The Official Status Thread
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@Zerosquare On a semi-related note: That 5 part canvas I mentioned before that I ordered on AliExpress? Shipping from China was less than $3. I couldn't send that same package to my next door neighbor for that price.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall: have you noticed that as things get cheaper, shipping seems to get more expensive to compensate?
I'm not sure that that's what it was--this was just a super-cheap part. Like ~$2.83, with $2.99 shipping. The retail value is about $5, so...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Shipping from China was less than $3. I couldn't send that same package to my next door neighbor for that price.
Yeah. I love how it's all "free circulations of goods" for (some) companies, while as an individual, you get to pay exorbitant shipping and customs fees just to send a 100 gram package to a friend in another country.
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@anotherusername
Except the ticket isn't a criminal procedure, so that may or may not apply. And tickets are usually a preponderance of the evidence standard anyway, at which point the ticketing officer's saying "this is the guy" and you refusing to answer the question will cause the judge to determine the preponderance of the evidence is that you dun it.At which point you're getting to pay the ticket + court costs, since you just pissed the judge off and he's not gonna cut you any leeway.
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@izzion So you're telling me that I had the bad luck of getting a ticket from someone who cannot remember a name, age, or gender, but somehow never forgets a face?
It seems to me that his eyesight might be rather suspect.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Rebooted and tried again. Yup, it's fucked.
Well, it's even more fucked now. I killed the setup host (because 22 hours later and it's still at the same place), relaunched and lo:
We're installing Windows 10! From Windows Server 2016 install ISO!
Amazing!
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Status: I'm seeing red.
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status: a recent forum adjustment has totally eliminated the navbar buttons for me on mobile. This will make things interesting...
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@Tsaukpaetra: it's just matching your title bars' color, where's the problem?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra: it's just matching your title bars' color, where's the problem?
The problem is Google Chrome updater is set to be automatic but doesn't actually run and do that.
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Status: Teleconference with a Frenchman, two Indians, a German and someone with a strong Texas (I think, anyway) accent.
No-one could understand anyone else, I eventually had to pretend I had to disconnect for another call to get out of the 'err...could you please repeat that?' loop.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Teleconference with a Frenchman, two Indians, a German and someone with a strong Texas (I think, anyway) accent.
No-one could understand anyone else, I eventually had to pretend I had to disconnect for another call to get out of the 'err...could you please repeat that?' loop.
You need to add a Scot and an Italian and you've got yourself the telco from hell.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You need to add a Scot and an Italian and you've got yourself the telco from hell.
And someone from Japan, who is senior enough that the telco needs to be scheduled around his working day.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion So you're telling me that I had the bad luck of getting a ticket from someone who cannot remember a name, age, or gender, but somehow never forgets a face?
It seems to me that his eyesight might be rather suspect.
He can plead the 5th that the ticket inspector had obviously drunk before writing down his information
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
If .NET 3.5 to 4.7.2 is 8 major revisions, .NET needs a better version scheme
They looked at Java: "Is it Java 8 or Java 1.8? We can do even more confusing things!"
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@Tsaukpaetra
Well, you know, if you would let your servers take a break from shooting aliens now and again and actually finish installing updates, you wouldn't see all those angry red blotches for Manageability...
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Status: Amused that someone else seems to have been catching dratinis.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Amused that someone else seems to have been catching dratinis.
They should see a doctor about that, sounds painful
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
One of [my gun safes] opened in seconds, the other took over half an hour and I almost gave up. So I have no baseline experience for how long it should take.
Just ask Dev!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVMT_zNlgA@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
They looked at Java: "Is it Java 8 or Java 1.8? We can do even more confusing things!"
It's neither. It's Java 2, version 1.8.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
That's not how court works.
That's how traffic court works. Innocent in the spirit of the law but not the letter? GUILTY! Innocent in the letter of the law but not the spirit? GUILTY!
Plus a hefty "victim compensation fund" fee.
The accusation (the ticket) is not in your name, so you're not accused of anything.
"Then why are you here? You have the ticket. Was the ticket given to you? Well, then the name is just a mistake, we know it's meant for you."
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
But more likely the judge would say "Was that citation written for you and given to you because you didn't have a ticket?" So you can either do some perjury, or plead guilty.
Or plead the 5th, because the judge would literally be asking you to testify against yourself if they asked that question.
"This is traffic court. The constitution doesn't apply here."
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion So you're telling me that I had the bad luck of getting a ticket from someone who cannot remember a name, age, or gender, but somehow never forgets a face?
It seems to me that his eyesight might be rather suspect.
Are you calling this fine police office a LIAR?
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@Lorne-Kates Not at all. A "liar" is one who makes an intentionally false statement, and I cannot speak to the officer's intent.
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Went to make some dinner and both led lamps died in the kitchen. Go to the drawer to find the replacements and I've just found I bought the wrong type from the hardware store and it won't be open until tomorrow. I am now cooking using the camera light on my phone.
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
I am now cooking using the camera light on my phone.
Must be a pretty powerful light.
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@hungrier I'm in a small flat so I still got a decent amount light coming from the living room. I ended up just having beans on toast, you could probably make that in the dark tbh
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Not at all. A "liar" is one who makes an intentionally false statement, and I cannot speak to the officer's intent.
Are you implying the police office is incompetent at his job? Because the police officer says he isn't incompetent at his job.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you implying the police office is incompetent at his job?
The whole office?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Not at all. A "liar" is one who makes an intentionally false statement, and I cannot speak to the officer's intent.
Are you implying the police office is incompetent at his job? Because the police officer says he isn't incompetent at his job.
Certainly. However, I do not believe that the officer is intentionally over-evaluating their competence.
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@Lorne-Kates With all due respect, he wrote on this ticket that I am a 53 year old woman named Gorege.
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Status: Weird drabble in the Status Thread today...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Weird drabble in the Status Thread today...
Status: Weird drabble in the Status Thread today...
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Status: It seems that several of my pupils are incapable of simple logic. They should know that if a body is at rest then this means that either there's no outside force or the sum of all forces equals zero. They also are in possession of both the formulas for the force unto a charged particle inside an electric field (
F=E*q
) and for the force on a mass inside a gravitational field (simplified toF=m*g
)Now if the task asks: "Calculate the charge of a speck of dust if said speck has a mass of
foo
grams and is levitating inside a homogenuous electric field of strengthbar
N/C" they only need to equate the two equations, solve forq
and be done with it.But no. Not a single one has the patience to do a fucking two step problem. There's an equation which contains some of the variables? Why, it must be the correct and only one!
...
it's not as if they've never seen something like that before. For example, directly before the exam we practiced calculating the orbit radius of a charged particle in a homogenuous magnetic field. Same type of problem.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates With all due respect, he wrote on this ticket that I am a 53 year old woman named Gorege.
Delete this, as I believe I now know your name, age, and gender.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
It seems that several of my pupils are incapable of simple logic.
This should be an expected vs exceptional case.
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@Gribnit Yeah, the exception has become the expected result at this point.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates With all due respect, he wrote on this ticket that I am a 53 year old woman named Gorege.
Delete this, as I believe I now know your name, age, and gender.
No, you just know what his name, age and gender aren't. There's no guarantee that he's a 72 year old man named Donald who works in Washington DC.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates With all due respect, he wrote on this ticket that I am a 53 year old woman named Gorege.
Delete this, as I believe I now know your name, age, and gender.
No, you just know what his name, age and gender aren't. There's no guarantee that he's a 72 year old man named Donald who works in Washington DC.
My standard for belief can be poor and you can't stop me.
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Having recently dumped beans into the top of a very nice mill grinder and ground them, then poured them into a filter, poured them back out into a can, measured scoops into a new filter, and thenceforth having added the loaded filter assembly and a filled water tank to the coffee maker, I ventured forth to obtain the coffee.
Having recently pressed the power button, I await coffee.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Having recently dumped beans into the top of a very nice mill grinder and ground them, then poured them into a filter, poured them back out into a can, measured scoops into a new filter, and thenceforth having added the loaded filter assembly and a filled water tank to the coffee maker, I ventured forth to obtain the coffee.
Up until the last words, I thought you were talking about something completely different.
Well, unless you can make coffee from pinto beans (or the like).
Hmm, maybe that's a good idea for the Nope thread?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
I await coffee
The things we do for love
Did I say patiently, or something that would imply that this sufferance is gladly granted? That coffee is fucking late already.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Having recently dumped beans into the top of a very nice mill grinder and ground them, then poured them into a filter, poured them back out into a can, measured scoops into a new filter, and thenceforth having added the loaded filter assembly and a filled water tank to the coffee maker, I ventured forth to obtain the coffee.
Up until the last words, I thought you were talking about something completely different.
Well, unless you can make coffee from pinto beans (or the like).
Hmm, maybe that's a good idea for the Nope thread?
Better would be to find a way to do it that produces even a drinkable result and then aggressively market the mess to idiots who cannot accept their own mortality.
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Status: Applying an index to a raw table supposedly 16 GB big.
This might take a while, or not long at all, because in theory the data is already ordered like this so...
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@Tsaukpaetra
Eeeeeeeeeeeeew, a clustered index on a DATETIME field?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
Eeeeeeeeeeeeew, a clustered index on a DATETIME field?That disk sector's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGBXhDZXTqY
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
Eeeeeeeeeeeeew, a clustered index on a DATETIME field?Nothing else is suitable unless I want to slap a
randomSequential ID column.It's a dump table that will be ingested into others anyways, no primary keys or anything. I'm only putting it there because I'm tired of full table scans for literally every operation.