The Official Status Thread
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE AWFUL.
Because Western Digital Gold Plus drives aren't meant to be used in a NAS?
That's the conclusion I've come to after a year of dealing with this BS...
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Status: Illiterates!
It's a Servo, FFS!
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Some{ people (new [] { use, weird,formatting} ) sometimes }
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Some{ people (new [] { use, weird,formatting} ) sometimes }
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Status: Cat died tonight. Got into her bed and went to sleep
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@boner said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cat died tonight. Got into her bed and went to sleep
This Upvote means condolences here.
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This is not a good season for a lack of hot water. Can't even fill a quarter of the tub before it goes lukewarm.
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@tsaukpaetra Press ^ to pay respects.
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Status: thought my wife's shower upstairs sounded awfully... waterfall-y? more running water-y than normal?
Trotted into the kitchen to realize that she was not taking a shower upstairs. Water was pouring out from underneath the sink.
In other news today, the water line under the sink is un-frozen.
After a brief moment of panic, I even remembered that I could shut the hot water off at the hot water heater. Mopping up the mess gave me some time to collect my thoughts, and I actually had the presence of mind to hear several gurgles and spurts of water coming out and realize that my wife had turned on the hot water upstairs -- not for a shower, I hoped! -- so I ran upstairs and she was just trying to turn on the sink. Told her that might be a while. Fortunately, in freezing, it had not burst the copper plumbing but had just pushed a compression fitting apart. Did an adequate job mopping up, got a light for under the sink, and successfully reconnected the fitting and screwed it back together... held my breath... opened the valve on the hot water heater... and no leaking! Success.
Honey, the hot water at the sink works again now... the throw rug by the sink might still be a bit soggy though...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
it had not burst the copper plumbing but had just pushed a compression fitting apart.
Dodged a bullet there!
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@tsaukpaetra TBH, the pipes to that particular sink freezes almost every time the temperature gets down to single digits for more than a day or so, to the point that I don't worry about it too much because it's never anything bad happened. I do try to keep the water on a trickle, and it keeps it from freezing, but this past weekend has been so cold that I left the cold water on a trickle and the hot water side still froze.
With my luck, I've tightened the compression fitting down so well now that next time, something else will give, and it will be the pipe. I'm tempted to unscrew it a bit.
I do wonder now if they're freezing right in the cabinet underneath the sink... if so, it should be reasonably possible to keep that space warm(er)... even just leaving the cabinet doors open would probably do. They come out the front by the floor and run along the base of the cabinets. Real screwy arrangement. I didn't do that. But it's possible that they're freezing in the section along the floor there, or even underneath the house. Or all of the above. I couldn't tell you.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I left the cold water on a trickle and the hot water side still froze.
We leave the hot water on drip to prevent the hot water side from freezing...
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Status: My longest friendship is nearing it's close. She learned to dip pizza in ketchup from her boyfriend and won't keep her deviant, disgusting, immoral behavior to herself.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My longest friendship is nearing it's close. She learned to dip pizza in ketchup from her boyfriend and won't keep her deviant, disgusting, immoral behavior to herself.
Why would you do that? Is there not enough tomato sauce already?
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@tsaukpaetra I don't fucking know man. It's horrifying
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I left the cold water on a trickle and the hot water side still froze.
We leave the hot water on drip to prevent the hot water side from freezing...
The cold side had only just thawed out a couple of days before, from when I tried that.
Whichever one's left on a trickle is the one that doesn't freeze, basically. I was trying to remember to open up the hot now and then and let it run until it came out hot, but it still froze overnight apparently.
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Status: playing text adventures.
>get out of car
(the Mazonda)
You'll have to get out of your car to do that.
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I tried crying for help, but the game said it only understands half of sentence. So I figured I'd shorten it to just "cry". It took me a moment to realize what I've just done.
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@gąska
You have now lost valuable moisture. You are dangerously dehydrated.
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Year: 2018
Day: 3The Canadian occupation continues with no end in sight. The Apple Pie Resistance has started hearing rumours of an insidious plan to replace all fast food restaurants with Tim Hortons', and to redefine the four food groups as "Long John", "Yeast", "Hole", and "Cake"... whatever that means. I must get this information to our leaders, before the propane tank keeping our base at liveable conditions run out of fuel. Maybe with the evil Candians' plans in hand, we can find the weak spot in their all powerful battle station...
:icicle:
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Status: somewhat amused that the progress indicator appears to be websocket-driven. It's a good way to visualize the connection latency.
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Oh good, one of my coworkers near me in this office is back from vacation... the one who clears his throat about once a minute, every minute. Don't know if I have misophonia or what but that drives me absolutely fucking crazy. Guess I'll have to go back to putting headphones on even though I've been trying to avoid that at work.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
the one who clears his throat about once a minute, every minute
We can fix that! 🔪 💉 🔨
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@anotherusername Is there something preventing you from leaving both on as a trickle? That's what I'm currently doing with my upstairs sink since I unfroze its pipes a couple days ago. (Fun fact: Mine apparently doesn't freeze upstairs, mine freezes down in the basement, where I have practically no heat. I had to wedge a hair dryer into the split in a Y-connection in the main drain pipe pointing upwards to direct the air at it.
I just left that hair dryer there because I feel I'll need it there again within the next couple days...
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@e4tmyl33t that was sort of my next thing to try, but it's one of these...
It's kind of hard to make sure that both are on. Plus it's really old, and the off position is sort of lopsided... or at least, the position where the arm has to be in order to be off... come to think of it, I wonder if that's been pushed out of sorts as well...
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@anotherusername Ah. Yeah, the one in my kitchen is that type, but usually lifting it straight up gets the balance of both, though if it's old and off-kilter I can imagine that it'd be more difficult to ensure.
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@tsaukpaetra No, no, it's meant to be
SmallCervixLoop_SEX
. It's a flag meant to indicate the need for a c-section.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra No, no, it's meant to be
SmallCervixLoop_SEX
. It's a flag meant to indicate the need for a c-section.I ended up taking a snipped of the sonic screwdriver and told it to loop. It's definitely not perfect (and that makes it slightly annoying), but it does what I need it to do.
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Status:
: Oh weird, I guess we're using one of those complex registration-based IoC containers on this new project. I wonder which one? Everything is super interfacy.
: Wait, this is our own interface? Er, make that our own three interfaces. Which means... we didn't write an entire IoC container, did we?
: Hmm, looks like it's actually just a wrapper at least, around this other object that...
: ...that we apparently defined... right... here.... Um, wait, though, this seems to actually also wrap something... lets follow this now!
: I've never heard of this container, and it's been copied full-cloth into one of our libraries, but it is MIT licensed. What an adventure this has been!
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Status:
HY000: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0]Connection is busy with results for another command
No, it should not be! Unless I'm supposed to cancel fetching afterward? Does
SQLFreeStmt
not finish any and all things relating to the statement?Apparently not, I'm going to do more digging...
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Today's representative code :
Try loRequest = CType(System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url), System.Net.HttpWebRequest) loRequest.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials loRequest.Timeout = 600000 loRequest.Method = "GET" loResponse = CType(loRequest.GetResponse, System.Net.HttpWebResponse) loResponseStream = loResponse.GetResponseStream Do While liCount > 0 liCount = loResponseStream.Read(laBytes, 0, 256) loFileStream.Write(laBytes, 0, liCount) Loop loFileStream.Flush() loFileStream.Close() Catch ex As Exception End Try
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Status: I just spent like 20 minutes testing something out elsewhere because it looked like some dumb new C# feature I'd never want, but it turns out someone was just using constants weirdly.
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Status: I accidentally googled up this quote. I honestly don't remember what was the query I used and the link chain I went through. But I like it.
California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need
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Today, in Microsoft Webapp Brainworms:
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
When maximized on your rightmost monitor, this high-class, powerful tool has the power to open its own file menu! But while other, lower quality applications would do so directly below the element you clicked on, Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer takes software design to new heights by opening these menus on another monitor, left of the one it itself occupies!
But the innovation does not stop there! With Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, true power is at your fingertips! Ever been annoyed with all those pesky scrollbars on the main content areas of the applications you use? FEAR NOT, MORTAL! For Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer eschews such ancient trends by eliminating all scrollbars on the left-most portions of itself!
Truly, this is the pinnacle of modern software design. Use Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer today!
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@izzion I'd make a joke about Swampy trying his hand at ASP.NET programming, but... nope, this is still better than the code for SpectateSwamp Desktop Search.
Filed Under: I can tell, because it doesn't make my eyes bleed when I try to read it.
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@scholrlea
Plus, Swampy is way too good of a programmer to utilize the Try-Catch-Swallow pattern.
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Status: Making fun for myself...
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Status: I'm officially old, AARP is soliciting me...
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Status: Grades came in, parental units not pleased. GPA did actually dip below 2.0, that means I'm on academic probation. Dunno what that'll bring, but it won't be good.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Grades came in, parental units not pleased. GPA did actually dip below 2.0, that means I'm on academic probation. Dunno what that'll bring, but it won't be good.
:( Ooof...
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Status: Thinking of building a new BobTheBuilder:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2HbMPs
Parts chosen to optimize single-core performance, since cooking doesn't work right at all in multi-thread mode.
Thoughts?
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Status: pondering the merits of bidet...
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Status: Desk cat.
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Dealing with files that have a really difficult to remember naming format, that must be adhered to. In order to check a file is correct I need to identify the specific subtype it is, identify the product type, look up the file name in the database using the IDs for those types and then find it in the folder. File names are along the lines of
002MCNYNYNYNNYNNNMAA00000NN.xml
Clearly, this minor inconvenience was unacceptable so I've spent the better part of two days writing a tool to allow me to choose the subtypes and just open them, in either word or Notepad++
Then because the XML is all on one line, I had to make it format it nicely.
Long story short, I'm now just about finished on a tool that should save me several minutes of work
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Thoughts:
- Is the 250GB SSD large enough to do your building there before shipping it off to the HDD for long term storage?
- The Core i5-7640X probably would meet your single threaded performance requirements just as well for $100 less, and/or you could invest that $100 in a better cooler to gain some combination of running colder or overclocking room
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thinking of building a new BobTheBuilder:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2HbMPs
Parts chosen to optimize single-core performance, since cooking doesn't work right at all in multi-thread mode.
Thoughts?
Buy AMD. Intel must be punished.
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@weng
Someone hasn’t seen the Google Project Zero post from this morning, I see. (tl;dr: AMD and ARM processors also have bugs within the current set of disclosures that are causing the flurry of emergency patching)
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From my reading of the Google Zero post and other stuff related to this disclosure, I think this commenter has the right of it. While the bug is indeed BAD NEWS, it's not a world ender, and it isn't instant hypervisor level access.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng
Someone hasn’t seen the Google Project Zero post from this morning, I see. (tl;dr: AMD and ARM processors also have bugs within the current set of disclosures that are causing the flurry of emergency patching)Yes, but Spectre seems to be a common architectural problem, given the massive time span of processors (and types!) it covers.
Intel's much more specific.
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@rhywden
And Spectre was the one that Project Zero blog post had the most information and PoCs about, including a PoC that could read host memory (very slowly) from a KVM guest.The writeup for Meltdown, both on Project Zero's post and the blog post they link to, is very heavy on "might be"s and "probablys"... neither blog post shows or claims any sort of working PoC that actually reads arbitrary amounts of kernel memory from user space, and especially nothing to claim reading hypervisor memory from within a guest's user space.
So, from what I'm seeing on the articles I've found so far, the Spectre vulnerability is the worse one, is fairly hard to execute, and effects most (all?) processors built on the x86/x86-64 architectures.