw a quack and another quack who were both in it strictly to take my money. It finally went away on its own, but I do still have occasional twinges - not pain, but obvious signs that the nerve's getting pinched slightly.
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
I even saw a quack and another quack
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
only taking meds (which weren't all that effective anyway) when the pain went to 11
I'm currently unable to lie down to sleep unless I saturation-bomb my nervous system with NSAIDs. The pain is tolerable when sitting or standing but sleep debt is building fast enough to cause me real concern.
Tomorrow I shall toddle off to see what socialized medicine has to offer.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
**Status: **
Trying to change a How-to article on our website about changing some database stuff
This is worse than Markdown!It's alterations all the way down!
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DROP TABLE MIC
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Fixing bugs by turning things off and on again.
That's not a fix, except in the Jeff sense!
Death to regressions!
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@accalia
Wikipedia ... learning new and strange things every day
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Death
toby regressions!
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Status: How TF do you get an SSIS package through to production if it doesn't successfully run unless files from a previous successful run are left over in the work directory?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: How TF do you get an SSIS package through to production if it doesn't successfully run unless files from a previous successful run are left over in the work directory?
possibly it didn't alway depend on that previously successful run?
either that or the files were carefully pre seeded before the deploy
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Status: I don't understand the behaviour I'm seeing from ASP.NET's Output Cache
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I don't understand the behaviour I'm seeing from ASP.NET's Output Cache
Status: I now understand the odd behaviour I'm seeing from ASP.NET's Output Cache :D
Also, I've actually found a that I don't like.
Yes, these two statements are related.
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@accalia
Yeah, I suspect this came about as one of those "package was running one way, business user requested a change, code got cut and pasted and just happened to work" things because we don't generally clean up our work files. I'm just thelucky bastardpoor sod who got to step on the land mine because I'm running the mine field for an upgrade & cleanup project.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm just the poor sod who got to step on the land mine because I'm running the mine field
I've heard it said that running in a minefield is a great motivation to run fast, but i've never heard of anyone that actually put that saying into practice......
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Status: I'm really disliking the visual editor for WPF in Visual Studio. Literally the smallest changes to the grid layout will break everything else. And I'm not even using the most complicated layout either!!!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
How TF do you get an SSIS package through
In SQL Server SSIS packages YOU!
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Status: Use Macs, they said. They never crash, they said.
Ok, I have to use one for school (company provided), and I've had 2 kernel panics (BSOD equivalent) in as many days. I haven't had a BSOD on Windows 10 in....a long time. Possibly since Windows 10 came out.
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@Benjamin-Hall Duff hardware? Hardware faults can fuck up any OS, and there's always a non-zero chance of it happening. OTOH, Apple are usually pretty good at replacing stuff that's gone wrong within the warranty period. Of course, the gripping hand is that Apple's general quality seems to have been dropping over the past few years; Cook doesn't appear to obsess over this sort of thing like Jobs did.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf It's also ridiculously easy to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot with an anti-aircraft gun with it.
That would take talent. And flexibility.
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@dkf Sadly these are at the end of the support period--they're the last group of the non-retina 15-inch Macbook Pros. It seems to be Chrome that's causing it. I doubt that I could get any replacements--this is already a replacement for one that died due to...well...I'm going to blame it on the ants. Certainly not on an ill-advised attempt to remove said ants. I wouldn't do anything that stupid, after all. I know better.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had 2 kernel panics (BSOD equivalent) in as many days
Memtest86 is your friend
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I haven't had a BSOD on Windows 10 in....a long time
Try running Windows 10 on that Mac and see if it does better with that failed hardware
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@Tsaukpaetra I've never used it, and to be honest, I can't remember any site, video, etc. ever recommending it either.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm really disliking the visual editor for WPF in Visual Studio
Do you not have Blend installed?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm really disliking the visual editor for WPF in Visual Studio
Do you not have Blend installed?
I do? When I open it it just looks like Visual Studio forgot where all the default windows and toolbars were supposed to be. In any case, the designer thing in Blend didn't seem to be any more useful than the one that "Normal" visual studio loads, so, ?
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My cold is cured but now I miss the taste of Frenadol.
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@coldandtired Is there any visual GUI designer that does not suck?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there any visual GUI designer that does not suck?
IME, a postit and a pen are adequate (per window/“screen”). You can't do very much with them, and that's great because you shouldn't.
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Status: Just caught the Ubuntu installer showing the status line "Reticulating Splines" :D
'Course, this was because I was paying better attention to it, since the first time it tried finishing the install it apparently killed the default desktop or something doing OOBE updates.
So I'm doing the initial setup again, only this time offline. We'll see how it goes...
Edit: Apparently the recovery image doesn't exactly install things the way the stick was when I unpackaged it, Bluetooth isn't available in the installer screen. Oh well, I can use this USB mouse just fine I suppose...
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@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
That is not going to work
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Edge-style refresh and X buttons on the top left, UI the color and layout of Visual Studio, and a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things, but that I don't recognize, pointed at by an anime hand.
Observation complete.
Analysis results: ERR
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
That is not going to work
You're right, but the installer said it might merely be "not optimal" or something.
Oh, this is as far as it got after the initial image application:
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things
Looks... VB-ish?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
That is not going to work
You're right, but the installer said it might merely be "not optimal" or something.
Oh, this is as far as it got after the initial image application:
That's a new one
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things
Looks... VB-ish?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
That is not going to work
You're right, but the installer said it might merely be "not optimal" or something.
Oh, this is as far as it got after the initial image application:
That's a new one
This might be a problem:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things
Looks... VB-ish?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
That is not going to work
You're right, but the installer said it might merely be "not optimal" or something.
Oh, this is as far as it got after the initial image application:
That's a new one
This might be a problem:
Well, there's kinda this
I mean, I might have updates and stuff. But that's over 3x the capacity of your system drive
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
and a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things, but that I don't recognize
Python?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
and a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things, but that I don't recognize
Python?
Python. the three quotes docstring(
""" this is a docstring for a method"""
) and the while syntax convinced me
EDIT: upon further investigation
the naming convention seems to follow pep8
the last parameter of the method the hand is pointing is**kw
which is a pythonism.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
and a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things, but that I don't recognize
Python?
Python. the three quotes docstring(
""" this is a docstring for a method"""
) and the while syntax convinced medef foo(self):
definitely played a role.
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@Jarry Fascinating. I haven't seen many pythons in the wild, and did not expect to see one in Japan for sure.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
a programming language that looks real and is dealing with real things
Looks... VB-ish?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra So it seems the install is broken. Ok fine. Lets try to install Windows 10 on it!
It has only a 8 Gb drive for the primary disk, so this will be... interesting...
That is not going to work
You're right, but the installer said it might merely be "not optimal" or something.
Oh, this is as far as it got after the initial image application:
That's a new one
This might be a problem:
Well, there's kinda this
I mean, I might have updates and stuff. But that's over 3x the capacity of your system drive
On a (mostly) fresh install it isn't that large:
I just booted it from my Windows-To-Go disk.
Status: Looking into a WIMBOOT-style install next...
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@Magus In that scene, the main character was reviewing some of her coworker's code, and that's the only sight of it we get; only the second glimpse of code I've seen in this show, but they seem to be consistent, without ever actually mentioning her job role out loud. I may not know python, but this coworker's code seems awfully procedural at first glimpse, and kind of filled with long chainy lines. And there's a whole block of code about random session stuff, with a comment saying so at the top, which seems a bit silly. It also seems to be a web application of some sort, judging by what we see here.
I wonder where they got the code sample. All in all, analyzing this has been rather fun.
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Status: At least my error page is performant:
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
the last parameter of the method the hand is pointing is
**kw
which is a pythonism.Well, it's perfectly cromulent in C as well. It's usually used to tell you to run. As fast as you can. Because shit's about to get nasty.
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@sloosecannon Goddammit people, the size of the windows folder reported by explorer is not the real size on disk.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
My cold is cured but now I miss the taste of Frenadol.
I just got some kind of cold/sinus thing the other day. Perfect timing, as I'm going on vacation in a couple days.