The Official Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
There HAS to be a better way to do jury selection than stuffing a bunch of people in a room for 5-8 hours and...not calling most of them.
Yes, there is. Around here, that's mostly been replaced by a telephone standby system. You're assigned a number. Once or twice a day you call a phone number and listen to a recoded message that lists the number range that has to report to the court and when (after lunch or the next morning). If your number isn't called, you're told when to call again for an updated message. If you're told to report, it's pretty likely that you'll be doing something besides twiddling your thumbs in the holding room; if not, you get to go about your normal business, except for making a couple of phone calls.
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@HardwareGeek yeah, that'd probably work better. They called ~1200 people in for today. From 10:30 am until 3:30 pm, they called 2-3 groups of 25 people back. Since they started at 8am (and mostly called early), I'm guessing that something like 120 people actually were called into an actual pool. That's ~10%.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
There HAS to be a better way to do jury selection than stuffing a bunch of people in a room for 5-8 hours and...not calling most of them.
Yes, there is. Around here, that's mostly been replaced by a telephone standby system. You're assigned a number. Once or twice a day you call a phone number and listen to a recoded message that lists the number range that has to report to the court and when (after lunch or the next morning). If your number isn't called, you're told when to call again for an updated message. If you're told to report, it's pretty likely that you'll be doing something besides twiddling your thumbs in the holding room; if not, you get to go about your normal business, except for making a couple of phone calls.
We have the phone thing you described. (Well... it doesn't say number ranges that are supposed to report. It just says yes or no.)
I've been selected twice. Both times, I called the number the night before I was scheduled, and both times the recorded message told me to report in the morning.
The first time, I spent all morning in the waiting room. At lunchtime, about half of us (myself included) got sent home. Apparently a few of the cases that were on the docket had been settled out of court (not uncommon).
The second time, I spent all morning in the waiting room. At lunchtime, about half of us (the lucky half -- I wasn't lucky enough this time) got sent home. The rest of us (well over 100 people) spent the rest of the day in the courtroom participating in jury selection. Some time after 5:00 PM, they finally announced the 12 jurors and a handful of backup jurors; those lucky bastards had to come back the following day(s), until the trial concluded. The rest of us finally got to go home and return to our regularly scheduled activities.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I've been selected twice. Both times, I called the number the night before I was scheduled, and both times the recorded message told me to report in the morning.
I haven't had to physically go to a court since the phone system was put in place, so I don't know how efficient things are for the people who do, but for most of the jury pool it sure beats spending the whole week wasting time in the jury room.
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@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
The $400k new construction townhouses my realtor loves will be closer to $2600 per month ("But with the mortgage interest deduction, that's really only like $1900 a month! And you don't have to pay closing costs and won't pay a dime on repairs!").
Are you sure you need a buyer's realtor to represent you? I mean, it sounds like she really wants your money, and you won't be getting the good kind of sex in return...
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@bb36e Happy birthday!
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
The $400k new construction townhouses my realtor loves will be closer to $2600 per month ("But with the mortgage interest deduction, that's really only like $1900 a month! And you don't have to pay closing costs and won't pay a dime on repairs!").
Are you sure you need a buyer's realtor to represent you? I mean, it sounds like she really wants your money, and you won't be getting the good kind of sex in return...
I'm pretty close to firing her, honestly. The only thing that has kept the professional relationship going this far is that when I give a price range, I am provided listings in that price range (along with some whining about how those properties are in a "rough neighborhood"). I could also use Zillow/Redfin as a more independent source, I suppose.
This is all going to become a moot point pretty quickly though, as it turns out that I'm going to have to postpone my searching for a few months. I've been assigned a promising new project at work (which will probably incur some overtime), and management may need me to travel for a week or so next month. With all that going on in the background, I don't see moving somewhere else at the same time to be in any way realistic.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Prices have risen in nearly every year for my entire life
Usually by more than wages or inflation
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
it's a multi-decadeal bubble that nobody dares try to deflate. Which doesn't mean that it's immune, just that when it happens, it'll be awful.
I'm still holding out hope that the housing bubble will burst before I get enough saved to buy somewhere. As a renter at the moment, I see no real downside in a potential crash in house prices
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@Onyx did you hack my radio's playlist?
How else do you explain they just played Scooter?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx did you hack my radio's playlist?
How else do you explain they just played Scooter?
WASN'T ME!
It must be Dave who's on the train!
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I got a missed phone call from Ireland. Who the fuck is calling me from Ireland?
Wait... I made a Microsoft Azure account yesterday. That thing's probably in Ireland (low taxes) and it's the only place I've given my phone number in the last month. But I don't see why they would want to call me.
Edit: google to the rescue?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Dave
Hedgy?
Someone call?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone call?
Did you force feed Scooter & Britney Spears on my rock/alternatif Belgiumed radio station?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone call?
Did you force feed Scooter & Britney Spears on my rock/alternatif Belgiumed radio station?
That's what that button does? Huh.
/me sets up a robot hand to press it continuously
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Well it wasn't Scooter or Britney but Beyonce this time
Well, now you know it wasn't me.
Scooter is awesome, Britney is great for troll/cheese purposes, but Beyonce, she just... bores me.
If it were me, you'd get Spice Girls.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
If it were me, you'd get Spice Girls.
I actually had their first album.
I do not know why.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
If it were me, you'd get Spice Girls.
I find it hard to believe that we could be friends now. Not when you might have chosen some Gorillaz.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I find it hard to believe that we could be friends now.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Not when you might have chosen some Gorillaz.
He might find that agreeable. The point would be to annoy him.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
The point would be to annoy him.
Oh. Misinterpreted what you were up to there. :)
Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits, in an interpretation on massed kazoos.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
some Gorillaz
Oasis apparently and Pearl Jam and Sisters of Mercy ...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits
That's a contradiction in terminis
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Status: Good job, Travis, good job…
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Status: Wondering how I'm going to fix code that works only when a debugger is attached.
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@RaceProUK MessageBox() based debugging
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK MessageBox() based debugging
In an ASP.NET website?
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@Jaloopa Not enterprisey enough. She should build a fake debugger that's attached at all times. Then the code will work correctly. For bonus points the debugger should log several megs worth of data to a file that nobody's told about and crash hard when the file gets beyond a particular size.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
She should build a fake debugger that's attached at all times. Then the code will work correctly. For bonus points the debugger should log several megs worth of data to a file that nobody's told about and crash hard when the file gets beyond a particular size
I was trying to identify some performance problems in a postcode lookup a while ago. It only happened in live, not any of the test environments, so I added some logging to see what was taking the time.
With that logging enabled, the performance problems disappeared, and they reliably come back when it's switched off, so we now have a bunch of logs being generated that nobody cares about, with a powershell script to clear them once a month. I check them occasionally to confirm the performance is still OK.
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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?
OK, console.log()
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Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
Because you're from Scotland!
Yes, the band Travis is indeed from Scotland. Glasgow, specifically.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
Because you're from Scotland!
Yes, the band Travis is indeed from Scotland. Glasgow, specifically.
I thought it was
Is it because I'm sad and have no family?
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
With that logging enabled, the performance problems disappeared, and they reliably come back when it's switched off
Yeah, PHP is a
You should use .NET instead.Oh, wait...
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
With that logging enabled, the performance problems disappeared, and they reliably come back when it's switched off, so we now have a bunch of logs being generated that nobody cares about, with a powershell script to clear them once a month.
Some output buffer not flushing properly, but logging forces it to do so because it's adamant about getting its turn, perhaps?
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Some output buffer not flushing properly
Or threading is causing resource contention and the logging is effectively forcing serialisation of access.
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@dkf When in doubt, always blame threading conflicts.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
HGTV is quite stupid and repetitive.@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you think you are smarter than all the other legal staff that came before you.
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. The people who do jury selection aren't the ones who have to wait.
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Status: OMG WTFBBQ.
Apparently we had hired a website developer or something to update our wordpress site. Supposedly the go-live was last night.
Guess what part of the migration didn't happen? If you guessed "Users", you're on the right track.
How does one forget the users!?! They make the most noise!
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@Tsaukpaetra How can one make noise if one is not registered to post? :evilgrin:
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If you're a Steam user you might want to know that there's currently an XSS exploit on steamcommunity.com and you can get your account pwned by just viewing a malicious user profile.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
She should build a fake debugger that's attached at all times. Then the code will work correctly.
Meh, that's just software. When you need to ship a $10000 logic analyzer with every $2 chip you sell, then you can talk.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
viewing a malicious user profile.
Good thing the only user profiles I ever view are users I know from here on TDWT... Uh, oh.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
If you're a Steam user you might want to know that there's currently an XSS exploit on steamcommunity.com and you can get your account pwned by just viewing a malicious user profile.
And people call me crazy because I default JS to off
Edit: QFT:
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Status: Amazing! When you actually troubleshoot and fix the first task in a list of sequential tasks that are throwing errors, you get more meaningful errors for later tasks! Less running in a circle with our hair on fire, yay!!!