The Official Status Thread
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Appointments at banks, is this a thing?
Not at WTFBank, or any private bank I know here in Brazil. In some branches of our public regional bank there are instances were you make an appointment, and still have to wait 2h after you get there, because public brazillian banks.
Is it a regional thing, maybe? Like this guy's from New York where it's normal?
If it is a thing, when did it start?
Am I the only one who didn't know you were "supposed" to make an appointment before walking into a bank?No, you're not alone on this
Or was this guy just being a jerk because his boss understaffed and he had to miss lunch?
One way to figure it out would be someone calling the bank pretending to do whatever you were doing and asking if they need to make an appointment
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: bought printer ink. Checked prices online beforehand. Now I'm seeing printer ink ads evverywhere.
So much for AI taking over the world
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
My current assignment is to write a 750 word response to an article from WaPo's Grade Point section, as if it were a post on whatever social media outlet I use the most.
Good thing you don't need to do it for … 1/3
… Twitter or you'd have to break it up … 2/3
… like some kind of ridiculous salami. 3/3
'For example, if you choose to tweet your 750-word essay, you will need to create a so-called "Tweet Storm," in which you publish a volley of tweets, all of them related to the same topic.'
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This is some lovely vandalism.
https://i.imgur.com/vnvt7yR.png
Google seems to not fetch their oneboxes live.
https://i.imgur.com/H6UY57x.png
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This rat apparently hates peanut butter. We've tried three different brands including Nutella.
Rats here were attracted to my dog's food. Poison had reduced the rat incidence, but what solved the problem for good was storing the dogfood better, in a thicker plastic box.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I have full time job, so that's the only way. Saturday and Sunday, 7AM through 7PM (with 6 hours free inbetween because I've already passed some courses).
aren't there night shift classes in poland?
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Status: Made a quick little Android text-widget validation helper that's selectable for which number space you'd like, using Regexes and the built-in validation-error visual cues. I was quite pleased with it.
Colleague had a play with the App and immediately entered a number with two decimal points and caused an NPE. Fantastic.
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Ahh, nothing like a surprise phone interview during lunch time to brighten your day.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I have full time job, so that's the only way. Saturday and Sunday, 7AM through 7PM (with 6 hours free inbetween because I've already passed some courses).
aren't there night shift classes in poland?
It depends upon what your definition of "are" is. I'm sure there are all kinds of things in private schools, but public schools are the only ones worth studying at, and they're stuck in the old ways. It's much harder to convince teachers to work at night than on weekends. Especially when it's not every weekend.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Colleague had a play with the App and immediately entered a number with two decimal points and caused an NPE. Fantastic.
What the fuck kind of validation did you do that wrong text causes null pointer exception!?
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Colleague had a play with the App and immediately entered a number with two decimal points and caused an NPE. Fantastic.
What the fuck kind of validation did you do that wrong text causes null pointer exception!?
The NPE was from other code that expected the value that came out of the validation to be actually parseable as a number. Fixed now by embiggening the offending Regex, adding more unit tests for decimal point shenanigans, and adding some error checking to the parsing.
I just wished that the first damn input he tried was not the one edge-case I hadn't thought of.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
But I'm white
Oh, sorry, welcome aboard.
(Though if your last name doesn't SEEM "American", then maybe your resume just got binned instantly)
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
My current assignment is to write a 750 word response to an article from WaPo's Grade Point section, as if it were a post on whatever social media outlet I use the most. After clarification on the definition of 'social media', it looks like I can literally write a longer version of a Garage article-response, and it'll be valid for the assignment.
"GO GET FUCKED YOU CUC--"
wait, didn't I already make this joke? Is your professor recycling homework?!?If he's going to be lazy, you might as well be too. Go grab a random @fox post from the Garbage and paste.
@ben_lubar is there a way to do a search based on "number of characters in post greater-or-equal than X"?
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
www.status.com
E_SERVER_NOT_FOUND. Stop posting fake news. BANNED!
@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Over the weekend, dragged my own ass all around the attic to install and wire can lights for my master bedroom. Totally worth it, especially since having an electrician do it would likely cost at least a dozen times as much vs. what I paid in materials.
Do you still have to get it inspected? In Ontario, at the very least for major wire work (though it may just be the sort you do when finishing a basement?)-- you need to pay a qualified electrician to come in before you start to get a baseline, and after to inspect / approve your work. Doesn't cost much, but if you don't do it, your have non-compliant wiring. If your house burns down because of it, you're fucked (insurance-wise).
The rule was originally "ONLY a qualified electrician can do the work", but was changed to this. The rule was probably originally implemented because people's houses kept burning down.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Though if your last name doesn't SEEM "American", then maybe your resume just got binned instantly
My last name ends with -ski. There seems to be plenty of Americans whose last name ends with -ski.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Though if your last name doesn't SEEM "American", then maybe your resume just got binned instantly
My last name ends with -ski. There seems to be plenty of Americans whose last name ends with -ski.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar is there a way to do a search based on "number of characters in post greater-or-equal than X"?
The only way I can think of would be the equivalent of a table scan, so effectively, no.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Though if your last name doesn't SEEM "American", then maybe your resume just got binned instantly
My last name ends with -ski. There seems to be plenty of Americans whose last name ends with -ski.
A few generations back, my family's last name was Lubarsky. For real.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you still have to get it inspected? In Ontario, at the very least for major wire work (though it may just be the sort you do when finishing a basement?)-- you need to pay a qualified electrician to come in before you start to get a baseline, and after to inspect / approve your work. Doesn't cost much, but if you don't do it, your have non-compliant wiring. If your house burns down because of it, you're fucked (insurance-wise).
The rule was originally "ONLY a qualified electrician can do the work", but was changed to this. The rule was probably originally implemented because people's houses kept burning down.In the US, typically (though it's regulated at the local level, so wide variations are possible), you have to get a permit from the city (or other local jurisdiction) and have an inspector from the city Building Department (or whatever that jurisdiction calls it) inspect it when it's done, but home owners are allowed to do the work themselves. (Hiring somebody else who isn't a licensed contractor is not allowed.) It tends to be expensive, the inspectors are typically and notoriously lax about showing up for the inspections when they're scheduled, and they're just as likely to cite you for unrelated code violations as they are to approve what they're there to inspect, so a lot of people don't bother. That said, yes, if an electrical fault causes a fire, insurance won't cover it.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you still have to get it inspected?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5A2oXwmjfo
At least in this jurisdiction, we aren't concerned with inspections unless it's a major undertaking (finish the basement, put an addition on the house, etc.), nor do we need licensed people to do electrical/plumbing/carpentry/whatever. Nothing I've wired has burned down yet, so I must be doing something right. That being said, the major city next door does have such requirements IIRC (I've never lived within its boundaries).
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this your boss?
No, just a guy I'm helping. He likes to think himself technically literate (as alluded to his username).
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This rat apparently hates peanut butter. We've tried three different brands including Nutella.
Rats here were attracted to my dog's food. Poison had reduced the rat incidence, but what solved the problem for good was storing the dogfood better, in a thicker plastic box.
Yeah, he likes the dog food best. It's already stored in an airtight container, but he's well stocked and just coming out because he's greedy.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
He likes to think
Citation needed.
I'd sift through the six mile long pm thread on Discord for the best cites, but .
He does consider himself a hacker though.
Just last night he was lamenting on how slow XP was. I told him: Lol Windows XP flies faster on modern hardware, if it boots at all....
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@ben_lubar a quick google suggests it's of Russian origin.
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Only in Canada
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STATUS:
Amused that the "view replies" button isn't properly debounced.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
steam guard
Oh, also, apparently, since the account is associated with Steamworks you can't disable Steam Guard.
Good to know. Also, great user feedback on that problem...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
steam guard
Oh, also, apparently, since the account is associated with Steamworks you can't disable Steam Guard.
Good to know. Also, great user feedback on that problem...
Told you.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
He likes to think himself technically literate (as alluded to his username).
That's not what I think when I see that name...
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status adobe.com is totally broken in IE8.
I have an XP VM I use for various (old) things. Wanted to put Acrobat Reader on - Adobe just gives me a blank page. Going directly to get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions does work. Antiques. Sigh.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar is there a way to do a search based on "number of characters in post greater-or-equal than X"?
The only way I can think of would be the equivalent of a table scan, so effectively, no.
Oh well, I guess @pie_flavor will have to do his own homework.
(Though I guess in theory you could have each post also have a column with "No.CharactersInPost" pre-calculated then index it...)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status adobe.com is totally broken in IE8.
There are so many things wrong with that sentence.
Let me help: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/
I like it. Last I checked the installed didn't bundle a bunch of shitware (LOOKING AT YOU FILEZILLA).
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Status: I really hope I don't miss this delivery...
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Status: Good old cafeteria screens. Each picture was taken on a different day, and not consecutive days.
My tuition went to this fancy new screen. They haven't even set it up yet. God dammit.
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Status: WTF are you smoking?
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Status: Did you know?
Firefox 3.0 can almost display the forums!
Firefox 52.6.0 Seems to work better, but I'm definitely stuck in Mobile mode...
Here, let me make that 3px wider...
Holy fuck it works! For varying definition of "work"....
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@tsaukpaetra Yep. If it's side-locked on a 2K screen, the top bar covers the whole thing.
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Status: Just bought Battlefront II. I wouldn't be quite so annoyed at it if it were a Steam game, but Origin is pretty stupid to deal with. It doesn't update the progress bar in the taskbar icon unless the window is open, it'll update your profile picture without updating the name even if you set the picture after the name, it doesn't have any way to edit your info within the app, its usernames can't have any symbols besides underscore (which is ignored when seeing if your name's already taken), its My Home page doesn't show in-progress downloads that are currently playable, and it feels like almost nobody ever really evaluated the UI for usability. Like, clicking a game's description opens the game with no confirmation level of usability.
And then, just as I was typing this, it managed to crash my entire network card. Had to reset it from the device manager. God knows what I'll find in the game itself.
Still, though, Star Wars space battles. Can't wait.
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Seriously, I hate this UI and everything about it.
If I click here? Launches the game immediately. No indicator that it'll do so, it just does so. (Why are they grayed out? Fuck if I know)
https://i.imgur.com/UZISrXq.png
But not from here (the My Game Library page).
https://i.imgur.com/KE6mDLV.png
Note the vast amount of download information available there, by the way. If I click it, there must be more, right?
https://i.imgur.com/v9vH3EU.jpg
Nope, just brings up the store page. Good. So where do I get information on currently running downloads?
Obviously, the SIDEBAR. THAT'S GOOD UI DESIGN FOR SURE.
https://i.imgur.com/9O3kfoU.png
But what if I'm incapable of keeping this sidebar open due to OCD?
Well, if I click it, a nice little popout appears. You know, the sort of thing that should be on the game page.
https://i.imgur.com/1t6duUs.png
In case you thought this was so you could keep this information on screen while browsing, well, it's immobile and fixed-size, and if you click off of it, it disappears.
So what's the point? Beats me. There's very little on this popout that isn't in the sidebar and no real reason why it needs to be not in the sidebar. That 'edit download rate', by the way, leads to the application settings page that you could also access through the sidebar. So a 'shortcut' from a popout from the sidebar that leads to something directly accessible from the sidebar. Genius. Doesn't even scroll down to the relevant section.Oh hey, my bad. The reason Battlefront didn't show up in the Recent games section is because I bought it after Origin was launched on this computer, and despite the fact that I played it already, the recent games section CBA to know what, y'know, I played recently. It appeared properly when I clicked Origin > Refresh Page, a process which took about ten seconds.
Keep in mind that it did actually manage to update my profile picture and name correctly eventually, yet couldn't put a game purchased recently and played even more recently in the recent games section.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
My tuition went to this fancy new screen. They haven't even set it up yet. God dammit.
There are exposed posts.
It's a smartTV, therefore extremely dumb.
There's probably an unsecured web server with username/password root/changeme
Have fun.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Holy fuck it works! For varying definition of "work"....
Try FF28.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Holy fuck it works! For varying definition of "work"....
Try FF28.
Why? It's already been established that old=broken new=mostly-not-broken. Something in-between would obviously be mostly-broken.
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@tsaukpaetra They're saying that they hate Windows updates. They're not claiming that Windows 7 is getting the Fall Potat-er Update.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra They're saying that they hate Windows updates. They're not claiming that Windows 7 is getting the Fall Potat-er Update.
No, they said they hate "that". "that" in the context of the conversation was the screenshot I gave him, to which he immediately replied.
Unless you also think it's exactly cromulent to have responded "man I hate that! My Mac doesn't ever successfully update XCode from the store!"
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I don't think it's normal to have this many handles...
Could that explain the weird networking problem we're having?
Alright, so after 14 hours of uptime (apparently Windows rebooted for updates) these are the highest handled processes:
Explorer is fine, it does it. MasterServer is fine, it does it.
Azure Net Agent is not fine, WTF is it doing?
LSASS is NOT fine, Is this cause for concern?I can probably restart the azure shit, but I'm not confident I can teardown "Local Security Authority Process" without... problems.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
The rule was probably originally implemented because people's houses kept burning down.
It would have been cheaper to just ban @Polygeekery from the country
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the azure shit,
Mostly holding handles to:
While LSASS is just holding...
Joys...
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
home owners are allowed to do the work themselves. (Hiring somebody else who isn't a licensed contractor is not allowed.)
That is not true everywhere. Where I live "handymen" types can do basic wiring tasks.