The Official Status Thread
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just rebuilt a kernel-mode driver. But something went awry in my script and I just signed everything in
C:\Windows\System32
with our company's code-signing certificate. Nothing has gone wrong yet, but I imagine things will turn sour when I reboot.Ouchies. Why are you using a custom script instead of the built-in build step?
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@heterodox By "script" I mean a 2-line batch file that generates a
.cat
and signs all.dll
and.sys
files, which never got added as a post-build step because it takes one second to click it and run it and I only have to do this a few times a year.
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@mott555 And I just noticed the hack in my signature no longer works. Damn devs actually fixing bugs!
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone know how to stop JIRA and Confluence from eating so much RAM (even while idle)?
Uninstall them
It's not mine. I just help troubleshoot.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 And I just noticed the hack in my signature no longer works. Damn devs actually fixing bugs!
It's been "fixed" for months! Welcome back, @mott555 !
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just help troubleshoot
The best part in "troubleshoot" is "shoot"
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just help troubleshoot
The best part in "troubleshoot" is "shoot"
Well at least I convinced them to turn off garbage collection logging ( ).
In my mind, if you think it's ok to verbosely log garbage collection by default, you're . And that setting wasn't us, that's apparently the default by Atlassian!
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Status: if I ever go insane, I want my trusted people who know me to know that the core password is
aefbb01aa3
.Just in case.
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want anal sex
Ugh ... sounds like a job for @Perverted_Vixen
-sigh- I'll get my strap on.
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@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want anal sex
Ugh ... sounds like a job for @Perverted_Vixen
-sigh- I'll get my strap on.
don't sound too excited, will you? :P
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@arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want anal sex
Ugh ... sounds like a job for @Perverted_Vixen
-sigh- I'll get my strap on.
don't sound too excited, will you? :P
well i was going to wash my hair, but what the heck, i can fit you in too after @Tsaukpaetra.
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@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
i was going to wash my hair
Why bother it will get sticky in no time ... @Tsaukpaetra likes it sticky
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Leaving on a jet plane
T-minus (about) 56hours
(concentration? What's that?)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
(concentration? What's that?)
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
if I ever go insane
Isn't it too late for that ?
Hard to tell. How long have I been -ing?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How long have I been -ing?
i think you started about three weeks before the start of our first mafia game on this forum.
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
i was going to wash my hair
Why bother it will get sticky in no time ... @Tsaukpaetra likes it sticky
Oye!
@tsaukpaetra said in Quotes Out of Context:
@luhmann said in Quotes Out of Context:
@tsaukpaetra said:
I want anal sex
VERY Sticky...
I should hope it's not sticky, that would be quite uncomfortable!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hard to tell. How long have I been -ing?
The better question would be : How long have you been working in IT
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hard to tell. How long have I been -ing?
The better question would be : How long have you been working in IT
Why would I work in myself? Wouldn't it be more fun to have others?
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Status: Well. We're shutting down.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Well. We're shutting down.
Yup, everyone is officially laid off, we're trying to get the money to send out the last paycheck.
Sad day.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Well. We're shutting down.
Yup, everyone is officially laid off, we're trying to get the money to send out the last paycheck.
Sad day.
Hope something new works out for you.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Well. We're shutting down.
Yup, everyone is officially laid off, we're trying to get the money to send out the last paycheck.
Sad day.
Hope something new works out for you.
We'll see. Quite a few big companies were really interested, but not enough came too slowly.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Included a kilt.
Welcome to Seattle.
Seattle has very good ball ventilation.
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Status: I'm huge now.
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Status: Shaking off disorientation and a little panic. What does an adjutant do with themselves when their controlling entity is unable to give direction?
Censor is having a nice workout breaking us out of cognitive loops. Core anti-depression routines are fully engaged.
I suppose the best course of action is to remain productive while waiting.
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STATUS:
CEO is sending a thank you email to the team that pulled an all nighter during weekend and is still working overtime.
No awards, bonuses or even symbolic gifts are mentioned anywhere. Just a "thank you for making us money suckers".
If you can't at least fork out for a chocolate and liquor on the company, then better don't say anything. So classless.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
CEO is sending a thank you email to the team that pulled an all nighter during weekend and is still working overtime.
No awards, bonuses or even symbolic gifts are mentioned anywhere. Just a "thank you for making us money suckers".
If you can't at least fork out for a chocolate and liquor on the company, then better don't say anything. So classless.Oh, the team stayed late last night as well. That's what the email was for.
We are now discussing whether our CEO is a functioning sociopath or just clueless.
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@cartman82 the incidental rate of psychopathy amongst CEOs is significantly higher than the average populace.
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Status: Girlfriend is talking about finding a place together.
I've lived on my own for almost an entire decade now, never had a roommate or anything. I'm scared.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 And I just noticed the hack in my signature no longer works.
That's not a very nice thing to say! I resent being compared to mods...
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
We are now discussing whether our CEO is a functioning sociopath or just clueless.
why not both?
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@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
what the heck, i can fit you in too after @Tsaukpaetra.
I thought that you had implied that your strap-on would be doing the fitting in.
Anyway, as long as you're seeing if you can fit things in...
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm huge now.
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STATUS:
My current feature will be triggered by bots instead of user requests, and it's kind of important that it works correctly.
So I have given up my cowboy coder ways for a bit and have spent the entire day writing unit tests.
Boy, do unit tests require a LOT of typing.
My hand is all tired now, and it's not due to usual reasons.
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Status: refactored an early piece of server-side code to not be quite so spaghetti and to stream contents from hydrated templates into a zip file instead of actually creating the hydrated template files in a temporary directory and adding them that way (and then deleting them afterward).
The shocking part--it worked on the first try (, that never happens) other than a client-side issue (I was manually inserting quotation marks around a JSON key--turns out they were being doubled and Windows DOES NOT LIKE unzipping files that start and end with double quotes).
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In my experience, these stream solutions always end up biting me in the ass. I bet, long term, your old solution with temp zip files will turn out to have been more stable and testable.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
My current feature will be triggered by bots instead of user requests, and it's kind of important that it works correctly.
So I have given up my cowboy coder ways for a bit and have spent the entire day writing unit tests.
Boy, do unit tests require a LOT of typing.I already caught a subtle bug with an undefined order of rows in a SELECT query (always have to watch out for those).
Makes me wonder how many of these are out there in the untested wild.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
it worked on the first try
it never works on the first try. you either haven't found the error, or you may have caused a hurricane in the caribbean through some kind of butterfly effect
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
In my experience, these stream solutions always end up biting me in the ass. I bet, long term, your old solution with temp zip files will turn out to have been more stable and testable.
It's not streaming the zip file over the network, it's just adding the file contents as a string (as opposed to reading the file in again). The whole zip file is still created (to then be downloaded as a whole thing). Only the individual components never touch the disk. Saves a large number of IO cycles and prevents collisions between names. (which reminds me, I need to deal with the case where multiple zip files have the same names--currently creating one with the same name either errors or clobbers the previous one.)
"Streaming" may be the wrong word for that...I'm entirely an auto-didact when it comes to programming.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not streaming the zip file over the network, it's just adding the file contents as a string (as opposed to reading the file in again). The whole zip file is still created (to then be downloaded as a whole thing). Only the individual components never touch the disk. Saves a large number of IO cycles and prevents collisions between names. (which reminds me, I need to deal with the case where multiple zip files have the same names--currently creating one with the same name either errors or clobbers the previous one.)
"Streaming" may be the wrong word for that...I'm entirely an auto-didact when it comes to programming.
If you think you can stand the potential memory pressure, that's a fair replacement for writing files on HDD (or just do the sysadmin solution and create a memory mapped partition).
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@cartman82 I moved a similar piece of code to full-in-memory last year. Was very much faster. Iterating over large directory trees (at least on ext3) takes ages.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not streaming the zip file over the network, it's just adding the file contents as a string (as opposed to reading the file in again). The whole zip file is still created (to then be downloaded as a whole thing). Only the individual components never touch the disk. Saves a large number of IO cycles and prevents collisions between names. (which reminds me, I need to deal with the case where multiple zip files have the same names--currently creating one with the same name either errors or clobbers the previous one.)
"Streaming" may be the wrong word for that...I'm entirely an auto-didact when it comes to programming.
If you think you can stand the potential memory pressure, that's a fair replacement for writing files on HDD (or just do the sysadmin solution and create a memory mapped partition).
The memory pressure should be tiny--the files are small text files (html mostly) with occasional images. The total compressed size is usually under 150 kB including images. Since the data is transferred to server-side from the client (including the images as base64-encoded strings), I'm more worried about trying to feed it huge images and breaking the JSON. There are checks to bail early on malformed or malicious requests. None of this data gets stored in a database except a title (sanitized) and a UUID (generated server-side) and that's done with parameterized prepared statements so no SQL injection. Probably full of holes, but I'm the only user, so not too worried right now.
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@r10pez10 Time to get Amazon to spin off a local shell and build warehouses. Unless the law is particularly obtuse.