The Official Status Thread
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
But by trying to exceed its actual capacity, I think he bricked it because the OS doesn't show it anymore. And now he wants me to fix it so he can at least use its real capacity. Which is at best 256 MB.
If it's been bricked, it's now effectively showing its actual real capacity of zeroβ¦
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
But by trying to exceed its actual capacity, I think he bricked it because the OS doesn't show it anymore. And now he wants me to fix it so he can at least use its real capacity. Which is at best 256 MB.
If it's been bricked, it's now effectively showing its actual real capacity of zeroβ¦
Although if you're creative enough, you can use it easily to store 1 bit (plugged or not?) and maybe a couple more...
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Overheard:
βWe've got not enough money for a person, but it is enough money for a PhD student.β
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Status: Got to meet the CTO today who had come over from the head office to check up on things. He's actually a good guy who understands tech and related stuff. They are looking at (finally) giving this office a proper fiber connection instead of the shitty one we have right now. You know my office only got 200Mbit? That's because the ass ISP we got has old shitty equipment that can't do faster and they're too lazy/cheap to upgrade it. It's kinda sad that my house with 1 inhabitant has more than twice the bandwidth than the facilities here which have a bit over 200 people in it on a normal day.
He also had some fun comments about how all places in the north of Sweden can do whatever they want, because the C-level are too lazy to actually come up here to make sure we all follow company policies. Like the one even further north who rents their printer from the neighboring electricity firm instead of the company-mandated one, and has free snow shovelling included in the deal too.
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@Atazhaia
"Bob's Printers And Snow Removal"
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@izzion
Only in Sweden.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Only in Sweden.
Yeah. They don't do printers in
Exactly. We just write it on the snow by peeing
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- Defining "virpath" for no reason at all (btw why do you visit these terrible sites?)
- Making the navigation bar elements do something "fun" on hover (which could just as easily be done in plain CSS because pseudo)
- Trying to prevent you from copy-pasting the "100% orriginal comtent do not steel", and failing
- A botched attempt to add Google Analytics;
script
tags don't nest that way.- On some browsers, that errors out the entire outer script tag because of the parse failure. Other browsers execute the script up to the point of the nested script before blowing up. These other browsers are wrong.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
Next sunday I have to vote for the second round on our president election.
Option 1: a guy that said the main problem with our militar dictatorship is that they didn't kill enough commies
Option 2: a social democrat from a party that was deep into the worse corrruption scandal I ever seen. His vice-president is from the communist party.
Any advice? I dunno which is worse.
Well, at least option 2 is not the guy where it's likely that you'll never get to vote again.
Well, unless option 1 wins and you voted option 2...
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@GΔ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor if I ask the law?
Depends on which law, and what you mean by "officially considered 'the' United States".
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia
"Bob's Printers And Snow Removal""Sofas and Quills"
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
btw why do you visit these terrible sites?)
I can't only submit my own WTFs....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this isn't working to generate a single row with the values 0, 15:
select 0, 15;
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this isn't working to generate a single row with the values 0, 15:
select 0, 15;
Thanks! I put in te codez straight away!
But now the userz say iit alway produce purchasable 15 error when purchasing?
What went wrong?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
btw why do you visit these terrible sites?)
I can't only submit my own WTFs....
That's not what he meant.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this isn't working to generate a single row with the values 0, 15:
select 0, 15;
Thanks! I put in te codez straight away!
But now the userz say iit alway produce purchasable 15 error when purchasing?
What went wrong?
Sounds like a requirements problem.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
btw why do you visit these terrible sites?)
I can't only submit my own WTFs....
You just need to produce more of them, then you'll have plenty to submit, and you won't have to look elsewhere.
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Status: I hate heisenbugs. I hate schrodingbugs. I particularly hate data corruption bugs that hardly ever happen, happen much less often on my machine, almost never happen in test code, never ever happen if you attach a debugger, and yet which occur frequently on a colleague's system despite the fact that he's running pretty much the same version of everything against the exact same remote system.
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@dkf Check
$env:PATH
maybe?
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Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
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@loopback0 It's not Electron yet. That's optimized as far as I'm concerned.
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Websites suck. It used to be my 401 provider only worked in IE (not Edge, just IE). They fixed that - it now works in FF. But AT&T (about the same time) screwed things up so FF doesn't work (most links now go to a 'system maintenance' page). Only Edge (maybe IE, haven't tried) works.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 It's not Electron yet. That's optimized as far as I'm concerned.
I'm pretty sure Electron would be better than their "I'm Chromium but not really embedded pseudo-browser"
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate heisenbugs. I hate schrodingbugs. I particularly hate data corruption bugs
Yeah, one of my guys' Visual Studio likes to break debugging such that setting or clearing a breakpoint (while at a breakpoint) will inevitably cause Visual Studio to breakpoint each and every instruction (i.e. like you're stepping in instead of resuming normally).
It's fun....
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Status: Unleashed Power BI to one colleague with a gigantic "Warning! This is currently directly querying the production server! Don't go crazy refreshing the graphs or we'll run out of magic pixie dust to run the database!".
Because getting Data Lake shit working is not going well at all...
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status Being able to see 101 (50ft away) is not a good thing. Accident 1 hr ago (at 2p) still has the highway stopped. So it doesn't matter what time I leave work - the drive is going to suck.
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@dcon Ouch. Heading back to work after a medical appointment, I noticed that the evening commute had already started on 85 β at 14:45.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Websites suck. It used to be my 401 provider only worked in IE (not Edge, just IE). They fixed that - it now works in FF. But AT&T (about the same time) screwed things up so FF doesn't work (most links now go to a 'system maintenance' page). Only Edge (maybe IE, haven't tried) works.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Being able to see 101 (50ft away) is not a good thing. Accident 1 hr ago (at 2p) still has the highway stopped. So it doesn't matter what time I leave work - the drive is going to suck.
That's what Google Maps is for.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Ouch. Heading back to work after a medical appointment, I noticed that the evening commute had already started on 85 β at 14:45.
It's starting to easy a little - so they must have the lanes cleared. Now we just have the looky-loos. And true rush hour is just minutes away...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Being able to see 101 (50ft away) is not a good thing. Accident 1 hr ago (at 2p) still has the highway stopped. So it doesn't matter what time I leave work - the drive is going to suck.
That's what Google Maps is for.
They didn't have the info I needed (why is it backed up). The CHP incident page did.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Shouldn't have used DirectQuery
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Check
$env:PATH
maybe?It's all correctly mavenized Java builds; paths are extremely tightly controlled other than the exact version of the JDK (as these aren't full prod builds), so there's no problems with that sort of thing. It looks much more like some kind of weird problem with sending packets fast enough to trigger a nasty race condition in the hardware we're talking to, which is a complete ass of an issue to hunt down as that's not code written by a current staff member and is⦠very traditional C in most of the bad ways.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
Shouldn't have used DirectQuerySo I suppose other companies processing Big Data are naturally going to download the entire dataset for processing locally? Gotcha...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
processing
locallyin the cloud
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
processing
locallyin the cloudYeah, see my adventures in Data Lake in the WTF bites thread...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
Is there some mystical platform where it doesn't have to install an update before you can play a game literally every time you open it?
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@Jaloopa GOG
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Status: Apparently there's a 2016 show called Designated Survivor which I completely missed the existence of. Now I'm watching it and loving every second of it.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
Wait, so Steam on Mac is not a 64-bit app yet? Despite Apple going on for ages about how they would be dropping 32-bit support soon? Oh, wait, it's Steam, that's not surprising at all.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently there's a 2016 show called Designated Survivor which I completely missed the existence of. Now I'm watching it and loving every second of it.
It is an excellent show
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
Is there some mystical platform where it doesn't have to install an update before you can play a game literally every time you open it?
turn off the steam beta if you don't want daily updates
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
Is there some mystical platform where it doesn't have to install an update before you can play a game literally every time you open it?
turn off the steam
betaif you don't want daily updatesFTFY
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@Tsaukpaetra
I don't get what are trying to do or why you are thinking data is stored locally. PowerBI is a cloud solution. It works on the data it has in it's back-end. Only place it uses data residing on your HD is when you use PowerBI Designer but that is essentially a DEV tool. Consuming reports is done through the web interface (or an website in an app) so it's apoint except for when using DirectQuery.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
I don't get what are trying to do or why you are thinking data is stored locally. PowerBI is a cloud solution. It works on the data it has in it's back-end. Only place it uses data residing on your HD is when you use PowerBI Designer but that is essentially a DEV tool. Consuming reports is done through the web interface (or an website in an app) so it's apoint except for when using DirectQuery.
It almost sounds like Microsoft did a Microsoft and you and I are talking about two completely different products.... There is no "web interface" unless I share things from some kind of "pro subscription". And all the "cloud"-iness functionality has amounted to "Well, we can list the files in your cloud? Kinda? That's what your data is, right? A list of files?".
Considering that the whole point of this excercise is to start building up analytics reports, why shouldn't I be using a DEV tool? I'm completely lost what you mean by this...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
Is there some mystical platform where it doesn't have to install an update before you can play a game literally every time you open it?
turn off the steam beta if you don't want daily updates
I'm not on beta because I don't give a shit about any features beyond "lets me access games I've paid for". I also don't get a chance to play games every day because I'm an adult, but every time I do get a chance I have to sit through a "verifying installation" step even though the game I'm playing hasn't had an update in years
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@Tsaukpaetra
So you use PowerBI like Excel and distribute the .pbix files? Yeah ...and all that.
We are not using different products. I'm just using it as designed. E.g. I use designer to create a report based on data that is pushed through PowerBI gateway from a local SQL to PowerBI (for more
most of the data is pulled with SSIS from SharePoint 365). When I'm done designing I click 'publish' and manglement can go view the reports online. Or on a SharePoint page to make it go full circle. Nobody except me and the other guys handling reporting care about the .pbix files ... they are even becoming totally irrelevant as MS is pushing to make the editing of reports online on par with the local designer and since I can ask PowerBI (Service) to export a published report back into a .pbix
But yes. This is an online cloud solution that requires a subscription. The Designer is free but without license it's just a fancy excel. And that is a sub-optimal solution.
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Status: The gyoza place has reopened! Happy Fridays once again!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The gyoza place has reopened! Happy Fridays once again!
I've never had those, but serpentza talks a lot about them (and the large steamed buns). Definitely on my todo list!