The Official Status Thread
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
good four-hour Monopoly game
E_OXYMORON
4 hours seems a bit short...
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Another day, another horrible Christmas meal with the family.
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status: if you can't see what you're doing, don't try to pee standing! Gah!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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if you can't see what you're doing, don't try to pee standing! Gah!FTFY. Much healthier.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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if you can't see what you're doing, don't try to pee standing! Gah!FTFY. Much healthier.
Yeah, I'm not winning that battle at the moment.
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1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1820,5): warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly. In Visual Studio, double-click this warning (or select it and press Enter) to fix the conflicts; otherwise, add the following binding redirects to the "runtime" node in the application configuration file: <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"><dependentAssembly><assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Types" culture="neutral" publicKeyToken="89845dcd8080cc91" /><bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-14.0.0.0" newVersion="14.0.0.0" /></dependentAssembly></assemblyBinding>
Guess what happens when I
In Visual Studio, double-click this warning (or select it and press Enter) to fix the conflicts;
?If you guessed "Go to the XML file that defines this rule that is apparently being broken.", have a !
Fun fact: I can't figure out where
assembly "Microsoft.SqlServer.Types, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" from Version "11.0.0.0" []
is anywhere in the project. In fact, I can only see the references to v14.
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@tsaukpaetra It's probably referenced from some DLL you reference about ten layers down.
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Status: got sucked into the 3d printer craze.
We'll see what comes of it.
Edit: Oh, this may take a few hours...
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Me: it's good to finally be over that cold, and be able to do and enjoy things
Body: IT'S FLU TIME
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Status: Ordered one single item from a new vendor, got a ship notification last week and the tracking number on that ship notification shows it'll come in today. Great.
Got a second ship notification for the same order yesterday. Not great. Different invoice numbers on the two notifications, probably a problem. Post in the Slack channel for my team in case someone else gets the shipments, send an e-mail to the vendor. Vendor's account manager replies with a blase "oh, just receive them both and if they're still duplicates let me know."
Teammate replies on the Slack channel, "uh, the ship notification from last week was just for their catalog and not for the item we ordered; yesterday's is the item we ordered." And, indeed, last week's invoice was $0.00 for the catalog.
Good thing I wasn't relying on having that part in this week to fill my network work day.
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Status: Found a drop-in replacement for a 20+yo phosphorescent tube mounting with unusual connectors.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found a drop-in replacement for a 20+yo phosphorescent tube mounting with unusual connectors.
Hobby or work related ?
Unrelated: stupid autocompletion can't discernimiento if typing es or en.
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@cabrito Personal - it was mounted under the kitchen's overhead cabinets and the on/off switch has partially broken off (and was not separately replaceable).
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factor 9001: A stored procedure that builds a (larger every time it runs because $RAISINS) cursor of no longer relevant "foreign key"1 IDs, and then loops through that cursor to fire off cross-server requests to delete those irrelevant records from the related table. Shockingly, execution time sucks.
1Scare quotes because it's not an actual foreign key because cross server. But it is one in spirit.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
factor 9001: A stored procedure that builds a (larger every time it runs because $RAISINS) cursor of no longer relevant "foreign key"1 IDs, and then loops through that cursor to fire off cross-server requests to delete those irrelevant records from the related table. Shockingly, execution time sucks.
1Scare quotes because it's not an actual foreign key because cross server. But it is one in spirit.
You should improve performance by batching them using a CSV string!
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I just realized we've had the technology to implement video ads that pause if you look away for a while now (front cameras in smartphones) and it still hasn't happened yet.
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STATUS: Trying to benefit from the Playstation Store sale hampered by the fact that I have been hit with the bug where the PS Store will refuse any attempt at paying for zero reason. Tried both my debit card and PayPal with the same result. Looks like I have to fall back to purchasing codes for adding money to my wallet in a physical store.
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@anonymous234 Is that available under default permissions though?
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Status: Just finished the Xmas box burning of 2017. The sheer amount of paper and cardboard we generate in the holiday season is alarming. It was the better part of filling a two car garage.
Here is the start of it:
That was probably 5% of it.
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Status: I hate it when YouTube forgets itself between one page and the next...
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Status: How does a trading card expire?!??
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@tsaukpaetra All of the Steam special event trading cards expire. I assume that's so they don't become ultra-rare items worth absurd amounts of money after a few years.
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@tsaukpaetra A screenshot! AGGHHHH
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra A screenshot! AGGHHHH
Don't worry, my simian friend, the shots will fade soon.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
as we speak.
Yes, there is indeed an achievement for vacuuming 99 simulated messes.
Granted, there is also an achievement for merely opening the damn game, so
Sadly, only 87.7% of players make it that far...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I hate it when YouTube forgets itself between one page and the next...
Google has this state-of-the-art deep-learning OCR service, and Youtube devs are still scared of debug dumps in image form.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
as we speak.
Yes, there is indeed an achievement for vacuuming 99 simulated messes.
Granted, there is also an achievement for merely opening the damn game, so
Sadly, only 87.7% of players make it that far...
I heard there's hundreds of thousands of players who each have hundreds of games in they libraries from all those humble bundles that they never even installed.
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@gąska Yeah, even my screenshotting software could decipher that. I think they just want to avoid the monkey team and stick to automated responses.
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@tsaukpaetra Indeed. Thankfully, I haven't seemed to raise The Internet's ire so far. Then again, that video only has 7 views so far, so I probably haven't raised The Internet's anything yet.
At least I managed to get Part 2 recorded, uploaded, and scheduled for release this Sunday (along with Part 3 recorded but not thrown into Vegas for editing yet) before I got the news that my ex and daughter had been in a car accident this evening. They're fine, and my daughter was out within an hour, but I had to sit there for 4 hours with my ex and her boyfriend since I promised I'd be their ride home. Wasn't expecting it to take 4 hours. It's way past my bedtime.
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@r10pez10 that fence post seems awfully familiar...
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I hate it when YouTube forgets itself between one page and the next...
Google has this state-of-the-art deep-learning OCR service, and Youtube devs are still scared of debug dumps in image form.
Google has its own QR code generator service, and Youtube devs still present debug dumps as a walls of text that they know people, if they send it at all, will probably send in image form.
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Status: Got this piggybank for Christmas.
I'll put it on my desk at school and will require every pupil to put 10 cents into it whenever he or she says a dumb thing.
I may thus be able to buy a new car at the end of the semester.
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@rhywden I'd make them put the money in when they say "but I'm bad at..." or any such synonym. And double penalty for trash talk.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got this piggybank for Christmas.
I'll put it on my desk at school and will require every pupil to put 10 cents into it whenever he or she says a dumb thing.
I may thus be able to buy a new car at the end of the first week of the semester.
FTFY
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden I'd make them put the money in when they say "but I'm bad at..." or any such synonym. And double penalty for trash talk.
'twas not meant seriously as some of them equate "the wrong thing to say" with "a dumb thing to say". ;)
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@rhywden Yeah. I want to encourage making mistakes (because the only way to avoid mistakes is to not try at all). That means that I only equate "dumb things to say" with "asking for the answer/being not even wrong." A relevant, but wrong answer can be fixed. A refusal to think is an impenetrable wall.
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@rhywden In university we had a teacher who would charge us 1€ to enter class if we were more than 5 minutes late.
Never actually saw anyone do it. I guess the shame compelled them to either arrive on time or skip class.
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Status: Suck it, SQL Server FCI unattended installation! I have defeated you!
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Status: Up in the Humboldt area for the annual family 'getting out of Dodge' trip. These views are amazing.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Google has this state-of-the-art deep-learning OCR service, and Youtube devs are still scared of debug dumps in image form.
Google engineers are those kind of assholes who run every open source project, where they'd kick you out of their community for sending (gasp!) an email in HTML format instead of plain text.
Not sure why this surprises you.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Not sure why this surprises you.
I never said it does.
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Status: Trying to figure out how I'm going to trace a race condition involving threads....
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@tsaukpaetra I had a problem. I tried using threads. Now have problems more I.
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Status: It's nice that the good people at Microsoft know what a progress indicator is...
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Binging on my yearly dose of Air Crash Investigations TV show.
It's funny, whenever there is a pilot error involved (which is almost always), these investigators spend so much time navel-gazing and wondering whether some systemic problems or lack of training led to pilots making the mistakes they made.
Us IT people already know the answer - most people are just shockingly incompetent at their jobs.
These captains that pull the wrong lever or freak out during crisis are like 90% of developers out there. They can manage the situation as long as everything is rote procedure. Here's a clear spec, implement a new button that adds record to database. Take off, turn on the autopilot and relax for 10 hours. Easy peasy, no problem.
But throw at them an unusual situation requiring some imagination or lateral thinking, and they choke up. Luckily, no lives are at stake if bad programmers screw up. Usually.
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Status: My TV's built-in sound boxes are a bit on the anemic side so I connected a soundbar to it through a TOSLINK which is located below the TV.
From time to time I had to move the soundbar a bit (because my router and consoles are also located there) and half a year ago I noticed that the connector into the soundbar had developed a crack in the hard plastic casing. But it still worked.
One week ago, before I was set to visit my parents, I noticed that the connector had cracked completely, even severing the fibre. So I ordered a new one, this time looking for a cable with connector casings out of metal. Found some, ordered them and they arrived today. Set out to install them.
Luckily, the connector into the soundbar had cracked at a place where it was easy to pull it out again. Then I wanted to plugin in the other end - only to discover that it had crumbled completely, barely hanging on solely due to the fibre (of course only the part sticking out of the plug - the rest was still solid). Queue 30 minutes of swearing and using a blunt instrument to dig the brittle plastic out of the TOSLINK port.
Thankfully, it still works (with the new cable, that is). I'm just mystified as to why the end plugged into the TV became so brittle. I have all the cables leading into the TV on a fixed cable guidance, thus next to no movement, and sunlight also doesn't shine back there...
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Status: Dragged my ass outside in the 8 degree weather to go to work. Froze to death buying gas. Sat in epic traffic. Got to work. Answered inane emails. Noticed boss's OOO email.
Thought it was odd he didn't mention it. Read OOO message.
Today is a corporate holiday.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
why the end plugged into the TV became so brittle.
Them lasers are powerful things man...