The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra Let's see if this helps...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Let's see if this helps...
You Didn't Died.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
You Didn't Died.
No, but apparently the replication did.
Tried to join it to the domain:
Hrm...
Aww shit, that's the cloud server that got kicked off because the certificate expired and I didn't renew it... Whelp, time to re-dig out the docs for that...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, just kidding, you can't ever properly see PHP errors, lol, try putting die("here"); after each line of your code to see where the issue starts lol.
Yeah, you can't really debug anything in PHP
@XDebug says
It contains a single step debugger to use with IDEs;
Well, there's your problem. There aren't any PHP IDEs.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Aww shit
Well fuck...
Since it's been too long, can't replicate no more. Hmm... To the googles!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Currying my food acceptor with chicken biryani.
You're currying them correctly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Since it's been too long, can't replicate no more. Hmm... To the googles!
Demoted it, which surprisingly seems to have worked. Rejoining also worked. But...
What the fuck?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, just kidding, you can't ever properly see PHP errors, lol, try putting die("here"); after each line of your code to see where the issue starts lol.
Yeah, you can't really debug anything in PHP
@XDebug says
It contains a single step debugger to use with IDEs;
Well, there's your problem. There aren't any PHP IDEs.
And just what do you call Notepad?
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@Gribnit Hooray, I can now insert and materialize complicated objects across joins but there is no point in merging the branch until I implement deletions
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Huh. I didn't know MS would use this for non-MS products.0 because I don't go around recommending software.
I've actually taken to writing more reviews since these idiots started bugging me for them. All of them 1 star complaining about being prompted.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
I've recommended windows to someone who was forced to use Linux in the office
What did he do to you to justify that?
For starters, didn't like him going down the road of becoming an obnoxious cunt.
Yeah, Unix users can get really irritating with their ability to make computers perform useful work with reasonable effort.
Unix command line is the only thing I like about my current work machine. The rest of Mac I would happily burn to the ground. Linux too for that matter. The GUI tools available on Windoze are a lot better but I sometimes wonder if I just got stuck in a rut there and never left. I just can't find good equilivants on either platforms.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you get any hints let me know.
I'm afraid it's not to do with Azure or any of the clever stuff you're doing. It's a plain 3rd party comm library, which for some reason causes the networking stack of the test server to piss all over itself so hard that no connections - outgoing or incoming - work. Could be port exhaustion. The scary thing is - it doesn't happen in prod... yet. Usually it's the other way round. It's also proprietary(*), from a vendor that went out of business around 2008.
But I'm going to let you [all] know anyway, I think.
* - unobfuscated .NET, so not really proprietary, hehe; therefore also easy to fix... provided that I can figure it out where exactly is the problem
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
College requires me to do things in PHP, so I'm learning PHP now. I've just put the server in infinite loop because I forgot
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beforei
.It is a serious error to pay to do PHP.
C'est la vie. Either you waste four years learning useless skills that you can't even show off to friends, or you won't get a decent job anywhere.
I thought you already have a decent job?
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@topspin half-decent. I'm aiming for at least full-decent.
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@Gąska Does full decent come with the foosball table and free lunch?
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@stillwater you've described my first job (my current one has PS4, which I consider a downgrade, especially since people in my team like different games than I). But this is just fluff - the thing that really matters is net salary and monetary value of benefits - and as a tie-breaker, how much say you have about the project's architecture.
Why, yes, I am single and under 30.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater you've described my first job (my current one has PS4, which I consider a downgrade, especially since people in my team like different games than I). But this is just fluff - the thing that really matters is net salary and monetary value of benefits - and as a tie-breaker, how much say you have about the project's architecture.
Why, yes, I am single and under 30.
Actually thought you were 35+ when you mentioned benefits. Have you thought about pension?
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@DogsB in Poland, benefits are like gym/swimming pool pass, cinema tickets, tax-free lunch money, partial reimbursement of child-related expenses, private health insurance (on top of public insurance), etc. Basically - things you'd most likely spend money on anyway, but you don't have to, so in effect it increases your spendable earnings without increasing base gross salary (= less taxes).
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB in Poland, benefits are like gym/swimming pool pass, cinema tickets, tax-free lunch money, partial reimbursement of child-related expenses, private health insurance (on top of public insurance), etc. Basically - things you'd most likely spend money on anyway, but you don't have to, so in effect it increases your spendable earnings without increasing base gross salary (= less taxes).
So the universally accepted definition then. How much are they offering for pension contributions should be high on that list but you didn't mention it.
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@DogsB because pensions work very differently than in USA. Everyone is forced to participate in national retirement fund, the amount you pay depends on your gross salary and you can't make it more nor less, there aren't any additional government pension programs, and private pension funds aren't popular enough for employers to offer contributions.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB because pensions work very differently than in USA. Everyone is forced to participate in national retirement fund, the amount you pay depends on your gross salary and you can't make it more nor less, there aren't any additional government pension programs, and private pension funds aren't popular enough for employers to offer contributions.
I'm in the UK actually. There is a similar system here but pensions have become a hot button topic and employers are mandated by law to match at least two percent, I think. so the latest gimmick by bigger companies is to match to five or ten percent which is a nice perk to look out for. Although you may not see it for about 40-50 years. It's supposed to magically make gains of about 4%+ a year but I suspect it will be raided by a later government to bail out it out of a hole.
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@DogsB in Poland, they're mandated to match 50% of pension payments, as well as 50% of public health insurance premium. But since both are mandatory and the payment amount is tied to gross salary and you can't choose to pay more nor less, it's effectively just income tax by another name. Especially since the money can be freely moved between the funds and other government institutions.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you get any hints let me know.
I'm afraid it's not to do with Azure or any of the clever stuff you're doing. It's a plain 3rd party comm library, which for some reason causes the networking stack of the test server to piss all over itself so hard that no connections - outgoing or incoming - work. Could be port exhaustion. The scary thing is - it doesn't happen in prod... yet. Usually it's the other way round. It's also proprietary(*), from a vendor that went out of business around 2008.
But I'm going to let you [all] know anyway, I think.
* - unobfuscated .NET, so not really proprietary, hehe; therefore also easy to fix... provided that I can figure it out where exactly is the problem
CC @Weng didn't you have a problem like that?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB in Poland, they're mandated to match 50% of pension payments, as well as 50% of public health insurance premium. But since both are mandatory and the payment amount is tied to gross salary and you can't choose to pay more nor less, it's effectively just income tax by another name. Especially since the money can be freely moved between the funds and other government institutions.
Ah that sounds like awful shite. Is there any kind of cash out or anything. Or does is all disappear into a magical pot to be raided by a subsequent government? :(
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@DogsB s/a subsequent/the current/
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska Does full decent come with the foosball table and free lunch?
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Are soccer tables and similar slack off appliances really that rare in programming offices in USA?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Are soccer tables and similar slack off appliances really that rare in programming offices in USA?
I don't know, but it would be extremely amusing to me!
Edit: for context: I've only been in one workplace that had entertainment facilities, and they weren't a programming company.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Are soccer tables and similar slack off appliances really that rare in programming offices in USA?
I don't know, but it would be extremely amusing to me!
Edit: for context: I've only been in one workplace that had entertainment facilities, and they weren't a programming company.
At the last place I worked, they had a vote whether people would prefer a Foosball table or a Nintendo (?). Nintendo won. They got the Nintendo, and set it up in a vacant corner. No one ever used it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck?
Figured out it needed to be a CNAME and not an A. Who knew?
Anyways, all three domain controllers seem to be happy, except only one has the
NETLOGON
share ( ).Going to test by killing the one that has it and see if logging in still works...
Here goes nothing!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Are soccer tables and similar slack off appliances really that rare in programming offices in USA?
Why do you think people spend so much time here? Pretty much the same in the UK. It's why I took up being a wind up merchant for most of the day.
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Status: Little brother (6yo) has a playdate over. Most recent overheard conversation:
: Make it nighttime so we can sleep. Don't you want to sleep?
: Why?Way to start early, I guess...
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@Tsaukpaetra Based off that emote, he's also got an impressive moustache for a 6yo!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
stuck in a rut there and never left
That this correlates to the strongest apparent overall marketing success factor for Microsoft products very closely may be a coincidence.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Are soccer tables and similar slack off appliances really that rare in programming offices in USA?
We have a foosball table, a table tennis table (that sounds stupid) and a small gym room here (Germany). And a self-made pinball some interns from IT made. Haven't used either of them since I was a student. They're in the basement and I rarely have the time for it. Now, if we had a pool table, well that'd be different...
I wouldn't really count those as perks anyway, it's nice to have but really minor and costs my employer basically nothing at all.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it's nice to have but really minor
That's my opinion on everything except paycheck amount.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it's nice to have but really minor
That's my opinion on everything except paycheck amount.
That's both understandable and reasonable, but personally I don't see it quite like that.
I'm working at a research institute, partially government funded, so wages aren't all that high. Supposedly, I could (at least I'm told so) make more in an industry job, but I don't feel inclined to switch jobs.
Reasons for this are many, not all of them good. They include that I like the work atmosphere / culture, the freedom I have in my work, that the workplace happens to be conveniently located for me (and I grew up very rural so the thoughts of moving e.g. to Berlin makes me shudder), and that I already earn "enough" to be comfortable with it. The last point might be laziness on the one hand and, on the other hand, related to me growing up with far less spendable money than I have now, so "you could earn more" actually feels "you're pretty well off already". Diminishing returns on the "leading an enjoyable life" utility of earning more money. That's of course also related to being single. If I had to pay for a family, I'd need a whole lot more.I'm not gonna stay at this job forever, some time in the future I'll have to move on, but big steps like those can make me anxious.
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Status: Went to dinner. Came back to this on my Windows 2012 box:
Oh! Thanks for letting me know!
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net stop wuauserv
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
pensions
LOL! is a pension? We're lucky if the company has 401K matching.
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Status: Top kek.
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Win 10 pro for 13 dollars? Is this Legit?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
If you get any hints let me know.
I'm afraid it's not to do with Azure or any of the clever stuff you're doing. It's a plain 3rd party comm library, which for some reason causes the networking stack of the test server to piss all over itself so hard that no connections - outgoing or incoming - work. Could be port exhaustion. The scary thing is - it doesn't happen in prod... yet. Usually it's the other way round. It's also proprietary(*), from a vendor that went out of business around 2008.
But I'm going to let you [all] know anyway, I think.
* - unobfuscated .NET, so not really proprietary, hehe; therefore also easy to fix... provided that I can figure it out where exactly is the problem
CC @Weng didn't you have a problem like that?
Yes.
If you can run it on Win10 hit up "Netstat -anoq" when it's broken. That'll show bound but unopened ports as well as open connections, which aren't supposed to be able to happen (and earlier versions of Windows can't even tell you about them)
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@anotherusername one of those cases where one s wrong but greedy
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
pensions
LOL! is a pension? We're lucky if the company has 401K matching.
What's the general term for all pensions, retirement funds, 401K's, lifetime investment plans, and other things exactly like pension but that Americans don't call pension?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
pensions
LOL! is a pension? We're lucky if the company has 401K matching.
What's the general term for all pensions, retirement funds, 401K's, lifetime investment plans, and other things exactly like pension but that Americans don't call pension?
Retirement plans.
In the US "pension" usually refers to a defined-benefit plan, which are relatively rare nowadays. Instead employers have moved to defined-contribution plans like 401(k)s.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Heh
Oh for fucks sake, what does it take to shut Windows Updates up?!??!
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
A PHP course is just an idiotic cash grab.
It's easier to grab cash from idiots. Just tell them they're getting something for it and run away…