The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra ):
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Status: Ah, it's that one day every two years where people wear stupid red balls on their nose. Yay.
Can't I just donate money directly to charity instead?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ah, it's that one day every two years where people wear stupid red balls on their nose. Yay.
Can't I just donate money directly to charity instead?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg http://www.rednoseday.com/
BTW, this year's noses are made of foam rubber, and they stink and are stupid. And they look like South Park characters.
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Also, a heads up for tomorrow. March 25 is celebrated as the "Waffles Day" in Sweden, so get your waffle-irons ready and join in the celebration.
Etymology-wise, waffles-day is based on a misunderstanding. March 25 used to be known as "Mary got-knocked-up-day", but using a very archaic word. Eventually this changed to "Vårfrudagen" (Our Lady's Day), which sounds very much like "waffle-day" and there you have it.
... Of course, in south-east Sweden we also celebrate Crane-day (as in the bird; when it comes, spring is on the way) on March 25. This is done by hiding egg-shaped candy for the kids to find.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
March 25 is celebrated as the "Waffles Day" in Sweden
I'm moving to Sweden.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
For those better at math than me (which is everyone), if you have x^(y*z) and you know x and z, you can compute x^y by taking the z'th root, right? You just obviously can't feasibly compute y; that'd be a discrete logarithm.
Yes. x^(y*z) is the same as (x^y)^z, so you can take the root
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founded in 1985
Yet another thing I'm the same age as, like Back To The Future, Super Mario Bros, and the Sega Master System. And the GNU Manifesto. And three-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. Also Kaley Cuoco, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Keira Knightly, according to IMDB.
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It sucks that Azure gives me $200 in credit for one month after signing up.
It's a one-time offer which means I can't sign up yet or it will all go to waste.
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@RaceProUK That happens to be my birth year as well, although since I'm late in the year I usually include 1986 as "basically the same age" as well
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
this year's noses are made of foam rubber, and they stink and are stupid.
Here is a short film about red foam rubber balls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOG65rSM5fA#t=8m4s
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Status: Unable to test something important because of rate limiting. Yay.
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@RaceProUK I maintain a site that rate limits requests. So developers and testers can still do their bit, there's a whitelist of IP address ranges that the limiting doesn't apply to.
When we were bought by a larger company, all our IP addresses changed. Nobody noticed that the rate limiting was happening again for months
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
old guy (early 30s)
I remember my early 30s. I was young and happy. (Partly, anyway; it was about 33 that I fell in love and became happy.) Now I'm much older and more bitter.
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@TimeBandit divorced IIRC.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I'm much older and more bitter.
It's all that coffee you drank over the years: the bitterium has collected in you because it can't be expelled :P
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@RaceProUK just because he's really old, doesn't necessarily mean he can't expel stuff without standing over the toilet for half an hour watching a tiny dribble come out
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Yay 11am migraine.
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TIL Same Day ACH Debits are coming this year.
Submit by 10:30AM, Debited by 1PM, Settled by EOB.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit divorced IIRC.
This, sadly. That's the bitter part; I was (mostly) happy while I was married.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I'm much older and more bitter.
It's all that coffee you drank over the years: the bitterium has collected in you because it can't be expelled :P
Definitely not. I've had something like 3 cups of coffee in my entire life; I can't stand the taste. Tea, on the other hand, ... If it had bitterium, I'd get a lifetime supply every day.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK just because he's really old, doesn't necessarily mean he can't expel stuff without standing over the toilet for half an hour watching a tiny dribble come out
Not yet, anyway. I may get there someday.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
cp -r x y
. 3.5 hours later; time to go home. Still copying.Almost 20 hours and it's still going. I wonder how many TB are in that directory.
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Status:
Client: "We have a new office space that we are getting together, could you get it on the schedule to be cabled?"
: "Sure thing, how big of an office space is it, how many drops and when do you need it done by?"
Client: "20 desks, 4 drops per desk and we were hoping you could have it done by Tuesday so we could move people in on Wednesday."FFS people, you want to spring 80 drops on me with 2 working days to get it done? Sure, but its going to cost you. You just signed up to pay for my family's vacation this year.
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@Polygeekery
I don't see what the problem is. They gave you more than 80 hours advance notice, that's like 1 hour per drop, how hard can it be to sustain that kind of rate?
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@izzion the problem is that he has been sitting on this for weeks and he does stuff like this all the time. I don't care really, the time table is no big deal. We can get it done. It is just annoying.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
We can get it done. It is just
annoyinglucrative.FTFY
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
the problem is that he has been sitting on this for weeks and he does stuff like this all the time.
face it: he likes to pay for your family vacation.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how many TB are in that directory.
It's a looping reference, isn't it?
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Status: Shoulder aliens are telling me developers don't like work.
So I'm shoving a bunch of core dumps into the tracker to show how much work I'm not putting into solving a problem.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how many TB are in that directory.
It's a looping reference, isn't it?
Doesn't seem to be. Looking at timestamps, I see it still copying files (well, directories; I haven't gone deep enough into the tree to find any actual files) as of this minute, and there aren't any repeated dir names in the paths.
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@HardwareGeek What does
find x | wc -l
have to say about this?
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@izzion
There is a "get out of fukt up free" card available for $35.Do you wish to purchase?
Y
N
WALLET_NOT_FOUND
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Client: "We have a new office space that we are getting together, could you get it on the schedule to be cabled?"
: "Sure thing, how big of an office space is it, how many drops and when do you need it done by?"
Client: "20 desks, 4 drops per desk and we were hoping you could have it done by Tuesday so we could move people in on Wednesday."FFS people, you want to spring 80 drops on me with 2 working days to get it done? Sure, but its going to cost you. You just signed up to pay for my family's vacation this year.
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion the problem is that he has been sitting on this for weeks and he does stuff like this all the time. I don't care really, the time table is no big deal. We can get it done. It is just annoying.
As the day progressed we got signed up for more work. Some of it billed to my client (who is the landlord of the space), some to the IT consultants of the tenant (who are in NYC) and some of it billed to the tenant (who is a subsidiary of a company out of India). So, potentially a fucking mess. My client tells me not to worry about it and if there is anything that we are not paid for to let him know and they will make sure we are covered.
So, even though he can be a total pain in the ass and annoy me sometimes, gestures like that are why we keep him around.
I also managed to setup a conference call with their head architect about bundling our offsite backup solution in on their future proposals. All in all, a good day. Even though it started out kind of shitty.
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Status: got a like by @obeselymorbid about 3 minutes after I posted it. I think I just invented time travel !
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Status Adding a certain quick-service food chain to the "only pay cash" after I visited their website and got the normal error of an ASP.NET stack dump and noticed local path information in output that looks like typical debugging in production symptoms.
Also running .NET Runtime that is no longer supported is no bueno.
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Work finished for 2 clients out of 3.
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Status: Averted a potential ordering fuckup from the higher ups by them accidentally not ordering the thing.
Did you know that referral links to an Amazon product that might have multiple variants on the listing may not have the currently selected item?
For instance, compare the following:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EV1VIK/
Magic is apparently happening, because clicking the first seems to select stuff at random (in this case, when said higher up clicked it, it was selecting the 1-gig version), but for me it chose the desired 10-gig version. Instead, apparently the proper method is to click the Twitter icon, which does the needful and gets links that have the specific selection pre-selected.
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Status: can officially claim to have seen a mouse that got caught by two mousetraps.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
two mousetraps
Live traps or snap traps? Or one of each?
And was the mouse marked the first time it was caught?
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@djls45 two snap traps. It was caught in both of them. One the usual way, and the other had gotten one of its hind legs.
To be fair, the traps were placed a few inches apart, but I didn't expect them to both catch the same mouse.
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@anotherusername The real question is: was it a wired or wireless mouse ?
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@anotherusername At one point I had a mouse in the garage get itself sandwiched between two glue traps. Ambitious fucker.
Yes, I'm a bastard and use glue traps.
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@MathNerdCNU said in The Official Status Thread:
Status Adding a certain quick-service food chain to the "only pay cash" after I visited their website and got the normal error of an ASP.NET stack dump and noticed local path information in output that looks like typical debugging in production symptoms.
Also running .NET Runtime that is no longer supported is no bueno.
Payment system is rarely made in-house, and almost always a trainwreck
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Status: Drubk :D
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Thank God, got a short extension on something that was due tomorrow. Breathing room is a blessing these days.