The Official Status Thread
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: the database project for college class that I thought was due next week, is actually due later today.
Done just in time! It's a really nice feeling, working on group project in group.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, whatever character Putty sends when you press Return.
That's a CR; it gets reinterpreted as other things by the terminal emulation system at the other end.
You wanted to know that, I know.
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@lorne-kates I'm not sure whoever wrote that Unity manual knew what they were talking about. C# events are dispatched instantly, there's no time for the GC to get at them. It's not like C# just sits on them for a few hours before getting around to it.
EDIT: yeah and like Ben says, if nobody's using
object
, it's fair game to be garbage-collected anyway. So there's two reasons that blurb doesn't really make sense.
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Bleugh. Waiting on today's mail for my case fan to arrive to make the grindy noise go away, and I've also ordered some fuel system cleaner to hopefully alleviate the weird stuttering idling problem my car has recently developed.
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Status: Gorram it all, I shouldn't be turning on the heat on May Freaking Twelfth.
Also, my new (eyeglass) prescription is almost +1.00 stronger in the right lens... no wonder my eyes hurt at night...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, whatever character Putty sends when you press Return.
That's a CR; it gets reinterpreted as other things by the terminal emulation system at the other end.
You wanted to know that, I know.
Well that's what I said originally so I suppose I already knew and Ben didn't.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: And yes, my wifi password is tsaukpaetra. What, does anyone who knows my name visit my physical location?
I'll just construct an antenna, bounce the signal off the atmosphere and leech off your internet.
...what, it does have the potential the be faster and more stable than my current connection!
Also, status, watching the Eurovision Song Contest final. I think my top three are Estonia, Hungary and Israel. Denmark would have been in the top 3 had their performance been more powerful and not that weak-ass singing they did. Oh, well.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
I'll just construct an antenna, bounce the signal off the atmosphere and leech off your internet.
Feel free!
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Mother is babysitting so the wife and I are at a nightclub realising how old we are. I'm driving so on the virgin cocktails
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
I'll just construct an antenna, bounce the signal off the atmosphere and leech off your internet.
Good luck with that. ~15MHz is good for bouncing off the atmosphere. 2400MHz or 5000MHz, not so much.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
I'll just construct an antenna, bounce the signal off the atmosphere and leech off your internet.
Good luck with that. ~15MHz is good for bouncing off the atmosphere. 2400MHz or 5000MHz, not so much.
I'm 14 percent certain the neighbor five houses down's shortwave antenna is still serviceable. But I don't know them and doubt they would let me remote in on a whim...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates I'm not sure whoever wrote that Unity manual knew what they were talking about. C# events are dispatched instantly, there's no time for the GC to get at them. It's not like C# just sits on them for a few hours before getting around to it.
EDIT: yeah and like Ben says, if nobody's using
object
, it's fair game to be garbage-collected anyway. So there's two reasons that blurb doesn't really make sense.Even if the events were dispatched hours later, any code that used the sender that could be called from the event object would get kept alive by the event object anyway.
The only case where keeping a pointer to the sender inside the event object actually affects anything is if you add a destructor to your class that does something other than freeing unmanaged resources.
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Status: Having a coffee in the local cat café. Because I don't have cats or coffee at home.
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Status: Just looked at my calendar and did some digging in my work-related emails. I may have forgotten to delete some courses from my agenda for this week (some courses either are doing an exam marathon - thus no regular lessons), others are currently at their internships. Plus, I scheduled two regular exams for my remaining courses this week.
This will be my workload:
Monday: a 90 minute exam, done for the day.
Tuesday: Nothing at all
Wednesday: One 90 minute exam and a 90 minutes computer course class
Thursday: One 90 minute Physics course
Friday: Nothing at allNext monday is a regular holiday (Pentecost) and last week was all free as well.
This is the life!
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@rhywden ... and all teachers always get ravingly mad at me when I say "and on top of that you got six weeks summer holidays."
: Tha's not holidays, I have, like, lectures to prepare. And create schedules.
: Yeah, sure.
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Wow, I can't wait to buy this Super Battery Great!
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@topspin Well, that's only an interlude. It'll pick up again in a short while. ;)
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@topspin @Rhywden I have one more week of classes. Then a week with about 3 meetings (and writing 70+ paragraph-length comments). Next sunday is graduation (ugh). Then summer break till early August. I do have to completely redo a chemistry curriculum, as we're changing from a very non-standard (and fluffy) text to a much more standard and rigorous one, but the other person who teaches that same class doesn't particularly want to be more rigorous.
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STATUS: This morning it's phonecall morning. First the workshop to book time for tire change for car. Then the fiber operator to check where my fiber hose is (turned out they had ran out) and next up (at 09:00 when they open) the HR office to ask why they have not submitted my salary information to the social security agency yet. The last part I am a bit pissed off about, as it's a decent amount of money that hinges on them having the correct data, and the extended deadline I got to have the data submitted runs out in a week.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Wow, I can't wait to buy this Super Battery Great!
IP68? Weren't we just on version 6?
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Status: Everyone who voted in this poll is a murderer except me
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Everyone who voted in this poll is a murderer except me
Oh you have no idea....
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Status: Found this gem in our code:
RANDOM_PROCESSOR_ID = 4
The stupid thing is, I know the author of that code doesn't read XKCD…
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A few hours into the morning, I fire up my virtual desktop and connect to a production server...
"The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login."
Eh? Connect to a pre-production server...
"The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login."
Happy Monday to meeeeeee--!
Call system manager.
"Hey, remember when you said you took care of that cyber incident that was opened against me? I don't think you did a very good job."
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Status: company network seems to block and redirect all HTTP traffic. I can still browse the web fine because it's all HTTPS. So this "authentication wall" is so ineffective that you can't even notice it.
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@anonymous234 They are noticing you.
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Status: Finally, after four years, I managed to scrounge together all of my courage and made a dentist's appointment. Previous attempts had been hit-and-miss, including a woman who probably drew her inspiration on how to go about things from what we call "Russian Shotgun Dame".
Turns out I shouldn't have worried. Nothing serious was found - it seems that replacing all of my table sugar for Xylitol paid off!
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Status: Finally, after 8+ years, I know where the "Low fuel" light is on my truck...
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@captain said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinion/what-is-ip68-ip-ratings-explained-2947135
Wow, that's a lot of ads...
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@tsaukpaetra I wouldn't know...
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First day in my new job. After the usual HR induction stuff, I got shown to my desk, whereupon it became obvious that nobody had seen for to tell me my password. IT were all away from their desks so it was a while before I could be told it was Password01. After that(and changing my password of course), things went fairly smoothly. The usual gamut of installing things, checking out source code, realising I had the wrong versions of things installed, reinstalling and eventually getting everything to build and run. Tomorrow I have to do it again for the 4 or 5 customer specific builds as well
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
it was a while before I could be told it was Password01
You didn't try "hunter2" first?
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status: well, that's one way to ensure if you get hacked some of your users won't need to worry...
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@tsaukpaetra
At the size of the thumbnail, I thought that button was for "Go To Minecraft-erp.com"Which evoked a combination of
and you do you.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@captain said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinion/what-is-ip68-ip-ratings-explained-2947135
Wow, that's a lot of ads...
I opened that page and the viewport shrunk to about 1/8 of its normal size (with a choppy animation) and I closed it before any ads could load.
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@jaloopa I wonder how many people don't change their password after resetting it. Just in general.
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Status: Noticed this notification on one of the build machines...
Touched it. Nothing happened except the notification disappearing. Oh well...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found this gem in our code:
RANDOM_PROCESSOR_ID = 4
The stupid thing is, I know the author of that code doesn't read XKCD…
PROOF!
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@tsaukpaetra I've had that appear when the service just took longer than expected to start. Usually on one of my older machines when I first login after a reboot.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I've had that appear when the service just took longer than expected to start. Usually on one of my older machines when I first login after a reboot.
Windows has nonsensical service management.
Want to restart a service? Send a stop signal and then a start signal.
Send the start signal too soon? That's an error.
Send the start signal and the service doesn't start within some arbitrary time limit? A stop signal is automatically sent.
Want a service to restart itself? Uhhh... Well, you could make it pretend to have crashed...
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STATUS: Read the new and exciting corporate policies that's coming into effect with GDPR. Including the "Policy for use of digital tools" which controls how we're to use our work-provided computers and tablets.
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Private use is allowed, but shall not intrude on work time and be made in good judgment.
Ah, yeah, GLHF getting anyone to follow that rule. -
there is no allowed browsing of sites associated with pornography, racism or neo-nazism or similar unless it's professionally motivated.
TIL that I am allowed to browse porn on the work PC if I can motivate it professionally. -
If you install software that comes neither from contracts nor instruction from IT you must be fully certain it is both licensed and free from harmful code.
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All stored information or traffic can in some circumstances be controlled ... this also includes private information or usage history stored on equipment owned by $corporation. Users must after request provide keys for any encrypted information.
A good reason to avoid using the work computer for private stuff, even if it is allowed, I suppose. Although I think I can obfuscate encrypted information good enough for IT to be none the wiser. :P
Also, whoever designed the corporate website needs to be slapped, because the light grey on white with pink links is not friendly for the eyes at all.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
- there is no allowed browsing of sites associated with pornography, racism or neo-nazism or similar unless it's professionally motivated.
TIL that I am allowed to browse porn on the work PC if I can motivate it professionally.
At least it means you can be here, chatting with us…
Also, whoever designed the corporate website needs to be slapped, because the light grey on white with pink links is not friendly for the eyes at all.
- there is no allowed browsing of sites associated with pornography, racism or neo-nazism or similar unless it's professionally motivated.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL that I am allowed to browse porn on the work PC if I can motivate it professionally.
How do you think CNN reporters were able to research their stories about Stormy Daniels?
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: Read the new and exciting corporate policies that's coming into effect with GDPR. Including the "Policy for use of digital tools" which controls how we're to use our work-provided computers and tablets.
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Private use is allowed, but shall not intrude on work time and be made in good judgment.
Ah, yeah, GLHF getting anyone to follow that rule. -
there is no allowed browsing of sites associated with pornography, racism or neo-nazism or similar unless it's professionally motivated.
TIL that I am allowed to browse porn on the work PC if I can motivate it professionally. -
If you install software that comes neither from contracts nor instruction from IT you must be fully certain it is both licensed and free from harmful code.
I wonder how they look at installing a completely different OS to the ones they support... -
All stored information or traffic can in some circumstances be controlled ... this also includes private information or usage history stored on equipment owned by $corporation. Users must after request provide keys for any encrypted information.
A good reason to avoid using the work computer for private stuff, even if it is allowed, I suppose. Although I think I can obfuscate encrypted information good enough for IT to be none the wiser. :P
Also, whoever designed the corporate website needs to be slapped, because the light grey on white with pink links is not friendly for the eyes at all.
I'm doing GDPR compliance for my company at the moment, only the last one is kinda GDPR related. Sounds like they just wanted some more policies.
/I have 2 days training, I'm an expert now.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm doing GDPR compliance for my company at the moment, only the last one is kinda GDPR related. Sounds like they just wanted some more policies.
They're probably taking the opportunity to update all policies for fun. And I also only took stuff from the policy on the usage of computers and software, there is another document detailing how to handle all the PII data, as I have to handle such stuff daily. Although that document was unfinished ("Note that some links are missing from this document."). Also, thankfully the actual documents are .PDF files so they're not horrible to read, like the website.
Although I will not be fully GDPR compliant from day 1 methinks. The stupidity of the new directive happening 3 weeks before when would be the best time for it to happen for me, as I will clean and purge my computer right before the summer holiday starts and I can actually get rid of a bunch of documents.
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Yay, I've received yet another GDPR email asking me to confirm privacy settings with another service that I use.
Oh, joy!
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@doctorjones The past couple days with their privacy policy update emails have been a great refresher on just how many accounts I have laying around the internet.
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STATUS
My work PC has a low-pitched whine that's driving me crazy. The company decided to buy developers the best of everything, including ridiculously overpowered PC-s with water cooling. There are like 5 different fans in that thing, who knows which one is producing the noise.