The Official Status Thread
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
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The only thing above the browser viewport is a single post from me listing the steps I already tried to use to debug the issue I had.
There are two kinds of users on ticketing systems:
- Low-information users, who don't post information that might be unnecessary.
- People like me, who know that sending unnecessary information doesn't hurt, but miscategorizing information as unnecessary information and omitting it does.
Thankfully, since I work for a DevOps company, most of the tickets I get are the latter.
Status: I got 3 Birthday Boosters in the mail on GW2.
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So, Happy made it onto German Netflix.
It just took the crown of "WTF? Which demented mind came up with that?" from Preacher. At least for me. Very dark humor, very absurd and twisted. Sort of "Sin City meets Hobbes from Calvin&Hobbes".
Also, most definitely NSFW. Watch the trailer at your own peril.
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@rhywden Well, that looks amusing.
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From one of the twisted minds behind Crank
I'm in
e: Or I would be, but it doesn't look like it's available in Soviet Canuckistan
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Status: The fools!
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Status: I made a thing and I'm once again terrified by what I made happen in my browser. https://jsgo.io/gist.github.com/82efcca0cfa6ec12559c04278288fb8f
package main import ( "bytes" "github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/js" "gopkg.in/BenLubar/espeak.v2" ) func main() { var ctx espeak.Context if err := ctx.SynthesizeText("Hello, World!"); err != nil { panic(err) } var buf bytes.Buffer if _, err := ctx.WriteTo(&buf); err != nil { panic(err) } blob := js.Global.Get("Blob").New(js.S{buf.Bytes()}, js.M{ "type": "audio/wav", }) url := js.Global.Get("URL").Call("createObjectURL", blob) audio := js.Global.Get("document").Call("createElement", "audio") audio.Set("controls", true) audio.Set("src", url) js.Global.Get("document").Get("body").Call("appendChild", audio) }
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
a thing
Eugh, the eSpeek engine is so primitive...
You want me to load a more complicated engine in JavaScript in Go in JavaScript in C?
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I am now in Arizona. Fuck it's hot here.
Also, I need to remember to take a cluebat to our itinerary planner, because I very nearly missed my connecting flight in Charlotte because my plane disembarked us somewhere out on the tarmac on the other side of the damn airport from where our next departure gate was about 10 minutes before they started boarding. Managed to make it there just as they were starting to board Group 3, and I was in Group 6, so managed to make it.
Why anybody ever deals with these flying deathtraps of annoyance I have no idea.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Why anybody ever deals with these flying deathtraps of annoyance I have no idea.
I typically try to deal with only one flying deathtrap.
Though, sadly, I deal with many rolling deathtraps daily, and it's typically much more stressful..
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@tsaukpaetra The only way I'd be able to ever do a single direct flight is if I drove down to Philadelphia for the outbound flight.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
I just need to convincingly injure myself the next time a round of this comes around so I don't get forced to go.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
convincingly injure myself
Is temporary insanity a viable avenue? :D
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@tsaukpaetra That would require me to not be insane regularly. That won't get me off the hook unless I have a complete psychotic breakdown and need to be hospitalized and/or jailed for injuring myself and/or others.
...I'll look into my options.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
a thing
Eugh, the eSpeek engine is so primitive...
I can't hear the difference...
https://jsgo.io/gist.github.com/2598b8372be52ab867b2856b1ac18a3d
https://youtube.com/embed/LsCCEcOa98k?v=3&start=116&end=208
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't hear the difference...
Recommend download source audio and compare engram, intonation, cadence, and tone (to start). Less than 14 percent of the audio is even close to comparable.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Recommend download source audio and compare engram, intonation, cadence, and tone (to start). Less than 14 percent of the audio is even close to comparable.
Shut up, Wesley.
:P
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Recommend download source audio and compare engram, intonation, cadence, and tone (to start). Less than 14 percent of the audio is even close to comparable.
Shut up, Wesley.
:P
He asked for it... :D :D :D
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
injuring myself and/or others.
OTOH, that's one way to both temporarily and permanently solve the problem.
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Status: Looking to Hack-a-day a temperature monitor because it's getting really expensive for the external refrigerator to keep shutting off.
I'm thinking of using the esp8266 (google suggest it's really popular to wifi things), and one or to DS18B20 as described in this how-to
For ~$12 I think I might just try it...
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@alexmedia said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate JIRA. I hate it with a passion.
This underwrites my previous statement:
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@alexmedia said in The Official Status Thread:
@alexmedia said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate JIRA. I hate it with a passion.
This underwrites my previous statement:
Good old Bootstrap. Doesn't our emoji autocomplete do the same thing?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I might just try it...
Will try it. Now to wait three weeks for delivery...
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
I very nearly missed my connecting flight in Charlotte because my plane disembarked us somewhere out on the tarmac on the other side of the damn airport
When I was getting back from vacation recently, I had a connecting flight in Shanghai. The flight to get to Shanghai was late (sat on the tarmac for an hour + for vaguely explained reasons) and landed as the connection was already boarding. The people at the airport were aware of this, because we weren't the only people on the flight who had that connection, but we still had to run pretty much all the way across the airport, and of course the gate was all the way at the end. But anyway we did make it onto the flight.
This was the third time we had to run to make a flight during that trip. Clearly what we need is some kind of vacuum train system tunneled through the center of the earth for international travel
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Clearly what we need is some kind of vacuum train system tunneled through the center of the earth for international travel
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I am trying to do some C# development in VS and file locking on Windows is already driving me insane. I don't know how you people do it, or how I managed to put up with it back in the day.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
I am trying to do some C# development in VS and file locking on Windows is already driving me insane.
It's only been a problem since Visual Studio started shipping janky-ass software that locks-up and won't close itself properly.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
It's only been a problem since Visual Studio started shipping janky-ass software that locks-up and won't close itself properly.
No, it this case it was my file manager that was locking the file. But how was I supposed to know that? There is no "official" way to find out which program is locking which file. Even Unlocker wasn't much help.
I basically had to start shutting down random programs and hope one of them was holding the handle. This is a ridiculous thing to expect from users.
This has frankly become my biggest peeve with Windows. I don't know why there isn't a bigger outcry against this bullshit. File locking is pushing me towards never wanting to do any work on Windows at all.
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It's heeerre....
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
my file manager that was locking the file.
What file manager are you using?
I only recall this happening with things like
thumbs.db
in Explorer (because ass) or if you have the not-intelligently-designed "Preview pane" enabled (it's disabled by default).
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
No, it this case it was my file manager that was locking the file.
Ok; well I've never had that problem with Windows Explorer, so maybe stop installing shit that fucks with the system and use the working shit it shipped with?
The only problem with file locking in Windows is that it's optional, so there's no way to tell by looking at an app whether it locks the files its working with or not. Especially apps like Visual Studio which lock some files but not others.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
No, it this case it was my file manager that was locking the file.
Ok; well I've never had that problem with Windows Explorer
I have.
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
No, it this case it was my file manager that was locking the file. But how was I supposed to know that? There is no "official" way to find out which program is locking which file. Even Unlocker wasn't much help.
Next time, use Process Explorer and search for the process that has an open handle on the file.
Now if only it was so easy to tell which process kept grabbing the damn COM port that I need.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What file manager are you using?
It happens with Total Commander, Double Commander and a bunch of terminals I tried.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
It happens with Total Commander, Double Commander and a bunch of terminals I tried.
You should try Double Secret Commander.
Seriously though why would you even want to use this garbage:
Just look at it. Christ. I like how all those item have a Size of "<DIR>". Is that more or less than a megabyte?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
my file manager that was locking the file.
What file manager are you using?
I only recall this happening with things like
thumbs.db
in Explorer (because ass) or if you have the not-intelligently-designed "Preview pane" enabled (it's disabled by default).Something in stock Windows Explorer does this. Sometimes, if I have my solution directory open, Visual Studio fails to compile because Explorer has a file lock on the output directory and won't let VS delete old exe/dll files. I don't understand it, but closing Explorer fixes it.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 next time, use Process Explorer and search for the process that has an open handle on the file.
The fact that this is the recommended solution speaks volumes to how big a pile of shit this whole locking situation is.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Just look at it. Christ. I like how all those item have a Size of "<DIR>". Is that more or less than a megabyte?
It's customizable. I am old. I grew up with Norton Commander. Shut up.
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@cartman82 the recommended solution is that programmers don't write broken shit that locks files and don't release them. But obviously that happens sometimes. Forcibly killing processes or closing file handles is well beyond the ordinary user level; you're basically operating at a power user level. A basic user would just reboot and see if it fixes the problem.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Something in stock Windows Explorer does this. Sometimes, if I have my solution directory open, Visual Studio fails to compile because Explorer has a file lock on the output directory and won't let VS delete old exe/dll files. I don't understand it, but closing Explorer fixes it.
I've never seen it happen with Explorer. However, newer VS versions actually make a copy of the C# compiler and shove it in your solution's output directory, then use that copy to compile the code in your solution (why? Because... reasons). Which is fine, except... oh about a third of the time the compiler locks-up and refuses to close itself properly, and then next time you try to compile VS can't copy the compiler to the directory because it's already there and the error message is so vague it's obvious nobody at Microsoft ever looked at it ever and basically software quality is going downhill at an alarming rate.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's customizable.
You can customize a turd with a little bit of paint, it's still a turd.
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
I grew up with Norton Commander.
I grew up on Mac Classic, which is why I think all modern file browsers are complete garbage. (Including Explorer. However, it's way better than that abomination you linked to.)
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Shut up.
The Animal House joke was good at least.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
my file manager that was locking the file.
What file manager are you using?
I only recall this happening with things like
thumbs.db
in Explorer (because ass) or if you have the not-intelligently-designed "Preview pane" enabled (it's disabled by default).Something in stock Windows Explorer does this. Sometimes, if I have my solution directory open, Visual Studio fails to compile because Explorer has a file lock on the output directory and won't let VS delete old exe/dll files. I don't understand it, but closing Explorer fixes it.
WTF? I've never seen that myself... And I use a program that lets me have multiple Explorer windows open, so I have the solution folder, the
bin
folder, and usually a few others open inside the project folder...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 the recommended solution is that programmers don't write broken shit that locks files and don't release them. But obviously that happens sometimes. Forcibly killing processes or closing file handles is well beyond the ordinary user level; you're basically operating at a power user level. A basic user would just reboot and see if it fixes the problem.
As mentioned above, seems like Windows Explorer has the same problem. If fucking Microsoft can't figure out how to write software that doesn't create lock blocks, then the correct solution is for them to change this entire locking paradigm on the system level.
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@cartman82 Yeah; Microsoft should just give up and let the super-geniuses behind Double Commander to take over, obviously.
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Status: Speaking of broken...
Apparently a cron task can't find
sh
?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 Yeah; Microsoft should just give up and let the super-geniuses behind Double Commander to take over, obviously.
Linux and Mac never bother me with locks. So how about MS copies them instead?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux and Mac never bother me with locks. So how about MS copies them instead?
You just have to work the Windows way: If it doesn't work, just reboot ™
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux and Mac never bother me with locks.
Right but they're also broken in many ways due to it.
For example, imagine two users trying to edit the same file at the same time-- without locking, you end up with one user just shitting all over the changes made by another user. Linux is supposedly a multi-user first system, why can't it cope with this situation? Oh right; because it's shitty.
You people act as if Microsoft made this technical description just to piss you off and they didn't have any actual rational reasons behind it.
(Like I said above, one of the real problems in Windows is that locking the file is optional. So a lot of programs still end up with one user just shitting over the changes made by another user-- not because the OS doesn't provide tools to prevent that, but because the application developer didn't fucking bother.)
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
For example, imagine two users trying to edit the same file at the same time-- without locking, you end up with one user just shitting all over the changes made by another user.
And with locking, only one user can edit the file, the other is denied access because the file is locked
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
And with locking, only one user can edit the file, the other is denied access because the file is locked
Correct. That's the best outcome for this situation. The alternative is silent deletion of one of the users' data.