The Official Status Thread
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden And just so you guys can feel my pain:
The red box is the original task. And that is just one example. I'm really not sure how you can get "multiplying fractions" this wrong.
Wow...how? What?
(Now, mind you, I haven't done this in forever, but IIRC that should go:
Multiply numerators: 5 * 3 * 2 = 30
Multiply denominators: 8 * 10 * 5 = 400
Get new fraction: 30/400
Reduce: 3/40
No?)
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
My neighbour is too drunk to open his front door again.
That's fine, it's better for everyone if he can't get out.
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@e4tmyl33t Yes, your solution is absolutely correct. Don't ask me. This is basically a remedial class I'm teaching but even I can't undo ten years of whatever it is that caused this.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden And just so you guys can feel my pain:
The red box is the original task. And that is just one example. I'm really not sure how you can get "multiplying fractions" this wrong.
Read the problem, got to 3/40 in four steps (coalesced, multipath). Then read the student's work.
I have so many questions, including: Why is he adding at all?
Edit: Shit, too much pre-reduction.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
one of the main selling points of the school is that we're tech-forward and on the cutting edge. Except in our back-end systems...
"Don't look behind the curtain" is a reality in basically every industry, if that makes you feel any better.
The difference is that in other industries the experts will tell you “it works, but don’t ask how sausage is made. It’s ugly.”
In our industry it’s “everything is completely broken on every level. Despair!”See also:
Yeah, it's funny what happens in industries that are regulated and have strict standards to follow.
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@Lorne-Kates you're talking like banking and hospital software didn't have strict standards to follow.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t Yes, your solution is absolutely correct. Don't ask me. This is basically a remedial class I'm teaching but even I can't undo ten years of whatever it is that caused this.
Head trauma. Lots and lots of repeated head trauma.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL that one of my college teachers is allergic to the phrase "a finite number of students".
Are they perfectly spherical and frictionless?
And does pi equal 3?
(There was an engineering proof at my school that was vehemently anti calculator, but had you use pi=3 on exams to make up for it)
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Status: Pondering if switching from a
COALESCE()
call to aCASE WHEN
tree will positively impact this query's performance...
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@Tsaukpaetra As I recall (in oracle) both end up being similar. Having less invocations makes it cheaper.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL that one of my college teachers is allergic to the phrase "a finite number of students".
Are they perfectly spherical and frictionless?
And does pi equal 3?
(There was an engineering proof at my school that was vehemently anti calculator, but had you use pi=3 on exams to make up for it)
I've once heard this supposedly real quote from some Master's thesis:
To simplify calculations, I've assumed the value of π equal to 5.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra As I recall (in oracle) both end up being similar. Having less invocations makes it cheaper.
Yeah, I'm trying to track down an issue where the CPU load of a query is causing the DTU usage (This is an Azure database) to skyrocket for a query that returns about 120 rows.
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@Rhywden: how old are those kids?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My Macbook Air just decided it was done. Went from idle (web browser up, not refreshing page) to hard shutdown instantly, no error message or anything. No indication on boot that anything strange had happened.
Oldie but goodie.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL that one of my college teachers is allergic to the phrase "a finite number of students".
Are they perfectly spherical and frictionless?
And does pi equal 3?
(There was an engineering proof at my school that was vehemently anti calculator, but had you use pi=3 on exams to make up for it)
In the past 22/7 was used as an approximation for pi
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t Yes, your solution is absolutely correct. Don't ask me. This is basically a remedial class I'm teaching but even I can't undo ten years of whatever it is that caused this.
Head trauma. Lots and lots of repeated head trauma.
Isn’t that the recommended “cure”? At least from the perspective @Rhywden is looking from?
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t Yes, your solution is absolutely correct. Don't ask me. This is basically a remedial class I'm teaching but even I can't undo ten years of whatever it is that caused this.
Head trauma. Lots and lots of repeated head trauma.
Isn’t that the recommended “cure”? At least from the perspective @Rhywden is looking from?
Too much paperwork. Seriously. Kid gets hurt in class and it's work work work. It's why I told the kids today "seriously, I don't want to set any of you on fire. At least not enough to do the paperwork."
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t Yes, your solution is absolutely correct. Don't ask me. This is basically a remedial class I'm teaching but even I can't undo ten years of whatever it is that caused this.
Head trauma. Lots and lots of repeated head trauma.
Isn’t that the recommended “cure”? At least from the perspective @Rhywden is looking from?
Too much paperwork. Seriously. Kid gets hurt in class and it's work work work. It's why I told the kids today "seriously, I don't want to set any of you on fire. At least not enough to do the paperwork."
If they’re dead and not listed on the attendance app because, it no workee, has a student really been injured? 🌲... forest... yada, yada...
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Status: I enginr gud, behold the green bodge-wire of shame, and the leaning-tower-of-SMT-capacitors-because-its-unstable-otherwise:
8 hours of trying to work out why the hell it was fantastically unstable, I hadn't fully routed the switching-node reference lines
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@Cursorkeys now I know how it feels when I talk about functional programming.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Dear Epic
StoreShit and other wannabe crap store exclusives without any added value whatsoever - GOG.Honestly, 12% instead of 30% cut is an 'added value' to me, same reason I fiddle with the sliders when I get Humble bundles. I want the indie developers to get as much of the money as possible.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I hadn't fully routed the switching-node reference lines
I hate it when that happens.
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Nearing the completion of this horrific export tasks that I've had to do. As I gone through this I have realised how little my colleagues have completed of the data access layer.
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
I have realised how little my colleagues have completed of the data access layer.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
I have realised how little my colleagues have completed of the data access layer.
Seriously most of the types aren't present in the entities.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I enginr gud, behold the green bodge-wire of shame, and the leaning-tower-of-SMT-capacitors-because-its-unstable-otherwise
First PCB revision? If so, that's really not that bad. I've seen (and done) way, way worse.
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Status: Tracking unusually high heart rate, currently 107 bpm at rest.
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Status: No you silly bitch, midnight is definitely NOT the perfect time to go out for a walk! Shut up and go to bed!
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
If there were deaths due to poor software engineering you bet it would get quite a bit better.
It happens. It also ruins companies and destroys livelihoods.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
pi=3
So he thought that circles have six sides? (The ratio of circumference to diameter is three for perfect hexagons.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, I'm trying to track down an issue where the CPU load of a query is causing the DTU usage (This is an Azure database) to skyrocket for a query that returns about 120 rows.
The size of the eventual result isn't usually a big factor in the amount of work a query requires. The size of the input data (usually) is a major factor. The number of NESTED LOOPS OVER ALL THE THINGS! is typically the biggest factor of all when a query is sucking resources unexpectedly…
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I enginr gud, behold the green bodge-wire of shame, and the leaning-tower-of-SMT-capacitors-because-its-unstable-otherwise
First PCB revision? If so, that's really not that bad. I've seen (and done) way, way worse.
Yep, first revision. The net was connected to components at both ends so there was no DRC errors. I can't believe that was the problem, or mostly that it kinda-sorta worked before exploding with it in that state.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
(The ratio of circumference to diameter is three for perfect hexagons.)
I assume that's corner-to-corner diameter.
Edit: of course it is; hexagons are six equilateral triangles. Never mind then.
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Status: We have some very expensive hardware that only the manufacturer is allowed to touch. A support technician just logged in via TeamViewer to my machine and left the double-secret credentials to all the units saved in my SSH client.
So I deleted them, of course. Next time we sit for 3 months just for them to set up NTP properly we'll just have to wait again I guess.
Edit: He also insisted on using
pool.ntp.org
rather than our local NTP server because 'that's what his instructions said'. That's fine, we didn't have enough firewall rules anyway.
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Waiting for a "Export Data-Tier Application" procedure from SQL Server manager to my machine, it is taking a long time. I really don't want to be working late again.
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STATUS unusually happy with myself. I just bought the worst Christmas presents. A set of throwing knives for one friend and a t-shirt with a target on it for the other.
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Status: Configuration file contains sheep battle-cry:
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status: last night's dream theme was apparently horror....
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Status: First I got a cold and now apparently on top of it there's nose bleeds. FML.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: First I got a cold and now apparently on top of it there's nose bleeds. FML.
Just wait until you defrost!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
pi=3
So he thought that circles have six sides? (The ratio of circumference to diameter is three for perfect hexagons.)
Hexagons are pretty good approximations of circles for back of the envelope level calculations.
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Status: I think I might have a slight packet loss problem
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: First I got a cold and now apparently on top of it there's nose bleeds. FML.
Just wait until you defrost!
IDGI
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: last night's dream theme was apparently horror....
Did it includes reruns of some of your best horror dreams?
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Status: bloody ear congestion. The other day I spent ages trying to get my right ear hearing properly again, and finally succeeded. It's continued to play up, but this morning at about five AM, I accidentally stuffed it up again
That woke me up quickly.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: First I got a cold and now apparently on top of it there's nose bleeds. FML.
Just wait until you defrost!
IDGI
If you're cold and liquid is still flowing, it stands to reason that once you become unfrozen the liquid will flow more.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: last night's dream theme was apparently horror....
Did it includes reruns of some of your best horror dreams?
Based on recovered hashes of the Stage objects being used.... A little bit. There was a cop chase, rain/stormy weather, and unstable terrain/roads. At least, for the last scene, not sure about the previous ones.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: bloody ear congestion. The other day I spent ages trying to get my right ear hearing properly again, and finally succeeded. It's continued to play up, but this morning at about five AM, I accidentally stuffed it up again
That woke me up quickly.
Depending on what it is (I'm not a doctor and don't take random strangers' advice, obviously) a syringe with luke warm water could help get things unclogged.
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@topspin Better let a doctor do that. You don't play around with your ear drum.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
So you can guess where we're currently at regarding the average grades.
Evil laugh: Guess what kids, we're not grading on a curve this time!